Interesting Items - by Alex Gimarc
Monday January 14, 2013 Interesting Items 1/14 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Miller 2. Colder 3. Light Bulbs 4. Skittish 5. Gregory 6. Troubling 7. EPA 8. Chavez 1. Miller. There is an old observation that it isn’t paranoia if they are really out to get you. Last week saw the head of Joe Miller’s security detail, one Bill Fulton, come out in the Huffington Post, claim to be a committed lefty, and self identify as a long-time FBI informant. Fulton was the guy on his own volition who detained and handcuffed the editor of the Alaska Dispatch at a Miller event in 2010 after Miller had left the building. The event was one of the high water marks on the Miller campaign that gave the media sufficient handhold to destroy it and Miller. There are those here in Alaska who refer to Joe Miller as one of the most paranoid guys in the state, but when an FBI informant, on the federal payroll, actively torpedoes a conservative campaign, it plays into that paranoia much the same way as feds with guns showing up at the front door of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco in 1993 fed into David Koresh’s paranoia that the BATF was out to get him. They were and they did. More troubling is the notion that people on the federal dime, in the federal employ, taking taxpayer dollars, are being paid our money to muck around in politics here in Alaska. Where does it all end? Fulton is an example of a mercenary, a guy who does not believe in freedom or liberty, and a cautionary tale to those who have been wondering who is going to be on which side when and if the public rises up against the outrages of the Obama regime against liberty and our property. Just because someone has military stink on them, guns and short hair does not necessarily mean they agree with us. Fulton bragged that it was boom times for FBI informants based on what they right is talking about these days. So be very, very careful in the days and weeks to come. Here is Fulton running his mouth in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/joe-miller-alaska-bulletproof-vest_n_2444137.html 2. Colder. We are in an era of dueling press releases from the manmade global warming crowd. Last week, Jim Hansen’s NASA Goddard released a shock story with the byline that 2012 was one of the warmest years over the last century. Of course it wasn’t until they introduced their “corrections” to the historical data that 2012 was so warm. Here in Alaska, we were treated to a story that the last decade here in Alaska saw an average of 2.34 degree F drop in temperatures – hardly the thing that will destroy the permafrost. You can find the paper at the link to follow: http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toascj/articles/V006/111TOASCJ.pdf 3. Light Bulbs. Another January passes and another flavor of the incandescent bulb is now illegal to manufacture here in the US. Interestingly enough, this bit of corporate welfare for General Electric via energy legislation has not been rolled back by our Masters in Congress. The incandescent bulb was supposed to be replaced by the ChiCom manufactured compact fluorescent, each of which will introduce more mercury vapor into your home than the EPA will allow coal fired electrical generation plants to emit. On the one hand, the feds are requiring you to inject the hazardous waste mercury vapor into your homes. On the other hand, they are using mercury emissions – a completely natural product of combustion – as an excuse to shut down half of our electrical generation capacity nationwide (coal fired plants). Last week we also found yet another problem with the CF bulbs. This little problem is that some of the wavelengths of light they emit also tend to cause skin cancer on the unlucky. So when congress mucks around in the marketplace, taking care of large money democrat donors like GE, they introduce products into our homes that carry hazardous waste and emit cancer causing radiation. Nice. Note that you can still find 100 and 75 W incandescent bulbs on Amazon.com. 4. Skittish. As the Obama regime and democrats plan the next round of gun grabbing, the nation is reacting as expected, with a substantial run on guns. Interesting that this is the second run in four years, with the first being late 2008 after he was first elected. It does make you wonder who is buying the guns this time around, as conservatives did the initial run. I believe that this time around, the independents and democrats are at the heart of this run based upon what has been purchased – mostly things that have the ability to carry multiple rounds. Here in AK, we have a shortage of .22 long rifle and .223 ammunition along with most AR-style weapons that shoot them. It is also difficult to find magazines for Springfields, Glocks, and anything else that will carry more than 10 rounds (so-called high capacity magazines). Last time around up here, all the ammunition was in short supply. This time around, you can easily find 30-06, 12 gauge, .40 cal, .45 cal, 9 mm, etc. Bob Owens has written that this run on guns and ammunition reminds him of people preparing for war. With that in mind, I had a discussion with a friend in the Lower 48. He reports that people with property adjacent to BLM land have been watching the feds, and that the feds are not having a good time these days. They no longer travel alone and are very skittish while making their rounds. They are also traveling armed. Great. Just what we need. Skittish, armed feds. Perhaps this is the natural result of decades of abusive treatment of the citizenry by the feds on federal lands. Would be interesting to find out what sorts of pre-deployment briefings they have been receiving. 