Eight traitors to the principles of the Republican party handed the Democrat-communists a victory which may lead to the greatest tax increases and most far-reaching centralized (dictatorship) control over every aspect of American life.
(hat tip TC)
The vote was 219 - 212. The 8 RINO votes would have stopped this marxist-transnationalist legislation in its tracks.
On a good note - 43 democrats rejected the insanity.
The
Democrats in the House of Representatives have voted to destroy the
United States economy unilaterally. The vote was 220-203. 5 people did
not vote. (As of 7:15 p.m.)
The vote was extremely close. 8 Republicans voted yes. 43 Democrats voted no.
Your persistent phone calls kept the margin very narrow and now make it extremely difficult to pass the Senate.
We must keep up the pressure in the Senate. We also now have a lot
of momentum going into the healthcare fight. Democrats cannot expect to
hold the same economy destroying coalition together.
Also, several Democrats are now dead men walking. We will clean their clocks next year.
UPDATED: Both James Inhofe and Harry Reid predict the legislation is dead in the Senate.
Republicans voting yes:
Congressman Mary Bono, California 202-225-5330 Congressman Mike
Castle,Delaware 202-225-4165 Congressman Mark Kirk Illinois 202-225-4835 Congressman Frank Lobiondo
New Jersey
202-225-6572 Congressman Leonard Lance New Jersey 202-225-5361 Congressman John McHugh
New York 202-225-4611 Congressman Dave Reichert Washington State 202-225-7761 Congressman Chris
Smith Trenton New Jersey 202-225-3765
Daryl wrote me earlier:
Did our government
surrender to Beijing without telling us?
If this bill passes, it will have the
effect on America the Versailles Treaty had on Germany.
De-industrialization.
We are going to receive a double-whammy
because the treaty exempts the worst polluters, the ChiComs, from mandatory
emission controls, but WE get to help foot the bill for whatever pollution
controls the despots in Beijing decide to deploy.
Our manufacturers are mandated to pay for
their own investments in pollution control technology and, indirectly through
higher taxes for foreign aid, for THEIRS.
How come the world's biggest debtor nation
has to raise taxes and borrow more money to pay for aid to the biggest creditor
nation?
Naturally, this will only further
the transfer of manufacturing to China.
After the greenback goes the way of the
Deutschmark, the middle class has lost its savings to hyper-inflation, and all
our non-government jobs have gone to China, how will we avoid the rise of an
American Hitler?
UPDATE! 6:15 PM FILIBUSTER! Just thought you might all might want to tune in to CSPAN. House Republican Leader John Boehner is taking the liberty of reading the entire 300-page amendment added to the Waxman-Markey energy bill THIS MORNING at 3am. Democrats want to pass the largest tax in American history, slipping amendments in in the dark? Republicans won’t stand for this. Check it out. His commentary is pretty good too, and Waxman isn’t happy.
Cap and trade vote expected today, time, detailsInternational Business Times It's crap and trade. Cap and Trade is a fancy word for tax increase. Worse,
it is a tax on the middle class to subsidize the affluent. States that
rely heavily on energy pay more. Miami, Ohio will subsidize Miami,
Florida. Why not tie actual warming to carbon taxing based on
evidence? Considering that it has been decreasing since 2002, the
gubmint might wind up owing us money.
So much going on - breathless. BUT STOP AND LISTEN.
Atlas readers! Call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them that they oppose this energy tax. This is a 1,200 page document with an addendum of 300 pages which was added at 3am last night! They are expected to vote on this today. It is a very close count so far.
This must be stopped. The vampires must get their teeth out of the American taxpayer's neck. This is a crushing blow to capitalism and free markets, to say nothing of the advancement of junk science. This will bankrupt the nation. The massive 'cap and trade' legislation will mean
up to a 90% eventual increase in your electricity bill...check out
the facts - THIS IS BEING VOTED ON IN THE HOUSE TODAY! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND
TELL HIM OR HER TO VOTE NO ON CAP AND TRADE!
Anticipating
such alarmist efforts, Dr. Ross McKitrick, the brilliant University of
Guelph Economics Professor who helped debunk the Hockey Stick
fraudulence of Mann et al, called their bluff in this June 12, 2007
Op-Ed. McKitrick’s full argumentation, including his mathematical
modeling can be read here (McKitrick, Ross. “A Simple State-Contingent
Pricing Rule for Complex Intertemporal Externalities,” July 1, 2008, at
the Social Research Network site).
McKitrick’s premise is simple—and wait for this—evidence-based!
