Rhodes: Ronald Reagan is on Limbaugh's 'enemies list'

Newsbusters reports:

(Liberal talk radio host Randi) Rhodes insisted “You know, it's a good thing Ronald Reagan's not around because he'd be on Rush's enemies list.because that was Ronald Reagan's quote. 'Make your political opponents just your opponents. They’re, not your enemies,' Okay?  They’re just Americans who you disagree with....(Limbaugh) doesn't remember that Ronald Reagan had said that, and so now he is trashing Ronald Reagan, his freaking God, his hero, his messiah! It’s so sick! It’s so sick!”

Randi Rhodes' enemies list?

Sidewalks and vodka.

'Whatever he hits, he destroys.'

Greg Tepper: "Maybe [Texas high school running back David Mora] is a robot."
Travis Stewart: "If you're suggesting that we need to test him for humanity..."
GT: "I'm just saying that he ran the ball 498 times. That's all."

-An actual exchange from the next edition of the "Dave Campbell's Texas Football" Podcast, coming Friday

Letter to the Editor, Leesburg Today: Chesapeake Bay Tax and Control Plan

Dear Editor:

Supervisor Jim Burton's proposal to delay voting on the "Chesapeake Bay" Tax and Control Plan until after the Nov. 8 elections is an attempt to save the Tax and Control Plan from citizen opposition.

Burton's proposal to take heat off the Board's Tax and Control majority until after the election comes just days after American Tradition Partnership contacted nearly 4,000 households in Burton's district, urging citizens to call Burton directly and ask him to oppose the Tax and Control Plan. American Tradition Partnership has contacted around 10,000 total households in Burton's former, and new, district.

American Tradition Partnership was one of the first and is one of the most active grassroots-supported groups fighting the Tax and Control Plan.

Since last May American Tradition Partnership has contacted around 60,000 households and 100,000 citizens countywide, with more to come. A grassroots-supported group, American Tradition Partnership puts citizens in direct contact with supervisors so citizens may personally urge supervisors to drop the Tax and Control Plan permanently.

American Tradition Partnership will continue contacting citizens until the Tax and Control Plan is dropped permanently, or repealed.

Supervisor Burton is finally getting our message. American Tradition Partnership, and majority of Loudoun citizens who oppose the Tax and Control Plan, urges Supervisor Burton to amend his motion and seek to drop the Tax and Control Plan permanently.

You may learn more at www.AmericanTradition.org. Contact your supervisor at 703-777-0204. Ask him or her to drop the "Chesapeake Bay" Tax and Control Plan permanently.

Donny Ferguson
Executive Director
American Tradition Partnership

ATP: Delay in Ches Bay plan is progress, but not good enough

ATP: Delay in Ches Bay plan is progress, but not good enough
Jim Burton reportedly to seek delay in plan after ATP alerts 4,000+ residents of new district

The nation’s largest grassroots opponent of radical environmentalism noted reports Monday that Blue Ridge Supervisor Jim Burton (I) would seek a delay in consideration of a controversial land control plan was progress, but not good enough.

Burton will move to drop consideration of the plan after ATP telephoned nearly 4,000 households in his newly-drawn district last Saturday, informing residents of his support for the “Tax and Control Plan.”  Residents were given his publicly-published home phone number and urged to call him and encourage him to drop consideration of the plan.  In all, ATP has contacted households in Burton’s former and current districts over 11,000 times.

One of the first organizations to oppose the plan and one of the most active, ATP has directly made more than 60,000 contacts with Loudoun residents over the last 12 months, giving them their supervisor’s most direct phone number so they can directly urge them to drop the plan.

“Jim Burton got a message that was as clear as a constantly-ringing phone.  I hope he will amend his motion and to drop all consideration of the plan entirely,” said American Tradition Partnership Executive Director Donald Ferguson.  “This will be a recorded vote and American Tradition Partnership will hold supervisors accountable.  We will also continue to seek a recorded vote on dropping all consideration of the measure.  Citizens will be told of their supervisors decision to support or oppose holding that vote.”

“American Tradition Partnership is not declaring victory.  We are reloading and will continue to fire away until this Tax and Control plan is no more.”

