Instantaneous microwave transmission of wind data from around the world is fed into a central mega-computer located deep within the high security Mickelson Park Technical Center in Fargo, North Dakota. Increasingly complex computer models, developed during the last decade, have brought the question of “Local Calming” to a point of alarming urgency.
Satire as only Lynn Bergman can serve up. Global Calming? Read the whole sordid tale.
Now that Senator Dorgan is not seeking re-election, the repercussions of voting against North Dakota's interests will not be felt by him in November.Let's hope for North Dakota's sake, Senator Dorgan's concern for his own legacy will push him to do the right thing for the state when the issue comes up in the Senate
Although patronizing, Brooks is accurate with the following assertion. Many people are skeptical of the depth and breadth of centralized government. Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, withdrew from the excess of the French Revolution; he was horrified by claims against individual liberty in the name of equality perpetuated by the French "educated class." From the beginning of America's first and only Republic, the question has persisted, "How do we balance freedom and equality?" This fundamental tension has preserved our Republic 200 plus years. Absent this tension we lose the freedom to be equal.
Many of you have probably experienced the belligerence of your credit card provider in requiring you pay off your lowest interest loans (usually a promotional rate) before the higher interest ones.
This is a classic example of NEEDED REGULATION that simply enforces a commonly accepted right of borrowers, namely the right to themselves choose to pay off higher interest rate loans first. I’m not taking credit (no pun intended) for the new law, but who knows if it would have included this provision had I not formally complained?
I am waiting, for example, for a scientific intellect aware of the fact that the orthodoxies of Darwinian evolutionism and apocalyptic environmentalism contradict each other. The adaptability of species is the very heart of Darwinism. The sky-is-falling alarmism of the climatologists, cannot, in the long term, be reconciled with the essential resilience of nature from an evolutionary perspective. Would these people have us believe that the fundamental tenets of the Darwinist creed can be set aside only by them, Darwinism's most fervent acolytes?
America's preeminent security threat is terrorism rooted in Islam. Religion is not the lone factor contributing to this threat. We must also look to: political, economic, cultural, and globalization as contributing factors to this threat. Religion certainly exacerbates the call to terrorism for some who wish America harm. Religion brings an element of absolute truth and absolute reality to potential terrorists; these absolutes are void in President Obama's postmodern world view. Consequently, we need leadership which views the world as is, not as the world should be.
America’s premier periodical of Insurance, “Risk & Insurance” is weighing in on the Sandy Blunt affair in shall we say “Blunt” terms when their star columnist, Peter Rousmaniere, publishes his article “Blunting Political Vindictiveness”.
"The prosecution of Blunt was nasty froth atop a wave of popular distrust of the autonomous status of the fund. With the Blunt conviction, North Dakota has marched toward, not away from, more political intrusion into workers' compensation."
While gifts for children may not have been on display at the White House this year, and the display of a crèche was likewise in question, something peculiar was on display—a most curious image. Hung on the historic White House Christmas tree this year was a rather novel ornament: a glistening, glimmering Mao Tse-Tung. How’s that for inclusion? Baby Jesus—maybe, maybe not? Chairman Mao, yes! Needless to say, Mao is not traditionally associated with Christmas,” Kengor concludes. “To the contrary, Mao brutally persecuted those who recognized Christmas. … Mao’s subsequent annihilation made him worthy not of Christmas ornamentation but the trophy of worst mass murderer in all of history. Yes, a puzzling choice for Christmas veneration.
Justification for the wonton destruction of children emerges under an assortment of stressful and pragmatic conditions. Two of the most frequent reasons were alleviation of poverty and population control.
The scarce supply of food always curtailed population growth. Starvation could be controlled by restricting the number of children allowed to mature to adulthood. While male and female infanticide controlled the population in general, societal prejudice against females characterized many male dominated cultures.
From the Washington Post: North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan will not run for re-election later this year, creating a major pickup opportunity for Republicans.
“2009 ended with a flurry of important events on the climate-change front.” “In November, the Climategate scandal broke. An anonymous whistle-blower released over 1,000 e-mails from key scientists … [which revealed] a shocking pattern of the abuse of science by both American and British scientists.” Then, the “incriminating e-mails were followed in December by charges from Russia’s Institute of Economic Analysis that Britain’s Meteorological Office deliberately skewed Russia’s temperature data.” “With the underlying climate-change ‘science’ so thoroughly compromised, did policymakers pause to reconsider the need for colossally expensive CO2-curbing policies? No. Instead they are locked into automatic-pilot mode…. Could it be that climate-change politics is more about wealth and power than science?”
