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Facts of Community Organizer:

 Community Organizer is the euphemism for “Street Marxists”. "Community Organizing" was pioneered in the 1930’s Chicago's old stockyards neighborhood by the radical Saul Alinsky, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. It is getting the lower working class out to vote. Alinsky had become a folk hero to America's young campus radicals.

Communists are revolutionary socialists. The soldiers, or activists, were to be the “proletariat”, the lower social class. Karl Marx used “proletariat” as a sociological term to refer to the working class. In Marxist theory, the proletariat is that class of society which does not have ownership of the means of production. They are wage-earners.

Saul Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. Saul Alinsky was a social revolutionist in the  spirit of Russian Bolsheviks (faction of the Marxist Social Democratic Labor Party).  Alsinsky also viewed the need to go beyond leftist politics to the point of electrifying mass organizations of "Have-nots" that would rise up and seize power from the "Haves”. Alinsky founded and trained Chicago community organizations to follow his methods, where Barack Obama credits his political beginnings.

The son of radical socialist community organizer Saul Alinsky praises Barack Obama for electrifying the masses, saying Obama learned his lesson well. As the Washington Post reported last year, Obama was hired shortly after graduating from college by a group of Alinsky's disciples to be community organizer.

Even showing her radical and socialist views, in 1969, Hillary Rodham wrote a 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley College entitled "There Is Only The Fight…" an analysis of the Alinsky Model. The subject was on the famed radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.

Again, Community Organizer is the euphemism for “Street Marxists”. Whereas Alinsky failed at electrifying the middle class to vote socialism, Obama objective is to change that.

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Roots of Freddie Mac in Democrat desegregation laws

Many in the media complain about the Freddie Mac and Fanny May take over by government to keep the lower classes in housing. Liberals claim Bush is bailing out the rich. Many complain that nationalizing financing is anti-capitalism. Rather than blame Bush, one needs to research into the factual history as to who created these monsters in the first place, and why they were created. I say blame the creators.

In truth, it is backsliding a failed private enterprise back to its original government bureaucratic creations.. It is a federal taking back its original liberal collectivist creations.

The roots go back to 1866 desegregation after the civil war and with the first civil rights act. Democrat President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, saying that blacks were not qualified for United States citizenship. The Republicans in congress overrode the presidential veto on April 9, 1866. The approved act declared that "all persons born in the United were citizens. Citizens were "of every race and color" could make and enforce contracts, sue and be sued, give evidence in court, and inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real estate and personal property

Fannie Mae was founded as a government agency in 1938 as a central part of Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to provide liquidity to the mortgage market, to collectively spread the risk of bad loans. For the next 30 years, Fannie Mae held a virtual monopoly on the secondary mortgage market in the United States.   The secondary mortgage market is the market for the sale of securities or debt instruments secured by the assessment of mortgage loans. The risk of individual loans is reduced by the collectivist aggregation process. The mortgage lender, commercial banks, or specialized firm group together many loans and sell grouped loans as securities called collateralized mortgage obligations.

Under Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson, came The Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA) (42U.S.C.A. §§ 3601-3631) is also known as Title VIII of the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT of 1968. The Senate had 64 Democrats and 36 Republicans. Congress had 247 Democrats and 187 Republicans. Congress passed the act in an effort to impose a comprehensive solution to the problem of unlawful discrimination in housing based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion. The Fair Housing Act has become a central feature of modern CIVIL RIGHTS enforcement, enabling persons in the protected classes to rent or own residential property in areas that were previously segregated. (desegregation)

In 1968, to remove the federal activity of Fannie Mae from the annual balance sheet of the federal budget, it was converted into a private corporation. To help balance the federal budget, part of Fannie Mae was converted to a private corporation. To provide competition in the secondary mortgage market, and to end Fannie Mae's monopoly, Congress chartered Freddie Mac as a private corporation.

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) (NYSE: FRE), commonly known as Freddie Mac, was a privately-owned and run government sponsored enterprise (GSE) of the United States federal government. To drive desegregation, Freddie Mac was created to further expand the secondary market for mortgages in the US. Freddie Mac buys risk mortgages on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as mortgage-backed securities to investors on the open market. This secondary mortgage market increases the supply of money available for mortgages lending and increases the money available for new home purchases.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provides banks and other financial institutions with fresh money to make new loans. It allows an increasing number of protected class borrowers, often with poor credit, to buy homes. A crisis in the making, an accident waiting to happen, which finally happened.

