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Interesting Items

Alex Gimarc

agim-@ak.net <http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=agimarc@ak.net>

 Monday, November 2, 2009

Plz excuse the delay in getting this issue to you. We lost an integral part
of the Slick network when Jiglu got out of the groups business. If you wish
to check anything you might have missed, plz go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slick_eZine/messages

We have also lost contact with Howard Poole who wrote *News with an Attitude
*. Don’t know if it was a health or computer problem or just plain burn out.
If anyone on this list knows, I’d be glad to share it. He lives in PA.

Interesting Items 11/02 –

Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –

In this issue:

*1. Big Green *

*2. Elections*

*3. Endangered*

*4. Withholding*

*5. Coal*

*6. Photo Op*

1. *Big Green.* I wrote a column in The Alaska Standard
http://thealaskastandard.com/

a couple weeks ago taking the local greens, the AP and the local
fishwrapper to task for their latest effort to designate Cook Inlet as a
critical habitat for “threatened” beluga whales. The column smoked out the
executive director of one of the self-appointed local green organizations
with comments in opposition. He was pretty good, and picked up a few things
that I should have stated more accurately. But he didn’t want to discuss
funding for his organization, the Cook Inlet Keeper. One of my
correspondents, Dennis Oakland of MatSu Valley News
http://matsuvalleynews.com/ forwarded me a copy of the organization’s IRS
Form 990; essentially it’s income tax form for that year. While it did not
list all the contributors, the form did demonstrate that fully a third of
the funding for this organization came in the form of government grants.
Further investigation into their funding led to their web site which had a
page thanking their funders, which included US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife
Service, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and
the City of Homer – funding from all three levels of government. This
organization has not only figured out how to tap into the firehose sized
stream of leftwing foundation grants, but is also supplementing that money
with our tax dollars; all of which is being used to turn Cook Inlet into a
giant park. I expect this funding model is not uncommon among most if not
all self-identified environmental organizations: Roll out a small education
program for The Children; apply for educational grants to support those
program; and use those monies to fund their obstructionist assault on
development, life, livelihoods, jobs, and the future of all of us.

Should any of you readers want to do similar research, a good place to start
would be GuideStar at http://www2.guidestar.org/ At this location, you can
register for free and download the most recent non-profit 990s. For a
significant monthly subscription fee to the site, you can download other
documents for the nonprofits. These little groups work in the dark, out of
sight, pushing their view of the world with the unknowing assistance of
taxpayers at all levels of government. It is long past time to start
shutting off the public money and defund the left.

 1. *Elections.* There are elections for governor in VA and NJ tomorrow.
 Both elections involve democrat held seats. The VA race appears to be
 swinging strongly conservative, with an unabashed conservative currently
 ahead by double digits. Things are so bad that the Obama WH went after the
 democrat candidate personally two weeks ago for not sufficiently aligning
 himself with the Obama WH. They accused the democrat candidate of not
 listening to WH advice. In NJ, one of the currently bluest states out
 there, decades of democrat spending and corruption may have come back to
 haunt the incumbent democrat, John Corzine, former US Senator from NJ and
 former head of Goldman – Sachs. In a three-way race, the Republican
 candidate appears to be edging ahead in local polling. There is a third
 candidate who is running to the right of the Republican, who is likely a
 democrat shill inserted into the race to split the conservative vote.
 Corzine’s campaign devolved to the point where all he was doing was calling
 the Republican fat – which he is – and so what? This race may be outside
 the margin of corruption.

 The most interesting race is a special election in New York for NY-23
 congressional seat. This district is a reliable conservative district.
 Local party officials selected a doctrinaire leftist state senator named
 Dede Scozzafava as their candidate. The Republican establishment got into
 the act and strongly supported her also – even though she did not support a
 single conservative position. The NY Conservative Party endorsed a
 conservative candidate for the seat, Doug Hoffman, and there has been a
 three-way race. During the campaign, Scozzafava’s non-existent support
 finally translated into cratering polling and she withdrew from the race
 over the weekend, quickly and happily endorsing the democrat candidate. At
 this point, the conservative appears to be comfortably ahead in local
 poling.

