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Who woulda thunk it? Thanks, Hillbilly!

You can’t make this stuff up folks. According to Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence [sic] Council, our love of soft toilet tissue is going to wreck our planet. In other words, being kind to your po-po is givin’ Gaia fits.

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

“This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous,” said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.” Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.

A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.

Mercy! Maybe we should all grow a patch of switchgrass in the back yard and weave our own, butt-abrading toilet wipes. Of course, those would not be flushable so they would have to go into landfills — how unsanitary! Gaia would belch forth the methane of decomposing human wipes and that would cause more Globaloney Warming that would sink all the islands on the planet into Atlantis-type oblivion — sorry, I do digress.

Actually, some cagey entrepreneurial folk in Australia have a solution — Wallypop Family Wipes.

Lately, with all the media attention, there’ve been a lot of naysayers talking about the stench. I can honestly say, our wipes don’t stink.

Well, what they are really sayin’ is that they are such good little ‘natural living’ environmentalists that their, well, you know, doesn’t stink either. As Australian blogger Andrew Bold remarks:

Surely it’s time global warming believers marked their houses with some sign, a green pentangle or something, as a warning to visitors to enter at their own risk.

Seriously, we gotta know where these nutters live . . . ’cause they are among us — Yipes!

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In his post, The Obama Lie Machine, Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles sums up our new Prez and nails him:

Respectfully, the man just makes things up; whatever sounds good and sooooothing, he’ll say it. Less respectfully, he’s a liar and smart folks will question everything he says.

I wholeheartedly agree, except for one teeny, tiny little thing — well, not so little in orders of magnitude for the soul of our nation. Obama doesn’t lie about abortion. He’s always been an advocate of a mother’s right to choose to kill her unborn child, and he’ll work overtime to rend asunder all the efforts that the Bush administration undertook to stop this horrendous travesty of nascent human carnage. The LA Times puts it this way:

‘Conscience’ rule on abortions may be overturned
The Obama administration wants to clarify a Bush policy that lets healthcare workers deny services because of moral beliefs.

Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate their moral beliefs, according to administration officials.

The rollback of the so-called conscience rule comes just two months after the Bush administration announced it late last year in one of its final policy initiatives.

The new administration’s action seems certain to stoke ideological battles between supporters and opponents of abortion rights over the responsibilities of doctors, nurses and other medical workers to their patients.

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Supporters of the rule say it protects doctors from being forced to prescribe treatments including birth control pills.

Just it straight in your minds — Obama doesn’t care if you religious beliefs can’t coexist with abortion rights. If you work for a health care provider or in any type of ‘family planning’, you WILL offer abortion as an option. No if, ands or buts. The Anchoress definitely has President Obama’s number when she writes:

This is not a president who is all about freedom, like the last American president.

Control, yes. Lots and lots of control. But freedom…not so much.

I wonder…once health professionals are compelled to prescribe or to abort, against their consciences, it won’t be a very big step toward demanding that they kill “compassionately put-to-rest” those whose quality of life is deemed “insufficient” by the government’s measure. Or, you know…those who are simply becoming too expensive to keep alive on “the taxpayers dime.”

Because when it comes down to Socialized Medicine “universal health care” a Ted Kennedy – who is useful, rich and connected – may be deemed worth treating and saving. But you and I, mere peons without “friends, money or connections” – we’d be a drain on the taxpayer’s dear purse.

If we become a drain on the “public purse” and they can no longer tax us into servitude — we will be of no use to the likes of the Supreme Ruler and Co. Just more Lightworker dictated CHANGE that we’ll all have to take up the _ss!

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Wow! The Germans see Pres. Obama as a stars & stripes bedecked angel, flyin’ high with all of Europe in tow. Just wait until all that stimulus baggage and Porkulus spending starts draggin’ our newly ordained Icarus down to earth — we’ll see how well his European buddies regard him after that. Now, here’s the dirty part. The administration has just released their tax proposal and it calls for over 900 Billion in tax increases — mostly on individuals:

President Obama’s budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.

1) On people making more than $250,000.

$338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire
$179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction
$118 billion – capital gains tax hike

Total: $636 billion/10 years

2) Businesses:

$17 billion – Reinstate Superfund taxes
$24 billion – tax carried-interest as income
$5 billion – codify “economic substance doctrine”
$61 billion – repeal LIFO
$210 billion – international enforcement, reform deferral, other tax reform
$4 billion – information reporting for rental payments
$5.3 billion – excise tax on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas
$3.4 billion – repeal expensing of tangible drilling costs
$62 million – repeal deduction for tertiary injectants
$49 million – repeal passive loss exception for working interests in oil and natural gas properties
$13 billion – repeal manufacturing tax deduction for oil and natural gas companies
$1 billion – increase to 7 years geological and geophysical amortization period for independent producers
$882 million – eliminate advanced earned income tax credit

Total: $353 billion/10 years

I don’t make anywhere close to that, but still, I’m gonna go crawl in a corner for awhile and cringe, shake and whimper. Cause with tax increases like that, you just know a lot of it is gonna filter down and jam us all in the #ss! Better stock up on the KY!