Just another Washington enterprise, like the post office, social security, medicare, education, and the liberals want Washington to nationalize health care!

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Historical facts on results of Bush Tax Cuts

The question at hand is should Obama give a tax break to 95% of the people, and soak the rich more, shifting the burden to fewer than 10% of Americans? Obama will be on Fox O'Reilly tonight proposing it, to buy votes and pay for all the new proposed progarms.  Do we punish the wage creaters more, and then complain about unemployment?

Rich is defined by government in terms of single and joint tax filings, not wealth in pension funds. Government looks at tax returns to determine rich. Any joint adjusted income of a husband and wife over $100,000 is rich. Upper middle class and above, per IRS, is RICH.

For those not doing their own taxes, gross income includes wages, social security benefits, interest income, dividend income, income from retirement, capital gains, alimony, rental income, royalty income, farm income, unemployment compensation, and certain other kinds of income. Adjusted Gross income is that taxable income, after deductions.  Social security and medicare TAX payments that are not deductable and are in the adjusted gross income figures, so AGI is not purchasing power.

Let us look to historical facts and actual results of the Bush tax cut “for the rich”, as well as for all. Below is the matrix comparing 2000 to 2006. IRS has not published 2007 data yet. In spite of this tax break for the RICH, they are now paying 20% more in 2006 than in 2000, and paying 75% of the bill. The lower to middle class are paying 22% less. Roughly, 12% of tax payers are paying 75% of the taxes, after going from only paying 65% at end of the Clinton era.. More than a million and a half people have added the ranks of not even having to file because of increase in standard deductions and standard exemptions.

Adjusted Gross Income

2000 Returns

2006 Returns

Change

2000 Taxes

2006 Taxes

Change

% of Tax

$10,000,000 or more

11,215   

15,956

42%

$76,090,875

$91,013,554

19.6%

8.9%

$5,000,000 under $10,000,000

17,610   

24,975

42%

$34,332,526

$39,556,521

15.2%

3.9%

$2,000,000 under $5,000,000

66,768   

98,724

48%

$58,226,583

$71,647,095

23.0%

7.0%

$1,500,000 under $2,000,000

44,582   

64,007

44%

$22,521,143

$26,721,295

18.6%

2.6%

$1,000,000 under $1,500,000

99,510   

150,431

51%

$35,149,293

$44,125,225

25.5%

4.3%

$500,000 under $1,000,000

396,131   

589,306

49%

$76,021,565

$94,213,951

23.9%

9.2%

$200,000 under $500,000

2,135,763   

3,121,485

46%

$146,454,328

$177,041,086

20.9%

17.3%

$100,000 under $200,000

8,083,447   

12,088,423

50%

$184,034,909

$209,381,101

13.8%

20.5%

Trends of the Rich & Upper Middle

10,855,026   

16,153,307

49%

$632,831,222

$753,699,828

19.1%

73.6%

8.4%

11.7%

64.5%

73.6%

 

