R.I.P. Paul Harvey February 28, 2009
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Legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey has passed away at the age of 90.
CHICAGO – Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.
Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a virus that weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday. His death comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.
“My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news,” Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. “So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend.”
Headed Into The Crapper February 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Enviromentalist Wackos, Environment, Global Warming.comments closed
Just yesterday we pointed out that the environmentalist wackos have taken aim at banning your toilet paper.
It’s not only the toilet paper. It’s also the flush toilet … and the option for men to stand while urinating.
Here’s the rationale:
[C]leaning sewage guzzles energy. Sewage treatment in Britain uses a quarter of the energy generated by the country’s largest coal-fired power station.
So it comes back to, ahem, the hoax known as global warming.
More liberal hypocrisy on display here:
But when sewage is dumped in the seas in great quantity, these nutrients can unbalance and sometimes suffocate life, contributing to dead zones (405 worldwide and counting, according to a recent study). Sewage, according to the United Nations Environment Program, is the biggest marine pollutant there is. Wastewater-treatment plants work to extract the nutrients before discharging sewage into water courses, but they can’t remove them all.
Hypocrisy? Where are these people when MMSD is dumping turds into Lake Michigan from the Not Quite Deep Enough Deep Tunnel?
The author is advocating a sit-down non-flush toilet that separates urine and excrement, but for it to work, the man has to sit down, something the emasculated girlie men in Europe have been doing under pressure from not only the Feminazis but the socialist bureaucracy who have labeled men standing to urinate a form of discrimination against women.
Once again, if you want to put one of these monstrosities in your house and give up your God-given inclination to urinate like a men, go right ahead. But you don’t have the right to force me to go along.
Walker In The WSJ February 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Scott Walker, State Budget, Taxes, Wisconsin.comments closed
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, the Wisconsin GOP’s only hope in the near future, explains why he refused to take any of the $1 trillion non-stimulating stimulus pork in the Wall Street Journal.
First, this money isn’t free. Second, under Gov. Doyle our state has borrowed vast sums of money and avoided making tough budget decisions while expanding government programs. In three biannual budgets since he took office in 2003, new state bonding exceeded new tax revenue collections by $2.1 billion. During good times, the governor had been borrowing money to underwrite expansions of health care, education and environmental programs. If he is bailed out now, the federal stimulus funds will only enable the governor and others to go on spending and even taking on new obligations that will lead to larger deficits down the road. Third, if we grow government rather than private-sector jobs, we will not help the economy. Strong leadership, honest budgeting and tax cuts would do a lot more.
This federal money isn’t free. And it also isn’t limitless. That money will end. And when it ends, state, county and local taxpayers end up on the hook to continue them through higher taxes.
Basically what Diamond Jim did by taking the federal money — which was effectively a bailout — was avoid taking responsibility for his woeful budgeting and practice of borrowing from funds and leaving an IOU to spend extra money to reward his friends in the Wisconsin Extortion Association.
Bad budgeting followed by more bad budgeting and Enron-style accounting tricks. The ticking time bomb is well on its way to exploding in Madison, and the $2.1 billion in new taxes proposed by Don Doyleone in his budget proposal will just hasten the flight from the state of Taxconsin.
Brings back memories of the days of Tony Earl, when. Gov. Jim Thompson of Illinois put up billboards at the state line luring businesses and individuals to come to the more tax-friendly Land of Lincoln.
Federalizing The State Budget February 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone, State Budget, State Government, Wisconsin.comments closed
Christian Schneider at the WPRI blog predicts the long-term impact of Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone taking the federal stimulus handout and expanding the percentage of the state budget that comes from Washington.
The long-term impact? Higher taxes, much higher, for everyone just to pay for the programs that were either created or expanded and initially funded by federal stimulus money, or more accurately, the federal bailout of the states.
Oh, and we might as well kiss our state sovereignty good-bye. If Washington pays the fiddler, Washington calls the tune.
Dems Declare War On Prosperity February 28, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Barack Hussein Obama, Democrats, Fascism, Socialism, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate.comments closed
Larry Kudlow nails it: Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Barack Hussein Obama is declaring war on prosperity.
He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which make absolutely no sense at all — either for this recession or from the standpoint of expanding our economy’s long-run potential to grow.
