Part III of my discussion with Alan Butler (Butler on Business) on Common Core and other comments. I come on at the 32 minute mark.
http://host1.cyberears.com//22069.mp3
Friday, October 18, 2013
Rain, God's Water Regulated by Progressives
Water is life and
it is recyclable, covering 70 percent of our planet; 2.5 percent is fresh water
and “only 1 percent is easily accessible, the rest is trapped in glaciers and
snowfields.” National Geographic tries to make the case that freshwater is in a
crisis since its levels have remained the same over millennia but the human
population has exploded to seven billion. No mention is made of animals that
also need drinking water.
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/
Environmentalists have
been telling us for quite some time that man-made global warming would result
in the melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, causing 25 feet rise in the ocean
levels, destroying all the islands and coastal areas around the globe. But the
moneyed liberals who spell this gloom and doom scenario have built elaborate
mansions in coastal areas around the globe. And the polar ice caps have
experienced this year a 60 percent increase in ice. http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/09/has-global-cooling-begun-arctic-ice-caps-grow-60-year
Humans seem to be “inefficient
water users,” says National Geographic. One hamburger takes 630 gallons to
produce while “water-intensive crops such as cotton are grown in arid regions.”
In the U.S., cotton is grown in the south where water is plentiful.
The ever-wise
United Nations guestimates that by 2025, “1.8 billion people will live in areas
plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world’s population living in
water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.”
Non-existent global warming/climate change is the culprit even though the earth
has been cooling for the last 15 years. http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Rainwater has thus
become a contentious issue which must be regulated by EPA say environmentalists
and their progressive supporters around the country who make their life mission
to control the rest of us because we are so ignorant, we must be told what to do
in painful detail. http://www.waterworld.com/articles/print/volume-29/issue-8/urban-water-management/regulating-rainfall.html A wise judge in Virginia struck down the
attempted rainwater regulation by the EPA. http://conservative-outlooks.com/2013/01/15/epas-attempt-to-regulate-rainwater-dries-up/
However, it did not stop other states and local boards to proceed with implementation
of its regulation.
Before 2009 “it was
illegal in Colorado to gather rainwater and snowmelt that fell from a rooftop,
patio, or driveway into barrels.” It was considered theft. In most of the
western United States, it is still illegal to capture rainwater due to “the
prior appropriation doctrine that governs water.” Colorado allowed capture
after a study revealed that 97 percent of rainfall in the Denver area never reached
the rivers, it evaporated.
The Colorado Senate
Bill 09-080 was so strict that urbanites could never capture rainwater. The rules were as follows:
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Collecting rainwater had to be done only on residential property
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The homeowner had to have a legal entitlement to a well
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No water was provided by a city to the homeowner
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Water could only be collected from the roof
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The rainwater collected could only be used in the manner described in the
well permit
I wonder how many
people are in violation of the law when they leave an empty container outside
and it fills up with rainwater?
Progressives and
the U.N. are obsessed with water, among many other things, as a way to control
what people do in their daily lives. Take for instance a golfing community in
Texas that pumps water from the Brazos river running next to the golf course.
After estimating the number of gallons of water needed to water their lawn,
they paid the county for the water plus an additional amount in case they have
underestimated their needs. After years of this business arrangement, the
county wants to “renegotiate” the agreement because they feel that the course
is not entitled to so much of “God’s water.”
Additionally, the
residents cannot build cisterns to catch rainfall because “God’s water” would
run on the property, seep into the ground, and run off into the river, thus
polluting it.
As I described in
my previous article, http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58534
United Nations
has a strong vested interest to control our water supply and our passage
through the seas, oceans, our shipping, fishing, and mineral and oil exploration
on the bottom of the ocean. They are controlling it through Agenda 21, chapters
17 and 18 signed by 178 countries, including the United States, and through the
Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) which has not yet been ratified by the Senate for
lack of sufficient votes. They will keep trying until they have the votes.