$75,000 under $100,000

8,597,328   

11,140,408

30%

$99,803,213

$90,019,371

-9.8%

8.8%

$50,000 under $75,000

17,076,159    

18,854,917

10%

$115,745,997

$94,443,396

-18.4%

9.2%

$40,000 under $50,000

10,412,090   

10,687,193

3%

$45,739,387

$32,509,507

-28.9%

3.2%

$30,000 under $40,000

13,547,727   

14,151,824

4%

$40,229,243

$27,293,090

-32.2%

2.7%

$25,000 under $30,000

8,368,758   

8,749,761

5%

$16,401,405

$10,396,566

-36.6%

1.0%

$20,000 under $25,000

9,993,115   

9,912,261

-1%

$13,131,415

$7,501,691

-42.9%

0.7%

$15,000 under $20,000

11,661,535   

10,937,694

-6%

$9,235,883

$4,759,278

-48.5%

0.5%

$10,000 under $15,000

12,111,064   

11,711,680

-3%

$5,172,606

$2,373,130

-54.1%

0.2%

$5,000 under $10,000

12,801,602   

11,786,747

-8%

$1,891,861

$654,390

-65.4%

0.1%

$1 under $5,000

12,802,741   

11,633,370

-9%

$339,129

$88,684

-73.8%

0.0%

Trends of Low & Middle Class

117,372,119   

119,565,855

2%

$347,690,139

$270,039,103

-22.3%

26.4%

91%

86%

35%

26%

No adjusted gross income

1,146,357   

2,675,594

133%

$0

$0

0.0%

GRAND TOTAL

129,373,502   

138,394,756   

7%

$980,645,201

$1,023,738,931

4.4%

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Democrat Double Standard on Qualified Experience

 It is now being implied that only a Senator who resides in the Foreign Relations Committee is foreign relation qualified, commander-in-chief qualified. Senate experience (Biden) is the only yardstick.   History says otherwise.
 
James Carter with only 8 years State government experiences became the 34th ranked President. Carter’s experience/background (Plains Georgia, population of 637) was never questioned by media or Democrats. His three years as State Senator and four years as Governor went unquestioned. Likewise for Clinton (Hot Springs Arkansas) who went direct from Governor to President. 
On Presidential experience and qualification just look to history of the 42 Presidents. Statistically speaking, there is no correlation between time in State and Federal government experiences and Presidential achievement rankings. Government experiences run from zero years, to 39 years. Rankings run from 1 to 42. (Grover Cleveland 22nd & 24th counts one)

Twenty Presidents went from State governments, bypassing the Federal Legislature, into the Presidency. What were their foreign relations experiences qualifying them as Commander in Chief readiness?  During WWII, what was 7th ranked Harry Truman’s Commander in Chief and foreign relations pre-experience after 12 years as local judge, 10 years in Federal Legislature, and only a year as VP before Roosevelt died? 

The average time in elected government before becoming President was 15 years, zero years to 39 years.   24% of Presidents had no State and local experiences. 40% had no Federal legislative experiences. 50% had no Federal Executive experiences, no exposure to commander in chief or foreign relations.  6th ranked Reagan had 8 years State experience, and no Federal experience. 8th ranked Eisenhower had no elected government experiences. 2nd ranked Lincoln had 8 years State experience, and 2 years federal legislative experience. Eleven of the top 15 had no Federal executive experience

Woodrow Wilson, with only two years of State government experience, went on to become the 11th ranked President. Grover Cleveland with only 6 years of State government experience went on to become the 12th ranked President.  Bill Clinton with only 14 years State government experience became the 22nd ranked President.  So, history says Senate experience does not equal leadership experience.

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re: History of Presidential Experiences

 On Presidential experience and qualification just look at history. Four Presidents, all military, had no government political qualifications (Washington, Taylor, Grant, and Eisenhower).  One a farmer-solder, one a soldier, and two came out of military academy's.  Abe Lincoln stands unique because he had no education and only spent two years in the House of Representatives. Teddy Roosevelt is another, only spending two years as the Secretary of Navy.  Today none of these six would be viewed by the media and liberals as experienced or qualified.

Look to Mount Rushmore! There is Washington (solder), Jefferson (2 year Governor), Lincoln (2 year House member), and Teddy Roosevelt (2 year Sec of Navy). 

Of the 43 Presidents, 23 came from State Governorships. Many only after two years. Of our 220 year history, 122 years was lead by ex-governors. Conversely, only 10 years by those going direct from the Senate to the White House, for two died in office.   Only four lawyers spent limited time in the Senate before going direct to the White House (Pierce, Garfield, Harrison, Kennedy). The rest of Presidents coming out of the legislature first did some duty in the executive branch in Secretarial Positions, or in V.P. Positions.

The fact is few spent a lot of time in Washington D.C. before moving up, proving that leadership is not a function of time, or of time spent in D.C. legislatures and legislative committees   The fact is also that most went through Ivy League Law Schools. Twenty one came out of Ivy League law colleges. Nine had no college. Three from military academy’s, and the rest, some college. Most political experiences, time wise, was in State and local governance.

As I have stressed, think leadership not experience, not familiarity.   Throw out that word experience. Discard the concept of practice and ordinary trained talent..   Think and shift the political debate to leadership competency. Legislative bureaucratic proficiency does not equal executive competency. Stop contrasting skilled practicing lawyers in legislative performances to extraordinary leadership competences in critical complex timely decision-making functions.

