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“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

...I guess what I meant to say was what "palpable" things have happened in Kansas. They aren't in the kind of situation Michigan is in.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

But anyhow denying permitting to power plants is something that will play well in many states.

I think CA now has electric rates of up $0.40/KWH. The problem there is of course the Governator.
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The proposed power plant is in an area that is also being heavily developed with wind power (the Spearville, Kansas area). The 3 billion dollar coal fired power plant proposed for Holcomb, Kansas includes dollars for constructing transmission lines that the wind farm also needs. If the coal fired plant isn't built, the wind farm won't have the transmission lines it needs. It's a positive catch 22, and it is sure to bring some well deserved egg to Governor Sebelius's pretty face. Oh the schadenfreud of unintended consequences!
Tim Schieferecke

The confirmed liberal "cutting off nose to spite face" syndrome.....

Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J

My fear is that these insane state level policies will take hold on the national level. When this happens, we will lose the very definition of state's rights based republicanism and the political osmosis of moving from a badly run state to a better run, less intrusive one. I think a lot of the watering down of some formerly rock solid conservative states has everything to do with the fact that libs are also fleeing such high tax areas like New Jersey or New York and bringing their D!@med wacko liberal proclivities with them. Sort of how the bubonic plague was spread. They then change these bulwarks of conservatism into wishy washy liberal strongholds and we lose the edge of political osmosis. Once we lose the ability to pack up and move to such edens as Texas, we're screwed.
Tim Schieferecke

...then shouldn't the big blue states be turning more red?

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

to go around. No conservative in his right mind would move to a state like Michigan unless the benefits of doing so would outweigh higher taxes and regulation. Also, we conservatives are outbreeding them. God bless any of you that have a large family. I have only one kid, and I sometimes feel guilty that we decided to only have one since I'm only replacing half of myself. I am raising him to be an independent minded conservative who doesn't accept anything at face value without exploring it for himself first, so my hope is that he will have at least 3 kids someday to assuage my guilt.
Tim Schieferecke

they inject liberalism into the state and move on when it comes to fruition leaving behind a economically and morally bankrupt society while they go on to enjoy and then degrade the next one.

problems we face nationwide have to do with the liberally biased way our kids learn American history. I have an independently minded kid that threw his history book down and didn't want to study it anymore when it came to slavery and the Trail of Tears. I was in a quandry. I want him to understand all of American history, even the dark parts. I broke through this impasse by researching with him all of the good folks that helped enable the Underground Railroad at significant risk to themselves and the way the Supreme Court ruled that Andrew Jackson's forced removal of Native Americans from their land was unconstitutional. I then went on to show him how Jackson ignored the court and did it anyway.

Our kids are only being taught one side of slavery and Native American removal perspectives. If you have a kiddo just learning this information, you have a basic duty to your kid and our Nation's conservative legacy to help them learn the whole story. In my opinion, liberalism has been able to creep into our national psyche because kids get turned off from learning the whole truth at an early age or even developing animus towards this blessed land. It is absolutely criticle for you to assist them with this if we are ever to turn the tide on this historical hijacking.

The book my kid had even said that most Americans were in favor of the forced Indian removal without any historical facts to back them up. I asked my son if he could find any polling on this and he couldn't. I then asked him whether or not the author's missive was fact or subjective opinion. He said opinion.

I was very angry at the book and the liberal author at this point, so I pointed out that the author wanted him to feel bad about being an American and that this was done for a very specific reason. Liberals don't want you to know history! I then gratutiously pointed out that it was the Republican party was the party that ended slavery and that Andrew Jackson was a screwy Democrat!

Just as you can't have capitalism without capital, you can't have rock-solid universal patriotism without red, white, blue, brown and black patriots. If I wouldn't have done this, I worry that he would have dropped the truth of American exceptionalism forever from his mind, and I won't let that happen.
Tim Schieferecke

So would you say that the "global warming crowd" is cooling?

Wonder how many are old enough to remember the 70's "Global Cooling" scare and bad B movies about Nuclear Winter?

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Just goes to show that when scientists play at being statesmen they need to take the white labcoats off.

