Brandishing chainsaws

Someone took our advice. The EnviroNazis are upset that someone was walking around with a chainsaw under the trees where they are illegally perched.....trying to save the planet, of course.

EnviroNazi "news" release here.

"Stocks and Steepleton have endured 24-hour sleep deprivation tactics and the brandishing of a chainsaw. All day and all night Massey security personnel have flashed bright lights, sounded air horns, and banged loudly on metal buckets in an effort to prevent the tree sitters from getting any sleep. “The security guards' actions with the lights and air horns are making the situation less safe,” Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice volunteer Charles Suggs said. “Depriving sleep from people who have to maintain safety systems to prevent a fatal fall endangers their lives.”"

If you were really concerned about a fatal fall, one way to ensure this would not happen would be to stay on the ground.

EnviroNazis to invade West Virginia

Here is a group of EnviroNazis putting out a call for more of their ilk to join them.

link here

Here's how to deal with the one remaining (literal) tree hugger.

Obama and the Continuing War on the Poor

Mises.org story

"The process of looting the public appears to have gained momentum with the newest administration. It has embarked on a full-scale assault on the American public, aimed not only at ravaging the poor for a few special interests, but vastly increasing the number of people consigned to poverty. Whether we look at Obama and the Democrats' cap-and-trade legislation or their health care reform or their pork barrel stimulus bill, in each case they intend to raise prices and increase taxes on us all. While a few corporate interests will benefit grandly from such nonsense, the vast majority of us will be made poorer."

Zach space no conservative

Here we go again, the media calling Zach Space a "fiscal conservative". Nothing could be further from the truth. This guy voted for the largest tax increase in US history with his cap and tax vote. He's also supported (along with Comrade Wilson) all of Obama's deficit creation bills.

No conservatism at all. This "blue dog" label that Pelosi has allowed these few democrats to keep is nothing more than quasi cover (for re-election) for them to pretend that they are conservatives. Because, in the end, they support our socialist president's crazy / anti-American schemes.

House Dems to move ahead on health care

WASHINGTON — The House is moving ahead on health care legislation after the leadership and fiscally conservative lawmakers worked out a deal.

Rebellious Democrats who have stalled work said Wednesday they've reached agreement with the leadership and the White House. Four of the seven so-called Blue Dog Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said they resolved their differences with Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. The lawmakers also had been meeting with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The development allows the panel — the last of three in the House — to complete its work before lawmakers leave Friday for an August recess.

The four are Reps. Mike Ross of Arkansas, Baron Hill of Indiana, Zach Space of Ohio and Bart Gordon of Tennessee.

Jackson County times passes off Space press release as "news"

The media apparently do not care why no one reads or listens to them anymore. Whatever happened to equal time?

Here the Jackson County Times has a story obviously written by Space's staff being passed off as news. You'd think they'd at least have the journalistic integrity (I know it's an oxymoron) to state the fact that this is a news release.

"Standing up for the needs of his constituents, Congressman Zack Space (OH-18) welcomed the passage of the legislation that funds the ARC at a higher level than last year."

"Space has consistently defended the ARC."

"He is working to restore integrity to the office and create the conditions to bring new industry and jobs to Ohio."

The last one is the best. This from the political hack that just voted against his own district's interests by voting for the cap and tax job killing bill.

local "Tea Party" members demonstrate outside Congressman Charlie Wilson's office

"They're throwing everything at us at once. It's not a dictatorship, but that's what they're making it," member Jane Gambos of Richmond complained.

One of 8 Republicans to vote yes on cap and tax getting heckled at town hall meeting

"I voted for Space but when he voted for the Cap and Trade, that was it."

Protesters show up at Zach Space's office

I'm surprised its taken this long.

Sherrod Brown sounds like Zach Space on Cap and Tax

Intelligencer story here

"U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, meanwhile, is reviewing the climate change legislation.

"He's working on the Senate bill so that it protects Ohio consumers, invests in manufacturing and ensures the competitiveness of U.S. industries," said Meghan Dubyak, spokeswoman for Brown."

Now here's a great letter to the editor.

'Cap and trade' will force companies to leave U.S.

June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives (with the help of our Rep. Zack Space) passed what may be the single most destructive bill in the history of our country. It is labeled "cap and trade" and also is known by the name of the co-sponsors Waxman-Markey or as the American Clean Energy and Security Act. I will refer to it as ACES.

In the midst of a very deep recession, many believe ACES will bring the single largest tax increase in the history of the United States. Many also believe it is totally unnecessary.

Our president recently deliberately lied when he said ACES will "cost the average American about the price of a postage stamp per day." Watch and hear the video of him being honest before last year's election and saying, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSZ62xiD4M.

ACES also, once again, makes a liar of Obama, who said there would be absolutely no tax increase on any American who makes less than $250,000 per year (later $200,000). He, of course, also promised a "middle-class tax cut." ACES will be a tax increase on every single American. And, it is not just energy, it's everything it takes energy to produce.

This is a regressive tax that hurts the middle class and poor more than the wealthy! A provision in the ACES bill recognizes this and provides direct cash deposits into accounts of people who are within 150 percent of the federal poverty level to help offset the increasing cost of everything. Great, the middle class not only has much higher costs to pay, but the government will be taking even more of our money to support the poor!