Supported by contributions from its grassroots supporters, American Tradition Partnership has earned its reputation as the nation’s most effective opponent of the multi-million dollar radical environmentalist lobby.  In just the last few months ATP has:

•    Killed Barack Obama’s “Cap and Tax” bill in Congress.
•    Successfully pushed to have the invasive gray wolf taken off the so-called “Endangered Species List” so it can be hunted down.
•    Filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado to repeal the state’s Expensive Energy Mandate, which forces consumers to buy more expensive wind and solar power against their will.
•    Filed a lawsuit against Montana to stop their ongoing harassment and false smear campaigns against conservative groups, which has already been blasted by federal courts as “petty bureaucratic harassment.”  Montana officials have openly admitted they have no evidence conservative groups have done any wrong and every district attorney has refused to even look into the politically-motivated accusations.
•    Won national headlines along with our federal free speech lawsuit against Montana which allows small employers to spend money on independent political expenditures.
•    Won a federal free speech lawsuit against a liberal Colorado city who passed a law requiring residents to essentially get permission from the government before saying or publishing anything critical of the liberal city council.
•    Stopped a plan by liberals in the U.S. Senate to protect the EPA’s plans to declare carbon dioxide a toxic pollutant.
•    Passed legislation in Montana endorsing nullification of the so-called “Endangered Species Act.”
•    Launched a campaign to repeal New Hampshire’s participation in the “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” a northeastern U.S. “global warming” tax cartel
•    Launched and now pushing nationwide a growing campaign to secure a recorded vote on Sen. Rand Paul’s REINS Act, which strips the EPA of its authority to issue its own major regulations.

ATP does not advocate the election or defeat of candidates.  Supported by grassroots members, ATP is a fast-growing non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting private property rights and responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.

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ATP congratulates Gingrich on announcing his Democrat bid

ATP congratulates Gingrich on announcing his Democrat bid
D.C. insider's work with Pelosi and Gore, outspoken advocacy of radical environmentalism, will challenge Obama for liberal base

WASHINGTON -- American Tradition Partnership, the nation's largest grassroots opponent of radical environmentalism welcomed this week's news former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may make a Wednesday announcement of a presidential bid, noting his long record of support for the radical environmentalist agenda would make for a tight Democrat contest between he and President Barack Obama.

"American Tradition Partnership welcomes Newt Gingrich's entry into the Democrat presidential primary, where his decades-long record of radical 'green' activism will make for a close contest between he and President Obama for the liberal base," said American Tradition Partnership Executive Director Donald Ferguson.  "As a paid operative of ethanol interests and an outspoken advocate of global regulatory regimes, redistribution of wealth, federal controls of private property, multi-billion dollar welfare programs for wind and solar and taxing Americans into what he calls 'environmental compliance,' Gingrich's entry into the Democrat race was a foregone conclusion." 

"Gingrich's 2008 TV ad he recorded at the request of Al Gore, where he snuggles on a love seat with Nancy Pelosi and blames the American economy for so-called 'global warming' is the kind of manifesto that really speaks to radical environmentalists.  And we all know how much environmentalists love issuing manifestos."

“American Tradition Partnership looks forward to taking our campaign of truth about Newt Gingrich to places like Iowa and New Hampshire.  Voters have the right to know about the radical 'green' agenda of a D.C. insider who’s just Al Gore hiding under a Phil Donahue wig,” said Ferguson.  "Newt Gingrich may try to paint himself Republican red, but his record is radical green."

The organization previously took aim at the former Speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.  The organization distributed thousands of “Power-Grabbing Newts” (a sticky gel lizard) and a list of 25 quotes from Gingrich’s books, “A Contract With The Earth,” Winning The Future” and “Real Change” calling for increased government power and taxation to seek what he calls “environmental compliance.”  The list is reprinted below.

With a coveted speaking slot, exhibiting organization and book signing, hosting three panels and a reception and screening two films, Gingrich’s presence dominated that of other presumptive presidential candidates.  CPAC looked to be a launching pad for a Gingrich presidential bid.  Instead, the Republican powerhouse cratered after ATP informed voters of Gingrich’s long record of supporting massive tax hikes, increased government power and international regulatory regimes to enforce what he calls “environmental compliance.”

After the ATP program. Gingrich crashed to a disappointing fifth with just five percent of the vote in the annual CPAC Presidential Straw Poll.  Gingrich finished 26 points out of first place.

ATP does not advocate the election or defeat of candidates.  Supported by grassroots members, ATP is a fast-growing non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting private property rights and responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources.

