This is about the best article I have read that explains why costs keep going up but the consumer price index (CPI) hardly budges at all. The government CPI pricing scheme does not reflect the true cost of living but yet all cost of living adjustments are tied to it. Read the article and you will get the deceptive drift.

CPI Two-Step -

Why the CPI Matters

Why, you ask, does the BLS go through all this trouble? Simple: Because the CPI is the single most important index in the world. No matter who you are, this index has a direct impact on the wages you earn, the taxes you pay and the benefits you receive.

Here’s why: Each year, the government uses the CPI to make cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) to Social Security, military and federal pensions and food stamps. They also use it to fine-tune the cost of school lunches, to determine the yield on inflation-protected bonds (TIPS), and since 1985, to adjust the federal income tax structure to prevent inflationary tax bracket creep.

A few percent a year may not seem like much, but when you compound it year after year and apply it to programs covering hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, it really adds up. That goes double for the federal government: With all those programs tied to the CPI, CPI-related adjustments alone amount to one of the larger items in the federal budget

John McCain if elected will be a disaster for this nation. Obama if elected will be a disaster for this nation. That is the choice you have. McCain’s thinking is totally disjointed. Perhaps he lost his mind while in Nam because he simply proves to not be a rational being. McCain latest insanity is that is going to speak at the national convention of LA Raza.

McCain and the La Raza card

The news this week that John McCain will attend the national convention of La Raza is beyond disturbing.

It is sickening. It is repulsive. It is inexcusable. It is … immoral and evil.

Why do I say this?

Because I know what La Raza is all about.

The National Council of La Raza bills itself as a “civil rights” organization. It would be more appropriate to say it disguises itself as such. It camouflages itself as such. It hides its real purpose and true intents as such – with the willing and skillful assistance of many of my media colleagues.

In reality, La Raza is a racist hate group – a band of “Hispanic supremacists,” if you will, though it is seldom characterized that way.

And by his action in playing the La Raza card (or race card), John McCain has spoken volumes about where he will take this country as president – and it is nowhere that I want to see it go.

What our government allows some countries to get away with in the name of free trade is demented, it is criminal.
Do we have traders or traitors running our foreign trade policy?

Time to get tough with China on trade

The Bush administration has abysmally mismanaged U.S. trade policy. We hope that the next administration learns from its mistakes. President Bush’s solution to the worsening U.S. trade deficit with China was (drum roll please) talk. That’s right. His strategy was talk, talk, talk; journalists call it “jawboning.” In December 2006, President Bush sent our government’s top five financial leaders to China to convince the Chinese to mend their ways and allow the yuan to
appreciate against the dollar. But, in 2007 our trade deficit with China worsened yet again to $252 billion from $229 billion the previous year. Talking loudly while carrying no stick doesn’t work.

When people are brainwashed all of their lives they become quite insane. Jimmy Carter needs to lead a new mission to Hamas called Shrinks Without Borders. Perhaps they can first do some field training on him. All who made this film and all who believe it richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award. I guess everyone in Hamas will qualify.

American Thinker: Hamas Needs Shrinks Without Borders

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this month, the homicidal maniacs of Hamas outdid even their most deranged Islamic brethren by putting out a film claiming that the Jews secretly planned and carried out 6 million deaths of their own people.

And what is the bizarre reason Hamas television gives for the Jews committing this heinous deception?

Why, the Jews did it, of course, to be rid of their own sick, handicapped and special-needs folks. Everyone knows how brutal the Jews are to their own kin and countrymen.

And, wouldn’t you just know it? Hamas says it has verifiable proof.

In some other-worldly dimension, in whatever kind of perverted reality these people share, this insanity must make some sort of sense.

I haven’t checked, but I think we can be fairly certain that the Israelis will gladly put up the funds and manpower to construct a gigantic asylum, complete with soundproof rubber rooms and as many shock therapy devices as will be necessary to house and properly treat the entire herd of Hamas lunatics, along with their new peace keepers. Just to be on the safe side for the next 100 or so years, we’ll make sure they add a 50-foot wall, with tons of barbed wire and electronic alert devices around the entire asylum.

And if all goes off well, the entire world, not to mention the beleaguered Israelis, will be deeply in the debt of Jimmy Carter and the Shrinks Without Borders.

The high cost of energy can be solved by lifting government restrictions and giving incentives for oil companies to drill and refine. All the energy we need can be found at less than half the energy equivalent of the cost of a barrel of oil today. Free enterprise will remedy shortages and price spikes but when free enterprise is stymied by government economic and energy disasters like we see today are certain. Affordable energy is not a pipe dream unless we continue to let a minority with bazaar views strangle everyone else.

An Alaskan pipe dream?

My “Black Gold Stranglehold” co-author, Jerome Corsi, and I have been begging our leaders to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, or ANWR, which could be producing an additional million barrels of oil per day which, when refined, equals 27 million gallons of gasoline or diesel. Think of the impact that would have on current market conditions. And while it should have been done years ago, it is not too late.

