We have all heard about how we are destroying the planet because we chose to drive SUVs and Hummers, and other gas guzzling cars. We have heard that these lifestyle choices are bad for the planet. The government is looking at stricter regulations and taxes on these plane damaging choices that Americans make.
But what if I were to tell you of another, even more environmentally unfriendly lifestyle choice that Americans make that is destroying the planet? Wouldn’t you want to do something about it?
You must be wondering what this new enviro-hazzard is and I am here to tell you. It is…….YOUR ASS.
Americans like to use two ply toilet paper and this is more dangerous to the environment than driving gas guzzling cars.
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.
Greenpeace is starting a new campaign to educate Americans about how excessive we are because we buy two ply bathroom tissue. The biggest problem, according to these wackos, is the fact that trees are cut down to make toilet paper.
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.” Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.
Evidently these people forget that trees are a renewable resource. We will never run out of trees. Sorry. This article goes on to claim that this is mostly an American phenomenon.
I really do think it is overwhelmingly an American phenomenom,” said Hershkowitz. “People just don’t understand that softness equals ecological destruction
An “overwhelmingly American phenomenon,” doesn’t that sum up the gist of the argument? This is not about the environment, s it? This is about people who are just trying to bring down the standard of living in this country.
“Softness equals ecological destruction.” Wow!
But because I care so much about this whole global warming scam I am not just going to sit here and bitch about how absurd this is, I am going to offer a solution. Just when you think that these people can’t get any more out there along comes this.
Reusable toilet wipes.
It has been a couple of weeks since President Obama has had any controversies with any of his cabinet picks so you know that he must have been due, and today we learned about the latest person in President Obama’s cabinet with questionable morals.
Adolfo Carrion, President Obama’s new Urban Czar, has a habit of awarding developers projects right around the time that these same developers donate money to his campaign coffers.
The man who is President Obama‘s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found.
This is just the latest in a string of embarrassing cabinet appointees by the president. This has come to be the norm from President Obama, it is no longer surprising to learn that yet another crook has joined his cabinet. On the contrary, it is now only news when we learn of an appointee of Obama’s who is on the straight and narrow.
Adolfo Carrion was accepting campaign donations and then awarding taxpayer funded contracts to the organizations that were donating to him. Sounds a little like a pay to play scheme to me.
Republicans Rip Obama’s $3 Trillion Budget Proposal
On top of President Obama’s $1 trillion stimulus package and the recently passed $400 billion spending bill that should make its way to his desk shortly, and with talk of another $750 billion bank bailout, and also the $75 billion mortgage relief bill, President Obama released his $3 trillion budget proposal yesterday.
Does anyone still wonder why Democrats are given the title of “tax and spend liberals?” I will admit that the Republicans were not much better under President Bush, one of my biggest complaints about the Bush presidency is his overspending, but this goes way beyond anything that the Bush administration ever did.
But President Obama has to pay for this budget plan and so this budget contains $1 trillion in tax increases, thereby completing the moniker “tax and spend liberal.”
During what everybody is now calling a recession it is irresponsible to keep spending money that we do not have, it is irresponsible to pile up this debt and hand it down to our children. That is something that the president said he would not do even as he begins to do it. Republicans are taking this opportunity to tear into this budget proposal. And they should, it is time for them to stand up and say enough is enough.
“I have serious concerns with this budget, which demands hard-working American families and job creators turn over more of their hard-earned money to the government to pay for unprecedented spending increases,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
“I think we just ought to admit we’re broke. We can’t continue to pile debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner.
“The budget outline shows a half-hearted attempt to reduce the trillion-dollar deficits we face, largely through more tax hikes that will only hurt the economy, when it should take this opportunity to exercise aggressive spending restraint,” said Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee.
“But if you begin to look at what’s happened over the last month and what’s being proposed in this budget, the president is beginning to make President Bush look like a piker,” Boehner said.
Republicans are vowing to get back to the ideal of small, limited government and I hope that they hold true to this pledge. Instead of facing the hard times and make hard decision President Obama is playing the same game as all of the others, there is no change here.
We need to hope that there are enough Republicans and conservative Blue Dog Democrats to stand up and stop this man from spending us into a depression. We cannot keep spending money that we do not have, we cannot keep borrowing money from China, and we cannot keep just printing it. This is a recipe for disaster and we need to hope that somebody can stop this man. Because he is not going to stop spending on his own. We need to grab the credit card from him and cut it up.
