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The data that underpins all the arguments for human induced climate change are a baseless concoction of lies. We now know this for a certainty since someone did us the favor of releasing internal documents from the central scientists involved in this, “greatest lie ever told.”

According to liberal scientists we must have total faith in their conclusions. We can’t check their data, we can’t check their models or the statistical algorithms upon which their conclusions are based. The programming of their software is off limits. In fact, we now know that the underlying raw data for their conclusions no longer exists! It was destroyed. How convenient.

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.  ~timesonline.co.uk

The global warming threat to humanity is exactly what it seems to be, scare mongering. Scare mongering with a political purpose. It is meant to part us with our liberty and property. The political hacks pushing this agenda already have mountains of laws ready to enact upon us which will have the effect of controlling every aspect of our lives. After all, if all human activity is to blame for destroying the planet then all human activity will have to be regulated in order to save the planet.

With the release of these emails and some of the data included we are finally seeing some peer review of this fraudulent science.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is a complete fraud and a swindle. It has been used purely as a vehicle to advance a radical agenda. Now we have proof that the ‘scientists’ whose entire career is based on fraudulent science have in fact been cooking the books, making up numbers, suppressing evidence, and silencing dissent. Billions of dollars are now being funelled into climate science research with the sole purpose of proving the already decided verdict of implicating human activity. This is not science.

Besides the fact that legislation based on fraudulent science, like cap and trade, will destroy our economy and severely limit the freedom of every citizen there are a great many people invested in pushing this agenda forward.

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

Former NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud

Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

There will be opposition. The progressive leftist vision of America that the Democratic Party is attempting to force onto Americans will be resisted. Obama’s attempt to transform America into Jeremiah Wright’s America is not something that most Americans view favorably.

Houston Tea Party rally draws more than 10,000

More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.  ~chron.com

This kind of grassroots opposition to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid government is ridiculed, insulted, dismissed, impugned, and maligned but it can’t be ignored and it is likely to grow as the left grows impatient to implement it’s policies in the face of it.

Democrats are not very tolerant of opposition or criticism. Witness the White House war against Fox News. Isolate dissent. This is evidence of an inability to tolerate opposing views. Obama’s Attorney General is described as having, “walked up to former DC Councilman Kevin Chavous at an event and told him to pull an ad criticizing the administration for its opposition to the DC school voucher program.”

Obama, as President, has so far advanced more vigorous campaigns to eradicate Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and Fox News than they have against the Taliban in Afghanistan. After campaigning on uniting America it appears that what he meant was that he would do so by eliminating all his domestic opposition. Unity means no dissent.

There are signs here that point to a dangerous proclivity.

The desire for government monopoly is a dangerous one. And make no mistake, it is government monopoly which is desired by the left. Whether it is always the primary motivation or merely the believed means to an end government monopoly is the solution that progressive policies are designed to implement.

“This isn’t about ‘I can’t stand Barack Obama’ — this is about ‘I can’t stand a government that will tread on me,’” said Houston radio talk show host and TV anchor Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo to a rousing burst of applause from the audience.

“Taxes are going up because we have to pay for health care for people who are here illegally,” Pagliarulo said. “We have to pay for health care for people who don’t want health care … We’ve got a government that’s run amok — we’ve got a government that doesn’t care about you or me. It cares about power, it cares about control.” ~chron.com

The best thing for America is for the left to ram their risky healthcare scheme through as quickly as possible.

The sooner America sees how horrible the leftist policies of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi  are the sooner we can get them out of power.

The Obama Healthcare putsch is almost the perfect example of an ideologically driven agenda disregarding any sense of reality or practicality in legislation. Every scheme, every bill, seems to get worse than the last. From the specter of IRS enforcement to mandates with draconian fines, every new Democrat bill gets deeper into the quagmire of everything Americans hate about government. Which is why Healthcare keeps dropping in the polls; Americans are expressing their disagreement with what Democrats are bound and determined to pass no matter how much opposition there is.

In fact, rather than addressing the underlying issues leftists like Pelosi think that the public are just too stupid to understand what’s good for them. If the people are rejecting ‘the public option’, then let’s just rename it. The public can’t possibly be smart enough to know that there’s no difference between the plan labeled, “public option,” and the same plan labeled, “consumer option.”

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.

In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”

Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors. ~breitbart.com

Incredible.

I’m actually a little surprised at how tone deaf, partisan, and ideological Democrats have turned out to be with total one party control of the Federal Government. Especially after getting elected by campaigning as moderates and centrists. Which also explains why many moderates are now leaning conservative just as they were back in 1994. (Just keep attacking Fox News guys.)