Nothing would send a stronger signal to the energy markets that America is serious about exploration of future reserves than if we initiated a “Manhattan project”-style effort in obtaining domestic sources of oil. For far too long our country has been held in the grip of radical environmentalists who have been unable to grasp the idea that modern technological advances allow us to safely harvest oil in the most extreme locations.

Congress, especially a Democratically controlled Congress, tends to believe every solution is found in higher taxes. Those in Democratic leadership, including Hillary Clinton, are renewing their call for a “windfall profits tax” on big oil. Nothing will do more harm than higher taxes or government regulation on the current market conditions. If government wants to help than they should fast track legislation to open up our domestic sources of oil … now!

This will allow the breathing room necessary to pursue all other alternatives such as wind, solar, nuclear, bio-mass, ethanol, etc. And as technology increases and economies of scale kick in, prices will become competitive and in time supplement oil, coal and natural gas. We believe the future for reducing usage of traditional hydrocarbon sources of energy is very promising. But for now, let’s use what we have in abundance to meet the needs of millions of Americans.

Government will keep trying to fix the problems they created until they end up killing us all.

The windfall profiteers

the story that really delves into the devious mind of the politician, and reveals why politicians will never be interested in “saving” any money, came courtesy of New York Rep. Charles Rangel.

Get this – Rangel actually told a reporter, with a spin worthy of the top criminal defense lawyers in the land, that he spends $777 of taxpayer money a month for his Cadillac DeVille because driving a cheaper car would be a sign of disrespect to his constituents. Wow. That takes cojones the size of … well, Charles Rangel’s cojones.

These are the kind of people who are charged with “fixing” all our problems, including high gas prices and how to stimulate the economy.

Democrats represent the majority of Americans so what does that say about national sanity? It is obvious to me that the leadership of neither party have sane answers on many issues but who elects them?

The Democrats are insane

The popular definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over again expecting a different result.

By this definition, the Democratic Party leadership is insane.

Three examples:

High gas prices: The Democrats’ answer? A back-to-the-glorious-70s Jimmy Carter freeze in the dark replay with a global warming twist.

Health insurance availability and cost: The Democrats’ answer? A back-to-the-90s Hillary Clinton government seizure of the whole health care system.

War in Iraq: The Democrats’ plan? Declare defeat on the brink of success to relive the glory days of Vietnam.

Read on and weep for the great Democratic Party

More proof that the earth has entered a significant cooling period comes from the new Jason Satellite. With this in mind along with other proof that the earth is about to get significantly colder and seeing that the earth has not warmed at all in the last ten years and it cooled last year. It would just be prudent for world politicians to hold off on any carbon legislation until scientific data can actually support man cause global warming theories. Will they do that. Not likely! There is too much money and power at stake. Not to mention that they all love being sent to five star resorts to attended climate change conferences.

New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling - Guest - May 02, 08

Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year - but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more persistent Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has turned into its cool phase, telling us to expect moderately lower global temperatures until 2030 or so.

For the past century at least, global temperatures have tended to mirror the 20-to 30-year warmings and coolings of the north-central Pacific Ocean. We don’t know just why, but the pattern of the last century is clear: the earth warmed from about 1915 to1940, while the PDO was also warming (1925 to 46). The earth cooled from 1940 to 1975, while the PDO was cooling (1946 to 1977). The strong global warming from 1976 to 1998 was accompanied by a strong and almost-constant warming of the north-central Pacific. Ancient tree rings in Baja California and Mexico show there have been 11 such PDO shifts since 1650, averaging 23 years on length.

How many years of declining world temperature would it take now - in the wake of the ten-year non-warming since 1998 - to break up Al Gore’s “climate change consensus”?

Contrary to the views of the environmental hysterics, increased carbon dioxide would actually be beneficial to life on the earth. As would global warming but there is no significant warming going on anyway due to CO2 or anything else. If you really want a green planet pump up the CO2. It is essential for plant life. If man tries to limit carbon dioxide there will be no natural benefits but the economic and social consequences will be terrible.

Roy Spencer on Carbon Dioxide on National Review Online

As a climate researcher, I am increasingly convinced that most of our recent global warming has been natural, not manmade. If true, this would mean that global temperatures can be expected to peak in the coming years (if they haven’t already), and global cooling will eventually ensue.

Just for the sake of argument, let us assume that manmade global warming really is a false alarm. In that case, we would still need to ask: What are the other negative effects of pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere?

Well, plant physiologists have known for a long time that most vegetation loves more carbon dioxide. It grows faster, is more drought-tolerant, and is more efficient in its water use. While the pre-industrial CO2 concentration of the atmosphere was only about 280 parts per million (ppm) by volume, and now it is around 380 ppm, some greenhouses pump it all the way up to around 1,000 ppm. How can environmentalists claim that helping vegetation to grow is a bad thing?

The bigger concern has been the possible effect of the extra CO2 on the world’s oceans, because more CO2 lowers the pH of seawater. While it is claimed that this makes the water more acidic, this is misleading. Since seawater has a pH around 8.1, it will take an awful lot of CO2 it to even make the water neutral (pH=7), let alone acidic (pH less than 7).

