tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post8624025521042685865..comments2023-10-30T07:54:27.317-04:00Comments on Allegiance and Duty Betrayed:: The Unraveling of Americajoaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11914891807184694081noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-16130314484628369902007-06-28T08:26:00.000-04:002007-06-28T08:26:00.000-04:00Ban on war veterans handing out miniature US flags...<B>Ban on war veterans handing out miniature US flags during July 4th parade</B><BR/><BR/>http://www.mdjonline.com/268/10264045.txtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-84847232252209213882007-06-28T07:25:00.000-04:002007-06-28T07:25:00.000-04:00Thank you for this excellent column and this excel...Thank you for this excellent column and this excellent site. I haven't read all off the columns yet but I intend to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-65124232552686939812007-06-28T00:12:00.000-04:002007-06-28T00:12:00.000-04:00Joanie, the title of your blog was never more appr...Joanie, the title of your blog was never more appropriate! What our leaders in Washington are doing with this immigration bill is disgusting! And it is allegiance and duty betrayed! Whenever I saw legislation that was horrible coming down the pike, I could always figure out what the motive was, but with this one I am still scratching my head. I can understand the crooked Democrats, but why in hell are the Republicans doing this? This is unprecedented and it is treason!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-37231743035252020332007-06-27T23:24:00.000-04:002007-06-27T23:24:00.000-04:00Courageous.Courageous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-39047555386663963052007-06-18T13:31:00.000-04:002007-06-18T13:31:00.000-04:00Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of ...<B>Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'</B><BR/> <BR/>http://newsbusters.org/node/13541<BR/><BR/>by Noel Sheppard on June 18, 2007 <BR/> <BR/>Reid Bryson, the 87-year-old considered to be the father of scientific climatology, has once again spoken out strongly against anthropogenic global warming theories being regularly disseminated by alarmists in the media and the scientific community. <BR/>In an interview published by Wisconsin’s Capital Times Monday, Bryson spoke about the money involved in this "religion," and when asked about soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" responded, "Don't make me throw up...It is not science. It is not true." <BR/>But Bryson had loads more to say on this issue.<BR/>There is no question the earth has been warming. It is coming out of the "Little Ice Age," he said in an interview this week. <BR/>"However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time," Bryson said. <BR/>Think Bryson will be interviewed any time soon by Katie, Charlie, or Brian? <BR/>The Little Ice Age was driven by volcanic activity. That settled down so it is getting warmer, he said. <BR/>Humans are polluting the air and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but the effect is tiny, Bryson said. <BR/>"It's like there is an elephant charging in [sic, the room] and you worry about the fact that there is a fly sitting on its head. <B>It's just a total misplacement of emphasis," he said. "It really isn't science because there's no really good scientific evidence."</B> <BR/>Just because almost all of the scientific community believes in man-made global warming proves absolutely nothing, Bryson said. "<B>Consensus doesn't prove anything, in science or anywhere else</B>, except in democracy, maybe." <BR/>For the alarmists who love to depict every skeptic as being on the take of oil companies: <BR/><B>Bryson, 87, was the founding chairman of the department of meteorology at UW-Madison and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.</B> He retired in 1985, but has gone into the office almost every day since. He does it without pay. <BR/>"I have now worked for zero dollars since I retired, long enough that I have paid back the people of Wisconsin every cent they paid me to give me a wonderful, wonderful career. So we are even now. And I feel good about that," said Bryson. <BR/>. . . <BR/><B>"There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'"</B> <BR/>Bryson then pointed out how the media work: <BR/>Reporters will often call the meteorology building seeking the opinion of a scientist and some beginning graduate student will pick up the phone and say he or she is a meteorologist, Bryson said. "And that goes in the paper as 'scientists say.'" <BR/>The word of this young graduate student then trumps the views of someone like Bryson, who has been working in the field for more than 50 years, he said. "It is sort of a smear." <BR/>Of course, then some ignoramus will copy the opinions of this graduate student and dissiminate them throughout the blogosphere as yet another example of the consensus. NewsBusters members should be very familiar with this: <BR/>Bryson said he recently wrote something on the subject and two graduate students told him he was wrong, citing research done by one of their professors. That professor, Bryson noted, is probably the student of one of his students. <BR/>"Well, that professor happened to be wrong," he said. <BR/>. . .<BR/><B><BR/>"There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It's almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts."