*[ezine] Interesting Items 3/30 - by Alex Gimarc*
Monday, Mar 30, 2009 Interesting Items 3/30 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. WAR 2. Red River 3. Alaska Jobs 4. ACORN 5. GIVE Act 6. EPA 1. WAR. Governor Palin appointed NRA Director and former VP Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) for the vacant position of state attorney general. Ross is also a founding member of Alaska Right to Life. He is a strong conservative who has run for governor twice, most recently in 2002. He was co-chair of Palin’s successful 2006 election campaign. WAR has been practicing law here in Anchorage at some level since 1968. Conservatives here in the state could not be more pleased with the appointment, as WAR has gone to battle with Our Federal masters in DC regarding fish and game and hunting issues for many, many years. Now that he has a state budget to work with, we hope it will become most uncomfortable for both the greens and the feds that give them taxpayer dollars to obstruct, deny, limit and oppose development of our natural resources here in Alaska. 2. Red River. The Red River near Fargo, ND has been flooding this last week. The floods are due to a combination of a colder than normal winter, which froze the ground deeper than normal, leading to ice jams on the river as the ice broke up. Water from the melting snow backed up behind the ice jams in the river valley, causing the flooding. The crest this year is around 38’, the worst since 1997, when the crest topped out at 40’, over 22 feet above flood stage of 18’. Greens jumped aboard last week, blaming both the flooding and the excess snow this winter on manmade global warming. It is difficult to figure out how manmade global warming can be responsible for more snow, ice jams, and deeper frozen ground than past winters. 3. Alaska Jobs. Over the last three years, the Alaska legislature and the Palin administration have slammed the oil industry and the cruise line industry with several large tax and regulation increases. Conservatives warned both the legislature and the Palin administration that the increased tax and regulatory burden would only serve to drive jobs out of state, and so it has come to pass. Over the last month, Conoco – Phillips, Shell and British Petroleum all announced a significant decrease in dollars spent in exploration this coming year. Along with that decrease in dollars spent in the state, there was a corresponding decrease in the number of in-state jobs. Tourism up here is a pretty big deal, with more people visiting the state on average than live in it each summer. This summer, the cruise lines have announced a decrease in the number of ships that will be plying the waters of southeast Alaska. Part of the decrease is due to the recession and the crash in stock prices. However, I do expect that the additional push provided by dumping restrictions, a head tax for cruise line passengers and similar nanny state moves by the state and local governments have done nothing to improve the bottom line for businesses. Interestingly enough, the areas that benefit from tourism tend to be the most green, the most environmentally friendly areas in the state. Perhaps they are about to learn that going green and high tax are not necessarily ways to improve your overall bottom line as a successful small business. The Palin administration has a couple choices. The first and most important is to immediately roll back the ACES confiscatory tax increase on the oil and natural gas producers. Second, it must come to some reasonable middle ground to make Alaska a friendlier place for the cruise and tourism industry; else small businesses in this state will dry up as the touristas disappear. We have demonstrated quite nicely that if you want less of something – tax it or regulate it. If you want more of something, cut taxes and eliminate the regulations. 4. ACORN. It turns out that the rent-a-mob that was bussed in to threaten and intimidate AIG executives last week in Connecticut were in the employ of ACORN. Yes, this is the very same ACORN that received $5.4 billion of taxpayer dollars courtesy of the Stimulus legislation. So now we have government funded mobs being bussed around the country targeting and threatening designated enemies of the government. Expect the show trials to happen next week. No wonder people are buying guns and ammunition as fast as they can. Should this continue, somebody is going to get hurt. 5. GIVE Act. Another day, yet another intrusion into our private lives by the fascist congress. Last week, the House and Senate passed versions of the GIVE Act, which reauthorizes the Clinton-era Americorps, the government funded enforced volunteerism. The two acts when reconciled will create new armies of federally funded “volunteers’ including “…a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps, Veterans Services Corps, and a National Civilian Community Corps for disaster relief and energy conservation.” (Malkin, Weds). The House version of the legislation has compulsory volunteer provisions targeted toward public school students, most likely to be enforced as a graduation requirement. There I thought involuntary servitude was somehow a bad thing; apparently not any more, in the Age of Obama and the fascist congress. Expect these new organizations and the over $5 billion budgeted for them to be used as yet another leftist indoctrination vehicle for the young skulls full of mush. One final note is the notion that bad money drives out good. This is basic economics and is used to describe the impact that printing money (bad money) will have on the formerly stable currency – essentially rendering it worthless over time. The more federal dollars that are out in the volunteer world, the less effort will be made by those of us that do volunteer work. The value of our effort and work will be driven out, destroyed by the tidal wave of free federal money and conscripted armies of marching morons putting in their hours in order to get a high school diploma. 