I WAS A GREEN PUPPET WHEN IT WASN’T COOL: “When I first ran for Congress I was the natural candidate of most environmental groups…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 168

CREATE GLOBAL SPENDING REGIMES: “If the United States challenged Europe and Japan to join it in financing a world biodiversity refuge system and tied foreign aid into the process of maintaining biodiversity, we could probably save a very high percentage of the earth’s biological richness…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Pages 170-171

SPREAD THE WEALTH, TO GREENS: “The United States should support substantial research into climate change, managing the response to climate change, and in developing new non-carbon energy systems.” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 171

PUT DC IN CONTROL: “The federal government should establish measurable standards for a healthy environment…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 172

CASH FOR CLUNKERS? MORE, PLEASE: “A tax credit to subsidize energy efficient cars (including a tax credit for turning in old and heavily polluting cars) is another idea we should support.” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 174

INDOCTRINATE THEM YOUNG: “As a young professor at West Georgia College, I taught in the second Earth Day in 1971 and coordinated an interdisciplinary environmental studies program.” Newt Gingrich, “Real Change,” Page 196

NEWT ENDORSES ‘CASH FOR CLUNKERS,’ AGAIN: “There ought to be a tax break for trading in old cars that use a lot of petroleum and emit a lot of pollution.” Newt Gingrich, “Real Change,” Page 204

WE MUST PROTECT THE ESA “That is why I worked so diligently as Speaker of the House to protect the Endangered Species Act, historic legislation that has been mired in controversy…The Endangered Species Act is an excellent example of the value of civility, consultation and collaboration.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages XII & 51

THE EARTH NEEDS A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER “Government, at all levels, should be a facilitator for entrepreneurial, private-sector innovations and the formation of private-public environmental partnerships.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 13

STOP THE CONSERVATIVES FROM LIMITING GOVERNMENT POWER “For that reason, we have supported its (the Endangered Species Act’s) continuation against all challenges by private citizens, interest groups, and congressional opponents.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 53

CREATE NEW GOVERNMENT SPENDING PROGRAMS “The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts…Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment.” “Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages 115-116 [NOTE: As Speaker, Gingrich told conservatives he wanted to eliminate the wasteful National Endowment for the Arts.  Now he cites it as an example of a government spending spree that needs to be duplicated.]

SPEND ‘SIGNIFICANT’ TAX MONEY IN THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD “Significant resources should be set aside to protect hallowed sites such as the Galapagos Islands, the Virguna Volcanoes in Central Africa, and Georgia’s Okenfenokee Swamp, to name a few.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 117

MILITANT ENVIRONMENTALISM…LITERALLY? “John Muir, for most of his adult life, experienced nature in spiritual overtones…He even favored using the armed forces to enforce environmental law…However, with the inexorable advance of the urban realm, the defense of forested land assumes a greater urgency as we strive to sustain the highest-quality standards for our nation’s air, water, and land.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 127

HOORAY FOR RECORD-BREAKING SPENDING HIKES! “Our national parks and wildlife reserves require more vigorous protection.  With an eye toward strengthening his environmental legacy in the 2007 federal budget, President Bush requested the largest increase for national park funding in our nation’s history.  We should expect nothing less than excellence from our national park system.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages 130-131

ENVIRONMENTALISM, OUR GLOBAL RELIGION OF PEACE “Far from becoming a new source of global discord, environmentalism, which binds nations to a common concern, will be the best thing that’s ever happened to international relations.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages 149-150

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IS THE SOLUTION “We will need to organize a series of high-level global conferences that focus on specific [environmental] problems…” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 158

GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF INNOVATION “…the type of arduous research that produces real breakthroughs can only be funded by astute governments.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 167

NEWT WANTS TO BRING BACK CARTER ENERGY POLICIES “America used to be that kind of government [that spent millions of tax dollars on “energy research” welfare programs,] but our commitments have wavered in recent years so government incentives for energy research will be issues in future political campaigns.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 167

NEWT LOVES THE UN’S KYOTO TREATY GLOBAL APPROACH “Mobilizing other countries to join us will not be as easy as it may appear.  Many of the countries that signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol are lagging behind on their commitments.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 168

STOP CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO THE ESA “The act [Endangered Species Act] has been, by any measure, a very successful guardian of wildlife and habitat and any attempt to weaken it should be resisted.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 170

NEWT INVENTS A NEW DISEASE ONLY ENVIRONMENTALISM CAN CURE  “…our children, according to Louv, run the risk of acquiring ‘nature deficit disorder,’ a malady that he describes as a contributing factor to a recognized mental health construct, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.  Nature deficit disorder, not yet acknowledged by scientists or clinicians, is a working hypothesis that Louv believes helps to explain the onset of ADHD, and he proposes that exposure to nature should be offered as a therapy for children who have difficulty attending to stimuli and learning in conventional classrooms.  His call for research in this domain is compelling.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 182

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SHOULD REDISTRIBUTE INCOME TO ‘STIMULATE’ GREEN COMPLIANCE “Local governments operate much closer to the origin of environmental problems, and they have begun to provide tax incentives and large cash rewards for environmental compliance…While the motivation is driven by the application of tax dollars, the effect is rewarding rather than punitive…” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 194

