John P. Holdren, who is now director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is an advocate of some radical ideas.  It is scary that a top advisor to the president promotes things such as “world of zero net physical growth” and “population limitation”.

A world of zero net physical growth is another way of saying “a world of zero net improvement for its inhabitants”.  Holden believes that 1. There are too many people on Earth and 2. The people who are here need to stop growing.

What exactly does the term “stop growing” mean to average citizens of the world?  Limits to family size comes to mind.  Limits to possession of goods and services.  Limits to land ownership (if it is allowed at all). Limits to the accumulation of wealth (for some people).

I have to emphasize the accumulation of wealth FOR SOME PEOPLE.  Holdren cannot honestly expect us to believe that his vision will apply to all of the people of the world.  What he envisions might apply to 99% of us but will it apply to the world’s elite?  It seems doubtful when you look at today’s eco-evangelists.  Let’s look at Al Gore for example.

Gore jets around, when not inhabiting his over-sized mansion, telling everybody else how much they need to change their lifestyles. Gore’s carbon footprint is gigantic compared to those whom he wants to limit.

This is probably a glimpse of the future looking us in the face.  A small number of elitists placing limits of growth on the rest of the world’s inhabitants.  This not only keeps 99% of mankind under foot, but it also lays the earth and its remaining resources at the feet of the elite 1%.  They can use what they want, nobody else is allowed.

Information for this post came partially from this website…

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=52080

Join the cause and help to fire everyone in congress.  Heres a website where you can get in on the plan…

http://www.throwthemalloutamerica.com

Here is their mission statement as posted at their site…

“Throw Them All Out America is dedicated to three propositions: 1) punishing all Congressional incumbents (both House and Senate) for the debacle known as the 2008 Mortgage Meltdown &Wall Street Bailout by throwing them all out of office; 2) replacing the entire corrupt Washington congressional culture with individuals from Main Street who will work to accomplish what is best for America; and, 3) organizing at the grassroots level to term limit all members of Congress via the power of the vote.”

I would add a #4 to the list… Retroactively re-evaluate and adjust congressional pay and perks.

Nothing can stop the spending bwaah bwaah ha ha..

We aren’t the brightest generation of voters to give total control of government to this group of idiots.  We are now reaping what we sowed.  And our children will reap it and their children will reap some of it.

Two "trillion" dollars

The biggest barrier to conservatism in this country is the Republican party. In regards to conservatism they are the wolf in sheep’s clothing. They have become a party that is no different then the Democrats. Just like blacks who blindly vote democrat, conservatives have wasted years and years supporting the republicans. It’s time for an alternative.

Each party gives lip service to the issues that stimulate its base, gay marriage, gun control, abortion. etc. These issues keep the electorate divided. In the meantime the parties take turns at sharing power. Election cycles come and go and nothing ever changes.

For almost 10 years the republicans had their chance at making real changes in Washington. Instead they chose to behave like stereotypical democrats. I don’t think that they really want change. They, just like the democrats, want status quo. They’ll gladly let the democrats run the show for awhile as long as they maintain the choke hold that they share with the democrats on the American political process.

It’s time to throw the Republocrat Party out. Republicans and Democrats are driving this train of state off of a cliff. Only by removing both parties will change ever happen in the US.

Here is a link to a great article I came across at BigHollywood…

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ebalogh/2009/02/19/opm-the-socialist-drug-of-choice/

Carl Marx with an Obama pin on his lapel.  Priceless.

Here’s a link to the American Recovery and Reinvestment bill…

http://appropriations.house.gov/

The house republicans are putting on a good show complaining about how late the final draft was released… only hours before the vote.  Passing a bill that has such long reaching ramifications without knowing what is in the bill should be reason enough to get them all fired.  In any other job they would be in trouble.  

It’s my guess that if the republican’s were in power the bill would still have passed.  The only difference is that republican friends, cronies and paybacks would be receiving the money.   As I’ve pointed out before, both parties act exactly the same when in power.   They act sooo similar that they are likely two heads of the same beast.  The Republocrat Party.  We need to throw them all out before it is too late.

Here’s a good one from the Washington Post.  Testosterone is now being blamed for the British facet of the world financial crisis.  ”Risk taking” men got us into this mess.  It is time for “the ladies to have a go” at running the show.  After-all, women are not greedy. A woman would never take a risk for profit.  

Women like Maxine Walters, for example, would have known better.  Maxine’s contribution to the crisis (by blocking additional oversight and regulation of Fanny and Freddie Mac) must have been an anomaly.  She probably stood too close to a man on the elevator and got contaminated with testosterone. It affected her judgment.  

A group of risk taking men might be responsible.  But from a feminist perspective it is the entire class of males who are to blame.  The evil testosterone has brought us to the brink.  The possibility that the crisis was created simply because a group of individuals made bad decisions is not considered. 

The financial industry was created primarily by men.  It is not perfect but it has served its participants fairly well over the years. The industry needs an overhaul in regards to the way it does business. Otherwise anyone can fall into the same traps that enticed the execs that drove us to the current crisis.   The mess will not be resolved by an infusion of estrogen.  

Quoted Article:

Men behaving badly: testosterone had its role in the lost billions

   * February 12, 2009

If women had control of the financial reins things might have been different, posit Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan in London.

