"It struck me as I watched Obama give his acceptance speech," writes Post blogger reckless G, "that now African Americans must truly be seen as Americans."
In his latest blog Jonathan Lekstutis takes on the topic of immigration and declares that immigration is good for America. Lekstutis blogs, "Since I got here I have noticed that there has been a lot of discussion on immigration. Is immigration good for America or is it bad for America? In a post 9/11 world it is not an easy topic to opine on, but I will give it a shot nonetheless. For me, I think immigration is good for America and is what made this country so great in the first place. People coming from different countries to share in the American dream is fabulous. I still think we should allow the poor of the world come to this country and find salvation."
In their latest comments post bloggers Wharf Rat and Mitch Mulhall keep the conversation going on Marilyn Marks and all the controversy surrounding her.
Posts filed under 'Politics'
In these days leading up to the election, the Con Man’s staunch partisanship is sadly quixotic. On Wednesday, he spent an undue amount of time beating the “Conservatives take no blame” drum, as if this is a trait unique to Republicans and Conservatives. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yet, despite the fact that the primary cause of current economic instability is fiscally liberal policies implemented by Democratic Presidents, I don’t see the Con Man stepping up to accept responsibility. Do you?
Continue Reading October 1st, 2008
Prior to the stock market crash of 1929, banks let anybody “play” the stock market, from the guy who washed dishes at the local diner to the truck driver who transported chicken feed to the widow in Waukegan raising Rhode Island Reds in her backyard, everybody could play—often with just pennies. Back then, banks would take those pennies, nickels and dimes and combine them all into larger amounts and invest in the stock market. Margins—the amount cash the bank required to invest—were very small, typically less than 10%. If a stock moved in the wrong way a little, investors were asked to put up 10% of the total value of their holding in that stock. No big deal. Confidence was high, stocks were moving steadily upward, and everybody was making money.
Continue Reading September 27th, 2008
By Frosty Wooldridge
By watching America’s financial meltdown, the lunatics took possession of the asylum in the past week. What amazes taxpayers stems from the fact that the people who brought us this “1929 Crash” crisis in 2008, think they can solve it by taking even more money that doesn’t exist! Whether Treasury Secretary Paulson begs for a $700 billion bailout or Mr. Bernanke cajoles Congress—American taxpayers foot the bill. Taxpayers foot the bill like friends buying a bottle of Jack Daniels for a 16 year old alcoholic while giving him the keys to their cars.
Americans enable more corruption, financial anarchy and the cartel of Congress.
I spoke with Colorado economist and humorist Michael Folkerth, author of “The Biggest Lie Ever Believed” with his website www.kingofsimple.com.
“We are living in historic times, ugly history, but history all the same,” Folkerth said. “One of my readers asked me to simplify what is happening with our monetary and banking systems to Mikeronomics.
“In the words of the King of Simple, Wall Street (including banks) had legal gambling debts that were considered too large to cover. Our leadership said, “No problem, we’ll tax the public to pay your debts and you can get back to what you do best; gambling with other people’s money.”
“I have written for years that Wall Street is nothing more than Las Vegas on steroids. They drain the life blood out of American companies to a point of sending them into bankruptcy or moving off shore.
“Once all the damage was done here in the U.S., they have moved their money and investments to such places are Communist China, Korea, Brazil and India, stating that we must compete in a global world. Hogwash! (that is an economic term)
“Our economic woes didn’t materialize overnight; they began around 1970, when our insistence on exponential growth in GDP collided with physics. The monetary system and matter-energy systems no longer balanced.
“The matter-energy system (all that is real and tangible) must balance with the monetary system (the man-made creation of money). This was the case prior to 1970 as can be seen here http://mikefolkerth.com/2008/09/04/growth-debt-and-demise/
“While it is absolutely imperative that these two systems balance, the growth of the matter-energy system is constrained by a finite-physical barrier. The monetary system, being man-made, is not. To complicate matters even further, the monetary system grows exponentially or geometrically, due to the power of compounding interest. These facts make the two most important underpinnings of our economic system incompatible. A condition that cannot long exist; and it didn’t.
“This balance of our two most important aspects of our economic system is a well known requirement. A requirement that has been acknowledged nearly since time began. To keep the man made monetary system from running amuck, it was kept in check by requiring a physical element be provided prior to the printing of currency, that of silver and gold. In this way, a semblance of balance was thus possible. Gold from the finite system was required to match that of the creation of paper currency which is infinite. Good plan!
“Around 1970, that balance was no longer possible. The necessity of creating an exponential growing supply of money to match that of compounding interest coupled with the desire to grow population and GDP, was no longer achievable when constrained by the waning supply (and cost) of the physical check and balance of gold….unless that is, the rules could be changed. Bad plan coming up!
