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With the way the country is, and the way Lincoln trampled the constitution (even call these united states “a nation” instead of looking at this as a union of independent states) we need not a right of cessation, but a right to expel. I’d like to put on the list Maryland, Mass., California (at least the southern part), New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and a hand-full of New England states.

Two images from June 2, 2010

While U.S President Barack Obama, the biggest recipient of BP Oil cash, has been partying into the night, the residents of our Gulf Coast have been pleading for help.

Attention American schoolchildren – this is Business 101: Here is what happens when you put a “community organizer” in an executive position:

First, the bad news is hidden from public view.

Why? Well, because stupid is as stupid does.

For example: While thousands are willing to help solve the problem, the Obama administration takes the weekend off and insists everyone else do likewise.

This is how non-managers deal with a managerial problem: They dither, they delay, they do not make decisions. In the meantime, the disaster continues apace.

The state of Arizona has tried to solve a problem on its own, and the Obama administration is going to sue them for it. Bad managers do not solve a problem but only make it worse.

In the Gulf region, local firefighters are eager to help keep oil from reaching their shores. While the federal government is taking a long weekend, and considering lawsuits against the states, these volunteers are being told to stand down.

Hixon said fire chiefs offered BP equipment and knowledge and, in return, asked for the chemical make-up of leaking materials “so we could train our people to safely handle it, but we got no response whatsoever.” County chiefs became frustrated at the lack of unified command and the disregard for local resources, including boats and crews who have knowledge of the area’s waterways.

“You can’t plan on how to boom off an area from an office 50 miles away looking at a map,” he said. “It just won’t work.”

By the way: While these concerned citizens were being held back from attacking the oil spill, President Barack Obama was playing golf … again.

We can only wonder how long it will be before the Obama administration decides to sue them.

UPDATE: Captain Kickass rates low confidence in Democrat-skewed poll. I think if most people had any awareness of how long the Democrats have controlled Congress the ratings would be even lower.

Countless citizens, homeowners Associations, professional organizations, and a broad spectrum of business interests from across the county have come out in opposition to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act ( CBPA ) now under consideration by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. This legislation, is bad for home owners, it is bad for business, and will become a drag on economic growth in Loudoun County for years to come if adopted.

The recommendation and support by both county staff and the planning commission is based more on the whims of a handful of social engineers and politicians, than that of sound science. The CBPA is environmental policy crafted twenty years ago for an entirely different region of the commonwealth. This legislation was never intended for Loudoun County. Advocating for its passage is like pounding a square peg through a round hole and then paying for the privilege for having done so. It is a waste of time, energy and precious resources.

The more one examines the details of this legislation, the more one realizes the greatest danger in its implementation, is that it expands the size, scope and cost of county government at a time when resources are scarce. Loudoun County can ill afford to be wasting valuable resources having just cut essential services in the shadow of back to back budget deficits. Implementing this legislation is fiscally irresponsible.

A vote for passage of the CBPA in the face of overwhelming opposition, the facts as enumerated within the legislation, sound science and at a time of economic uncertainty, is both irrational and politically tone deaf.

This morning, I read where our local game warden Bruce Lemmert is retiring.

For those of you not familiar with Officer Lemmert’s career, we have been very fortunate to have one so dedicated as Officer Lemmert for the past 21 years.

Highlights of Bruce’s career :

One of the more notable accomplishments during his 13 years with VDGIF is an initiative for community involvement, The Wildlife Recognition and Reward Program. Lemmert started the program in collaboration with the Loudoun County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League (IWLA). In the spring of each year, Bruce Lemmert and IWLA membership honor those Loudoun County residents and law enforcement officers who assisted in either wildlife management or law enforcement during the past 12 months. The program has been recognized as a model of its kind both by the state and national IWLA, and is now implemented in many areas throughout the U.S..

Bruce was recognized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for his investigative work that helped bring down a wildlife poaching ring that reached from Virginia to New Mexico.

