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Obama's Energy Czar: Socializing Roof Colors

The liberal lefty loonies have done it again in the U.S., and amazed that the state of our nation has now come to this.

According to Yahoo News and several other news sources, at a recent symposium held in London by 20 pre-eminent Nobel laureates and attended by the Prince of Wales, Barack Obama's new energy czar, Steven Chu, made his contribution to the global warming non-phenomena now sweeping the globe in order to "stimulate" the economies of the science and technology fields:

Mr. Chu recommends that all roofs be painted energy-reflective white.

In the article he further states that making roads and roofs a paler color would have the effect of taking every car off the road for 11 years.

I wonder if he ever worked for DuPont?

As a former Arizona resident, I can unequivocally state that painting roofs white might not be a bad idea given the sweltering summers in that desert climate.  However, due to the desert dust storms and monsoons, those roofs would be brown, gray or even black within a few seasons.  Not to mention the extra-strength prescription Ray-Bans you would need during the summer in order not to suffer the equivalent of snow blindness.

I wonder if these noted laureates took into consideration that with all those white roofs, would it not increase the heat also that would be reflected back toward the sun, potentially burning out that star well before its time and leaving this planet then in total darkness?

Maybe that topic is for the next global summit.

I wonder what the carbon footprints for those attending the meeting, and whether they flew by prop or British Airways non-stop jumbo jet?  With the state of our technology as it is now, you would think twenty scientists could meet via telecom or satellite communications, and spare the rest of the world that excess carbon.

At least the White House and Capitol are in compliance, but it appears socializing exterior roofing is now also not even beyond the reach of these global politicians and world leaders at this point.

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Department of Homeland Security: Marginalizing Our Military

www.backupamerica.org
 

In recent interviews after last week's Tea Parties conducted throughout the nation, much media spin and reporting has been done with respect to one group of individuals who were targeted as "potential terrorists" according to the Department of Homeland Security's "right wing extremism" memorandum issued prior to these events.

The entire focus has primarily been directed toward the returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and, as Ms. Napolitano commented, their susceptibility to being recruited by some of these "right wing organizations."

The attempts at marginalization of other groups, such as of the entire Catholic faith (an anti-abortion "one issue" group primarily also), victims of illegal immigrant crime and theft in this country, those that hold with the Bill of Rights 2nd Amendment provisions, war and tax protestors, and a host of other concerned citizen groups who also were included have barely even been given a nod, much less an apology. 

Many other Americans included on that memo could not in any way be categorized as affiliated with Ms. Napolitano or the Department's definition of "right wing," in this not racial, but  "ideology" profiling, a great deal of which was directed toward individuals and citizen groups fighting for fundamental Constitutional civil liberties and rights.

To this writer, this attempt is nothing more than mass propaganda and terrorism in and of itself, and in attempts to marginalize our military as potential terrorists or suscepitible to supposed "right wing extremist" ideology as defined by the Department could only be due to one agenda, and one only. 

To attempt to discredit them, and aimed toward silencing some of those returning veterans who just may have some more truthful information about what is really going on in Iraq and Afghanistan differing from what our mainstream media pundits have presented.

Or also to discredit those outraged at this point with their multiple tours of duty contrary to their understanding when first enlisting for this "mission" back in 2001 and the direction it then subsequently took.

Or even possibly in order to minimize the sacrifices of those men and women who are now being reported by Ms. Napolitano's very own Department of Homeland Security who are now and have been attempting to cross the Canadian borders and whose agents are now detaining and holding them for military trials as deserters, many of whom also were misled and who are now refusing to return to their active duty due to their multiple tours already within this past seven years.

I received two such reports of these detentions and arrests within the past 30 days since as a border security activist, I receive the DHS builletins released to the public.  I'm sure there are many more than what have been included in the official press releases.

If we can marginalize those returning war veterans, then we can also eventually deny them future benefits, and also continue the Washington "spins" with respect to this ever-increasing war now under the Obama Administration, in direct opposition to his stated intentions during that two year run for office.

And also discredit some of their stories when they return as unworthy of credence if contrary to governmental press releases and spins this past seven years.

This by the members of this Administration from a candidate who painted himself as the agent for "change" and the "Anti-Bush" who has now spent more under that unaccountable bank bailout he was instrumental in passing with those others in Washington last September.  

Mr. Obama has now instead enlarged the number of troops and war in simply moving the troops around the Middle Eastern chessboard and continued its funding in the budget and even an 83 billion supplemental appropriations bill, and has assisted in plunging along with the past and present Congress our nation into more debt than the last four presidents and administrations combined. 

This is and has been a Democratic Congress working alongside the Republicans in ignoring the American people now on every level, and in now calling war on its own military and citizens who are outraged at such misrepresentation and conduct.

To make matters worse, at the same time this country was floundering economically, this new Administration and its corporate backers instead staged an inaugural that puts some of the coronations of the Crown Heads of Europe to shame. 

The result has been that in less than 100 day later this country is continuing to further sink into the economic quagmire Washington itself created in September during the manufactured bank "crisis" when Mr. Obama was a member of the Senate Club in the Bush Administration.  While the media fudges on the approval ratings due to their corporate loyalty to this bi-partisan collusive effort.

With all the "crisis" that have occurred within the past eight years alone now in this country, I'm wondering if all of them don't simply work for the networks and their owners under contract for ratings and their advertising revenue. 

It seems to me that what has occurred the past eight years has been Washington's version of The Fear Factor - only the citizens are the unwilling participants.

What simply has occurred is that once elected, Mr. Obama threw money at the problems, and then began his domestic and foreign carbon emitting, energy depleting and expensive road trips to sell the American people on Washington's ever increasingly outrageous "fixes" and policies.  

In the process then apologizing to the globe, and a bowing to a British Queen and Saudi King, whose very citizens were reported and responsible for the largest massive attack and civilian casualties in this country post World War II.  And while our own southern borders and states are under attack, providing Black Hawk helicopters rather than securing again our own borders rather than Iraq's.

And then returning for the White House dog debut.

So how low can Washington continue to go in now not only declaring war on the majority of Americans in this "terrorist" bulletin, but also declaring war on its own military veterans? "

"Mea culpas" are not going to get you out of this one, Washington bureaucrats. Public apologies to every single American in this country by the President, Vice President and all 535 members of Congress and federal bureaucracy and resignation at this point just might do it. But only might.

After all, the Sergeant-at-Arms in both the House and Senate are there for a reason and function, and this position is not simply a ceremonial one.

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