Thursday, June 26, 2008

++Don't Tread On Me++

"Don't Tread on Me," was a motto of the American Revolution against the tyranny of European elite. Three years ago European socialist governments, influenced by the "greens," enacted the European Union Emission Trading System. Government rations CO2 emission allowances. Companies can use them or sell them at market rates. Costs of CO2 emissions allowances are passed to consumers. This is the model for the Lieberman cap-and-trade legislation that was before the Senate.

Seventy percent of America's electricity sources produce CO2 emissions. Cap-and-trade will raise electricity prices ["Cap-and-trade really cap-and-tax," Opinion, June 2]. Electricity prices raise the cost of everything. The cost is in the trillions. On another front, permits for new electrical plants are harder to get because of the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species. Where could this lead? It means that only "alternative energy" plants will be built. These alternatives, other than nuclear, operate less than 40 percent of the time when the wind blows or the sun shines, but you never hear about this capacity factor. Electric power supply shortages will cause the whole country to experience something like the California electricity crisis of 2000-2001. This could eventually lead to forced electricity rationing such as meters that shut off your power. Cap-and-trade is designed by the "greens" to bring America's economy further down to Europe's "global" level.

Courageous scientists, called "deniers" by climate-change alarmists, have established that climate change is a natural phenomenon regulated by the sun, the oceans and clouds. The deniers still debate climate-change science even if former Vice President Al Gore, the presidential candidates and climate-change alarmists cannot. Climate change is natural, insignificant and noncatastrophic. I believe that Americans can adapt to global warming of 1 degree per 150 years because it will be during the winter at night in the northern latitudes. The dirty little secret in all this is that CO2 emissions reduction will do nothing to stop climate change.

However, it's not about global warming. It's about Americans losing the freedom to run our factories at full capacity when we want; to drive our SUV's to our vacation homes, shooting clubs and political rallies, and to turn the air conditioner down to 72 degrees for a garage-band party on a hot summer night. It's about the freedom to power our computers all day to e-mail our friends and nongovernmental organizations and read blogs; to leave the power on your TiVo when you travel; to watch TV on multiple big screens; to use incandescent light bulbs whenever we please and shine them brightly on this anti-American cap-and-trade legislation. Electrical energy has been essential to our freedom, prosperity, security and our way of life. To allow the politicians to ration or eliminate the large sources of fossil fuel energy, at a time when these same ("green") political forces oppose coal, nuclear and hydroelectric sources (more than 98 percent of our nation's total), is dangerous for our nation.

The power to tax-and-ration energy is the power to have life-and-death control over every human being. No government should ever have this power. I don't want European-style ("green") tyranny in America. I stand with the global warming "deniers." "Don't Tread on Me."

Bill Malenius of Laguna Niguel

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Meet Bobby Jindal

Perhaps you are all ready aware of Bobby Jindal. The name has been floated as a potential VP for McCain. Perhaps you've thought...ugh, a young and well spoken "man of color," is only being spoken about to off-set Obama's appeal. But you'd be wrong. Would he be a good VP candidate? Yes. Would he be a good VP? Of course.



But whether or not the VP thing is in the cards, what is important is to know this: Bobby Jindal will be President of the United States of America in your lifetime - and probably sooner than later.



Now, I understand what you're thinking: KneeDeep, you're full of shit.



I agree. Conjecture and B.S. are two fields in which I'm steeped with expertise. But in the immortal words of Hans and Franz, "Listen to me now, and hear me later." This man will be in the Oval Office.



So, in case you don't all ready (and even if you do) let's get to know him.



Here's a good place to start:








Interested? Quickly, let's talk about the stuff that they left out in the interview.

Graduated with Honors from Brown with a Bachelors in Biology and Public Policy.

Graduated from Oxford with a Masters in Political Science.

Rhodes Scholar.

Brains? Check.

Gained admissions to both Yale and Harvard in medical and law schools. Instead of heading off to school, he felt he could make an impact in his home state and accepted an appointment as the head of the Lousiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the largest department in the state of Louisiana. It took him two years to convert a $400 million deficit into a $220 million surplus.

Fiscal conservative? Check.

In 1998, he was appointed Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Committee on the Future of Medicare.

Does he truly understand Medicare? Check.

In 1999, he became the President of the University of Lousiana system and it's system-wide enrollment of 80,000 plus system.

Education experience? Check.

In 2001, President Bush appointed him the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation for the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Healthcare? Check.

His election to congress in 2004? Won with 78% of the vote. In 2006? Won with 88% of the vote.

Backs up his big talk? Check.

He ran for Governor again in 2007. Won with 54% of the vote. Less impressive? Well, consider that unlike a normal head to head election, a "Louisiana Primary" is a two-round primary where all candidates, regardless of party participate against each other. The top two candidates then compete head to head in the next election. UNLESS, there is one person who wins the majority. Jindal, with 54%, won the majority and thusly won the election. In one round. He DECIMATED a field of 11 other candidates, including several leading Democrat power players. His closest competitor? He finished with a whopping 17%!

Large scale management experience? Check.

Now perhaps you're thinking: "Okay, so the guy's got a good resume. It takes more than a good resume, and a glossy presence to win the Presidency, KneeDeep!"