Still, the main worry has been that the extra CO2 could hurt the growth of plankton, which represents the start of the oceanic food chain. But recent research (published on April 18 in Science Express) has now shown, contrary to expectations, that one of the most common forms of plankton actually grows faster and bigger when more CO2 is pumped into the water. Like vegetation on land, it loves the extra CO2, too

Wright on, Ann Coulter!


Obama campaign gives up on finding ‘Mr. Wright’

Rev. Wright also put into context his church giving an award to fellow Obama supporter Louis Farrakhan by saying: “He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century. That’s what I think about him. … I am not going to put down Louis Farrakhan.”

Why did Rev. Wright’s supporters think it would be helpful to hear longer versions of the “snippets”?

Curiously, Rev. Wright complained that “everybody wants to paint me as if I’m anti-Semitic because of what Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago” – especially those damn East Coast, money-grubbing Jews, he carelessly added. This from a man whose entire oeuvre is based on reveling in what happened in this country 250 years ago.

Government has created the cigarette smuggling problem. When government balances its budget on the backs of smokers because they are a minority and they can do it and still be reelected I would have no problem rationalizing buying smuggled cigarettes to keep these government bullies from robbing me (I am not a smoker). Government socialists who never seen a program they do not want to fund with our tax dollars and social engineer control freaks help create the crime syndicates through their tax polices and then they continually raise taxes to fight crime and warehouse the law breakers. Government has created a never ending spiral of more taxes and more crime.

Cigarette smuggling

While it’s politically popular to impose confiscatory taxes on America’s 40 million tobacco smokers, there are a number of consequences one might consider, but let’s start out with a quiz. If a carton of cigarettes sells for $160 in New York City, and $35 in North Carolina, what do you predict will happen? If you answered tons of cigarettes will be going up I-95 from North Carolina to New York City, go to the head of the class.

The easy solution to cigarette smuggling, and its attendant activities, is to eliminate the confiscatory taxes. Unfortunately, for politicians and do-gooders, the attack on smokers is a moral crusade that sees only benefits and costs are irrelevant. Or as novelist C.S. Lewis put it, “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

When governments try to balance their budgets on the back of mostly low and lower middle class smokers they themselves are creating the smuggling problem. When government adds several dollars to the cost of one pack of cigarettes they make it very lucrative for smugglers. So what did New York State do about the problem reported in this article. They just raised taxes $1.25 a pack this year to $2.75 to help with their budget shortfall. Every time the states or the Feds raise cigarette taxes they call it a win win situation. They say less people will smoke and they will raise more tax revenue. Obviously there is also a lose lose situation the governments do not tell you about. They are promoting crime and robbing poor people.

I do not smoke but let me tell you what I see going on. My observations are that when one in a couple smoke they both smoke. Most have a family income of less then $30,000 and some are on government assistance. They are addicted and they are not going to quit smoking because government raised the taxes. They each smoke at least a pack a day or 60 packs a month. At $5 a pack it costs them $300 a month. They do not have that much disposable income so some necessities are put off indefinitely. Often their children go without or they live in substandard housing, etc.

Liberal answers to all revenue shortfalls is more taxes especially on things that they do not like and their answer to social problems is to tax or legislate them out of existence. It has never worked and they should not then act surprised when their laws bring these additional problems.

FOXNews.com - Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

A 15-page report congressional report, obtained by FOX News, includes intelligence from law enforcement as well as New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance.

The report reads in part: Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah.

“This is a very serious homeland security issue, one that has gone unnoticed for far too long,” said Rep. Peter King, (R-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, who called for the investigation.

“Cigarette smugglers are able to generate millions of dollars in illegal profits with a great deal of this wealth being sent to terrorist groups overseas – groups that would like nothing more than to inflict devastating harm on our country and its citizens.”

One of the key issues, according to the report, is a potential flaw in New York State policy. According to King’s office, there is a policy in the state of “forebearance,” or refusing to collect on sales of Native American tax-free cigarettes to non-Native Americans.

Critics of the policy say it has effectively created a safe haven for smugglers. In some cases, the report says, a well-organized operation can buy cigarettes tax-free on New York’s Indian reservations and sell them at a great profit in the New Yock City area,

Chuck Baldwin views are too radical to even win an election to become pastor of most Baptist churches. I respect some of his views but America will not support him. You would think that a national party that exists to bring back government to the intent of its founders could come up with a more qualified and more well known candidate. I think this party will soon be over. Baldwin will have zero impact on this election and he will not start a third party grass roots movement for the future either.

Constitution Party stunner: Chuck Baldwin KOs firebrand Alan Keyes | KansasCity.com Prime Buzz

Convening its national convention in Kansas City today, the Constitution Party picked radio talk-show host Chuck Baldwin over former Ambassador Alan Keyes as its 2008 presidential candidate.

The pick was seen as something of an upset, given Keyes’ higher national profile. Known for his fiery stem-winders, Keyes is a two-time GOP presidential candidate who abandoned the Republican Party this month to join the Constitution Party, which believes in limited government and is committed to ending abortion and bringing American troops home from Iraq.

But Baldwin’s roots in the Constitution Party run deeper. He was the party’s 2004 vice-presidential candidate, and party members said his stands were more in line with party thinking.

