Once upon a time in a fantasy land filled with wonder, there were journalists who spent their time trying to dig out truth from the flood of statements and declarations made by politicians and others whose actions affect our lives.

Over time, these watchdogs of Liberty slowly gave in to the lure of being accepted into the halls where they once lurked, poking around to find the truth about what was going on. Popularity with the very people they were supposed to be watching had made them soft. They rested at ease as lapdogs for the politically powerful, accepting tidbits of ‘news’ as it was fed to them as absolute truth. They knew that to question the one who gave them the story was tantamount to biting the hand that feeds them.

Look here to see what happens when someone dares to ask a question of Al Gore about his theory of climate change:

Once in a while a true journalist shows up and remembers what those heady days of yore were like, or more accurately, they imagined how those days might have been since they were too young to have known them.

We need to support journalists when they dare to show their heads in this world. Let them know that they too are truly public servants whose job it is to open up the body politic and dig out the cancer that grows in the dark. Open it up to the air so that it can heal. Their job is not to lay on the rug before the fire accepting tidbits from their master, they are to stir around and find out what lies in the dark corners protecting the people from the cancer that is the lust for power that so many politicians suffer from.

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion

Cap and Trade. It passed the Congress and will be heading for the Senate. I am proud to say that my Congressman, Marion Berry (D) Arkansas, voted against the bill. Standing with 43 other Democrats in opposition to the will of Nancy Pelosi. Thanks Congressman Berry!

After the bill passed the House, I started calling and emailing my Senators, Lincoln and Pryor, to get their positions on this proposal. One of Lincoln’s staffers called me a couple of days after I emailed her to get my position as Senator has not made up her mind on the issue yet. Funny how they can take so long to make up their mind when that is what we are paying them for, to be on top of these issues, but I digress.

Senator Pryor elected to email me a response to my queries which I am posting here

Dear Mr. Albers,

Thank you for contacting me regarding climate change legislation. I appreciate hearing from you and learning your perspective on this issue.

For the past five years I have met with concerned citizens, business leaders, environmental groups and members of the agricultural community from Arkansas and across the nation. These constituents and organizations have made it clear that appropriate climate change legislation must strike the difficult balance of reducing harmful emissions without constraining economic growth. The abundance of legislative proposals in Congress illustrates the many approaches people believe to be the best way to achieve this common good. These approaches include creating a “cap and trade” system to limit nationwide emissions, providing tax incentives for developing and deploying technologies that decrease greenhouse gases, and promoting alternative fuel and energy sources.

Building upon the initiatives already created by Congress, I believe that we stand poised to take significant strides to moderate the effects of climate change. A successful strategy will require the development of new technology to reduce and capture emissions, provide for greater energy efficiencies, and avoid unnecessary energy expenditures. Additionally, I believe alternative fuels and renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, will aide in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These alternative technologies, fuels, and energy sources also have the potential to break our dependence on foreign oil while creating economic opportunities for individuals and businesses as America moves to a cleaner and healthier environment. I will work diligently to address this issue and will be sure to keep your thoughts in mind as the climate change debate continues in the Senate.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I value your input. Please do not hesitate to contact me or my office regarding this or any other matter of concern to you.

Sincerely,

Mark Pryor

United States Senate

I am personally very disappointed in Senator Pryor. He has evidently succumbed to the junk science that is global warming. It is sad to realize that the people we have elected to office so often legislate for the sake of legislating, even when it would be best to just not do anything.

I was driving in to work this morning when the thought struck me. I have been hearing the mantra from Al Gore for over a year that we are killing our planet and that our hunger for meat and dairy is driving that death forward because the domestic cattle industry contributes more greenhouse gases than auto pollution. It never struck me until this very morning. It should have been obvious and maybe it was, too obvious to be noticed. How can cattle be contributing such a deadly amount of greenhouse gases if this has just been going on for the past century or so? Up until the middle of the 1800′s the great plains were covered with bison numbering up to an estimated 100 million. According to the documents I have looked at, the domestic cattle population just hit 104 million in 2007.

Either Bison don’t fart, or this whole argument is as bogus as a carbon credit! This whole global warming crisis is a house of cards. Science is verifiable, not a collection of similar opinions.

How does ol’ Al explain fossil records of plant life in the artic ice? Is it possible that the Earth used to be warmer than it is now? What about all of the historic anomalies that have been recorded? The answer is that the Earth goes through cycles caused by orbit and sun activity.

When I hear John McCain, or Al Gore or any other Liberal talking about global warming and proposing plans to curb it I always think of 2 Thessalonians 2:11:

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

It astonishes me that anyone can look at this planet and believe this pile of steaming cow manure called global warming. We have found evidence of trees in artic ice, ocean life in the badlands of Montana and the Dakotas, along with coal deposits in Utah which were laid down in a much warmer time.

The Earth goes through cycles, it always has, it always will. The Sun is a hub of activity changing our climates. Some years are warmer, some cooler, but man has nothing to do with it. The very idea that we can affect climate change is the epitomy of haughtiness. We can’t even predict the weather for next month, by what authority do we claim to know what is going to happen in 10 years?

This entire hoax is an attempt to redistribute wealth world-wide. To make people more dependant on the government. Time will prove these idiots wrong, but I am afraid it may be too late to stop the damage.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

April 22, 2008 Earthday. Everyone needs to call their legislators and tell them that it is time to SCREW THE CARIBOU and DRILL THE ANWAR! If we are so Earth conscious, and nature is what we are trying to get back to, I wish someone could explain to me what other animal in history has spent so much effort in trying to starve itself out of existence. Maybe that is what killed the dinosaurs, they realized that dino flatulence was a greenhouse gas and since they didn’t have opposable thumbs decided to just starve themselves into extinction rather than continue producing gases that polluted the pristine Earth they inhabited.

If we don’t wake up soon, that is what we are going to do in the name of global warming. We are turning all our corn into a very inefficient fuel, causing shortages of corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans. You can already feel these higher prices at the store. Countries in other parts of the world are having food riots because of shortages, how long will it be before the same thing happens here? How did one man touting junk science manage to become so influential? Al Gore will not face questions about this thing called Global Warming from scientists with opposing positions. If he was sure of the facts that would be the very thing to do in order to win more converts to his position, but it is an indefensible position that he has taken. There is quality research that contradicts this man made global warming theory, but the main stream media will not cover it. It doesn’t make headlines to tell people that everything is okay, and that there isn’t anything to worry about. It only makes the news when there is disaster looming.

Well, there is disaster looming! We will, for the first time ever become an importer of grain this year. America, the bread-basket of the world will have to import wheat. It isn’t that we don’t have the land or technology to produce it. Our government is paying subsidies to get corn for ethanol manufacture. We have vast oil reserves off our coasts, but we won’t allow ourselves to tap them. Of course that doesn’t stop anyone else from moving in and drilling, that way we can pay to import OUR OWN OIL!

I remember the Time article from the 1970′s warning us of a coming ice age and the dangers of Global Cooling. Luckily we woke up in time before some power hungry ex-vice President got on the bandwagon and found that he could finally get people to listen to him when he was talking about a fantasy. Waking up gave us about 30 years, but do our children have a future?

Call your legislators and tell them to stop the ethanol subsidies and start drilling where we know there are reserves, so that our children will at least have food to eat as the planet fries. 202-224-3121 Call them today, after all, it is EARTHDAY.