Charisma and personality alone can sometimes work miracles, yet most leaders operate within a structure of subordinates who carry out the filtered-down will of the leader. Leadership competence is distinct from ordinary know-how and familiar experiences.
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George Washington not experienced or qualified???

In 220 years of Presidencies, Democrats have held the office about 1/3rd of history.  To them, we have been going in the wrong direction 2/3rds of the time.  To them, George Washington without law degree, without any formal education, only a farmer and a solder, not serving in the legislature would not be experienced enough to become President, not qualified, no foreign relations experience.   Of the next 9 Presidents, six came from Governships.  Even into modern times, State Governships has been the predominat route to the White House, not the legislative route, like FDR, Carter,  Reagan, Clinton, Bush.   In those days, State Governships were the plum. Lawyers went into the legislature, then sought either Governorships or Executive Cabinet and VP positions.  In the nations history, very very few lawyers have gone into the legislature and then direct into the White House.  Only Kennedy has gone direct from Harvard, to Senate, into the White House.  His legacy is nothing to write  home about.  Lawyers practice.  Executives lead!  Different job skills.
 
Think leadership criteria, not experience, not familiarity.   Throw out that word experience. Discard the concept of practice and ordinary schooled  talent..   Think and shift the political debate to leadership competency. Legislative bureaucratic proficiency does not equal executive competency. Stop contrasting skilled practicing lawyers in legislative performances to extraordinary leadership competences in critical complex timely decision-making functions.

Charisma and personality alone can sometimes work miracles, yet most leaders operate within a structure of subordinates who carry out the filtered-down will of the leader. Leadership competence is distinct from ordinary know-how and familiar experiences.

Proficiency is when an individual can properly perform a specific job. Know-how is the characteristic of being adequately instructed to perform a specific role. Monkeys, dogs, and elephants can perform. In emergency contexts, proficient people and animals will react to the situation following behaviors they have previously found to succeed, hopefully to good effect. Leadership is not about automatic reaction.

CEO’s and Governors are conductors. Run-of-the-mill conductors can bring out inadequate songs from great orchestra’s. Virtuoso conductors can bring out exceptional harmony from inferior orchestra’s. 

Leadership qualities for complex tasks rise above skill, abilities and knowledge. It includes the magnitude of an individual to learn, to reason, and to adapt. The yardstick of leadership measures authority, accountability, and, most of all, accomplishment. The expert has an intuitive understanding of the situation and zooms in on the central aspects. The virtuoso has the highest degree of diagnostic competence, advancing the customary with creative ways to accomplish flourishing conclusions.

CEO’s have the powers to understand and intervene in organizational processes. They have diagnostic competency, with powers of insight and interpretation, and are problem solvers.   They can differentiate effective from ineffective occupational performances. . They have insights into all the relevant dots. They connect all the relevant dots. 

Experience and specific job performances has nothing to do with leadership qualities. Lawyers practice. Leaders show the way.   Using words, legislatures mandate, regulate, and litigate. Leaders influence, organize, and systemize genius. No comparison.

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Obama's Changes, back to 1825 New Harmony

At what point after centuries of time does a failed vision become a delusion, a hallucination, or a nightmare?

Obama's reselling the same failed erroneous ideas of warped imaginations continue. It started with NEW Harmony under atheistic Robert Owen (1825). To NEW Freedom under Woodrow Wilson (1913). NEW Deal under Roosevelt (1933). NEW Frontier under John F. Kennedy (1961). GREAT Society under Lyndon B. Johnson (1963). Now, NEW Hope under Obama (2008).  
Liberals advance the nice, and bury the bad and the ugly in a deep hole, edited out from all of history. In America the failed socialist ideology goes back to 1825, before Marxism.   Anti private property, anti marriage, and anti religion in America goes back to 1825, or before. The 160 year old 6th hand socialist idea just gets recycled under new packages, with the labels emphasizing NEW, GREAT, CHANGE.  Selling crap under emotional labels!  