You would think in a educational system they would be warning children about the health dangers of homosexual activity. But this is not a educational system it is more an indoctrination system. There should be a warning label required on every condom they hand out. “Homosexual behavior is known to shorten lifespans”.

Day of Silence’ vs. homosexual health risks (OneNewsNow.com)

LaBarbera also argues that many liberal school districts teach false facts about AIDS. He says they imply that everyone is at equal risk for contracting the disease — even though in 2005 71 percent of U.S. male AIDS cases involved homosexuals. He contends that many American young people are not being informed about other health risks associated with homosexuality either — such as increased infections of the Hepatitis B or C virus and the herpes virus. “We have all this evidence out there that homosexual behavior is dangerous,” the activist point out, “and yet our politically correct elites are promoting gay identity” to teens and children.

Although LaBarbera notes there have been numerous taxpayer-funded studies on the dangers of smoking,

Every time you go to the gas pump or pay your heating bills or food bills you can thank the environmental extremists and all the politicians that kowtow to them for the higher prices that you will now pay.
Also notice the hypocritical actions of the “environmentalists” outlined in this article.

Blame Clinton, greens for high gas prices

Environmental extremists prefer to mandate the expanded use of ethanol, rather than using abundant oil supplies. This alternative produces less energy per gallon of fuel than gasoline, while driving the price of food upward, causing riots and forcing the cultivation of more land where wildlife can no longer flourish.

Environmental extremists wring their hands and cry crocodile tears at the thought of “ruining” the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge by using only 2,000 of the 18 million acres for oil production. But they seem to have no problems with the idea of covering millions of acres in the southwest with solar panels.

Environmental extremists celebrate their victory in banning DDT to save birds. But they have no problem with miles and miles of wind turbines that slaughter millions of birds every year. Nor do they seem to have any sympathy for the millions of people who have died from malaria as a direct result of the ban on DDT.

Big oil is not to blame for the high price of gasoline; the blame must fall squarely in the lap of the environmental extremists who use propaganda and fear-mongering to block the increases in the production of readily available fossil fuels. There are sufficient reserves of coal to last about 200 years. Despite Jimmy Carter’s 1970s declaration that the world would be out of oil by 2000, and considering the anticipated increase in demand, there are enough known oil reserves to last at least 60 years. This energy should be available now.

Every time a person fills up at the pump, he should visualize the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in Alaska, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in the Dakotas and Montana, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting just off shore – and curse the environmental extremists who are forcing him to pay far more for his transportation than is necessary.

They call this a news worthy study of echinacea and colds? 58 people over 8 weeks! Give me a break!

Lets see, I would think that over 8 weeks about 20 of the 58 people would normally be expected to get a cold. Then of the 29 who took the echinacea (ten of these might get a cold in this period ) had 5 fewer sick days than the other 29 that took a placebo? Seems to me that your study supports that those who took echinacea had five fewer sick days and thus probably had fewer colds.

If you are going to publish studies on echinacea publish a study that actually proves something. A study needs to be done on hundreds or thousands of people over a whole season in the way that people are directed to take echinacea. You are not supposed to take echinacea everyday for colds. You only take it when you are exposed to colds or when you are already coming down with a cold to lessen the duration. We already have studies that prove if you take echinacea every day it becomes less effective and might even be worse then taking nothing at all. However, if you take it as directed studies prove it will help prevent colds and lessen the duration of colds.

So what was the name of the drug manufacturer that sponsored the farce?

FOXNews.com - Study Finds No Evidence Echinacea Prevents Colds - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco followed 58 volunteers for eight weeks and found no definitive evidence that echinacea prevented nasal congestion, sore throats and other cold symptoms.

While the echinacea group reported fewer sick days than the placebo group, nine versus 14, researchers chalked the difference up to chance.

Our own government is to blame for high gas and energy prices and it will get much worse if we let them go forward with the green polices that they are planning.

Blame Congress for soaring gas prices

It’s time for consumers to strike back against the real culprits behind rising gasoline and food prices.

Who deserves blame? Middle East sultans? Oil company executives? Commodities speculators?

How about blaming our very own United States Congress? For decades, Congress has led our government into disastrous decisions by being the patsy of radical environmentalists, naysayers and prophets of doom. Recent presidents have done little to resist.

Now American consumers pay the price while politicians try to evade and shift the blame.

However, we can lower gas prices by reversing misguided federal policies, and lower food prices, too. It’s all about what we learned (or should have) in Economics 101 – supply and demand.

Obama is an ultra liberal elitist idealist and univeralist who believes that all problems can be solved if he is in charge. Like many products of our modern educational system truth is what he wants it to be and says it is. Like New Spiritually (New Age) believers He lives in positive thinking Yeswecanland and cannot be bothered with reality.

Obama claims to have all the social solutions but the numbers do not add up. There simply is no way to pay for all his social programs. It will not only fail it will bring the nation to economic ruin. There is no way his foreign policy will work either. If he thinks he can deal with evil tyrants and terrorists by tossing sweet carrots to them he will openly be made a fool like Jimmy Carter and then he will probably overreact with his stick and start a war.

