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StormyKnight's Blog
Tuesday November 17, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 8:03PM CST on November 17, 2009
Wednesday November 11, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 10:43AM CST on November 11, 2009
While I was looking for footage of the girl that fell on the subway tracks in Boston a couple days ago- here's the video footage: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-ap-us-woman-on-tracks,0,3495300.story?track=rss -this video came up in the search list results. He's definately my new super hero! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8M3vyK-IQ This is the best though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HezqxeUq9Zo&feature=channel
Tuesday November 10, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 12:51PM CST on November 10, 2009
Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, former health minister of Finland [Finland has socialized medicine in case you didn't know] blames the World Health Organization and U.S. companies for hype about Swine flu or H1N1. The idea is to reduce the world's population and make a large amount of money at the same time. She also argues that the W.H.O. has manipulated circumstances in which governments have given them the power to mandate that every person gets the H1N1 vaccine. Hear it in her own words......I find this fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgyakGAddM&feature=player_embedded Thursday November 5, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:46PM CST on November 5, 2009
Let me precede my comments with- I am not a senior and have no vested interest in this topic. Today the AARP announced it was throwing its support behind the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care bill. The last time they did this the AARP lost 60,000 members. So where can one turn to get the same quality (if not better) seniors program? On their website's "About Us" page, the American Seniors Association makes it clear that they are looking out for YOU- not what's in the best interest of the masses or government. You the individual. They state: "We are driven by a uniquely American philosophy that starts with the understanding that government doesn’t tax and regulate “things.” It taxes and regulates “people.” Individuals like you and me. That’s why we treat every member as an individual, with a different story and different priorities, freely united as individuals to provide each other with better values in the services we want and need.
http://www.americanseniors.org/pages/aboutus.aspx?Images=/images/american_aboutus.JPG Wednesday November 4, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:21PM CST on November 4, 2009
Feel free to leave any comments below. V
Posted by: StormyKnight at 10:42AM CST on November 4, 2009
I missed the series premier of the new ABC show V but I hope to see it Saturday when it will be available for viewing on ABC's website. However, there was a very interesting review of the show from Glen Garvin in the Entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune that makes me think ABC just fired a shot accross the Obama administration's bow. Mr. Garvin writes: "Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care. Sounds like someone in Hollyweird is looking for trouble. Should be a fun show to watch! Check out some of the clips on ABC's website and listen to the dialog. It sounds like it could be happening today. I wonder if this show is a metaphore or reflection of society. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story Monday November 2, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 12:23PM CST on November 2, 2009
Remember a couple months back I posted a comment about how the U.S. borders would essentially be erased in the future. I was poo-pood by a bunch of right as well as left leaning folks. Well, guess what? Here's evidence that that is exactly what the powers that be are attempting to do. It's right at the 1 minute 52 second mark. From CNN- I give you the new amnesty bill with proof of the North American Union being planned. Then watch for the African Union, Asian Union...........
http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17260182/1610997888/name/ftc-vi26.wmv Friday October 30, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:54PM CST on October 30, 2009
Back in the 1700s when the country was just starting to get a grip on becoming independent the free thinkers faced communists and marxists just like we do today. In those days, those who sought to oppress the people had the more informal name of tyrant. If you were to take this quote by Samuel Adams and substitute marxist or communist for the word tyrant you can see how long this debate of freedom vs. gov't enslavement has been going on. Back then it would have been King George impossing his rule on the colonies. We all know how that worked out. "It is high time for the country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event. For wherever tyranny is establish'd, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interest are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."
~ Samuel Adams, October 1772 Green Jobs- Not Quite a Success in Germany
Posted by: StormyKnight at 12:15PM CST on October 30, 2009
OK- so the left likes to point to European countries and suggest that we emulate them. Germany has been ahead of our game when it comes to the creation of green jobs while the Obama administration pushes for just that to happen here. The only problem is, Germany has not had much success in creating actual "green" jobs. In their 2009 report the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institute concludes: "Although renewable energies have a potentially beneficial role to play as part of Germany’s energy portfolio, the commonly advanced argument that renewables confer a double dividend or “win-win solution” in the form of environmental stewardship and economic prosperity is disingenuous. In this article, we argue that Germany’s principal mechanism of supporting renewable technologies through feed-in tariffs, in fact, imposes high costs without any of the alleged positive impacts on emissions reductions, employment, energy security, or technological innovation. First, as a consequence of the prevailing coexistence of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the increased use of renewable energy technologies triggered by the EEG does not imply any additional emission reductions beyond those already achieved by ETS alone. This is in line with Morthorst (2003), who analyzes the promotion of renewable energy usage by alternative instruments using a three-country model. This study’s results suggest that renewable support schemes are questionable climate policy instruments in the presence of the ETS. Second, numerous empirical studies have consistently shown the net employment balance to be zero or even negative in the long run, a consequence of the high opportunity cost of supporting renewable energy technologies. Indeed, it is most likely that whatever jobs are created by renewable energy promotion would vanish as soon as government support is terminated, leaving only Germany’s export sector to benefit from the possible continuation of renewables support in other countries such as the US. Third, rather than promoting energy security, the need for backup power from fossil fuels means that renewables increase Germany’s dependence on gas imports, most of which come from Russia. And finally, the system of feed-in tariffs stifles competition among renewable energy producers and creates perverse incentives to lock into existing technologies. Hence, although Germany’s promotion of renewable energies is commonly portrayed in the media as setting a “shining example in providing a harvest for the world” (The Guardian 2007), we would instead regard the country’s experience as a cautionary tale of massively expensive environmental and energy policy that is devoid of economic and environmental benefits. As other European governments emulate Germany by ramping up their promotion of renewables, policy makers should scrutinize the logic of supporting energy sources that cannot compete on the market in the absence of government assistance. Such scrutiny is also warranted in the US, where there are currently nearly 400 federal and state programs in place that provide financial incentives for renewable energy (DSIRE 2009)."
