The RoanokeSlant

This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com

Saturday, March 28, 2009

 

Obama’s Street Army

Not Found in The Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
-
This week, 3/28/09, the Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a devastating new bill – the so-called Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education Act (S.277) – that would allow politicians to funnel billions of tax dollars to leftwing organizations that they could then use for political purposes
-
It's being done under the guise of enabling Barack Obama to build his “volunteer” youth corps – “just as powerful, just as strong” as the U.S. military, as he promised during his campaign speech in Colorado Springs:
-
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
-
Can you imagine how the Democrats and the left-wing liberal media would have related to such a move by the Bush Administration?
This is very disturbing because we have seen this before in world history.
The Robber-Barons had their Brinks thugs.
Jimmy Hoffa had his head-busters.
Hitler had his brown-shirts.
Mussolini had his black-shirts.
Obama is establishing and funding with our public tax money his green-shirts!
-
If the so-called GIVE Act is passed in its present form, groups like ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH will receive multi-million-dollar grants of YOUR TAX MONEY for lobbying, community organizing, protests, strikes – and just about any other activity they believe would further their hard left agenda-Support the DeMint Amendment that would prohibit “advocacy” groups or groups co-located with advocacy groups from receiving any assistance under the Act. The DeMint Amendment would automatically prohibit any organization “engaged in legislative advocacy” – or working hand in hand with such organizations -- from receiving assistance under the GIVE Act.
-
More Hope and Change we can Believe In!-

Thursday, March 26, 2009

 

More Clinton Hypocrisy

Roanoke Times, 3/26/09, Pg 7: Clinton: US shares blame for Mexican drug wars;
“Because of “our” demand for drugs!”
-
Perhaps the words and deeds of our national leaders are important.
-
Perhaps making jokes about personal illegal drug use has an impact on impressionable young people. Maybe that’s why major advertisers targeting young people use highly visible personalities.
-
So – Bill Clinton smoked marijuana, but didn’t inhale!
-
Obama smoked marijuana – and did inhale – that was the point!
-
Cute pandering to the hemp-heads and yuppies for votes!
-
Then Hillary shows up at the Border and declares “we’re all to blame”!
-
No girl, we’re not ALL to blame! And your hypocrisy is disgusting!
-
Just secure the border instead of continuing to embrace the illegal immigrant traffickers in your disgusting pandering to the 12 million illegal immigrants for future votes!
-
Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrats-sink-immigration-bill.html
-
http://www.roanokeslant.org/American.jpg
-

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

 

More Hope and Change

1. The team of Obama, Pelosi, & Reid who demanded an open border with Mexico and who pushed for amnesty for illegal immigrants are now sending large numbers of marshals and soon National Guardsmen to help secure the Mexican border. Apparently the illegal cross-border traffickers’ really were and are a serious problem as the Bush administration stated.
-
2. Turns out the carbon-credit-trading-scam that’s making Mr. Gore heaps of money now have a direct Chicago connection to Obama who is pushing to force it onto the entire country through mandatory laws intended to limit and ration energy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/25/obama-helped-fund-carbon-scheme/
-
3. Obama the Pied Piper Uniter of the World has now alienated the European Union members with his “stimulus” plan and criticism of the EU’s approach.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510445,00.html
-
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market."
-
He slammed the U.S.' widening budget deficit and protectionist trade measures — such as the "Buy America" — and said that "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell."-"We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way," he said.-"Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the stability of the global financial market," said Topolanek.
-
4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
-

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

 

Yet Another NASA Self-serving Study

Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 3: NASA study: Ozone disaster avoided.
“A” NASA study presented by “A” NASA scientist says his computer simulation of the ozone-hole reduction shows that eliminating the old-Freon air-conditioning chemical has saved the world from a horrible disaster. We would all be fried by now from a large ozone hole if the changes hadn’t been made!
-
This is very interesting because other recent studies have concluded that natural forces have had a major effect on the ozone-hole and that it hasn’t shrunk no less gone away.
-
The current NOAA graphic data clearly shows the last 10 year history does not support the conclusion that eliminating the old-Freon has made a major change.
In fact the data shows that the 2006 & 2008 hole is larger than the 10-year average for 4 out of the 5 tracking months shown.
-
NOAS web site:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png
-
An interesting footnote to this subject is that the current NOAA view is that IF the ozone-hole becomes significantly smaller – Global Warming will INCREASE!
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-agu.html
-
Don’t you just love all the conflicting stories and data and simulations?
-
And these are the folks that are telling our government to make major changes to what we do and how we do it because their simulation-models know what’s going to happen years into the future.
-
Perhaps they should join the wall-street crowd and the mortgage folks and tell us how they saved us from a financial melt-down! Talk about global warming!
-
Prior similar items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
-