“In 1971, America went off the gold standard forever. Now that the pesky constraint of a physical check and balance for the dollar was removed, money could be printed in ever increasing quantities and resource depletion and population growth were non-issues; temporarily. The wisdom of centuries was thrown out the door in lieu of greed, power, false wealth and trying to fool Mother Nature. We would soon learn that Mother Nature is one mean Mother.
“The massive amounts of paper money that could be produced by simply “monetizing debt” opened the door for some of the most elaborate forms of gambling ever perpetrated on the American people (it was your money in the game). Clever inventions such as “fractionalized banking, credit default swaps, derivative trading, short selling and a hundred other legalized scams brought forth the gamblers, fraudsters and profiteers to shear the willing flock on a daily basis.
“But these gamblers and fraudsters are not the shell game hustlers of the dingy city street corner; these shysters are America’s most elite and shall not be chastised as they have the full backing of the best government that money can buy. Don’t believe me? Look at who is paying the gambling debts.
“However, physics trump human rule makers every time and in the most severe manner. The new system of debt accumulation (rather than balance), lasted a mere 38 years.
“During those 38 years of our ill conceived imbalance with nature, the following has occurred:
1. Our funded National Debt has increased from 371 Billion to the current need for a ceiling of $11.3 Trillion, an increase of 3045% over 38 years, or an average of 80.14% per year. As a benchmark, the National Debt increase for the 20 previous years was 69% or 3.45% per year.
2. The U.S. went from the world’s largest creditor nation to the world’s largest debtor.
3. Oil production in the U.S. decreased by 40% and consumption increased by 40%.
4. The total amount of dollars in circulation has risen from approximately $500 Billion to more than $10 Trillion or a 2000% increase. And backed by what? Taxes!
“To this point, I have been speaking about the funded National Debt. I have not included the unfunded debt or the private debt. America’s unfunded debt (promises made for government retirements, Social Security, Medicare etc.), run the number up to $75.1 Trillion.
“And then there is the private debt of some $42 Trillion which rounds up America’s total debt to $117.1 Trillion. This is equal to $386,091.00 for every child in the U.S. After all, that is who we expect to pay for our exploits against balance is it not?
“The U.S. has reached what I refer to as the “maximum debt level.” The monetary system of debt has become greater than all matter-energy collateral on earth from a balanced perspective. The imbalance has become so great, that just one week ago; our entire monetary system nearly collapsed…and should have. And will!”
Mike Folkerth offers a short-course in economics. Our president remains clueless and the corrupt ‘Cartel in Congress’ bows to the corrupt Federal Reserve while we pay the bills.
One of my sources said realtors, mortgage lenders and the like provided no-down-payment to some five million illegal aliens and minority poor without any investigation as to their identities or ability to pay their monthly mortgages. With nothing invested, they lived in those homes long enough to skip out when the bankers chased them down for not paying their mortgages.
Who holds the bag and ultimately pays for all that corruption? You do! As more millions from Mexico moves into the USA, the more we imitate Mexico. Corruption becomes the norm! Yippee ki yea!
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To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.Capsweb.org ; www.vdare.org ; www.proenglish.org ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.patriotunion.org ; www.illegalimmigration.com
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
Subject: FW: What America faces with adding 100 million people
Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en
Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.
Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
Frosty Wooldridge
www.frostywooldridge.com
September 25th, 2008
Brain teaser:
Who am I?
I'm under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer, having taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office.
Who am I?
Teddy Roosevelt in 1900. (sic)
Hi All,
Someone I don't know all that well, actually took the time to forward this little "brain-teaser" to me while Conniff and I were having lunch at Doc's the other day in mid-town Manhattan. Yeah, The Con Man's in town with his ultra cool other half; so we decided to lunch and catch up -- when you've known each other since 6th grade, "catching up" is a relative term.
The email above shocks and frightens me for several reasons: there's no effort in it; it's intellectual sloth is only exceeded by its author's evident self-satisfaction as evidenced by the volume of recipients he "batched" it to. It took my breath away, and just plain pissed me off. I spared the original author my response, but not its forwarder. Herewith my brain in its "teased" state that AM. I suppose the point was that TR has "nothin" on SP.
TR's "thin" resume included among other things: Asst. secretary of the Navy, Police Commissioner of NYC, Governor of NY, Vice-President under McKinley, historian, naturalist, explorer and author of no less than 35 books. When William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, TR was vacationing (camping) with his large brood in the in the Adirondacks (a park I believe he designated).