FRED, Tom, Andy, Dennis, Eric, John, Stephen, Antonio and Paul ran British banks that lost billions of dollars.

So they were called in for a grilling by Nick, Graham, Colin, Jim, Stephen, Michael, Andrew, George, Mark, Peter, three Johns — and a single, solitary Sally.

The interrogation of the lions of British banking, many of whom have lost their jobs, began on television on Tuesday before the financial overseers of the British Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee. And in line with the usual maths of the financial world, 18 of the 19 key people in the room were men.

“Clearly, something needs to change,” said Howard Archer, the managing director of European Forecasting and Analysis at IHS Global Insight in London. “You can argue that the men have made a right mess of it, and now the ladies should have a go.”

As the global financial downturn deepens, the first rumblings of a gender revolution are under way in an industry long controlled by men. Banks, hedge funds and other financial organisations that have led the international economy’s downward spiral are overwhelmingly male-dominated. The regulators and legislators assigned to oversee the financiers are also mostly men.

“There are quite a lot of alpha males with testosterone steaming out their ears,” said Stuart Fraser, one of the top financial sector officials in London.

In Britain, women account for just 12 per cent of corporate directorships of companies on the FTSE 100 stock exchange index. In the US, women hold 17 per cent of the corporate directorships. “Maybe if we had more women in the boardrooms, we might not have seen as much risk-taking behaviour,” said Hazel Blears, one of two female members of the cabinet of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

Harriet Harman, the minister for women and equality, blasted the banking world for “discrimination and harassment” against women, including using lap-dancing clubs for corporate entertainment.

Amid the debate about whether the financial crisis would have happened, or been as severe, if more women had been in charge, there are signs that more women will be taking part in the global rescue.

Iceland, which suffered a humiliating economic collapse, has turned over key levers of finance to women. It now has a female prime minister, and women lead two of its major banks. The Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, has vowed to exercise “prudence and responsibility” as she cleans up the male-dominated system that sank the national economy.

“Men, especially young men, made a mess of things,” said Kristjan Kristjansson, the Prime Minister’s spokesman. “There is a strong discussion that women would have taken a more cautious approach in the financial sector. You could call the financial sector almost like a men’s club.”

Einar Mar Gudmundsson, an influential Icelandic writer, said: “These financial vikings who made the country bankrupt were in a way like little boys playing with toys.” He said he would like both men and women to be involved in reconstructing the nation’s financial sector.

In France, Michel Ferrary, a professor at the business school Ceram, recently conducted a study that concluded that French companies with the greatest percentage of women in management have performed the best during the crisis.

For example, he said, BNP Paribas bank, whose management team is nearly 39 per cent female, has weathered the crisis far better than Credit Agricole, where women make up just 16 per cent of managers.

John Coates, a researcher at Cambridge University who once ran a trading desk on Wall Street, recently conducted a novel survey that analysed saliva from 17 male traders in London’s financial district. Coates concluded that traders made the highest profits when they had the highest levels of testosterone in their spit. The downside, he said, was that elevated testosterone also led to riskier behaviour, a formula for disaster as well as profit. “If you had more women on the trading floors, you would probably eliminate some of this instability,” Coates said.

For three hours on Tuesday morning, four elite bankers sat before the Treasury Select Committee: Tom McKillop and Fred Goodwin, who ran the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Andy Hornby and Dennis Stevenson of HBOS. One after another, under often hostile questioning from the politicians, they apologised for presiding over bank collapses that have cost billions in taxpayer-funded bail-outs.

The legislators accused the bankers of being “arrogant” and “in denial” about their responsibility for the crisis. “It’s an old boy’s network,” Sally Keeble, the committee’s only female member, said after the hearing. She said she was most disturbed that the top echelons of British banking seemed to rely on a “cozy consensus of like-minded people” unwilling to listen to those who might challenge their views.

John Thurso, also part of the committee, said: “If there were more women, there might have been more of a reality check.”

The Washington Post

http://www.smh.com.au/world/men-behaving-badly-testosterone-had-its-role-in-the-lost-billions-20090211-84p2.html?page=-1

I’m having an on-going debate with a couple of friends over whether there is in fact two political parties.

At one time I thought that there was a large difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.  That was before I saw how the Republicans ran the show during the Bush Jr years.  There was exactly no difference fiscally between the Bush administration and its Republican congress and previous Democrat administrations.  Both spent money like a drunken sailor and both were corrupted by their power.

What we have running our country is one party or group of people that take turns at sharing power.  Half of the party gives lip service to social issues that draw about half of the electorate while the other half of the party gives lip service to the remaining social issues in order to dupe most of the remaining electorate.  Neither party cares anything about principle.  Their only concern is maintaining power.  By keeping the nation divided against itself they prevent the formation of competing parties while maintaining the status quo.

While the electorate is busy bickering over social issues (most of which should be settled on the state or local level of government) both partys coast along sharing power, buying influence with our tax dollars while selling out America for political gain.  Democrats and Republicans rail against each other while the cameras are rolling before flying off to Florida where they share adjoining condos and dine together and laugh at the unclean masses after the cameras are turned off.

America needs another party.  The Republocrats are running the USA into the ground.