In America, when did the pompous wish to convert the civilized world start? Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Welsh social reformer was a founder of socialism and the communalism movement in America. Owen's philosophy, which Karl Marx later named utopian socialism, was derived from three fundamental pillars. First, Owen believed that no one was "responsible for his will and his own actions" because "his whole character is formed independently of himself." Owen firmly believed that people were the product of their environment.   Owen's second pillar was his opposition to religion. Owen felt that all religions were "based on the same absurd imagination" which he said made mankind "a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite." His third pillar said that he disliked the factory system (capitalism), and supported the cottage system (farmers & labor)..

In 1825, Owen took his NEW APPARITION of society to experiment in NEW Harmony, Indiana, U.S.A. After a trial of about two years it failed. All his communities in England failed. Today New Harmony (population 880) has homes and incomes that are 65% of the rest of Indiana. Owen’s “NEW” vision has always failed, in Russia, in China, in Cuba, wherever. The socialistic vision to convert (or revert) the civilized world has never materialized anywhere. Mortal’s behaving as God fail in life, always.

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Democrat Convention on "Ideals" =????

 I have repeated many times that politics is the public debate over the future of our civilization, and how it has become a debate between conservative values and liberal ideologies. I have repeated many times that most Christians do not know the difference between a value and an ideology, and that is why there is a Christian Right, and a Christian Left. 
 
As one watches the Democrat Convention in 2008, you will frequently hear the term “American Ideal” applied this debate over the future of our civilization. IDEAL is the liberal word of choice, not value, as was used by both Caroline and Teddy Kennedy. What world view under lays that choice? Freedom and the embedded values of our constitution seem imperfect. 
The successes of 3600 sovereign counties and 50 sovereign States are realities, not images.   I am aware of American Values, with embedded Christian beliefs-trusts-values, of liberty, private property, equal opportunity, work, self determination, religious freedom, and innocent until proven guilty, and trial by law.  I know values!  I see values!  I debate values! So just what is this future IDEAL that betters the imperfect American History? 

An IDEAL, synonymous with MODEL, is an IMAGE of excellence to be imitated.   So just what is this perfect MODEL that liberals look to achieve at the expense of past values? What future political actions are really being proposed to make America faultless? The answer must really begin with understanding what an IDEAL really is all about.

An IDEAL, synonymous with MODEL, is an IMAGE of excellence to be imitated. An IDEA exists as a mental image or a fancy in the imagination. It lacks practicality. An idea relates to mental images or impressions, and attempts to conform to faultlessness. IDEALISM is a premise that ultimate reality lies in a realm going beyond experience. The theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness, that only the perceptible is real. REALISM is the faithful copying of nature. Idealism affirms the preeminent value of imagination. 

Be assured, any time you hear the word IDEA or IDEAL expressed in the public debate, and hear about whom is not as intelligent as “WE” , just know you are listening to an impractical free-thinker, to a liberal thinker, to a theoretical, to an academic. You are listening to someone living in the world view of their own head. 

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Obama VP timing is........

Be assured the delay from his first promise of Wednesday, his announcement will be the usual Democrat tactic.  Make it after Friday talk radio (Rush &Hannity) is over, during the weekend talk silence.   Make it such that it will be the talk of the weekend liberal TV media networks.  Give the public a hype-edge over facts and substance can be presented.  Keep Obama the weekend focal point.
 
Note that CNN will not go to the political conventions.  This next week Larry King will interview Republicans to counter Denver coverage. The next week he will interview Democrats on to counter St Paul coverage. It is subtle, but it is CNN's way to give the Democrats the last word, the last DEFENSE ARGUMENT to the jury.   TV (eye-entertainment) is the liberal media, and they hate talk (ear-reasoning) radio media. 
 
My guess is the announcement will come out just prior to Friday night prime time news, about 5 PM eastern time.
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Christian right vs Christian left, and politics

This is a thought provoking Charlie Rose interview the on subject of Christianity and politics. 

It is Rick Warren of Saddleback Bible-Teaching Church versus evangelical megachurch Pastor Gregory Boyd, Christian Right versus Christian Left, Christ the redeemer versus Christ the liberator, Christian Faith & Grace versus Christian Works (Christian Socialism & Marxist Activism).  I think Boyd's athiestic historical past is creeping through, a form of Marxism in Christian terms, society (government) responsibility trumping individual responsibility. 