He was a decorated soldier, and led the 1st Cavalry regiment in our war with Spain; he negotiated the contract and won the rights to build the Panama Canal; he negotiated the end of the Russian-Japanese War for which he received the Nobel Prize; his visage appears on MT. Rushmore alongside that of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. He is considered by many historians to be one of greatest American presidents.
Oh, I forgot to mention that TR was the first president to call for a National Health Insurance for all Americans and as a "trust buster" his "Fair Deal" extended to the breakup of 40+ monopolies and the regulation of rail-road pricing. He was, as he said, not against capitalism, just corruption and illegality and greed -- any of this sounding relevant?
Read Edmund Morris' (Pulitzer '79) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, one of the best biography's I've ever read. There was so much to tell about the young TR in this 500+ page bio that Morris concludes volume 1 having only reached McKinley's assassination. He ends the book with an out of breath runner. Yes, a runner, who had to get up to the vacationing VP's Adirondack camp in a hurry and breathlessly deliver the somber news to Mr. Roosevelt that he is (at present) the president of the United states. No Ms. "heartbeat away" has nothing on TR, and plenty of it.
September 24th, 2008
By Frosty Wooldridge
Re: “Dry, Drought, Devastated” Pankratz/ 9/17 Denver Post
When you realize humans kill 100 million sharks in the planet’s oceans annually, you scratch your head in dismay, or, at least, consternation. Unknown to most humans, thousands of species suffer extinction at the hands of humanity annually. (Source: Life, August , 1991, “Sharks: Predator becomes prey” Fussman)
When you read startling headlines in the Denver Post announcing devastating drought, you scratch your mind further as to why humans steam forward as if they cannot be touched by nature’s vengeance. What do we possess in our arrogance as to denial of our own vulnerability in the scheme of life?
At a Gamow lecture at Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado, I listened to a lecture by Oxford University professor Dr. Norman Meyers. He explained his personal research in the Amazon and other rain forests around the world that humans cause the extinction of 50 to 100 species every day of the year. I didn’t think much of it until, I too, visited the Amazon.
Humans burn 1.5 acres every second in the Amazon and worldwide to make way for crops in the shallow soils of the rain forests. What forms the foundation of the Amazon rain forests? Answer: sand dunes! Note that the Amazon rain forests took millennia to cover those dunes with minimum topsoil. Once exhausted, farmlands become wastelands.
As I explored the Amazon, I watched roads being built into its interior all the way to Manous on the Amazon River. I saw firsthand the fires and the relentless cutting of huge trees. Animals and plants lose their homes at a rate of a landmass the size of Colorado every year. No wonder Myers reported 100 species suffer extinction daily!
Back in the United States, famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson states, “We cannot save the planet if we don’t understand it.”
I might add that we cannot save our planet home if we fail to stabilize human population growth. But never mind, because in the end, Mother Nature WILL stabilize human population growth, rather brutally.
In an excellent report, Mark Matousek, “Rescuing Earth” said, “The man widely considered to be Charles Darwin’s heir wants to build an ark, a virtual one at that.”
“It will be the greatest scientific achievements of the 21st century,” Wilson, 79, said. “We need this information about our world in order to save it.” Wilson expects to identify earth’s creatures in his “Encyclopedia of Life.” Estimates project 30 million species inhabit this planet.
While Wilson’s quest promotes noble intentions, first of all, humans rampage across the planet with devastating results to our ecological systems, but in the end, we cannot ‘save it’. A harsh reality faces humanity: this planet can and will erase humans without shedding a tear or issuing a burp!
The sad aspect of our destroying the environmental foundation of the planet in the past 100 years: we drive the sixth extinction session of millions of fellow creatures by our irresponsible fecundity.
“Scientists agree that the world has entered the first great extinction to be caused by humans,” Matousek said. “Global warming, deforestation, abuse of arable land, and destruction of natural habitats threaten to wipe out half the species of plants and animals on the planet by the end of the century.”
Wilson said, “Half the world’s plant and animal species could be extinct by the end of the century.”
As someone who witnessed massive kill-off of species in the Amazon, I direct your attention to a movie starring Sean Connery: “Medicine Man”.
By viewing the movie, you may see the species loss by their habitat cut and burned into oblivion. Not discussed in this sixth extinction session, you might consider what I call the “cascade effect”. For an example, in the United States, prairie dogs suffer horrific destruction of their colonies via human development. In states like Colorado, that slaps asphalt and concrete on 100,000 acres annually, those rodents vanish overnight.
When prairie dogs die, 67 other species, which depend on the rodents, also suffer decline and extinction. Voila! “Cascade effect”!
By not taking time to identify earth’s biodiversity, “It’s like a doctor trying to treat a patient knowing only 10 percent of the organs,” Wilson said.
As a scientist, Wilson suffers the slings and arrows of the Committee Against Racism and religious groups, but his scientific integrity remains unquestioned.
