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| Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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| Global warming politicizers caught red-handed
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Every time I have pointed to data undermining the bogus - yet "universally accepted" - theory of man-made global warming, I have received emails from readers
accusing me of being everything from a holocaust denier to a gullible believer of quack science. Today, however, those folks may have a bit more difficult
time justifying such name-calling.
Michelle Malkin has a link to internal EPA emails
which reveal a pattern of suppression and censorship toward any data which refutes the official party line on the "crisis." She explores the reaction to the
email disclosure published by the CEI.
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained internal EPA e-mails that show the agency willfully and recklessly disregarded scientific data that
undermined the bureaucracy's global warming zealotry. This information is especially relevant as Congress rushes to pass the cap-and-trade nightmare on
Friday.
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman has notified the EPA and requested that the internal communications and suppressed study be released to the public and
added to the public record. Will another whistleblower be disappeared? Note especially this warning to the dissenting scientist: "The time for such
discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and
your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision... I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." (emphasis mine)
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If you question the objectivity of the whistleblower or the CEI who has given him a forum for these revelations, you owe it to yourself to
read the actual emails. I can only hope as more and
more of this type of evidence surfaces that the headlong flight toward ultra-restrictive, exorbitantly-costly and totally needless legislation will be slowed and - if
we are really fortunate - stopped completely before these destructive bills become law.
posted by Scott Elliott at 5:08pm 06/24/09 ::
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| Monday, June 22, 2009
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| Southern Baptists warned about hate crime legislation
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Prison Fellowship founder and former Watergate scandal principle, Chuck Colson, warned Southern Baptist pastors
about the coming criminal prosecution that could be a reality shortly if current hate crime legislation proposed on Capitol Hill is enacted.
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Colson, who served prison time for his role in the Watergate scandal, delivered a grim forecast to Southern Baptist pastors at their annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.
Sponsors of congressional hate crimes legislation insist it won't restrict speech, but Colson warned that ministers will face the threat of prosecution within the
next two years.
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I have seen this on the horizon for some time now. And this is just the next step toward a future in America where the benefits of "freedom of religion" are
no longer extended to conservative Christians.
posted by Scott Elliott at 3:13pm 06/22/09 ::
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| Thursday, June 18, 2009
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| PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly
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In the absurdity department, here's a story that defies belief.
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PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe
that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
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I can hear it now, cries of "save the insects" rising from wacko meeting houses all over the country. On the positive side, maybe stories like will show
reasonable Americans just what makes these animal rights organizations tick.
posted by Scott Elliott at 9:51pm 06/18/09 ::
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| And this is how we'll get there
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Last week, I published a post entitled "This is where we're headed." In the post, I
pointed to Mark Steyn's insightful article on the perils of an ever-expanding nanny state. Well, this morning I received a communique from Michael Steele,
RNC Chairman, which highlights one facet of the process that will get us to the nanny state examined by Steyn.
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On June 24th, ABC News and anchor Charles Gibson will broadcast "World News" from inside the White House, and make Barack Obama's case for nationalized
health care for him, without any opportunity for opposing views to be aired.
The liberal special interests have clearly learned from their missteps the last time they tried to force Americans into a socialized health care system - the abysmal failure of the Clinton Administration's "HillaryCare."
That's why their friends at ABC News will be promoting Obamacare at virtually every opportunity, from "Good Morning America" to "Nightline," and reach from ABC News' websites all the way to the White House's East Room.
The Republican National Committee's request for an opportunity to add our views along side those of the Obama Democrats' - to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are heard - was flatly rejected by ABC News.
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Without balanced debate, Obamacare will not be examined critically before passage, and the American people will be have to find out the hard way that Steyn's
warnings were right on.
posted by Scott Elliott at 11:18am 06/18/09 ::
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| Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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| How nice of them!
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Dems seek to trim health bill as estimates soar. Seems the new estimated costs of the health care bill have reached such stratospheric heights that even the Democrats are a little queasy.
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Jolted by cost estimates as high as $1.6 trillion, Senate Democrats agreed to scale back planned subsidies for the uninsured and sought concessions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars from private industry Tuesday to defray the cost of sweeping health care legislation.
