The Science is Settled - What More Evidence Do We Need?

Sorry Al, there's no such thing as "settled" science. But there is such a thing as falsified data and faked research. And apparently, the global "warmists" are guilty of the preponderance of it. Enhanced reputations and juicy government and private grants are the temptations that have led these disreputable scientists over the cliff.

Is the Earth warming? Based on my personal anecdotal data gathered while sitting in a warm Pennsylvania house while a frigid blizzard rages outside, I'd say no. (more anecdotal data here) But the Earth has been warming and cooling in cycles since its formation, all on its own with no man-made interference needed.

I imagine a pot full of ants on a stove. Some disreputable scientist ants claim, based on false information, that the burner under them will be turned on. The ants start to panic. "What do we do to stop the heat?", they cry. The politician ants feel pressure to do something, anything to satisfy their ant constituents. "Let's collapse our economic system and tax our citizens into oblivion!" It doesn't matter if it doesn't do anything to relieve the problem, but it's better for their careers than appearing impotent and doing nothing. As a result, the ants destroy their civilization. "You see!" say some of the ants who have made pot warming a religion, "If we hadn't stopped civilization, someone would have turned on the burner!"

Do you want real evidence that this is what is happening to us?

1. A brand new study released last month shows conclusively that atmospheric CO2 (the primary "greenhouse" gas blamed for man-made global warming) is NOT increasing, and HAS NOT increased over the past 150 years.

The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models. (which have been shown to be falsely created with manipulated data - Ed. note)

2. Much has been made by the warmists of "peer-reviewed" data. Here's a peer-reviewed study released just last week that proves that any warming of the globe has not been caused by CO2, but by CFCs (which have already been banned) and natural cosmic rays. The study goes on to state that the Earth has been cooling since 2002 and will continue cooling for another 50 years.

3. A global temperature study including data showing the impact of the "Medieval Warming Period" and the "Little Ice Age" is published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy & Environment.



Note that this data does not indicate the faked "hockey stick" formation, unless you consider it a "broken hockey stick".

4. Finally, the "coup de gras". An article has been published in The Washington Post, providing convincing evidence that the Arctic ice is melting. Some of the text in the article is as follows:

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Well, I'm convinced. However, this article was written in 1922, much earlier than the supposed increase in man-made CO2.

The bottom line is: Are we going to use common sense and impartially evaluate ALL of the data before we make some gigantic mistakes, or are we going to run around like a colony of panicked ants?

Angel

Do we need an American Putin?

Russian Premier Vladimir Putin is not a nice guy. He is belligerent, steely-eyed, cold, and plain-spoken. He says exactly what he means, and is not afraid of the repercussions from the international media or anyone else. I’m sure that the current American “leadership” sickens him with its pathetic political correctness.

Putin answered a question about his attacks against Chechnya Islamic terrorists in a 2008 G-8 press conference. His response was direct and cold as ice. Essentially, allowing for translation inaccuracies, he said if you come into Russia we’ll cut your n*ts off.

The video of this is awe inspiring. It is very “Dirty Harry” ala Clint Eastwood. There is no doubt where he stands, and he doesn’t care what anyone else in the room thinks. This is a leader. You may not like him, but you have to respect him.

Contrast this with our “fearless leader” Obama. Three full days after the event, he finally addresses the nation from a Marine base in Hawaii. He starts the speech, “Hey, guys.” Hey, guys? What is this, another friendly “shout out” to his vacation pals in Hawaii?
His rhetoric is vintage milquetoast. It inspires nothing. He ends with, “Thank you very much, everybody, and Happy New Year.” WHAT? We are being attacked! What don’t you understand about flaming explosive underwear?

Our great country is withering and dying in many ways, but the most obvious one is the lack of any credible leadership. Putin and Obama are similar in that they are both pathological narcissists. The contrast between the two is the difference between Andy Taylor and Barney Fife.

Andrew Thomas aka Angel
As published in AmericanThinker.com

Strange Priorities in Obamaland

Let me get the facts straight. On Christmas day, an al-Qaida associated suicide bomber nearly incinerates a planeload of Americans over Detroit. Our fearless leader makes a flaccid statement three days later, decrying the act. What took three days? Was he busy golfing, shooting hoops, or just working out at the gym?