Michelle Malkin has more, with Fun facts about ol’ Pres. Barry ‘O’s budget bustin’ budget!

And, the Anchoress is fit to be tied, or at least fit to be bakin’ Irish Soda Bread!

This is going to “create or save” millions of jobs? Hog-tying and hyper-regulating small businesses (a small business doing $250,000 a year is a VERY small business, not a fat-cat enterprise) will not create jobs. It will inspire businesses to close down.

Pssssssst: President Obama – revitalizing the economy and creating jobs; you’re doin’ it wrong!

Me? Now that I’ve finished quiverin’ and hunkerin’, I’m just here havin’ my own self a fit!

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Well, last night ol’ Pres Barry ‘O’ got up and gave his first speech to the assembled federal guvm’t, ya know, the Congress, Joint Chiefs, SCOTUS, et all — plus a full gallery of slobbering sycophants and “special” camera-op folks. It was quite a show, I’ll grant him that. Is there anyone better on a teleprompter? Well, maybe ol’ Slick Willie himself, but that’s really another era now. Nanny Nancy couldn’t contain her GLEE, grinnin’ like the village idiot throughout, and jumpin’ up like a maggot on a hot rock, just a clappin’ and a clappin’ at almost anything the Chosen One chose to utter.

About all that utterin’ — gee, is this guy gonna spend a lot of moolah, or what? Laer Pierce at Cheat-Seeking Missiles has the shopping list and it’s a doozy!

All the regular Democrat wet dreams are there — universal health care, more $$$ to “education”, whatever that means (most likely ever more $$$ to the teachers’ union for the same lousy performances by public school teachers!), more bailouts for deadbeat mortgage holders, (you guys that continue to struggle and actually ‘pay’ for your homes are SOL in Obamaland!), more auto company bailouts, (as long as they build cars you don’t really want with labor they can’t really afford!), more public spending on “renewable” energy, (you know, all that really expensive stuff that will require a lot of currently non-existent technologies and higher taxes on current energy supplies to make them more expensive so that all this ‘new’ stuff is ‘competitive’), and so on and so on!

As the numbers started adding up my head was spinnin’ faster than Linda Blair’s! The green this Obama administration will be spewin’ sure ain’t gonna be pea soup, neither — devalued greenbacks most likely.

Lot’s of feedback on Bobby Jindal‘s rebuttal, which I didn’t see — most of it not great. If we’ve learned anything from the last election cycle it’s that image, and the ability to communicate, or at least make the “people” think you’re actually saying something, especially something they can relate to or believe they want to hear, is paramount to winning an election. If the GOP doesn’t comprehend this fact and take it to heart in a big way, we’re in for future disappointment after disappointment. I hope it doesn’t take a couple more election cycles for this to sink in.

Ace says that Jindal was much better today, on Today:

Give the man his props. Much better today.

As I remarked in the comments, his problem was that he had been poorly coached. “Be upbeat,” they told him. “Be Reagan-like. Be warm, and folksy, and really connect with the common man.”

Some people have a gift with this; others don’t. Jindal is an uncommon man. He is uncommonly intelligent, educated, and accomplished. While others may easily pull off the common touch — as Reagan did — others seem fake and condescending when attempting to channel their inner Bubba.

Crap — haven’t had time to watch that one, either. Did watch Obama today, announcing round after new round of regulations to be targeted at Wall Street. That ought to make them investors feel all real warm and fuzzy.

Look for new rounds of sell offs. The Dow was down again today. As the pundits say, every time ol’ Barry ‘O’ opens his pie hole, Wall Street tanks!

Cheers!

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Canadian Steven Crowder goes looking for trouble with this funny take on the Koran. No one knows how long it will be available on YouTube as the YT/Google folk don’t mind Christian bashing but hey, they don’t wanna mess with Islam. Wonder why? Nope, not that. Way to many Dhimmis at the big YT.

Ya gotta admit, that is wicked fun! Not to be outdone, he takes a roundhouse swing at the Canadian health care system. Keep this in mind the next time you hear someone in the Obama administration say that we need cradle-to-grave, single-payer health care. Of course, if we get a system like Canada’s, that time from the cradle to the grave will be gettin’ a lot shorter!

Many call him the Canadian ‘Zo.

Enjoy!

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