The steam-o-lene engine adds another power stroke and cools
the engine in the process. Maybe as part owners of the auto
industry, taxpayers should use efficient, proven technology:
http://www.popsci.com/node/9649
I have a picture of a 258mpg VW available in China for $600.
Americans cannot buy it here. Why not?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Animal Farm by George Orwell
I bought a copy at the Salvation Army and just finished reading
it. The animals revolt and take over the Jones' [Manor] Farm.
The pigs - being the smartest - take control. Napoleon and
Snowball represent Stalin and Trotsky. I see Snowball as
Obama on the campaign, and Napoleon as Obama after
inauguration. Squealer is Robert Gibbs.
This makes the story much more meaningful and educational
when history is rewritten and the 7 Commandments are
modified as necessary.
The major project is the building (and rebuilding) of the
windmill. It reminds one of Don Quixote's jousts. Perhaps
Obama's "windmill" is the global warming "crisis."
Boxer becomes eligible for retirement and is sent to the glue
factory. Euthanasia will become popular and "reasonable"
when Medicare and Social Security go negative and become
a drain on society.
it. The animals revolt and take over the Jones' [Manor] Farm.
The pigs - being the smartest - take control. Napoleon and
Snowball represent Stalin and Trotsky. I see Snowball as
Obama on the campaign, and Napoleon as Obama after
inauguration. Squealer is Robert Gibbs.
This makes the story much more meaningful and educational
when history is rewritten and the 7 Commandments are
modified as necessary.
The major project is the building (and rebuilding) of the
windmill. It reminds one of Don Quixote's jousts. Perhaps
Obama's "windmill" is the global warming "crisis."
Boxer becomes eligible for retirement and is sent to the glue
factory. Euthanasia will become popular and "reasonable"
when Medicare and Social Security go negative and become
a drain on society.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Revelation 8 and Wormwood
Revelation 8:10,11
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning
like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of
waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of
the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the
waters, because they were made bitter.
The contention of the following author is that, if the rapture is
imminent, then Wormwood must already be on the way. It is
currently in the area of the planet Uranus, and is visible near right
ascension 18.
http://www.millenniumprophecy.com/index.html
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning
like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of
waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of
the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the
waters, because they were made bitter.
The contention of the following author is that, if the rapture is
imminent, then Wormwood must already be on the way. It is
currently in the area of the planet Uranus, and is visible near right
ascension 18.
http://www.millenniumprophecy.com/index.html
Declaration of Independence from the USSA
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of
nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are bearable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and
to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the
patient sufferance of these states; and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
The history of the present President is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world:
He has appointed "special assistants", czars, who have not been
consented to by the peoples' Senate and are not subject to the
peoples' Congress.
He has fired an Inspector General, overseer of government for the
people, without following established procedure.
He has accelerated the nationalization of industries begun by the
previous President. Banking, Automotive manufacturing, Insurance,
Health Care, Housing, Education, etc have been significantly
nationalized. Under the disguise of fiscal stimulus, he has repaid
those that put him in office.
He has invalidated contract law by placing the UAW in front of the
bondholders during the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler.
He has given aid and comfort to enemies of the USSA while
slighting our historic allies.
He suppressed an EPA report questioning the validity of global
warming. The GW "crisis" is necessary to pass the onerous "cap
and Trade" legislation which is really control and tax.
He proposes yet another hidden tax with the value-added tax.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
FDIC.gov
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) preserves and promotes
public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and
thrift institutions for at least $250,000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing
risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy
and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails.
An independent agency of the federal government, the FDIC was created in
1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s
and early 1930s.
The FDIC is funded by premiums that banks and thrift institutions pay for deposit
insurance coverage and from earnings on investments in U.S. Treasury securities.
These premiums have been raised substantially since the insured limit was raised
from $100,000 to $250,000 until 1 Jan 2014. An additional assessment was made
this year based on ASSETS - not deposits - of the bank. This is a cost passed on to
stockholders or bank customers.
With an insurance fund totaling more than $17.3 billion, the FDIC insures more than
$4 trillion of deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts - deposits in virtually every bank and
thrift in the country.
public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and
thrift institutions for at least $250,000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing
risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy
and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails.
An independent agency of the federal government, the FDIC was created in
1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s
and early 1930s.
The FDIC is funded by premiums that banks and thrift institutions pay for deposit
insurance coverage and from earnings on investments in U.S. Treasury securities.
These premiums have been raised substantially since the insured limit was raised
from $100,000 to $250,000 until 1 Jan 2014. An additional assessment was made
this year based on ASSETS - not deposits - of the bank. This is a cost passed on to
stockholders or bank customers.
With an insurance fund totaling more than $17.3 billion, the FDIC insures more than
$4 trillion of deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts - deposits in virtually every bank and
thrift in the country.
Cap & Trade by MAGGIC
MAGGIC (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced
Climate Change) is the federal government's own model for global
warming effects. Predictions over 2000 years in the future are
considered accurate! I can only get 10-day predictions for
weather at the golf course - and they are often incorrect!
The president would now be forced to impose the carbon tariffs —
and could only opt out of doing so with permission from both
chambers of Congress. Carbon-intensive imports would be subject
to penalties at the border unless the country of origin requires
emission reduction measures at least 80 percent as costly as ours.