Later on that day, the son of a friend who was vacationing with the Obama family in Hawaii has a minor accident. The nine year-old son of Dr. Eric Whitaker bumps his head during a surfing lesson. Obama instantly interrupts his golf game to rush back to his luxury resort and check on his friend’s son’s condition. As it turns out, he is fine.

My question is: Why does a friend’s son get immediate attention while the safety of American citizens takes three days of vacation before getting around to addressing it? The Narcissist-in-Chief reveals himself again?

Andrew Thomas aka Angel
As published in AmericanThinker.com

The Audacity of Unchecked Corruption

In the eyes of the corruptocracy of the left, which group is evil and which is morally pure: SEIU thugs or US Navy SEALs? It seems to be no contest.

Imagine if you will (as Rod Serling used to say) that innocent US citizen Kenneth Gladney, who gave away “Don’t Tread on Me” flags outside of a Missouri town hall meeting, instead gave out SEIU buttons at a pro-labor rally. Also imagine that instead of being surrounded and beaten by SEIU thugs, he was attacked by US Navy SEALs. Would the treatment by the legacy media be the same? Would the County Prosecutor be as reticent in pursuing prosecution of the SEALs as he currently is with SEIU?

Now imagine Kenneth’s brother Keith protesting the inaction of the prosecutor and the county government, and rewarded by being fired from his county job in apparent retaliation. And, for maximum punishment value, he is fired just before Christmas. I’m sure our vigilant media would express outrage beyond measure at the SEALs and the St. Louis County officials responsible.

Unfortunately, the sad state of our current Orwellian reality is that the SEIU thugs continue to skate prosecution after beating an innocent citizen to a pulp, and dissent is crushed.

Oh, and three US Navy SEAL heroes capture a terrorist who murdered Americans and mutilated their bodies. They give him a fat lip in the process. They must immediately be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. The legacy media concurs.

This ongoing hypocrisy and corruption, unchecked by the legacy media, is reshaping our nation. God help us.

Andrew Thomas aka Angel
as published in AmericanThinker.com

The Tea Party Emerges as America's Most Popular Political Party!

This is incredible! This is a populist reaction to the attempted destruction of the greatest culture in the history of mankind... The Tea Party believes in freedom, liberty and the US Constitution, and is about to make history! Read the latest poll results:

http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/12/17/tea-party-movement-tops-established-parties-in-nbcwsj-poll-despite-biased-question-skewed-sample/

Global Warming or Global Evil?

First, the evidence reveals that Penn State climate guru Michael Mann has fabricated the "hockey stick" graph that was the basis for the UNs IPCC report declaring alleged global warming to be man-made. Then the New Zealanders find that their data has been fabricated, as well. Now, the latest revelation is that Russian data claiming increased global temps has also been falsified. The “science” is falling apart on a global scale.

Angel

The Pathology of Evil in Politics

Do purely evil individuals exist who can hide their true nature from the rest of the world? And are these individuals drawn into politics as a conduit for dominating an unsuspecting and acquiescent populace?

There is a theory that evil is a pathological disorder. The observation that psychopaths, including sociopaths and narcissists, all exhibit chronically evil behavior is a persuasive argument toward that theory. In Andrew M. Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, the case is made for equating evil and psychosis in the political arena:

The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people.

Lobaczewski also references the following passage from The Sociopath Next Door, by clinical psychologist Dr. Martha Stout:

Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken.

And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.

Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless.

You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition.

In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world.

You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences will most likely remain undiscovered.

Dr. Stout estimates that this psychosis affects approximately 4% of the population. It seems obvious that many of these will gravitate to politics, where power over others is most attainable. Lobaczewski places the amount of undiagnosed psychopaths that become the pathocracy at 6%:

Approximately 6% of the population constitute the active structure of the pathocracy, which carries its own peculiar consciousness of its own goals. Twice as many people constitute a second group: those who have managed to warp their personalities to meet the demands of the new reality. […]

This second group consists of individuals who are, on the average, weaker, more sickly, and less vital. The frequency of known mental diseases in this group is at twice the rate of the national average. We can thus assume that the genesis of their submissive attitude toward the regime, their greater susceptibility to pathological effects, and their skittish opportunism includes various relatively impalpable anomalies. […]

The 6% group constitute the new nobility; the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous. […] Only 18% of the country’s population is thus in favor of the new system of government.