Obama obviously cannot take criticisms. Can you imagine the reaction of Obama if the press and the people of this country turn against him and mock him like they have done to George Bush. At least McCain knows he has a problem in this area and he might become aware of any overreaction before he does something foolish. Obama’s reaction toward America or another nation may be more like his pastor. Beware of Oprahitis Obamutopia and Yeswecanland these are Liberal islands of delusion.

Beware Obamutopia

Obama’s recurring theme rears its naive head again: We can all get along – even terrorists – if we remove the arbitrary barriers against believing in man’s perfectibility and that even terrorists and tyrants aren’t evil.

Obama’s health care proposals are similarly fantastic. He would provide every American with coverage that’s at least equal to that of members of Congress. With his executive wand, he would reduce everyone’s premiums by $2,500 a year and outlaw exclusions for pre-existing conditions. Dr. Barack would also mandate that the health care industry focus more on prevention and primary care. But wait, there’s more: He’ll accomplish all this by the end of his first term.

This is just a sampling. But what’s scarier than Obama’s far-fetched promises is that people – in droves – believe them. We must hope others are paying closer attention.

Hysteria is rampant and the people have become delusional. There should be a war against progressive mental illness from the halls of Time Magazine to the shores of Massachusetts and California.

From fighting evil to fighting carbon emissions

The Time cover is cheap heroism. It is a liberal attempt to depict as equally heroic those who fight carbon emissions and those who fought Japanese fascists and Nazis.

Second, for much of the left, the cover reflects the primacy of environmental concerns over moral concerns. For example, the left seemed never to care about the millions of Africans who continued to die from malaria largely because of the environmentalists’ worldwide ban on the use of DDT as pesticide. The same holds true for another left-wing environmentalist fantasy. Changing corn into biofuels is causing a surge in food prices throughout the world. The European Union continues this policy despite warnings even from some environmentalists that food shortages, starvation and food riots are imminent. But human suffering is not as significant as environmental degradation.

Third, the left is far more internationalist – global, if you will – in its orientation than national. As the Time article states, “Going green: What could be redder, whiter and bluer than that?” Whereas, for most Americans patriotism remains red, white and blue, for much of the left it is green.

Fourth, the further left you go, the more inclined you are to hysteria. From the threat of DDT to the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America to that mass killer secondhand smoke, the left believes and spreads threats that, unlike the threat of Islamic terror, really are “scare tactics.”

First the schools brainwash children and confuse them about their sex identity and then we have these sex change agents from hell in the medical community that drug children so that they can be made into freaks for life. What a wonderful society the liberal social engineers are creating. Our demented society sexually abuses children everyday and then we wonder why many grow up to be sex abusers. Young children should not decide if they are transgendered and the medical community should not be facilitating this. This is nuts!  All who have a part in this demented program receive my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award.

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

“Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”

“This is going on at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital in Boston – not some backwater clinic. This is the elite of the medical profession,” the organization said.

Either Jimmy Carter should be locked up in a loony bin or he should be put in jail for breaking our laws. The man has delusions of self importance. He does not speak for the U.S. or Israel. He was not elected or appointed to do anything and he was told by both governments not to butt in. Anyone who now would even consider anything that takes place in his demented delusional and dumb meetings with known terrorist murders should be locked up with him. Jimmy Carter never met criminal minds that he could not deal with. Once again Jimmy Carter richly deserves the Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award.

FOXNews.com - Carter, Hamas Meetings Produce 3-Point Peace Proposal - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial meetings with Hamas leaders have produced a draft of a three-point peace agreement that includes a ceasefire with Israel, Hamas officials tell FOX News, but it isn’t clear whether such a proposal would have any standing in the peace process.

Carter met again on Saturday with the exiled leader of the militant Hamas group and his deputy, without backing from the Bush administration and against the wishes of Israeli leaders. The two Palestinians are considered terrorists by the U.S. government and Israel accuses them of masterminding attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians.

The U.S. State Department twice advised Carter against meeting Hamas leaders before he left on his Mideast trip earlier this week. More than 50 members of Congress also urged Carter not to go, saying it would confer legitimacy on the group behind some 250 homicide bombings that have killed numerous Israelis.

Time’s cover is not only disrespectful and disgraceful their global warming alarmism is absolutely insane. As evidence mounts that global warming is not the threat that some believed it to be, these loons go on a green warpath to alarmism. I guess they need to sell fear to get some green.

Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time’s ‘Special Environmental Issue’ Cover

Time
editor tells MSNBC ‘there needs to be a real effort along the lines of
World War II to combat global warming and climate change.’

For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.

The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.”

Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”

Have you every heard of such an asinine judgment in your life? Don’t you think it is time for the people to find a way to get rid of these loony Federal judges? And why do school boards take it upon themselves to dictate these rules to their teachers? They obviously are controlled by anti religious people not in the mainstream thinking of America. So why do you continue to elect them to your school boards? Most of the problems in schools could be taken care of if those who call themselves Christians would just reign in their ultra liberal school boards.

Bow your head, break the law!

A federal appeals court ruled a New Jersey high school football coach who bowed his head while students on his team led prayer broke the law.