Executive Order 13603
from March 16, 2012 gives the Department of Defense authority over all water
resources. The order also covers all food, transportation, energy, construction
materials, “health resources,” farm equipment, fertilizers, and all fuels that
can be commandeered and controlled by our government both in peacetime and
during national emergencies. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
Tombstone,
Arizona, “the town too tough to die,” has been embroiled in expensive
litigation with the USDA and the Forest Service over its ability to use water
from the mountain springs that has provided the desert town with water since
the 1880s, predating the Wilderness Act by 80 years.
A Monument Fire
in 2011 destroyed the pipes in Huachuca Mountains that carried the water down
from its source in the Miller Canyon Wilderness Area. Boulders the size of cars
buried the pipes. The Forest Service denied residents the use of heavy
machinery to unearth the pipes that were covered in some places by 12 feet of
mud. Instead, they could only use wheelbarrows and hand tools. As they were
protecting an endangered species, a pair of nesting Mexican spotted owls, the
Forest Service declined to give further information unless the Goldwater
Institute paid nearly $80,000 in fees. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/12/is-this-owl-forcing-historic-tombstone-az-to-fix-water-lines-with-horses-and-handtools/
Liberals do not
have a problem with wind turbines chopping up millions of birds in flight
around the world, including the golden eagle in California, as long as it is
done in the name of renewable energy. But disturbing a pair of nesting Mexican
spotted owls, so that 1,600 humans can get water, is not acceptable. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/09/27/California-wind-farm-seeks-permit-to-kill-eagles/UPI-90981380303425/
The 10th
Amendment protects states and their subdivisions from federal regulations that
impede their ability to fulfill essential health and safety functions. “Though
the water may originate on National Forest lands, Bureau of Land Management
lands, and other federally managed lands, the rights to that water belong to
the farms and ranches and cities.” The lawyers for the federal government
disagree.
In mid-June 2012,
a group of citizens armed with shovels trekked 2 miles up the mountain in 100
degree heat to restore water by hand from the Gardner Spring to the historical
Tombstone, Arizona. http://netrightdaily.com/2012/06/tombstone-az-residents-forced-to-use-shovels-and-hand-tools-to-fix-water-supply/
Mr. Gosar made a
one minute speech to the House of Representatives on December 12, 2012, “Our
communities shouldn’t need their Congressman or a lawsuit to make basic repairs
to infrastructure. The Federal Government should work with us, not against us,
to preserve western water supplies.” http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:H12DE2-0026:/
We now have to
suffer the ill-effects of low flush “enviro-friendly” toilets that don’t really
save any water since people have to flush them 4-5 times in order to get rid of
human waste. To make matters worse, city sewers get stopped up because of
low-flush toilets, costing them millions and millions of dollars a year to fix
problems. The much touted flushable wipes also clog the small residential pipes
and cost homeowners millions of dollars a year to dig out them out and replace.
Yet there is plenty of water, save for cyclical periods of draught.
According to
discovery.com, there are over 15,000 desalination plants around the world that
convert ocean water into drinking water either by distillation or reverse
osmosis. Environmentalists complain that both processes use too much
electricity. Distillation involves boiling the sea water, capturing the steam,
separating it into cooling tanks, which then condense the steam into fresh
water. Reverse osmosis is filtration that removes the salt and minerals from
the water. The brine left behind is usually piped back into the ocean.
Mike Mickley wrote in “US
Municipal Desalination Plants: Number, Types, Location, Sizes, and Concentrate
Management Practices” that 324 plants were built since 1971 in the United
States, capable of producing 25,000 gallons of fresh water per day. The
Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego, California is slated for completion
in 2016 and will be capable of producing 50 million gallons of fresh water per
day, providing 7 percent of the San Diego region’s supply needs.
Progressive don’t like
desalination because it uses too much electricity provided by coal and other
fossil fuels, the culprits of CO2 and global warming. They would prefer that we
live in a feudal type society centered on a self-sufficient village.