</B><BR/> <BR/>While Bryson doesn't think that global warming is man-made, he said there is some evidence of an effect from mankind, but not an effect of carbon dioxide. <BR/>For example, in Wisconsin in the last 100 years the biggest heating has been around Madison, Milwaukee and in the Southeast, where the cities are. There was a slight change in the Green Bay area, he said. The rest of the state shows no warming at all. <BR/>"The growth of cities makes it hotter, but that was true back in the 1930s, too," Bryson said. "Big cities were hotter than the surrounding countryside because you concentrate the traffic and you concentrate the home heating. And you modify the surface, you pave a lot of it." <BR/>. . .<BR/>Bryson didn't see Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." <BR/>"Don't make me throw up," he said. "It is not science. It is not true."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-65774204194159403422007-06-18T13:17:00.000-04:002007-06-18T13:17:00.000-04:00smithy,You will like this:U.S. to Lift PA Funding ...smithy,<BR/><BR/>You will like this:<BR/><BR/>U.S. to Lift PA Funding Freeze in Judea and Samaria--Europe Resumes Aid to Abbas, US Not Far Behind<BR/><BR/>(more insanity from the US State Department)<BR/><BR/>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122785Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-34695052531237041032007-06-18T00:44:00.000-04:002007-06-18T00:44:00.000-04:00SO GLAD to see you back Joanie! I have sent this ...SO GLAD to see you back Joanie! I have sent this column to many people. Sadly, it's all so true. I hope you'll be writing much more now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-14511546489703689032007-06-17T16:04:00.000-04:002007-06-17T16:04:00.000-04:00That isn't the worst crime of the U.S. State Depar...That isn't the worst crime of the U.S. State Department. Witness recent events on the West Bank and Gaza. Thanks to the U.S. State Department, Israel's days are numbered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-7591451173454220222007-06-17T15:19:00.000-04:002007-06-17T15:19:00.000-04:00To the poster who brought up the muslims getting f...To the poster who brought up the muslims getting free lunch here in the USA.<BR/><BR/>You can thank the US State Department for that.<BR/><BR/>They work for their muslims.<BR/><BR/>The US prison system is an active breeding and recruiting ground for muslims, especially the Hate-America black muslim kind.<BR/><BR/>When muslims were caught planning to blow up JFK airport in NY City,<BR/>the leftwing NY TIMES put the story on <B>page A-37.</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-46101979273144316942007-06-16T16:30:00.000-04:002007-06-16T16:30:00.000-04:00I'm glad to hear you'll be sending this to your co...I'm glad to hear you'll be sending this to your congressmen and senatos Bill. But if it doesn't go in the circular file upon receipt, it will go there after the first few sentences are read. These people aren't accountable to anyone anymore, least of all the people who put them in office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-21382005404276925102007-06-15T16:10:00.000-04:002007-06-15T16:10:00.000-04:00I am printing out copies of this and sending them ...I am printing out copies of this and sending them to my 2 congressmen and 2 senators. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-73938575126710681922007-06-13T00:21:00.000-04:002007-06-13T00:21:00.000-04:00Dear Mr. President:We respectfully ask that your A...Dear Mr. President:<BR/><BR/>We respectfully ask that your Administration enforce the border security laws that have already been authorized by Congress regardless of whether the Senate passes the immigration reform bill. The bill assumes that several critical border security benchmarks can be achieved within 18 months. These security triggers are already authorized under current law and can be completed without the immigration bill. We believe these enforcement measures are vital and should not wait until Congress passes additional immigration reforms.<BR/><BR/>Securing the border is the best way to restore trust with the American people and facilitate future improvements of our immigration policy.<BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/><BR/>U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R - South Carolina)<BR/>Tom Coburn (R - Oklahoma)<BR/>Mike Enzi (R - Wyoming)<BR/>David Vitter (R - Louisiana)<BR/>Jim Inhofe (R - Oklahoma)<BR/>Jim Bunning (R - Kentucky) <BR/>Charles Grassley (R - Iowa)<BR/>John Ensign (R - Nevada)<BR/>Jeff Sessions (R - Alabama)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-53998560568513475612007-06-13T00:17:00.000-04:002007-06-13T00:17:00.000-04:00Welcome back, CW! So glad to see you writing agai...Welcome back, CW! So glad to see you writing again.<BR/><BR/>The Bush family hae been terrible for the conservative movement. What the Democrats couldn't do to destroy us, Bush and his cronies are succeeding in doing from within. Especially on immigration. Reagan has to be turning in his grave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-39110563293897427272007-06-13T00:08:00.000-04:002007-06-13T00:08:00.000-04:00Excellent column, C.W.Re: the post above, "What Am...Excellent column, C.W.