Then consider this, on top of his glowing resume, his nice-guy attitude, his brains, his successes, the fact that as an Indian-American Catholic - IN THE SOUTH, there's also this little tidbit: The guy actually delivered his son when his wife went in to labor in their house.

So yeah, he's super-human.

His anti-abortion record is spotless, his gun-rights record is spotless, his immigration record is spotless. The guy doesn't flip-flop. The guy isn't bought and sold.

The guy is a real-deal Conservative. The guy has the appeal of the middle of the road voter. The guy will be in a Presidential election in the next 8 years and the guy will win.

Am I full of it? Maybe. But you've got to admit, you're less convinced of that now than you were when you started this post.

***UPDATE***: This article was posted on Drudge today about Gingrich and Jindal, definitely worth the read...

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/gingrich-jindal-is-best-choice-for-vice-president-2008-06-15.html

Friday, June 13, 2008

COWARDICE? NOPE, IT'S STRATEGY

Several weeks ago, it was made public (by Drudge, since the MSM decided it wasn’t newsworthy) that the McCain campaign had invited Senator Obama to participate in 10 townhall meetings throughout the summer.

These were to be very unstructured, very unscripted debates where the two men could stand up and talk about the issues that face America. They were to be a departure from the horrible, predictable, sound-bite boredom of the “debates” that we now see. Instead of rattling off talking points, they would discuss, challenge and most importantly, introduce themselves to America as they are, not as talking heads.

So why is it that McCain and his camp would want to enter in to so many face-to-face discussions with a man that is considered such a verbal force to be reckoned with?

Maybe a better question is, why would a man like Senator Obama, lauded for his oratory expertise, his charisma and his ability to make women faint when they hear him utter the slightest of words back down from this?

Perhaps they are paying attention.

Perhaps they’ve noticed something that people are starting to catch on to…Senator Barack is quite good when there’s someone telling him what to say and quite inept when it comes to speaking off the cuff. When reading a speech, and reciting memorized talking points, he’s smoother than baby’s behind, but when he’s just speaking he’s more like Paula Abdul after a couple of Xanax and a bottle of wine.

58 States? Really Senator? Hey Harvard, let me help you out with this one for the next time you get confused: Remember that thing you’ve been a part of now for almost 4 years? That day job? Yeah, including you, there are 100 of you guys. There are two Senators from every state. I’ll let you take it from here.

During a Memorial day speech, he dropped this doozy:
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today – our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
Obviously, he threw an ad-libbed line into a prepared speech. No-no Senator…you’re not so good at that. Keep to the script.

Perhaps we’ll give him a pass for telling people that his uncle liberated the wrong Nazi concentration camp, because – well hey, those German names can be confusing.

Of course, none of this is new to you, there are plenty of well-covered examples of this phenomenon, simply type “Obama Gaffes” in to google and enjoy. I think the point has been made.

But what's interesting is that the McCain campaign knows that they face a formidable foe, one that has a succinct advantage when it comes to age, looks and “cool.” Getting up and standing side by side only exacerbates this difference. When McCain messes up, it’s due to his age. When Obama messes up…well…it doesn’t exist because it’s not reported by the MSM. You have to go find it. These are major tactical disadvantages, yet McCain is calling for more debates. McCain wants to stand face to face with his opponent. McCain wants to speak off the cuff. McCain’s people know that McCain is old. McCain’s people know that McCain is not “cool.” McCain’s people know that the people know these things. They are not going to run from it. They will embrace it. With McCain, what you see is what you get.

Obama wants to hide behind teleprompters. Obama wants protect himself behind his legions of speechwriters and image makers. Obama and his people want to make sure that the man he is is not the man you hear and see.

An opportunity like these meetings should be a friggen gold mine for a guy like Obama. 10 opportunities to show the image of “Change” in front of the nation. 10 opportunities to show America that this campaign is not going to be like the rest, that this candidate is not like the rest, that “Change” is on the horizon.

But instead his handlers say “no.” Instead, the people who know him best, the people who are hired to create his image, they run him away and they hide him.

Fortunately for us, for America and for the entire free world, Mr. Obama can’t hide forever.

No matter how hard they try to hide him behind an image, to groom him in to their idyllic vision of a model “President”, once the heat is on, the true man will come out. The beauty will fade and the people will begin to see what he really is and hear what he’s really saying and then the true Democrat nightmare will occur: Liberalism will have to stand on it’s own, without the pretty face. And when that happens it will do as it always does: It will fail.

++Will America Continue to be a Victim of Islamic Terror?++

Let's take a look:

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists between the of 17 and 40.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war < /FONT>in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by-- you guessed it-- Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

Do you see a reason to racially profile? In order to ensure that Americans never offend anyone, (particularly fanatics intent on killing us) airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people... Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss,

but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

A look back at the book of Revelations:

The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything.

And Now:
For the award winning Act of Stupidity Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet -- The Presidency of the United states of America ... A Muslim Male Extremist Between the ages of 17 and 40.

Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ???

I'm sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the 'unknown' candidate Barack Hussein Obama...


Tuesday, June 3, 2008

++Obama is in++


Democratic Nominee is now official.. Supposedly. Can the Clinton Machine overturn this decision?


For Conservatives, it is time to get to work. This run is ours to win, or ours to lose Obama will not beat us. If we lose, it is only because we beat ourselves.

Get on board to stop the Marxist from getting to power! America is not a Socialist Nation!