Mitt's GOP Primary Circus

Is this any way to pick a presidential candidate? Possibly, if it works to sort out after South Carolina and Florida, an admirably worthy conservative alternative to Romney is found, or disregarding the fact that Mormons believe Jesus preached in Missouri doesn’t make Romney look any more sane. After all, one has to be a little bit crazy to run for the President of the United States anyway, huh?

 There are Two Big Animals in the Room

The old saying is, "Watch out for the 800 lbs. Gorilla or 2 Ton Elephant in the room!" During this 2012 Election season, you can choose which one is Obama, but the other definitely is the Mormon LDS Church.  You cannot ignore either or you will lose the 2012 Presidential Election. The Republican campaign strategy is simple, attack Obama's record while somehow deflecting the mud-slinging heresy against Mormons. Now, indeed, that is a tall order to fill since all Judeo-Christian religions are crucified by today's left-wing anti-religious zealots in the press and seated upon the judicial benches throughout the land.

A Gallup survey showed that 22% of all Americans would not vote for a Mormon for President. In comparison, 5% would not vote for a black person, 6% would not vote for a woman, 9% would not vote for a Jewish person, 22% would not vote for a Mormon, 32% would not vote for a gay or lesbian person, and 49% would not vote for an atheist. Anti-Mormon sentiment hasn't eased since it was first measured in 1967.

A Volatile Scenario - A Likely Outcome

The Romney camp and the Santorum or Gingrich choice each represent polar opposite factions of the Republican party, and I think they could do what the Republican primary hasn't done since 1976, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan, like Massachusetts Governor Romney, ran in the primary against incumbent President Ford, like Senators Santorum or Gingrich, and just barely lost the nomination, causing Ford, like Senators Santorum or Gingrich, to lose the election in November to Jimmy Carter like Barack Obama, weaker leaders.

 The Republicans better wise up & get behind their standard bearer if Barack Obama is to be defeated!

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Obama - Lesson 1: Cost of Living

Barack Merkel - Angela Merkel's Cousin?

It's the Economy Stupid!

Why is it lately that every time Obama speaks about the economy he talks only about deflated "jobs figures" (unemployment)? Obama says it stands at 8.5%, but this only counts people that are actively looking for jobs. It is understood to be actually over 18% after counting the number of unemployed and add the people who have stopped looking for new jobs, those employed part time and want full time, and those who looked for a job at least once in the last year but are not working, now that's real "unemployment".

He really doesn't like to mention to voters the ever increasing housing, groceries, gasoline, heating oil, electricity, water or clothing prices in the Cost Of Living equation either.  They are all over the map and really screwed up.

Washington politicians and bureaucrats are not willing to admit government regulations and oversight are killing our economy. Obama just keeps spending and piling on more oversight departments to "look out for the folks".  Just who are "the folks"? They are FCC, DOE, HHS, USDA, ED, DOI, EPA, DOJ, HUD, DOL, ad infinitum. When does Obama ever figure out that "the real folks" just may not want all of these or leastwise some of their bloated bureaucratic sizes reduced down from intrusive, burdensome, expensive federal departments and agencies? 

The SEIU union organization certainly does not, it is where their core constituency works and pays dues, albeit, not all those folks timely pay their federal income taxes. Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to Internal Revenue Service documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe $3,042,200,000.

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CPI Background Information - John Williams, Economist

http://www.shadowstats.com/article/consumer_price_index

In the early 1990s, press reports began surfacing as to how the CPI really was significantly overstating inflation. If only the CPI inflation rate could be reduced, it was argued, then entitlements, such as social security, would not increase as much each year, and that would help to bring the budget deficit under control. Behind this movement were financial luminaries Michael Boskin, then chief economist to the first Bush Administration, and Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Although the ensuing political furor killed consideration of Congressionally mandated changes in the CPI, the BLS quietly stepped forward and began changing the system, anyway, early in the Clinton Administration.