DON’T CUT GOVERNMENT, JUST MAKE IT NICER “…our government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 196

MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FACT “We agree that there is plenty of evidence that global climate change is occurring…While humanity is certainly causing its fair share of the change, scientists are still not able to precisely pinpoint the extent of the change, or the margin of error in their estimates.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 200

GIVING TAX DOLLARS TO LIBERALS IS OUR ONLY HOPE “In spite of the demonstrated liberal leanings in academia, we have nothing but respect for the nation’s scientists.  They represent America’s best hope to protect the environment.  We support a dramatic increase in science and technology research and development because we desperately need to understand global climate change and other environmental phenomena.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 201

MOTHER EARTH NEEDS ALL YOUR INCOME “Needless to say, an appropriate and significant investment of public and private funding to renew the earth will pay dividends.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 202

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Environmentalism kills the Earth. Yet again.

"A rare whale has washed up dead in Puerto Rico, and a biologist is blaming plastic bags for its demise," the Associated Press reports.  "Nilda Jimenez says that she conducted a necropsy of the Gervais beaked whale and found more than 10 pounds (4.5 kilos) of twisted plastic inside its stomach."

And whom do we have to thank for pushing humans to buy billions of plastic bags?

Environmentalists.

If you'll recall, about 20 years ago there was a move to "save the Earth" by eliminating paper shopping and grocery bags and replacing them with billions of plastic bags.

We were told because of the use of paper bags the planet risked running out of trees, and plastic bags were the "green" alternative. 

Never mind the fact trees used in the manufacture of bags are almost entirely farmed trees, planted by timber companies often in areas where trees did not exist.  In fact, thanks to timber companies and the proliferation of consumer goods like paper bags, the United States has more trees now than it did 200 years ago.

But the irrational bleating of environmentalism prevailed and, like MTBEs and DDT, the "green solution" of plastic bags is causing more environmental damage than the problem environmentalists claimed it would solve.

It appears that, once again, the single greatest threat this planet faces is environmentalism itself.

Who will save the Earth...from environmentalists?

Billions of taxpayer dollars are going down the drain

An interesting letter to editor of The Hill, about the affordability and efficiency of PVC pipe and the need for reform in federal water projects.

Our water infrastructure is in crisis. Over 850 water main breaks occur each day and some 2.6 trillion gallons of potable water are lost yearly through crumbling, corroding, leaking pipes. The cost to taxpayers in lost treated water alone is some $4 billion annually.

A 2002 congressional study determined that corrosion costs water and waste water systems a total of over $50.7 billion annually. We also waste an estimated $4.1 billion a year on energy pumping water through broken and corroded pipes.

Since January 2000, corrosion of water and sewer systems has cost nearly a half-trillion dollars. The problem is so acute that corrosion is literally undermining our ability to replace and repair our piping infrastructure, which needs an estimated $1.1 trillion dollar investment over the next 20 years.

Despite this staggering waste, Congress is already spending billions on water and sewer projects while leaving proven, better technology out of the bidding process. Among those superior technologies is PVC, which has been used in water systems across the country for more than five decades. Not only is PVC corrosion-free, it is also the most affordable and durable pipe material available.

Conversions to PVC in sanitary systems alone are already saving an estimated $270 million a year and an amazing $1.5 trillion over the next century. Moreover, converting our nation’s entire sanitary system to PVC would save another $800 million a year and $4.5 trillion over the next 100 years.

The solution to our infrastructure crisis is clear. However, implementing it will require that water-system projects funded with federal dollars have open bidding and use the best-performing and most affordable material available.

Bruce Hollands
Executive Director, Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association
Dallas, Texas

ATP ‘phone bombs’ three Loudoun supervisors before Chesapeake Bay vote

ATP ‘phone bombs’ three Loudoun supervisors before Chesapeake Bay vote

Citizen-powered grassroots group warns 20,000 residents of bigger government, fewer jobs, higher taxes, loss of homeowner rights under Chesapeake Bay Tax and Control Plan

The nation’s largest grassroots opponent of radical environmentalism began calling around 10,000 Loudoun residents Saturday, warning them of a possible Tuesday vote on the Chesapeake Bay Tax and Control plan and asking them to call their supervisor to express opposition.  The grassroots-funded group also sent e-mail alerts on Friday.

Residents in Supervisor Jim Burton’s new district were urged to call their supervisor at home.  Residents in the Supervisors Kelly Burk and Andrea McGimsey’s new districts were urged to call their supervisor on their cell phone.