But the global warming did
not pan out because it is a hoax. South Dakota got a record 23 inches of snow
in early October this year that killed 100,000 cows - they either suffocated or
froze to death. The MSM, with the exception of Fox News and the foreign press,
did not report the disaster caused by the massive blizzard preceded by heavy rain.
Our government did not send any help because South Dakota is flush with revenue
from tar sands. Besides, the evil conservatives caused the government to shut
down, FEMA’s hands were tied. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/13/south-dakota-ranchers-reel-after-catastrophic-storm-leaves-up-to-100000-cattle/
Progressives don’t like
hydroelectric power generation because it is interfering with nature, aquatic
habitats, and the natural flow of rivers. Many dams have been blown up during
this administration, citing this reason. The fact that nature itself causes rivers
to flood, creating and destroying habitats at the same time, has escaped the
progressive agenda.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Elder Abuse under Obama Care
Jane* went to bed one
night last week, thanking God for her many blessings. She woke up next morning screaming,
an entirely different person. Hallucinating, alternating between an imaginary
world that only she could see and hear and lucidity, her family took her to the
local hospital. She was admitted immediately and routine blood tests and an MRI
were ordered.
Because Jane is 74 years
old and a “unit” under Obama Care, her utility to society must be low in the
complicated formula the bureaucrats have devised to kill as many inconvenient
elderly as possible.
New rules under Medicare
and Tricare required that a case manager be assigned to her. Jane was no longer
a patient with feelings, humanity, personality, but a “case.” Think of her case
manager as someone whose sole purpose was to provide as little care as possible
to an elderly American in dire need.
Flailing in pain, crying
for help, and scared, Jane was tied to her bed to “calm her down” in spite of
the fact that she has severe inflammatory arthritis in her hands. Her dentures
and glasses were given to a nurse for safekeeping and she promptly lost them.
It would be another 24 hours before they were found.
Jane’s husband Rob* served
in the National Guard for years in a very blue state* in a predominantly blue
collar town. It was the right thing to do for our nation and he had hoped that
our country would keep its promise to care for him and his wife medically in
their twilight years. After all, a civilized society is defined by its
humanity, by its treatment of the weak, the old, and the helpless. It turned
out not to be the case, the government failed miserably in its promise.
Since the routine tests
showed an elevated bacterial count, the infectious disease specialist ordered a
spinal tap and counseled the family about the need of such a test. The doctor
on duty however, overrode the order and lied to the family that she had spoken
to the infectious disease specialist and that he had decided there was no need
for a spinal tap after all.
The family was advised to
look for a nursing home to move Jane into as soon as possible since she had
dementia and the hospital was unable to help her. Discharge papers were filled
out. With teary eyes, her husband Rob was struggling to concentrate in order to
complete the stack of papers unceremoniously shoved in front of him.
Several hours later, the
infectious disease specialist reappeared during rounds to check on his patient
Jane, to make sure the spinal tap was done. To his surprise, his order had been
cancelled by the doctor on duty and the case manager was busy with discharge
paperwork. He reinstated the spinal tap order and invalidated the illegal
release from the hospital which he had not signed nor ordered.
Infuriated, two family
members filed complaints the next morning against the admission doctor and the
case manager. As everyone was crying from stress, relief, and hope that perhaps
Jane’s symptoms were due to meningitis or encephalitis, treatable illnesses,
the case manager walked in and demanded to know in very harsh tones why the
family had neglected her instructions the previous day to choose a nursing home
from the list provided. She also threatened them with payment liability for the
hospital bill if she stayed beyond the discharge date. She said, “We may just
have to make the nursing home decision for you.” Although nobody gave this
woman power of attorney over Jane, the family was bullied into submission and
obeyed. They picked the closest nursing home, 5 minutes away from Jane’s home.
As they visited the
nursing home, the family was surprised to find out that Jane’s entire life
history and medical records had already been emailed to them by the case
manager without the family’s permission. The family made a verbal complaint to
the hospital director for the maltreatment of Jane and their invasion of
privacy and decision-making.
