Honored Polish Social Worker Dies at 98

Of the many women and men who have contributed to humanity at the endangerment of their own lives, Irena Sendler stood out in the crowd, although few know her story. Dead at the age of 98, her story is posted in the Daily Mail, May 12^th 2008 – Heroic Irena Sendler, who helped save 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi …

SITREP: Global Warming Hoax, Senate Bill S. 2191, and Al Gore’s Get Richer Scheme

Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should have been undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?
Walter Williams

As we move from one doomsday prediction to another, first global warming and now world economic depression in 2008 – we must be aware that candidates are going to speak about this issue and should let voters know what their plans, if anything is to do about it. I vote that we do nothing, watch the Kyoto Treaty signers dwindle away their much-needed capital on uselessness (other than cleaning up their air and water) and forget about the cap and trade nonsense that is presently being discussed by the candidates for President of the United States.

Newt Gingrich Plan for a Better America

Newt Gingrich writes in his newsletter bulletin …

…Shortsighted politicians have created the current energy crisis. For decades left-leaning politicians have advocated higher prices and less energy. They were going to save the environment by punishing Americans into driving less and driving smaller cars. Now their policies have succeeded with a vengeance. …
And now the same shortsighted, dishonest politicians who created the crisis are blaming everyone but themselves for the crisis. Because they refuse to be honest about the policies which led to the crisis, they can’t be honest about the policies that will lead us out of it. The politicians want scapegoats. The American people just want solutions.
Politicians with vision – working with entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers could rapidly replace the current shortages and high prices with a flood of new energy at lower prices. And America’s current vulnerability to blackmail by foreign dictators could rapidly be turned into vital independence with a North American energy strategy that includes Canada and Mexico.
America still has the world’s largest supply of fossil fuels [recently found not to have originated from “fossils” or dead dinosaurs]. We have more coal than any other country by a huge margin. WE have abundant oil and gas reserves. We have the potential for nuclear, wind, solar and biofuels in tremendous quantities. … We have the potential for enormous breakthroughs in future technologies such as hydrogen power. …
The only solutions to the current high prices and scarcity are higher energy supply and/or lower energy demand. In the long run we will almost certainly find dramatic breakthroughs including electric cars (super hybrids) and hydrogen-powered vehicles. But in the short and near term, oil is going to remain the primary source of energy for transportation.
Yet the current strategy of the left is anti-oil and anti-coal. It is a recipe for higher inflation as the cost of energy is driven through the entire economy. It is a recipe for growing vulnerability to blackmail by foreign dictatorships. [1] It is a recipe for starving poor people in the third world. The price of oil has a much bigger impact on the cost of food than the production of biofuels. …
Brazil recently discovered two very large oil fields in the Atlantic Ocean. They are so large that they will make Brazil completely independent from Middle Eastern oil.[2] …
In a sign of how out of touch the Congress is with the current realities of the average American, the Senate[3] is planning to bring up the Warner-Lieberman bill. This “tax and trade” bill will be an economic disaster. A better name for it would be “The China and India Full Employment Act” because it is going to raise the costs of doing business in America so dramatically that most future factories will be built outside of the United States. …
“Tax and trade” is a more accurate term than “cap and trade” because buried in this bill is a massive tax increase which will lead to a much bigger federal government with much more bureaucracy and a much smaller private sector operating only with the permission of federal bureaucrats. At a time when the American driver is already complaining about the cost of gasoline and the American homeowner is beginning to complain about the cost of natural gas and home heating oil, the Warner-Lieberman bill will make those costs much worse. … steps toward an energy abundant America future:
1. Change federal law to give all states with offshore oil and gas the same share of federal royalties Wyoming gets for land-based resources (48%).
2. Change federal law to allow those states that want to permit exploration with appropriate safeguards to do so.
3. Allow companies engaged in oil and gas exploration and development to write off their investments in one year.
4. Immediately renegotiate the clean coal (FutureGen) project for Illinois to get it built as rapidly as possible.
5. Congress should pass a series of tax-free prizes to accelerate innovation in developing new technologies for using coal.
6. Develop a tax credit for refitting existing coal plants.
7. Pass a streamlined regulatory regime and a favorable tax regime for building nuclear power plants.
8. Make the solar power and wind power tax credits permanent.
9. Develop long distance transmission lines to move wind power from the Dakotas to Chicago.
10. Allow the auto companies to use their tax credits for the cost of flex fuel cars, hybrids, and the development of hydrogen cars including necessary retooling for manufacturing.

And to speed all of this along – Congress requires to repeal the 16^th Amendment and pass the Fair Tax Act. Than those taxes will be null and void – providing the required capital for research and development and boost the economy on a long-term basis instead of continued short-term methods the Bush administration has been performing along with Congress in the last eight years.

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Summary of Warner-Lieberman proposed legislation
Financial Costs of Warner-Lieberman bill
Estimated job loss due to Warner-Lieberman bill

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[1] Look at the recent deals of Iran with South American despots like Chavez.

[2] Thus the reason for Iran’s interest?

[3] Which includes all three presidential candidates wanting to be our President: Clinton, Obama and McCain.

Myth Blaster: Exxon Record Making Profits Does Not Equal Price Gouging – An Economic Lesson for All Americans

AS the gas prices climb to $4 per gallon, Americans are wondering how will they make ends meet – Government refund check or not. If you didn’t get a check, you didn’t file your income tax. The amount is anywhere between $300 to $2,000. Tax free and not taxable on 2008 income tax returns.

Adam Kemp writes in his article Economics and Oil – Exxon is not Evil …

Info Highway – Saving Energy Tips by Witchy Woman

Okay, I’m convinced. There’s just too much information out there that provides tips on how to conserve Energy – so I am going to list them here, starting with replacing all electric bulbs with energy-saving types in the entire house …