“We just thought we would be the first to introduce Loudoun residents to their new supervisors, by letting them know their supervisor may vote to raise their taxes and control their home” said Donny Ferguson, American Tradition Partnership’s Executive Director.  “Loudoun residents urge their supervisors to vote no on the Chesapeake Bay Tax and Control Plan.”

  

“Loudoun supervisors are putting their heads into a buzzsaw.  The overwhelming majority of people oppose this radical scheme to raise taxes, kill jobs and slap government handcuffs on homes and businesses,” said Ferguson.

“American Tradition Partnership will hold accountable any supervisor who votes for this plan, as well as any candidate who supports it,” said Ferguson.

“Millionaire social clubs like the PEC represent the multi-million dollar special interest groups, but American Tradition Partnership is supported by and speaks for real Americans,” said Ferguson.  American Tradition Partnership wins time and time again because the people are on our side, something elected officials should keep in mind.”

Supported by contributions from its grassroots supporters, American Tradition Partnership has earned its reputation as the nation’s most effective opponent of the multi-million dollar radical environmentalist lobby.  In just the last few months ATP has:

* Killed Barack Obama’s “Cap and Tax” bill in Congress.

* Successfully pushed to have the invasive gray wolf taken off the so-called “Endangered Species List” so it can be hunted down.

* Filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado to repeal the state’s Expensive Energy Mandate, which forces consumers to buy more expensive wind and solar power against their will.

* Filed a lawsuit against Montana to stop their ongoing harassment and false smear campaigns against conservative groups, which has already been blasted by federal courts as “petty bureaucratic harassment.”  Montana officials have openly admitted they have no evidence conservative groups have done any wrong and every district attorney has refused to even look into the politically-motivated accusations.

* Won national headlines along with our federal free speech lawsuit against Montana which allows small employers to spend money on independent political expenditures.

* Won a federal free speech lawsuit against a liberal Colorado city who passed a law requiring residents to essentially get permission from the government before saying or publishing anything critical of the liberal city council.

* Stopped a plan by liberals in the U.S. Senate to protect the EPA’s plans to declare carbon dioxide a toxic pollutant.

* Passed legislation in Montana endorsing nullification of the so-called “Endangered Species Act.”

* Launched a campaign to repeal New Hampshire’s participation in the “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” a northeastern U.S. “global warming” tax cartel

* Launched and now pushing nationwide a growing campaign to secure a recorded vote on Sen. Rand Paul’s REINS Act, which strips the EPA of its authority to issue its own major regulations.

ATP does not advocate the election or defeat of candidates.  Supported by grassroots members, ATP is a fast-growing non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to fighting environmental extremism and promoting private property rights and responsible development and management of land, water, and natural resources. 

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Mr. Ferguson's Rules

Always carry several one and five dollar bills.  You may never know when you will need to tip a driver, attendant, maitre d' or (frequently in my case) a bartender whose services you unexpectedly require.

Just who's raking in obscene cash on gas? Barack Obama

Fun Fact: Oil companies only make two cents per gallon of gas.  Obama's federal government pockets 18.4 cents in federal gas taxes.  

In all, government makes around 48 cents on every gallon of gas sold, 24 times more than the oil companies. 

Who's the greedy profiteer now?

Wasserman Schultz guns down her own party

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was only on the job as DNC boss for a few days before she set out to destroy the party.

"The new head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is pushing for screenings of all gun purchases," The Hill reports.

"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the current law, which allows private firearm sales without background checks, is "outrageous." The Florida Democrat is sponsoring a soon-to-be-released proposal extending the screening requirements to all gun purchases, commercial or private."

The kicker?  She openly admitted in the announcement press conference the bill won't eliminate gun crime.  She just gutterally hates the fact Americans can do something for themselves, in this case protection from crime, instead of waiting on the sainted government to provide it.

I encourage her to push this issue as hard as she can.  I guess she doesn't remember how Clinton's ant-gun radicalism annihilated Democrats in 1994 -- and the mainstream's opposition to gun grabs has grown only stronger since.

Everytime you Tweet or share this by clicking below, another anti-gun radical is mugged in a "gun-free zone."

Obama's biggest allies? Birthers.

Orly Taitz is Level 8 insane.

The first three digits of a Social Security Numbers refer to state on the return address on the application, not what state you are born in. If it were the state, native Moldovan Orly Taitz herself wouldn't have a Social Security Number.

In this case, the application was sent to a SSA office in Connecticut, where his father used to live.

