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Headed North
We’ll be leaving early in the morning (Wednesday) to drive from West Palm Beach to our Summer home in Ohio. We will likely be off line for a couple of days but could snag a Wi Fi signal somewhere on my wife’s laptop. So we don’t expect to be blogging much. See you when we get to our northern home where we will be until mid October.
The Fairness Doctrine
To bring you up to speed on this controversial issue that the Democrats so artfully call the “Fairness Doctrine” (an interesting title much like the serpent in the Garden so subtly misrepresented the mandate of God to Eve). This is a policy that had been in force throughout most of the era of the FCC which was established in 1934 by an act of Congress. The Fairness Doctrine was a “regulation” of the FCC to require Broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance in an a) honest, b) equal, and c) balanced manner. Let me pause here to state that the FCC like the IRS establishes “regulations” in order to effectuate their interpretation of the law and good public policy. Regulations are not laws and can be challenged on the basis that they are not in conformity with the law. I have done this myself in the context of the IRS only to initially lose but eventually be vindicated in the Federal Court of Appeals that the particular IRS regulation did not serve the purpose of the IRS Code but hindered it.
In the same matter the FCC voted in 1987 on a 4-0 ruling to overturn the long standing “Fairness Doctrine” on the basis that the regulation had grown to inhibit rather than enhance debate. This position of the FCC followed a 1986 DC Appeals Court ruling that stated that Congress never made the so called doctrine a “binding requirement” of the FCC. This decision is understood to be operative and accepted by all sides of this issue.
The Conservatives considered this FCC ruling a victory and opening in the otherwise Liberal Domination of other media outlets such as Newspapers, Cable New, Network News and Read more
The Law of Unintended Consequences
QUESTION: What do the following people have in common?
Gail Reuderman Feuer, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo Di Capro, Carole King, Billy Joel, David Duchovny, Patricia Arquette, Jackson Brown, Bill Maher, Larry David, Woody Harrelson, and Many Others
ANSWER: They are all Socially Conscience people
HOW DO I KNOW?: They have all purchased Prius Hybird Cars to complement their desire to reduce Global Warming by reducing CO2 emissions. HERE Have you ever seen these dumpy little cars? Check above left. They are not the type of vehicle these people are accustomed to driving. But the sacrifice is worth the effort, right? Actually………….wrong.
According to Chris Demorro staff writer on the “Record” of Central Connecticut State University “The Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care.” The problem is that each one of these people made a major mistake and have purchased a car that while claiming to be easier on the environment is in fact worse on the environment than Read more
Urgent Global Warming Pronouncement from the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon (Surname Ban) the new (Jan 1, 2007) UN Secretary General (former South Korean Foreign Minister) replacing Kofi Annan in an opt-ed. bomb in the Washington Post this week (HERE) stated that the Darfur conflict began as an eco-crisis stemming in part from climate change. He has stated that he believes that the warm Indian Ocean created monsoon cycle shifts that caused people to fight over food.
NSL has been advised that NASA has examined the science behind his claim and used 18 climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from it 4th annual assessment report and showed that greenhouse gases played little or no role in the 1950-99 observed drying in Africa. This didn’t seem to Read more
It’s All a Bunch of Hooey (Man Made Global Warming)
“There is a lot of money to be made in this,” he added. “If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can’t get grants unless you say, ‘Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.’” Who said this? It is none other than Reid Bryson, known as the Father of Scientific Climatology and University of Wisconsin Madison Professor Emeritus. But no one has more to gain financially on this than Algore whose companies are now positioned to profit in the “trading” of “Energy Offset Credits” which is expected to become an industry of $68 Billion soon. As I said in my post “The Carbon Credit Scam” this is a gimmick that has the potential to make Enron look like child’s play.
Dr. Bryson has correctly identified the fact that this left wing orthodoxy has managed (or is trying to manage) to squelch legitimate debate in this area. This is for various reasons depending on which moldy corner of the left you are emerging from. Many are simply anarchists that want to bring the United States to its knees because of their world political view. The left in this country have made the Kyoto Protocol an acolyte for Global Warming, the modern Messiah of the left without Read more
My New Blog Address…..
My daughter Elizabeth (Mommy Zabs) pictured here with her husband Jeff has changed my URL to http://nextstoplauderdale.com from http://stevereenie.wordpress.com. She did this work as a Father’s Day Present. She knew I really preferred nextstoplauderdale.com URL. Since the banner name and preferred reference was Next Stop Lauderdale the wordpress domain caused some confusion. I would greatly appreciate it if you would change your bookmarks, links & feeds and for those of you that have included me on your blogroll (I thank you) if you would change that to reflect my new address I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks so much Elizabeth.Some day I will add to my “about” page and try to explain the origin of the blog name “Next Stop Lauderdale” even though my winter home is in West Palm Beach.
Those Pesky Clinton Profits (what a country)
Oops, Hillary Clinton sold some stock recently that could cause her problems during the campaign if she had continued to hold those shares. Wow, only in America is it a crime to own a particular stock when you are running for President but not to own that stock when you have merely declared your intentions to run for the nomination. Lets see what she owned in part:
NewsCorp (Fox News) Satan Himself
Biogen Big Pharmaceutical
Johnson & Johnson Big Pharmaceutical
Amgen Big Pharmaceutical
Pfizer Big Pharmaceutical
Glaxo Smith Kline Big Pharmaceutical
Wall Mart The Anti-Christ with Employee Abuses
These are creating millions in Capital Gains that will carry substantial Capital Gains Taxes that she has been able to avoid Read more
How Do We Identify the Terrorists?
Privacy and Civil Liberties organizations such as the ACLU are alarmed that the FBI terrorist watch list has swollen in excess of one-half million (that’s 500,000). They are alarmed that it is “out of control,” and based on the numbers alone they believe it is now ineffective because it is so large and many innocent people could be detained. Oooooh so sorry! I’m an accountant, so let’s run the numbers.
The defenders of Islam as being a Peaceful Religion claim that the terrorists and their supporters are not representative of Islam and probably are a number south of 5% of their population. Okay (not that I buy it) but since there are 1,000,000,000 (that’s one Billion) Muslims in the world, they have as much as admitted that there could be 50,000,000 terrorists and supporters. Therefore based on numbers I would think that a “watch list” of a mere 500,000 would be woefully inadequate……….hmmm. Story Here
Rudy’s Contract with America
First of all, I am not personally endorsing Rudy, but he is a major candidate and has just made probably the most substantive and detailed proposal for the 2008 campaign by either party to date (I know that the Paul supporters will dispute this, so I will nod to that). Rudy announced yesterday, Tuesday 6/12/07, his broad outline of 12 promises to America that I expect he plans to shape his campaign around. Read more
Gore on World Terrorism & Saddam
What a good week for videos. This HERE at breitbart.tv is another must see where Al Gore is berating George HW Bush for failing to recognize the threat Saddam poses for the world with his support of terrorism, use of weapons of mass destruction and constant pursuit of nuclear weapons. In this September, 1992 speech Gore condemns President Bush for “blatant disregard for brutal terrorism, a dangerous blindness to the murderous ambitions of a despot.” This is another MUST SEE; however, Read more