The question is how do we recognize and ferret out the sociopaths and narcissists currently in power in both political parties? This is an inherently difficult task due to the ability of these psychopaths to disguise their disease. I believe it is possible to identify them through critically observing and identifying the inconsistencies between their apparent irrational behavior and the image they are trying to present.

For instance, what are we to make of a President who suddenly bursts out laughing while being interviewed on the potential for economic depression in the US? How about a jovial President giving a friendly “shout out” to a colleague before delivering a listless homily on the brutal murder of thirteen American soldiers at the hands of a ruthless domestic Islamist terrorist? Perhaps the picture of Obama striding down the White House steps while his “friend” Professor Gates is helped by Officer Crowley is an indicator of his true personality.

Another example is the unfathomable pardon of Marc Rich, charged with 51 counts of tax fraud and with running illegal oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis, as orchestrated by now-Attorney General Eric Holder. His latest unfathomable deed is the NYC show trial of self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees. Holder has not justified what possible good is derived from either action.

These examples of objective evidence can be applied to many members of Congress as well, and the list of potentially evil psychopaths goes on and on. What then are we to do? My advice to women I have known in my life was to always marry a “nerd”. They may have dull and simple personalities, but they are trustworthy. (This may have been a self-serving piece of advice.)

Likewise, the politicians least likely to be psychotic are those with simple, down-to-earth personal philosophies. Of course, this can be faked as well, but their authenticity is usually apparent based on the type of lives they have led and whether their words match their deeds. Who do you think of in this category? Two names immediately jump into my mind: Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan.

In an attempt to maintain a grasp on sanity in this crazy world, I’ve identified some distinctions in my belief system, which I am fairly sure I share with the large majority of Americans, i.e., Lobaczewski’s “normal people”:

Good: Love, honor, integrity, honesty.

Evil: Corruption, greed, narcissism, lust for power.

Good: The belief in individual freedom and liberty as guaranteed by the US Constitution.

Evil: The belief that individuals should be controlled and subjugated by the State, i.e., socialism, fascism, communism, globalism.

Good: The belief that in an environment of freedom and equality, individual initiative and entrepreneurial spirit is the strength of the nation, i.e., capitalism.

Evil: The belief that the ends justify the means; that lying, subterfuge, and the killing of innocent humans are acceptable in achieving political goals, i.e., radical Islam and leftism.

Good and evil coexist in every nation and within every individual. The focus must be in identifying and defeating the evil actions and policies of those in power. This includes legally removing them from power when their policies cannot be abrogated.

Please join me in the effort to defeat evil in 2010.

Andrew Thomas aka Angel
Published in American Thinker.com

Global Warming Definitively Proven to be Man Made!

Unfortunately for the true believer Warmist cult, proof that the phenomenon is man-made is that men manipulated the data. Global warming has finally been proven to be a gigantic lie, perpetrated by hundreds of so-called scientists and other slime-balls in pursuit of huge government grants and professional accolades. These grants are now understood to be blatant bribes doled out by a dishonest administration eager to have its evil agenda ratified by “science”. When it is all unraveled, this will be known as the greatest scam in world history.

Angel

ClimateGate the Musical

The Wreck of the US Economy

(Sung to the tune of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”)

The legend lives on from the Capital on down
Of the woman they call Speaker Nancy
The Speaker, it is said, filled the House with dread
When her eyes buggered out like a banshee’s.

She was second mate on the cruise ship of state
Known as the US Economy
The captain and crew were inexperienced too
And appeared to have recent lobotomies.

The ship carried a load, 12 trillion or so
Of deficit spending, weighed down
When the ship hit the storm of healthcare reform
Some passengers started to drown.

Captain O and his crew immediately knew
As the stern of the ship began sinking
With quick action now, they drilled holes in the bow
Spreading wealth equally was their thinking.