Considering that 40% of the 8000 earmarks in the $400 billion dollars spending bill just passed by the house belong to Republicans I have to wonder if they have just given up and decided to grab what they can before it is too late.
Some of our elected officials know this is crazy, don’t they?
Anybody?
Senate Passes an Amendment That Could Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
Today was an interesting day on the senate floor. The senate today passed a bill that is called the “DC Voting Rights Bill”, as I wrote here this bill is unconstitutional. If DC is to gain a voting seat in congress it must be done through an amendment to the constitution not a bill.
But two other things happened while the senate was voting on this unconstitutional bill. An amendment was added to the bill by Jim DeMint that would forever ban the Fairness Doctrine. This amendment passed. And an amendment was added by Dick Durbin that will reinstate the fairness doctrine.
How could both of these amendments pass when they seem to be at odd with each other is the obvious question, yet the question is easily answered. Dick Durbin’s amendment would bring back the Fairness Doctrine without bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. Confused? It is simple, Dick Durbin’s amendment does not call the Fairness Doctrine the Fairness Doctrine.
Dick Durbin’s bill calls for the radio stations “To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the pubic airwaves are used in the public interest.”
This is the Fairness Doctrine under another name. While Demint’s amendment bans the Fairness Doctrine ,Dick Durbin’s amendment uses semantics to reinstate the doctrine that Demint’s amendment bans.
The “DC Voting Rights Bill” is now unconstitutional on two levels.
First, it clearly violates Article 1 Section 2 of the constitution that states “The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.” It should take an amendment of the constitution to change the constitution, not a bill.
And secondly, the new Fairness Doctrine violates our first amendment rights to the freedom of speech and of the press. I said at the top of this post that is was an interesting day in the senate, but maybe that wasn’t the right word. Today was an unconstitutional day in the senate.
We are seeing our constitution shredded under this administration and I feel that it is just about time to start the impeachment hearings. We will have to wait until 2010 when the Republicans sweep back into a large majority in the house and senate. I can hardly wait.
Democrats Pass $400 Billion Spending Bill With 8000 Earmarks
Are you ready for the next round of spending? I sure hope so because the Democrats sure are. Yesterday the house passed a spending bill of over $400 billion, this is in addition to the $1 trillion “stimulus” package that Obama recently signed.
According to Florida Congressman Bill Posey in this statement about the spending bill, it includes 8000 earmarks.
Washington, Feb 25 – The House of Representatives passed an omnibus spending bill which will cost the American taxpayers $410 billion dollars, an 8.3% increase ($32 billion) over last year’s (2008) funding levels. Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) opposed the measure which totaled more than 3,000 pages long with the committee report and included almost 8,000 earmarks.
“In just the past four weeks, Congress has approved over $1.5 Trillion in new spending, most of it borrowed and done through a closed process,” said Congressman Posey. “Now we’re considering a $410 billion omnibus bill and again, no member is allowed to offer changes. This is such an irresponsible way to spend taxpayer dollars.”
House leaders, who design the rules under which legislation comes to the floor, prohibited any member from offering amendments to the omnibus, forcing members to take it or leave it. Posey suggested that part of the problem was allowing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent in omnibus form. “By rolling up nine departments into one gigantic omnibus spending bill, it’s almost as if those who put this legislation together don’t want folks to understand where the money is going.”
President Obama claimed that he would not pass spending bills with earmarks in them. But we have seen what his promise on the issue of earmarks is worth when he signed the stimulus bill. Nothing.
While technically the stimulus bill contained no earmarks, not in the traditional sense, the bill was ladened with wasteful spending and Obama signed it. He played a semantics game and was able to sign a bill that was full of wasteful spending while not breaking his promise to veto earmark filled legislation. A pig by any other name is still a pig, to quote the president when talking about Sarah Palin, and the stimulus bill reeked of pigdom.
But now President Obama will not have the luxury of hiding behind words, the earmarks are there, what will Obama do? It is time for the president to put our money where his mouth is. It is time for him to stop talking and start walking. This president has a special gift, and that gift is the fact that he can do one thing while convincing the American people he is doing the opposite. In other words, he is a gifted con artist.
Surely President Obama can’t sign a bill with so much wasteful spending, can he? At least he said he wouldn’t.