Do these people realize Obama is simply exploiting and using them, having them discredit all his opposition by focusing on an utterly insane, fictional non-issue?  Birthers are Obama's biggest ally in his re-election campaign.

TSA predators single out Miss USA for impromptu cavity search

Obama's Transportation Security Agency predators in Dallas see former Miss USA in security line, and single her out for invasive body search of her genitalia. 

It's beyond time for Texas to begin registering TSA agents as sex offenders. Texas needs a governor who station Rangers at Texas airports to haul off any TSA goon who touches a passenger.

In tribute to former Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer

Statesman. Patriot. Hulkamaniac.

Restoring the valued customer-business relationship

I received the letter today I asked for from Verizon verifying I canceled their service for poor performance, they owe me credits and I owe them nothing. 

Cable companies, if you're going to try to cheat someone don't try cheating one of the few people even nastier and more nit-picky than a cable company. 

Sprint gave up trying to slip stuff in my bills and my bank calls me periodically just to see how I'm doing.

Too many companies seem to forget the customer-business relationship should be one of fair, honest exchange and instead try to see how much they can get away with, assuming the customer isn't the type who likes confrontation.

Unfortunately for Verizon, that does not work when said customer places a priority on fair, honest exchange and feeds off confrontation like that pink goo in "Ghostbusters 2."

Obama sends opponents on Easter egg hunt

What do I think about all the blather about Obama's decision to not issue an Easter statement (while still going to church)?

Intentional and politically brilliant on his part.

It stirs up the "Obama is a Muslim" types, whom he will again use to drive a wedge between independent voters and his Republican opponent.

Ten truths you need to know about fracking

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Environmentalism "founding father" Dr. Paul Erlich

"We've already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." - Dr. Paul Erlich

"It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine." - Environmentalist leader Paul Watson

"[We] have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stanford University environmentalism professor and Obama advisor Dr. Stephen Schneider (Kicked the oxygen habit in 2010)

Gang Green has openly vowed to destroy America’s economy by eradicating affordable energy and return us to “the Stone Age.”

You and I already know that.

Gang Green’s multi-million dollar campaign of lies against the safe, clean 60-year practice if hydraulic fracturing is their newest assault in their campaign to dismantle our economy.

But Peter Glover, writing in the Energy Tribune, has spelled out ten specific facts everyone needs to know about fracking.

I’ll share them with you below, but you can go to the Energy Tribune or http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/7206/Ten-Fracking-Things-Everyone-Should-Know to read it for yourself.

“1. Hydraulic fracking has been around for 60 years. Developments made by U.S. engineers around 2008-9 have simply made the process much more commercially viable.

“2. Since fracking was introduced in 1949, over 2 million frack treatments have been pumped without a single documented case of treatments polluting a water aquifer.

“3. 90 percent of all gas wells drilled in the United States since 1949 have been fracked.

“4. The depth of most shale gas deposits drilled is between 6,000 and 10,000 feet – water aquifers exist at an average depth of 500 feet.

“5. Claims of ‘migration’ between the shale gas layers and water aquifers due to fracking or for any other reason, are patently absurd as the gas would have to pass through millions of tons of impermeable rock. If the rock was that porous, neither the water nor the gas would have been there in the first place. (As the hard data in fig. 1 from a study of 15,000 frac treatments in the Barnett Shale Field reveals plainly.)

“6. Fracture design engineers go to great lengths to avoid fracture growth of even 100 feet to prevent losing production.

“7. The new eco-horror genre flicks like Josh Fox’s Gasland, create impact by making outrageous claims which include suggesting “569 chemicals” are used in a single “toxic cocktail” frack treatment. The reality is that 99.5 percent of the treatment is water and sand. Much of the remainder is made up of a maximum of 12 or so harmless gelling agents, like Guar gum (used in ice cream making), and chemicals commonly used around the house.

“8. Domestic running water faucets being set alight with a match might wow gullible film audiences, but dissolved methane found in well water may well be biogenic (naturally occurring). As the largest component in natural gas, methane is not even regulated as it is not toxic and escapes naturally like soda bubbles.

“9. Hydraulic fracking procedures are heavily regulated and not, as often claimed by eco-activists, exempt from drinking water and other key regulatory laws.

“10. Concerns about using “excessive water resources” in the process are already being assuaged by new developments, including recycling water. And the U.S. Ground Water Protection Council confirms that drilling with compressed air is becoming increasingly common.”

Please share this with everyone you know.

Gang Green is spending millions on fright campaigns, shameless lies and even a fake “documentary”
in their drive to terrorize people into a weaker economy.

And to keep stuff like this coming, and support American Tradition Partnership’s grassroots effort to fight Gang Green’s war on our economy, go here or to https://Secure.AmericanTradition.org to chip in $10.