As they sank deeper in debt, everyone got wet
And the Captain they started to doubt
His advisors were dull, drilling more holes in the hull
To let the rising deficit drain out.

When this didn’t work, Cap’n O said with a smirk
This ship wasn’t seaworthy when I took it
The last captain, the old salt, this is all his fault
And if we drill more holes in her hull we can fix it.

To the lifeboats then, the passengers ran
But alas, their anxiety grew
For Cap’n O, with aplomb, in his great wisdom
Drilled holes in the lifeboat hulls too.

The US Economy went down with nary a sound
And took all of her sister ships with her
The SS Japan, Europe, and Afghanistan
All went straight down to Davy Jones’ locker.

The captain and crew, and Nancy Pelosi too
A “One Global Government” flag they unfurled
They had exempted their lifeboat and kept it afloat
And now rule over a poor drowning world.

Angel

Obama's Tragic Address

How do you believe our beloved President Obama would rank these in priority order?

1. The men & women of the US armed forces
2. His legislative priorities
3. Himself

On Thursday, 11 soldiers and civilian police in Ft. Hood, TX were slaughtered execution-style at close range and over 30 others wounded, allegedly by a US Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The President immediately addressed the nation concerning this horrific event.

However, his expression of grief was very odd. He spent the first two minutes of the four-and-a-half minute address in a light-hearted discussion of his earlier “Tribal Nations Conference” on Native American rights, including a “shout out” recognition of a conference attendee.

When he finally got around to the purpose for his public appearance, he gave an uninspired and rambling dissertation on the tragedy. Even then, he could not keep the topic focused on sympathy for the pain of others:

I want all of you to know that as Commander in Chief, that there’s no greater honor, but no greater responsibility for me (emphasis his) than to make sure that the extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for…

Poor soul, it’s so saddening to know how this tragedy affects him. Listening to this address provides some insight into Obama’s character and how he ranks his priorities.

Angel

Tim Hawkins Sings the Truth

"Social Justice": The End Game of the Left, Part II

Tax the rich,
Feed the poor,
‘Til there are no
Rich no more.

“I’d Love to Change the World”
Ten Years After (1971)

Over the Columbus Day weekend, my wife and I travelled to Brooklyn, NY to visit our daughter and her boyfriend. I was strictly admonished by my wife not to talk politics during the visit, since my daughter’s boyfriend is a radical leftist. He, being a well-educated social science buff, and I, being who I am (a well-educated “right-wing nut job”), we had created many spectacular fireworks during past political debate sessions.

Things went well up until Sunday afternoon, when we were both seated on the couch benignly watching a football game on his 60” television screen. During a commercial break, there was a news announcement concerning another New York City tax increase. Before I could catch myself, I blurted out the Ten Years After lyric at the top of this article.

It was as though I had hit his “ON” button. He immediately jumped off the couch and started screaming, “That’s RIGHT! That’s EXACTLY RIGHT!” I replied, “But shouldn’t the lyric be “Til there are no poor no more’? Isn’t that true social justice?” He stated with upmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world’s misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible.

“Then you want everyone to live in poverty?”, I queried.

“Absolutely”, he replied.

Sometimes I think I have heard it all, but this left me stunned. Before we could go on, my wife and daughter swooped in and broke up the mêlée.

But the incident left me with the thought that perhaps his viewpoint is not unique. Is a blind hatred of the “rich” driving much of the left’s apparently self-destructive behavior? In a previous AT article, “The End Game of the Left”, I concluded that the goals of the left are “abortion and eugenic elimination of the ‘undesirables’, the euthanasia of the old and infirm, and the genocide of those who disagree.” But what was missing from this evaluation is the ultimate motivation for these travesties. Is it all driven by obsessive rage and hate?

I don’t think it is quite that simple. There appears to be an abundance of negative emotion in the leftist mind, but that is only part of the equation. Almost everyone, including the leftist, believes that they are basically good and decent human beings. This is true among religious and atheists, and even thieves and murderers. I believe that in order to emotionally reconcile inherently “evil” feelings of hatred toward others, the leftist embraces “social justice” as a pious compensation.