 The final race is a special election to fill the CA-10 congressional
 seat. CA-11 is a Bay Area district, and as such ought to be a very safe
 democrat hold. For the majority of the race, the democrat, who is the LtGov
 of CA, appeared to be cruising to an easy victory. Over the last few weeks,
 polling sharply closed, as the Republican candidate has successfully managed
 to wrap the blame for California ’s fiscal disaster firmly around the neck
 of the democrat. The impending congressional disaster of ObamaCare is also
 a significant issue in this race. Regardless of how any or all of these
 races turn out, it appears that the conservative base is nicely spun up,
 fully engaged, and may be turning out to change things at the local and
 state levels. It will be a matter of time before it impacts things at the
 federal level. This is a beginning. Do not be deterred from the task of
 removing power from the hands of those inside the Beltway and returning it
 to the hands of the citizenry.

*3. Endangered.* As the wheels of the political wars continue to grind, it
appears that they are going to crush some recent political animals;
specifically the erstwhile RINO (Republican in Name Only) and the sainted
Blue Dog democrat. The conservative resurgence may be in the process of
retaking control of the Republican Party from the moderates on both coasts.
As they do so, expect primaries with self described RINOs to be hotly
contested over the next few years. Democrats in 2006 and 2008 did us a
favor by destroying RINOs on both coasts. It is now up to local
conservatives to replace those democrats with reliable conservatives who
have a better memory of where they come from and why they were elected.

The Blue Dogs in congress have a more difficult path, for while Harry Reid
and Nancy Pelosi both need their votes for ObamaCare and Cap and Trade
legislation, once passed, neither needs them any more. Limbaugh believes
that the Blue Dogs are screwed either way they go. For if they vote with
the leadership, they will never be reelected; and if they vote against the
leadership, they will get no democrat money for their next campaign and will
also lose. Sometimes species extinction is a Good Thing. In this case, it
tends to clarify things in the political world nicely.

*4. Withholding.* The State of California , still in the midst of a
self-inflicted financial disaster, has resorted to simple thievery to cover
the dollar shortfall. The latest trick is to increase tax withholding from
paychecks statewide by 10%. They promise to refund the extra cash next
April. But earlier this year, they were issuing IOUs for tax refunds due to
a shortage of cash. There is no guarantee that they will do anything else
next April. So the description of this as thievery by Ed Morrissey in Hot
Air Saturday is absolutely correct.

*5. Coal*. As he promised two years ago, Barack Hussein Obama’s EPA has
started the process of bankrupting everything that uses coal for fuel;
starting with half of our electrical generation. One of the vehicles for
this is playing with permits for surface mining. Since infesting office,
the newly led EPA has held up over 70 surface mining permits on grounds that
they would violate provisions of the Clean Water Act and are therefore
subject to increased scrutiny. Last week they retroactively revoked a
mining permit for a West Virginia coal mine. Should they keep this up, the
utilities won’t have time to be bankrupted by new cap and trade taxation.
They will be bankrupted by simple failure to get coal out of the ground and
into the generation units. Hot Air, Tues.

*6. Photo Op.* Obama made a midnight trip to Dover AB , Delaware last week
to pay his respects to the fallen. Dover is the receiving point for bodies
of those servicemen who have been killed in action. He also took a
contingent of photographers with him. Apparently only a single family gave
permission for him to be photographed saluting the caskets of the fallen.
President Bush and VP Cheney made continuous visits to pay their respects to
the fallen and comfort their families during their eight years in office.
Neither one took a team of photographers with them on those visits. Expect
to see these midnight photographs in future campaign spots, along with the
infamous Air Force One NYC flyby earlier this year. It is all about the
continuous campaign.

More later -

- AG

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May
your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."

- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia

State House, August 1, 1776.

Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations:

The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/

MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com

District 28 http://www.dist28.com/

subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/

and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc

Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column:
http://www.thevanguard.org/

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*National Strike*
Nov 4, 2009

*http://accdf.com/blog/2009/07/21/national-strike-against-the-dictator/*

Nov 14. 2009

*TEA Parties Vs Amnesty*

http://www.againstamnesty.com/

*Myrtle Beach Freedom Weekend* <http://tinyurl.com/PatriotExpo>* *

Nov 14 & 15

http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2009/10/patriot-expo.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFFwyyjZC8

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Interesting Items
Alex Gimarc 
<a href="http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=agimarc@ak.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agim-@ak.net</a>
 Monday, November 2, 2009
 
Plz excuse the delay in getting this issue to you. We lost an integral part of the Slick network when Jiglu got out of the groups business. If you wish to check anything you might have missed, plz go to: 
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slick_eZine/messages">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slick_eZine/messages</a>
We have also lost contact with Howard Poole who wrote News with an Attitude. Don’t know if it was a health or computer problem or just plain burn out. If anyone on this list knows, I’d be glad to share it. He lives in PA.
 
