"One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. Reversing his predecessor's policy on stem cell research, he boasted of restoring "science to its rightful place."
He's the product of social engineering.
Posted on 07/03/2009 4:59:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. Reversing his predecessor's policy on stem cell research, he boasted of restoring "science to its rightful place." Lobbying for his health care overhaul, he claims to advance "evidence-based analysis" as though opponents are relying on myth or superstition. And campaigning for the cap-and-trade energy bill, he declared, "We must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth. It's just not true."
In reality, far from standing for empiricism, President Obama much more often fronts for a rigid ideology. He is new and fresh. The ideas he champions not only fail as an empirical matter, they fail even to pass the test of common sense.
Consider the Waxman/Markey energy bill that the president and Speaker Pelosi were able to squeak to passage in the House. This legislation, born of the liberal weakness for grandiose and world-shaking ambitions, promises nothing less than to save our planet from mankind's folly.
Leave aside for the moment that following a (mere) 30-year warming trend, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001; how in the world can the president argue that by making energy more expensive for American businesses and consumers, we are going to have any measurable effect whatever on the global output of CO2? As Peter Huber helpfully outlines in City Journal, "Carbon Econ 101": "We rich people can't stop the world's 5 billion poor people from burning the couple of trillion tons of cheap carbon that they have within easy reach." China, which has already passed the United States as the world's chief emitter of CO2, is adding 100 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity per year. That amounts to another U.S.A.'s worth of coal consumption every three years. The rest of the developing world is rushing to do the same. Brazil, Indonesia, India, and South Africa are burning coal because it is cheap and plentiful. And no one is even asking them to refrain because to do so is to ask them to remain poor.
The House of Representatives has passed a massive, complex, special-interest-pocked bill that will "invest" in green energy and according to Obama and Pelosi, create "millions" of green jobs. Over and above the jobs that are lost due to higher energy prices? This is not empiricism. This is fantasy. Mayor Bloomberg talked of seeding New York with windmills. Huber cites data. "Windmills are now 50-story skyscrapers. Yet one windmill produces a piddling 2 to 3 megawatts. A jumbo jet needs 100 megawatts to get off the ground ... Meeting New York City's total energy demand would require 13,000 of those skyscrapers spinning at top speed, which would require scattering about 50,000 of them across the state..."
Instead of data, the president offers humbug. The great genius of American ingenuity, he suggests, after receiving billions in government "investments," will create new technologies for extracting usable and cheap energy from wind, solar, and geothermal sources. But if those technologies are just a wish away, why have they not been discovered already by businesses hoping to undersell oil and gas? Note that nuclear power, the one "green" source that is empirically proven to provide relatively inexpensive power without producing greenhouse gases, is not even on the president's agenda. Is this returning "science" to its rightful place? Here's an irony: If the environmentalists had not so successfully blocked nuclear power after the Three Mile Island accident (which didn't hurt a soul), the U.S. would now be in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol targets for CO2 emissions.
Huber also makes the common-sense point that by making carbon more expensive for American consumers, we will reduce demand for it and thereby make it even cheaper for Third World nations to buy. Perhaps reflecting this reality, the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that under Waxman-Markey, emissions of CO2 will not be reduced by the year 2020.
The Waxman/Markey bill will have little to no impact on world production of greenhouse gases, which are supposed to be responsible for global temperature increases that stopped nearly a decade ago. This massive tax increase on energy will not harm the already weakened U.S. economy; it will strengthen it. Got that? Aren't you glad we have an empirical president?!
Obama is a slick talking charlatan of the first order. We have seen these before. The problem is that he is doing irreparable harm to the constitution and the USA with his teleprompter driven hackery.
The liberal elite, coupled with their enviro-nazi useful idiots, will say anything and make up anything (regardless of how rediculous) they can to advance their socialistic/marxistic causes.
That's what Cap & Trade is all about. Power and control.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Have you heard about the person on eBay auctioning a certified copy of Obama’s birth certificate from the Coast provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, (7:24 PM, August 4, 1961) whose post has been removed SIX TIMES from eBay? See World Net Daily!
The House of Representatives snake oil salesmen on the move.
Well, remember, as Evan Thomas said (with a straight face and meaning it as praise), Obama floats over the world like God. He knows all, sees all, cares about all, and will bring us all together...to do his will.
The guy is a lying loony, encouraged by the willingness of the press and the public to believe that the Great One manages to support two conflicting and directly opposed positions on any matter because he alone is magnificent enough to do so. Each side, naturally, convinces itself that what he really believes is their viewpoint and he's just saying all that other stuff to be polite and because he's God and can do so.
But what he really believes is whichever option will give him the most power.
"One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. Reversing his predecessor's policy on stem cell research, he boasted of restoring "science to its rightful place."
He's the product of social engineering.
The MADCAP and Trade Bill
Apparently, he's a Renaissance Man. It has been suggested he adheres to the Noble Lie and may be a secret Platonist: Obama and the Noble Lie. He needs to get his story straight with all of the contradictions. That line about "restoring science" was a real howler.
This is scary . And YES IT COULD MEAN YOUR LIFE!!! Call your ARROGANT elected disgrace in DC at 202-225-3121 and express your thoughts about the current destruction of our country and the theft of our freedom. Tell everyone!!!!
Received this yesterday from a friend:
Several years ago, my dear friend Geoff Faircloug, at Brit living in Leyland, England, had an ear ache. the doctor determined that it was a boil in the ear. After a week of awful pain the doctor agreed to lance the boil. Geoff, 77 years old never woke from the “elective surgery”. the boil ruptured, poisoning his entire system. Had he been 20 and a “productive worker” antibiotics and an aggressive treatment course would have been pursued. But at 77 the “cost out weight the benefit”....TO THE STATE RUN MEDICAL SYSTEM....but not to me, his wife, his two children or 6 grandchildren!! I just received this bit of information had had to forward it....
SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
The actress Natasha Richardson died after falling skiing in Canada . It took eight hours to drive her to a hospital. If Canada had our healthcare she might be alive today. In the United States, we have medical evacuation helicopters that would have gotten her to the hospital in 30 minutes. In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed. Obama wants to have a health care system just like Canada’s and England ‘s.Even though he says he wants a unique American plan. Let just hope so, but you know how these politicians make promises and down the line they are broken. Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants!! Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody that is. Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the “stimulus” Bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement: Bloomberg-
Daschle says “health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.” If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own health care plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes. Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and nine months, and we have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Lets do this! If you disagree, do nothing. VOTE THEM ALL OUT!! Start now!
SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
The actress Natasha Richardson died after falling skiing in Canada .
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