The school concluded while it could not infringe on the students’ constitutionally protected right to pray, it could limit the actions of coaches, who are public employees and whose participation allegedly would violate “the separation of church and state.”

I guess people in Canada and those in the West cannot blame the death of marriage just on the homosexuals. When marriage was downgraded by heterosexuals and people just lived together and did not make any marriage commitment the deconstruction of a God given institution was well under way.

Now the generation of children not brought up with a mother and a father experience the consequences and society will reap the social costs of this arrogant humanistic social experiment. When nobody any longer has natural affections toward members of their family or anyone else you now know why.

The debate is not over. You have not heard God’s side of the debate yet. However, you will.

Michael Coren on Canada’s biggest mistake: Gay marriage - Full Comment

What makes the national mistake of legalizing same-sex marriage unique in Canadian history is that to even discuss the issue is considered by many, particularly our elites, to be at the very least in extraordinarily bad taste. Although this is a valid and vital debate about social policy, anyone critiquing the status quo is likely to be marginalized as hateful, extreme or simply mad. Social conservatives aren’t just wrong, they’re evil.

The discussion, we are told, is over. Which is what triumphalist bullies have said for centuries after they win a battle. In this case, the intention is to marginalize anyone who dares to still speak out. In other words, to silence them.

It’s important to emphasize that this is not really about homosexuality at all, and has nothing to do with homosexual people living together. Opponents of same-sex marriage may have ethical and religious objections to homosexuality, but they are irrelevant to the central argument. Which is not about the rights of a sexual minority but the status and meaning of marriage.

Indeed, the deconstruction of marriage began not with the gay community asking for the right to marry but with the heterosexual world rejecting it.

Every so often I read the daily news and I just get feed up with the inept leaders that are running this world. They do not seem to have a collective grain of wisdom between them.

Today we read that wholesale prices are up 1.1 percent in one month! Oil is at $113 a barrel and rising and food prices have gone up so much that people in poor countries are in danger of starvation.

Now who were the idiots that suggested we make grains into alcohol to run cars? I recall that Bush signed a piece of nutty legislation that will make 20 percent of our liquid fuel alcohol. The EU and other countries are also converting grains to alcohol. Meanwhile, people in poor countries are going hungry and are in danger of starving. Great thinking guys! With leadership and thinking like that you must of slept through your education classes and especially through your leadership training. These nutty polices must be reversed now!

I know the hype coming from Al Gore, had something to do with these government polices and that is why I say Al Gore is the most dangerous man in the world. Those that follow his leading will in the end bring starvation to millions.

Since you world leaders are clueless let me tell you the solutions?

1. Stop converting grains to make alcohol to run in cars. It was never needed. It is inefficient and the world does not have food to burn! Will this increase demand on oil? Not much. Any oil shortfalls can be taken care of quite easily as I will outline below.

2. Stop paying over $100 a barrel for oil to these vultures. I would not pay more than $50. How do we do that? First we DISBAND OPEC by world or U.S. decree. It is an illegal monopoly. If anyone whats to argue about it, that is why our taxes pay for all our aircraft carrier task forces. They were built to protect us from foreign enemies. If anyone thinks paying these extortion rates for oil (from wells that we developed in the Middle East) are not a huge danger to our country they are not living in reality. By the way, “our friend” Saudi Arabia alone could pump enough additional oil to bring the world oil prices down significantly.

3. Cut through the environmental red tape and allow for oil drilling off our coasts and in Alaska. There is significant oil there. All oil companies during this national emergency should be required to reinvest most profits into new energy production until balanced energy levels are achieved.

4. Vastly expand coal production and scrap all the restrictions put on new coal plants because of the global waring nonsense. We could make liquid fuel out of coal slurry for our cars and also use coal generating plants for spare electric generation at night for charging electric cars.

5. Build some damn refineries. Not one has been built in 30 years in this country mostly due to asinine environmental regulations. Meanwhile stop the insane laws that required scores of different types of fuel and fuel additives that adds to the costs and creates spot fuel shortages. Let the refineries we have produce 5 or 6 different major fuels and not be required to make 50.

6. Stop this crazy oil speculation in the markets. They are adding a third to the price of oil and they add nothing to our economy other than gambling. It can be stopped.

7. Government Incentives for mass production of reasonable priced electric cars for city commuting.

8. A major national project to develop solar energy production. They are doing it in Israel, we can certainly do it here. Solar energy at less then 10C a KW hour is easily achievable in the Southwestern deserts with today’s technology. The above ground land area in the Nevada Nuclear Test Site alone could produce much of the electricity needs for this country at reasonable rates.

Contact your representatives in Washington and demand action.

Your 100 percent correct. I wrote that insurance was the main problem with medical costs two years ago in this article. Medical costs could be reduced at least a third if you got rid of the insurance Mafia.

The Health Insurance Mafia - WSJ.com

Physicians and other providers need to liberate themselves from the Faustian bargain they’ve cut with the Mephistophelian suits who now run their professional lives. Because many doctors are loath to talk about money, they allowed themselves to perpetuate the fantasy that “insurance is paying.” It isn’t. There is no free lunch and no free physical exam.