<BR/><BR/>Re: the post above, "What America Owes Its Illegals"---<BR/><BR/>Ask yourself what you owe that poor burglar who broke into your home last night. He had worked so conscientiously, going through three rooms from top to bottom, before you awoke to catch him in the act. SURELY he deserves at least that wide screen TV and that one piece of jewelry. Come on. That was hours of effort. Show some humanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-75108682404563253962007-06-12T23:42:00.000-04:002007-06-12T23:42:00.000-04:00"What America Owes Its Illegals" (keep your barf b..."What America Owes Its Illegals" (keep your barf bowl handy):<BR/><BR/>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070625/ehrenreichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-13575866837846482352007-06-12T23:32:00.000-04:002007-06-12T23:32:00.000-04:00Thank you for a most excellent effort. I shall rea...Thank you for a most excellent effort. I shall read it again and again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-77739019387845268752007-06-12T22:48:00.000-04:002007-06-12T22:48:00.000-04:00You need to get this site linked to by other bigge...You need to get this site linked to by other bigger sites, it needs to be more widely read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-78303698255069914812007-06-11T03:11:00.000-04:002007-06-11T03:11:00.000-04:00There is no force on this earth that can destroy A...There is no force on this earth that can destroy America except America itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-86950053529897872512007-06-10T09:05:00.000-04:002007-06-10T09:05:00.000-04:00IMO, two very basic reforms would put a stop to mo...IMO, two very basic reforms would put a stop to most of the nonsense coming out of Washington these days:<BR/><BR/>1.) Repeal the 17th Amendment and and return the election of Senators to the state legislatures. The states have been without a voice since the passage of the 17th and the resulting horse race ends with senators being more beholden to major donors than to their states or their constituents.<BR/><BR/>Why should a senator from MA, for example, be more beholden to Barbra Streisand than to a citizen of East Boston?<BR/><BR/>2.) Drastically increase the size of the House. The number "435" is not chiseled in stone, it is a number arbitrarily picked by the congress itself!<BR/><BR/>The total number of representatives is currently fixed at 435 by Public Law 62-5 of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number. In 1911 the U.S. population was about 1/3 what it is now or about 92 million, which to my little carpenter's mind means we have 2/3 less representation than we had less than a century ago. Today the average congressional district is approaching 700,000!<BR/><BR/>It's ridiculous to believe that any congress critter can know the minds of 700,000 constituents and this in the body that is supposed to be "close to the people."<BR/><BR/>We are taxed and hounded more today with the mere "color" of representation than our forefathers ever were by the distant British king, but then today's citizen is practically a nonentity compared to our dynamic ancestors, so we sit and take it.<BR/><BR/>I would add a third reform: Move the capitol to Iowa or Nebraska and make Washington D.C. a museum. No explanation needed...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-7051163595565729562007-06-10T09:04:00.000-04:002007-06-10T09:04:00.000-04:00Joanie...as always, a masterpiece of an essay that...Joanie...as always, a masterpiece of an essay that hits the nail precisely on the head in so many ways. <BR/><BR/>It is so disheartening to see the state of our Republic...from the immigration travesty to so many other travesties. Here in Idaho, in the intermountain west where so large a percentage of the people still hold fast to the way of life and the values that made this nation what it is...even here in the last week we have witnessed the following: <BR/><BR/>1) Constant national and local coverage of a spoiled girl's experience with the law in Los Angeles. When Idaho's own sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom on distant shores, when so many other things are happening, yet we are bombarded with a very small case that should have been handled straight forwardly and without being deemed worthy of national news IMHO. <BR/><BR/>2) A Federal Judge overruled the Bureau of Land Management's agreement with local ranchers and removed cattle from 100,000s of thousands of acres of range land because in this Clinton appointee's opinion, the BLM did not do "enough" studies with Fish and Wildlife over the impact to any species that may eb endangered in the area. HWayne Hage and his wife Helen Chenowith-Hage are turning over in their graves. <BR/><BR/>3) In Ada County, the most populas in the state, the state government is going to shut off dozens and dozens of wells, ruining and idling productive farmland so that the Bull Trout can have more water in the River...a river that is not hurting for water in the least. <BR/><BR/>4)Boise Idaho held it's Gay Pride march today. It was a disgusting and sickening spectacle...and my heart aches and my ears hurt from the report of such behavior, so openly displayed, and so "offically" condined. <BR/><BR/>The poor people of this land have been lulled, they have been indoctrinated from early ages, and they have been beguiled into accepting a notion that diversity means strength, that diversity at almost any cost is somehow good. Well, coming from diverse backgrounds can and does add perspective for us all...but being UNITED is what is good, and being UNITED is what makes us strong, particularly when we are united upon fundamental, everlasting principle and truth. <BR/><BR/>The people who founded this nation and suffered, bled and died for its birth understood this. we should never forget it. <BR/><BR/>The same types of things...in spades,...are playing themselves out all across our nation. <BR/><BR/>I was talking to a co-worker when we were working at one of the regional dams for the federal government this last week. We were talking about just these issues. We both agreed, that we do not know when, but that at some point, such activities, such mass indoctrination, will one day cause us to fall over from our own weight. <BR/><BR/>He believed it will be sometime when our grandkids grow older...after we are gone. <BR/><BR/>I said it may be...and even could be longer. But I also said it could be sooner too...even much sooner. Events could overtake us within the space of a day or two that brought it crashing down. Bio-terror, nuclear terror, economic