Under another provision, when Americans want to sell their homes, energy Nazis will come in and do an "energy audit." Now your home will be subjected to a new energy rating assessment and energy labeling program that will penalize you for older windows, not enough insulation, not having super-efficient furnaces and air conditioning and owning dated appliances. So ACES would bring down the value of most homes!

OK, that's older homes, but what about new homes? All new homes in the United States will have to conform to California's extensive and very expensive building codes. Great, let's have a bankrupt state show us the way! Now we all can be bankrupt!

How did these and other horrible provisions get in ACES? Well, for one, no person who voted on the bill ever has read it. The original bill had some 1,300 pages and was not available to be read. Thursday night, before the Friday vote, 354 more pages of amendments were slipped in. Even co-sponsor Rep. Waxman admitted he had not read the bill, but said there were "good people writing it."

Why cap and trade? The two main reasons are to limit carbon dioxide emissions and to drastically raise our conventional energy prices enough to make currently non-competitive energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal more attractive. This is completely unnecessary.

The theory of man-made global warming is a huge scam. More and more competent scientists are saying that. You don't believe me? Just Google "scientists against global warming" and start reading some of the hits you get.

ACES will force even more companies to move out of the United States and go overseas where the business climate is friendlier. You can be certain many countries will not raise their cost of doing business and sign on to this insanity.

We already are getting fed up with many of our politicians. If ACES passes, the American people eventually will wake up to the huge cost and remember who voted for and who voted against this legislation in the House. Rep. Space, I and many others will be actively campaigning against you. Please wake up and learn about this sort of thing. If you value the future of the country, contact your senators and demand they completely stop ACES before it is too late.

Jerry Phillips, CFP

Network Financial Services Inc.

Chillicothe

Space says one thing then votes another

"Space feels the bill will help America move in the direction of energy independence."

Um, why then, would you vote to limit the use of our own energy? Why would you vote to increase business costs?

This guy is clueless!

Space Failed East Ohioans (The Intelligencer)

The Intelligencer

Editorial

June 29, 2009

We don't know what favors, if any, U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, was promised by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and possibly President Barack Obama. We do know that Obama and Pelosi lobbied intensively to convince members of Congress to vote in favor of the Waxman-Markey Bill - otherwise known as "cap and trade" - on Friday.

By the thin margin of 219-212, the House of Representatives approved "cap and trade." All three members of the House from West Virginia - Democrats Alan Mollohan and Nick Rahall and Republican Shelley Moore Capito - voted against the bill. So did U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Ohio. Wilson, an early opponent of the measure, defied party discipline to vote in the best interests of his East Ohio constituents. We believe they will remember that when he comes up for re-election.

We hope East Ohioans will remember how Space voted, too. With knowledge of how badly thousands of families in his district will be hurt by the bill, if it becomes law, Space turned his back on his constituents. He chose to vote with Pelosi, D-Calif., and with Obama, who had made "cap and trade" one of his top priorities.

The dishonesty and politics used to pass "cap and trade" were truly astounding - to those of us in America's heartland, at least. In Washington, such tactics are accepted, even encouraged and rewarded.

One example of the frantic rush to "spin" the issue during the last few days before the vote on Friday is illustrative. On Wednesday, liberals released part of a Congressional Budget Office study claiming "cap and trade," if enacted, will cost American families an average of only $175 a year. That simply is not true. It will cost families in our area much, much more. It will cost some their jobs.

But the $175 figure was not low enough. So, on Thursday, "cap and trade" supporters claimed the Environmental Protection Agency had set the cost at an average of $140 a year.

Still not good enough. So, on Friday, the very same liberals who previously had used the $175 and $140 figures claimed that, well, the cost would only be $80 to $110 - according to the EPA.

It was that process of lying to the American people - and that is exactly what happened - that Space rewarded with his "aye" vote on the Waxman-Markey bill.

Congressman Charlie Wilson gets it right, votes for 6th district jobs

Though our debt increasing, inflation causing Congressman still needs replaced, It's only fair to give him credit for the one or two things he's done right.

Dear Friends,

Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 2454 – The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. This month alone I heard from thousands of residents of Ohio's Sixth District via email and phone and I wanted to let you know that I voted "no" on the bill.

Members of the House worked very hard to come up with the kind of energy reform bill that will both reduce greenhouse gases and lead our country to energy independence. Both are goals that I support, and progress on the bill in the House was encouraging, but I felt it didn’t go far enough to protect energy consumers and industries in my district.

I believe that coal must and will play a major role in our nation’s transition to energy independence. In Ohio, 86 percent of our electricity comes from coal. And the vast majority of that coal comes from Appalachian Ohio. Because we are located in an area of the country that heavily relies on coal to turn on the lights and heat our homes, Ohio families and her energy intensive industries, like steel, will bear the brunt of the cost from this version of climate change legislation.

This legislation is still being worked on by the Senate and I’m eager to see what that bill looks like.

Sincerely,

Charlie Wilson
Member of Congress
Ohio's Sixth District