As I say, politics is the public debate over the future of our civilization.  This debate over civilization is conservative values (right) versus liberal ideologies (left), where the words CHURCH and RELIGION are painful ideas implying self-discipline. Most Christians cannot distinquish a value from an ideology.  Most do not know if their world view springs from God, from His biblical truths of way and life,  or if their beliefs are a regression from THEIR own intellectually warped world view, from binge eating from the tree of knowledge.

For Gregory Boyd to say that Christian religion has no place in politics is saying values and principles have no place in the public debate. It is saying that politics must be a debate over ideas.  Detrick Bonhoeffer, the German theologen who Hitler put to death, troubled by how the German Christian culture could stand behind Hitler and NAZI's, came to the conclusion that they were non religious Christians.

 

 
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Spanish, as is T. Bones, taking advantage of US wind tax credits

 Most of the investment into wind power has been by a global corporations out of Spain. Thanks to tax credits here, Spanish Iberdrola is one of several foreign-owned energy companies that have entered the United States wind market. Even coal rich Pennsylvania is working with the Spanish wind-energy company Gamesa Corp.

Let us start with a field of view of the nation’s wind resource maps, available for each state, and how they relate into the power grids. Start by looking at California.    http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/wind_maps.asp

We have 3,000 counties. Most of the counties have marginal and fair wind resource ratings. Over 65% of the people live in 10% of those county, counties with populations greater than 80,000, those non wind zone counties. Over 85% of the people live in half of the States, those non wind zone states. Over 40% live in the coastal areas, those non wind zone areas. 

Wind power does little for Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Miami, Houston, etc. The best practical solution for the super mega metro areas is putting nuclear in those high population density areas.

Wind power has always been practical in all those rural, remote from the power grid, those small counties with populations from nothing to 80,000, like in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Alaska, or New Mexico. That 20% suburb wind resource is not 20% to all the people, but to 20% of the people. These States are already exporters of electrical energy to the likes of California and New York. Red conservative counties already export electrical energy to the liberal blue counties. Prime wind resource state like South Dakota is already an exporter of electricity, without putting wind turbines along the prime resources of the Black Hills.

Another point of view is knowing that the power created at the turbine source has a significant transmission loss by the time it gets to the distant home use. Think of the transmission line as a water hose. The longer the hose, the less the water pressure coming out. The closer to the source, the more efficient and the lower the cost. Most of California is imported energy. . Red conservative counties already export electrical energy to the liberal blue counties.

Another point of view is the investors point of view. Because wind zones are small and random zones, there is the cost of the transmission lines. It takes a large investment, and many turbines, with a long pay back period, to make it pay. That puts it in the high risk category. T. Bones Pickens is out for himself, and government subsidies. 

Then there is the environmental point of view. A 1 GWatt coal or nuclear base load plant needs less than 500 acres. An equivalent 1 GW base load wind power at U.S. average capacity of about 22 percent would require 45,000 acres, plus another 5,000 acres for transmission corridors. Wind turbines the size of the LDS Church Office Building would be required every 240 feet along I-15 and I-80, spanning Utah. Unfortunately at this spacing, the 250-foot-diameter blades of each turbine would intersect each other.

  

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"Farm Bill" mandates massive bureaucratic costs upon free enterprise

Per H.R. 2419 of May 2008, effective  November 2008 it shall be unlawful for any person to import any plant unless the person files upon importation a declaration that contains (A) the scientific name of any plant (including the genus and species of the plant) contained in the importation; (B) a description of— ‘‘(i) the value of the importation; and ‘‘(ii) the quantity, including the unit of measure, of the plant; and ‘‘(C) the name of the country from which the plant was taken.   The terms ‘plant’ and ‘plants’ mean any wild member of the plant kingdom, including roots, seeds, parts, or products thereof, and including trees from either natural or planted forest stands.  This will stick it to the $300 billion cosmetic industry, pet food industry,  tourist industry, and almost everything.  Imagine importing a frying pan with a wood handle, and having to specify (declare) scientific name of wood, value, quantity, and country the tree was cut down in, before bringing it into the country.
 