Jane was calm enough today
and had her spinal tap. She is awaiting the test results. In the meantime, her
immediate family, generational staunch Democrats and supporters of Obama, was
numb with shock and outrage that able-bodied Americans on welfare who refuse to
work and illegal aliens are going to be medically insured and treated at the
expense of hard-working Americans like Rob and Jane who paid their dues to
society in many ways over decades, while Jane is treated worse than an animal,
moved back and forth over the course of several days from the psych ward to a
regular hospital floor. She became one of the early victims of the much touted
Obama Care that “does not have death panels and rationing.”
Sadly, this country is
falling into the hell trap of communism very quickly. What good is medical
insurance if the medical care is unavailable, non-existent, sub-standard, and
most of all, inhumane?
*Names have
been changed and the state withheld at the request of the family, to protect loved
ones from more government reprisals.
Butler on Business, My Radio Commentary on Common Core Part II, October 14, 2013
http://host1.cyberears.com//21989.mp3
I come on at the 43 minute mark.
I come on at the 43 minute mark.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
District of Columbia, The Seat of Power and Corruption
One of the most densely
policed places in the world, it is easy to lose yourself in the many purposefully
narrowed streets to make them difficult to vehicular traffic, the roads with
double names, one name before it crosses a major highway and another name on
the other side, the barricaded buildings, the check points, and the unmarked
police cars and menacingly-looking plain-clothed police armed for urban
assault.
On the best of days, the District
of Columbia is a lovely place to visit if you are a museum lover, an admirer of
the many monuments and memorials on the National Mall, the Reflecting Pool, the
botanical gardens, the art galleries of the Smithsonian, the green parks with creative
and intricate statues, the Natural History Museum, the Spy Museum, Madam Tussauds
Wax Museum, and the Ford Theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated.
On the worst of recent days,
D.C. was a dangerous place for an unarmed young mother with a toddler in the
back seat of her car who got so lost and frightened, trying to escape from so
many men and women pointing guns at her, she did not stop in time and was shot.
Did she deserve to die? Should they have shot her tires first or used road spikes?
Life used to be precious to our Western culture, not death.
On the worst of days in
September, a crazed gunman with employment credentials and revenge on his
clouded mind shot a lot of innocent people in the office building in which he
had easy access and clearance to enter.
On the best of days of
spring, D.C. is a fragrant symphony in pink cherry blossoms, surrounding the Tidal
Basin and dotting the landscape of the surrounding buildings. The 1912 gift of
3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo becomes a joy every year during
the month of April, snowing flowers everywhere.
On the worst of government
shutdown days, overzealous and petulant D.C. bureaucrats who claimed to serve
the people turned away WWII veterans from their own memorial for which they’ve
paid dearly in blood and treasure. Politicians wanted to make life as miserable
as possible for American citizens during the unnecessary government shutdown.
The government was too broke, they said, to stay open but found money to hire armed
police and personnel to man barricades in an open-air monument that otherwise
does not require much maintenance or guarding.
On the worst of days this
week in D.C., the vets, who were arrested for crossing over the barricades at
the Vietnam Memorial, were shocked when illegal aliens who broke our laws and
crossed our borders illegally were allowed to rally on the National Mall,
demanding amnesty. The illegal aliens and their progressive activists and
lobbyists have more power and rights under this administration than American
citizens do.
Breitbart News reported
that an elaborate set of “four Jumbotrons, port-a-potties, special event
fencing, tents, and raised and lighted stages” were set up across the National
Mall for illegal aliens who invaded the U.S. in violation of our law. Meanwhile, veterans who fought in Normandy,
Europe, Iowa Jima, North Africa, and freed Europe of the scourge of Nazism were
told by gun-carrying park police to back off and move along from the monuments
they paid for with their blood and treasure.
