THE EPA AS DUST POLICE

You can't make this stuff up!

According to Reuters, EPA wants farmers to rein in the amount of dust floating in the air in the American countryside.

The EPA plans to issue the regulations in the fall of 2011. Details of those regulations and the method of enforcement remain unknown.

Read the rest here at Always On Watch.

THE BIRTH-CERTIFICATE DISTRACTION

Please see THIS (with thanks to Will). Brief excerpt:

While we were distracted by the president's birth certificate show-and-tell, his EPA releases its guidelines for expanding federal power under the Clean Water Act....

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President Obama said the whole "birther" controversy was a distraction from other more important things. That's just the way he wanted it.

Read it all.

The Obama administration is certainly adept at one thing — using sleight of hand.

HILARIOUS VIDEO: OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

With a hat tip to Silverfiddle:


Whether you're a "birther" or not, you should admit that the above video shows up Obama supporters for what they are. Heh.

NATIONAL DEBT: A TSUNAMI OF RED INK

The interactive graphic is HERE.

Explore and weep.

THE 1970 EARTH DAY PREDICTIONS

From I Hate the Media and contains some real gems of lunacy:

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
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Leisure suits are gone, but the Earth is still here

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
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Sadly, vegans have outlived the Vega.

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

I attended college from 1968-1972 and was subjected to all the above propaganda. To my everlasting credit, I didn't buy into all the hyperventilating nonsense.

UNION BOSSES ADMIT THEIR LAWLESS AGENDA

In league with the Democratic Party, of course. Watch and listen. Note "forget about the law":

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF AMERICA'S FINANCIAL WOES

Grim facts that should be sending both parties scrambling to curb the coming financial disaster for America:


Obama self-righteously declares:

"We have to live within our means..."

Yet his policies have increased our national debt to astronomical levels.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Until one remembers that Obama is in campaign mode. Is he ever in any other mode?

AS A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS

Anybody else having this same thought?

The above bumper sticker is available for purchase HERE.

SO MUCH FOR UPHOLDING THE OATH OF OFFICE

Article HERE.

OSAMA BIN LADEN ON THE MOVE?

From the Asia Times (hat tip to Weasel Zippers):

ISLAMABAD - After a prolonged lull, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has launched a series of covert operations in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan following strong tip-offs that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been criss-crossing the area in the past few weeks for high-profile meetings in militant redoubts.

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Officials are said to be "stunned" by the visibility of Bin Laden's movements, and their frequency, in a matter of a few weeks in the outlawed terrain of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the most unprecedented reports about him since he evaded the US in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in 2001.

The development has fueled speculation in intelligence circles that al-Qaeda could be planning another major attack along the lines of the September 11, 2001, assault on New York and Washington, and the July 2007 foiled bomb attack in London.

However, extensive investigations by Asia Times Online, including exchanges within al-Qaeda's camps, point in another direction: given the nature of Bin Laden's meetings, this appears to be the beginning of a new era for a broader struggle in which al-Qaeda, through its Laskhar al-Zil (Shadow Army), will try to capitalize on the Arab revolts and the Palestinian struggle and also revitalize and redefine its role in Afghanistan....

More at the above link.

We shouldn't be surprised. See these two stories: Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links and 'Al-Qaeda snatched missiles' in Libya.

Yesterday, Obama stated that the mission in Libya is succeeding. What is his definition of success? The reactivation of Osama bin Laden's worldwide jihad?

SPRING!

In honor of spring (hat tip to Leslie), even though we're going through a last blast of winter here in the D.C. area this weekend, and never mind the final words on the videotape:


I have a yellow tiger kitty, so I admit that this video touched my heart in a special way.

A break from politics helps us to regain perspective.

WEEKEND POLITICAL CARTOON

From Be Sure You're RIGHT, Then Go Ahead:



Bob Mack, the webmaster of Be Sure You're RIGHT, Then Go Ahead has and excellent post today, with pointed commentary, about Obama's incompetence and concludes his post with the following statement:

Ineffectual idiot or cunning covert communist, the results of Barack Obama’s Presidency are the same–incalculable and perhaps irreparable damage to the United States of America as we have heretofore known it.

The GOP must get its act together and defeat Obama in 2012!

EVEN BILL CLINTON UNDERSTANDS THAT WE NEED TO DRILL

From Politico:

Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are “ridiculous” at a time when the economy is still rebuilding...

Are Bill Clinton's words indicative of a coming rift in the Democratic Party as the prices of petroleum and petroleum products and the cost of goods in general soar to the moon?

In any case, Clinton's words reflect what every sensible American knows: Obama isn't looking out for American interests. On Friday, March 11, 2011, Obama absurdly blamed the oil companies here in the United States for not drilling.

Weekend Political Cartoon

(Please scroll down to read other recent postings)

Spotted at Political Realities, LD Jackson's site (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):


Excerpt from the opinion essay written by LD Jackson:

I believe the President is guilty of playing class warfare....His relationship with the unions is indicative of that desire, I believe. They are a means to an end and that end is winning a second term in 2012.

Read the entire essay HERE.

UNIONS TRYING TO HOLD TAXPAYERS HOSTAGE

From Michael Reagan:

...The unions have broken Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, and California, to name a few. It is time to rein in the unions and save our states.

Okay, that statement is obvious to any thinking person. But the following snippet is of critical importance and heartening:

The Reagan you are looking for is sitting in Republican governorships, not in Washington.

Reining in the federal government must begin at the state level.

Go back to America's founding principles:

...America was to be ruled by law, not by individuals...

Along those same lines, America was NOT to be ruled by mobs.

Obama and the Democratic Party are doing all they can to evade and defile our founding principles. Thuggery and treason!

A LITTLE REMINDER: WHO OBAMA REALLY IS AND WHAT AND WHO HE REALLY STANDS FOR...

With thanks to Bunkerville for jogging my memory:

THE COMING TRAIN WRECK FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY

Gasp!

From the Washington Times on February 14, 2011:

President Obama projects that the gross federal debt will top $15 trillion this year, officially equalling the size of the entire U.S. economy, and will jump to nearly $21 trillion in five years' time.

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Mr. Obama's budget said 2011 will see the biggest one-year jump in debt in history, or nearly $2 trillion in a single year....

Also see "A Tipping Point Is Nearing" at American Thinker.

Any solutions to this oncoming train wreck will be painful in the extreme.

SUNDAY POLITICAL CARTOON

Found at Right Truth:

THE EPA CLASSIFIES MILK AS OIL

Absolute madness! You can't make up these surreal developments.

From this essay by Thomas Sowell:

...We all understand why the EPA was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.

In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.

Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.

It is going to cost the taxpayers money as well, since the EPA is going to have to hire people to inspect farms, inspect farmers' reports and prosecute farmers who don't jump through all the right hoops in the right order. All of this will be "creating jobs," even if the tax money removed from the private sector correspondingly reduces the jobs that can be created there.

Does anyone seriously believe that any farmer is going to spill enough milk to compare with the Exxon Valdez oil spill or the BP oil spill?

Do you envision people fleeing their homes, as a flood of milk comes pouring down the mountainside, threatening to wipe out the village below?

It doesn't matter. Once the words are in the law, it makes no difference what the realities are. The bureaucracy has every incentive to stretch the meaning of those words, in order to expand its empire....

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