Why not tie carbon taxes to actual levels of warming? Both skeptics and alarmists should expect their wishes to be answered
Below are the salient points of McKitrick’s proposal. Again, the entire
June 12, 2007 Op-Ed can be read here, and his full discussion of the
proposal can be evaluated here.
The IPCC [Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change] predicts a
warming rate in the tropical troposphere of about double that at the
surface, implying about 0.2C to 1.2C per decade in the tropical
troposphere under greenhouse-forcing scenarios. That implies the tax
will climb by $4 to $24 per ton per decade, a much more aggressive
schedule of emission fee increases than most current proposals. At the
upper end of warming forecasts, the tax could reach $200 per ton of CO2
by 2100, forcing major carbon-emission reductions and a global shift to
non-carbon energy sources.
Global-warming activists would like this. But so would skeptics,
because they believe the models are exaggerating the warming forecasts.
After all, the averaged UAH [University of Alabama-Huntsville] / RSS
[Remote Sensing Systems] tropical troposphere series went up only about
0.08C over the past decade, and has been going down since 2002. Some
solar scientists even expect pronounced cooling to begin in a decade.
If they are right, the T3 tax will fall below zero within two decades,
turning into a subsidy for carbon emissions.
At this point the
global-warming alarmists would leap up to slam the proposal. But not so
fast, Mr. Gore: The tax would only become a carbon subsidy if all the
climate models are wrong, if greenhouse gases are not warming the
atmosphere, and if the sun actually controls the climate. Alarmists
sneeringly denounce such claims as “denialism,” so they can hardly
reject the policy on the belief that they are true.
Under the T3 tax, the
regulator gets to call everyone’s bluff at once, without gambling in
advance on who is right. If the tax goes up, it ought to have. If it
doesn’t go up, it shouldn’t have. Either way we get a sensible outcome.
Gore has scored 100 million dollars in "global warming" hoax.
Al Gore’s venture
capital firm has invested $6 million in a software
company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade
regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied
about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
and the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee during testimony in April.
Hara Software sells software to help track greenhouse gas emissions. The
market for such software is now about $2.5 billion dollars in size, and is
expected to grow by a factor of ten to $25 billion if cap-and-trade legislation
is enacted, according
to Hara CEO Amit Chatterjee.
Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner,
invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that,
I receive emails everyday, "Pamela, what can I do"? I will tell you. Each action must be fought. Each piece of legislation must be voted down. Obama is moving with dizzying speed? Well then, so are we. The days of a passive populace are over. This is still America, and our elected officials answer to us.
On your lists of things to do today, do nothing until you do your part to save the country:
Be sure to call your US Representative!!! Insist they vote no on cap-and-trade. Below is 1) the link to find your US Rep; and 2) members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee [(202) 225-2927]. Let's melt down the Capitol Switchboard!
Cap and Trade is a fancy word for tax increase. Worse, it is a tax on the middle class to subsidize the affluent. States that rely heavily on energy pay more. Miami, Ohio will subsidize Miami, Florida. Why not tie actual warming to carbon taxing based on evidence? Considering that it has been decreasing since 2002, the gubmint might wind up owing us money.
CALL YOUR PEEPS NOW. We are an energy rich nation. The largest gas reserves were just discovered in Louisiana. We have more oil underground than we know what to do with. China is drilling our oil off the coast of Florida because Castro gave them permission.
Wake up and stop funding the damn jihad!
And don't forget your other righteous task: SAY NO TO KOH.
Anticipating such alarmist efforts, Dr. Ross McKitrick, the brilliant University of Guelph Economics Professor who helped debunk the Hockey Stick fraudulence of Mann et al, called their bluff in this June 12, 2007 Op-Ed. McKitrick’s full argumentation, including his mathematical modeling can be read here (McKitrick, Ross. “A Simple State-Contingent Pricing Rule for Complex Intertemporal Externalities,” July 1, 2008, at the Social Research Network site).
McKitrick’s premise is simple—and wait for this—evidence-based!
Why not tie carbon taxes to actual levels of warming? Both skeptics and alarmists should expect their wishes to be answered
Below are the salient points of McKitrick’s proposal. Again, the entire June 12, 2007 Op-Ed can be read here, and his full discussion of the proposal can be evaluated here.
The IPCC [Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change] predicts a warming rate in the tropical troposphere of about double that at the surface, implying about 0.2C to 1.2C per decade in the tropical troposphere under greenhouse-forcing scenarios. That implies the tax will climb by $4 to $24 per ton per decade, a much more aggressive schedule of emission fee increases than most current proposals. At the upper end of warming forecasts, the tax could reach $200 per ton of CO2 by 2100, forcing major carbon-emission reductions and a global shift to non-carbon energy sources.
