Cool, wet weather bad for retail

From Investor's Business Daily, 10 July 2009 (Investors.com):

Wet and cool weather depressed sales of summer clothes and
goods.

This was probably not included in AlGore's testimony before
Congress! Rahm said you need a "crisis" to implement
dramatic change.

The good news is that the Senate has tabled consideration of
the onerous "cap and trade" or control and tax bill passed by
the House. It means a little more time before the United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is given
control of American business.

The power to tax is the power to control - and destroy!

Misinformation Campaign

In the spirit of Animal Farm, the following commandment is added:

No animal shall drink Coca Cola

This is necessary since Coke is CARBONATED. Every time a bottle
or can of Coke is opened, dangerous carbon dioxide is released into
the atmosphere. Pepsi on the other hand is OXYGENATED and
thus OK for animal consumption and good for the atmosphere.

Coke bad; Pepsi good!

Deja Vu all over again

The Depression of the 1930s has been studied ad nauseam. The
recession became a depression because both Hoover and FDR
chose to keep wages high and to protect American industry.

The Democrats of today want a higher minimum wage and have
repeatedly tried to pass legislation (Graham-Schumer) and rules
which are illegal under the World Trade Organization treaty
(embedded in "stimulus" bills).

Under FDR, unemployment was above 18% until the war. Under
FDR II (Obama) unemployment continues to rise above his
stated 8% peak. It is now 9.5% and rising. Both ran up incredible
deficits. Wasn't the gas tax to pay for the infrastructure (roads
and bridges) that cars and trucks used? Instead we taxpayers
will give big federal contracts to Obama supporters and $4,500
to those who have been wasteful with energy! I drive a 17 year-old
Honda, but it gets more than 18mpg. Sorry Charlie, you're not
eligible!

Technology you won't hear about

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?

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.

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

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.