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To: longnshort who wrote (839956)	3/2/2015 8:25:26 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572838

Obama is basically operating now without any congressional checks and balances whatsoever

To: longnshort who wrote (839956)	3/2/2015 8:27:23 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572838

The Cartman Presidency: There Is No Check On President Obama ........................................................................ February 27, 2015 By Ben Domenech The Federalist Excerpt: The news this morning from the Imperial City: President Obama plans to ban certain bullets by executive action, threatening the top-selling AR-15 rifle: “As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela's, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president… The inexpensive 5.56 M855 ammo, commonly called lightgreen tips, have been exempt for years, as have higher-caliber ammunition that also easily pierces the type of soft armor worn by police, because it's mostly used by target shooters, not criminals. The agency proposes to reclassify it as armor-piercing and not exempt.” Just another day in the Eric Cartman presidency. Practically speaking, today’s Left finally has the situation it wants: a sufficiently progressive president in his second term is, in effect, an unchecked dictator. The only checks and balances the constitution provides are money, nominations, and impeachment. The political and media climate have removed impeachment as a viable option; nomination disruption is a pathetic response to a president committed to Caesarism – “oh, are you going to block my nominees to DOJ, fine I’ll just ban bullets.” That leaves funding, and Republican leaders have publicly committed themselves not to using that leverage at all. Barack Obama is basically operating now without any congressional checks and balances whatsoever. There is the Judiciary and nothing else preventing him from doing anything he wants. And there is no reason to believe he will abide by court rulings. Federal law is such a thicket now, and litigation so complicated, that for every door the Courts choose to close, there are dozens of cracked-open windows the Executive can try to pry open. It’s a game of constitutional whack-a-mole, and by the time the court rulings come down, you have to deal with the consequences of the illegal steps the president has taken in the meantime. <edit> There is a description for such a leader, but it is not a president: it is a monarch, a king who is unchecked by any legislature or bound by any commitment to the rule of law, divorced completely from constitutional limited government. What the Republican Party doesn’t grasp is that Obama is not an outlier – he is the fulfillment of what his backers want. Article

To: longnshort who wrote (839956)	3/2/2015 8:32:45 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572838

If there were no harm associated with the "green" policies, then it would not matter, but people are actually being harmed right now by energy poverty. People in Germany are illegally cutting wood in the historic Black Forest, just to heat their homes and stay alive. People are being forced to decide between heat and food, due to the massive increases in energy prices in Ontario, so that we can pay 15x the market rate for wind electricity and be forced to pay the Americans to take our excess electricity. Meanwhile, the only true green energy in Canada; hydroelectric power, has to be shut down to keep from destabilizing the grid when the wind is blowing. That's right, water is diverted from the turbines at Niagara Falls, so you can pay 15x the rate to subsidize big green. Don't lie to yourself, those are not wind farms, they are not farming the wind, they are farming the subsidies and taking money out of your pocket by theft. <edit> The real question is, how can you still believe in anthropogenic global warming when all the models have given FAILED predictions, every single time? When every catastrophic prediction since the 1980's has come and gone without the climate armageddon promised. How long do you keep believing in this doomsday cult? If this offends you, and cannot be questioned, does that mean it is your religion? The US is at historic lows for hurricanes. All studies show that there are not, in fact, more extreme weather occurances. Why does the Australian Met office say that last year's heat wave was the hottest on record, then only include the records since 1900? There was a heat wave in Australia in the late 1800's that lasted far longer, was hotter, and killed hundreds of people. There are actual temperature records and newpaper reports from that time in Australian history. These are facts, not predictions of computer models, desgined by fallible humans. Please read Anthony Watts (retired meteoroligist and statistician), Steve McIntyre (statistician: he killed the Hockey stick), Bjorn Lomborg (a believer, who will show you the societal cost to these policies), Judith Curry (climate scientist extraordinaire at Georgia Tech, who was excoriated for expressing scientific doubt), and Steve Goddard (who has proven that the temperature records of the past are being illegally and unethically lowered to make the present appear warmer), as well as www.Jonova.com & www.nofrakkinconsensus.com and make an informed decision. Research Climategate and read the leaked emails for yourselves. I cannot fault anyone for buying into this, originally, I had too. The news media has been hard selling it for years. When you do an internet search and most of the results tell you something is true, does that mean that it is true? You may get angry with me for suggesting that you have been duped, so go do the math and research for yourselves. Is it possible that you have been lied to? When they give a stat like: 97% of all scientists agree, it sounds compelling. Isn't it interesting how that study looked at 10,000 papers and out of those, only chose 70 something to claim a 97% consensus from? Once you've made the decision to look at it as a scientist and look for actual proof, you have to question who actually benefits from keeping the lie alive. Hint: it isn't us. Article