President Obama’s “Assault” on the Second Amendment Begins Today
Today marks the day that President Obama began his “assault” on the second amendment. It has been well documented here and elsewhere on the internet how the president feels about the second amendment and today he fired the first shot across the bow on second amendment advocates.
Today Eric Holder confirmed that President Obama will seek to re-institute the ban on “assault weapons” that President Clinton first imposed.
His excuse for reimplementing the “assault weapon” ban? Too many Mexican drug dealers are buying these weapons, it will help Mexico if we infringe on the second amendment. I would like to ask Mr. Holder one question, does he really believe that if these weapons are banned that the DRUG DEALERS will adhere to the gun laws when they make their living breaking the drug laws? How stupid is that logic? I would also like to refer Eric Holder to this article which claims that “assault weapons” are not the weapon of choice for drug dealers. The same article also debunks the myth that there is actually a class of weapons that can be classified as “assault weapons.”
So the first shot has been fired but it is only the beginning, it won’t stop here, just read the following quote from the Attouney General:
As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons
The “assault weapons” ban is the only specific item that Eric Holder mentioned, but when he says “just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make”, what exactly does he mean? What are the changes he plans on making?
We need to look no further than what we know are facts about some of the positions that the Communist Commander-in-Chief has taken on gun related issues:
- As a state legislator in Illinois, Obama supported banning the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic firearms, increasing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms
- He supported a “ban” on the sale and possession of handguns on a political questionnaire
- As state senator, he voted against a 2004 measure that allowed self-defense as an affirmative defense to those charged with violating local laws making it otherwise unlawful for such persons to possess firearms.
- He voted against allowing persons who had obtained domestic violence protective orders to carry handguns for their protection.
- Obama has also stated his opposition to allowing citizens to carry concealed guns and supports a national law outlawing the practice
It is all right there. The “assault” is under way. President Obama’s war on the second amendment began on February 26, 2009. How far will he go and what does he hope to accomplish? Lets hope that we never find out.
Obama’s Cap and Trade Policy is the Biggest Tax Increase in History
Let me start of this post with an obligatory “global warming is nothing but a hoax designed to tax and regulate the American people” disclaimer.
I have made my position on this issue abundantly clear. We are going to have the hell taxed out of us if we allow ANY politician to have their way with us in the scam.
But we are in more danger now than ever before in regards to what the politicians have in store for us on this issue. With an ultra left Democrat in the white house, (the most far leftist ever to be in the white house), and for all intents and purposes a super majority in the senate we are in danger of losing to the global warming hoax in a big way.
When I see people like Sen. Jim Inhofe come out and say the following I feel justified in my skepticism (not that I need justification, it is obvious to anyone paying attention what the goals of the left are on this issue):
In his speech to Congress Tuesday night, President Barack Obama “committed himself to the largest annual tax increase in the history of America,
He continued:
As bad as the stimulus spending bill was, this would be much worse because instead of being one-time spending, the cap-and-trade tax increase would keep occurring year after year
We are in danger of handing over large amounts of money that rightfully belong to us, money that we earned through hard work, and why? Because the government is using this issue as a means to raise even more money. Once we allow these politicians to take this money from us we will never get it back.
The biggest tax increase in the history of America is about to be levied upon us and there is nothing that we can do about it. But there will be more than just these huge tax increases. We will have less freedoms as the government steps in and regulates our behaviors.
We are going to lose more of our money and more of our freedoms. This is only the beginning.
We just have to hope that Jim Inhofe and enough dissenting voices on the right will stand firm against this and do what is right for the American people. We need the Republicans to grow a backbone and refuse to give in on this issue. Americans cannot afford to be taxed any more than we already are, especially on such a bogus issue.
Unconstitutional DC Voting Rights Bill to be Debated in the Senate
The United States Senate took the next step in allowing the residents of Washington DC to have representation in the House of Representatives. They voted to allow debate on the floor on a bill that would give the District of Columbia a congressman.
To tell you the truth I do not feel passionately one way or the other about whether DC residents should have a voice in congress, but the one thing that I do feel passionate about is the constitution. And it is the constitution that is currently prohibiting DC residents from having representation. Article 1 Section 2 states that “The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.” Needless to say, Washington DC is not a state and under the constitution is not eligible for a representative in congress.
If it is believed that Washington DC should have representation in congress than there is a procedure in the constitution that enables the constitution to be amended. Passing a bill to allow a change in the constitution is not the way the constitution is supposed to be changed. If the politicians want to amend the constitution than they need to introduce an amendment and let the states vote on it. If 38 states vote in favor of sending a representative to congress to represent Washington DC residents than DC will be represented, if they do not, they won’t be.