The Ultimate Purpose of ObamaCare

The purpose of any bill that they eventually come up with is to create the conditions for a public-only option. After listening to two liberal commentators on NPR discuss the evils of Walmart and how they put “mom-and-pop” stores out of business by lowering prices (!$?), I realized that this is the strategy Democrats are trying to implement with Healthcare. The Federal Monopoly comes in with a low-cost public option, heavily subsidized, with a fine on individuals and small businesses if they don’t provide the kind of coverage dictated, and thus nearly everyone has no choice but to go with the public option. The out of pocket costs might seem lower, but our entire society will pay, and pay, and pay.

The cost of this ideological white whale will drag down the US economy even more. (Think Obamavilles all across America.) Costs will go up, not down, and in the end we will all have worse healthcare quality with even worse service than we have today. Which, with the low quality of healthcare service today would be saying something. But if anyone can bring the service level down by taking over an entire industry it would be the Federal Government.

Exhibit A, in the case against our current ruling political philosophy, is this quote from Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.): “I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life.”

Since our congressional masters won’t let us read the text of the bill in question before they pass it I guess we won’t be able to judge the relative reading comprehension of Senator Carper. But this isn’t the only congressman who says he can’t read the bills he votes on.

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Rep. John Conyers. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” ~blog.sunlightfoundation.com

The Rule of Law

If those who write these bills can’t understand them how are they to be enforced or implemented? How are they to be interpreted and by whom? How can the people be expected to obey them?

The principle of the Rule of Law is literally at stake here.

One, the laws should be very transparent and clearly worded so that all mature citizens would clearly understand what are strictly prohibited and the penalties associated with violating the laws. And two, the laws and prohibitions should be as few as possible. Both citizens and law enforcers can easily remember them and people can grow in freedom, in an environment of very few restrictions and prohibitions.

Rule of law can also be viewed as a general legal maxim according to which decisions should be made by applying known principles or laws, without the intervention of discretion in their application. This maxim is intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance. The word “arbitrary” (from the Latin “arbiter”) signifies a judgment made at the discretion of the arbiter, rather than according to the rule of law. ~en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

Are we playing Russian Roulette with our legislation?

Carper described the type of language the actual text of the bill would finally be drafted in as “arcane,” “confusing,” “hard stuff to understand,” and “incomprehensible.” He likened it to the “gibberish” used in credit card disclosure forms. ~cnsnews.com

It is the job of a Congressman or Senator is to understand and make laws. Any legislator who cannot understand that “gibberish” has no business holding the job.

Are we citizens or subjects?

Can you go to jail for watching your neighbors kids at the bus stop in front of your house to make sure nothing happens to them? Yes children, as subjects of the Michigan nanny state you just might.

A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors’ children.

Lisa Snyder of Middleville says her neighborhood school bus stop is right in front of her home. It arrives after her neighbors need to be at work, so she watches three of their children for 15-40 minutes until the bus comes.

The Department of Human Services received a complaint that Snyder was operating an illegal child care home. DHS contacted Snyder and told her to get licensed, stop watching her neighbors’ kids, or face the consequences.

“It’s ridiculous.” says Snyder. “We are friends helping friends!” She added that she accepts no money for babysitting. ~wzzm13.com

The difference between a nation of subjects and a nation of citizens is that the authority of the state is supposed to dwell in and be derived from the citizens. Subjects, on the other hand, have no authority. They must obey or beg for permission to exercise their ‘rights’.

This erosion of liberty is all done ‘for our own good’ or ‘for the children’ of course.

A DHS spokesperson would not comment on the specifics of the case but says they have no choice but to comply with state law, which is designed to protect Michigan children. ~wzzm13.com

Subjects must ask for permission from our benevolent officials who watch over us for our own good. On the other hand, citizens can agree to do all kinds of things. Dangerous things. Risky things. The difference between a subject and a citizen is the definition of government itself. A government made up of citizens derives it’s power from the citizens. We are the government.

The philosophy of government for subjects is that our rights are given to us by government. What is given by government can just as easily be taken away by government.

We are indoctrinating subjects who will accept the arbitrary rules of the ‘officials’ who act more like the politburo or the local workers council:

An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week after he turned in homework with a sketch that school officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to his classmates. ~eastvalleytribune.com

Through Healthcare reform and Environmental law like Cap and trade soon the nanny state will be monitoring every aspect of your life to see if you are violating any rules, regulations, or edicts — like how many calories you are intaking, or how big your carbon footprint is. Mileage tax using mandatory GPS in every vehicle. This will lay any and every action you take, from the littlest to the biggest under the watchful eye of our benevolent parental officials.