I do confess to an unnatural bias against the man. Anyone who has had to present Cosmos a few dozens of times will get that way.
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that "it will warm up when people stop listening to Al Gore." This is a very grass roots way of establishing doubt in people's minds that global warming is even valid. One lady even told me she hadn't thought about that. Carry the fight from the bottom up!
Tim Schieferecke

another winter like this last one. When people get to see enough of these large gas bills, they'll start looking favorably towards the myth of man-made global warming and ask for more. Al will then be able to resort only to even more shrill and ridiculous claims and the downward spiral to irrelevance and shame will be irreversible.
Tim Schieferecke

socialist and communist countries. Libs in this country decry our just economic meritocricy where hard work and intelligence are rewarded for wealth even though such opportunities are available to anyone who applies his/herself. In any socialist or communist country the divide between rich and poor overshadows any capitalist countries ("disparity") by a country mile. When the Soviet majority's poor (virtually everyone) were starving, the party elite were eating cavier and drinking cognac in their comfortable homes. I think the divide between rich and poor in this country is healthy. It exemplifies the amount of opportunity that exists here and motivates brilliant folks like Chris Gardner or Bill Gates or add your own genius here to apply their minds in the effort towards self improvement. America has problems, but America is not the problem. We need to return to the limited government proscribed by our Constitution, and boldly defend the original intent of republicanism.
Tim Schieferecke

This is why folks like Czech Pres. Klaus think that global alarmists are replacing communists in an approach to get totalitarian controls back. The meme is that the individual must sacrifice his or her personal freedoms for the sake of climate control.

If the rules are transparent and clear, and if the state has no author­ity to license businesses or restrict exports and imports, there will be no opportunities to pay bribes in those areas. Mart Laar

It just went on a soul searching, (I mean souless searching) mission to redefine itself. The environmental movement was the perfect home it found. Conservatism is a movement based on a historically proven record of prima facie efficacy exemplified by the fruits of individual freedom and effort. Liberalism, under the modern definition anyway, refuses to look at the individual as an individual but as a member of a group. All liberal policies besides gay marriage and the "right" to suck the brains out of pre-born babies are taken from the individual for his own good and life revolves around the elite controlled collective. This global warming movement is perfect for them. Give birth to a chicken little issue of existential threat that can neither be proven or disproven easily, sell the issue to the ignorant, stifle dissent from naysayers and seize power as rapidly as you can before the people see you're jumping a shark. I don't see the threat of global socialism ever going away in my lifetime nor that of my son's, so we must never rest on our laurels, the hammer and sickle will never allow it.
Tim Schieferecke

"our just economic meritocricy where hard work and intelligence are rewarded for wealth"

Or just being plain friggin lucky enough to be born into it....or adopted by Angelina Jolie.

By the way, I'm not against wealth....but that is true!

But the truth of the matter is still there, anyone can pull themselves out of poverty in this country. But the government actually encourages people to stay on the dole when the left gets it's way. The only thing I would complain for is a little better playing field. I can accept that I have failed if I gave it my best and it didn't work. I can't accept that I have failed because the system was rigged in the first place.

I'd rather some folks be able to make it up and admire or even be envious of them than all of us living in poverty circa USSR.

But capitalism is not truly without power-mongers setting up the system to protect their own interests/wealth. Sorry, it's not squeaky-clean in any way,shape, or form

is either. By the way, he cruelest fate any male child born to Angelina could have is being placed on formula. Ha, ha, hardy ha!
Tim Schieferecke

hold their own breath. That would be good.
Tim Schieferecke

But I wasn't going to school in that part of the country, sorry :-)

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Hoboken was actually a step up from the poop-hole in NJ where I spent most of my mis-spent youth. At least there were plenty of places to get to NYC on the cheap.

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New Jersey would just be too different in too many ways, heh.

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I've seen just enough of Cali (and going back out with the Wife and Kids in April for some R&R, by the way) to know it's "very different" from the other coast (where I've lived all my life).

Most people I know who are right-coasters from birth and make the trek to Cali end up returning within 2-3 years and I imagine it's similar in reverse.

Gives you an idea just how freaking-huge a country this is.

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