Obama: “Restore The Scientific Process To….The Endangered Species Act”

If only that were true. President Obama yesterday announced that he will rescind actions taken during the Bush administration that would once again restore the process by which actions are taken on endangered species. He also intends to repeal the special rule that exempted energy efforts in the Arctic and the polar bear from claims of harm due to man-made global warming.

Obama says he is going to restore science to the process. Read more

Happy Thanksgiving

How Thanksgiving began is varied, all for reasons of being thankful. Today, Thanksgiving has become to most Americans, a time to gather as families, eat far too much food and perhaps even watch a little football.

I hope you will also take some time from your busy to schedule to reflect back on all the things you are thankful for. And, by the way, make sure to share at least one of the thanks with someone else.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tom Remington

Change Your Thinking

*Editor’s Note* This was sent to me by a reader. Author unknown.

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room’s only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. Read more

Skinny Moose Media Launches Newsletter “The Skinny”

August 18, 2009 – Skinny Moose Media launched its weekly newsletter ‘The Skinny’ on Tuesday as a new medium to inform the public in regards to industry news, new products, and special deals. With a handful of informed bloggers, Skinny Moose Media will be turning to their writers for help. “Our writers are always posting about the latest news and the newsletter will not only keep people informed but will assist in promoting our individual bloggers in the Network,” Steve Remington, President of the media company, said.

The newsletter has a strong concentration in the outdoor and recreational industry, especially hunting, fishing, shooting, and conservative politics but the Network is expanding their Internet presence every day. Signing up is simple. Browse to skinnymoose.com and fill in your name and email address in the form.

Jefferson And Madison Battle It Out Over U.S. Constitution And Bill Of Rights

At the end of Thomas Jefferson’s five years he spent in Paris, France working for the United States to open treaties and agreements of commerce and trade, back in the States work was being done in drafting the Constitution.

Jefferson was always adamant that the Constitution should contain a guarantee of rights to the citizens of America, that it should be spelled out clearly the freedoms guaranteed to each person. The debate on such ranged from it not being at all necessary and whether or not any “guaranteed” rights be done as amendments to the ratified Constitution or a stand alone document.

If Jefferson were alive today, he could make a fortune in consulting fees. He was the go-to guy for many when seeking advice on an array of topics. It seemed that while he was in the middle of receiving mailings from across the ocean about the drafting of a constitution, he was also consulting with many concerning the French Revolution and helping the French people to regain some of their lost freedoms. Read more

A Story For Memorial Day

I just wanted to get the day over with and go down to Smokey’s. Sneaking a look at my watch, I saw the time, 1655. Five minutes to go before the cemetery gates are closed for the day. Full dress was hot in the August sun. Oklahoma summertime was as bad as ever–the heat and humidity at the same level–both too high.

I saw the car pull into the drive, ‘69 or ‘70 model Cadillac Deville, looked factory-new. It pulled into the parking lot at a snail’s pace. An old woman got out so slow I thought she was paralyzed; she had a cane and a sheaf of flowers–about four or five bunches as best I could tell.

I couldn’t help myself. The thought came unwanted, and left a slightly bitter taste: ‘She’s going to spend an hour, and for this old soldier, my hip hurts like hell and I’m ready to get out of here right now!’ But for this day, my duty was to assist anyone coming in. Read more

Conspiracy Theories on the Rise After Freddie Mac CFO Reportedly Commits Suicide

David Kellermann, the acting Chief Financial Officer of the troubled Freddie Mac mortgage company, was reported to have hung himself in his own home, where he lived with his wife and 6 year old daughter. This morning while watching the Today Show, they had interviewed neighbors and all are very saddened by the ordeal, but most intriguing is the shock. One woman said, “they were just such a happy family. They were the first on our street to get their Christmas lights out, and they were the first to hand out Valentine cards to everyone.”

According to an article from Politico, there has been an uprising in conspiracy theories pointing out the fact that things just “don’t add up”. In the current case, details are still being worked out but foul play seems to have already been ruled out by authorities. Police responded to a phone call from Kellermann’s home at 4:48 a.m. After arriving at the house, police found 41 year old Kellermann hanging in his basement. Read more

Happy Birthday America!

Milt Inman Photo

This flag proudly flies in a field overlooking a rural Maine farmhouse! Hope you Independence Day if a great one!

Tom Remington

Remembering Why We Are Free

This holiday weekend is a time to reflect back and remember all those who sacrificed that we might be free in the greatest land God gave to us.

Tom Remington

Democrats Play Politics With our Soldiers!

by Martin T. Ingham

I am disgusted by the way the Democrat Congress is conducting itself regarding the war on terror. Their latest vote to impose an arbitrary deadline for troop withdrawals from Iraq is simply playing politics, and nothing else, and I am seriously incensed by this latest act which is equivalent to spitting on our Armed forces.