Every time you Tweet or share this by clicking below, another environmentalist's recycling bin is blown into a storm drain.

Even their allies don't want them around

San Francisco not only outlaws government union strikes, they plan to prosecute any transit workers who walk off the job next week. 

N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is freezing the pay of union members. 

President Barack Obama presides over a federal workforce with no collective bargaining rights whatsoever. 

If unions are so wonderful, why are the biggest "union busters" apparently Democrats?

Liberal newspaper goes bonkers over ATP’s gray wolf delisting win

The gray wolf not only spreads diseases like echinococcosis that can infect humans, inflicts a heavy predation toll on struggling ranchers and has all but wiped out ecologically vulnerable game herds like moose and elk, they have been “introduced” to areas of the United States that are not part of their natural range, disrupting and damaging environment.

That’s why ranchers, farmers and real conservationists around the country are applauding ATP’s victory in our fight to have the invasive, foreign gray wolf removed from the Endangered Species List.  Congress voted last week to kick the wolf off the List, the first time a species has been removed through a vote of Congress.

But one Boulder, Colo. newspaper with a history of making up stories to attack ATP didn’t take it so well.  In the print equivalent of a temper tantrum in a grocery store aisle, the paper rants:

“Help fight Gang Green!” these forward-thinking individuals proclaim on their websites, calling themselves “a no-compromise grassroots organization dedicated to fighting the radical environmentalist agenda.”

Their latest press release lauds the recent removal of the gray wolf from the endangered species list.

Donny Ferguson, who was WTP’s director of public relations in 2009 and is now listed as ATP’s executive director, acknowledges in the release that his group seeks “the eventual total repeal of the Endangered Species Act. … Thanks to meddling by East Coast environmentalists, wolves are now a fast-spreading predator that kills livestock, spreads disease and is wiping out sensitive natural game herds like elk and moose.”

Their websites also warn that “dozens of radical eco-organizations whose stated purpose is to dismantle the free enterprise system — and our Constitutionally protected rights — through so-called environmental protection have set their sights on robbing Americans of the right to exist, achieve and produce.”

Sorry to have you so rabid.  We’ll be sure to send you a nice new rug.

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Does Obama roll the dice on abortion in 2012?

So, I'm looking at the 2012 calendar trying to pick the date Obama goes all-out on abortion.

He won in 2012 by closing the Democrat's historical gap with white voters, but now it's back down to where it usually is -- except among white women with college degrees, where he's at 56 percent.  He's going to need a MONSTER turnout among that demo to win, which means Democrats will have to employ some serious smear-and-fear tactics.

I mean, telling women (Insert name of Republican nominee) will put a spy camera in your uterus.  Think that's silly?  They're already telling women there's a secret Republican plan to arrest and jail them if they have an abortion and don't report it on their taxes.

The catch, beside the obvious and usual backlash? 

A majority of young voters are now pro-life, with 58 percent saying it is "morally wrong"  Fifty-one percent of them consider it a "very important," while only twenty-six percent of pro-abortion young feel the same of their opinion, which means Obama begins losing the youth vote if he pushes the abortion.

Obama also risks eroding his overall support among women.  Despite the propaganda of the pro-abortion industry, the fact is not only are Americans more likely to be pro-life than pro-"choice," women are more pro-life than men. 

And while women are more pro-life than men, white women without a college degree gave 41 percent of their vote to Obama in 2008, which helped him close the Democrats' traditional gap with working-class whites.  They are also among the women most likely to be pro-life.  Right now their support for Obama has slipped to 38 percent.  Any move by Obama to push abortion further erodes that number.

If Obama heads into late 2012 with the same numbers he's facing now, he has to make a decision.  Does he play it safe on abortion and hope he doesn't lose enough youth and overall female voters, or does he abandon the youth vote and risk eroding his overall female support by going all-out on the abortion scare tactics, hoping it will drive turnout among college-educated females in large enough numbers to not only overcome the backlash, but nudge his total white vote upwards enough to push him over the finish line?

Archbishop advocates conscripting 'the rich' into forced labor

"The rich and powerful should be required by law to spend some time every year helping the poor and needy, says the Archbishop of Canterbury," the Daily Mail reports today.

"Rowan Williams said a return to the medieval tradition when monarchs ritually washed the feet of the poor would serve to remind politicians and bankers what should be the purpose of their wealth and power."

While I certainly appreciate His Grace's intentions, where in the Bible did Christ advocate the use of force to impose His teaching?  Where in the Bible did Christ go to Rome to lobby the Senate to enforce His teachings?  The Bible is filled with warnings to men to avoid the lure of State power.