Raising the marginal tax rate on successful earners, capital, dividends, and all the private funds is a function of Obama’s left-wing social vision, and a repudiation of his economic-recovery statements. Ditto for his sweeping government-planning-and-spending program, which will wind up raising federal outlays as a share of GDP to at least 30 percent, if not more, over the next 10 years.
That’s economic growth, folks. Real prosperity. Every dollar sucked out of the pocket of the U.S. taxpayer and transferred to the government to be redistributed to some member of the dependency class or to the bureaucrats themselves is one dollar that cannot be spent in the economy or reinvested into research and development or into job creation. Real job creation, not phony make-work “jobs” decreed into existence by government. Or the creation of more federal bureaucrats.
And as far as middle-class tax cuts are concerned, Obama’s cap-and-trade program will be a huge across-the-board tax increase on blue-collar workers, including unionized workers. Industrial production is plunging, but new carbon taxes will prevent production from ever recovering. While the country wants more fuel and power, cap-and-trade will deliver less.
The tax hikes will generate lower growth and fewer revenues. Yes, the economy will recover. But Obama’s rosy scenario of 4 percent recovery growth in the out years of his budget is not likely to occur. The combination of easy money from the Fed and below-potential economic growth is a prescription for stagflation. That’s one of the messages of the falling stock market.
Psssst. Here’s a dirty little secret: The Messiah’s cap-and-trade is nothing more than a carbon tax. Guess who’s going to pay that tax? We are. More job killing bad economic policy. It will hurt the very lemmings who voted the bastard into office in the first place.
Hope and change? No hope here. It will take 100 years to undo the damage that’s being done here. Change? You wanted it, you got it. Welcome to the Obama Socialist States of Amerika.
Kudlow concludes:
Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner.
There is a growing sense of buyer’s remorse.
What’s more arrogant is the way they are doing everything. Like a dictatorship. The Messiah decrees and everything is implemented. No debate, no discussion.
Like on the $1 trillion non-stimulating stimulus bill. The Second Coming of Christ says: “The time for debate is over. The time for action is now.”
There never was any honest debate on the bill. The Democrat leadership in Congress never even gave the members time to read the bill on which they were voting.
It’s time to bring back this image, which we’ve used before:
Now It’s Toilet Paper February 27, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Enviromentalist Wackos, Environment.comments closed
The environmentalist wackos just won’t stop until they demonize and eliminate anything of which they disapprove.
Now it’s your toilet paper they want to get rid of.
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.
“This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous,” said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.
“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.” Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.
A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.
More than 98% of the toilet roll sold in America comes from virgin forests, said Hershkowitz. In Europe and Latin America, up to 40% of toilet paper comes from recycled products. Greenpeace this week launched a cut-out-and-keep ecological ranking of toilet paper products.
“We have this myth in the US that recycled is just so low quality, it’s like cardboard and is impossible to use,” said Lindsey Allen, the forestry campaigner of Greenpeace.
The campaigning group says it produced the guide to counter an aggressive marketing push by the big paper product makers in which celebrities talk about the comforts of luxury brands of toilet paper and tissue.
Those brands, which put quilting and pockets of air between several layers of paper, are especially damaging to the environment.
That’s right. That roll of toilet paper hanging in your bathroom waiting to do its duty before surrendering to the flush is now a bigger threat to the environment that McDonald’s, private jets, SUVs and any house bigger than a shack.
Seriously. These folks are insane. Or rather, they want us, the Great Unwashed, the Little People, to live like the Unabomber while they exempt themselves from the spartan lifestyle they seek to impose on everyone else.
If they have their way, we’ll be living in one of these:
Going to the john in one of these:
Wiping with these:
By the way, I had some dipshit that isn’t allowed to post here try to post anyway and say they had some wonderful toilets in Japan with built-in bidets. Well, whoop-de-doo! If you want one, move to Japan. Or put one in your own house. But if you insist on being a barking moonbat, go right ahead, but you don’t have the right to force me to be one as well.
The Left’s View of America February 19, 2009
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From Terrence Jeffery, how the Left really views America:
Liberals in Washington, D.C., see America divided into roughly three classes.
There is the governing class to which they belong. There is the ever-growing dependent class, whom they reward with government benefits and who in turn votes preponderantly to enhance the liberal power in Washington. And there is the middle class, who are expected to pay all their taxes and to pay them on time, so the governing class can use the revenue to enhance their own power by increasing the benefits paid to the dependent class.
That, folks, is the definition of an elitist.