Up until the Boskin/Greenspan agendum surfaced, the CPI was measured using the costs of a fixed basket of goods, a fairly simple and straightforward concept. The identical basket of goods would be priced at prevailing market costs for each period, and the period-to-period change in the cost of that market basket represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a constant standard of living.

The Boskin/Greenspan argument was that when steak got too expensive, the consumer would substitute hamburger for the steak, and that the inflation measure should reflect the costs tied to buying hamburger versus steak, instead of steak versus steak. Of course, replacing hamburger for steak in the calculations would reduce the inflation rate, but it represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a declining standard of living. Cost of living was being replaced by the cost of survival. The old system told you how much you had to increase your income in order to keep buying steak. The new system promised you hamburger, and then dog food, perhaps, after that.

Obama & United Nations Virginity Tests

After the March 2011 Cairo's Tahir Square Rally, female protester detainees were subjected to Tahir Square Woman Protestor Arrested"Virginity Tests" to determine if surgical procedures were required. Although many were conducted, only seven stepped forward to formally accuse the military of sexual misconduct or rape while others were shunned by public ridicule and felt ethnic community pressures.

Under pressure from Human Rights Watch and women's rights organizations, the Egyptian court has ordered government military rulers to halt so-called "Virginity Tests" on female detainees. An army prosecutor said only that he was going to look into the issue. It looks like practices such as these need big world organizations like the United Nations and the World Health Organization to adopt resolutions to forcefully call for the elimination of these practices.

These world bodies have such awesome brute power to legislate and enforce their iron-clad resolutionTahir Square Rally Women for Sharia Laws s. I am so glad Hillary Clinton condemned the “systematic degradation of women" and  Pres. Obama climbed on board by supporting these world organizations to show these countries the United States means business this time. They will all quake in their military boots!  LOL! ...Yeah!... Right!   And the rest is History...look back at what happened 18 years ago going forward under Pres. Bill Clinton (1991-2000), Pres. Geo. W. Bush (2001-2008) and Pres. Barack Obama (2009-2012) ...All Nada!

A Reader's Digest article "in 1994" states, "The World Health Organization adopted a resolution sponsored by several African countries calling for the elimination of female genital mutilation, F.G.M., which is performed on an estimated two million children each year, ranging in age from infancy to adolescence."

"Although female genital mutilation, F.G.M., is practiced in both Islamic and non-Islamic cultures, many African Muslim communities that do perform the procedure cite religion as a reason. F.G.M. takes one of the three forms. Sunna circumcision - the mildest form is the removal of all or part of the clitoris. Excision is the cutting away of the clitoris and all or part of the inner vaginal lips. Infibulation involves the removal of the clitoris, the inner vaginal lips and part of the outer vaginal lips, followed by the sewing together of the two sides of the vulva, leaving only a pea-size opening for urine and blood."

"Because of the crude, unhygienic tools used by practitioners, it is not uncommon for a child to develop tetanus or septicemia. Many females who undergo the procedure develop secondary infections or painful, lifelong medical problems."

"F.G.M. is practiced in more than 30 countries, primarily through the central belt of Africa, from Senegal to Somalia and as far north as Egypt. Despite the belief that it is a religious duty, in fact, the Koran offers no encouragement of the procedure."

So, since the 1994 Reader's Digest article, the Female Genital Mutilation problems have United Nations Headquarters - New York Citynot been resolved in almost twenty years by any of the United Nations or World Health Organizations Resolutions enacted or actions taken by these International Governing bodies.

The United Nations, incidently, is where President Obama wants to exercise our sovereign United States DiplGet Out of UN Now!omatic Policies and International Law enforcement with any litigation actions ajudicated in the World Court at the Hague in the Netherlands. How has the European Union "One World Order" Government model that President Obama promoted been working for you lately?

