The Drumbeat

Actually, it’s those damned thundering hoofbeats behind me that are getting really annoying!
-Dick G
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The Drumbeat
American Thinker ^ | September 20, 2008 | William Staneski

Posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 9:22:50 PM by ChocChipCookie

The drumbeat. It’s always there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force. You can’t escape it. It never stops. It never gives up. It never ends. It rains upon you from every possible angle, from every possible source.

It’s the drumbeat of the left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the parlance of the day. It is tolerant, diverse, non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, egalitarian, politically correct, multicultural, globalist, and collectivist. It insists that there are no rights and wrongs, no moral absolutes. It turns everything upside down in its looking glass world. It denies the correctness of all that produced what our culture revered before the deconstruction of the world in accordance with the tenets of cultural Marxism.

It denies God, human exceptionalism, and the soul. We are reduced to Darwinian animals floundering in an amoral sea of meaninglessness. It is a product of the nihilistic, existentialist philosophical movement, which went hand in hand with modern art, atonal music, scientific materialism and modern physics, and the generally discordant nature of the twentieth century.

Microsoft To Kill Vista, XP Upgrade Blockers

Information Week ^ | Feb. 2, 2009 | Paul McDougall

Posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 12:29:54 PM by smokingfrog

The software maker is warning customers that tools designed to prevent automatic installation of service packs are nearing expiration.

Microsoft wants users of its Windows operating systems to move to upgraded versions of the software, so it’s killing a tool that prevents upgrades from automatically self-installing.

Real Story Of Global Warming Scam (“All Scam,” Says Weather Channel Founder, and Algore knows it!)

KUSI ^ | By John Coleman

“Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a highjacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.”

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Posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 10:55:48 AM by MindBender26

The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

By John Coleman

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. The public is now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints from the use of fossil fuels is going to lead to climatic calamities.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government to punish the citizens for living the good life that fossil fuels provide for us?

The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute’s areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels.

Bruce Matheson, 87, member of famed WWII unit (Black Sheep Squadron)

Honolulu Advertiser | February 1, 2009 | William Cole

Posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 12:57:23 AM by Zakeet

Another hero has gone to a better place.

Retired Marine Brig. Gen. Bruce J. Matheson (standing seventh from the right) died Thursday of lung cancer and a heart attack.

A member of the famed Black Sheep Squadron in World War II, Gen. Matheson flew a F3D Skyknight in Korea, and had about 400 missions flying Huey’s in Vietnam.

Gen. Matheson received three Legions of Merit, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, more than 30 Air Medals and a Purple Heart.

BAILOUTS: A COMPLETE FRAUD AGAINST THE AMERICAN WORKER By Frosty Wooldridge

February 2, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

A recent Associated Press news release exposed U.S. banks accepting billions in bailout money along with major corporations. Banks defraud American taxpayers by hiring thousands of foreign works in place of our citizens.

The report said, “The figures are significant because they show that the bailed-out banks, being kept afloat with U.S. taxpayer money, actively sought to hire foreign workers instead of American workers. As the economic collapse worsened last year with huge numbers of bank employees laid off—the numbers of visas sought by the dozen banks in AP’s analysis increased by nearly one-third, from 3,258 in fiscal 2007 to 4,163 in fiscal 2008. The AP reviewed visa applications the banks filed with the Labor Department under the H-1B visa program, which allows temporary employment of foreign workers in specialized-skill and advanced-degree positions.”

FORCING INTERNATIONAL AGENDAS THROUGH LOCAL MAYORS

February 2, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

By Tom DeWeese

In June 2005, I reported on the UN’s efforts to recruit the nation’s mayors to directly impose Sustainable Development policy into our local communities. The Mayors weren’t there to simply discuss policy, they committed to an agenda with specific goals. And the results are now clearly being seen in more than 400 communities in 48 states.

First, let me define the policy I’m talking about and describe where it came from. Sustainable Development is the direct opposite of the type of locally elected representative government our Founding Fathers organized for the United States. Sustainable Development expert Michael Shaw explains, it “is the process by which America is being reorganized around a central principle of state collectivism using the environment as bait.” In fact, the policy involves every aspect of our daily lives from food processing and consumption, to health care, to community development to education to labor, and much more. The blue print for sustainable development came from a United Nations soft law policy called Agenda 21, first revealed at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992.

THE STIMULAS SHELL GAME By Jon Christian Ryter

February 2, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

When the US House of Representatives passed President Barack Obama’s stimulus package on Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 it was an $819 billion boondoggle (on top of another $800 billion taxpayer-funded bank-bailout on top of a $15 billion auto industry bailout) that will become an $890 billion bailout when the Senate version of the bill is enacted next week. In the second stimulus package in as many months, there is about $400 billion of actual money to stimulate the economy. The balance is pork. Not a single House Republican voted in favor of the legislation. In a bipartisan spirit, 11 Democrats crossed the aisle and voted against the Democratic leadership. The vote was 247 ayes, 188 nays.

TUNNELS & OPEN BORDERS USED TO SMUGGLE NARCOTICS

February 1, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

By Michael Cutler

A news release appeared on the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website. This article could be called a “Good news: Bad news” article.

The good news is that our Border Patrol agents intercepted a significant load of illegal drugs, in this case, ecstasy, from entering the United States. The bad, indeed, disturbing news is that the news release does not make note of who the driver of the vehicle was! Nor is there any mention as to how many other people were in the vehicle with him. All that is noted at the end of the press release is:

Agents stopped the described vehicle leaving this area and with consent from the driver conducted a search of the vehicle and two conspicuous suit cases seen in the rear cargo area. A total of 120,000 tablets of Ecstasy valued at $1,440,000 were discovered inside the suitcases.

HANDS OUT FOR THE BAILOUT

February 1, 2009

By Derry Brownfield

NewsWithViews.com

Everybody wants in on the act. The banks, the auto industry, even foreign banks think Uncle Sam’s money must grow on a tree somewhere on federal lands here in the U.S. It’s like writing a letter to Santa Claus and waiting for stockings to be filled. $700 billion to the “Troubled Asset Relief Program,” $200 billion to “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” $29 billion to “Bear Stearns,” $123 billion for “AIG,” $300 billion for the “Federal Housing Administration Rescue Bill,” $87 billion for “JP Morgan Chase” for financing bad trades made by Lehman Brothers, the Big Three Auto Manufacturers have their hands out, and what about those poor bankers around the world?