As I write this from my Central Florida office, I can’t help but wonder why temperatures are 20 degrees below the average, and are my lime trees going to survive the next few nights for my margarita and Land Shark beer pleasure.
Isn’t it ironic that during the big global climate fiasco last month in Europe, that those all knowing, gonna save the world, gonna tax the people ‘til they bleed to pay for it, Global Warming neophytes/posers froze their tushies off, with record cold temperatures.
The Global Warming crowd says that the U.S. is experiencing a typical cycle due to El Nino. Okay, what about Asia, Europe and everywhere else? Why are they experiencing below normal temperatures? Well according to the “experts”, this is due to… … you guessed it, GLOBAL WARMING.
When asked, ‘how is record cold a result of global warming’? Their response is sometimes, ‘the planet is trying to regulate itself’. Wow, imagine that! Is this something we fully understand?
Now I’m not a scientist, and I don’t claim to be. I tend to look at things from a common sense approach. I remember hearing that icebergs are mostly underwater, about 10 to 20% is above the surface. This means that all of this Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing a lot of water. Sea ice contains a lot of air, 10 to 20%, trapped inside and is not as dense as say, an ice cube. So if the bulk of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing most of its mass in water and also has trapped air, how much is the sea level really going to rise if it does melt? I think the problem to rising sea levels is Super Tankers and cruise ships, and probably shipping in general. For that matter, people displace water and so do whales. So we should ban all shipping, prohibit people from swimming at the worlds beaches and get rid of all the whales. That would drop the sea levels by at least 5 or 6 feet.
Eroding beaches is another sign of Global Warming. Erosion has taken place on this planet since the introduction of wind and water. Which brings me to beach reclamation. A hurricane comes through, tears up the beaches and we reclaim them. How? We go off shore a few hundred yards and dig a massive trench and pump all of this sand back to shore to build a bigger and better beach. The ocean is going to want to fill that trench, and we just increased the angle of decline dramatically from the beach to the trench. Where do you think our reclaimed beach is going to go? Back to the trench. Then the Global Warming crew says, ‘Oh my gosh, the beach is disappearing, the water must be rising’. “GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL WARMING!”
Didn't we learn in school, that eons ago, large portions of the U.S. was under water? Was this attributible to the methane gas from dinosaur farts? Was there an ancestor of man, whose vast industrial campfires caused this calamity to flood most of what is present day North America?
Something I never understood, if we pump a lot of pollutants into the air it causes global warming. When volcanoes pump pollutants into the air, it causes cooling. If a super volcano were to pump pollutants into the air, it would cause the equivalent of a nuclear winter. Where’s the correlation?
I’m not a super religious guy, but I think its possible God is putting the Smack Down on us for buying into something that we claim to understand and don’t.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
WHY IS AMERICA LOSING?
As hard as our government tries, or says they are trying, the Good Ole USA is losing.
Let’s take the ‘War of Terror’, what is wrong with it? People in general hate war, I hate war, but it has been a necessary evil since biblical times. Whether it’s been for gain of territory, because of political or ideological differences, revolutionary for good or evil, or for the preservation of freedom; war has happened and will continue to happen.
War is not pleasant, it’s not meant to be pleasant; if it was it would be call badminton or croquet, baseball or sex. The problem with America at war is that the government makes it political, look at Vietnam, we called it a police action to make it more appealing. 50,000 plus lives later, it was one of the bloodiest most demoralizing non-wars ever. The U.S. Government makes sure politicians run the wars, which result in the U.S. losing sight of the goal, which is to win. Victory must be decisive. If we are going to be ‘Offensive’, be on the offense. If we are going to win, we must kick ass the first time around. If we are going to lead a coalition, lead it to win. If the cause is just, there is great glory in winning and a boosting of morale for all.
The U.S. has always been a nation that kicked ass, from the Revolutionary War, up to WW II. General Douglas MacArthur wanted to win in Korea, but the politicians became involved and so our will to win has diminished since. Our past military dominance has been viewed as Imperialistic and warmongering. The one exception to pols running a war was during the Reagan years and the invasion of Grenada. Reagan said he didn’t like the situation there, told his military brass to figure it out and win, and that’s what they did, in one day.