Bruce Lemmert was one of the first officers in Virginia to use DNA analysis to convict an illegal hunter and the first to use a total electronic station to bring a wildlife criminal to justice; the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries later adopted the system..

Bruce Lemmert has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including selection as the 1996 Virginia Game Warden of the Year and 1997 Wildlife Officer of the Year by the North American Wildlife Enforcement Officers Association and recipient of the 2002 Guy Bradley Award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the 2006 Law Enforcement Officers Association’s Group Achievement Award.

Read More In House Joint Resolution 454

On top of all of these accomplishments, Officer Lemmert is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Thanks for everthing Bruce, you will most certainly be missed.

I didn’t know how to post the picture so you don’t get to see it. I got out the crayons and paper again for those lead-headed individuals that just can’t seem to grasp reality. It doesn’t get more simple than this.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer..
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A….
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

The by-product from this message has to do with competition, which is healthy and necessary for a good economy and personal drive. One thing I can tell you for sure: this professor would never be allowed to teach at Harvard!

Global warming? Deal with the devil? Lax laws? Too many people masterbating? Whatever it may be, Arnold and California seem to have a never ending string of disasters. We have the illegal disaster; the wildfire disasters; the gang disasters; the earthquake disasters; the homosexual disaster: there isn’t anything under the sun that doesn’t happen to California. And it happens repeatedly. We are now back to global warming disaster-tremendous amounts of rain in a short period of time.

If you have paid attention to weather cycles you will see patterns develope over time. I have lived in California from San Jose on down. The dirt there is crap. It looks like an anemic Johnny Winter. When you add water to it it becomes baby goo. You don’t dare build houses on cliffs, slopes or open areas where the drainage has YOUR name. It deals with something called being aware and responsible. Heck, even the insurance companies hate California. We will pay (ALL of us) for the next disaster declaration by Arnold as we always have. People willingly give monies to countries like Haiti when a disaster strikes. No one could see what befell them. Or Burma and others for that matter. California has set conditions and patterns for disaster and I, personally am tired of rebuild after rebuild after rebuild.

My solution is to let Califoprnia fend for itself. If it can’t handle the cost of disasters then give up the state. We can have these people relocated to, say, northern Mexico and give the land for Navy and Marine use. We need a new bombing/artillary range for the Pacific Fleet to replace the one we lost in Puerto Rico. Or become a sucker and keep giving to the bottomless disaster pit. Hey. Just a thought.

Get a Load of this Article:

Snowstorm squelches climate change protest

Judy Fahys

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST

A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm.

“Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.

The irony of it all is so sweet, one must see the hand of God in all this. This other Article make things even more problematic:

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

So if the CO2 level is not changing, why is the climate changing?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Inquiring minds want to also know how rich is Al Gore getting off his snake oil salesman routine.  Inquiring minds want to know if the watermelons who are running the AGW scam will ever have to face charges for inflicting this fraud on the people of the world.

Wikipedia, the favorite site of liberals when they seek a source to provide support for their assertions, has been reported to have also fallen into the Climategate abyss :

One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team — U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties. Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known -Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug. 11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles…When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand.

Read Story at the National Post

A rational person would think that if the “science is settled”, none of this would be necessary. The one thing that appears to be settled is the bastardization of historical scientific data to support a religious dogma for some within the paleoclimatology community.

This report from NOAA:

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SXUS71 KLWX 200552
RERDCA

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
1252 AM EST SUN DEC 20 2009

…RECORD DAILY AND MONTHLY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL RECORDS SET YESTERDAY
AT WASHINGTON REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT FOR WASHINGTON DC…

15.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OFFICIALLY MEASURED YESTERDAY DECEMBER 19
2009 AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT.

