This is a blog post from The Hill’s Pete Kasperowicz

Read the original here

Last night I listened in on Keith “hey someone pay my way to the haj” Ellison’s phone town hall meeting.

He parroted all the Dem talking points, talked up the preliminary CBO scoring as if it was real, until later in the meeting when he had to admit it was a preliminary scoring of the bill. For the sake of “transparency”, you know.

To the Congressman’s credit, when I hopped into the queue to ask a question, his staffer didn’t disqualify my question out of hand.

Ellison represents MN CD5, which covers much of Minneapolis proper, and some first ring suburbs, like mine. So he is not operating in enemy territory, if you know what I mean.

He had some seminar callers who wanted to know when we might expect a move to a single-payer system.

He was quick to assure the callers who questioned the need to take such drastic action, that they could keep their current heathcare, skirting the truth that they will make it nearly impossible for your employers to keep providing insurance for you.

The one guy who brought up the blatant unconstitutionality of imposing a requirement to purchase a product from the Government was told that everybody needed to buy healthcare to keep the pool large to spread the cost over a larger group of people. He neither addressed the real question, nor offered any explanation of why it is constitutional.

There was a pretty fair mix of pro and con questions, so the Congressman’s staff is to be commended.

Although I was not afforded the chance to ask my question, you could leave a message at the end of the call.

My message was this:

If you vote for this clearly unconstitutional bill, I will work tirelessly to make sure you are not returned to Washington.

Take it to the bank.

Earth Day 2010 bloomed sunny and warm here in Minnesota. For me, this was going to be a very special day. No, I wasn’t going to celebrate Lenin’s Birthday, the way the new Marxists and Socialists were going to, by kissing the ass of their Mother the Earth, or worshiping Gaia, or hugging a tree.

I had a plan.

As a precinct secretary, I received a communique from the local Senate District. That missive was a forwarded e-mail from the College Republicans at the University of Minnesota. In it, they told of how they had secured the services of Karl Rove to come to campus and give a speech and sign some copies of his new book, “Courage and Consequence”. Seeing the ultimate irony of having Rove here on Earth Day, at the U of M, it was way too good to pass up.

So this morning, I arose, made coffee, and sat down at the computer to begin my day by catching up on my reading at Andrew Breitbart’s Big sites.

Big Government, Big Hollywood and Big Journalism are on my daily reading list, are pure Conservative gold, and should be perused by anyone looking to escape the Governmental Propaganda Machine that is the MSM. There a few posts regarding Earth Day, and I commented on a couple of them, and got to whack a troll along the way. That, along with some coffee really gets the day off to a good start. Soon it was time to head down to campus, and after not finding the exact route that I had planned on being open, I found a place to park and started on my way to Smith Hall.

As I walked onto the Mall by Northrup, I found myself walking with a couple of Campus Police who were on their way to Smith Hall because of the noisy bunch who were marching there chanting something about Rove being a terrorist. The nice thing about that was I didn’t have to guess where Smith Hall was, I just followed the noise.

I walked through the crowd, and into Smith Hall. Found the room and sat down to hear what Karl had to say. He discussed, in no particular order, the healthcare bill, and it’s affect on the country, the Stimulus Bill, and it’s lack of effect, and the ballooning deficit and how damaging it will be to the country. All pretty standard stuff, and well received by most of the crowd. About 25 minutes into the speech the hippie plants broke into their “Rove is a terrorist” chant, and were roundly shouted down by the attendees as they were led out of the room by the Campus Police. There were a couple more dweebs escorted out by the end of the speech spewing some nonsense, Karl seemed unphased by the idiots, and looked like it was old hat to him.

Karl set aside about a half hour for questions, and fielded a wide range of topics from Afghanistan, to who the most influential people on Earth were currently, peer pressure on campus, and why he would come into the belly of the beast, so to speak. His reasoning for appearing on campus was to as he put it, to let the new generation of conservatives that they were not alone either on campus, or in the world.