To see their entire report complete with charts and reference sources: http://http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf
AND- for something a little more light hearted- What do green jobs and balloon boy have in common? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJt2_PYRC2E&feature=player_embedded Cash for Clunkers COST WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: StormyKnight at 9:01AM CST on October 30, 2009
Holy cow (no offence to Hindus) the cash for clunker program is the perfect, definitive example of why government should not be in charge of anyone's health care. C4C cost the tax payer, per car sold, $24,000!!!! http://www.edmunds.com/help/about/press/159446/article.html
http://www.autoobserver.com/2009/10/cash-for-clunkers-tab-24000-per-vehicle-of-taxpayer-cash.html Thursday October 29, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:07PM CST on October 29, 2009
Monday October 26, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:38PM CST on October 26, 2009
What three things do; Health insurance companies, banking companies, Wall Street, Main Street, car manufacturers, Tea Party and Town Hall attendees, non-believers of global climate change, Fox News and political opponents of the Obama administration all have in common? They all have been demonized through a three step process by the Obama administration. First, we are told that these entities are engaged in the "wrong way of thinking". Second, there is danger (of some kind) if we let them go on the way they have been. Third, they all like profit and profit is [according to this administration] bad. Are there any other enities that I forgot here? This is classic Alinsky rearing it's ugly head! Isolate, pummel, ridicule and destroy the enemy. Rules for Radicals #s 5, 8 & 13 apply.
Rules for Radicals 1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." 2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.”
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:40PM CST on October 21, 2009
Meet Mark Lloyd. Diversity Cheif for the FCC. They are seeking to limit free speech through a program called Net Neutrality. On the surface it sounds nice but it's goal will be to limit speech on the grounds of politically correct ideals that we have heard the past ten years or so i.e. religious talk in the public square or those who oppose any administration's policies. So enjoy the last bit of freedom we still have because the gov't is about to get it's big nose right in the middle of the internet! Here's Mark Lloyd on a couple of subjects. Listen to what he says and how he plans to implement his ideas. This guy looks to Hugo Chavez as an example to follow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnwzMJf09o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUzorZFtoYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ffAP5ixhg&feature=PlayList&p=E482F64E8E0F4AAE&index=0&playnext=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5X7nP5mDgk
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:42PM CST on October 20, 2009
I don't know much about the CFP or Canada Free Press, but here's an interesting article about an attempt to be made to give United States sovereignty away and this news is not coming from a U.S. citizen. It's coming from Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He said in a recent speech to the Minnesota Free Market Institute:
Meet Dr. Utopia- hawking his 'Ism' from 1948
Posted by: StormyKnight at 1:52PM CST on October 20, 2009
This is a really great video- amazing how nothing has changed in politics since 1948....oh wait....there's a Marxist in the White House now. This video should be played in every classroom in the U.S. from now until the end of time itself. But since it won't be- get the kiddies together and have a learning session like no other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY&feature=player_embedded
(I think I may have seen this in school years ago. Something familiar about it. Anyone recall seeing this before?) Friday October 16, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 1:10PM CST on October 16, 2009
Mozart? By age 5 Mozart was performing in front of royal courts and composing music.
Thursday October 15, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 10:02AM CST on October 15, 2009
How much do you pay for your health insurance? Does it have limitations? Are there things that your plan just will not cover? Got deductibles that go up every year? Wouldn't it be nice to get ANYTHING you would ever need in health care for $42 a month? Impossible you say? Well, run for Congress and get yerself a seat in that thar rotunda and you too could have a great health insurance plan. Then you can vote against any bill that would force you to go to the public plan once it's rammed down our throats. I think I'm gonna be sick. ;( http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/13/cbsnews_investigates/main5382699.shtml Friday October 9, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 12:11PM CST on October 9, 2009
Jackpot for Congress. In the Office of the Attending Physician Congressional members don't need health insurance rather, they go the the little known office of the attending physician where they can get practically any medical care for $503 a year. You read that right, $503 a year. Almost half of Congress takes advantage of this service. Do you think they will give us in the general public that kind of deal? Can I get a HECK NO!? Well, don't take my word for it- here's a report from ABC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGuQB9CNDp8&feature=player_embedded#
Thursday October 8, 2009
Posted by: StormyKnight at 2:36PM CST on October 8, 2009
Hmmmmm, why does some of the things this guy talks about seem....oh, I don't know.......correct? Is that the word I'm looking for? Familiar maybe? He says it only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. What's happening to the U.S.? Has ANYTHING been fixed? I don't believe there is an economic recovery starting....nothing has changed since the election. So how could there be any recovery?
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