By setting a date to withdraw from Iraq at this stage, the Congress is declaring defeat, and telling our young men and women in uniform that their work doesn’t mean anything. They are making every combat death be for naught. Not only that, but they’re condemning more soldiers to die for nothing by keeping them in the combat zone for many more months, even after the politicians have signed the surrender papers.

If the war is truly lost, why the arbitrary deadline months in the future? Why not pull out right now, and save as many lives as possible? I’ll tell you why. It’s because the Democrats in Congress don’t give a damn about our soldiers. They care about having a talking point for the 2008 election. They want more of our soldiers to die in combat, so they can stand up on their soapboxes and snivel and whine about the poor, dying soldiers that they kept over there to die to win votes!

If the war is truly lost, pull the troops home now. No waiting, no timetable. Just get out! No pathetic half-measures, designed to prolong the suffering and add to the death toll.

With that said, I do not believe we have lost, yet. This war is still up in the air, but assigning an arbitrary deadline is a prescription for defeat. If we tell the enemy that we will be fleeing at a given date, we are letting them know that they will win if they just lay low and wait it out.

An arbitrary withdrawal also undermines the authority of our military strategists, who should be running this war. The greatest problem with this war, and several others in the past, is that arrogant politicians have been setting policy and running things from their cushy offices, rather than the generals in the field. Our military is not choosing how to run things so much as elected bureaucrats who have never seen combat. The Congress should stay out of the decision making process when it comes to military action.

I have two words to say to every Congressman who voted to create defeat in Iraq, but I will refrain from soiling these fine pages with such vulgarity. Instead, I will state the obvious, that they are cowards, and care nothing for the lives of our soldiers, so long as they can buy votes with the blood of Americans! They are utterly despicable, and everyone who voted for the withdrawal deadline deserves to be kicked out of office! How about we set a deadline for that? November 4th, 2008 sounds good to me!

Not One Commie Less

by
KenShin

Not One Less (2000, Sony Pictures Classics, directed by Zang Yimiu), while a pleasantly involving tale of personalities, also stands as testament to the utter malevolence of spirit that blooms from a communist system of economics.

In a small province of Communist China, the economic realities of collectivism force young students to drop out of school at an increasing rate so they can go work (they’re so poor they hoard broken chalk).

When their sole teacher must take a leave of absence, the district hires 13-year-old Wei Minzhi as a substitute; no one else is available. She is promised extra cash (a pittance to us) if all of the students are still there when the real teacher returns. But when one of the students, Zang Huike, runs off, Wei must travel to the city on foot to find him so she can get the extra cash.

The main characters are engaging, the background of sparse, dry countryside versus overcrowded city is fascinating— but the sense of life is horrifying.

Wei’s ingenuity and persistence are impressive. Lost herself in the unfamiliar city, she writes hundreds of missing-persons notices by hand. When that fails, she tracks down the boy’s last known residence, but he’s no longer there. Wei then struggles to get help from the tv station.

Although Wei first undertakes this journey to ensure her bonus, bit by bit her own human decency awakens, and her concern shifts from money to the safety of the runaway.

Not so with most of those she meets. The now-frantic young teacher meets with rebuff, hostility, indifference: “It’s not my problem, so why should I care?”

Can you imagine such a callous response to a missing child in America , even in the meanest, poorest city or town?

But with communist city and country residents alike having to grub for miniscule sums of money, true meanness of spirit is ensured.

It’s not until Wei encounters the TV station manager that someone with a shred of benevolence and free will emerges. “You kept (the girl waiting outside for a day and a half?” he asks his sullen, dull-eyed receptionist. She replies, “I just follow the rules.”

So the next time you encounter some starry-eyed propagandist who bleats about the “nobility” of collectivism, make sure he sees this film.

And then offer him a one-way ticket to Communist China.

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Put the Ham-Hat On!

It has been many months since I have found the time to write an article of substance, and for that I must apologize. The world around us is changing so rapidly, and my own perhaps more. I will endeavor to compose some intellectual prose in the future.

Today, I would like to comment upon suggestions made by famed talkshow host Glenn Beck yesterday. Glenn mentioned that he thought it a good idea to wrap the dead body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in pork products, more specifically, a bacon shroud and a ham hat. This would not be done out of hatred or revenge, but to deter future terrorists from following in Zarqawi’s footsteps.

I must agree, that such an act would be beneficial to fighting terrorists. Terrorize them, as they would gladly terrorize us. If they knew they would be wrapped in bacon, thus made impure and denied their billion virgins and eternal party with Allah, they would think twice before blowing up women and children in the name of their religion.

We must start burying all terrorists in pork products. That would stop a lot of these psychos!

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