By various estimates Dr. Norman Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions, or as many as a billion of the world's most vulnerable people from a wretched death by starvation over the course of a career that spanned a little more than a half century. Many more people, indeed most of the world has reaped the benefits of the green revolution through better and cheaper food. Borlaug certainly didn't do it alone. The green revolution, from which we all have benefited in ways that few really comprehend, was the work of thousands of dedicated men and women, who achieved an astounding half century of agricultural advancement, and continue to do so. But what Norman Borlaug represented most uniquely was a passion to adapt and carry those advances to the other half of the human race – those most vulnerable – the people on the edge.
The state had another great year in 2009, continuing many of the positive trends of 2008. Some of the stories are not single events, rather, they are a series of ongoing events.
THE ECONOMY -- HOW GOOD, BAKKEN BOOM, FLOODING, BAD BOY OF THE VALLEY, THE UND FIGHTING SIOUX NICKNAME, NDSU HITS A BUMP, SINGING THE BLUES, FARGO II, TOM CLIFFORD, BIG GET BIGGER
Voting records of North Dakota House and Senate members were examined for specific bills that best revealed philosophical leanings of individual legislators. Based on their votes, legislators accumulated points, the higher the points the more characteristic of the traditional, constitutional conservative viewpoint of limited government, moral order, personal responsibility, and societal freedom.
THE GREAT 2009 CHRISTMAS SNOWSTORM, TOP TEN OF THE DECADE, THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY, HE'S PRACTICALLY A FOLK HERO, CORNHUSKER KICKBACK, AN ECONOMY BURGLAR ALARM, FRED VOEGELE
It is said that to retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them being made. This health-care sausage we are being served has been made out of such a rancid stew of lies and bad ideas that what is actually produced, while familiar in shape, is quite other than sausage. It is more like what you get when a snake finishes digesting a lizard.
Is the good Senator correct in saying that health care reform benefits North Dakota? I am certain it would, should we ever have any reform that made sense. Senator Conrad takes credit for the “frontier states amendment” which will give North Dakota $65,000,000 a year to support Democrat medical programs. Senator Nelson of Nebraska got $1,200,000,000 guaranteed. Standing next to the great Nebraska gold-gobbler Senator Nelson, Senator Conrad appears a piker at generational theft and an embarrassment to North Dakota as a horse trader.
But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the TSA swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on US flights. In Toronto, no large purses.
And, just as the thug states understand they now have the run of the planet, so do the terror cells. A thwarted terror attack at Christmas is bad enough. Spending the following week making yourself a global joke is worse. Every A-list despot and dimestore jihadist got that message loud and clear – and so did American allies already feeling semi-abandoned by this most parochial of presidents. Expect a bumpy 12 months ahead.
It’s always easier to talk about someone else than it is to criticize ourselves. The issue O’Rourke raises is whether democracy is ultimately doomed by a citizenry avoiding responsibility for their own lives. In his book “Democracy in America,“ Alexis de Tocqueville approached the same issue adroitly pointing out that, once people in a democracy realize they can simply blame others for problems of their own making, the democracy is morally doomed.
Ben Franklin’s observation was even more cutting. “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
In the end, it seems, we are the whores trading our freedom for financial gain.
FGF: "Newt Gingrich: An Exemplary Republican": The Ornery
Gingrich would govern from the center, while renewing his efforts to pull minorities into the GOP. At the same time, he would pursue a recognizably neoconservative foreign policy, centered on extensive military commitments and on standing up for "democracy" in the Middle East. Gingrich veered to the right on immigration when Bush was almost out of office. At that point, he was trying to gain support on the right to win the presidential nomination or sharpen his profile as a "conservative" critic of the incoming Democratic administration.