The original concept of social justice was envisioned as a virtuous governmental function, protecting the downtrodden and disadvantaged from a heartless society. As a form of coerced charity through taxation, the government decides what is just and provides for the “common welfare”.

In Friedrich August Hayek’s book, “Law, Legislation, and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice, he states:

It is one of the axioms of the tradition of freedom that coercion of individuals is permissible only where it is necessary in the service of the general welfare or the public good. Yet…the vagueness of the different terms which have been employed has made it possible to declare almost any interest a general interest and to make large numbers serve purposes in which they are not in the least interested. The common welfare or the public good has to the present time remained a concept most recalcitrant to any precise definition and therefore capable of being given almost any content suggested by interests of the ruling group.

As a result of this vagueness of definition, the foundation of hatred within the leftist mind has perverted the original intent of social justice. Babies must be aborted, grandma must be killed, and the infirm must be euthanized, all for the “common welfare”. How does this reconcile with the concept of using the wealth of society to champion the poor and helpless? “Justice” is no longer part of the equation. It has devolved into social engineering and tinkering without a heart and soul. Through the twisted filter of hatred, social justice has become a force for evil.

So why do the wealthy and powerful on the left (the “poweratti”) embrace this philosophy? Because they believe they will not be touched by it personally, and they can use it to garner additional political and/or social power. Taking the health care issue as an example, those currently in Congress have chosen to follow the refrain, “Government-run health care for thee, but not for me”. Other wealthy and politically-connected poweratti obviously believe they will be able to obtain quality health care from other sources, either overseas or in a domestic black market of private physicians and hospitals exclusively for the wealthy.

By enflaming hatred of the wealthy (and by extension, Capitalism), the poweratti can brandish social justice as a weapon to seize complete control of government and essentially enslave the populace. How ironic that this hatred should result in extending their power and privilege!

In the leftist utopia of social justice, wealth is no longer created. The Capitalist goose that laid the golden eggs is spread like pâté. Income and property are confiscated, housing and employment are assigned, as in Cuba and Venezuela. Scientific advancement and medical breakthroughs are ground to a halt, as in the old Soviet Union where technology was frozen in the 1950s. Entrepreneurship, personal advancement, and wealth creation are violently quashed, as in the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse Tung. Hunger, disease, and death become familiar houseguests, as in all repressive regimes.

The end game of the leftist poweratti is to rule the nation and eventually the world by bringing us down to the lowest social common denominator through the manipulation of those who obsessively despise wealth.

Andrew Thomas aka Angel

As published in AmericanThinker.com

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Administration Official Tells the Gory Truth

Food Fight: The Ultimate Assault on Freedom

Our regulation-hungry leaders in Washington are acquiring a new taste in governmental control. A sumptuous feast of tempting regulatory delicacies awaits under the guise of improving the safety of our food supply. Is there a clandestine plan to control and collectivize food production for the purpose of controlling the American people? Or is it a well-meaning but horrendously misguided attempt by the administration to “protect” the public through draconian regulations heaped onto farmers and small food processing businesses? After all, leftist policy-makers are the masters of unintended consequences. If it is not an intentional Cloward-Piven strategy to collapse the food production industry in order to cause shortages and rationing, it has all of the earmarks.

As is observed in other C-P schemes, the attacks on our food supply are complex and multi-faceted, and devastating in their cumulative impact. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Obama’s “food czar” Michael Taylor are the prime weapons in this assault.

Radical environmentalist organizations such as the Sierra Club have long fought battles alongside the EPA against individual farmers for producing “animal emissions” and farm dust. Now the EPA is using the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as a weapon against agriculture. The latest and most egregious example of this is the EPA enforcement of the act to turn off the water supply to the farmers of the San Joaquin valley. Arguably the most essential of America’s “bread baskets”, it was producing as much as 12% of the nation’s agriculture, at least until the EPA decided that the protection of the three-inch Delta Smelt was more important and deserved the water more than the farmers. Now 40,000 residents are out of work and ironically short of food. They are waiting in lines up to five hours long for food packages marked “Product of China”. Farms are going bankrupt and being abandoned in droves. Obama has so far denied requests to reverse the EPA’s decision.

