Local Cult Members Worship Reusable Bags

Cross posted on my primary blog.
Quoting our local “newspaper”:

“It shows the mountain towns are championing and pioneering reusing the reusables and keeping the plastic out of our rivers and out of our snow”

The article goes on to cite a laundry list of the purported evils of plastic.

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of the anti-plastic moronic propaganda:

To believe that any good is coming from this cultist anti-plastic fad requires us to assume that all of these purported do-gooders who are now reusing canvas bags were previously disposing of their plastic bags in hideously irresponsible ways.

This is exactly analogous to the false argument that guns (as opposed to criminal behavior) are the cause gun violence.

The fact is that recycling plastic bags is -- by FAR -- the most sensible and environmentally friendly option. For those willing to risk their health and the health of their family, reusing the plastic bags is a slightly more environmentally friendly option. In fact, as the plastic will not absorb the moisture required to pose a food poisoning risk, reusing the plastic bags is almost certainly a FAR healthier option than the reusable canvas bags.

But, attempting to educate members of the single most dangerous religious cult in the entire history of the human race is an exercise in futility. You might as well attempt to educate your kitchen table. Those who have already embraced this cult are already too far gone. They have been WAY too thoroughly indoctrinated in their religious beliefs.

The best we can hope for is to prevent the very young from becoming indoctrinated into the cult. And, home schooling is the ONLY way to do that.

Click here & link reusable bags to food poisoning.
Click here for some facts on plastic.

SPT Loaded Question on Health Care

Quoting the current poll question from our local Leftist propaganda rag:

“Are you dissatisfied with the state of health care in America today?”

Of course I am dissatisfied. But, if I respond in the affirmative, the implication will be that I want government to “fix” it. Government, as usual, created this problem. And, yet another government “solution” -- no matter WHAT that “solution” is -- will ONLY make matters WORSE -- as always!

Wage and price controls from FDR first created this problem. That FDR “solution” (to an inflation problem) literally made it illegal for employers to offer competitive wages. So, as always, employers found a loophole. The loophole was “benefits” (like employer provided health insurance). From that moment on, the consumer of health care was divorced from the payer of health care. And, at that very moment, we lost all hope of EVER containing health care costs.

Those FDR created spiraling costs are my beef with the current system. Okay, predatory scumbag trial lawyers who have the Dims in their bulging pockets (and vice versa) also contribute to the current mess -- as have additional government regulations which serve only to limit competition in the insurance business.

But, despite all this government “assistance”, we have -- demonstrably, objectively and quantitatively -- the BEST health care system in the entire world (partly because the governments of other nations -- such as Canada -- have made an even BIGGER mess of their health care systems).

I have ZERO expectation that MORE government intervention of ANY sort will make things any better. More government intervention will -- as ALWAYS -- only make matters WORSE!

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This post is cross posted on my primary blog.

The Colorado Energy Boom - Updated on 3/29/09

Click here to view the latest updates to the post titled “Welcome to The Colorado Energy Boom”.

Blair R. Picard - Shockingly Ignorant

Quoting Blair R. Picard:

“add up the deficits accumulated by our beloved Republican president during the past eight years, and Mr. Obama’s proposals look rather tame.”

Sorry Blair - The Washington Post begs to differ.
Bush Deficits vs. Obama Deficits in Pictures.
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The rest of Blair’s drivel is even more ignorant than that:

1) “our Bush depression”?

A) It AIN’T a “depression”.

B) Bush didn’t cause the recession.

2) Tax policy - Click here for the objective, quantitative facts.

3) Climate Change - Start here and read the rest.

What an unmitigated MORON! Blair R. Picard is typical of the uninformed fools who voted for Obama. These idiots deserve what they voted for. Unfortunately, they will drag the rest of us down with them.

3/3/09 - Updated Housing Bubble Data

Click here to view the updated (nonexistent) housing bubble data for Colorado. This update reflects data through October 1st of 2008 (the most current data available from this source).

Origins of the Smaller Class Size Agenda

I wonder how many of our locals who blindly support the smaller class size agenda have any clue where that agenda was born. Don’t count on SP&T to reveal the facts!

The SOLE purpose of the smaller class size agenda was to expand the scope, scale and political influence of the vast numbers of public sector employees laboring under an overtly Socialist model for the delivery of publicly funded “education” - er, sorry, Marxist indoctrination.

The ONLY “accomplishment” to come from this Marxist inspired agenda was to practically DOUBLE the number of workers laboring under this enormously destructive Socialist model for the delivery of “education”!

What started as a smaller schools agenda evolved into a smaller classroom agenda (requiring even MORE state employees). As usual, it ain’t about the kids!

Quoting a fully footnoted Wikipedia entry:

“Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator, author,[1] and political activist. Klonsky is one of the leaders of the modern small schools movement which has done much to transform the face of secondary school education in the United State[s].”

“In the 1970s he [Klonsky] became a leader of the New Communist Movement which broke away from the older Communist Party USA and its allegiance to the Soviet Union.”

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Americas Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake

Quoting The Manhattan Institute:

“For more than seven decades, American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard Husock explains how, as with so many anti-poverty efforts, low-income housing programs have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage to cities and their citizens. Public housing projects, Mr. Husock writes, are only the best-known housing policy mistakes. His book explains how a long list of lesser-known efforts—including housing vouchers, community development corporations, the low-income housing tax credit, and the Community Reinvestment Act—are just as pernicious, working in concert to undermine sound neighborhoods and perpetuate a dependent underclass. He exposes the false premises underlying publicly subsidized housing, above all the belief that the private housing market inevitably fails the poor.”

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