Global-warming activists would like this. But so would skeptics, because they believe the models are exaggerating the warming forecasts. After all, the averaged UAH [University of Alabama-Huntsville] / RSS [Remote Sensing Systems] tropical troposphere series went up only about 0.08C over the past decade, and has been going down since 2002. Some solar scientists even expect pronounced cooling to begin in a decade. If they are right, the T3 tax will fall below zero within two decades, turning into a subsidy for carbon emissions.
At this point the global-warming alarmists would leap up to slam the proposal. But not so fast, Mr. Gore: The tax would only become a carbon subsidy if all the climate models are wrong, if greenhouse gases are not warming the atmosphere, and if the sun actually controls the climate. Alarmists sneeringly denounce such claims as “denialism,” so they can hardly reject the policy on the belief that they are true.
Under the T3 tax, the regulator gets to call everyone’s bluff at once, without gambling in advance on who is right. If the tax goes up, it ought to have. If it doesn’t go up, it shouldn’t have. Either way we get a sensible outcome.
Sorry folks, couldn't let this one pass. It is iconic of the enviro-mentally retarded leftards imaginary global cooling warming uh climate changethinking:
Green campaigners called in police after discovering an illegal logging site in a nature reserve - and rounded up a gang of beavers. Environmentalists found 20 neatly stacked tree trunks and others marked for felling with notches at the beauty-spot at Subkowy in northern Poland. But police followed a trail left where one tree had been dragged away - and found a beaver dam right in the middle of the river. A police spokesman said: "The campaigners are feeling pretty stupid. There's nothing more natural than a beaver."
I quite agree. Nuthin
Behead the beaver!
Bostom has a great post on global warming, the greatest assault on our economy since Democrat redistribution of the wealth aka entitlements:
…Gronam [Ox; the oldest of the Elders of Chelm] said, “Last night I couldn’t sleep a wink for thinking about why it is hot in the summertime. Finally the answer came to me.” “What is it?” the elders chorused.
“Because all winter long the stoves are heated and this heat stays in Chelm and makes summer hot.” All the elders nodded their heads, excepting Dopey Lekisch, who asked, “Then why is it cold in the winter?”
“It’s clear why,” replied Gronam. “The stoves are not heated in the summer, so there is no heat left over for the winter.”
FROM: “The Elders of Chelm and Genendel’s Key,” in Stories for Children Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York, 1995, p. 5.
Joseph D’Aleo, from the invaluably sane ICECAP site, debunking the hysterical claim that the first decade of the 21st century is the warmest decade of the last century:
…is not likely the warmest decade of the last 70 years (the 1930s would take that prize as the state records imply). On top of all these issues, the data centers, make frequent arbitrary adjustments to the raw data, (a story for another day, addressed to some degree in the EPA comment above). Their adjustments always show a cooling of the older decades especially the 1930s and 1940s and a warming of the 2000s. Like flipping a coin a dozen times and getting heads every time. Not statistically impossible, but highly improbable.
Friday is the deadline to send a
comment to the Environmental Protection Agency about its proposed carbon dioxide
regulations. You can expect the Obama administration to move
quickly on this next year, which is why it's so important for conservatives
to voice our dissent now.
With just four days left, spread the word - send it to your peeps.
Long long overdue. Serious Democrat dementia has put this nation's security at risk.No driling offshore! No drilling in the frozen tundra! No nuclear power plants! No refineries!
The energy deable will be discussed at length on my show with Jameds Woolsey tomorrow. Empowering jihad nations and throwing America in front of the bus has fueled the Islamic world's dream of the return of caliphate.
Languid Larwyn sent me this. I suggest all my readers contact their Congress
President George W. Bush will call on
Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling tomorrow. --Via
FOX News.
For decades Democrats have set up "No Zones" where they will not allow drilling or development: (Republican Senator
Craig put together this map.) As Americans pay more for gas than
ever under this Congress-- Democrats continue to vote
against drilling and oil exploration.
Over the past 30
years:
Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of
petroleum. Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR. Democrats have blocked
drilling off the coast of Florida. Democrats have blocked drilling off of the
east coast. Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west
coast. Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast. Democrats
have blocked building oil refineries. Democrats have blocked clean nuclear
energy production. Democrats have blocked clean coal
production.
67% of Americans support offshore-
64% say it will lower gas prices. Rasmussen reported:
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey—conducted before McCain
announced his intentions on the issue--finds that 67% of voters believe that
drilling should be allowed off the coasts of California, Florida and other
states. Only 18% disagree and 15% are undecided. Conservative and moderate
voters strongly support this approach, while liberals are more evenly divided
(46% of liberals favor drilling, 37% oppose).
