With the Deepwater Horizon tragedy setting off shore drilling back for years and now the Japanese disaster doing the same thing for nuclear power, we should expect the Greenies to be taking a victory lap and cracking the champagne. We can expect fuel prices to rise as we continue to depend on foreign oil and viable alternatives are taken off of the table.
The part that we sometimes forget is that the suppliers of foreign oil are in the business to sell it. And as we demonize OPEC and the likes as people who can't wait to gouge us at every opportunity and just hearing it's going to rain changes the supply lines and then of course the prices, the reality of the issue is that we are customers and this is business.
If I may be so bold as to use the addict and drug dealer analogy, when the user stops using, the dealer doesn't win, he losses and he will do whatever he can to keep a customer even if that includes changing or lowering the prices.
Now I know that maybe analogy stretched and their maybe numerous reasons the addict stops and stops completely, but we know we as a country are unable to completely stop using oil and that's certainly the last thing OPEC or any oil producing country wants.
So as much as the Left wants Global Warming, The Deepwater Horizon Disaster or the tragedy in Japan's nuclear plant be the tipping point for a green agenda, it will never happen.
The reason it will never happen is because the dealer from the east doesn't want his drug, he wants his money.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Union of Unions
unsustainable debt brought about by union entitlement, we are seeing a mass mobilization of union forces throughout the country. And now with other states looking into the same economic conditions and potentially the same legislation, we are seeing unions even more united nationwide.
The question to ask is why? Not why from the standpoint of union membership declining and therefore so are union dues. Not from the standpoint of union member not wanted to pay their fair share of pensions or health care. Not even from the view that union hierarchy is worried about the power they yield from union dollars being funneled into political capital and the member expense.
The reason the question needs to be asked of why private sector union member are coming to the aid of public sector union members is what do these two groups even have in common?
Being born and raised in Eastern Pa and living in Bethlehem Pa, I was raised hearing the stories of both steel and coal and being proud of the legacy of these great and nation forming industries. We often spoke of union forming events of history in the coal regions from the Molly Maguires to the Latimer Massacre, to the Battle of Blair Mountain and the proud history of our forefathers fighting for fair wages and safer working conditions.
We were proud of the blood and steel and coal that made these people hard and the country great.
So now back to asking the question. What do these people from the steel and coal unions, the policeman and firefighters who risk there lives daily for the protection of us all, have to do with the teachers union or the state office workers?
When Michael Capuano(D-Mass) used the term “get a little bloody” when referring to mobilizing the union troops to support the public sector unions, he was trying to bring back memories of the proud legacy and sometimes violent past of the battles some of the forefathers of these unions fought.
So why would the person who risks life and limb, why would the person who’s generational connection to the history of this great country travel hundreds if not thousands of miles to walk arm and arm with an office worker or teacher, who biggest job hazard is paper cuts and that the school year maybe extended and couple weeks because of snow days so you don’t get the full three months off in the summer.
If the answer to this question is, because my union fat cat bosses told me to, they not only have obstructed the democratic process by supporting democrats who fled the state to avoid voting, they have irreversibility destroyed the history and legacy left by our greatest generations.
The question to ask is why? Not why from the standpoint of union membership declining and therefore so are union dues. Not from the standpoint of union member not wanted to pay their fair share of pensions or health care. Not even from the view that union hierarchy is worried about the power they yield from union dollars being funneled into political capital and the member expense.
The reason the question needs to be asked of why private sector union member are coming to the aid of public sector union members is what do these two groups even have in common?
Being born and raised in Eastern Pa and living in Bethlehem Pa, I was raised hearing the stories of both steel and coal and being proud of the legacy of these great and nation forming industries. We often spoke of union forming events of history in the coal regions from the Molly Maguires to the Latimer Massacre, to the Battle of Blair Mountain and the proud history of our forefathers fighting for fair wages and safer working conditions.
We were proud of the blood and steel and coal that made these people hard and the country great.
So now back to asking the question. What do these people from the steel and coal unions, the policeman and firefighters who risk there lives daily for the protection of us all, have to do with the teachers union or the state office workers?
When Michael Capuano(D-Mass) used the term “get a little bloody” when referring to mobilizing the union troops to support the public sector unions, he was trying to bring back memories of the proud legacy and sometimes violent past of the battles some of the forefathers of these unions fought.
So why would the person who risks life and limb, why would the person who’s generational connection to the history of this great country travel hundreds if not thousands of miles to walk arm and arm with an office worker or teacher, who biggest job hazard is paper cuts and that the school year maybe extended and couple weeks because of snow days so you don’t get the full three months off in the summer.
If the answer to this question is, because my union fat cat bosses told me to, they not only have obstructed the democratic process by supporting democrats who fled the state to avoid voting, they have irreversibility destroyed the history and legacy left by our greatest generations.