The U.S. has grown to the lone Super Power, but that is waning fast. The USA use to be feared, loved, hated and most importantly respected. We may kick your butt if you mess with us, but we will try to help make you better after we do.
This indecisiveness in how we conduct our wars is a direct reflection on how as a government we conduct our day to day business. The government says they have all the answers, put us in debt up to our unborn great grandchildren’s ears and their solution is not working. Our government is to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and so on. The things that made us great are going away fast. The people that made us a great nation, the melting pot of the world are no more. We look to an entity, the Great God in Washington to save us from ourselves; and in their quest for ultimate power are destroying the very fabric of their creation…. Us.
SON OF STIMULUS
Son of Stimulus
Congress is now looking to spend an additional $174 Billion on a jobs creation package; adding to our already exploding deficit. Republicans are referring to it as “Son of Stimulus”.
Traveling across the country, signs adorn the highways professing the projects under the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’. Funny how most to the time those signs only appear in states with a Democratic majority or governor? Is this because, only Democratic States received this money? Or is it because Republicans don’t want to give credit to a successful program? What’s even more suspect is the areas where these signs are, no or little work is being done.
My Friend Imran had an excellent idea on how to stimulate the economy early on in this economic fiasco. It provided a bottom up solution, with no long term risk to the government or the country’s economy. Here was his proposal from one year ago, http://www.youtube.com/user/imrananwar#p/u/25/D00tGsS7hm8. It made perfect sense, empowered the people, put a tremendous amount of money back in the economy and would have resulted in a rapid turn around, and probably have averted the terrible unemployment we are experiencing now.
My suggestion is if Congress decides to move forward with ‘Son of Stimulus’ they do the following:
1) Provide the money only to new businesses that would create 10 or more jobs or to small business whose presence is critical to a community and is not a subsidiary of a major corporation.
2) Simplify the means of distribution, as a grant through the Treasury Department.
3) The applying business must be a viable idea with a business plan certified by a CPA and an unrelated business law firm as to it validity. Must be registered with the state and locality where they are headquartered. No pre-requisites on what type of business.
4) Businesses would need to provide an accounting of how the money was spent, again certified by a CPA.
That’s it. Keep it simple (stupid). If 20,000 businesses applied, the suggested amount of ‘Son of Stimulus’ would be $8.7 Million per business. The tax revenues alone would pay the total amount back in less than 5 years. 100’s of thousands of new jobs would be created in a very short period of time. Jobs that are not government jobs, or lining the pockets of America’s fat cat corporate executives.
Think about it.
Congress is now looking to spend an additional $174 Billion on a jobs creation package; adding to our already exploding deficit. Republicans are referring to it as “Son of Stimulus”.
Traveling across the country, signs adorn the highways professing the projects under the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’. Funny how most to the time those signs only appear in states with a Democratic majority or governor? Is this because, only Democratic States received this money? Or is it because Republicans don’t want to give credit to a successful program? What’s even more suspect is the areas where these signs are, no or little work is being done.
My Friend Imran had an excellent idea on how to stimulate the economy early on in this economic fiasco. It provided a bottom up solution, with no long term risk to the government or the country’s economy. Here was his proposal from one year ago, http://www.youtube.com/user/imrananwar#p/u/25/D00tGsS7hm8. It made perfect sense, empowered the people, put a tremendous amount of money back in the economy and would have resulted in a rapid turn around, and probably have averted the terrible unemployment we are experiencing now.
My suggestion is if Congress decides to move forward with ‘Son of Stimulus’ they do the following:
1) Provide the money only to new businesses that would create 10 or more jobs or to small business whose presence is critical to a community and is not a subsidiary of a major corporation.
2) Simplify the means of distribution, as a grant through the Treasury Department.
3) The applying business must be a viable idea with a business plan certified by a CPA and an unrelated business law firm as to it validity. Must be registered with the state and locality where they are headquartered. No pre-requisites on what type of business.
4) Businesses would need to provide an accounting of how the money was spent, again certified by a CPA.
That’s it. Keep it simple (stupid). If 20,000 businesses applied, the suggested amount of ‘Son of Stimulus’ would be $8.7 Million per business. The tax revenues alone would pay the total amount back in less than 5 years. 100’s of thousands of new jobs would be created in a very short period of time. Jobs that are not government jobs, or lining the pockets of America’s fat cat corporate executives.
Think about it.
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