In this section of the "Farm Bill" there is some references to Global Climate Change Prevention Act,  Emergency Forest Restoration Program, and Prevention of Illegal Logging Practices.  That tells you where this burden being mandated upon free enterprise is coming from.  DHL sent out a headsup email to its customers this week about new mandated costs and time delays on international import trade. Actually the last farm bill is just a nice label on a bad law, again, to fool the public.  It is called H.R. 2419 Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.   Bush vetoed the H.R. 2419 of May 2008 but it was overrided.  Specific mandating words in this 628 page law spells it out is on page 371 of section 8204. (see pdf web text).  
 
I am sure DHL who transports cargo into USA from around the world knows what they are talking about. I am sure it is putting them into a clearing house delay, adding to transportation costs.    
 
Congressional Budget Office estimates that enacting the bill would increase direct FEDERAL spending for those programs by projections for those programs, enacting H.R. 2419 would bring total spending for those USDA programs to $286 billion over the 2008-2012 period and $614 billion over the 2008-2017 period.  That doesn't include the added business costs upon  $300-$600 billion private industries mandated by requiring plant import declarations.    Larry R.
 
 
 
Read pages 370-371:
 
For skeptics, read it yourself:

(2) PLANT DECLARATIONS.—Section 3 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3372) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

PLANT DECLARATIONS.—

‘‘(1) IMPORT DECLARATION.—Effective 180 days from the date of enactment of this subsection, and except as provided (3), it shall be unlawful for any person to import any plant unless the person files upon importation a declaration that contains—

‘‘(A) the scientific name of any plant (including the genus and species of the plant) contained in the importation;

‘‘(B) a description of— ‘‘(i) the value of the importation; and ‘‘(ii) the quantity, including the unit of measure, of the plant; and ‘‘(C) the name of the country from which the plant was taken.

‘‘(2) DECLARATION RELATING TO PLANT PRODUCTS.—Until the date on which the Secretary promulgates a regulation under paragraph (6), a declaration relating to a plant product shall—

‘‘(A) in the case in which the species of plant used to produce the plant product that is the subject of the importation varies, and the species used to produce the plant product is unknown, contain the name of each species of plant that may have been used to produce the plant product;

‘‘(B) in the case in which the species of plant used to produce the plant product that is the subject of the importation is commonly taken from more than one country, and the country from which the plant was taken and used to produce the plant product is unknown, contain the name of each country from which the plant may have been taken; and

‘‘(C) in the case in which a paper or paperboard plant product includes recycled plant product, contain the average percent recycled content without regard for the species or country of origin of the recycled plant product, in addition to the information for the non-recycled plant content otherwise required by this subsection.

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Irrational liberalism, a mental disease

LIBERAL SCHOLARS VOID OF LOGIC & REASONING WILL NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING, MORELESS THEIR MINDS!

It is the microprocessor arithmetic feature that powers the computer not the memory cells full of stored data, not the video disk full of hoarded information. It is the central processing unit that ratio’s, calculates, accounts, and converts information into knowledge, into doing it. Likewise for the fruitless human brain occupied with limited specialized data. Unprocessed information is only unrefined ineffective data.

The liberal institutions of higher education, the scholars, employ their constricted enlightenments to trump the logic and reasoning of wide-ranging scientific deliberations, those seeking truth.  Scholars with PHD’s behind their names believe themselves to be scientists-plus. Scholar, from the word SCHOOL, implies a learned person, and by definition someone who has had advanced training and instruction in a restricted field, able to PERFORM.

Animals can be trained and instructed to do specific tasks. Animals can be clever and cunning, but never ingenious. By definition, scholars are narrow minded to specific fields, and, by behavior scholars are mainly liberal and limited in scope and talents.

Liberalism is irrational. Opinions and assertions are incongruous with observations, logic, and reasoning powers. It is logic that directs the intellectual powers in the investigation of truth, and communicating it to others.   Logic, from logos or reason, is that discipline that deals with the principles and criteria of sound deduction and revelation. Logic is the art of thinking and reasoning justly. Logic is the discipline of the principles of reasoning, a branch of knowledge dealing with relevance, weight, and consequence. Correct thinking implies correct reasoning. 

