Good piece and interview.

Ladies and gentlemen, the entire Republican platform in a nutshell.

JMJ

“The sky is falling, and global warming will be worse than any nuclear holocaust imaginable by the year 2012 and Al Queda and radical islam are to be treated as unruly children”
Ladies and gentlemen the entire Democratic party in a “Squirrel nutshell”

Ladies and gentlemen, the entire Republican platform in a nutshell.

JMJ

Its a classic example of fear mongering in order to motivate for an angenda.
the science is inconclusive yet the methods of prevention or reversal are conclusive as a must and a neccessity.
It is not a proven and true enemy such as Al Queda is.
But the left would like to diminish the threat of our enemy such as you did jersey by putting them up against random acts of nature that carry no intelligent thought.
The technology being implemented on behalf of global warming is no more than a money making corporate scam.
It actually calls for less people and less technology and in its full perspective will destroy any modern society.

JMJ;
“And with Reagan, c’mon! this isn’t a “historian” thing, this is “3 heros!” Reagan? Really? Where does that put his priorities?’

Ahead of yours.

JMJ;
“And what is with you guys and the UN? You’re so “gay” with that. It’s just an international committee of nations. It really doesn’t do all that much. If there wasn’t a UN, there’s just be some other forum - or worse yet, forumssss. Best to just have one, it’s a pain enough.”

Gay ?Thats quite a stretch.
Just an international commitee of nations ?
Once again we see a clear example of the left minimizing a problem.
But of course if you need a freebee the UN is the place to go for all you altruistic lefties.
And 9 times out of 10 its the US picking up the tab.

My good friend wrote this peice. And it covers a few topics in this thread

http://arclightzero.wordpress.com/page/2/

Obamas global tax.

I’m not going to comment on the flag issue. It’s interesting to see that Obama’s supporters think of themselves as far-left extremists and I think it reveals a whole lot as to what sort of “change” Obama’s supporters may be hoping for (since Obama himself has yet to actually define any sort of legitimate “change”). However, while everybody’s wetting their pants over this asinine flag ordeal, something far more concerning is slipping through the cracks that should scare the hell out of everybody in this country.

Senator Barack Obama has sponsored a bill that is coming up for a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called the “Global Poverty Act.” While this sounds benign and helpful (after all, who wouldn’t want to address global poverty?), it is far from.

The bill could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States and has the support of many liberal religious groups. This bill makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. Is this wise?

It’s no wonder the far-left global socialism wingnuts are rallying behind Obama!

According to the UN, we were supposed to have committed .7% of our Gross National Product to the UN for fighting global poverty, and was supposed to go into effect as of 2002 with an end-goal of 2015. Over those 13 years, we were to have given $845 billion. Since this hasn’t happened yet, and now the UN and Obama have a new plan: a global tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

According to the UN “Millennium Project’s” Jeffrey Sachs:

“The U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.”

Uh huh. Did anybody else note the phrase “The U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay?” I’m glad to see that Senator Obama is willing to sell us out to the UN in the name of “global poverty,” the UN and global warming.

The House passed their version of the bill in a sudden voice vote that was deceiving in nature and didn’t highlight the fact that it committed us to donating hundreds of billions of dollars to the United Nations. According to Accuracy in Media:

“Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require. According to the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no hearings have been held on the Obama bill in that body.”

OK Obama folks out there, this one’s on you. How is this OK? We know that in order to raise this money the American taxpayer will be held responsible - whether through direct taxation or via indirect “green” taxes. For years we have listened to the Dems bitch and whine about spending and the deficit, so what is it that makes committing hundreds of billions of American dollars to the United Nations acceptable?

If this is what Obama the Senator is willing to do to us, what will Obama the President do? I don’t think that this is the road we want to go down.

Be afraid, folks, be afraid.

And with Reagan, c’mon! this isn’t a “historian” thing, this is “3 heros!” Reagan? Really? Where does that put his priorities?

And what is with you guys and the UN? You’re so “gay” with that. It’s just an international committee of nations. It really doesn’t do all that much. If there wasn’t a UN, there’s just be some other forum - or worse yet, forumssss. Best to just have one, it’s a pain enough.

JMJ

Then drop the global warming act.

theres a difference between fear mongering and reacting tio a true and proven enemy.

If the guy likes Reagan that speaks for him.
Not a major concensus among historians. especially you Jersey ( the historian).

We went to the UN because that was the course to take. Their support would of simply given us more of it. Still, 21 other countries signed on.
Pliant ?
Then we should withdraw funding and tell them all to relocate their useless asses

Clean up on aisle three.

JMJ

The point I was making before was the same point I’ve made a thousand times over - all the fear-mongering is unhealthy, unwise, and misplaced.

Take this comment by the good Mr Whitehead:

“…CAIR is focused on destroying our country’s form of government.”

Really? Wouldn’t that be a treasonable offense? If there was evidence that this group was seriously working on overturning the Constitution and Common Law, the actual body of our government, wouldn’t they all be in federal prison right now? Whatever CAIR may be, I doubt they are some Dr. Evil organization bent on overthrowing the US government.

Take this comment:

“Jesus Christ, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan.”

These are his “3 heroes, be they political, military, or other.” Amazing. Now, I can see Jesus Christ, but when you look at the grand span of all recorded time, Winston Churchill, maaaaybe (just for WWII, but that is a pretty huge endorsement), but Ronald Reagan? Even a Reagan enthusiast (with a reasonable education) would be hard-placed to him rank in the top three. It seems a little, well… I mean, yeah, I get it that he’s a relatively recent figure, so I guess he’s more fresh on the mind then say Siddhartha, but still… Ghandi? Alexander? Jefferson? Any other names come to mind first???

And then finally this…

“The UN security council called sanctions on Iraq for over a decade…then did nothing until the United States chose to enforce sanctions unilaterally. If the US did nothing in light of the UN sanctions, we risked looking like a paper tiger (even a blind man could see that the security council was deliberately “tweaking” the US). The UN security council deliberately painted the US into a corner on the Iraq question and then left us out to hang when we invaded.”

The UN painted the US into a corner. Now I’ve heard some interesting takes on recent history over the years, but that about takes the cake. It’s as if somehow we were dragged into Iraq kicking and screaming whilst Don UN’no left us high and dry, happy we went in and happier we bungled it. Again, this sounds like Dr. Evil kinda stuff. Nobody could pull that off - except, of course, the US. Maybe China or Russia. But that’s about it. The US has never been a pliant of the UN, and has only been less so or even unilaterally belligerent with GOP administrations.

JMJ