It's raining taxes

The increased gas tax talk is back. AND the per-mile-you-drive tax. Yes, Barack Obama said he's against raising/instituting taxes in a recession.

Prediction: He'll next say he's still against it, but he has no choice. Here's the story on that.

That's just the tip of the iceberg this week, though.

The president's budget proposal yesterday includes something I've been writing about for more than a year and what we all knew was coming.

Cap & Trade. Think your utility bills are high now?

Under this system, the government's going to set "pollution levels" (the CAP) for, among other people, producers of electricity on whatever amount they go over that level. Since coal comprises 49 percent of electricity generation in this country, they'll go over by A LOT.

The electric providers then have to buy "carbon off-sets" (the TRADE) from shell companies people like Al Gore set up to reap the benefits.

We know who benefits: The Al Gores who are running this scam.

More pertinent to most people, though, is the question of who loses. If you said the electric companies, guess again. That cost, my friends, will be passed on to Joe Consumer. Just like any other cost to businesses.

In other parts of the world where this was done a year and two years ago, like Australia, utility bills doubled and tripled, depending on the cap levels.

This, of course, came up during a press briefing at the White House yesterday. Know how they defended it?

Our increased cost will be off-set by the payroll tax cut we're getting. Wait and see if $13 covers it. And that tax cut is temporary. Cap & Trade isn't.

Besides, I thought that was supposed to be part of the "stimulus" bill that would pull our economy out of the toilet? Appears from where I'm sitting that the only thing being stimulated are the bank accounts of people like Al Gore who are perpetrating this whole Global Warming scam upon this planet.

Now, I know a lot of you who toe the Democrat Party line will say, "Oh, but Dan, a lot of this money is going toward development of wind and solar power, which will replace coal and all the bad, nasty carbon dioxide-producing ways we do it now!"

I seriously want anyone who EVEN THINKS that to spend some time doing some honest research into how long even the most rosey estimates say that will take. I'm not talking about what you're spoon-fed by the Al Gores, his liberal enablers and other environazis, that's it's right around the corner.

I think you'll find that you'll be paying MUCH higher utility bills for some time to come.

Enjoy your change, America.

(Imported from Feb. 27, 2009)

It's getting colder

Yet more examples of legitimate voices being largely supressed because they don't fall in lockstep with Rev. Al Gore and his Church of Global Warming. Doubt you'll be hearing about these on the nightly news:DUBLIN, N.H. — The Old Farmer's Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming.
Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict weather, the Almanac hits the newsstands on Tuesday saying a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatures and climate point to a cooler, not warmer, climate, for perhaps the next half century.

"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes," writes meteorologist and climatologist Joseph D'Aleo. "Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."

Also ...

Australia's global warming guru, professor Ross Garnaut, has reluctantly conceded that the whole concept of man-made global warming is largely a con. This after he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd went to that U.N. Council on Global Warming in Bali earlier this year and were all ready to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

Not anymore.

"The truth is that it really is cheaper for Australians to nothing about global warming. And, no, it's not immoral to figure there's no point spending big money to 'stop' this warming when it won't make a blind bit of difference. We can't stop it no matter how much we spend."

(Imported from Sept. 10, 2008)

Don't be put off by offsets

Despite the recent trend toward Global Cooling across a big portion of our country, I've been fascinated by and have devoted a fair amount of study to the recent "pet rock" known as Carbon Offsets.

For those of you unaware of this marvelous trend, a quick synopsis: Imagine a Get Out Of Jail Free card for the Algores of the world who, after being exposed as the hypocrites they are in demanding that we alter our lifestyles to save the planet while doing exactly the opposite themselves, simply "purchase" Carbon Offsets from someone else (except in Algore's case, he has devised a system whereby he purchases these from himself ... I'll have to dig a little deeper to learn how exactly that works).

This "someone else" promises to do twice his or her share in planet saving so that Algore can jet around the world in private planes, employ armadas of full-size SUVs to travel sometimes as little as a block away and burn more electricity in his mansion than roughly 48 percent of the state of Tennessee (ironically exactly the percentage that actually has electricity).

The concept isn't really new; rather a spinoff on rich folks in the Middle Ages buying "indulgences" that, in the end, would enable them to offset sin.

The more I've thought about this, the more I like the idea ... although not for Global Warming, mind you. As I'm always interested in anything that could improve my quality of life, I've come up with some "offset" ideas:

Offensive offsets: I despise the notion of political correctness, anyway, but lately it's just become too time-consuming to keep up with. And these offsets actually grow on trees in California, so going forward, I'll be able to, for example, say "Merry Christmas" to anyone I choose or even feel free to speak English anywhere I go within our borders without the fear of stepping on toes.

Production offsets: I work with a number of other people who technically do the same thing I do, and I really, really dislike having to rush through my busy days and then drive like a maniac to get to work on time. I have co-workers who don't have families, don't have kids and/or live a heck of a lot closer to the office than I. So surely they can do a little more so that I can arrive when it's more convenient! Happy workers, after all, make more productive workers!

.10 offsets: I predict that these will grow rapidly in popularity, and since I rarely go out anymore, I might just get into the business. There's potential, after all, for extreme ... even grotesque wealth! (Of course, then there's the distinct possibility that Libs will hate me even more, but I think I'll manage.) Had one (or ten) too many drinks? Having trouble staying between the dotted lines? See lights flashing behind you suddenly? No worries! Hand one of these little darlings to the occifer along with your license and insurance card with the confidence that you'll be weaving your way home unimpeded (TREE!) in no time! That whole "designated driver" thing was a crock, anyway. I mean, why make someone else sit and watch you and your friends frolic when he or she could be spending a relaxing evening at home?

Bat Out Of Hell offsets: Same concept as above. I, personally, like to get where I'm going. And I'd like to do so without having to occasionally jam my brake pedal through the floorboard after spotting a radar trap. These will be easy to come by, too, judging from the number of jackasses who make a beeline for the far left lane because, apparently, sightseeing is optimal from that vantage point.

You Want It? You Pay For It offsets: Otherwise known as the Conservative offset. Lots and lots of Libs in this country falling all over themselves to provide social service after social service after social service in order to maintain and grow the welfare state ... and, of course, keep the greatest number of people as possible dependent on them. Well, I think I'm taxed plenty, thankyouverymuch. They want more money for these debilitating programs? They can have it! Long as they pay for it!

I'm just getting started on this project, and these are just a handful of ideas. Feel free to pass along some others.

(Imported from March 16, 2007)

Inconvenient truth? You bet!

Now here's a headline that'll make you think about running for the bathroom: "Al Gore Nominated For Nobel Prize"

I have little doubt he'll win. I also have little doubt that the Nobel committee (aka Liberals R Us) will overlook Gore's constant travel in private jets; his and his entourage's use of half a dozen or more large SUVs everywhere they go; the fact he doesn't even use renewable energy for his 20-room, 10,000 square-foot mansion in Nashville, his second home in Virginia or a third in Carthage, Tenn.; the fact he's an extremely large shareholder in Oxy Petroleum, which has been mired for years in controversy over drilling in ecologically sensitive areas; or his involvement with mining companies (one of which sits on his Nashville property).

Al Gore has been wanting everybody to take drastic measures to change the way they live to "save the planet." Everybody but himself, that is.

How utterly Liberal. I'm not sure what makes me want to puke more -- his hypocrisy or the fact that so many people can't see through the B.S.

(Imported from Feb. 1, 2007)