There are 1,320 officially-designated endangered species in the US. Each one can be used to regulate and restrict agriculture as the EPA so deigns. As the wise comedian George Carlin once said, “Species disappear at a rate of 25 a day, regardless of our behavior. Let them go gracefully.”

That brings us to the two-edged sword of the FDA. I have worked with FDA (known to insiders as “the Agency”) for over thirty years, so I know from personal experience that it can be a force for good in protecting public health. It has restrained many a pharmaceutical and medical device business from illegal or unethical practices. On the other hand, it has destroyed good companies and prevented beneficial products from reaching the market, many times based on the political agenda of the Agency at the time. In this case, the sword is being directed by Obama political appointees and the legislation currently before Congress. It is pointed directly at the heart of the food industry.

There are two major pieces of food legislation in progress, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR 2749), and the Food Modernization Act of 2009 (HR 875). These bills unleash a cornucopia of new regulations and harsh penalties on small farmers and food processors. Fines of up to $7.5 million can be assessed and sentences of up to ten years in prison can be imposed for violations of the new regulations. All farms and food businesses must pay a mandatory annual FDA registration fee of $500. There are fears that the new laws will make growing organic foods illegal by outlawing the use of manure and requiring chemical pesticide application to all crops. Other frightening interpretations of the provisions in these bills include potentially mandating genetically-modified (GM) crops and “terminator” seeds that will require farmers to purchase new GM seeds each season.

One thing is certain. The Obama administration is fundamentally changing food regulation to more closely resemble the current regulations on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. New FDA draft guidance documents have been issued on food regulation, with more to come. These automatically become law in two years with no congressional approval required.

One example of the unsustainable burden being placed on the food industry is the FDA’s new draft guidance document “Commodity Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Fresh Tomato Food Chain”. Don’t let the term “guidelines” fool you. This is an Agency code word for “enforceable regulations”. Under this guidance document, all growers must develop written procedures for risk mitigation strategies, employee hygiene practices, employee training and other employee policies, internal quality audits, and process validations. They must keep written records of environmental assessments, water usage, pest control, crop production practices, corrective action processes, and the conducting of employee training and internal audits. All of these documents and records are subject to unannounced FDA on-site inspection. Violations will result in fines and/or imprisonment.

These types of regulations are very difficult for established pharmaceutical and medical device businesses to follow. Many of them must hire legions of professional consultants (mostly retired FDA inspectors) to interpret Agency laws. Imagine the difficulty that will now be faced by a local farmer or a corner bakery. Many will be driven out of business.

Is it so farfetched to believe that our benevolent Democrat-controlled legislative and executive branches would want to control the American populace through acquiring power over one of our basic needs for survival? To paraphrase an old adage, “once you’ve got them by their stomachs, their hearts and minds will follow”.

The use of food to control and enslave populations has been evidenced throughout history. The most well-known example of this was the Stalinist revolution. Of course, he blatantly starved to death millions of Ukrainians who attempted to rebel against his authority. But he also used food to control the people of Soviet Russia. In the book Food Nations, an essay entitled “Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Urban Soviet Russia, 1917-1941” by Mauricio Borrero, states:

In the first decades of Soviet power, a “politics of scarcity” developed in response to the government’s claims to control all aspects of food supply (production, transportation, and distribution) and its inability to perform these activities in a consistently reliable manner…In the context of persistent shortages and widespread social upheaval that was sometimes spontaneous (Civil War) and sometimes state-induced (the Stalin revolution), the government’s control of food supplies became one of the “sticks” by which it sought to restore order and enforce discipline…Thus, with sharply reduced food stocks at its disposal, government rationing policies alternated between notions of food as a right to be given to all and as a privilege to be awarded by the state to selected groups of people.

I believe the intent of our President in implementing these overwhelming regulations can be established in his famous pre-election quote: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want …That’s not going to happen (under the Obama administration).”

Forget government-run healthcare, forget “cap and trade”. Those issues don’t matter to people who don’t have enough to eat. Government regulation and control of our food supply is the ultimate assault on our freedom.

