Wasting Time With Alex

Friday, May 02, 2008

The lies about what went on at Tuskegee need to be addressed

With the whole furor in the news these days about Obama’s loony preacher Wright and his crazy beliefs, the subject of the Tuskegee experiments on syphilitic black males and the ridiculous lies about how it was done on purpose have popped up again. Primarily by idiot libs that want to justify the ridiculous assertions by Rev. Wright’s about how AIDS was a US government manufactured disease to kill blacks. I was going to write about this whole ridiculous lie, but Jonah Goldberg beat me to it and did a much better job about it too..

He basically debunks this whole stupid lie that the US government purposefully infected black males with syphilis to conduct a study. That is a lie. Nobody infected people on purpose. Infected males where chosen and then studied for 40 years to understand the spread of syphilis. Nobody can deny that government power was basically misused. But who was government and why did they have no qualms doing this kind of thing? Jonah gets it right:

But why blacks remain the most reliable voters for the party of ever-expanding government power is something of a mystery. Indeed, it’s worth noting that the Tuskegee study, launched during the pre-dawn of the New Deal-era, was symptomatic of arrogant liberal government. The study “emerged out of a liberal progressive public health movement concerned about the health and well-being of the African-American population,” writes University of Chicago professor Richard Schweder. He adds: “The study was done with the full knowledge, endorsement and participation of African-American medical professionals, hospitals and research institutes.”

As you can see, the evil here is not what the lie about Tuskegee proposes however. The evil is that people that where sick where just observed rather than cured by a “progressive government”. Jonah points out something very important. The left has masterfully, yet again, put blame for something they did on someone else:

Liberals like to invoke Tuskegee as if it’s solely an indictment of what other people did, proof that we need more progressive government. But Tuskegee was in fact the poisoned fruit of progressive government.

In the end the question begs to be answered about why it seems that this stuff is never understood by hucksters like Wright. Or do they understand this just fine? After all, they are preaching hatred because it pays well. The facts be damned.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

And the spinning begins..

The MMGW alarmist cult has run into some really nasty problems recently. Most of it is related to the real data and unmanipulated facts showing that the world is cooling off, and that their predictions of global catastrophe within the next decade is as likely as my chances to win the lottery when I buy no tickets. Of course that will not dissuade them from continuing to predict that the sky is falling and that only they have the answer - global socialist government to address social injustices - to this woe. But too many people are seeing that the emperor is wearing no clothes, and abandoning the cause because it is even too hard for all but the most fanatical to keep believing the lies. So how do you keep the momentum going? Well you make up shit about why we have only been given a temporary reprieve from a horrible fate.

April 30 (Bloomberg)—Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.

Does this stuff not sound exactly like the shit some cult leader would tell the idiots that are left waiting for the promise that the passing comet would suck them up and take them on a space ride while the rest of mankind perished 30 minutes after the predicted catastrophe did not happen or what. I did not lie to you! I just got the timing a bit wrong! The world is still ending just not when I told you so, so keep doing what I tell you no matter how crazy and destructive please. Pass the kool-aid!

The world will become at least 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer by 2100, compared with the pre-industrial period, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in March.

See? This is not over! We are still going to die unless you let us make that global socialist government to address social injustices and stop MMGW you heathens! What a bunch of retards these people must take people to be. Guess by the amount of idiots that still buy into these lies no matter how much proof emerges that they are just plain falsehoods, they are not totally wrong. Resistance is futile! Dissent will not be tolerated! Bow to Gaia’s pop the Goracle and accept the blessings of socialism or perish! Talk about your freak show.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Any doubt that there is an agenda?

One of the main things the MMGW crowd claims is that they have science on their side. Of course we all know that is pure bullshit. Consensus science is not science. There is a lot of money involved and the socialists know nothing sells mass socialism as great as a super crisis. But it does not end there. As more and more people start questioning their claims, they have decided since the facts are not on their side they will just silence the voices of dissent. Case in point the hurricane institution in Fort Collins, Colorado and the case of William Gray:

By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts, William Gray turned a city far from the stormy seas into a hurricane research mecca.

But now the institution in Fort Collins, Colo., where he has worked for nearly half a century, has told Gray it may end its support of his seasonal forecasting.

As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Gray’s forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors’ work.

But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that’s a “flimsy excuse” for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism.