Sixty-four percent (64%)
of voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that gas prices will go down if
offshore oil drilling is allowed, although 27% don't believe it. Seventy-eight
percent (78%) of conservatives say offshore drilling is at least somewhat likely
to drive prices down. That view is shared by 57% of moderates and 50% of liberal
voters.
Libtard PBS says the poor townspeople are divided. I say bullshit. They are on the Soros payroll and Soros is up to his nefarious tricks again. hat tip Larwyn
Make Up Your Own MineJohn Fund WSJ An impoverished town strikes gold.
George Soros and foreign environmentalists say, leave it in the ground.The recent tragedy in Utah has brightened the spotlight on mining, already
under assault by environmental and anti-globalization activists world-wide. These activists have produced several documentaries, and the anti-mining
campaign has attracted the attention of billionaire George Soros and actress
Vanessa Redgrave--and enough charges of greed or hypocrisy to fill a mine shaft.
Anti-mining? That's rich. These evil elites would have us all living in caves while they live in unfathomable luxury. Full-of-shitniks.
The other side to the controversy is told in a new film that will never be shown
on PBS, but is nonetheless rattling the environmental community. "Mine Your Own
Business" is a documentary by Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann
McElhinney. They conclude that the biggest threat to the people of Rosia Montana
"comes from upper-class Western environmentalism that seeks to keep them poor
and unable to clean up the horrific pollution caused by Ceausescu's mining."
Mr. McAleer, a former Financial Times journalist who has followed the mine
battle for seven years, says he "found that everything the environmentalists
were saying about the project was misleading, exaggerated or quite simply
false." He produced his film on a shoestring $230,000 budget largely provided by
Gabriel Resources, but says he was given complete editorial control.
Tonight, PBS will air "Gold Futures," a film by Hungary's Tibor Kocsis. The
film focuses on residents in Romania's Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian
town, who are divided over the benefits of a proposed gold mine. It also
features Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company trying to convince them
to relocate so it can dig for a huge gold deposit estimated at 14.6 million
ounces, worth almost $10 billion. PBS describes the film as a "David-and-Goliath
story."
NO MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PBS! USEFUL IDIOTS.
Opponents of the mine claim that Rosia Montana residents agree with their
stance. "Local opposition to the mine is strong and organized" says a statement
signed by 80 environmental groups in January. In his letter, Mr. Soros cites a
recent poll organized by some members of Romania's parliament that "found 90% of
respondents rejecting the project." But the poll turns out to be an unscientific
Internet survey, and one of the environmental groups Mr. Soros funds urged
people outside Romania to participate in it. What is clear: Two-thirds of Rosia
Montana's people have accepted Gabriel's voluntary offer to buy their homes at
above market rates. Most will move four miles away to a less polluted area.
As the American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, arrives in
Europe, it is instructive to look at the areas where her country's interests
clash with those of the EU. They fall into six broad categories: Cuba, Iran,
Iraq, Israel, China and what one might loosely call "supra-nationalism" - that
is, the power of the UN, the Kyoto process, the International Criminal Court and
so on. These disputes are not unrelated; they are linked by a common ideological
thread. In each case, the United States is pro-democracy, the EU pro-stability.
Read it all. Hat tip: JAHPDQ
"It touches on an essential point: Europe has never really known democracy; nor
had any faith in it"
Rioters attacked us with baseball bats," said Philippe Jofres, a deputy fire
chief, told France-2 television. "We were attacked with pick axes. It was war." The violence reached the well-guarded French capital Saturday night.
Ten riot police were injured by buckshot in a clash in the southern Paris
suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. It was unclear
whether the officers were shot with hunting rifles or a less lethal weapon, he
said. Two officers were hospitalized; their lives were not in danger.
Violence spreads to 300 towns. 369 arrested, 1200 detained (Fox news) Overnight Sunday-Monday, at least 764 vehicles were burned, and police made
173 arrests, Hamon's office said. Slideshow: Youths
Riot in Paris Suburbs Slideshow
Dhimmis Chirac said France was determined to promote "respect for all, justice and equal
opportunities." Violence has been concentrated in poor suburbs with large
immigrant populations. [oy, they stll don't get it? - Atlas]
In the city center, gasoline bombs damaged three cars near Place de la
Republique. Residents reported a loud explosion and flames.