Liberalism is a mental disease. Deductive reasoning is the power of comprehending, inferring, and thinking in an orderly rational way. Reasoning is the gifted exercise of the intellect, distinct from "THINKING".  Sanity is reasoning, using the sum of intellectual powers. Reason, to ratio, is to calculate, to account, to explain, and to justify. It is to establish the underpinning that sustains a conclusion or explains a fact. It is making some fact intelligible. It is connecting effect to cause and cause to effect. It is seeing the dots, and connecting the dots, that theater of the mind that specialized scholars of letters lack. 

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Obama, Presidents, and Generals

Starting with the Revolutionary War, three out of four of the nations Presidents first served in the military, most during a war, prior to political ambitions.  Many served as generals. Seven non- military presidents were Democrat, four Republican. Six Presidents in a row, from Taft (1909) through Roosevelt (1945), were Commanders in Chief without military experience. One can say that this anti war interval of American history was when the national security (internal and external) was at its weakest. The last non-military president was Bill Clinton, again when the military forces were reduced and American security grossly weakened.  

Before voting for someone, ask when and how they got into politics in the first place. First, give credit and respect to those rare few who are recruited into State and national politics because of some previous great military public service making them respected and well liked, those like Washington, Ulysses Grant, Eisenhower, John Glenn, and now John McCain.

Sound wisdom has insight into observing and deducting raw power hungry people, be it in a classroom, a corporation, or a nation.  The bible is that book, that operators manual about the human machine. For 4,000 years it warns all about this mortal propensity of  "gaining the world and losing the soul!", about blind ambition.

In casting a vote have the insight to see beyond personality into character, into substance.  Beware, because politics is more about personal ambition, about POWER, about human pride and giant egos, about seducing votes. Look at low-middle class Obama, all his movements and positioning over a short span of time, to create an impressive resume, funded by somebody, never in one position to really serve others.  His very conduct defines obsessive worldly ambition, on the move, always passing GO, and COLLECTING!   No time to waste any ambitions or any  youth in any military service!

Imagine the election of 500,000 elected officials to city, county, State, and federal positions.  Two citizens in a thousand pursue and succeed in that career field, in hopes of getting to Washington.  Most that succeed are the biggest frauds, deceivers and cut throats of society. They are masters of image management. They are masters of fake personalities and deception.  Then, imagine what it takes to succeed success in a mere dozen years, and how easy they fool the mediocre citizen with such little effort.

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Repackaged failed social ideologies

At what point does a failed vision become a delusion, a hallucination, or a nightmare?

Reselling the same failed erroneous beliefs to warped imaginations continue. It started with NEW Harmony under atheistic Robert Owen (1825). To NEW Freedom under Woodrow Wilson (1913). NEW Deal under Roosevelt (1933). NEW Frontier under John F. Kennedy (1961). GREAT Society under Lyndon B. Johnson (1963). Now, NEW Hope under Obama (2008).   At least LBJ did show some creative imagination in word selection.

Liberals advance the nice, and bury the bad and the ugly in a deep hole, edited out from all of history. In America the failed socialist ideology goes back to 1825, before Marxism.   Anti private property, anti marriage, and anti religion in America goes back to 1825, or before. The 160 year old 6th hand socialist idea just gets recycled under new packages, with the label emphasizing NEW contents! 

In America, when did the pompous wish to convert the civilized world start? Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Welsh social reformer was a founder of socialism and the communalism movement in America. Owen's philosophy, which Karl Marx later named utopian socialism, was derived from three fundamental pillars. First, Owen believed that no one was "responsible for his will and his own actions" because "his whole character is formed independently of himself." Owen firmly believed that people were the product of their environment.   Owen's second pillar was his opposition to religion. Owen felt that all religions were "based on the same absurd imagination" which he said made mankind "a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite." His third pillar said that he disliked the factory system (capitalism), and supported the cottage system (farmers & labor)..

In 1825, Owen took his NEW APPARITION of society to experiment in NEW Harmony, Indiana, U.S.A. After a trial of about two years it failed. All his communities in England failed. Today New Harmony (population 880) has homes and incomes that are 65% of the rest of Indiana. Owen’s “NEW” vision has always failed, in Russia, in China, in Cuba, wherever. The socialistic vision to convert (or revert) the civilized world has never materialized anywhere. Mortal’s behaving as God fail in life, always.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm#15.%20Robert%20Owen

http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/ThinkersPdf/owene.PDF
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