Are we citizens in a free country or subjects made to serve the rule of those in power?

My political philosophy is simple. Government is not my master. It is not my parent, my lord, my savior, or my nanny. What it should be is the protector of my freedoms and gaurantor of my right to choose the path I walk in life. I demand the right to believe and choose as I will not as a government official chooses for me.

In this respect I am a libertarian. Government must be limited in order to preserve the liberty of individuals. This is a defining element of our political heritage, the very foundation of American democracy. But it is not anarchy. There can be no liberty in anarchy. You must have limited government. A balance between controls and freedoms.

But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 51

Unfortunately, our country is becoming a place where every moment of your life will be proscribed, examined, probed, and controlled. Government control of Healthcare will greatly accelerate this trend.

Through the control of Healthcare the Federal government will then have entree to begin regulating the heath of those recieving the benefits of Federal healthcare. The decisionmaking power passes from individuals to the government. When you are to go to the doctor will no longer be a matter of choice but a matter of law. What you eat and how often you exercise will no longer be a choice but a matter of law with the attending punishments for disobedience.

We are already bombarded by local and state governments who see no problem in regulating anything no matter how small the activity or how intrusive the enforcement would be – often in complete disregard for any sense of what civil rights are. Believe me, I live in California.

When politicians speak of an era of responsibility they speak with the forked tongue of Orwell’s Big Brother. What they mean is that more nannystate is on the way. They believe we are their children, to be guided, led, and scolded as they see fit.

When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.

Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”  ~blogs.wsj.com

This is not the change we have been waiting for.

Govt. takeover of Healthcare is God’s will! To oppose it is to oppose morality itself. So sayeth Obama, “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”

Yeah verily, all those who oppose God’s will are immoral, liars, racists, Nazi’s, evil-mongers, and terrorists. Oh, and also un-American. …You could almost laugh off this kind of extreme slander if it didn’t belie an even more insidious agenda.

There are so many things wrong with this Healthcare takeover that it is hard to overstate the danger. Putting the Federal government in charge of our healthcare? What could go wrong?

The End Goal

Democrats (the left) want a totally government controlled heathcare system from beginning to end. They can’t deny it because they’ve been saying it on record for years. It’s in print and speeches by elected and unelected Democrats, advocates, activists, community organizers, party officials, billionaire astro-turf funders, bloggers, and the like, all demanding and extolling a single payer government takeover of healthcare.

The Deception

The plan, i.e. Healthcare reform, is meant to eliminate private insurance over time and end up with a government Healthcare monopoly. Just watch and hear it in their own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E

Thus Obama’s reform is predicated entirely on lies and deception. The problem that Democrats have is that they know they don’t have the support to get there in one mighty step– they dare not have an honest debate about single payer or national Healthcare. They would lose.

Instead we have Obama lying everyday on national television about how no one wants to take away your current coverage. On the one hand this is a crisis of epic proportions that requires swift and radical action but on the other hand you can keep everything exactly they way it is (if you’re happy with your current coverage, and until we decide to take it away). Shouldn’t people be leaping to get government coverage?

One Hundred Percent True Lies

Healthcare will fund abortions. (Period.)

Death Panels, a.k.a. mandatory end-of-life counseling for the aged and infirm. This is merely a part of healthcare rationing. In other words, ‘cost cutting’. Most of the cost of healthcare comes at the end-of-life. Government provided healthcare will encourage that you do your part and make sure you do not unduly burden the system. It’s called sacrifice. Apparently we need more of it. We’re all in this together! Your right to die.

Obama promised that his plan will ‘cut costs’. (Goodbye grandma.)

The High Cost of God’s Plan

This Healthcare takeover scheme will bankrupt America.

Does the cost really matter? I mean with 9 trillion dollars in deficit spending (and rising) already what’s another open ended gaping money hole going to matter? I mean really. It’s just money. We can print more.

Obama bankrupting America. (Source)

Unconstitutional

Lastly, the Federal government has no power to enact socialized medicine. But I’m sure that they will try anyway.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C.S. Lewis

What right do ordinary citizens have to protest the Federal takeover of the Healthcare industry? For that matter, why would anyone show up at town hall meetings with their elected representatives to protest the policies of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid government? Answer: They have every right.

The simple truth is that a majority of Americans don’t want the Federal government taking over the Healthcare industry. They have been watching a one-party government attempting to rush passage of all their radical policies as quickly as possible, with as little debate or scrutiny as possible. The end result of which will be a fundamentally different America than the one they grew up in and believe in.

Concession: They won the election. They have the power.

Even though they have the power they do not have the support of a majority of voters. I think this is why there is now a deceitful, concerted and organized attempt to smear anyone who dissents with their policies.

