The thing that I don’t agree with is the policies put forth that create human misery in the name of environmentalism. Look at what is going on in California right now with a little minnow on the endangered species list. They have cut off the water supply to hundreds of farms and homes in California in the name of the minnow…. They have already lost 80,000 jobs in that area because they cannot farm without the irrigation. I really see this as a tragedy and the government and environmentalist just don’t… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twd59PrqCNg)

Other things like drilling for oil domestically, there is no real good reason not to be and it’s creating higher prices and lots of other side effects on people that we just don’t think about.

I don’t like the fact that Governments of the world have latched onto “Global Warming” and created a crisis out of it, including the US, when there are more scientist now that disagree with the original finding than there are that agree with them. People jump on that bandwagon, even with a good heart, but don’t really see what misery their policies inflict on humankind. I just don’t like seeing it…

But anyway, that’s me and a little bit of my opinion on that subject :) hope I didn’t offend you directly or anything… and know that I could have probably gone on for pages, I was trying to keep it short…

I am constantly shocked at the vast movement against free speech on many different subjects, in many different professions, and in many areas within America. Being born in a country whose first declaration toward freedom was a declaration of free speech, you would think that we would be the tolerant and reasonable ones in this area, but in many respects we are falling behind in this regard. There are many individuals who, themselves, don’t want to listen to the opposing opinion and close their worlds off to the suggestion on change. These people have the right, as individuals to hold these views for themselves, that’s not what bothers me. What bothers me is when big movements use power and influence and the government to squash free speech or ridicule the opposing view. Words that come out of the government like, “The debate is over” and “We are doing it to better the collective and the uneducated” these are keywords that show me that the debate is not over, and the only reason to silence an opposing view is so that the people don’t know they have a choice. You think, “I have never heard someone from the US government try to restrict speech,” well you haven’t been listening close enough.

I know, this is America and we live in a world of instant access to information from the almost hundreds of news programs on cable and satellite TV, radio and satellite radio, news papers, magazines, and the vast informative internet. How could anyone, even the government suppress an idea or opinion? Well your Congress is working hard, in closed rooms for now, on a bill that they intend to bring up soon called the Fairness Doctrine. Sound Fair? Well here is some history. It was originally enacted in 1949, it stated that all news programming had to be “fair and balanced” and regulated by the FCC. Sound fair? What it really did was suppress speech, mainly political speech that’s why it was abolished in 1987 as unconstitutional. Well they are planning to bring it back, to re-suppress free speech in radio and even the internet. Still sound fair?

“The debate is over!” since Al Gore made that statement we have seen the debate rage on, in the global warming fight. First it was speculation that the globe was in a warming trend, and then it became man made and the governments of the world found a cause that they could get behind and would give those in control lots of power. Now we know that the globe is not warming, and man has minimal impact on the climate, and we see the effects on our economy from governments trying to step in and legislate off bad science. So why is the debate over? This was a massive attempt, which is still widely believed, to silence the opposing view of global warming, which is growing, so that the government could seize on the opportunity to gain more power.

The debate of Darwinism vs. Intelligent Design is one getting more and more heated with Ben Stein’s movie Expelled. More of the same is going on I’m afraid, you have the entrenched Darwinist that can’t possibly bring any other idea into a theory with massive holes. The intelligent design crowd is offering scientific research with new answers and new questions for Darwin’s theories. But in the academic circles and political circles that’s not a good thing, so they are suppressed along with anyone else who poses an opposing view. Darwinism is closely tied to politics these days and in America it drives the debate of taking any type of religion out of government.

There are many other ways that the government or large groups are trying to suppress ideas and the beliefs of others, that’s why I think is so important to get back to the fundamentals of our founding. A strong belief in freedom of speech, property, and of having individual freedoms is what will keep us strong and free. Federalism and Constitutionalism is a great foundation for this. The more we move away from this and move toward a central, powerful, and large government that is for the masses and the collective and not for individual freedoms, the worse off we’ll be.

MoveOn.org’s Bio on Sarah

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage.¹
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
• She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
• She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as a threatened species-she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶

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This is why I want to vote for her… what’s so bad about this?

If MoveOn is so left wing that this makes Sarah the Devil, it just goes to show why they are supporting Obama…

I thought that her speech was great! Her interview, despite having to listen to Charlie and ABC’s edits, was great! I think as long as she sticks to her positions and doesn’t follow too much in line with McCain she will be great for America.

This morning I caught a story, on the CBS morning news program, about Iraq opening its oil fields for the first time to outside companies to start drilling. It caught my attention because I automatically assumed that it was a great thing for Iraq and the Iraqi people. Then the broadcaster, whom I don’t know because I don’t watch much of CBS news, continued to say that the oil companies did not have to submit bids for their contracts and that this was proof to the people that are against the Iraq war that the war was waged for oil. What a dumb statement from a “news” man.

Why can we not focus on the fact that this will help the Iraq economy, the Iraq people, bring the world wide inventory of oil down, and bring down world wide price per barrel of oil? Bringing capitalism into Iraq is the best thing we could be doing.

It’s obvious that the anti-war crowd does not want any success to come to Iraq, and calling this a war for oil is just absurd. It was the democratically elected Iraqi government that invited the oil companies to drill not the oil companies or the US government demanding it.  

Reading the article on CBS’s web site you get a little more tame and in-depth view of this story. This makes the fact that they spent 30 seconds on TV talking about it, with most of those pushing the anti-war view point outrages.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/world/main4218574.shtml