6. EPA. Last Friday, the EPA submitted a finding to the WH that carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant. That finding was not unexpected, given the environmentalist infestation of the EPA. Expect this finding to be used by the President Teleprompter administration as the foundation for anti-carbon regulations and legislation that will implement a carbon tax on everything that moves. The cost of the new taxation system will be in the trillions of dollars, further damaging the economy. For this piece, I do not want to rail against the notion of carbon taxes, as that target will present itself soon enough. I want to offer a way out of this by pitting one side of the greens against the other. According to some atmospheric scientists, we are in what can be described as a carbon dioxide famine, dealing with near historic low levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We know that plant life needs carbon dioxide to grow, live and thrive. We also know that the last few years have been colder than normal and suspect the next decade or so will be colder than normal if for no other reason than we are looking at a late solar cycle with a weak beginning, and a shift of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from a warm phase (which correlates with warmer weather worldwide) to a cool phase (which correlates with cooler weather worldwide). Bottom line is that places here in the US that have enjoyed toasty warm temperatures over the last couple decades are going to be cooling off a bit. And the freeze line where temperature sensitive plants can be successfully grown will migrate south over time. As that line migrates south, plants that previously were found in northern climes will no longer be able to grow there. By definition, they will become endangered species in those locations, eligible for protection via the power of the Endangered Species Act. Remember that the ESA is applied as a static system, assuming there is no change in anything anywhere. It is also applied in small areas, not unlike Cook Inlet, where the small population of belugas is found to be endangered yet they are thick as flies elsewhere in Alaska. I think a series of lawsuits defending plant life are in order. And the cause of the endangered plant life is the lack of carbon dioxide. If the Teleprompter administration and congress attempts to control carbon dioxide via taxation as a way to control manmade global warming, they are by definition harming the plants. File the lawsuits and let both sides fight it out in court. Sell tickets. Smoke cigars and watch the carnage in court as the greens beat one another into a bloody pulp. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations: The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/ MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com District 28 http://www.dist28.com/ subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/ and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: http://www.thevanguard.org/ * * * * * * *I luv the USA. It's the USG I hate.* * ------------------------------ * * * *Ask Heritage:* *http://www.askheritage.org/*<http://www.askheritage.org/Default.aspx?utm_source=RushWebSite728x90&utm_medium=Banner&utm_content=AskHeritageCreative&utm_campaign=2009RadioCampaign> * ------------------------------ * *I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * NEW* ** RichsRants is a parallel list to the Slick eZine *http://RR.jiglu.com/+register* <http://rr.jiglu.com/+register> * * *http://Politicalhumor.jiglu.com/+register*<http://politicalhumor.jiglu.com/+register> * * This is new. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. (Some say they found confirmation from jiglu in their spam box.) ** *Slick eZine is an announcement list. Slick-R is a discussion list.* *Send replies & comments to this list and **[email protected]*<[email protected]> * Rich Martin * *** * *.* *** * *.* * * *.* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APFN" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/APFN?hl=en APFN-1 YahooGroups: Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn-1/join Unsubscribe: [email protected] APFN MSG BOARD: `In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' http://disc.server.com/Indices/234999.html APFN CONTENTS PAGE: http://www.apfn.org/old/apfncont.htm "RADIO YOUR WAY" APFN POGO NETWORK (( WOW!! )) "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" -- Thomas Jefferson http://www.apfn.net/POGO.HTM Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more. http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/ APFN, PMB 206, 7549 W. CACTUS RD. #104, PEORIA, AZ 85381 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