If substantial numbers of health-care providers shook off the insurance monkey on their back, en masse, and the supply of providers was substantially increased by opening more medical schools, the result would be a more honest, cost-effective system benefiting everyone. Except the insurance companies.

I suggest that no Secret Service or any other American lives be put in danger in Syria because Carter wants to play the fool. A fitting justice would be for Carter to end up like the hostages that he left rot in Iran when President.

Carter Defends Upcoming Meeting With Hamas in Syria - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized his plans. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington lists as a terrorist organization.

“I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace,” Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

I suggest that they put the Olympic flame in the hands of the Dalai Llama sitting on a throne and then they can wisk him around the world for all to worship. Perhaps he can alternate with the Pope and the leading Guru’s of other religions.

Perils of Olympic torch running

The arrival of the Olympic torch is, to the happy denizens of the Global Village, a combination of St Patrick’s Day and Fourth of July. The Olympic torch is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece.

Eleven women, representing the roles of priestesses, perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. It is then symbolically carried by relay around the world, so its arrival in San Francisco was a very big day, indeed. Priestesses, the light of the sun, torches and “parabolic mirrors” – it sounds like a ritual invented in San Francisco.

Here you have it from the horses own mouth. Obama will support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, open homosexuality in the military and hate speech laws.

That means everyone will have to recognize homosexual marriage and government and businesses will have to give benefits to help support their perverted lifestyle and will not even be allowed to complain about it. Americans will have to hire homosexuals for even religious positions and keep their mouth shut about biblical morality. You certainly will not be allowed to tell the pagans that Jesus is the only way to salvation.

If this man is the leading contender for President what does it say about America? If he gets elected, America will actually divide, not unite.

I can just see it now…. Gay pride military parades on Veterans day and when anyone protests they will be arrested by cops in drag for hate speech. If your not getting the message that the world is increasingly going insane it is not my fault.  If you do nothing about it you will have to live with it.

Obama promises ‘gays’ ’strongest possible bill’

Along with repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and implementing “fully inclusive laws outlawing hate crimes, he says, it’s important to bring “the message of LGBT equality to skeptical audiences as well as friendly ones, and that’s what I’ve done throughout my career.”

Many in this nation are stuck on stupid and this Demented Delusional and Dumb Club Blog helps document that fact. You say we as a nation must remind ourselves what truth and lies look like, victim and criminal, good and evil, etc.

Those not dumbed down have been attempting to educated the stupid people in this nation to do that for a long time and you see where it is getting us.

I think you are preaching to the choir. How do you get a nation stuck on stupid to change when stupidly is the hallmark of the “education” system, lies are presented as truth by media and a stupid watered down gospel is preached from the pulpits?

Perhaps it is time for the astute to start a new nation. I no longer think the brainwashed people are teachable.

Laurie Roth — Stuck on Stupid Syndrome is Growing

We must as a nation remind ourselves what truth and lies look like, what evil and good looks like and what victim and criminal looks like! Empathy and “rights” are nice when offered first and foremost to our people, our military and our citizens. There is a point where “stuck on stupid” syndrome doesn’t cut it anymore. We MUST take back our courts and demand common sense Judges. We MUST take back congress and demand they get clear about good and evil and right and wrong. We must not allow persecution against parents and home schoolers, border patrol doing their jobs, military being brave in service, those trying to protect our children from predators and those fighting fearlessly against Islamic Radicals. We can save our country people. It is up to us.

Besides the authors two possibilities there is a third possibility. So A new liberal American government of the morons, by the morons, for the morons shall not perish from the earth.

Governing morons

Results of the law of unintended consequences are writ nowhere larger nor more plentiful or diverse than on the halls of government in Washington, D.C. Here, a body that was designed to manage the affairs of state has now morphed itself into the personification of omniscient beneficence. From this exalted position it now sees its job as one of wiping away ever tear from every sobbing, suffering citizen (two tears, if you an illegal sobbing, suffering non-citizen).

As to why this repeatedly happens (within the context of this column’s title), I can think of two possibilities:

First, those governing America could be morons. After all, they make these legislative blunders not occasionally, but regularly, after which the problem usually becomes worse. Their usual response is to create follow-on legislation that, well, keeps them in business by making the problems that arose from the initial legislation designed to solve the now-forgotten original problem, well – worse.

Second, our government may be creating legislation suitable for governing a nation of morons. These would be people who believe that the federal government is their nanny, and that it’s Uncle Sam’s job to wipe the various parts of their anatomy clean when they make a boo-boo, clean up the mess after them, and kiss their owie and make it feel better.

You will have to read Ann Coulter’s article to get the point of all this. The point is really that Obama believes people he should not be believing and he then makes leaps of judgment that probably are not true. That really does seem to be a pattern in Obama’s life. It is not a good quality in a President.

Dreams from my father, lame excuses from my grandfather

How deranged would you have to be to cite this incident as evidence that your grandmother thought like a “typical white person” – as opposed to your grandfather being worthless and lazy? For those keeping score, Obama is aghast at his grandmother’s alleged racism, but had no problem with Jeremiah Wright’s manifest racism.

