Taxing the Carbon Cycle

From this article:


"Oil-sand, oil-shale, and coal-to-oil projects — alternative fuel sources that could enhance U.S. energy security — have always faced one hurdle: They look good only when oil prices are high. Now, they have another challenge: global warming.

California has enacted new climate-change policies that make energy companies responsible for the carbon emissions not just of their refineries but all phases of oil production, including extraction and transportation. If that notion catches on — at least two Canadian provinces have already signed on to California's plan — then the futures of oil-sand, shale, and coal-to-oil projects may look less attractive.

The reason: Extracting these alternative sources of oil requires so much energy that their "carbon footprint" may outweigh their benefits. "

What in the world will limiting "carbon" usage do to "reduce" global warming? Don't these people realize that volcanos throw up more carbon among various other chemicals that do far more to warming this planet than we ever could? How does carbon in of itself warm our planet?

Haven't these people heard of the carbon cycle? Carbon is neither created nor destroyed. It revolves throughout our various ecosystems through a fairly simple process. Limiting the usage of carbon will do nothing to stop heat trapping chemicals and molecules from being emitted up into the atmosphere.

But then, that is if you believe man is solely responsible for the warming of our planet.

To limit, or charge, for the use and modification of carbon-containing products will only drive our economy into the 4th world. Everything, EVERYTHING, we use and do is based on the carbon cycle. When you breathe, you are moving carbon. When you eat a uncaged chicken sandwhich made with pure wheat, you are involved with the moving of carbon through the carbon cycle.

To make every single aspect of our lives a taxable offense is shear lunacy and highly questionable. We need to send another clear message to our Congress that taxing the carbon cycle (in some cases multiple times) is the worst thing they can do to this country. This move, again, would drive up the call for foreign oil supplies as they would be produced oversees and thus immune from the US carbon tax. Want to drive up fuel prices to $10 per gallon, have gasoline rationed, and ship out more oil field jobs??? Vote Democrat!!

The True Star Spangled Banner

Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
‘Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And here I think is the best section of all, a section that we need now more than ever to be sung...

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation,
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n - rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto–”In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

then and now, part 2

From a post on LGF:

More Pro-Taliban PR from our MSM

From al-Reuters pro-taliban public relatins wing:

"Afghanistan (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden, if he's alive, celebrates his 50th birthday on Saturday, and his friends in the Taliban prayed for his long life."

Only in our media would this pro-taliban praise get printed.

What? What you say? You say that they are just printing facts that he is 50? Oh, Really?? Ok, then how about this?

“He is alive. I am 100 percent sure,” Taliban spokesman Mullah Hayatullah Khan told Reuters, adding that senior leaders were in touch with bin Laden, reinforcing a widely held view that he is hiding near the rugged Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Khan said special prayers were offered by Taliban fighters in camps in Afghanistan to mark bin Laden’s birth on March 10, 1957, in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.

“We prayed that Allah may give him 200 years to live,” Khan said,“ by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. "

Once again, our media prove that they are nothing but the PR arm of our enemies. So, al-Reuters calls up the taliban, cause they have them on speed dial, and asked our enemies during a time of global war what they thought of their king's turning 50. I imagine that they even asked them where they were holding their party and what they had planned for special events. They probably even asked our those who wish us and all democracy-lovers death if they could do a photo spread of the gig.

"Dead or alive, bin Laden is revered by some as the symbolic leader of a global jihad, or holy war, against the United States, following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people.

"He is the man who raised voices against excesses being committed on Muslims all over the world," the Taliban spokesman said."

Need any more evidence? And. Who is to say that these words ARE those of the taliban during a phone call. It could be that this was their own feelings placed into a mock-interview.

2nd update to reported defected Iranian minister

Elder at Elder of Ziyon has a unique take on this whole mess.

"Eight of the CIA's top regional specialists, including the CIA's Near East director Robert Ames, were among those who died, something that explains America's continued reluctance to downgrade its listing of Hizbollah as anything but a terrorist group."

"You see, in the Telegraph's universe, attacking Israel with thousands of rockets and training and supporting Palestinian Arabs to kill Jewish women and children are not terror attacks and not indicative of Hezbollah being a terror organization. Killing hundreds of Marines and others with truck bombs is also A-OK and should not affect how much the world respects Hezbollah. Only because the US is still sensitive over the largest loss of life in a single attack before 9/11 does the US refuse to do the intellectual and enlightened move of treating Hezbollah as a respected political party."