Andrew Thomas aka Angel

edited version published in AmericanThinker.com

Tea Party Gone Mad? No, G-20 Anti-Capitalist Protesters - Which is the Unruly Mob, G-20ers or 9-12ers?

It Is All Unraveling

Everything has changed. Nothing will ever be the same again. We have learned how to change the future and our destiny. The carefully laid plans of the evil corrupt denizens of Washington and the radical left are now being exposed to the light...the light of millions of everyday Americans finally discovering their power to overcome those who would enslave them. ACORN is crumbling before our eyes. Their corrupt path to our esteemed President Evil is about to be exposed. The dominos are beginning to fall, and soon the entire fascist dreams of the left will collapse. It is apparent now. We are winning, and we cannot be stopped. Our anger, our outrage, our energy to defeat those who seek to destroy our country has been focused. We will not falter. We are ready again, as in generations past, to fight to the death for our freedom and liberty. This is a seminal moment in history.

Personal Photos from the Largest Protest Event in Washington DC History - The 9-12 March on Washington (Click to enlarge)

Personal Videos from the 9-12 March on Washington

Obviously Racist Anti-Obama Singer at 9-12 March on Washington

NYT: "Thousands" Protest at 9-12 March on Washington; Daily Mail: "1.5 to 2 Million" - Which is Right?

The Obama Pain Index

It is becoming widely known that there is a serious requirement for a quantitative rating system to accurately determine the precise amount of anguish and suffering being exacted on American citizens by each action and policy of the Obama administration. At this point in time, the preponderance of this pain is being felt by conservative-leaning citizens, since most of those on the left are still numb with the debilitating disease, “Obama Messiah Syndrome”. This is thankfully beginning to dissipate, as indicated by recent polls, and pain levels on the left will soon approach the rest of the country. In my selfless attempt to fulfill this urgent need, I have used the model of the “Schmidt Sting Pain Index”.

The Schmidt Sting Pain Index is a scale developed by entomologist Justin Schmidt, who allowed himself to be bitten by dozens of venomous insects in order to gauge their pain level and rate them on a scale ranging from 1.0 to 4.0+. His account is harrowing and painful to read (Warning: not for children or pregnant women):

1.0 The Sweat Bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 The Fire Ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
1.8 The Bullhorn Acacia Ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 The Bald-Faced Hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 The Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x The Honey Bee and The European Hornet: Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.
3.0 The Red Harvester Ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 The Paper Wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
4.0 The Tarantula Hawk: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
4.0+ The Bullet Ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel.

In like fashion, after intense scientific investigation and personal agony, I developed the “Obama Pain Index”:

· 1.0 The Hypocrisy Bee: Listening to the Obama administration rail against “astroturf” protests against Obamacare, and then watching them organize 500 of their own pro-Obamacare astroturf demonstrations across the country. Feels like a mild jab in the groin, mitigated by the knowledge that most of the Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU) probably won’t show up unless they are paid.

· 1.6 The Underground Tarantula: Finding out that the Stimulus bill was actually written by former members of the radical Weather Underground from the 60’s now running the radical “Apollo Alliance”, and still hearing some people wonder out loud why no one was allowed to read it. A searing sensation like a hot poker stuck in your ear, smoldering with the realization that we have been had.

· 2.0 The Senior Snuff Spider: Seeing AARP officials deny they support Obamacare while running pro-Obamacare television ads paid for by their shell organization, “Health Action Now!” A heavy gnawing in the gut, followed by the bitter taste of betrayal.

· 2.3 The Selective Prosecutor Beetle: Hearing Eric Holder declare that he is conducting criminal investigations of the CIA patriots who uncovered multiple terror plots through interrogation of murderous terrorists because he must “follow the law”. This, after dropping the open and shut voter intimidation case against the Black Panther Party thugs who were captured on video threatening voters with clubs. An angry piercing sensation like being repeatedly jabbed by six foot long needles, accompanied by the insane urge to strap Holder to a waterboard.

· 2.5 The Democrat Stink Bug: Listening to Democrat congressmen try to foist a crappy government-run healthcare plan on their constituents while repeatedly voting down Republican amendments to force Congress to adopt the plan for themselves, preferring their current privately-run “Cadillac” healthcare plan. Has the sensation of clenching your jaw so hard your teeth explode.