 
Interesting Items 11/02 – 
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
 In this issue:
 1. Big Green 
2. Elections
3. Endangered
4. Withholding
5. Coal
6. Photo Op
 
1. Big Green. I wrote a column in The Alaska Standard <a href="http://thealaskastandard.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thealaskastandard.com/</a>
 a couple weeks ago taking the local greens, the AP and the local fishwrapper to task for their latest effort to designate Cook Inlet as a critical habitat for “threatened” beluga whales. The column smoked out the executive director of one of the self-appointed local green organizations with comments in opposition. He was pretty good, and picked up a few things that I should have stated more accurately. But he didn’t want to discuss funding for his organization, the Cook Inlet Keeper. One of my correspondents, Dennis Oakland of MatSu Valley News <a href="http://matsuvalleynews.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://matsuvalleynews.com/</a> forwarded me a copy of the organization’s IRS Form 990; essentially it’s income tax form for that year. While it did not list all the contributors, the form did demonstrate that fully a third of the funding for this organization came in the form of government grants. Further investigation into their funding led to their web site which had a page thanking their funders, which included US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the City of Homer – funding from all three levels of government. This organization has not only figured out how to tap into the firehose sized stream of leftwing foundation grants, but is also supplementing that money with our tax dollars; all of which is being used to turn Cook Inlet into a giant park. I expect this funding model is not uncommon among most if not all self-identified environmental organizations: Roll out a small education program for The Children; apply for educational grants to support those program; and use those monies to fund their obstructionist assault on development, life, livelihoods, jobs, and the future of all of us. 
Should any of you readers want to do similar research, a good place to start would be GuideStar at <a href="http://www2.guidestar.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www2.guidestar.org/</a> At this location, you can register for free and download the most recent non-profit 990s. For a significant monthly subscription fee to the site, you can download other documents for the nonprofits. These little groups work in the dark, out of sight, pushing their view of the world with the unknowing assistance of taxpayers at all levels of government. It is long past time to start shutting off the public money and defund the left.
 
<ol type="1" start="2">
<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Elections. There are elections for governor in VA and NJ tomorrow. Both elections involve democrat held seats. The VA race appears to be swinging strongly conservative, with an unabashed conservative currently ahead by double digits. Things are so bad that the Obama WH went after the democrat candidate personally two weeks ago for not sufficiently aligning himself with the Obama WH. They accused the democrat candidate of not listening to WH advice. In NJ, one of the currently bluest states out there, decades of democrat spending and corruption may have come back to haunt the incumbent democrat, John Corzine, former US Senator from NJ and former head of Goldman – Sachs. In a three-way race, the Republican candidate appears to be edging ahead in local polling. There is a third candidate who is running to the right of the Republican, who is likely a democrat shill inserted into the race to split the conservative vote. Corzine’s campaign devolved to the point where all he was doing was calling the Republican fat – which he is – and so what? This race may be outside the margin of corruption. 
 The most interesting race is a special election in New York for NY-23 congressional seat. This district is a reliable conservative district. Local party officials selected a doctrinaire leftist state senator named Dede Scozzafava as their candidate. The Republican establishment got into the act and strongly supported her also – even though she did not support a single conservative position. The NY Conservative Party endorsed a conservative candidate for the seat, Doug Hoffman, and there has been a three-way race. During the campaign, Scozzafava’s non-existent support finally translated into cratering polling and she withdrew from the race over the weekend, quickly and happily endorsing the democrat candidate. At this point, the conservative appears to be comfortably ahead in local poling. 
 The final race is a special election to fill the CA-10 congressional seat. CA-11 is a Bay Area district, and as such ought to be a very safe democrat hold. For the majority of the race, the democrat, who is the LtGov of CA, appeared to be cruising to an easy victory. Over the last few weeks, polling sharply closed, as the Republican candidate has successfully managed to wrap the blame for California ’s fiscal disaster firmly around the neck of the democrat. The impending congressional disaster of ObamaCare is also a significant issue in this race. Regardless of how any or all of these races turn out, it appears that the conservative base is nicely spun up, fully engaged, and may be turning out to change things at the local and state levels. It will be a matter of time before it impacts things at the federal level. This is a beginning. Do not be deterred from the task of removing power from the hands of those inside the Beltway and returning it to the hands of the citizenry.</li>
</ol>
 
