Shocking Globull Warming News...well, not really

Warning - this post contains 'Climate Denial' - if it will offend your sensibilities, you have been warned.

As we posted here, we deny man-made global warming. Warming may (or may not) be happening, but it is hubris to think we are doing it.

In an interesting article, 15 year old research into cosmic rays and the sun as the real culprits in global warming is finally coming to light. Apparently, back in 1996, scientists from CERN (an actual science outfit) tried to publish research tagging cosmic rays and the sun as the real culprits in whatever global warming might be occurring.

Immediately there after, the scientists were under full scale assault by those that did not want their theories aired. It was not a scientific dispute, it was political. To quote the article, the scientists "soon found themselves vilified, marginalized and starved of funding, despite their impeccable scientific credentials.

Now, in 2011, the research has finally been published in the prestigeous journal NATURE. The theory put forward "has been Enemy No. 1 of the global warming establishment ever since it was first proposed" precisely because it undercuts the fundamental tenet of the Church of Global Warming - the man is responsible for it.

And if man is responsible, then we can use this 'fact' to justify huge governmental intrusions into all areas of economic activity. When shown to be false, the premise for this governmental interference likewise evaporates.

There is more to come on this story, but you will have to look hard to find it (or just check back here once in a while) because you are sure not to see it on ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN or NPR). Especially since the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming (AlGore) said climate 'deniers' are today's racists. Further, he claimed that 'denier' scientists held their views to get more funding, but climate alarmist scientists would do no such thing.

Let us not overlook the fact that AlGore is making millions and millions selling 'carbon offsets' to those gullible enough to buy them.

Folks, the stakes here are huge. Do not be cowed into being silent about something just because people call you names. Oh - and have a look at the chart below. Seems a lot of climate variation happened before I even owned my first SUV.

The curse of compromise

Imagine you are standing in the center of a teeter-totter. In the middle, you are perfectly balanced.

Now imagine you move to the left by one foot. Suddenly, you are unbalanced - and the left end of your teeter-totter is resting on the dirt.

Two people walk by and see your plight. One (having never been made to take math)suggests you move 3 more feet to the left, the other suggests moving one foot to the right. You decide to ignore the balance point (since you are a 'moderate') you decide instead (so everyone can 'get along') to compromise and move the average distance suggested... one more foot to the left. Result - you are even further from the balance point and your board is now buried in the dirt.

That is what has happened to our country folks. The 'balance' point is a correct constitutional balance between the Federal government and the States and between personal liberty and Government control.

We currently are like 27 feet to the left of the balance point. The Tea Party did not want to crash the government - they simply want us to move closer to the balance point - maybe like 5 feet. The Left wanted to move further to the left - like 8 more feet.

So, the compromise being advocated by the Left (and sadly, you Moderates out there) would move us FURTHER from where we should be.

This is why, correctly, the Tea Party refused the 'grand bargain' because it was no bargain at all. They were painted as (with links lest you think I exaggerate) terrorists and arsonists (from the Vice President, jihadists, obstructionist, of course racist (from an NPR exec-partially funded by taxpayers(because we all know you cannot disagree with a Black president if you are not racist), radical hostage takers , blah blah blah. All this from the party always preaching civility. Now there's a laugher.

No, they were simply standing for a principle- that of returning to a proper sized Federal government. The deficit is not because we tax ourselves to little - it is because the Fed simply spends too much.

I think the left is in panic mode. In a recent Gallup poll, reported here , more people say they support the Tea Party agenda than say the are 'liberal'. When you can't win the battle of ideas, resort to personal attacks?


The net result of the so-called 'debt ceiling crisis'(which was never a crisis)? Sadly, we moved no closer to the proper balance - we simply slowed the move to the Left - our deficits still grow. With patience, and tremendous tenacity - and only if the American people 'get it' - we MIGHT be able to turn the ship of state around. But, at this point, I give us only a 1 in 4 chance.... Sorry for the pessimism, but the times do not really call for optimism.

Back in the saddle

Yah - I have not posted for a long long time.

As Mark McGwire said, I am not here to talk about the past.

Where are we? In a a mess. Well, the US is in a mess, I am living in Europe at the moment, and they are in a really big mess.

How did we get here? Ignoring the Constitutional limits on the Federal Government, plain and simple. The ass=hats in Washington have, for too long, tried to be all things to all people. And we have allowed it - actually encouraged it.

They created the Dept of Education, which educates no one. The Dept of Energy - creates no energy. The Dept of Transportation... you get the idea.

The basic problem is that the Federal govt got too big for their collective britches. Re-read (or, read for the first time if you went to public school) Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution. It outlines the things the Fed is empowered to do.

Now, admittedly, we are decades into the over-reach of the Fed. This does not make it right, it just makes it so.

We are operating under the falsehood of the 'Federal Grant'. A grant for education, for hiring more police, for building a bunch of state and county roads. This is bull shite folks!

What is a Federal 'grant'?

Step one - you take money, in the form of taxes, away from the citizens of a state, say Ohio.

Step two - you give it back to Ohio (in this case) for, say, education. But first, you keep part of it DC, then you attach a bunch of string to it. So... the state gets (part of) their own damned money back ( or maybe some from, say, Michigan, or borrowed from the Chinese) and we are expected to be all joyful? Bullshit. The round-trip to DC just reduced the amount, added strings, and not much else.

How about this - You don't take our money, you don't attach strings, and you let us just do our own thing on education? That is the essence of States Rights (and no, it is NOT racist). States do their own thing - unless it is too big for any one state (Like the national defense).

This is it in a nutshell folks. We have a debt problem because we have a spending problem (not a lack of taxes).. We have a spending problem because we have a run-away Federal government... Which we have because we have abdicated States Rights... Period.. Full stop.

We will never solve this problem with the level of debate now going on in Foggy Bottom... States need to stand up and re-assert their rightful place. DC is the problem, not part of the solution.

And the Tea Party has it exactly half right... spending it a PROBLEM. Allowing the Federal government to be bloated, over-reaching, utopian, and soul-sucking is the other half of the problem.

This is not the time for 1/2 measures.