Global Warming Alarmists caught in a lie

"October 2008 was the hottest October on record!", reported NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Al Gore puffed up in pride, I'm sure, knowing that his prophecies were being fulfilled.


Except for 1 small detail. The assertion that October was the warmest is false. And GISS now has to admit it. When GISS was compiling it's data on it's quest to prove man-made global warming, they made a small boo-boo. For the month of October, they "accidentally" used temperature readings from the month of September; which, surprise, surprise, is a warmer month than October, at least most of the time!.

They were caught by some bloggers, who had combed thru the publicly accessible data. Now I'm sure the bloggers have their own agenda, as well, but this is still yet another stake in the heart of the man-made global warming canard.

While GISS didn't say this, I'm sure AlGore and his cronies are working hard at keeping this temperature data top-secret, G-27 classified from now on.

Looter's to pay off credit card debt

I just heard on the news that the credit card companies are begging for a piece of the $700 billion bailout that was passed by congress and signed by the president, despite overwhelming opposition from the American people. They are apparently asking for enough money to cut 40% off the Moochers' credit card bills.

What the crap??? Some slimy business man gets drunk and uses his credit card to buy a high dollar hooker, and I have to pay for it?????

This stuff is really ticking me off. Why the heck did I work my butt off to pay off my student loans? Why am I paying my mortgage on time? Why should I work harder than ever, just to get taxed more so some stinking Moocher can get away with being a dad-blamed deadbeat?????

Spread the Wealth

Here's a quote (emphasis added) from a speech given by Francisco D'Anconia, a fictional character in the novel, Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, that references the idea of "spreading the wealth". To read the entire speech (it'll take you less than 5 minutes, probably more like 3), click here.

""But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made--before it can be looted or mooched--made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced...'


"But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth--the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?"

The myth of tax increases only for the "rich"

Mr Obama keeps saying that only the evil, rich people making over $250k will see tax increases. That is a blatant falsehood. Here are the facts:

If you are currently lucky enough (or malevolent enough) to make over approximately $97,000/year, your FICA taxes peak out. But Mr Obama wants to eliminate that cap. So we've gone from tax cuts just for those making 250k, down to 97k.

Next, Mr Obama voted to allow the Bush tax cuts (you know, those tax cuts just for greedy rich SOB's) to expire in 2011. So, if you make over approximately $32,000 dollars, in 2008 you are in the 15% tax bracket. However, thanks to the messiah-wanna-be, in 2011, you will be pole-vaulting into the 28% bracket, without earning a penny more( betcha didn't know that 32K made you one of "the rich?"). Now we've gone from 97k to 32k.

Where will this downward trend stop???