Crisis and Scams

The Sub-Prime Media Crisis

A BBC gloom and doom story on the sub-prime crisis this week reported that there are 55,000 homes for sale in Phoenix with about one-third of those being vacant. 55,000 homes for sale sounds like an enormous number but is it? According to WikiPedia, the population is just over 1.5 million but a Phoenix area realtor reports that the population for the Metropolitan Statistical Area is nearly 3.6 million. Another site reports that as of the 2000 census (before the bubble), the housing units for Phoenix City were 495,832 with the vacant units right at 30,000 (6.1%.) Is the sub-prime crisis as bad as the press would have us believe or will it suddenly improve after the Presidential election? Maybe the real crisis is the sub-prime media.

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Speaking of Arizona, I heard an interview with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She struck me as a reasonable person but her support of quotas was obvious as she expressed her disappointment that Bush did not nominate a woman to replace her. She also said that the Courts had come under increasing attack from political corners. She sounded as if she felt the Judiciary should be immune from criticism. That has never been the case in the history of the Country. We are not required to quietly defer to whatever decisions the Courts hand down. I'm glad she's gone.

Here's some interesting reading: How Arizona Compares.

The Great Global Warming Scam

Faith Triumphs over Science.

The founder of the Weather Channel, meteorologist John Coleman, writing at the website for the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project:

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.
Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.

Someone Must Pay!

Al Gore and his Green Mountain Boys have dominated the headlines and ordained that "the debate is over" and for all practical purposes, it is. Sensing opportunity, every decent hustler in the world is looking for an angle and who can blame them now that the issue has been steamrolled through the various world bodies. Man caused global warming is now gospel so why fight it? There some is hope for the long term but in the coming years...well, as the Greens often point out...there will be some pain. Their great ideas being floated about include:

• budgeting 3% of a nation's GDP to "combating" climate change.
• 25% carbon taxes on travel such as airline tickets.
• Government subsidies for more "energy efficient but more expensive" appliances, devices and automobiles. This is already occurring in California which gives rebates on more efficient household appliances so that the "payback" is reduced from say five to two years.
  

There is no end to the carbon hysteria and call for fees, taxes, penalties, subsidies and compensation. Smaller third world countries at risk from rising sea levels are demanding monies now to compensate for the future damages. In response, the Saudis recently called for compensation for future revenue losses due to the carbon backlash. This is only a portent of the future. Every carbon alternative scheme known to man is competing for your future tax dollars but be assured that whatever you pay will be a "small price for the greater good." And be assured, that you will pay and pay and pay.

The Climate Change Express has left the station and all the green grifters, grafters and grabbers are on board. Weak-minded Republicans in the US such as the Governors of California and Florida have just managed to take their seats. I suspect that nothing will stop this runaway until it derails itself through its own greed and avarice. When that happens, probably concurrent with the collapse of the now rising one-world government, we'll see a world the likes of which has not been seen since the Tower of Babel.