· 3.0 The King Bee: Remembering candidate Obama say that we all need to have “skin in the game” and sacrifice our lifestyles by not keeping our thermostats at 72 degrees and not having all we want to eat, then witnessing President Obama throw Wednesday cocktail parties, go out on $250,000 dates with Michelle, take luxurious vacations in Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard, and set the White House thermostat to 80 degrees in the winter. A bolt of lightning passing through your head with simultaneous blood shooting from your eyes (apologies to GB).

· 3.3 The Two-Headed Depression-Hyperinflation Beetle: Knowing that the US economy cannot sustain its current level of perceived stability much longer while under the burden of a $9 trillion ten-year deficit, tax revenues shrinking by 18%, and a true unemployment rate of about 20%, while the Obama administration announces that “the stimulus is working”. An agonizing feeling of impending doom in the pit of your stomach, followed by profound sadness.

· 3.7 The Killer Panel Bee: Hearing Obama tout his government-run healthcare by saying, “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller”, while ridiculing those who dare suggest that “death panels” are part of the plan. The true horror is in the realization that “death panels” have already become law, slipped into the Stimulus bill along with dozens of other Constitution killers during the dead of night (see “The Underground Tarantula, above). Feels like being dropped into a slow wood chipper feet-first.

· 4.0 The Green Hornet: Endless propaganda about “green jobs” and a “green economy” powered by windmills and solar panels, while Obama gives $2 billion in loan guarantees to Brazil to drill for oil to sell to China. Proves that he knows global warming is a total farce, but a convenient “crisis”. Like burying your fingers into your chest and pulling out your heart in utter frustration.

· 4.0+ The Evil Army Ant: Witnessing Obama announce a new national day of celebration in honor of his emerging AmeriCorps shadow army…on September 11, 2009. Produces an agony similar to what the dread Pirate Roberts would feel strapped into Prince Humperdink’s torture machine set on “12”.

This article is a public service announcement to warn all American Thinker readers to be wary of any of the above dangerous species. Please immediately report any other “venomous insects” that may qualify for the Obama Pain Index. Your cooperation is appreciated.

Published in AmericanThinker.com
by Andrew Thomas aka Angel

ObamaCare will deny health treatment to Republicans…Farfetched, right?

A recent mailing from RNC Chairman Michael Steele includes a typical “push poll” and an appeal for donations. This particular fundraising message includes the suggestion that Democrats could use the release of personal information mandated by the Obama healthcare bill to determine your political persuasion and as a result “GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment”.
Of course, this is patently absurd. It could never happen in a free civil society like ours. All right, there is some evidence that ObamaCare may ration health services to seniors due to the fact that their lives are of lesser value to society than a younger person’s. But a person’s political beliefs certainly don’t impact his value to society, do they?
Well, OK, the DNC may consider opponents to their policies “right wing domestic terrorists”. But I’m sure Democrats wouldn’t devalue the lives of conservative opponents just because they consider them “terrorists”, would they? Don’t be silly.
But the crux of my argument is that it would be ethically and morally repugnant and totally unimaginable for one political party (especially one as ethically and morally pure as the Democrat party) to punish private citizens based on their political party affiliation. Oh, except for that little episode of Obama taking over GM and Chrysler, and then targeting the dealerships of those owned by Republican contributors for closure.
Well, there you go. This irresponsible assertion by the RNC has absolutely no evidence to support it. This is unabashed Republican fear-mongering and is totally farfetched. Of course, if you asked me what was farfetched six months ago…

Andrew Thomas aka Angel
Edited version published in AmericanThinker.com

Spider-Man Artist Pens Our Fate

Steve Ditko is the co-creator of Spider-Man (along with Stan Lee), and has had a long, distinguished career as a pen-and-ink artist of comic superheroes. In a Breitbart.com post by Batton Lash, one of his works from the ‘80s is displayed, “In Principle – The Unchecked Premise”. I have always enjoyed Ditko’s quirky stylized art, but this particular work appears to foretell the future. Take a look.