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2010 Election, National Politics

Sarah Palin must really scare them

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Change.org, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Obama, Inc, sent out an email today urging all of its members, affiliates, subscribers, & sychophants to “Send a powerful message to Discovery Communications expressing your disappointment at their action and urging them to drop Sarah Palin’s new show from their programming schedule.”

Said powerful message is conveniently supplied for you. All you have to do is sign your name – which 9,000 Obama-zombies dutifully did in the first hour.

Stop and think about this for a minute. Sarah Palin is a private citizen. She is, of course  the former governor of Alaska, and the 2008 Republican nominee for vice-president, but she currently holds no elected office. She’s not currently a candidate for any elected office.

But Team Obama thinks that the most important project of the week (they only send out one action call a week from Change.org) is to try to get her fired from the Discovery Channel.

Three comments:

A) this is outrageous conduct by a sitting president

B) Obama’s vendetta against Palin is petty, personal, and unbecoming

C) the shrill charges that Palin wanted to wipe out beluga whales and polar bears are just plain silly.

The bottom line message from all of this of course is, Obama is really, REALLY, scared of Sarah Palin.

2010 Election, Modern History

Change.org blames Katrina on Bush’s failure to pass Global Warming Bill

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They’re not just blaming the failure of city & state authorities to evacuate folks on Bush, they’re blaming the actual hurricane itself on Bush. Here’s a quote from an email they just sent out today:

President Bush’s short-term failures compounded the suffering along the Gulf Coast in those fateful days. But his dismal failure to lead on global warming has made extreme weather events like Katrina more likely in the future.

And they’re saying we all need to rally around and make sure Obama and Co. pass a “clean energy and climate bill this year.”

We must

“. . .work tirelessly to prevent a future where disasters like Katrina become the norm. A strong clean energy bill is critical to preventing such a future, but we need our President to lead Congress where it needs to go. Tell President Obama to push Congress for bold action today.”

This is, of course, nonsense on stilts. Here are the facts:

A) Global temperatures have been cooling since 1999
B) Katrina was not caused by global warming
C) There has been a DECREASE in the severity of hurricanes over the past several years.

The global warming alarmists have by now reached a mystical level of superstition in which all the bad things in the world are the fault of global warming. And the fact of global warming is unquestioned. Their response to an examination of the data is took stick their fingers in their ears and make loud noises.

Instead of passing the foolish, pork-laden, economy-crushing, job-destroying cap & trade bill, call you congressman and senators and urge them to let it die a natural death. The bill, passed by the house, is languishing because the Senate is reluctant to take it up. Put a DNR order on the bill and instead look for ways to reduce government regulations, reduce taxes, and let the entrepreneurial spirit of American free enterprise put people back to work.

For the record, here’s the full text of the Change.org email which went out today:
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National Politics

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You’ll notice a widget in the left sidebar with an opportunity to vote on an idea at Change.org.

The proposal comes from Naomi Aldort. Here is what she wrote:

Children should be raised by parents, not by strangers in substitute facilities. Ours is the first society in human history to deprive children of their very basic need for parental constant care. We do so in the name of money. I suggest that the money spent on day care should be used to support mothers/parents in staying home, and to make financial adjustments that make one salary be viable for families, the way it used to be. 
I am a child psychologist, the author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves and of hundreds of advice columns published internationally. I counsel parents daily and I see the harm to children, parents, families and through them to our whole society, caused by this deprivation of parental constant care. A society which does not care for mothers and children suffers violence, loneliness, depression, addiction, learning difficulties and other emotional hardships we see around us every day. The family unit must be honored as the highest priority. 
Equality for women should not be paying them only when they do men’s type jobs, but also, or mostly, when they do the women’s type job of mothering: the most important job on earth. 
I am available with ideas, guidance and support for transitioning our society back to raising children the way nature designed it. The money saved from daycare, and then from preventing costly adictions, depressions, violence, behavioral and learning issues, will more than cover the costs of giving our children back their mothers. 
Sincerely, 
Naomi Aldort  Author, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves www.AuthenticParent.com

I don’t know what impact raising this issue on Change.org might have. For those just joining us, Change.org is the Obama transition team’s website where they have solicited input from citizens about policies in the new Obama administration.

Will it help? unknown. possibly.

Could it hurt? unlikely.

– Rob Shearer

Note: The top 3 ideas in this category currently are “Appoint a Secretary of Peace;” “Repeal the Patriot Act;” and “End Corporate Personhood.” Supporting mothers surely is more important!