THIS BREAKS THE DAILY RECORD SNOWFALL FOR THE DATE…7.0 INCHES SET
BACK IN 1945…AS WELL AS BREAKS THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR ANY SINGLE
CALENDAR DAY SNOWFALL IN DECEMBER FOR WASHINGTON DC. THE PREVIOUS
DECEMBER SINGLE CALENDAR DAILY RECORD WAS 11.5 INCHES SET ON DEC 17
1932.

A MONTH TO DATE SNOW TOTAL OF 16.6 INCHES HAS BEEN RECORDED SO FAR
AT WASHINGTON REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT…WHICH BREAKS THE PREVIOUS
RECORD DECEMBER MONTHLY SNOWFALL RECORD OF 16.2 INCHES SET IN
DECEMBER 1962.

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JRK/SMZ

To the Anthropomorphic Global Warming Cultists of the world, run this through your fact checker.

Recently at the Copenhagen summit, the high priest of climate change rolled out yet another Inconvenient Lie :

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Read Story at the Times of London

First Climategate, now this, glaring examples of science misused, and science misrepresented.

I saw something interesting while traveling thru one of Sterling’s strip malls.  A manager and store employee from the Burlington Coat Factory was forcibly manuvering a “patron” back into the store (there was some serious strongarming going on here) with her ill-gotten goods.  Looks like Light-fingered Lovisa was doing some holiday shopping and thought Obama would foot the tab.  I pondered why she would be stealing at this time of the year?  I came to this conclusion:

1) She was doing her “holiday” shopping but not Christmas.  Christ teaches us to give but she was definitely receiving!

2) She wasn’t hungry because she wasn’t stealing food.

3) This administration and congress have indoctrinated the feable minded into thinking that everything should be free because others will pay for what you want to have (not deserve-just want).

It’s a shame to see this behavior at a sacred time of year that Christians celebrate but when you take GOD out of the season then there is no reason for the holiday.  If this woman really needed clothing (or any other necessity or goods) she has many outlets to “receive” from those that “give”.  I give generous for others to have.  I guess it is just what this country is headed to and when this joyous holiday is past, I’m buying more ammunition.

Merry Christmas (sanctioned/dedicated federal holiday) and Happy New Year (sanctioned/dedicated federal holiday).

Yes, they threw out the data to save space. Isn’t that wonderful? They want us to spend trillions of dollars to combat global warming, and it’s all based on unverifiable data. Oh, they have the massaged data, but not the real, raw, as-collected data.

Isn’t that convenient?

Shocking! The Anthropomorphic Global Warming nuts have been manipulating the climate data! This issue is akin to the infamous Hockey Stick graph from a few years ago.  Now it appears that the bright boys in climate research have been hiding some other inconvenient truths:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

The article provided snippets where the local Global Warming conspirators tried to manipulate data, suppressed evidence, voiced thier own doubts in AGW while dreaming of attacking those brave enough to make evident their skepticism in the AGW hoax.    This is a glimpse into a workings of a cult.  A religion of tree, animal and planet worship.  Gaea save me!!  The green part of the left is willing to sacrifice humanity on this alter.  The hoi polloi need to be plowed under in order to make room for a brave new world.  One free from NASCAR.

This is hilarious.  The high priest of Anthropomorphic Global Warming, his most bloatedness Al Gore, is more than likely having a stroke.  Someone cut the microphone hook up PLEEEeeease!!!  AGW is little more than a means of the environmental-whack-jobs of pushing their brand of 21st century Druidism upon the rest of us.  Faith clothed in science.

The carbon credits are getting really ripe right about now.  They are little more than a scam masquerading as a crusade to save “The Planet”.   This is the point where the old snake oil salesman would be sitting on a railroad tie above the crowd with a generous slathering of hot tar over his scaly hide.  The white feathers giving him that ‘loser chic’ he so richly deserves.  I can picture ol’ Al looking like a farm raised turkey, right before Thanksgiving, with that look on his face — right before he finally gets the ax.

Third Coldest October on Record