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CO2 Emissions - Carbon Cap & Trade Rules

Professor Ian Plimer argues the hacked Climatic Research Unit's emails reveal "the biggest scientific fraud in history."  'Global Warming' is now 'Climate Change' -  earth cooled 0.7 degrees during last century and the enviromentalists were caught by surprise and had to change their slogan ...after all, 'Climate always Changes'!

Professor Ian Plimer

Ian Plimer is a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia and a former professor at the University of Melbourne. (a member of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He is also a joint member of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering).

 

Professor Ian Plimer is the author of the book 'Heaven and Earth',  which has been described by the Guardian as the climate sceptics' 'bible' and which has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide. He is an academic adviser to the UK-based sceptic thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

 

Eyjafjallajökull Volcano - one of the Iceland's smaller ice caps located in the far south of the island.The Eyjafjallajökull ice cap covers the caldera of a volcano 1,666 metres (5,466 ft) in height that has erupted relatively frequently since the last ice age. The most recent major eruptions occurred in 1921, 1612 (believed to have lasted only three days) and from 1821 to 1823. Previous eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull have been followed by eruptions at its larger neighbour, Katla. The volcano's explosive power was sufficient to inject ash directly into the Jet Stream to carry the ash directly over northern Europe into some of the busiest airspace in the world.

Are you sitting down? - Here's the Truth!

Told by

Professor Ian Plimer

Okay, here's the bombshell.

The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet, all of you. Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress, that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year, think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bushAustralian Bush Fires fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus ''human-caused'' climate change scenario.

Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention ''Global Warming'' any more, but just ''Climate Change'' - you know why? It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme (that whopping new tax) imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure.

But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

PS: I wonder if Iceland is buying Carbon Offsets?1

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FYI Notes:  Cap & Trade Regulations and Commodity Market Energy Trading Policies

1A Carbon Offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere. This is an EPA scare mongering tool to discourage through regulations power generation by coal or natural gas plants in favor of renewable energy sources.

A Green Certificate - terminology used in Europe - also known as Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) in the USA, are a tradable commodity proving that certain electricity is generated using renewable energy sources. Typically one certificate represents generation of 1 Megawatthour of electricity. What is defined as "renewable" varies from certificate trading scheme to trading scheme. Usually, at least the following sources are considered as renewable: wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and biomass.

Green certificates represent the environmental value of renewable energy generated. The certificates can be traded separately from the energy produced. Therefore certificate purchase does not affect how much renewable energy was actually generated - only how it was distributed.

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Obama's EPA Rules - Enormous Pathetic Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently viewed by many as a scandal-ridden and hopelessly compromised tool of the Obama White House. This agency now employs a policy just like out of Alice in Wonderland under the “logic of the Queen of Hearts.” The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, "great or small." - 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking around.

This Obama EPA has gone to this extreme,"great or small", one size fits all mentalityThe Queen of Hearts screams, "Off with his head!" coupled with "nonscience" nonsense, to coin a word just like from the "Queen of Hearts" herself. - 'Off with this Well Head' Obama said, without even looking around for sound logical reasons to close down drilling.  Obama is virtually digging his own "rabbitt hole" deeper into the ground and becoming even more confused like Alice - "nothing makes any sense anymore!"

And so now coal, oil and natural gas are turned into wind, geothermal and solar power with no way to generate or have the capacity to store more power during peak surges and none during violent storms or unforseen events such as bird migration, seasonal change and unavailable land development to expand farms. We’re witnessing the meltdown of the USA with our energy sources drying up under heavy-handed EPA Regulations. The USA  manufacturing sector is growing much less competive because of expensive energy to make products and for people to live and work.

So, how do we handle this energy problem? Obama's only answer is he wants to turn energy production further over to a Central Federal Governmental Energy Agency to completely regulate and run it as a state-owned entity.  However, there’s really only one conceivable rescue: We need a new president who makes resuscitating the privitized energy industry in our country a key priority!

 

The Obama "Stop the Keystone XL", Canadian Oil Pipeline project is just one more environmental barracade that the liberals have put up to our oil independence from the foreign supplies.

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