Monday, March 23, 2009

 

No New Energy Jihad

Roanoke Times, 3/22/09, Pg 6: Democrat Ca Senator Feinstein opposes using Mojave Desert to produce energy.
3/22/09, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Conservation of energy could offset need to build 40 new coal electric power plants
-
Is there anyone anywhere who does not recognize that these articles and their authors, in addition to the examples of the Kennedy-Nantucket Wind Farm and the Virginia Highland Wind Farm represent a “No New Energy Jihad” movement?
-
The short-term objective is to stop enhancements of and-or remove current power systems wherever possible and to stop any new power systems however green.
-
The overall objective is to reduce availability of power thereby driving up its costs and enabling a government rationing system to control its use.
-
The membership of this movement is dedicated to the premise that only the Federal Government should control all energy resources from the source to the end users and that will then become subservient to the UN as the ultimate control authority.
-
The UN-IPCC climate change hysteria is currently the vehicle that is being utilized by these organizations to support the contention that this Jihad is required in order to “save the planet”.
-
Not included in this scenario is who will save us from “big brother”?
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/weed-in-green-garden.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
-
The Kennedy’s, Walter Kronkite and the Nantucket Wind Farms
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
-

Friday, March 20, 2009

 

Bonus Countrywide Dodd

Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 5, House bill would tax bonuses for execs of bailed-out firms.
Page 17, Editorial: Bonus rage
-
Both the lengthy “news” article and the editorial missed some very important “news” items. Perhaps missed is the wrong word. An act of slantful omission might be more correct. After all how could you write hundreds of words about this without mentioning Democrat Senator Dodd?
-
The key Democrat in this Democrat Senate in collusion with the Democrat Treasury who is personally responsible for inserting the “bonus’ are OK” clause in the AIG bailout Bill was none other than:
Chris Bonus Countrywide Dodd, Democrat of Conn., Head of the Senate Banking Committee.
-
Dodd initially pointed the finger (you know which one) at Treasury Sec. Geitner, but then when the heat hit he was forced to admit “it was me”. Not exactly the “cherry tree” story.
-
We remember Dodd – he’s the Senator who got a sweet-heart mortgage from Countrywide (the company at the epicenter of the mortgage mess that precipitated the current financial crisis).
-
Dodd is also the top recipient of campaign cash from AIG employees over the years.
-
The Congressional vote on taxing the bonuses is an act of malfeasance on top of malfeasance! Every member of Congress knows that the Bill is unconstitutional and a gross act of patronizing a population who are enduring a major problem and who will be paying for the next 20 years the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR per year debt of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi budget and bail-out mess.
-
Just more hope and change we can believe in!
-
Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
-

Monday, March 16, 2009

 

Not Weird Just Wrong

Roanoke Times, 3/16/09, Pg 15: Commentary by K. Parker: Weird new media world. Ms. Parker laments the downward spiral of print media and blames bloggers, right-wingers and ignorant youths for the problem. She worries that a free press is vital to a free society.
-
Ms. Parker is right on the importance of a free press to a free society. However, the rest of her messages are misdirected and way off target.
-
The “free press” has been hijacked by liberal and left-wing ideologues that are using bias and slant to further an economic, political and socialist agenda.
This blog contains over 1,000 items that details many examples of this wrong behavior by the Roanoke Times and their associates.
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
-
For an outrageous example of the views and beliefs of a major leader of “free press” read the commencement address to the graduating teachers of New Paltz College by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060522115623.aspx
With that level of publicly pronounced bias and venom, how can he or any of his subordinates represent a fair, balanced and free press?
-
If the NY Times declares Chapt 11 this year, it’s not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media.
It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility! People vote with money and their attention and not just with ballots!
-
In fact, this referenced commentary by Ms Parker is itself lacking the responsibility to face-up-to the realities of the cause-and-effect of this problem and by failing to make a focused appeal to her fellow journalists to report the news in a fair and balanced manner so that the reading public can regain trust and confidence in the media.
-
How many of the media are even qualified to apply for a Tim Russert medal?
-
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
-

Thursday, March 12, 2009

 

