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Quotes of the Year - 2007
I found interesting and wanted to pass along a list compiled by Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations as the “most memorable” quotes of 2007. This is a good list, but I would quibble with the order of ranking. To me his #10 is clearly the number one quote of the year. Find out why HERE. Hope you find this interesting and returns your thoughts to events of this past year.
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- “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Andrew Meyer UF student as he was being hauled away by campus police during speech by Sen. John Kerry (Tin Soldiers and Kerry Coming…………)
- “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.” Lauren Upton, Miss Teen USA contestant from SC when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S. on a map. (Excuse me………?)
- “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a speaking engagement at Columbia University New York. (I wonder why they don’t have any…..?)
- “That’s some nappy-headed hos there.” Radio personality Don Imus referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. (Another example that no evil deed goes unrewarded)
- “I don’t recall.” Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ repeated response to questions from Congress about the firing of U.S. Attorneys (sounds like the HRc “I don’t recall video” compiled by her detractors when discussing the finding of the “lost” Whitewater papers in her office and other matters, all of which the media didn’t seem to find as humorous as this Gonzales response…..hm…….)
- “There’s only three things he (Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11).” Senator Joe Biden (the man that graduated from the lowest quartile in his class and would be President.)
- “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.” Harry Reid on VP Dick Cheney. (Harry….would you like to go over those percentages again?)
- “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.” Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched a police officer in the airport restroom. (And his hand signaled he was ready for action by reaching under the stall into the next stall…..ha.)
- “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Senator Joe Biden, referring to Senator Barack Obama. (Wow……two entries from Mr. “C’s get degrees” himself all in one year.)
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“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.” Former President Jimmy Carter, on the Bush administration. (Coming from the actual worst President in history (HERE) this must be some type of put on. I would rank this quote as number 1 for 2007.)
- “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Andrew Meyer UF student as he was being hauled away by campus police during speech by Sen. John Kerry (Tin Soldiers and Kerry Coming…………)
Don’t Ask…..Don’t Tell II
The LA Times is reporting HERE that Hillary is now in a “Don’t Ask” mode following a few faux pas of the previous weeks. It seems that Hillary’s current campaign strategy is to arrive at a campaign point in Iowa and give the “stump” speech that she wants told and then when her speech is over for the loud speakers to rev up with her campaign theme song (which was that now? …….. “It Ain’t Me Babe?” …….what?)
Even to reporters she is not answering any questions. When asked about her take on the Bhutto assassination by a reporter she simply looked at the reporter, turned around and walked away. It seems that Chelsea is working under the same template where she refuses to comment on anything. Not overtly by saying “no comment” but simply by ignoring the questioner.
So now we have the Clintons instituting “Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell II” as a campaign strategy. This reminds me of the beginning of her campaign where she took off on her “listening” tour to see how the “people” felt about things. She said there would be plenty of time for her to comment on her views, but it was important that she only listened at that point to see what the public wants. She must have found out, because she changed nearly all of her previous positions on things to accommodate them in order to be elected.
Come on, do I have to say it again. This lady is one crafty con artist. Whoever gave her and Bill the moniker “the grifters” sure had it right. Not only has she changed every position to appease the immediate crowd, she has contradicted herself so many times now that her only option is to not comment and trust that everyone still believes the lies that were crafted for their demographic when they first heard them. I wonder if Obama and Edwards are going to allow this to pass unchallenged.
The Folly of Al Gore
Dr. William Gray is reputed to be one of the foremost meteorologists in the world and probably the foremost meteorologist concerning hurricane forecasts and is considered to be a “pioneer” in that field. If you have heard any annual predications of hurricanes you should know that it is most likely Dr. Gray’s publications from which this is drawn.
Dr. Gray considers that the theory behind Al Gore’s thesis on Global Warming is “ridiculous” and was the product of people (scientists) that according to Dr. Gray “don’t understand how the atmosphere works.” Dr. Gray believes that the Earth is currently going through a “normal” warming cycle but that the impact of humans on that is “simply too small to have a major effect.”
Dr. Gray addressed the University of North Carolina on the same day that Al Gore received in part the current year award for the Nobel Peace Prize. He commented that we were brainwashing our children and described the presentation of Inconvenient Truth to school children as “being fed all this.” He stated that a natural cycle of ocean water temperature was related to the content of salt in the water which was responsible for rising temperatures, which he acknowledged, but he said that same cycle meant that a period of “cooling” would begin soon and last for several years.
He went on to state that those that linked Global Warming to the increase in Hurricane activity were wrong. He says that we will look back in 10-15 years and see how foolish this current proposition is. He also says that he realizes that his viewpoint has made him an outsider in popular science circles, but that “It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong.” ”But they also know that they’d never get any grants if they spoke out. I don’t care about grants.” Of course when that (cooling cycle) occurs, the left will claim victory resulting from their diligence on the matter now………. J
For additional support for Dr. Gray’s position see my post titled It’s All a Bunch of Hooey (Man Made Global Warming) referencing work by Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and widely know as the “Father of Scientific Climatology.”
E-85 “How Gore Turned the Gulf of Mexico Green”
I have summarized below some things you need to know if someone would ask you if you support the use of E-85 Ethanol for your car so that you wouldn’t embarrass yourself because you didn’t know the facts.
E-85 is an auto fuel made up of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline
In the United States corn is used in the manufacture of Ethanol
A gallon of E-85 has only 72% of the energy of regular gasoline, so a car that gets 21 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway will only now achieve 16 mpg and 23 mpg respectively.