Gingrich took his resounding stand against "amnestying illegals" when Bush was almost out of office, while Gingrich was going after the presidency as a "conservative." This attempt to look daring without deviating as a party loyalist is vintage Gingrich
As I write this, the climate-change con artists are meeting in Copenhagen, where useful-idiot communists are protesting in the streets while their standard bearers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales are railing against free markets and beating the red drum. Do you really think these folks care about the environment? The green that really concerns them is your money — and I do mean your money. Because if there is an “international” agreement to fight the phantom of climate change, you can bet your depreciating bottom dollar that we Americans will pay the freight. We are, after all, the world’s biggest energy suckers.
The question is, are we just the world’s biggest suckers?
"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877.Today, anxiety about the weather is more common than ever, although it’s not inborn but cultivated in schoolrooms, through television sets and by lying, rapacious ex-vice presidents.And I have anxiety about the weather, too — especially when it’s being used to promote a destructive agenda.
This brings us to Climategate, the scandal everyone is talking about and that inspired British journalist James Delingpole to write “it's [the climate con is] all unravelling now.”I only wish I could be so optimistic.Sure, we have the smoking gun of the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia, which provide evidence that we “deniers” were only denying a lie.And the erstwhile head of its Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones — a con man with a science degree if ever there were one — had to resign in disgrace.But don’t for a moment confuse a smoking gun with a coup de grace, or being sacrificed for the team with waving the white flag.I say this because I long ago realized something about man’s nature, something that may sound like a gross exaggeration: If a person has a strong enough vested interest in believing 2+2=5, he will surely insist it is so — in the face of all evidence to the contrary.But before I talk about who the real deniers are and what is being denied, let’s discuss the ugly reality reaffirmed by Climategate.
Here is the lowdown in a nutshell: Governments have used billions of dollars of our money to fund fraudulent science, which, in turn, is used to justify policy that would steal untold billions more from us through taxation and the handicapping of the private sector.This will, of course, stifle the creation of wealth, but it will also be a transfer of it.But this would not be so much from the rich to the poor; it would be from the poor and middle class to the rich and well-connected.Carbon-credit con men such as Al Gore will add to their many millions, while subtracting from the many millions some of the latter’s few dollars.It would move us toward a situation in which we’d have two Americas, as John Edwards might say.One would be a lying, covetous ruling class of John Edwardses.The other would be the masses, who would be perpetually mired in serfdom.
Yet defeating the climate con won’t be easy, because it isn’t just money that drives the con men.In fact, many of them are so married the climate con that they have become one with their misguided notions.Call it the Zen of Being Wrong.
One reason not to do wrong is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Obviously, Bill Clinton, John Edwards and Tiger Woods would never have felt the urge to lie about their affairs if they had never had affairs.Of course, the lying was immoral, but this is how one sin leads to another.A transgression leads to a lie, which leads to a full-blown cover-up, etc.And the deeper you dig that hole, the harder and more painful it is to climb out of it.
In the case of the climate con artists, the pain would be great and the price steep.Their creed has been likened to a religion, and in many ways it is. They aren’t global-warming theorists.
They are global-warming fundamentalists.
They have invested so much of their time, energy, emotion, ego and reputations in the climate con that to relinquish it would be to relinquish themselves; to call it a lie is to call their lives a lie.It’s just a bit like asking a Jihadist to give up Islam.These are not people who subscribe to AGW theory; they have submitted to it.
Then you have those who are using this religion to make money — and they and the true believers are often one and the same.These are the carbon-credit capitalists, the green-technology givers and greenback grabbers.
And we have to add to this the fact that all these people had become science’s Torquemadas, inquisitors bent on stifling inquisitiveness.Al Gore told us “The debate is over” as he and his co-religionists strove to root out heresy and sought to destroy the “deniers.”Thus, they have no reason to expect mercy.Surrender is simply not an option.
So forget about icebergs; the meltdown the climate con artists fear is that of their reputations, egos, finances and faith.Scientists or not, to admit error is not merely the alteration of a hypothesis to them; it is the loss of religion and meaning, the end of empire, the fall of Rome.It is complete and utter personal destruction.
Yet destruction is precisely what the climate-change con men would visit on the economies of nations in their delusional grip.Other lands, such as China and India, will never yield to such insanity.They may pay lip service to it, though, especially if doing so will encourage us to more thoroughly handicap ourselves.Then they can laugh and rise to prominence while we become the most recent great civilization to descend into backwater status.
