Posted on 03/12/2011 6:29:18 AM PST by Kaslin
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I hope the Democrats will run on this energy-starved agenda next year. That will be the last we will hear of that bunch of Marxists for at least 50 years. Americans will not accept going back to huts and dug-outs because a bunch of Leftist tree-huggers refuse to let us have our natural gifts from God, our oil, coal and gas, to sustain our families and our country.
British Subjects have all become Bob Cratchet in Ebineezer Scrooge’s shop before the visit by the Christmas spirits. Begging for one more piece of coal on the one coal fire.
Ping!
British are stupid sheep.
They let their government take away their right to self-defense, they let their government take away their right to free speech, and now they are letting their government turn off their lights.
I have no sympathy for British sheep.
And I have no sympathy for American sheep if we let it happen here.
Mount a giant windmill in the center of the Parliament building. Harnessing all those gusts will solve Britain’s energy shortfall.
There is no energy shortage. All so called energy problems are created by the government. Government now makes energy far more expensive than it should be and is systematically destroying the reliable energy systems already in place in the U.S. The Democrats look forward to the day when you have to go to some corrupt politician and literally beg to not have your home or business shut off. They want you to have to beg to not have your pipes freeze or your children huddled helplessly in the cold and the dark.
Does anybody remember this quote?
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.” Barack Obama
The Obama administration has done all they can to disrupt and delay current construction of new power plants. The have done all they can to prevent drilling for oil and natural gas. They are wasting hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing inefficient and unreliable “green” energy projects. These subsidies merely give money to the politically connected and the dishonest.
Wake up America. Our great country is systematically being bankrupted and destroyed.
AGW ping?
Yes, I do remember that quote
Oh, not all Americans will be living in huts, pedaling bicycles to work and shivering in barely-heated homes. The swells hyping this nonsense will still be jetting to Aspen in their Gulfstream jets, heating and cooling their 25,000 square foot homes, and puttering around Tennessee lakes on 60-foot floating palaces that consume enough fuel in a single run for us to run our SUV for a year. (Think Gore.)
If we have another winter in the US and northern Europe anything like the current still-dragging-on winter, and have $5 gasoline & home heating oil, and soaring food prices, I fear that we'll see thousands of poor and elderly freezing to death or starving in their unheated homes while desperate politicians futily scramble, too late, to find a way out of the mess they've created. Sadly, I'm convinced that only a tragedy of truly massive proportions like this will arouse the populace to wrest power from the loons and restore sanity to energy policy.
“They let their government take away their right to self-defense, they let their government take away their right to free speech, and now they are letting their government turn off their lights.”
Unfortunately they did not “let” this happen, they demanded it! And now they are reaping the bitter fruit of those demands. It’s the small minority of people that haven’t agreed to this that I feel sorry for but what can they do when the rest of their countrymen have gone absolutely insane?
Ah, the benefits of socialism (unbrideled passions and greed and ambition)which results in higher prices, higher taxes, less freedom, less food,less energy, less housing, less jobs, less money, more alcohol and drug and gambling addictions, more oppression, more hatred and variance and violence and greed and ambition and selfishness. Socialism is caused by godless secular humanists who believe lies and deny God's existences and therefore results in their hoarding of all the benefits of society to themselves and has existed since the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden with the introduction of the sin of greed.
The left reminds me very much of the type of people God has judged for violence throughout the centuries and very much like the men of Noah's day who hated God until God was forced to bring judgment to their evil deeds because of the bloodshed of the wicked. Genesis 6: 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Key word in all of it: DELIBERATELY
For centuries human social groups - tribes, cities, nation-states - banded together to increase their chances of survival through commerce and specialization e.g. one man grew wheat while the other made pottery so that neither had to go without or producing everything himself. Survival gave way to growth and eventually outright luxury.
But independence and freedom aren’t a good mix with statism. Politicians who have a twin thirst for adulation and power want a steady stream of people with hands out begging for a crust.
And so once-great nations are willingly impoverishing their own citizens by propagating the AGW myth. As with all statists, it’s not enough for them to take away freedom by force or implied force in the form of fines, taxes, etc. No, they must include an overload of stomach-churning sanctimony and kindergarten-level iconography featuring earth, sun, trees, birds, etc. The gullible, the sympathetic and those who STILL believe that collectivism will produce egalitarianism ate it up.
[There is no energy shortage. All so called energy problems are created by the government. Government now makes energy far more expensive than it should be and is systematically destroying the reliable energy systems already in place...]
It is the democrat way.
And not a single Republican consistently and effectively putting the message out of the US’s newly realized energy potential, the economic growth possible, and of the ridiculous and false claims being made by the Obama and all the greenies.
Unfortunately they did not “let” this happen, they demanded it! And now they are reaping the bitter fruit of those demands. It’s the small minority of people that haven’t agreed to this that I feel sorry for but what can they do when the rest of their countrymen have gone absolutely insane?’
I am fascinated by your comment. Could you expand it. I understood that the lack of a written constitution and ‘progressive’ jurisprudence’ stripped Britons of most of their right to self defense (which was never as strong by any means as the common law understanding of self defense in the US}. Further gun ownership was severely impacted by laws the Tory governments in the 20’s enacted after the General Strike because of fears of a workers uprising. The recent confiscation laws only stood on the shoulders of earlier bad laws.
I would really be interested in a longer explanation of your most interesting post.
They're getting the Super Grid ready to impose on us. Remember, 'bummer told us - "You can't HAVE your thermostat on 72, you can't EAT all the food you want oo ..." -
One size fits all...re how much heat they'll allow us. (Of course, there'll be plenty of 'waivers' for friends of the gov't and 'their people."
Now, while he says WE can't have out heat set at 72, HE, in the oval office, runs it at 77. 'but but, he grew up in Hawaii and his blood was thinner."
Hello? He lived in the Windy City, one of the coldest cities in winter, for some 30+ years. I'd think that's acclimation time enough.
That said, I haven't been able to AFFORD setting my heat on 72 for many years/ Indeed, now, 72 would drive me out of the house. The reason I have it lower - by far? MONEY.
We need to watch this. I imagine he'll be trying to slip this under the door anyone now
Bflr
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