I have no doubt that Gray is right about their motivations. This is the SOP for these socialists. Of course they will all tell you that they are pure because they do not take money from a special interest when their entire movement is a special interest to begin with. You are only a “scientist” or in the know about science, forget the fact that you cann not produce facts to back any of the stupid MMGW claims you make unless you fabricate them or manipulate the data and make it junk, if you back their agenda. This is a cult and nothing else. A pox on humanity.

Another Lib idea gone wrong…

Friday, April 25, 2008

Blame Unfufu and her SUV?

It seems that man had a close brush with extinction some 70K years ago due to weather. For real. Of course at the time according to this article man’s population dropped to some 2000 people, so they must have been driving some major SUVs and burning fossil fuels non stop to create that global warming. We now have 6.6 billion people on the planet, and a bunch of assholes that want to drag us all back to a socialist stone age blame people for climate change. I wonder how mother Gaia made all these drastic weather changes before man and the SUV came along? Think the MSM nut jobs would pick this up and report that maybe they have been wrong about the whole MMGW crap? Not holding my breath.

Reality Check

The news that Brazil has found one of the world’s largest oil fields off their coast might just usher in some major geopolitical changes for the Americas. If these oil fields are as large as the Brazilians claim, and they can bring them up to speed by the 2020 date the article mentions, we will have zero need of oil from the Middle East anymore. And as the article mentioned that carries some major league consequences to our global strategy. Suddenly having a stable Middle East is of no consequence at all for the US. I guess the Euroweenies and the Chinese and Indians will still need oil from that part of the world, but that means they would now have to provide security for it’s flow. I am sure the Euroweenies would end up paralyzed and even more beholden to the nut jobs that would certainly rise up and take over in the vacuum of an American presence - the Euros have no way to provide even a fraction of the security the US is providing and will not do so even if they increase their military spending 10 fold because of their personal politics and the sheeple they now have that has forgotten the value of power projection - and they will pay for that. But does anyone doubt that China would not simply destroy Iran if they got in the way of their oil needs? Of course Iran might just go along with the Chinese and Indians and stick it to the Euros. In either case the Euros are the ones that will get hit hard by this. And any idiot claiming alternative fuels will come to the rescue will have to eat bitter words. This stuff is just pipe dreams.

Of course there is always the possiblity that now that Europe is threathened by this scenario that our left will realize a stable Middle East is important. After all, once we do not need their oil and have no national security interests in the ME, then wasting valuable US resources becomes quite OK with the moonbats. I would reman delighted to see those socialist house of cards in Europe collapse as soon as possible. I still think once they fail misserably people here will give up following in their doomed path. Of course the nut jobs that think oil will soon cease to be the major lubricator of the modern world are going to eat crow as this major oil find just makes it more likely that oil & the combustion engine remain the catalysts to progress for many decades to come. Especially when their MMGW hoax fals flat after the earth cools in the enxt decade. But keep living on fantasies you deranged moonbats. And it looks like the Brazilians with their new discovery will join Canada with the shale oil in getting very rich indeed.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Why I am pissed at the Republicanns

Shit like this is what ticks me off about republicans? Forget Reagan? WTF? Hell no you idiot! You should be the ones remembering Reagan. He was popular for a reason: he really believed in the US and wanted to make government smaller. This outburst is more proof of the degeneration of our society as a whole. Basically these politicians pander to the lowest common denominator: the people that feel entitled to things at the expense of others. I am saddened to see how many people believe government should give them stuff so they can sit at home on their lazy asses. And I am angered to see how many politicians, especially in the party that is supposed to value self reliance and conservative ideals, have basically given up on the fight to change people’s minds and simply adopted the vote buying at the expense of the productive tax payer’s expense. Forget Reagan? Hell no! Forget idiots like you fool! How sad.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Wilkipedia run by leftist zealots? No way!!!1!

Why should anyone be surprised that Wilkepedia has people that monitor and edit any content that is in disagreement with liberal orthodoxy? Just have a look at how MMGW is handled. I use Wilkepedia, but I am also smart and capable enough (maybe old enough too) to know when I see bullshit. It is evident in any and all these orthodoxy items that form the socialist’s collective. So freaking sad. Silence dissent!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Say it ain’t so!