I like Elder's unique point of view. He saw a little deeper into the story than I did. For me, it was just the surface that was complete hogwash. Elder showed that there was more just under its anti-Israel skin.

Update for What Secrets???

***UPDATE***
It seems all were not as rosy as the Washington Post made out. Or is it? It has really become hard to trust the MSM lately.

From FoxNews:

"TEHRAN, Iran — A former Iranian deputy defense minister who disappeared from Turkey last month is not cooperating with Western intelligence agencies and his whereabouts remain a mystery, a U.S. official told FOX News Thursday.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that Ali Rez Asgari, who is credited with founding the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, was fully cooperating with and divulging information to U.S. and other intelligence services.

However, a senior U.S. official flatly denied the report."

Hmmm. So, a "US" official from TEHRAN said that this defense minister is not cooperating. In fact, the "US" does not even know where he is. So, if the "US" does not know where he is then they can't be cooperating. HOWEVER....

"The official did not rule out the possibility that Asgari, who once commanded Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and served as the country's deputy defense minister, was conducting negotiations with an intelligence organization, but denied that there was any type of cooperation with the U.S."

So, he is in "negotiations" with an intelligence organization (bet you it is Turkey or USA) but even that does not mean he is "cooperating" with anyone. Pschaw!!

You doubt me of course. Well, then how about this then...

"Iran has publicly said that Asgari was probably kidnapped by agents working for Western intelligence agencies."

Hmmm, well if he was kidnapped then we WOULD know where he was, wouldn't we?!!?!?

Confused yet? No? Ok, prepare to be more confused....

"But the Post quoted an Iranian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity as saying that Asgari was most likely offered money by Israel to leave Iran. The Post also quoted a U.S. official who suggested that Asgari's disappearance was voluntary and that it was orchestrated by the Israelis.

The London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Wednesday that Asgari was seeking asylum in the United States.

The retired general never arrived at a hotel in Istanbul last month where he was expected and Iran has asked Interpol for help in his disappearance."

So, if it he isn't lost, then he is in USA's hands. If he isn't in USA's hands, then he is in Israeli's, cause as everyone knows, they are the little satan of the world. So, Israel offered money to a high level operative of the Iranian defense ministry and he supposedly took it. Right!! Well, if that excuse didn't work, then his leaving was "orchestrated" by the Israelis. Cause their hands are in to everything; even the inner workings of the Iranian defense ministry. Then if you don't believe that, then as he was seeking asylum IN America, through the cooperation of Israel, he was supposed to be in Istanbul, Turkey. And we all know how much Turkey loves Israel. NOT.

Somehow, I don't think Turkey will stoop to cooperate with Israel no matter how much they want to stop Iran from getting the bomb. So, we have multiple articles with details that constantly conflict with one another and even offer up completely hypothetical nonsensical theories. But yet, we are to take the MSM as fact.

And funniest of all. We are to believe that this US official was in Tehran making these comments. Hint. As soon as you see the news header state that it is from Tehran, ignore it completely.

Secrets, What Secrets !!!

From a post on LGF:

"The Washington Post has some terrific news; the Iranian former defense minister who went missing in Turkey is currently spilling the beans to the United States:"

Ok, let's get this straight. We have a high level defense minister who defected to the United States and is spilling his "beans" and then we have a major newspaper telling the world about it.

Something is wrong here and it isn't the beans.

What would have happened to WW2 if newspapers in the USA announced to the world that we had captured German decoder boxes and high level soldiers. The US military ordered a massive clampdown on the media during those times in order to protect this country and to protect those secrets. If the German command found out that we had these men and devices the war could have turned out differently.

Why in the heaven's gate would we allow the news media nowadays to splatter national secrets all over the world without repercussions. These reporters and the media they work for, and the source of the leaks, need to be held accountable for disclosing national secrets. They need to be tried for treason. We are at war right now despite the socialist's current viewpoint that we are not.

But, I digress (hence dream), like this would ever occur. When Scooter Libby can be found guilty of gossiping and face jail time while Pres. Clinton's former security advisor can steal national court documents, hide them, shred them and even copy them and only face community service. In a world this topsy-turvy, true justice and patriotism are non-existent.