"We'll stop when Sarkozy steps down," said the defiant 17-year-old driver,
identifying himself as Murat. He and several others were in police custody as
smoke poured from the windows of the housing project behind them.[if Sarkozy steps down, France is fini.-If they are to have any shot at all, the worst thing they could do was have the "insurgents" dictate who runs the goverment. Isuggest LAND FOR PEACE! - Atlas]
[ UPDATE 10:48 am Oh my g-d! when I used the word Insurgents, I was was being sarcastic, I JUST HEARD A FRENCH REPORTER USE IT on FOX! -Atlas]
Arsonists burned 1,295 vehicles nationwide overnight Saturday and the discovery of a gasoline bomb-making factory in a derelict building in Evry south of Paris Saturday night, said senior Justice Ministry official Jean-Marie Huet, shows that gasoline bombs "are not being
improvised by kids in their bathrooms."
Good Morning America how are ya?
UPDATE: NOVEMBER 11th
LET ME BEGIN WITH A simple sentence that, even as I write it, appears less than
Swiftian in the modesty of its proposal: "Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib have
improved markedly and dramatically since the arrival of Coalition troops in
Baghdad." Christopher Hitchens, Weekly Standard
While the left continues to berate the President over an outing of a
CIA "spy" that never happened and the rumors on torture of al qaida
(even in Panama this morning), the Islamofascist war spreads across
Europe and violence continues into the 12th night in France;
Germany
"Five cars were put on fire in the Moabit neighborhood of downtown Berlin during
Saturday night. The night before several cars were burned together with an empty
warehouse in Bremen in northern Germany. The police fear that the pattern from
the riots in France will spread to poor neighborhoods in Germany." Hat tip Expat Swede
Belgium Police in Belgium now say a attacks have occurred in Brussels, where
five cars were set on fire.
Denmark Further, a masked Muslim man in Denmark said: “This is our area. We rule this
place.” Rocks and firebombs are being thrown in Danish neighborhoods, as Muslims
in France continue their violent march into the heart of Paris.
According
to both French and Danish officials, it is beginning to strongly appear that
these insurrections are both coordinated and planned, in attempts take down both
governments. The fear of many is that the Muslims’ insurrections will continue
to occur throughout Europe. Successive nights of riots have rocked parts of Århus, the second largest city
in Denmark. Little to nothing has appeared in the English language press about
the second front in the Eurabian intifada. Århus is home to an excellent Danish
university, and is a place where I have spent some time. It is usually spelled
“Aarhus” in English.
Fortunately, Hendrik,
The Viking Observer, has translated in his blog a press account from
Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper which has been the target of Muslim
protests for publishing drawings of the prophet
Muhammad...
Russia There are now probably 24 million Muslims among 143 million people in the
Russian Federation alone. Between 500,000 and 1 million are radicals, "followers
of sects of Islamic origin who call for the physical destruction of all who
disagree and the overthrow of the existing system by force." The government's
"lack of a clearly defined and agreed-upon policy on how best to deal with the
Muslims" has seriously exacerbated inter-ethnic relations
UPDATE:
Regarding my query to the Jewish Quarter in PARIS
It’s business as usual,” Samy Ghozlan, head
of the anti-Semitism vigilance bureau told EJP. “These communities are used to
these daily assaults. It’s worrisome, but we fear the worst is still to come.”
“Now that the media decided to reduce coverage of
the riots, the thugs may intensify the violence against the Jews, to regain
media attention," he added.
French authorities advised Jewish security officials not to
publicize their fears, as such declarations could encourage rioters to attack
Jews and Jewish community buildings. .........
It would be one thing if it were like Scientology and created small brushfires between vapid celebritites, it is quite another when we are clubbed to death with it like baby seals.
It dictates our energy policy (ANWAR anyone?), G8, frees the UN to focus on pedophilia,antisemitism, and corruption and gives the left rubber bullets (although if it wasn't the environment it would surely be something equally ridiculous - the left doesn't need much of an argument to make an argument.)
The problem with environmentalism and global warming is it cloaks itself in science and is therefore taken quite seriously.
Well, I read Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, National Review blogs ...... ... Ambassador John Bolton
I'm a fan! - Mark Steyn
Fearless, intelligent, beautiful -- Pamela Geller wears her Supergirl
costume well.
Pamela Geller is a dynamo of energy and
a paragon of courage and fearlessness.
-- Robert Spencer, JihadWatch in his book Stealth Jihad
You do great work with your blog. -- Geert Wilders
"Courageous insights from a pulchritudinous pundit!!" Dr. Andrew Bostom, Leading Scholar on Islam
"Great site," Dick Morris
"Indeed, some of Israel's best friends and most articulate defenders can be found in the blogosphere .... Atlas Shrugs, [et al] all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
"The best there is," Beryl Wajsman, President Institute of Public Affairs
Speaking to the unnamed, unchampioned, beating heart of her new land, Ayn was to say: 'Yours is the glory.'"
A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of Peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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