There are real consequences to “feel good” liberal policies? SAY IT AIN’T SO! We really meant well and wanted to help out poor Gaia. It looks as more and more facts come out about how counterproductive the entire green bio-fuels push has been, some of the real consequences of these policies are starting to finally become indisputable. Who could have thunk that if we took corn, rice, and other food staples off the market to make dubious bio-fuels, which tend to take more energy to produce than they can deliver anyway and thus simply defeat the entire purpose of why they where mandated (not two guys going out) in the first place, that somehow these crops would not be available for people to eat? But, but but! The libs ment well! This is what liberal government mandated policies tend to always be: nothing but feel good empty promises that cost a bundle and result in greater harm than any potential good they ever where intended to do. If you Gaia worshipping nut jobs really want to do us all a favor demand more nuclear energy and clean burning liquefied coal power production. Leave food for people to eat. Or is it that the Gaia worshippers have snowed us all and come up with a way to reduce world population through starvation and the wars that such starvation is sure to cause??

Monday, April 14, 2008

This is why socialism sucks

Read this story dealing with tax payments and you will see what the inherent problems of socialism are.

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Tuesday is the deadline for filing federal income taxes. Half of American taxpayers will pay 97 percent of the individual income taxes the government will collect for 2008, according to IRS data. The other half will pay little or nothing, yet receive billions in benefits in the form of cash, subsidies, “free” services and other benefits, and loans. There are indeed “Two Americas,” but the two aren’t the rich and poor, but taxpayers and tax consumers. It’s going to get even tougher for the taxpayers in the near future, thanks to legislation being readied by Democrats who control Congress.

Let us face it. The democratic party relies on buying the vote of those 50% that pay nothing or very little with largesse at the expense of those that pay. And as the ratio of those that pay declines and that of those that have figured out how to game the system increase, there will be less money to go around and buy votes with. Of course the commiecrats will correct that by taking even more away from the payers as the article points out, driving more people into the hands of the government for their daily subsistence.

As someone that has people living in socialist Europe I have first hand knowledge of how well that has worked out for them and how bad things have gotten after juts a couple of decades of this crap. Italy had an election this past weekend that meant nothing. Mired in corrupt socialist government that stifles any kind of productivity or creativity, the country has become a parasite that sucks vast amounts of cash from other European nations but remains unable to correct the fact that their idiotic & corrupt anti-capitalist socialist policies have made the cost of living so high that general population that has become accustomed to government taking care of them indirectly or directly - way too many Italians work for the government doing nothing but shuffling paper - can make ends meet. The country is falling apart. And yet the politicians cling to their failed socialism hard because without that they would all be out of work.

In the Netherlands, because of the high value of the Euro and the protectionist policies of the EU vis a vis imports, people are now spending 4 if not 5 times the amount they did just a couple of years back for their weekly groceries. Everything is so expensive and government has been forced to cut back services so drastically while providing little or no tax relief that people are for the first time in 5 or 6 decades experiencing trouble getting food on the table. And it is getting worse, not better, because the efforts to move away from the failings of socialism are not being done effectively, and even worse, are often taken without returning the taxes that where being collected back to the people. So in the end the people are left with the same low after tax income and even bigger financial obligations to meet. A recipe for failure.

Many wonder how bad we are having it in America with our supposed economic slump (remember it is an election year and the MSM always feels the economy is bad as long as the guy in the WH has not got a (D) next to his name so the majority of the doom & gloom we are hearing is contrived if not outright false), but compared to how bad they have it over there we are still much better off. Well at least until after the election when the commiecrats want to take us down the same road to disaster that these socialist Europeans took not more than 2 decades ago and are now all forced to rethink or perish from.

But them’s the breaks during an election year when the left is out of power.

Friday, April 11, 2008

I demand we withdraw!

Well it is now clear that we are in a quagmire! Don’t believe me? Take a look at this coverage. The place is a disaster! There is no way we can win this one. Withdraw the troops and lets just leave it alone....

After all, there is constant violence and these people will never learn to play by the rules. We should just quit while we are ahead. Honestly. Why are we wasting money on a place like this? And this is not the only place this stuff happens. 

Congress demands energy companies do something!

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Illegal Immigration and a National ID system

I was driving into work this morning and listening to a local talk show and the topic being discussed was a national ID card. The people calling in to make their point seemed equally divided over the whole idea. You had your usual privacy advocates that felt it was a given that the government was going to abuse such and ID system, and you had those that felt it would actually despite the privacy problems and potential for abuse be a valuable tool. The most common arguments of the proponents of such an ID system, including the arguments by the host of the program - and they are totally right about this - was that government already had all kinds of information on its citizens, and especially the law abiding ones. If you drive, own a passport, have been married, own a bank account or credit card, pay bills, own a fire arm, and file taxes - all things most law abiding citizens do - there is no way to avoid the government collecting a ton of information about you. And even if you are not such a law abiding citizen, these many and broad requirements for documentation to function in our society make it nigh impossible to hide from government effectively.