"Because the duty to serve would be compulsory, those involved would not be able to claim credit for doing it, he added," the Mail also reports.

True, but if it's compulsory, then it's not God's will -- it's the State's.  That's why He did not send Christ to Earth as a king.  It is also rather ironic, given the fact one of the Bible's great villains is a head of state who conscripted God's people into forced labor.

His Grace also overlooks an important historical fact.  In Christ's time wealth was not mobile.  Men did not become rich by finding ways to be of use and benefit to their fellow man. The rich of Christ's time got rich by either being of use to the State, or being born into the State.  Wealth was not earned, it was a barometer of political power.

As His Grace notes, such a law dates back to the time of monarchs, people who amassed their wealth through the power of the State.  The relationship between the "rich" and the "poor" at that time was not one of voluntary, mutually-agreed upon exchange.  The law was largely an attempt by "the rich" of that time to use an empty display of one-time subservience to mollify "the poor" who, in a world where wealth was fixed and not earned, had no recourse other than the axe.

But the money of today, which His Grace seems to speak of disparagingly, has transformed our world into a more peaceful place.

The "rich" His Grace speaks of today earned their wealth by providing jobs, homes, goods, medical care and a standard of living inconceivable in Christ's time.  If "the poor" feel they are being mistreated by a member of "the rich," they simply take their business to someone else.

If you think "the rich" should do more to help "the poor," keep in mind that in a modern, capitalist, free market economy, money is a tool of voluntary exchange that changes hands when someone feels someone else provides a good of service worthy of that exchange. 

In such an economy, both parties benefit.  In fact this free market of voluntary exchange, of which money is the agreed-upon unit of measure, allows the poor to become rich and the rich to become poor.  This phenomenon of social mobility was inconceivable in the world of State control that existed in the first century.

In the first century and into medieval England wealth was the spoils of political power.  In our world, wealth is an one of the indicators of your value to your fellow man in a voluntary free market. 

So, who has done more to help the poor?  The bureaucrat who would run the compulsory work program serving dinners at a school, or the millionaire who became a millionaire by finding a way to manufacture enough of that food for everyone?

Yes, most of them will not be doing it out of a sense of responsibility to their Christian duties, but by advocating the use of State force to achieve the outward appearance of Christian charity, rather than inspiring to care for their neighbor out of a genuine Christian love, His Grace has already admitted motives are irrelevant.  And improving the life of your fellow man by making his food more affordable only to earn a profit for yourself is still more peaceful and better for the poor than a world where the State rounds up the wealthy and influential and forces them under threat of arrest to ladle out soup.

Want to see "the rich" do more to improve the lives of "the poor?"  Get out of their way and allow them to use their God-given mind to continue to create, innovate and produce. 

A thought as millions rush to hand over their property to the State

"In a fully free society, taxation—or, to be exact, payment for governmental services—would be voluntary...The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following premises: that the government is not the owner of the citizens’ income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income—that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined and delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion. Consequently, the principle of voluntary government financing regards the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens—as an agent who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing." - Ayn Rand

Adventures In Liberal Discourse, Part V: Liberals hurl racist slurs at black conservative

(H/T to Ben Hart's "Escape Tyranny)



Just the latest in a long line of incidents of white-hot racism spewing from the maw from projectionist liberals. 

Could you imagine the hysterical national headlines on cable news networks if this had been Tea Partiers?

Watch as liberals scream at a black conservative:

"Show your face, brotha!!  Be a proud black man!" (Screamed by a white liberal in a stereotypical "black" voice.)
"There he is!  There he is!"
"You're an Uncle Tom!" 
"You're a token!"
"You're a house black!"
"You're the kind that say 'we sing massa!'"

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Adventures In Liberal Discourse, Part IV: Genital obsessions and 'I wipe my --- with the American flag'

(H/T to Ben Hart's Escape Tyranny)



Watch as liberal protesters go on their usual genitalia-and-fecal-obsessed tirades.  Sigmund Freud would have a field day with modern American liberals.

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Adventures In Liberal Discourse, Part III: Wisconsin liberal spews profanity at 14-year-old girl

No wonder Wisconsin has turned on union thugs.  Here, a deranged liberal tries to drown out a 14-year-old girl by screaming profanity at her.

Listen as the others in the liberal mob try to drown out a 14-year-old girl by booing her, screaming, shouting, blowing horns and shaking noisemakers.

Just who exactly is acting like a "spoiled brat?"

Yes, these are the same people who lecture you on why you will never be as tolerant and civil as they.