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The Federal Government is urging me to falsify census data

March 15, 2010 in National Politics by admin | No comments

Our census form arrived in the mail today.

Inside was a letter, with a message from the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, urging me to “Please complete and mail back the enclosed census form today.”

The mail arrived on March 15th, and the message inside is dated March 15th.

There’s just one teeny tiny problem with this. The Census Form instructs me to answer all questions based on who is living in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1st, 2010.

But they’re urging me to fill it out today, March 15th.

Do they want me to guess? time travel? make stuff up?

What if I fill out the form today and our house burns down in the next two weeks and there’s nobody living here on April 1st?

What if the rest of the world burns down and all my kids and grandkids move back home and there’s 17 people living here on April 1st?

Would they charge me with falsifying data on the Census form?

Incidentally, me and all my kids are Americans. I’m just sayin’.

A message from the Director, U.S. Census Bureau

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Lies from Public Education

March 15, 2010 in Homeschooling, National Politics by admin | No comments

“It is impossible to have a public debate about education policy if public schools can’t be straight forward about their spending.”

A new report from the Cato Institute shows that public school systems are deliberately fudging the numbers on the cost of public education. Typical school system tactics are to exclude healthcare or retirement costs of public school employees, or the capital costs of building school buildings or debt service payments on school bonds.

Watch this video. It will make your blood boil.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvKyfV3JtE

The District of Columbia spends $28,000 per pupil, per year. That’s MORE than all but the most expensive DC private schools. This ought to be a major scandal.

You can read the full report, titled They Spend What? The Full Cost of Public School at the Cato Institute website.

At the current under-reported rate of $7,620 for the state of Tennessee, Mrs. RedHatRob and I have saved our local school system $1,005,840 by educating our 11 children at home. At that’s without charging them for Kindergarten, which would have been another $83,820.

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Mighty Obama at the bat. . .

March 7, 2010 in National Politics by admin | No comments

The folks at PJTV are brilliant.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tcahn7PwQU

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Global? I do not think that word means what you think it means

February 27, 2010 in global warming, National Politics by admin | No comments

Global is supposed to mean world-wide, as in a “global catastrophe.”A global phenomenon should affect everyone, everywhere.

For the past two weeks, the average high temp in Nashville has been 45. Historically, our average high temp in February is 55. For the next week, the average high temp is forecast to be approx. 45 each day. This is not just a one fluke day anomaly. We’re running a month of consecutive days where our temps are 10 degrees below normal.

In layman’s terms, it’s cold.

But the AGW true believers are quick to assert that this in no way refutes the documented long-term trend of global warming. The models, they assure, in fact predict that there will be more extreme weather, more snow, more record cold days. Right.

I am reminded of John Wisdom’s parable of the invisible gardener, which runs thus:

“Two people return to their long neglected garden and find, among the weeds, that a few of the old plants are surprisingly vigorous. One says to the other, ‘It must be that a gardener has been coming and doing something about these weeds.’ The other disagrees and an argument ensues. They pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. The believer wonders if there is an invisible gardener, so they patrol with bloodhounds but the bloodhounds never give a cry. Yet the believer remains unconvinced, and insists that the gardener is invisible, has no scent and gives no sound. The sceptic doesn’t agree, and asks how a so-called invisible, intangible, elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener, or even no gardener at all.”

And so, I ask the AGW true believers, How does this invisible, intangible, elusive global warming which produces cold weather and more snow differ from imaginary global warming, or even, no global warming at all?

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Any blog post which weaves together Lonesome Dove and Vindicae Contra Tyrannos

February 19, 2010 in Church History, English History, National Politics, The Reformation by admin | No comments

is worth a read.

This one expecially.

William Grigg at Pro Libertate on the doctrine of Interposition.

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Warm Air carries more water?

February 12, 2010 in global warming, National Politics by admin | No comments

With 40+ inches of global warming on the ground in the Washington DC area, defenders of global warming have been scrambling to deflect or rebut the taunting of the skeptics. Contessa Brewer of CNN, attempting to swim in waters way over her head, made the assertion online that the large snowfalls on the East Coast don’t refute global warming, because warm air carries more moisture. The heavier snowfalls, according to the dear Contessa, are actually BECAUSE of global warming – because warm air carries more moisture.

While technically this assertion is true, it doesn’t help the defenders of global warming one inch! If the syllogism “global warming -> more moisture -> more snowfall” were true, then we ought to see more total inches of precipitation in the DC area, right?

Let’s go to the numbers, Johnny.

Over the past 30 years, the average precipitation for the month of January at Washington Reagan Airport has been 2.72 inches.

Total precipitation for January of 2010? 1.37 inches.

Average precipitation for the month of February? 2.71 inches

Precip so far for February of 2010? 1.79 inches.

Yep, from these stats its clear to see that the warmer air caused by global warming has been carrying more moisture and that this has been causing the large snowfall amounts in DC.

Wait.. No, that’s not right… Something…

Never mind.

Perhaps Contessa Brewer should get out an elementary science book and remind herself of this simple science fact. When it’s warm the moisture in the air comes down as RAIN. When it’s cold, the moisture in the air comes down as SNOW.

Is there any difference in the amount of moisture / precipitation in DC this year vs the past 30 years. NO!

There. Is. No. Increase. In. The. Amount. of. Moisture!.

The only difference is that it’s COLDER.

Which leads me to a prediction. It’s only a matter of time before Contessa informs us that Gobal Warming is causing it to be COLDER.

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Contempt for the American People

February 6, 2010 in 2010 Election, National Politics by admin | No comments

Andrew Breitbart at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville (referring to the outrageously biased mainstream media coverage of the Tea Party movement):

“That my friends is not media bias. That is contempt for the American people”

Then, he looked into the cameras and addressed the mainstream media:

“Your days of doing this are over. It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.“

watch the video (3 minutes)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcbhf0iJcL8&feature=player_embedded

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Oh no! He DIDN’T just say that, did he?!?!

January 18, 2010 in 2010 Election, National Politics by admin | No comments

yes he did.

Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said THIS about Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat…“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.”

http://www.thefoxnation.com/massachusett-senate-race/2010/01/18/dems-make-unfortunate-kennedy-analogy

I mean, it is Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but this is unseemly!

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The DSCC thinks “Tea Party” is a bad thing

January 18, 2010 in 2010 Election, National Politics by admin | No comments

Does this strike anybody else as weird?

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which is run jointly by all of the current Democrats in the US Senate) thinks that all they have to do to persuade folks to vote against Scott Brown is to link him to the Tea Party movement.

Maybe it’s just me. But national polling has shown that the Tea Party movement has higher favorability ratings that either the Republican or the Democratic Party.

While the choir might respond well to this attack, I think the majority of independent voters greet news of Brown’s affilation with the Tea Party movement as a positive, not a negative.

Apparently, it’s not just the Coakley campaign in MA that’s out of touch. From inside the beltway it appears to be axiomatic that Tea Party = Evil.

I don’t think most voters agree. We’re going to find out tomorrow.

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Massachusetts Miracle

January 16, 2010 in 2010 Election, National Politics by admin | No comments

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0

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