Call them for what they are: Terrorists.
These folks don't represent Christianity or conservatism anymore Al-Queda represent Islam or leftist terrorists being liberal or socialist. They're just extreme and malignant components of each.
The government is 100% right to crack down on such groups.
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Speaking of the government, it's been a good coupla weeks for Obama. First, it's health care reform, then he splits for a secret visit to Afghanistan (which was the right thing to do - political calculations notwithstanding), next it's the armament treaty with Russia (just keepin' a watchful eye on the bear) and has gotten France on board threatening sanctions against Iran (prof can be tough) regarding their nuclear plans. The government has taken over student loans and it won't be long, brimming with confidence, he'll hit cap& trade and probably amnesty for illegal immigrants (how you handle this will take some creative thinking). He's getting things done. Now begins the debate if his visions are any good.
For a while, I wondered if Obama was going to be an effective leader on matters of foreign policy. Instead, I think his shortcomings may be closer to home. Socially, he's taking the country where it's never been: Into the arms of the state. The idea, for example, a full blown adult (some with children themselves) living at home can remain in the bosom of their parent's insurance plans is obscene. I believe while it's true we still have "choices" it's all about the signals leaders send. A leader can rile up the population or steer them into a certain direction in subtle ways. Obama has signaled - and really I don't see how this is up for debate - that when it comes to social matters, liberalism will rule. Personally, I think he's an enabler of all the wrong attributes we possess as humans.
My father from Southern Italy, came poor when he was 18, got married at 22, was a father by 24 and owned a business by 26. By the age of 30, he was sending money back to his brother's family in Italy after he lost his hearing and eyesight in a mining explosion. He took care of an additional five kids helping to feed them and giving them shelter by building a house (which they still own). With that edge, indirectly, his nephews split for Northern Italy and France where they prosper today. My father never, ever asked for one thing from the government. True, those were simpler and more straightforward times - especially economically - but the virtues and values never change.
Obama may think he's helping people. He's not. He's weakening their personal esteem; their honor.
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And what about cap & trade here? The Liberal party of Canada is talking nonsense about it again. I can't believe they actually think this is a good idea. Meh. Just another reason why I won't vote for them. I don't do scams and pointless tax schemes in the name of the environment.***
Environmentalists have been wrong all along about nuclear power as a clean source for energy. In fact, I wonder if those who maintain environmental policies in Africa leading to deaths can be tagged as "murderers." Why not? If a politician like Bush can be accused of murder and genocide for his actions, how is it any different when environmentalists don't permit poor African countries to modernize. And by modernize I mean just to do the things to get medicine, water and food.
From Nazret.com:
The Gibe III dam on the Omo River in Ethiopia, once completed, will be Africa’s second largest hydroelectric dam. The third stage in a five-part dam project, Gibe III is expected to extend electricity access to large swathes of the Ethiopian population, to raise per capita income levels, and to save lives by reducing the impact of droughts and floods. And yet, some environmentalists are not happy about this income-generating, life-changing and life-saving project, and have this week renewed their campaign to bring it to a halt.
Greens have opposed the Gibe III dam project from the outset, when construction first started in 2006. Now, a group of international campaigners has launched an online petition, urging Western donors and banks to withdraw their funding for the dam. They say it will negatively effect ecosystems and, in the words of International Rivers, one of the groups opposed to the dam, it will disrupt the livelihoods of ‘hundreds of thousands of indigenous farmers, herders and fishermen, who depend on [the Omo River’s] nourishing floods to sustain their most reliable sources of food’.
One such ‘nourishing flood’, in 2006, killed nearly 400 people and thousands of livestock. And according to the United Nations World Food Programme, the floods regularly inundate crops and have displaced over 20,000 people. The NGOs who are up in arms about the Gibe III dam, ostensibly because it will displace indigenous people, overlook the fact that the river itself will keep ruining lives unless human beings tame it.
It is true that many people are dependent on the Omo River, which flows from southern Ethiopia into Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for some form of subsistence, mainly through flood-retreat cultivation. But they also live in abject poverty and many suffer from chronic hunger. The fact that the precarious Omo is their most reliable source of food is a travesty, not a situation anyone in their right mind would campaign to sustain. Yet International Rivers refers to the Omo as a ‘lifeline’ for Ethiopians and says ‘the rise and fall of the Omo waters is the heartbeat of the Lower Omo Valley’.
If the NGOs that have launched what they call ‘a campaign to stop manmade disaster in Ethiopia’ are truly concerned about the wellbeing of Ethiopians, why are they not campaigning for the people living at the Omo’s mercy to be freed from their river-enslavement? Why are they not fighting for Ethiopians’ rights to benefit from modern facilities, like electricity, which sustain International Rivers’ offices in sunny California?
It is because these NGOs (International Rivers, the Counter Balance Coalition, the Campaign for the Reform of the World Bank, Friends of Lake Turkana and Survival International) do not want ‘indigenous people’ to change. Instead they want to preserve them in a state of noble savagery.Not all of us think that way. Good luck to Ethiopia. My sister, hardly a conservative, came away with the same conclusions when she visited South Africa on two occasions. That is, environmentalists are wreaking unnecessary havoc on the people of Africa.
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More environmentalist successes. Australia scraps insulation programs.
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