Interviewer: Do you think there’s legitimate grassroot opposition going on here?

Pelosi: “I think they’re Astroturf… You be the judge. “They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.”  ~wizbangblog.com

And yet there is no evidence of ‘astroturfing’. Quite the opposite:

ABC’s Steven Portnoy reports:

There were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school’s auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats’ health care reform plans is “manufactured.”

“I went to school in this school,” a man named Bob told me. “I don’t see anyone in this room that isn’t from Mardela Springs right now.”

“We’ve been quiet too long,” said a woman named Joan.

They came to yell at their congressman, freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil, and they were surprised to hear that the “Congress in Your Corner” event to which they had been invited — by a robocall from Kratovil himself — was not to be a public airing of grievances, but instead an opportunity for private, one-on-one sessions with the freshman Democrat.

As the crowd grew, and began venting frustration over the fact they would only be meeting with the congressman behind closed doors, Kratovil’s aides suggested he switch to a town hall format.  ~blogs.abcnews.com

The truth is that Democrats have a majority in congress partially because they won elections in conservative districts. Conservative voters in these districts are now wondering why they voted to put ultra-liberal Nancy Pelosi in power.

Kratovil is a Blue Dog Democrat who signed onto a letter last month urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on a health care reform bill until after the August recess. His officially “undecided” stance on health care reform makes him a prime target for frustrated constituents already miffed that he voted for the House Democratic leaders’ energy bill last month, after initially telling voters he was “undecided” on Cap and Trade.

The former county prosecutor won his seat – formerly held by a Republican — last November by just 2,852 votes.

Boos and cries of “You don’t get it!” were hurled at Kratovil, as he suggested that the current health care system needed to be fixed.

“You’re deceiving us! You’re trying to shove this stuff through,” one woman yelled.

“I’m not! But I hear you,” Kratovil pleaded.

“This bill is un-American,” said another voter, who asked whether Kratovil has read it.

“I am reading it right now,” he said.

In an interview before the session, Kratovil admitted he’s under heavy pressure from both the constituents in his conservative-leaning district and his party’s leadership, but, alluding to his vote on Cap and Trade, he said he’s already cast unpopular votes.  ~blogs.abcnews.com

Is there any reason to smear these people as white supremicists? People who ostensibly helped to give Nancy Pelosi her position of power? Only if you cannot bear to be disagreed with. Only if you cannot stand dissent.

Those in power are miffed that these people are speaking up and have claimed that it’s all an evil GOP orchestrated conspiracy campaign with no real support whatsoever. An organized protest is an illegitimate protest. Which is apparently why the White House is calling on their supporters to report dissenters and Democrats are calling on Labor Unions to send in the counter protesters. But does that mean they will only use union thugs members from the districts these town halls are in or will they be busing them in from all over to show a massive response? *Sigh*

Is there any appreciation of the fact that a community organizer is accusing protesters of being illegitimate because they are ‘organized’?

Concession 2: What will be will be; you have to let everything play out.

Treating Americans as the enemy will ultimately come back to haunt the left and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid government. Obama’s approval ratings continue to slide as he tries to implement his agenda, which is different from what he wanted many to believe during the election when he was promising tax cuts for 95% of all Americans. It might have been profitable to play coy about how liberal his true agenda was during the campaign but eventually if he wants to implement that agenda the truth becomes apparent. What you do when people start noticing this contradiction is what is happening now, deny it and blame those who recognize it and have the temerity to point it out.

Poll Shows Perils for Obama’s Health Overhaul

In the Quinnipiac survey, 55% (including 54% of the key independent voter bloc) said they were more concerned that the overhaul would increase the deficit than that Congress would not pass some kind of overhaul. That same 57% (and 59% of independents) disagreed with the following statement: “Overhauling the nation’s health care system is so important that it should be enacted even if it means substantially increasing the federal budget deficit.”

The poll also contains another piece of the public opinion puzzle that Mr. Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership may find problematic: Voters by a large margin don’t want a health care overhaul if it can only garner Democratic votes. In other words, even though Democrats control both houses of Congress, voters are suspicious of a bill that only has Democratic support.

The poll found 59% of the public disagreed (and only 36% agreed) with the following statement: Congress should approve a health care overhaul even if only Democrats support it.” ~blogs.wsj.com

They have the power but they don’t have the full support of the American people. Contrary to what the left seems to feel these days Conservatives are still a part of America. The question is, with all the fervor the left is expressing will they choose to be moderate, as they always claimed they were, or will they choose to eliminate the opposition? This latest attack on protesters is not a good sign.