Hallelujah, at least one industrialized country has the common sense to realize that climate change is natural and has nothing to do our stupid little put-puts, factories, carbon fuels and aerosol cans. Japan, welcome to the Club of Common Sense.

Scientists in Japan overwhelmingly reject the idea that human endeavor has anything to do with climate change. Duh. Is it that hard to figure that out, Mikhail Obama? (Actually, his support for carbon transfer taxes has absolutely nothing to do with climate and everything to do with expanding government with him as ueber-chief for life.) Read "Recent Climate Change Is Driven by Natural Cycles."

One Guy Who’s Got It Right on Global Warming:

"Global Warming Is a Hoax"

More interesting but unrelated reading:

"Obama’s Straw Men"

If you listen to Mikhail Obama and his mealy-mouthed minions as they concoct one crisis after another to put the Demofiends in charge of America in perpetuity, you can’t help but come to the conclusion that it’s all so fake–and convenient. Sure, there’s a recession, but the damn thing would cure itself in 18 months if government stepped back. Recessions are the province of the Federal Reserve and the free market. They’re not pretty, but they are completely efficient in and of themselves.

Now for another example, take the health care crisis as so proclaimed by Obama and his government-first-and-only supporters. If there’s a crisis, it’s because of the effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the whole health care delivery structure of the nation. Those two programs force doctors and health care providers to take it out on those with private insurance to cover the losses forced on them by the twin government programs.

To wit, as Medicare and Medical payments to providers go down (in a vain attempt to somehow balance the budget), the fees charged by providers to "paying" customers go way up. So if anyone in government is serious about health care reform, the place to start is with Medicare and Medicaid, which not only force providers to take lower fees but also, in the process, force them to bill for additional services whether real or not.

If Obamiam health care forces a mandate on individuals and/or employers to buy insurance while offering a government-sponsored "affordable" alternative plan (Medicare by another name), what we’ll get is Medicare gone wild. The losses and costs to the government will be so astronomical that there will be no place to turn but to rationing. Meanwhile, private insurers, unable to compete, will leave the market.

What should really be done?

The first step in reforming health care is to reform the payment system. So long as you have fee-for-service payments, doctors and providers will naturally jack up the services provided to increase revenue. Maybe something like payment-per-patient to the primary care provider for all services would work, say $2,000 a year or whatever the average would be, with hospital services paid similarly. I’m no expert on this, but since we’re currently spending anywhere from $7,000 to $8,500 a year per person (whether one day old, 40 years old and working, or 78 years old and retired–per 305 million of us!), the first place to start is rationalizing how we pay for medicine. (Kaiser and the Veterans’ Administration probably have it right by paying their physicians and health care professionals an annual salary.)

But since the Obamaites only care about making health care an entitlement so that Americans will feel dependent on keeping the Demofiends in power forever, none of this will happen except for the rationing part.

Meanwhile, Congress and those in government will retain their own private health insurance plan that exempts them from Obamacare and its ugly rationing.

Animal Farm, here we come.

Sadly, ,Barack Obama has abrogated all governing power to Nancy Pelosi (primarily) and Harry Reid (secondarily) while he just keeps to the campaign trail and throws in as many photo ops as possible.

He should listen to Wall Street and the vote of no confidence it’s giving him everyday he’s in office.

What we have here is Jimmy Carter redux–a man who got elected because he was the "anti." In Carter’s case, he was the anti-Nixon, and in Hussein’s, sorry, Obama’s case, he was the anti-Bush.

Obviously, as this site has been warning for a year or more, the only agenda on Obama’s and President Pelosi’s mind is to steamroll the nation into a state of dependency on government. One need only look through the so-called stimulus bill that just passed to see that the majority of spending goes to pay people for doing nothing and the other, minor part goes to unionized projects (even the "do nothing" portion is highly unionized).

If I wanted to live in France, I would’ve moved there decades ago, but now France–in all its worst aspects–is invading the United States and taking over. Welcome to the Demofiends’ version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Barack Obama has now joined the president he hopes most to be compared to–Abraham Lincoln–in the history books. Problem is, it’s in the world of cartoon satire and savagery where Obama has finally made a legitimate connection.

A cartoon in the New York Post (shown above) seems to equate the slain Travis the chimp, killed for mauling a woman, with the president and his stimulus plan. Lincoln in his day was routinely depicted as a gorilla in political cartoons, thus the connection.

But before Obama lets his pride swell for the underhanded connection, he should remember that the last president to be painted as primate was George Bush, who was routinely pictured as a monkey in the nation’s liberal media.

That’s probably an apter comparison than to Lincoln. Anyway, all’s fair in love, war and politics.

Read "The Limits of Liberation" for an historical precursor and Demofiend predictor.

Nancy Pelosi, Demofiend Speaker of the House, proudly proclaimed there was no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill that her legislative body approved Friday. Ahem. If she believes that, then we should believe her as much as we do as South Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. Which is never.

If you look through this list prepared by House Republicans, you’ll find plenty of nonsense totally unrelated to economic recovery. I was particularly taken by $8 billion included for a high-speed passenger train system to create a service between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Now, I’ve always dreamed of such a train, but I doubt this is what the American public wants their job-creating funds to go toward since it won’t even get off the ground for years, if ever.

Interestingly, in the original House package, there were no funds for such a train system, and the Senate voted just $2 billion (just?). Where did the other $6 billion come from?

You have to remember that after these House-Senate conferences "agree" on compromises, the bill goes to staffers (all Demofiends) who can add anything they want and no one will ever know. No one reads the final version, and at 1,100 pages and less than 24 hours to read the final stimulus bill, you can be assured that no one did. Except some House Republican staffers who prepared the list.

More Demofiend North Korean-style politics.

The Cold War’s Doomsday Scenario envisioned mutual destruction via the launch of one rogue, or intentional, intercontinental ballistic missile, which would then lead to both Soviet and American silos’ unloading on the enemy. This was most famously portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

Cold War fears aside, we have now come upon the actual Doomsday Scenario. For fear of letting another Enron fail and take down its employees’ retirement funds, Congress created Sarbanes-Oxley (called SOX) and the Fair Accounting Standards Board (FASB) chipped in with Rule 157, now known as the mark-to-market (MTM) accounting rule.

MTM has three levels based on the type of asset. Level 1 assets are transparent and easy to judge for market value, while Level 3 are obscure, opaque and harder to evaluate. Think collateralized debt securities, specifically mortgage securities, for Level 3.

When the bottom fell out of the housing market, those holding mortgage securities couldn’t sell them and were faced with a situation in which their mortgage-based asets had to be severely marked down, often to zero valuation.

Result? A lot of insolvent commercial and investment banks, which now have to cover those "zero value" assets and thus have less freedom to do what banks do–loan and invest.

Result? Obama’s beloved Great Depression, which the president is doing his best to preserve for the next eight years (or 16 or 20 if he can wrangle a Constitutional Amendment out of his cronies in Congress while making the public indebted to the Democrats for throwing them a cookie while their jobs, houses, savings and retirement accounts all disappear).

What we need is to say goodbye to mark-to-market accounting and hello to prosperity. And also, as soon as possible. goodbye to Obama and the Demofiends. Wake up, America, before it’s too late.