Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Massachusetts and spit it out!

Massachusetts, the bluest state (commonwealth) in the union has shocked us all. For the first time in 40+ years the Republicans have pulled out the win of the lifetime. Bigger than any Gubernatorial election, even bigger than the Presidential election… this was a stunner!

Liberal Democrats are of course blaming this on Bush. The President’s response in the interview with George Stephanopoulos just after the results were tallied loosely was “this isn’t about the last two years or about the last year; it’s about the eight years”. My refrain can only last so long and it is abundantly clear that Liberals (or people that still chose to associate with them) are f’n clueless. Seriously, I’ve never seen a collective group of dumber people in my life.

Is this really what these morons believe? A seat held by the person so blue he made a Smurf jealous for so long as he did was filled by a guy that is the complete opposite; an Independent conservative Republican. And the people of Massachusetts did this because they were anti-Bush. Really?

Scott Brown ran on three basic principles with a super clean campaign. Less spending, less taxes and NO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. The once filibuster proof Democratic legislative just got the wind knocked out of them. Democrats holding office now that are up for reelection are in a state of panic. Chris Dodd, one of the most prominent Democrats in the Senate already said he won’t rerun so he can spend to time with his family . Aww, and I’m really a goldfish with fingers to type this. These people are losing left and right and it’s because the liberalist/socialist agenda doesn’t work and the American people didn’t sign on for this.

Finally people are starting to understand that the Unions are bullshit. At last they see that social programs to “help” the poor are useless. How those programs force people to become dependents to the state and how more money is always needed to add to the corruption. We’re beginning to understand that all Liberals do is throw money at problems while pulling on the heart strings of their constituents promising it will help.

The President inherited a bad economy so he just had to spend 10 times our deficit to fix it. We have 3.5 million people in this country homeless but we can afford to send 100 million to help out in Haiti. Not to say their suffering isn’t horrible… it is, but that’s 33k per homeless person here at home. We bought ourselves a ton of banks for 800 BILLION and another 800 BILLION for bs pet projects, an automobile company for 60 BILLION dollars and they still won’t stop throwing money to the wind. This is all done under the guise of the Liberal agenda.

Not all Democrats are Liberals just like not all Republicans thump a bible but at the end of the day, who hurts which side more? There is insanity and stupidity in both camps but when one side would rather solely depend on the government for everything you really have to start questioning their agenda and why it exists...

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Climate Changes, With No Results

After “Dopenhagen’s” Climate Change summit that resulted in nothing but political handshakes, winks and civilian riots what are we left with? Yeah, I can’t think of anything either.

So what happens now? Personally, I’ll be continuing on with my life the same way I always have. But when I think of how that life has changed even in my short time here, I still don’t see the results we were all promised.

When I was a kid in the 80’s recycling was nearly nonexistent. Woodsy Owl taught us to “give a hoot and don’t pollute” but that was about the extent of it. Soon after however we all became much more informed. People started recycling with laws from towns that enforced it. Companies like McDonalds stopped using Styrofoam containers so their impact on the environment was less. Bottles changed, recycled content was all the rage and cars became increasingly more efficient.

But what has happened now that I have spent more than 2/3’s of my life trying to be as environmentally friendly as possible? Not a fucking thing. Al Gore wants me to believe that we’re still too dirty and uses charts from an era where we’ve clearly tried to give a shit about the planet that sustains us. We’ve made our smog restrictions, booted all the manufacturers out of the country, changed our eating habits, and limited the chemicals we use with the aerosols that propel them and still… not one iota of positive change.

For the life of me I can’t figure out if its human selfishness that makes us fall for this shit or not. You would probably be hard pressed to find a normal thinking person that feels living a polluting life is good for the planet but what will happen to those people that live so diligently and still find out they made no change?

If even in my life time and the twenty years I remember us all playing by the rules has led to no positive change what will? We already know that the globe has always had a shifting climate and that a 1 degree change is nothing drastic in relation to what this place is capable of. Scientists have proven that there have been at least 5major ice ages and the next is inevitable. So is it that selfishness that makes us think we can prolong or alter those changes? It’s clear we mean well but according to the scare machine that is Climate Change, what we’ve done is not enough and never will be.

Instead of taking a deep breath, now the US government regulates the carbon dioxide we produce from exhaling. 20 years from now I’ll write another post, do you think we’ll still be doing all of this with no results or will we have fallen for something else? My bet is hedged with, probably both.