3. Endangered. As the wheels of the political wars continue to grind, it appears that they are going to crush some recent political animals; specifically the erstwhile RINO (Republican in Name Only) and the sainted Blue Dog democrat. The conservative resurgence may be in the process of retaking control of the Republican Party from the moderates on both coasts. As they do so, expect primaries with self described RINOs to be hotly contested over the next few years. Democrats in 2006 and 2008 did us a favor by destroying RINOs on both coasts. It is now up to local conservatives to replace those democrats with reliable conservatives who have a better memory of where they come from and why they were elected. 
 The Blue Dogs in congress have a more difficult path, for while Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi both need their votes for ObamaCare and Cap and Trade legislation, once passed, neither needs them any more. Limbaugh believes that the Blue Dogs are screwed either way they go. For if they vote with the leadership, they will never be reelected; and if they vote against the leadership, they will get no democrat money for their next campaign and will also lose. Sometimes species extinction is a Good Thing. In this case, it tends to clarify things in the political world nicely. 
 
4. Withholding. The State of California , still in the midst of a self-inflicted financial disaster, has resorted to simple thievery to cover the dollar shortfall. The latest trick is to increase tax withholding from paychecks statewide by 10%. They promise to refund the extra cash next April. But earlier this year, they were issuing IOUs for tax refunds due to a shortage of cash. There is no guarantee that they will do anything else next April. So the description of this as thievery by Ed Morrissey in Hot Air Saturday is absolutely correct.
 
5. Coal. As he promised two years ago, Barack Hussein Obama’s EPA has started the process of bankrupting everything that uses coal for fuel; starting with half of our electrical generation. One of the vehicles for this is playing with permits for surface mining. Since infesting office, the newly led EPA has held up over 70 surface mining permits on grounds that they would violate provisions of the Clean Water Act and are therefore subject to increased scrutiny. Last week they retroactively revoked a mining permit for a West Virginia coal mine. Should they keep this up, the utilities won’t have time to be bankrupted by new cap and trade taxation. They will be bankrupted by simple failure to get coal out of the ground and into the generation units. Hot Air, Tues.
 
6. Photo Op. Obama made a midnight trip to Dover AB , Delaware last week to pay his respects to the fallen. Dover is the receiving point for bodies of those servicemen who have been killed in action. He also took a contingent of photographers with him. Apparently only a single family gave permission for him to be photographed saluting the caskets of the fallen. President Bush and VP Cheney made continuous visits to pay their respects to the fallen and comfort their families during their eight years in office. Neither one took a team of photographers with them on those visits. Expect to see these midnight photographs in future campaign spots, along with the infamous Air Force One NYC flyby earlier this year. It is all about the continuous campaign.
 
More later -
 
- AG
 
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." 
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia 
 State House, August 1, 1776.
 
Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations:
The Alaska Standard <a href="http://thealaskastandard.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thealaskastandard.com/</a>
MatSu Valley News <a href="http://www.matsuvalleynews.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.matsuvalleynews.com</a>
District 28 <a href="http://www.dist28.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dist28.com/</a>
subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at <a href="http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/</a>
and the home page: <a href="http://home.gci.net/~agimarc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://home.gci.net/~agimarc</a>
Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: <a href="http://www.thevanguard.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thevanguard.org/</a>
 
 
 
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<div align="center">Corruption Reigns Supreme</div>
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<div align="center">UNDERWAY</div>
<div align="center">On the Road Again</div>
<div align="center">Oct 25 to Nov 11</div>
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<div align="center">National Strike </div>
<div align="center">Nov 4, 2009</div>
<a href="http://accdf.com/blog/2009/07/21/national-strike-against-the-dictator/">http://accdf.com/blog/2009/07/21/national-strike-against-the-dictator/</a> 
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Nov 14. 2009
TEA Parties Vs Amnesty
<a href="http://www.againstamnesty.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.againstamnesty.com/</a>

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/PatriotExpo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Myrtle Beach Freedom Weekend</a> 
Nov 14 & 15
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