Initially under the constitution Washington DC residents did not even have a vote for president. That changed in 1961 when a constitutional amendment, the 23rd amendment, was voted on by the states and passed. That is the proper procedure, and that is the procedure that should be followed in this instance. Passing a bill to change the constitution is unconstitutional in itself.
We have already seen how this president feels about the constitution and now we are seeing that the senate must feel the same way also. As I wrote earlier I don’t feel passionately either way on this legislation other than the fact that I want to constitution to be obeyed and this bill is not the proper way to get the residents of Washington DC a representative in congress. This method is unconstitutional.
If you feel that the residents of Washington DC should have representation that is fine but congress should still have to play by the rules. The constitution is the supreme law of the land, the end doesn’t justify the means. There is a procedure that needs to be followed and regardless of what the politicians think should be the result we the people are supposed to have the final say on a change to the constitution.
When we lose our vote we lose everything.
Robert Byrd Warns Obama About Unconstitutional Power Grabs
The longest serving Democrat senator, Robert Byrd, sent a letter to President Obama warning him that he is pushing the constitution’s limits in regards to Obama’s appointment of all of these “czars” to oversee issues that are supposed to be handled by the legislative branch of the government.
In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, Byrd complained about Obama’s decision to create White House offices on health reform, urban affairs policy, and energy and climate change. Byrd said such positions “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances. At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials.”
President Obama has been treading in unconstitutional waters since the very beginning of his presidency, even before he was sworn in. I would add to Robert Byrd’s list of infractions by reminding everybody that under Article 1 Section 6 of the constitution Hillary Clinton’s ascendancy to Secretary of State is unconstitutional.
President Obama’s oversight of the census is in direct violation of Article 1 Section 2 of the constitution which states that the house is responsible for the census. Obama’s plan to include sampling in the census taking violate the same article which calls for an “actual” enumeration.
President Obama’s stimulus package which includes aide to the states provided they change their laws to suit what he feel they should be seems to be a violation of the constitution to me also.
I have just listed four violations of the constitution on top of Robert Byrd’s concerns. President Obama is in the midst of a power grab the likes of which has never been seen before. He is taking control of entities that belong in the legislative branch, he is violating the checks and balances of government.
This is the same type of behavior that President Bush was accused of, only this time it is legitimate yet there is only one Democrat in congress who is willing to stand up and be heard. All other Democrats must feel that this power grab is okay, after all he is only doing what is best for us, right? They truly believe that we will thank them in the long run. Repeat after me, it’s only unconstitutional if the Republicans do it. When Democrats do it it is for our own good.
I feel dirty agreeing with the despicable Robert Byrd, who used to be Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, on any issue. As a matter of fact, Obama’s constitutional transgressions are the only issue that I agree with Senator Byrd on. I think that Byrd is one of the most disgusting human beings ever to hold public office in my lifetime, but the man is a constitutional scholar. He carries some weight on this issue.
President Obama is a threat to the constitution, he shows a certain aprehension toward the constitution. Perhaps it is his arrogance that makes him feel as though the constitution doesn’t apply to him as president because he is just interested in doing what he considers the greater good.
Al Gore Was Forced to Remove Part of his Global Warming Presentation Because it Was Misleading
It is well known that Al Gore is touring the country making millions and millions of dollars by scaring the world into believing that we are about to self destruct.
Al Gore is the leading voice on the global warming issue. He presents a well produced video while spewing his nonsense and many people fall for his bullshit. It just looks so convincing.
But recently Al Gore ran into a little problem with his presentation. He had to remove part of it because it was a lie. It was bullshit.
Part of Al Gore’s presentation showed a graph that was supposed to show how natural disasters have increased dramatically over the last few years because of human activity.
Unfortunately for Al Gore an expert named Roger A. Pielke, Jr., who is a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado refuted his claim that the increase in disasters could be blamed solely on man’s activities.
Al Gore was taking the research of somebody else and twisting it to fit his own agenda. Al Gore has been deliberately misleading the American people, as well as the people of the world, for personal gain and he has made himself a rich man by doing so. He was caught in a lie, but it is only one of the lies that he has been telling the American people. His whole agenda is a lie, hopefully the rest of his lies will be exposed before it is too late.