The End of Liberalism through the Left’s Embrace of Radical Islam
As President Obama’s new diplomatic tactics with the Middle East continues to strengthen Islam’s grip on the world and Western countries find themselves confronted with distorted versions of diversity through political correctness. The most significant byproduct of this diversity from a cultural standpoint is the implementation of Sharia as the law of the land. We see our European allies already facing this and with Obama preaching our misunderstanding of Islam, we can to expect this to enter our legal systems sooner rather than later.
We’ve heard Muslim clerics and the preaching of liberalism through the likes of Rev J Wright stating that the chickens have come home to roust and that America’s lack of moral compass is the reasons for the distain the world has for us.
But the reason for America’s perceived misguided moral compass is because of liberalism.
From the left’s proposition to redefine the definition of marriage to it’s distain for anything Judeo-Christian, we’ve watched America teeter on the brink of the moral abyss and liberalism has opened the door to its perverse version of diversity through Islam.
The left is going to find out very dramatically that there new found friend in the nation of Islam is going to be a very stern taskmaster.
It’s been interesting to watch the Left fawning over Islam when that which they embrace is the antithesis of diversity when the Left does it in the name of diversity.
Now leading a pretty normal life: one wife, one God and my wife is of the opposite sex of me, the Left may find this boring and chock full of anti-diversity, while the Left admires the lifestyle of plenty: Plenty of marriage with anyone you want to marry, plenty of gods and maybe even no God at all and also plenty of abortions for anyone who wants one and it’s on us.
I guess the old saying is “don’t wish for something, because you may get it” maybe closer than we all think and when the Left is finally confronted with it’s new taskmaster, I think the term rude awakening is going to be the understatement of the ages. And when immature and childish diversity runs head on into a strict theocracy, guess who’s going to be knocking on the door asking for help.
Let’s hope we’re there to answer and that we even want to and when all the Left pressure groups are confronted with there worst nightmare, let’s hope there’s still time to unwind the misguided leadings of the Left.
When liberal judges don’t render verdicts according to the law and prefer to blame society or their unfair upbringing for a lenient sentencing. When State Representatives vote down the introduction of new businesses because the temptation of retail merchandise is too much for local youth and therefore they will have criminal records. When state after state is redefining marriage as to not mean just between a man and a woman and when the ex-President of the United States lied under oath about an adulterous relationship, well maybe not that one as that you can have a “temporary marriage” under Sharia, this is when agenda meets agenda and I think the Left will finally realize that the people they thought or hoped were the enemy were not and the people they embraced are the ones who are further from their philosophies then they ever imagined possible.
We’ve heard Muslim clerics and the preaching of liberalism through the likes of Rev J Wright stating that the chickens have come home to roust and that America’s lack of moral compass is the reasons for the distain the world has for us.
But the reason for America’s perceived misguided moral compass is because of liberalism.
From the left’s proposition to redefine the definition of marriage to it’s distain for anything Judeo-Christian, we’ve watched America teeter on the brink of the moral abyss and liberalism has opened the door to its perverse version of diversity through Islam.
The left is going to find out very dramatically that there new found friend in the nation of Islam is going to be a very stern taskmaster.
It’s been interesting to watch the Left fawning over Islam when that which they embrace is the antithesis of diversity when the Left does it in the name of diversity.
Now leading a pretty normal life: one wife, one God and my wife is of the opposite sex of me, the Left may find this boring and chock full of anti-diversity, while the Left admires the lifestyle of plenty: Plenty of marriage with anyone you want to marry, plenty of gods and maybe even no God at all and also plenty of abortions for anyone who wants one and it’s on us.
I guess the old saying is “don’t wish for something, because you may get it” maybe closer than we all think and when the Left is finally confronted with it’s new taskmaster, I think the term rude awakening is going to be the understatement of the ages. And when immature and childish diversity runs head on into a strict theocracy, guess who’s going to be knocking on the door asking for help.
Let’s hope we’re there to answer and that we even want to and when all the Left pressure groups are confronted with there worst nightmare, let’s hope there’s still time to unwind the misguided leadings of the Left.
When liberal judges don’t render verdicts according to the law and prefer to blame society or their unfair upbringing for a lenient sentencing. When State Representatives vote down the introduction of new businesses because the temptation of retail merchandise is too much for local youth and therefore they will have criminal records. When state after state is redefining marriage as to not mean just between a man and a woman and when the ex-President of the United States lied under oath about an adulterous relationship, well maybe not that one as that you can have a “temporary marriage” under Sharia, this is when agenda meets agenda and I think the Left will finally realize that the people they thought or hoped were the enemy were not and the people they embraced are the ones who are further from their philosophies then they ever imagined possible.
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