As I write this, the climate-change con artists are meeting in Copenhagen, where useful-idiot communists are protesting in the streets while their standard bearers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales are railing against free markets and beating the red drum. Do you really think these folks care about the environment? The green that really concerns them is your money — and I do mean your money. Because if there is an “international” agreement to fight the phantom of climate change, you can bet your depreciating bottom dollar that we Americans will pay the freight. We are, after all, the world’s biggest energy suckers.
The question is, are we just the world’s biggest suckers?
Chavez, Mugabe and China are betting yes. And if we want to make fools out of them, we’ll cause radical climate change — to the political climate in Washington in 2010. It’s probably our last chance to prove who the fools really are.
The prospects for shining light upon that darkness seemed bleak,” Kengor recalls, yet this “new man in Washington, President Ronald Reagan, was sure he could reverse Moscow’s surge. He would jump-start the process in Poland, a repressed Communist Bloc state -- but one where hope survived.
For Obama, this means not simply reacting to occasional incidents in Iran -- when they rarely present themselves -- but to be proactive, creative, to regularly call out the tyrants and encourage the dissidents. Obama must do this if he wants to push the freedom tide, if he wants to try to change the status quo in a dungeon like Iran, which for 30 years has been the world’s worst terrorist state.
This hoax is part of the Democrat’s radical Marxist agenda. Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad as well as Representative Earl Pomeroy embraced this “change” by endorsing Obama for president and voting for Reid and Pelosi as majority leaders of their respective chambers. Dorgan further advanced this “change” by defeating an amendment that would have prohibited the EPA from regulating harmless CO2.
This epidemic of usury is not caused by the free market but by bad national policy. For generations, one of the key things for which bank examiners have looked was the presence of risky loans. Today, examiners are more likely to look for a failure to lend to racial minorities. The standard for banking that once existed was the soundness of its loan portfolio. Now the banks, and especially the national banks, are encouraging people with negative net worth due to constant spending of money that the people do not have. Usury is the only way this can avoid being a losing proposition.
SPIRIT LAKE TRIBE, LAUREN DONOVAN, AGRARIA, WALK BEFORE YOU RUN, WATER GOING AND COMING, THE BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA, HOW SOON HE FORGETS, THE DOMINANT ANCESTRY IS GERMAN, IS THAT ALL SHE DID?, DAKTOIDS
The monstrous mountain of toxic pustules sprouting from greasy boils metastasizing from malign carbuncles that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve is not the last word in “health” “care” but the first. It ensures that this is all we’ll be talking about, now and forever. Government can’t just annex “one-sixth of the US economy” (ie, the equivalent of annexing the entire British or French economy, or annexing the entire Indian economy twice over) and then just say: “Okay, what’s next? On to cap-and-trade…” Nations that governmentalize health care soon find themselves talking about little else.
Pondering as to why the world and our nation are in such a mess, Gulliver comes to mind. Here was a giant of a man, bound by numerous cords, few at first, then many as he slept on, eventually immobilized and powerless.
What other body is basically powerless, bound and having little impact on our society, culture and the world? If your answer to this question is the 'CHURCH', we are on the same thought track.
The holding of votes; the selling of votes; and the buying of votes with taxpayer money; and tax carve-outs of favors to come up with the needed 60 votes to pass bad law--this has outraged the American people. If good legislation cannot be arrived at without the blatant buying of votes then a new set of legislators must be found and elected. This whole display was nauseating!
Adjunct faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Hendrickson—considers the role of government in combating recessions by recapping the policies of the past, presenting strategies for the present, and advocating an approach for the future. “Unfortunately,” he concludes, “there is no pain-free alternative. Decades of government intervention have prevented needed adjustments, resulting in a gargantuan, rotten financial house of cards looming over us. Whenever the inevitable collapse happens, GDP will plunge. It will be like the economy has been hit by a financial neutron bomb. The problem is, the longer we wait for this to happen, the larger and more painful the collapse.
It is evident for all to see that it is the intent of the Obama Administration and the Democrat Congress to eventually have taxpayer funding of pre-birth infanticide. President Obama cannot make this happen by himself, he must have complicit legislators. A cloture vote is a vote for government support of infanticide. Regardless of what he SAYS, voting for cloture, even though voting against H.R. 3590, will ensure the creation of the governmental super-structure that will eventually mean that the blood of unborn children will be on the hands of Senators Dorgan.
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