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I'm sure this is just a momentary respite. Give them a few weeks or months, and they'll grow comfortable soaring at the edge of the financial atmosphere.
Coming soon to a health care bureaucracy near you? Ready your checkbooks for the Moon, Mars...and beyond! Ah, the thrills of socialism.
posted by Scott Elliott at 9:40pm 06/16/09 ::
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| Sunday, June 14, 2009
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| This is where we're headed
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Mark Steyn has written a brilliant piece on the
inevitable consequences of the government assuming
more and more control over the nation's health care system. You really need to click the link and read the whole thing. Here are some little gems to
whet your appetite.
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Big government depends, in large part, in going around the country stirring up apathy - creating the sense that problems are so big, so complex, so intractable that
even attempting to think about them for yourself gives you such a splitting headache it's easier to shrug and accept as given the proposition that only government
can deal with them.
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The British National Health Service is the biggest employer not just in the United Kingdom but in the whole of Europe. Care to estimate the size and budget of
a U.S. health bureaucracy?
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In the Province of Quebec, patients with severe incontinence - i.e., they're in the bathroom 12 times a night - wait three years for a simple 30-minute
procedure. True, Quebeckers have a year or two on Americans in the life expectancy hit parade, but, if you're making 12 trips a night to the john 365 times a year for three years, in terms of life-spent-outside-the-bathroom expectancy, an uninsured Vermonter may actually come out ahead.
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By historical standards, we're loaded: We have TVs and iPods and machines to wash our clothes and our dishes. We're the first society in which a
symptom of poverty is obesity.
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And finally, Steyn writes ...
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I get a lot of mail each week arguing that, when folks see the price tag attached to Obama's plans, they'll get angry. Maybe. But, if Europe's a guide, at
least as many people will retreat into apathy. Once big government's in place, it's very hard to go back.
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posted by Scott Elliott at 7:36pm 06/14/09 ::
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| Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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| Happy Birthday, Darling!!
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My wonderful wife of almost 23 years is celebrating her ___ birthday today. (Hint: for the last 90 days, she's been younger than I, but no more!)
Sweetheart, you are still the most awesome woman I've ever known. What a blessing to get to live with you everyday for the rest of my life! I thank
God - and your mom and dad - for bringing you into this world. I'm so glad He brought us together. I love you.
posted by Scott Elliott at 11:36am 06/09/09 ::
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| Monday, June 8, 2009
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| (Very) late Memorial Day tribute
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As I was driving to work this morning listening to my CDs, a great song came on. It speaks of those who through the years have given their lives for my
freedom and yours. The thought occured to me that the lyrics of this song would be a wonderful tribute to post on Memorial Day. Since I didn't
publish such a post on that day, here is one in very belated fashion.
Freedom's Never Free
Standing on a hillside
Where the river meets the sea
White crosses without number
Line the fields of peace
And each one a silent witness
Staring back at me
Every cross a story
Of another place in time
Where young men thought it worthy
To give their life for mine
And for the sake of honor
Left their dreams behind
And for the price they paid
I'm forever in their debt
Their memory will not die
'Cause I will not forget
I will stand and hold my head up high
I will dedicate my life
To the glory of the ones who had to die
I will live, live what I believe
If for no one else but me
I will remember
That freedom's never free
It was on another hillside
Outside the city gates
The battle lines were drawn
As soldiers took their place
The Father watched in silence
As a cross was raised
With freedom drawing closer
He took His final breath
He drank our cup of guilt
And took the sting from death
Heaven's Finest Soldier
clothed in human flesh
And for the price He paid
I'm forever in His debt
The cross will never die
'Cause I will not forget
I will stand and hold my head up high
I will dedicate my life
To the glory of the One who had to die
I will live, live what I believe
If for no one else but me
To remember that
Freedom's Never Free
I will walk free
I will stay free
I will live free
I will die free
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My heartfelt hope is that my life reflects the sentiments of the author of these words.
Read the lyrics and hear the song here.
posted by Scott Elliott at 11:22am 06/08/09 ::
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