World Trade Organization rules make it fairly clear that
trade-limiting measures imposed to protect the environment
should have the purpose of protecting the environment,
and not to address any adverse competitiveness effects on domestic
industry. The bill won't do anything measurable to reduce global
warming, we alienate some of our biggest trade partners, we risk a
trade war, and Americans are allowed to emit the same carbon
volumes as the average citizen did in 1867.
Note that Clinton signed Kyoto but did not submit it to the Senate
because a Resolution had passed 99-0 to reject it.
Read full article at Cato.org
Climate Change) is the federal government's own model for global
warming effects. Predictions over 2000 years in the future are
considered accurate! I can only get 10-day predictions for
weather at the golf course - and they are often incorrect!
The president would now be forced to impose the carbon tariffs —
and could only opt out of doing so with permission from both
chambers of Congress. Carbon-intensive imports would be subject
to penalties at the border unless the country of origin requires
emission reduction measures at least 80 percent as costly as ours.
World Trade Organization rules make it fairly clear that
trade-limiting measures imposed to protect the environment
should have the purpose of protecting the environment,
and not to address any adverse competitiveness effects on domestic
industry. The bill won't do anything measurable to reduce global
warming, we alienate some of our biggest trade partners, we risk a
trade war, and Americans are allowed to emit the same carbon
volumes as the average citizen did in 1867.
Note that Clinton signed Kyoto but did not submit it to the Senate
because a Resolution had passed 99-0 to reject it.
Read full article at Cato.org
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Obama Health Care
Is everyone living in the United States entitled to health care? The Obama administration has repeatedly told us about the 47 million who do not have health care. Actually everyone living in the United States has health care. Our laws require hospital emergency rooms to treat everyone who comes to them - including those who have entered the United States illegally. The truth is that the 47 million have health care - they just don't pay for it. Hospitals near the border have had to close their emergency rooms to EVERYONE!
How many of the 47 million are illegals? Of the alleged 9 million children in this group, how many are children of illegals? The SCHIP is supposed to provide better health care for children - paid for by increased taxes on smokers.
Obama says that if you like your doctor(s) and you like your health coverage that you can keep them under his plan - you will just have to pay more in taxes in order to pay for the 47 million who have not paid.
Rahm Emanuel is Obama's Chief of Staff. His brother Zeke is an oncologist for the government at the National Institute of Health. Tom Daschle was nominated as Secretary of HHS until he had to withdraw when the people's representatives would not approve him. Now he will work with Zeke and Obama's health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle to make and sell the plan. These three have formulated the administration's plan and are selling it to the people. They only need 50.1% to agree. Obviously the adults in the 47 million would like to continue getting "free" care (not free to taxpayers).
Until the "Great Society" passed Medicare, doctors were not as well paid. Since taxpayers have guaranteed payment, health care costs have risen dramatically. Many unnecessary tests and procedures have been done not just to protect against malpractice suits but also to get more from the patients (taxpayers). Zeke says that heath care costs have risen 75% since 2000. That is more than 400% of inflation assuming 2.2%/yr inflation.
The Obama plan includes a Value-Added-Tax (VAT) to pay for the costs. The VAT is a hidden tax. The Fair Tax would fund Social Security and Medicare, but the tax would be obvious to people buying things and would not be regressive because of the prebate. The Fair Tax would replace all Federal payroll taxes. The VAT would be an additional tax.
We need a Margaret Thatcher to denationalize banking, insurance, automobile manufacturing, health care, etc. Just like FDR, Obama is making a recession into a Great Depression. What he has done is unConstitutional and in at least 2 instances blatantly illegal: Geithner putting the $68 Billion back into TARP when the authorizing legislation required it to go back to the Treasury; firing Inspector General Walpin without 30-day notification and justification to Congress. Where is the outrage?!
How many of the 47 million are illegals? Of the alleged 9 million children in this group, how many are children of illegals? The SCHIP is supposed to provide better health care for children - paid for by increased taxes on smokers.
Obama says that if you like your doctor(s) and you like your health coverage that you can keep them under his plan - you will just have to pay more in taxes in order to pay for the 47 million who have not paid.
Rahm Emanuel is Obama's Chief of Staff. His brother Zeke is an oncologist for the government at the National Institute of Health. Tom Daschle was nominated as Secretary of HHS until he had to withdraw when the people's representatives would not approve him. Now he will work with Zeke and Obama's health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle to make and sell the plan. These three have formulated the administration's plan and are selling it to the people. They only need 50.1% to agree. Obviously the adults in the 47 million would like to continue getting "free" care (not free to taxpayers).
Until the "Great Society" passed Medicare, doctors were not as well paid. Since taxpayers have guaranteed payment, health care costs have risen dramatically. Many unnecessary tests and procedures have been done not just to protect against malpractice suits but also to get more from the patients (taxpayers). Zeke says that heath care costs have risen 75% since 2000. That is more than 400% of inflation assuming 2.2%/yr inflation.
The Obama plan includes a Value-Added-Tax (VAT) to pay for the costs. The VAT is a hidden tax. The Fair Tax would fund Social Security and Medicare, but the tax would be obvious to people buying things and would not be regressive because of the prebate. The Fair Tax would replace all Federal payroll taxes. The VAT would be an additional tax.
We need a Margaret Thatcher to denationalize banking, insurance, automobile manufacturing, health care, etc. Just like FDR, Obama is making a recession into a Great Depression. What he has done is unConstitutional and in at least 2 instances blatantly illegal: Geithner putting the $68 Billion back into TARP when the authorizing legislation required it to go back to the Treasury; firing Inspector General Walpin without 30-day notification and justification to Congress. Where is the outrage?!
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