The cost of Ethanol nationwide averaged about 25 cents more per gallon than regular gasoline, so if you spend $3.00 (Illustrative cost per gallon) and drive in the city it will cost you $4.26 to drive the same distance with E-85 and $4.38 on the highway.
Planting, plowing, cultivating, harvesting and transporting the corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol utilizes about 1.6 gallons of gasoline and/or diesel
The E-85 “dry mill” operations use natural gas or coal to operate. Most have switched to coal because of the sky-high prices of Natural Gas.
These coal-fired plants produce twice the carbon emissions and essentially cancel the beneficial effects on the environment for Global Warming.
To make this E-85 program work and make us energy independent we would have to convert 675 million acres of farmland just to produce this E-85. That is 71% of our tillable farmland in the United States. In this case the effort to become “energy independent” has now caused us to become “food dependent.” We would have to import most our food and feed. Would you rather be energy or food dependent?
Not only would the cost of travel go up to $4.38 to buy enough of E-85 to take you the same distance as a gallon of gas, but also the cost of food would skyrocket. If you think this is bad for you, take a minute to think of the famine it would cause in the 3rd world countries because of the increased cost of food acquisition.
So far the limited increased production of corn for the production of E-85 has caused a major Algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico in an area the size of New Jersey.
But Al Gore bragged in 1994 that he cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate against Bill Bradley’s (D-New Jersey) legislation to cut tax incentives for Ethanol. So all this is the direct result of Gore’s uniquely individual action.
So in Summary: If this program were successful you would be paying the equivalent of 46% more per gallon for fuel resulting in no beneficial effect on Global Warming, while using at least as much gasoline as we would otherwise, resulting in making us food dependent and destroying the environment all at extra cost to the U.S. Taxpayer. And “conveniently” speaking you would have Al Gore to thank.
Come Let Us Reason Together on Financing Retirement
This has been an interesting week in the stock market if not for any other reason but that the Stock Market closed over 14,000 for the first time ever [Note the long-term Dow Jones Industrial Averages Chart pictured above]. One of the first posts that I made to this blog (my third to be exact) was on April 23, 2007 and it was titled “Are you Pro-Choice? (on Retirement Planning).” HERE I remember in the wake of 911 after the stock market resumed activity (with a strong downward bias) the Democratic leadership trotted out in front of the U.S. Capitol and explained how this “collapse” of the stock market is the reason that allowing private equity accounts within the Social Security system was a risky idea put forth by the evil Republicans so their friends on Wall Street could get rich. These timely comments by the esteemed Democratic Senators turned out to not only be wrong, but if you were listening to them it may have caused you to miss one of the best stock BUYING opportunities in quite some time. You see, once again (like on taxes) they were not only mistaken, but exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the truth. Hope your family’s security wasn’t damaged because you followed their “timely” advice then.
As I said in my April 23rd post that there isn’t one day since the institution of the Social Security System where dollars from the fund could have been invested in the US Stock Market and preformed worse to date than the so called “risk free” investments of the plan as it exists. Read more
Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
A well-placed source in Washington said: “Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo,” right out of the mouth of the Guardian HERE and I guess that Administration reports suggest that Iran will continue the negotiations dance and it will be still in process with no end in view in January, 2009. They are obviously playing out the clock looking for a more fertile administration to intimidate. Bush doesn’t trust any of the candidates in either party to deal with them. So we may well see if Iran has those 600 missiles actually aimed at Israel or if Israel has 5 aimed at Iran. You got to appreciate the fact that Bush is not making decisions based on their latest internal polls like a few of the candidates are (at least one). But I suppose most grown-ups really do understand that Iran cannot be left to continue with this pursuit of nuclear arms and festering a war in the Middle East with Israel and their surrogates Hezbollah, and now Hamas as well as Syria. If the Iranians really want to head this thing off I’d say now is the time for “Regime Change.” Now don’t get too excited, it looks like no action will be taken till 2008.
This is really going to PO the leadership party in Congress. I guess it was Clinton, Pelosi and Reed that said that Bush shouldn’t attack Iran before he gets permission from Congress. Now that is one bet you can make and win if you put your money on the “I don’t think so” side of the wager. We’ll just have to stay tuned.
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
The Most Honest, Ethical & Open Congress (ever)
The Club for growth news is reporting that the Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee David Obey (D-Wis.) is going to keep all earmarks (pork spending) out of the spending bills so the conservatives won’t have the opportunity orchestrate a grass roots effort to squelch them (so much for Democratic government). This is to frustrate the likes of Jeff Flake’s (R-Arizona) effort last year to stand against earmarks embarrassing Democrats and even some Republicans.
But don’t worry he will be re-inserting this pork spending into the conference report that will be immune from amendment and deliver all the pork he cares to order up. I hope the President has his veto pen nearby. And just think, this all while we were promised “the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history” by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Isn’t this special……..?
DNC Threatens the FreeRepublic (Ha)
The DNC (Democratic National Committee) has issued a threat to the FreeRepublic website from their Lawyers because one indicated “freeper” who goes by the user name of “Coffee 260” published a report with the information taken from an XM Satellite Radio Show titled “Quinn & Rose” show. On that show it was stated (with reliable sources according to the commentator) that the morning after the Tornado in Kansas that Howard Dean called the Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius to discuss “talking points” about the tornado and how they could use it to make Bush look bad and blame Read more
VETO
VETO
It’s About Time (2nd time to be exact). Especially today (May 1st) since those Socialists and Communists in Congress are emotionally taking the day off.