If humanity expects to flourish into the 21st century, it must take action with its intellect rather than its emotional and religious paradigms that prove outdated, outmoded and irrelevant. E.O.Wilson leads the struggle to bring about a viable future on planet Earth.
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.Capsweb.org ; www.vdare.org ; www.proenglish.org ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.patriotunion.org
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
Frosty Wooldridge
www.frostywooldridge.com
September 18th, 2008
RFTA is organized under Colorado state law as a Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). An RTA is a tax district which can fund projects related to “any highway, road, street, bus system, railroad, airport, gondola system, or mass transit system”. In contrast, the RFTA board, made up of elected officials from eight different jurisdictions, effectively limits our RTA to being nothing more than a mass transit authority.
The first major RFTA planning effort, the Corridor Investment Study (CIS), did go through the motions of examining the full range of transportation possibilities intended by state law. Although identifying future traffic congestion as the problem to be addressed, the “technology options” considered by the CIS managed to include “automobiles on new lanes” on the same list as extravagantly silly items like “jet packs”, “dog sleds”, and “automobiles on flatbed trucks”, and then treated these ideas equally by dismissing them all with no further comment.
Claiming that reduced bus travel time would result in huge ridership increases, the CIS authors did not examine any highway option beyond “passenger cars or trucks using Highway 82 in its present configuration,” despite the potential for highway capacity increases to provide both congestion relief and improved transit performance. The CIS set out to show that “the region’s growing traffic congestion cannot be solved with just one mode of transportation or by highway expansions alone,” but ended up confirming the exact opposite by showing no congestion improvement even with unrealistic projected transit ridership increases.
Last year, RFTA was approached with a request to create a petition process for the district that would allow local citizens to propose “outside the bus” traffic solutions. For example, the use of local tax sources for highway construction would allow us to cut through state level funding delays, and set us up for future reimbursements from the state that could then be applied to transit services.
This year, taxpayers could have had the opportunity to weigh the relative benefits of doubling bus service on the Highway 82 corridor, or fixing the Entrance to Aspen (for example), and voting accordingly. But the RFTA board never discussed the idea of allowing citizen initiated petitions for the use of our own tax money. It requires six out of eight votes to make such a change, and representatives of the three upper valley jurisdictions - Aspen, Snowmass Village, and Pitkin County – made it clear they would never vote to allow such a process.
Until RFTA expands the scope of its vision in respect to our private vehicles, transportation planning will continue to be a process akin to viewing the ocean through a glass bottom bucket - and the results will continue to be shortsighted.
*This space was originally intended for “Discussing Mass Transit Part V – What is RFTA Proposing?”, but RFTA is still working on whatever they are about to propose. We pause from that series long enough to offer this background information.
September 9th, 2008
How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that terrorist groups rarely cease to exist as a result of winning or losing a military campaign. Rather, most groups end because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they join the political process. This suggests that the United States should pursue a counterterrorism strategy against al Qa'ida that emphasizes policing and intelligence gathering rather than a “war on terrorism” approach that relies heavily on military force.
Continue Reading September 3rd, 2008
The words I said to myself upon the ascension of Alaskan Governor Sarah Pallin were she’s too good to be true.
Hockey mom. Moose-stew maker. Hunter-fisher. Jogger. Motther. Wife. Governor. Right to lifer. Quintessential conservative.
Did we mention Republican John McCain’s veep candidate has a 17-year-old daughter pregnant out of wedlock and a hubbie with a driving-under-the-influence conviction under his belt?
Continue Reading September 2nd, 2008
Dear Jesus:
I know You’re busy but hey—there’s no way You could be more busy than me. I had to take my first trip on a Gulfstream IV today just to make it in time for my big appointment. You know the one: your pal John McCain picked me to be his running mate—me, a nobody from Nowhere USA who nobody knows but You.
Now I know you’ve been working overtime for me and mine, not just by giving me the Vice Presidential nomination, but also by making my big days the same day as my 20th anniversary and John McCain’s 72nd birthday. But there is something that’s been bothering me ever since I left Dayton—and no, it’s not how Cindy McCain broke her arm or why she always wears those awful colors that show up her husband.
It’s something much worse.
Continue Reading August 29th, 2008
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
My husband and I had an argument just this morning concerning whether activism really works to effect change and whether it really even matters. As an activist myself, I’m personally invested in the belief that it does work and it does matter. My husband is of the opposite opinion. In these all too frequent arguments (usually spurred by the publication of one of my letters to the editor) I often cite the women’s suffrage movement along with the civil rights movement as examples of how grassroots activism leads to changes in social attitudes and government policy.
Continue Reading August 26th, 2008
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