So the privacy argument is moot. It still does not do away with the potential for abuse that such a system would give our government, but that is why we have the second amendment. I should add still to that last thought. On the other side such an ID system does have some values, but that is predicated on the system being used to stop certain abuses. But what struck me as ridiculous was the belief held by many proponents of such an ID system that government would do exactly that when it comes to illegal immigration. I am one of the first people to point out that our immigration system is broke and in dire need of fixing. But I am also of the opinion that the people that circumvent it should not be rewarded for their lack of respect for our laws, but punished for doing that. No matter how good their intentions or their efforts after the fact are. The point is that they broke a law, and allowing people to break laws they find inconvenient, leads to nothing but anarchy. But I digress. The issue is how so many believe a national ID system will suddenly make the government care about enforcing immigration laws.

If your argument is that government already is able to collect so much information about its citizens that a national ID system will simply be a minimal step up on the already existing level of intrusion, then please answer me why government is not already able to control illegal immigration? The answer is simple: they do not want to do so. Democrats like the illegals because of many reasons. They help enforce the images of a poverty stricken populous that requires government intervention to address all the evils of society. From lack of insurance and the need for “free healthcare” to every other two bit socialist program intended to make the people dependant on government hand outs can be made more urgently needed when you pad the numbers with illegals living outside the system. While many come here for a crack at the American dream the fact remains many also suck, and suck very hard, at the government’s teat. Often by design. And do not forget the illegal, and often repeat voters, the democrats could not win elections without either.

Republicans love the illegals because it is huge force of cheap labor. A sad but direct response to government’s attempts to regulate the market and doing a terrible job of it. And many of them also see an influx of a few score of million potential workers as the only alternative to shore up a social security system that will soon have way too many people taking out compared to those paying in. Conservatives have given up on their attempts to do away with that SS Ponzi scheme and have settled for prolonging the agony and leaving the though decisions up to someone else down the line. They see that in the near future SS will either end up paying out so little it means nothing, be forced to take such a huge chunk of the income of those still working to stay viable that it basically becomes a disincentive for work, or simply goes belly up. To correct that they are hoping to skew the ratio of those paying in to those collecting back in favor of those paying in for at least a few more decades. Stupid by any kind of logic because what we need is for SS to be killed off and people to get their own way of saving for their retirement if we want to prevent that system from going belly up and leaving one or 2 generations to suffer the consequences on that dependency.

Anyway, back to the national ID system and the lame argument of how it would help enforce or curb illegal immigration. If the government has no incentive to curb illegal immigration right now, and while it has so much information about its citizens already, and turns a blind eye to the entire illegal immigration issue, why do we thing a national ID system will suddenly make them change their minds? Basically the people claming that such a system would be a powerful tool to combat illegal immigration forget that the only reason we do not have a much better response to illegal immigration is that government itself has no desire or reason to enforce the law. Getting such a system will not change that underlying problem. So it is a dumb argument to begin with. it is like the constant lawmaking around gun violence when existing gun laws are not enforced. It is meaningless. Let it go. If your concern is illegal immigration address the problem now by making our government change its mind about enforcing it more rigorously first. Everything else will be a waste of time.

Friday, April 04, 2008

Only one of the many we get told about

This story is recieving minimal coverae, but it is recieving coverage, unlike the many other attempts by the fanatics that hate the modern world and those that will not bow down to the evil they worship. You will likely hear tons of idiots making excuses as to why these barbarians feel justified to commit these evil acts. Many of the excuses will be made by the very first people these barbarians would kill if they had buta chance: the idiots on the left. The many details of how they conspired to wanted to kill as many as possible to break the airline industry and to completely change modern transportation in the West, is frightning. This is about the most vile form of hatred and lack of respect for anyone that will not submit to their will. The idiots that tell us if we but left these people alone in their corner of the world things would be fine ignore the fact that these people are already amongst our mids. This is a war. I remain convinced that tens of thousands more have to die on our side before we wake up to that reality. A couple of hundred thousand all at once before the America hating libs will shut up and let the rest of us do what is needed. This problem will not go away. The MSM hucksters will down play it - they preffer stories that make the West, and especially the people that do want to fight this evil look bad and have no qualms manufacturing those stories - and give it short shrift. To them it is just another bump in the road. However there is no denying that it is getting uglier and uglier out there. The other side is at war with us. We are sleeping at the wheel.