5. Gregory. From the land of “Laws are only for the little people” we have the strange case of one David Gregory, reporter and host of Meet the Press. A few weeks ago, Gregory fished out a 30-round magazine for an AR-class weapon and used it as a prop to berate NRA head Wayne LaPierre over gun control. As it turns out, even having the magazine in your possession in DC is a felony under DC gun control laws. There were demands by the pro-gun community to prosecute him. The case was investigated for a while and went to the DC Attorney General last week who ultimately decided no law had been broken and dropped all prosecution. As it turns out, the DC Atty General personally knows both Gregory and his wife. Contrast this treatment of the powerful and well known with the treatment of a guy who has to drop his kid off in DC while on the way to the range to practice for a US Marshall’s evaluation, who was arrested and jailed for having weapons and ammunition in his trunk. He has called DC police and asked if and how he could transport weapons through the District. He was told to have the weapons with no rounds in it and locked separately from the ammunition in his trunk. He did this and was arrested anyway. DC prosecutors are going after him to the full extent of the law. 6. Troubling. Shell Oil has run a terrible gauntlet in order to successfully drill a couple test holes in the Chukchi Sea last summer. Last month, they decided to tow one of the drilling rigs back to Seattle for renovation. Weather in the Gulf of Alaska is typically awful this time of year, and the tow did not go well, with the rig breaking loose in 40’ seas and running aground on an island south of Kodiak. It was refloated a couple weeks later and moved to a safe harbor until the weather clears. The grounding did not release any significant amount of hydrocarbons into the ocean, but did open the door for Salazar who laid most of the idiotic restrictions on the operation and the EPA who does some of the permitting, to pile on and further obstruct the future operation. We are at the point where the regulators from this administration are using their power to obstruct rather than to assist. They must be shut down and all permitting and permissions be transferred to the many states to handle. Sooner would be better than later. 7. EPA. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resigned a couple weeks ago. Speculation has raged upon what triggered that act. Last week, observers suggested it was the shadow e-mail account in the name of Richard Windsor Jackson used to evade FOIA requests for her e-mail. Another guess was her opposition to the Keystone Pipeline, expected to be approved this year. While the Richard Windsor e-mail accounts are the most likely, as it will demonstrate the close working relationship between the EPA and environmental organizations in the crafting of new anti-carbon, anti-fracing, anti-coal and anti-mercury rules, there is another possibility. Anyone else out there know that the EPA has been conducting human testing of particulate inhalation as a vehicle to define damage to the human system by particulates? That’s right, in the best tradition of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on blacks, Josef Mengle’s experiments and the experiments done in the Death Camps (yeah I know, I am breaking Godwin’s Law here), the EPA has conducted human experimentation that they would never allow anyone else to conduct. There is some indication they have even violated the Nuremberg Code on human experimentation. They have been in federal court on this since September 2012 and have been stonewalling everything. Their position is essentially that they can do anything they want to do because they are the EPA and it is important. Steven Milloy of Junkscience.com has been all over this. Watch this one closely, as the EPA has turned into an evil and feral agency that is a threat to everything we hold dear. http://junkscience.com/2013/01/01/epas-illegal-human-experiments-could-break-nuremberg-code/ 8. Chavez. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is on his last legs at a hospital in Cuba. The remaining regime and the Cubans that are using him as a vehicle to insert themselves into South America are now flailing around for a response to his passing. One suggested technique suggested it to administer the Oath of Office to the unconscious dictator and do a reprise of “Weekend at Bernie’s” and pretend he is alive for as long as they can get away with it. Expect Venezuela to end up a lot like Yugoslavia after Tito died, and come apart at the seams as Chavez’ supporters on the gravy train of free money will no longer have free money. The Cubans won’t either, which will significantly damage them also. This is going to be a big mess, with many of the worst players in the world – Cuba, Iran and the Islamists – participating. We will keep the people of Venezuela in our prayers. 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. 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