No New Energy Jihad

Roanoke Times, 2/4/09, Pg Va 9: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa: Wind power needs regulation.
Roanoke Times, 3/12/09, Pg 19: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa (AGAIN) Wind project deserves no stimulus
-
-
The highland wind-farm project has been in the Virginia regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the smoke has settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” are hung-on are the numbers of bats and birds that may fly into the blades. Apparently akin to the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
-
What are we doing about the hundreds of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats and other animals and birds of prey? What are we doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”? Apparently Mother Nature has her own blades.
-
Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy? Are our birds and bats less risk averse than theirs?
-
Prior Roanoke Times opinion articles gloss over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. For perspective, suppose you apply for a home building permit and the building inspector tells you that “you can build the house, but, every week there will be an inspection and if more than two birds per week are killed by flying into your windows and glass doors, you will have to tear down the house”. Would anyone build under those conditions, and would any bank provide a mortgage on such a house?
-
Apparently there are lots of green-power proponents who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required. When you blow away their smokey wind, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself and a commitment to the Jihad of no more power development of any kind no matter how green.
-
Prior Items:
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
-

Monday, March 02, 2009

 

Federal Employee Civil Disobedience

Dr Jim Hansen, a NASA employee, apparently is a self-proclaimed major player in today’s, March 2,2009, mass civil disobedience action in Washington DC.
-
Hansen is a key player on the Gore-hypothesis team while at the same time being paid by the taxpayers to be an independent and unbiased scientist tasked to explore the scientific facts associated with our 250 year global warming situation.
-
It is very disturbing that he does not have the professional integrity to resign from his government position in order to pursue the Gore-agenda.
-
What other Federal employee could promote an outside interest to the extent of fomenting mass civil disobedience without being terminated?
-
Apparently more change we can believe in!
-
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
-
http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/
-
Dr. James Hansen on coal, civil disobedience
March 2nd, 2009
-
Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
-

Archives

February 2005   March 2005   April 2005   May 2005   June 2005   July 2005   August 2005   September 2005   October 2005   November 2005   December 2005   January 2006   February 2006   March 2006   April 2006   May 2006   June 2006   July 2006   August 2006   September 2006   October 2006   November 2006   December 2006   January 2007   February 2007   March 2007   April 2007   May 2007   June 2007   July 2007   August 2007   September 2007   October 2007   November 2007   December 2007   January 2008   February 2008   March 2008   April 2008   May 2008   June 2008   July 2008   August 2008   September 2008   October 2008   November 2008   December 2008   January 2009   February 2009   March 2009   April 2009   May 2009   June 2009   July 2009   August 2009   September 2009   October 2009   November 2009   December 2009   January 2010   February 2010   March 2010   April 2010   May 2010   June 2010   July 2010   August 2010   September 2010   October 2010   November 2010   December 2010   January 2011   February 2011   March 2011   April 2011   May 2011   June 2011   July 2011   August 2011   September 2011   October 2011   November 2011   December 2011   January 2012   February 2012   March 2012   April 2012   May 2012   June 2012   July 2012   August 2012   September 2012   October 2012   November 2012   December 2012   January 2013   February 2013   March 2013   April 2013   May 2013   June 2013   July 2013   August 2013   September 2013   October 2013   November 2013   December 2013   January 2014   February 2014   March 2014   April 2014   May 2014   June 2014   July 2014   August 2014   September 2014   October 2014   November 2014   December 2014   January 2015   February 2015   March 2015   April 2015   May 2015   June 2015   July 2015   August 2015   September 2015   October 2015   November 2015   December 2015   January 2016   February 2016   March 2016   April 2016   May 2016   June 2016   July 2016   August 2016   September 2016   October 2016   November 2016   December 2016   January 2017   February 2017   March 2017   April 2017   May 2017   June 2017   July 2017   August 2017   September 2017   October 2017   November 2017   December 2017   January 2018   February 2018   March 2018   April 2018   May 2018   June 2018   July 2018   August 2018   September 2018   October 2018   November 2018   December 2018   January 2019   February 2019   March 2019   April 2019   May 2019   June 2019   July 2019   August 2019   September 2019   October 2019   November 2019   December 2019   January 2020   February 2020   March 2020   April 2020   May 2020   June 2020   July 2020   August 2020   September 2020   October 2020   November 2020   December 2020   January 2021   February 2021   March 2021   April 2021   May 2021   June 2021   July 2021   August 2021   September 2021   October 2021   November 2021   December 2021   January 2022   February 2022   March 2022   April 2022   May 2022   June 2022   July 2022   August 2022   September 2022   October 2022   November 2022   December 2022   January 2023   February 2023   March 2023   April 2023   May 2023   June 2023   July 2023   August 2023   September 2023   October 2023   November 2023   December 2023   January 2024   February 2024   March 2024  

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?