warfare, horrible natural disasters...there are many possibilities. <BR/><BR/>But this fellow...a good salt of the earth man...a local farmer who had to take an extra job to make ends meet, and who has done so and who, with his wife is raising a wonderful family...he remains optimistic about the ultimate outcome. As do I. <BR/><BR/>Despite the painful and distressing events of the day. Despite politicians who are blatantly leading our nation to destruction. Despite so many of our own people who have become hooked on entitlements, who are so eager to get what they can from their hard working neighbors and countrymen...despite so many who have been educated to hate our nation and what it stands for...still there is reason to hope. <BR/><BR/>In the 1980s, most thought that we were on the brink...and under Carter we were. <BR/><BR/>But then a miracle occurred. In the midst of the dominance of the democratic party in the political areana...in the midst of the push for cultural, sexualy, moral, and foreign policy malais...Ronald Regan came on the scene. And the people elected and chose him overwhelmingly...and time was purchased, a measure of our greatness was retained and we moved on. <BR/><BR/>Although he has failed in so many critical areas...in 2000 and in 2004, at a time when again the forces of abject betrayal and treachory are working from within to destroy us...this nation picked Bush over Gore and then over Kerry. it was a near thing...and with either of those two things would have gotten much worse, quicker. But the people came out in record numbers and voted...and it was based on most of the same issues we are hearing belabored this time around again. <BR/><BR/>Then we have this immigration bill fiasco. Clearly a quick and direct ticket to ending our soveriegnty and continuing the push for a borderless, stateless North American Union...and a stab in the heart at our culture and way of life. Again we see the American people rising up and making a difference. Make no mistake, the votes this week are a result of millions and millions of direct phone calls, in person visits, emails, letters, and faxes. <BR/><BR/>With these types of things going on at the same time we so much else depressing...I say there is reason to hope. There is a vast segment of our population that can and will act. They have proven it over and over again. Sometimes it takes longer than we hope...many times much ground is lost between. But the power is out there to make the difference. <BR/><BR/>Now, I blieve that there is a very difficulty and very wrenching coorrection coming. I do not know when...could be sooner than we all can imagine...could be decades. But it is coming. And it will be ugly. <BR/><BR/>But I still hold out hope, that with the blessings of Heaven for the sake of those who do hold fast to moral principle, that it might somehow, miraculously be avoided in favor of a tremndous revival spirit taking hold. But if it is not to be...I still have absolute faith that right will prevail and that God in Heaven will honor those who do hold faithfully to the blessings of liberty and their foundation that He has bequeathed upon this land. <BR/><BR/>Sorry to be so long winded...but I needed to vent all of this. <BR/><BR/>God bless you Joanie and God bless all Americans who love liberty and recognize and cherish, and with a pasion will defend at all costs all that it is based upon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-46093121138614915032007-06-09T23:55:00.000-04:002007-06-09T23:55:00.000-04:00Yes, sadly I am afraid there is nothing to disagre...Yes, sadly I am afraid there is nothing to disagree with in this essay, although I wish there were.<BR/><BR/>America is unique in history for preserving the freedoms of her citizens for such a long time. Two hundred and thirty years may not seem like a long time, but in fact there is not a single modern government anywhere in the west that has lasted as long, without revolutions and basic changes in their constitutions. There is not a single government with so many freedoms, for such a long time, although some of the other Anglosphere nations come close to it—partly by common inheritance of laws and culture, partly by imitation of America.<BR/><BR/>This may indeed be coming to an end. We are certainly at a critical juncture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-78108733950931727982007-06-09T20:44:00.000-04:002007-06-09T20:44:00.000-04:00God bless you and keep you safe.God bless you and keep you safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-3143099934396111102007-06-09T20:42:00.000-04:002007-06-09T20:42:00.000-04:00Cooper, I think you are insulting Joanie by insinu...Cooper, I think you are insulting Joanie by insinuating that she has "given up." I don't know many people who have written about and given speeches and sermons and sunday school lessons and organized rallies and marches to Washington on the things that are wrong with America--- and actually gone door to door for many weeks in so many campaigns as she has. Probably 20 years worth or more. There's a difference between "giving up" and looking at the state of the country realistically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-86635082620854803772007-06-09T20:39:00.000-04:002007-06-09T20:39:00.000-04:00One of your very best essays ever Joanie. Thank y...One of your very best essays ever Joanie. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-62423349731063853012007-06-09T20:35:00.000-04:002007-06-09T20:35:00.000-04:00Agree completely.Washington DC has been completely...Agree completely.<BR/><BR/>Washington DC has been completely overrun with self serving backstabbers and grifters.<BR/><BR/>Gone are the patriots. In their place are prostitutes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com