On the best of days, D.C.
witnessed millions of peaceful tea party marchers who were taxed enough
already, yet most of the MSM ignored them and wrote them off as a few thousand
radical right wingers with extreme views, an “AstroTurf movement” as Nancy
Pelosi so derisively called them.
On the worst of days, D.C.
is a place to fear and the seat of power, corruption, and pettiness. Big rigs drivers
understood that. Unlike the past when truckers caused gridlock in Washington
with their demonstrations, few American truckers showed up this time to protest
their bloated government that does not seem willing to stop spending, taxing
its citizens, and devaluing the American dollar. Truckers were afraid – the implied
threat of the National Guard was promoted on Social websites and many retreated
in fear of their government. Those who did show up and had to obey the closed
roads signs spent upwards of $1,500 one way in fuel alone to make a stand
against the tyrannical government.
The District of Columbia
is the seat of government for the select few, the globalists with money, the
lawyers, progressive education policy deciders, and the powerful lobbies that
determine the fate of 307 million Americans and indirectly the economic fate of
the rest of the world.
Washington, D.C. is our nation’s
capital but it appears more like the capital of everyone-who-hates America and
its culture, where deals are made secretively in the dead of night, where the
American stellar health care enjoyed by generations has been destroyed in the
name of progressive Marxist fairness, social justice, and community organizing,
replaced by rationing and death panels.
D.C. is now a place where
extreme leftists reign, undermining the rule of law. Michael Reagan said, the “law
is applied through a filter of how the application affects a group, instead of
being applied impartially regardless of the group or individual circumstances.”
(reaganreports.com)
On a cloudy day, when the
District of Columbia was cloaked in a gray mantle of drizzling rain, I went to
the mall to walk. One of the chain store windows displayed 3 oversized, bright red
signs with the unfortunate words, “SALE! Thank Congress; Thank Mr. Obama,
Government Shut Down SALE!!! Extra 20% off, up to 70% off.”
Commerce is good for the
country, we are a consumer-oriented economy, and two-thirds of our GDP is
consumption. Some might even say there is too much conspicuous consumption.
Should we thank Congress
for not doing its job and passing a budget in four years? Should we thank Mr.
Obama and Congress for passing the unaffordable Affordable Care Act in the
middle of the night with only Democrat votes? Should we thank Nancy Pelosi for
telling us that we must pass the bill in order to find out what’s in it? We did
find out, Rep. Pelosi, and we don’t like it one bit.
Should we thank our
president for taking a wrecking ball to our stellar healthcare? Health insurance
did need revamping, several million
Americans did not have insurance, could not afford it or were dropped because
of preexisting conditions, but why replace it with one-payer government-run
ineptitude which turns out to be much more expensive? How are those exchanges that
cost taxpayers over $693 million working out so far? After all, they were quite
pricier than originally quoted ($93 million).
On sunny days D.C. is a
place of green parks, paved streets, and heavily shuttered and protected glass
and concrete buildings occupied by faceless bureaucrats in grey suits, carrying
heavy briefcases stuffed with new regulations, rules, laws, and taxes that the American
proletariat must follow and obey.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Butler on Business, Common Core Education Standards, October 9, 2013
My 11 minute commentary today on Butler on Business. Topic: Common Core education standards.
Who is paying the bill, who wrote the standards, and why. A second installment will be aired next Monday which will include actual examples of school districts and why this nationalized education is a threat to the future of our country.
http://host1.cyberears.com//21865.mp3
Who is paying the bill, who wrote the standards, and why. A second installment will be aired next Monday which will include actual examples of school districts and why this nationalized education is a threat to the future of our country.
http://host1.cyberears.com//21865.mp3
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Steel on Steel, Radio segment on Obamcare Misinformation
My radio segment on Steel on Steel, October 2013, Obama Care misinformation. I come on at the 43 minute mark.
Link directly to the audio file:
http://radio.steelonsteel.com/
Link directly to the audio file:
http://radio.steelonsteel.com/
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