We were chased out of the room before the book signing to facilitate some order, and to weed out the remaining wingnuts. So I grabbed a couple copies of his book for him to sign, and went and stood in line. Standing behind me was a guy of my general age, and behind us, some 60′s rejects and their “young skulls full of mush” followers. I remarked to my line mate “Oh to be young and disgruntled again”  We then embarked on a discussion of how we came to be Conservatives, Tea Parties, Tax Rallies, and how bad it was going to be for the young hippies when they actually had to work for a living, rather than sponging off their parents.

By then we were back in the room getting our books signed, and I had the chance to get a picture with Karl, shake his hand, and tell him he was doing the good work for all of us.

As I walked back to my car, I got a chance to see the education system at work preparing our youngsters for the real world. Kids sitting around listening to their Ipods, juggling bowling pins and hacky sacks. Pretty much the same as it has always been from my dim recollection of hanging out on campus in the 70′s.

Anyway, part of my Earth Day plan was to have a nice lunch, one that included something deep fried to use some fossil fuel, and include some airborne yummy smells, err pollutants. What to do? I considered the Hickory Hut, home of awesome deep fried chicken wings. But I had those last week after the Tax Day Tea Party in St Paul. I considered two different fish and chip joints, JJ’s on University by the Ax-Man surplus store, and Mac’s Fish and Chips on Hamline and Larpenteur. Not in the mood for fish, I cruised down University, and turned into Porky’s Drive Inn. A mainstay of cruisers since before cars had mandated seatbelts, and some of the best, if not the best onion rings in town. I got a Double Spicy burger and an order of onion rings, and went out to sit in the sun on a picnic bench and have some yummy, yummy grub. Turned out I made a good decision, the burger was tasty, and the onion rings were just as I remembered them crisp, salty, and just a little greasy. Truly a meal fit for Earth Day.

I listened to the Twins game as I cruised back across town, and our lads dropped the last game of the series against the Indians, 8-1. Oh well you can’t have it all. Then there was serious Earth Day business to attend to. I stopped at the local Menards and picked up a couple of cases of incandescent bulbs. Yes, I believe in the Edison Bulb, and I will be damned if anyone will tell me what kind of light bulbs I can or cannot use. After all the sheep have been converted to cfls, and spend their days whining about the crummy light and that they don’t work well in the cold. I will have one thing to say to them: “If you want a good light, one that is warm and you can read by it, you are gonna have to talk to me.” Then I will charge their stupid asses $50 a bulb, for being pussies. Capitalism at it’s finest.

Then, well satisfied I had increased my stash, I drove home. Spent some time out in the yard watering my new hedge. When it matures, it will be 6 feet tall, and thick as the day is long, obscuring the view of the front of the house from prying eyes. It will be glorious.

What did you do today?

From hell’s heart  I stab at thee,

For hates sake I spit my last breath at thee.

We all know how well that worked.

Props to ProfessorDreadNaught

Go here and read it.

Here, let me run some quotes from the article:

“The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.”

“According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this”

“But the effects are not confined to the Northern Hemisphere. Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, has recently shown that these MDOs move together in a synchronised way across the globe, abruptly flipping the world’s climate from a ‘warm mode’ to a ‘cold mode’ and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles.

‘They amount to massive rearrangements in the dominant patterns of the weather,’ he said yesterday, ‘and their shifts explain all the major changes in world temperatures during the 20th and 21st Centuries.

‘We have such a change now and can therefore expect 20 or 30 years of cooler temperatures.’”

“Like Prof Latif, Prof Tsonis is not a climate change ‘denier’. There is, he said, a measure of additional ‘background’ warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles.

But he added: ‘I do not believe in catastrophe theories. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount.

These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.’”

“William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.

According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’”

“The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.”

That being said. I would like to add my own little epilogue to the above story. Seeing how even an uneducated curmudgeon like myself saw through this from the beginning, I would like to say this:

YEAH!!!! EAT IT BITCHES, TAKE YOUR GAIA WORSHIPING, GRANOLA-EATING, VOLVO DRIVING, BIRKENSTOCK WEARING ASSES AND GO BACK TO WOODSTOCK, YOU FILTHY HIPPIES. I HOPE YOU ALL ROT IN HELL FOR TRYING TO GUILT US INTO BELIEVING YOUR RIGGED “SCIENCE”.

Whew, I feel better now.