Last Friday, the US house passed the Waxman/Markey cap and trade bill. To put it as simply as possible, this is an energy bill guaranteed to make energy-
all energy- much, much more expensive.
Don't like the compact florescent bulbs because they give a poor quality of light, are expensive and due to the mercury inside them, a serious health risk should you ever break one? Tough beans, soon you won't be able to afford the bill on any other kind of bulb.
I had a dream back before the election that government employees were going house to house and counting the number of outlets in each house to tax us accordingly. My brother Joe said "Don't tell anyone, you'll give them ideas." Turns out in the UK, there are already such programs in place. They don't need to knock on your door, they have equipment that can register how many electronic devices are plugged in. Think of the meter in your basement; the ones they used to have to come in to read and now can simply monitor from afar.
The price of gasoline is on the rise again. It went up a good fifty cents a gallon in the last six weeks or so. Cap and trade will make sure it doesn't come down. The idea behind this legislation is very simple; using energy is bad so we'll make it so expensive that you'll have no choice but to curtail your use of it. The IDEAL behind all this is that energy is damaging the planet and we all must sacrifice our 21st century lifestyles to reverse such damage. What's the evidence of such energy produced damage? Global warming. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Actual weather over the course of the last few years have debunked "warming" so the charlatans have changed their song to "Climate Change".
What constitutes "climate change"? Oh, you know; mild winters one year followed by lots of snow the next. Really hot sticky summers followed by a few years of cooler, dryer summers.
How is that different from the way the planet has always been?
What's different is that politicians are now convinced that you'll believe what they tell you instead of your own lying experience.
So the winters were cold and snowy and the summers were hot and sticky, except for those years when they weren't, back when you were a kid in the pre WWII years? And now the winters are cold and snowy and the summers are hot and sticky except for the years when they aren't? Well, there you have it.
Ordinarily I don't care too much when people who should know better believe whatever nonsense they read in the silly papers or hear from the hysterical talking heads on tv. It's no skin off my nose if you believe you have every disease featured on "Undiagnosed Illnesses". But now it's gotten to the point where the National Religion is Environmentalism and BY GOD they're going to use the force of the federal government to cram their morals down my throat.
Things are bad and our esteemed politicians are working over time to make sure they get worse. You think the government wants to take care of you? Yes. Like Nurse Ratchet wanted to take care of McMurphy.
If you don't vote against every single incumbent in the next election, you may as well line up for your lobotomy.
Oh, yeah! Congratulations Minnesota! You've elected Al
"I hate those right wing mother fuckers" Franken to the US Senate! Not only is he the most representative of Representatives, I think we should change the state motto to "I hate those Right Wing Mother Fuckers." That's already the heading on most of our government schools' stationery, isn't it?