If Obama is sent reeling by the mere words of an elderly white woman, how is he going to negotiate with a guy like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What if Ahmadinejad calls him “booger-face”? Will he run crying from the table?

Your grandmother wasn’t a racist, Barack. Your grandpa was just a loser. Can we wrap up our national conversation about race now? I think we’d like to move onto questions about your stupid plan to hold talks with Iran.

Father Jonathan Morris makes a statement below that I might expect from some in the Catholic Church but I certainly did not expect from him. He equates the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints with fundamentalists of all religions.

The Catholic Church has a fundamentalist view itself. Much of its teaching is very fundamental Christianity although in my opinion, some of it is really their own distorted interpretation of the Christian fundamentals. So it seems to me that you are the pot calling the kettle black.

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints is a cult of a cult. Are you saying the Mormon Church has correct doctrine and only those who more strictly hold to their doctrinal foundations are wrong? In other words, are you saying that mainline Mormonism and moderate Islam are alright because they distort their original inspired scriptures?

Are you then really suggesting that all religions take out scriptures that are offensive to others so we all can get along in the world? That would mean that you believe in Universalism. They probably have a position for you at the U.N. However, you should know that Christianity teaches that Jesus is the only way to God. Jesus said this fundamental truth would bring conflict even among members of the same family. So do you think Christian doctrine is fraudulent?

Finally, your attack on all fundamentalism really could be seen as a cheep shot at fundamental Protestants who you therefore also accuse of distorting God’s face and voice. There is only one face and voice of God and that face and voice can only be reliably found in the Holy Scriptures, that is why we have the infallible scriptures known as the Bible. Those who believe that are often called Christian fundamentalists because they believe the fundamentals of their scriptures. So either you do not believe there are scriptures to be taken as fundamental truth or you think only your religion can give us the correct interpretation of those fundamentals. In either case, you are fundamentally wrong. Further, if Catholics had the only correct fundamentals of the faith, as they claim, you have just attacked your own religion.

So with that display of wisdom why should I buy your book?

FOXNews.com - The Promise: God’s Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts - Opinion

Fundamentalist views of all types distort God’s face and voice and are often the very cause for the tragic manipulation of the weak. Likewise, many modern depictions of God as distant and uninterested in our lives keep us from tapping into the natural and spiritual mechanisms we have within us to come through suffering as better people and not bitter people.

Since I am traveling in these days before the pope’s arrival, I don’t have time to write much more, but I couldn’t refuse expressing my concern for the victims of the fundamentalist sect in Texas and every other misuse of religion for selfish purposes.

Although I do not agree that Co2 is causing global warming I do agree with the other points in this article. The overreaction to climate change by the European Union could have much more serious consequences than any possible man caused warming.

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - A foolish overreaction to climate change

The first is that the European Union, which already has the bit between its teeth on this issue, will severely damage its own economy by deciding to set an example to the world. And the second is that it will seek to limit that damage, as President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and others are already urging, by imposing trade barriers against those countries that are not prepared to accept mandatory cuts in their emissions.

A lurch into protectionism, and the rolling back of globalisation, would do far more damage to the world economy in general and to the developing countries in particular than could conceivably result from the projected resumption of global warming.

It is high time this folly ended.

This article gives some fine examples why global warming models are stupid. They are dumber than blond models on spring break. You cannot have good computer projection models if you do not have the knowledge to enter into the model nature’s production of CO2 or nature’s consumption of CO2.

We are not even close to understanding atmospheric science so it is only vanity to pretend that we can predict and control long term climate. It is better left to nature, God already built in very good checks and balances into our atmospheric system, it is self correcting. All of man’s laws will not have one percent of the control over our earth atmospheric system then will natural forces out of man’s control.

Man’s actions with his very limited knowledge will just cause catastrophes, as it already has. It is bringing disruptions in energy and bringing high food prices to the poor, and the loony control freaks have just gotten started. Thinking man knows the best climate for the earth and that he can control it is vanity and it will turn out to be a very expensive exercise in delusion and futility. The main thing it will actually accomplish is to give power over our lives to the looniest, faithless control freaks on our planet.

American Thinker: Vanities of the Warmists

The “progressives” and their “grand thoughts” of the age seek to “manage” the globe in the same “modern” way our ancestors “managed” Yellowstone. Like our ancestors of yore, today’s environmentalists believe the government can control the environment better than Mother Nature can. Are we to suppose that the people who give us the DMV and the IRS are going to “manage” the globe in the same efficient and benevolent manner? In the grand scheme of things are we supposed to believe that we humans are actually better than Mother Nature at “managing” the global environment? For some reason, the enviro-nazis of the age seem to believe that Mother Nature is some kind of octogenarian Alzheimer’s patient and they’re the designated colostomy bag.

“The result is that we’re trying to base policy on flawed models that are no better than ancient shamans reading tea leaves. The enviro-nazis are no better than the medicine man of lineage ancient during a lunar eclipse who could claim that the great night spirit was eating the moon goddess, and if only the tribal elders would hand over the virgins he’d perform his