How Green Was My Valley

Democrats vote to destroy our food supply

The Globe and Mail and Red State have both reported on this story.

You may not know it, but much of America's produce is grown in the central valley of California. But this year radical leftist democrat communist environmentalists have used their political power to shut off the water supply to the farmers there. The pretext that they give, is that there is a species of fish, the Delta Smelt, that is at risk from the transfer of water to the farmers who grow so much of our food. The leftists have convinced the politicians that the Delta Smelt is more important that providing Americans with food. And so they have shut off the water to the farmers who would otherwise be growing the food that ends up in your local grocery.

For years, conservatives have been sounding the alarm about how dangerous the environmental movement is, but most people didn't pay much attention. Now they are literally stealing the food off of our dinner plates and seem bent on starving us. I hope that if you care about having enough to eat that you take this kind of thing seriously. These people are sick and damaged and they will not stop until they have completely destroyed this country. Now they are attacking our food supply and making us even poorer.

But, of course, you will never hear about this from the State Controlled Media. No leftist will ever admit that they are attacking America for the purpose of destroying it.

Rand called this epistemological process the "blank out". Note the inability of the leftist to acknowledge the facts:

1. The central valley is the source of much of our plant based food supply.

2. Plants need water in order to grow.

3. Democrats (and three traitor Republicans) have used government force to turn off the water to the farmers in this valley.

The result? A modern day dust-bowl because plants need water in order to grow, and they now have no water.

No observant, rational person disputes these facts.

A rational person, i.e. a person who is able to perceive and understand the facts of reality provided by their senses, is not confused about this issue. Based on this reaction we can confidently conclude that the Leftists who support this action are either deeply confused about what constitutes a fact, or they do understand what they are doing to the farmers and they approve.

There are no other logical alternatives.

An Open Letter to my Senators

I am curious to know why Senator Durbin seems inclined to support ACORN, a group that is under investigation by the Justice Department in 14 states and that now appears to be involved in conspiracy to support underage sex slavery, human trafficking and tax evasion to say nothing of voter fraud. Is Sen. Durbin's position that he is now in favor of underage sex slavery, human trafficking and tax evasion? If not, then can you explain to me why he voted in favor of continued funding for this organization?

The ACORN Story Continues

If you are a member of the Elite Media Monoculture then you probably have not heard about this story। But if you are anyone else in America you know that independent film makers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles have broken one of the biggest stories of the year over at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government web site. In this story, ACORN representatives in Baltimore, Washington, New York and now in San Bernardino have offered to help James and Hannah set up a sex slavery ring of under age prostitutes with a big helping of tax evasion on the side. Well, the story just keeps getting better and better.

Previous videos here, here and here.

The Revolution Will Not be Televised

Charlie Gibson was on WLS radio's Don Wade and Roma program and in a remarkable exchange said that he had not heard of the ACORN story that has been breaking across the Internet and talk radio all week. Of course one must decide whether to believe him or not. Many people in new media are skeptical of this claim. The alternative view is that Dinosaur Media does not want to cover this story because, like so many others they ignore, it is bad news for the Obama-Fuhrer. ACORN people are his homies. Obama comes from the left and worked closely with this group and others like it. Thus anything that makes the left look bad is bad for Obama. So it comes as no surprise that stories that go against the leftist narrative will not be covered by legacy media, or if they are, they will be covered in such a way as to distort and change the story into something that is unrecognizable.

This is why the huge demonstrations in Washington and across the country by the tea party movement over the weekend barely registered at all on the Legacy Media's radar. For them, if it is not happening in New York, it is as if it didn't happen at all. They live in a bubble surrounded only by people of like mind. Nothing from the outside can penetrate. And that is why they are collapsing. I think that they do know about these things, but the elites in the media live in a reality that is so far removed from the real world that the rest of us know, they just don't have any interest in understanding or reporting on it. For them, such things might as well be happening in the next star system, they are so far away intellectually.

You know, I really don't think it matters any longer.

The millions of people who showed up on Saturday for the protests, and the millions more who couldn't, but who are of similar mind, are simply ignoring the Elite Media Monoculture. The State Run Media is now wholly irrelevant to a wide swath of Americans who now get their news and information from New Media. I can speak for myself; I just don't care about them any more. I listen to talk radio, I read the blogs, I watch Fox and I post in places like this.

Who cares what the legacy media think? They're yesterday's news.

The future belongs to New Media.

The numbers tell the tale. NYT, Trib and Boston Globe are just a few lefty media outlets going broke. CNN barely registers on the ratings scale compared to FOX. CBS, NBC and ABC are losing their audience year after year as the old liberals die off and aren't replaced with younger viewers who instead go to the Internet.

Legacy media is dying. Let them die

Nationwide Tea Party Buycott

The National Tea Party Movement is announcing their support for John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, who wrote an article recently for The Wall Street Journal that has the left up in arms. The reason that they are having a fit is because Mr. Mackey suggested that the free market might be a better solution to our health care issues than nationalizing one sixth of the nation's economy and destroying the private insurance industry.

ST. LOUIS - (BUSINESS WIRE) - The national leadership team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition this morning announced a series of Tea Party Buycott events designed to support John Mackey and the Whole Foods grocery chain. Mackey is the CEO whose op-ed in The Wall Street Journal opposing Obamacare and supporting free market health care reform has sparked unprecedented and unwarranted attacks from left wing propagandists.

The first two events are scheduled for Tuesday evening, September 1, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri and Dallas, Texas, with additional events in other cities and locales to come. The St. Louis event will be held at the Whole Foods store located in Town and Country, Missouri off Clayton Road and will begin at 6 pm. The Dallas kickoff event will be held at the Whole Foods Market located at 11700 Preston Rd., Dallas, Texas and will begin at 7 pm. Details of these Tea Party Buycotts and future buycotts can be found online at http://www.teapartybuycott.com.

Obama Will Implode in Weeks

Kevin McCullough at Townhall.com predicts the effective end of the Obama-Fuhrer's administration in pretty short order. I hope he is correct, as the country can't survive if the hard left gets its way. The amount of spending, taxes and debt that they want will sink this country for generations if Obama's plans are passed.

Washington's Plot to Explode Your Taxes

Peter Ferrara writes at The American Spectator on how Obama's economic plans mean the end of the prosperous America as we have known it.

The Thrill is Gone

Chris Stirewalt at The Washington Examiner looks at how the Obama administration's honeymoon with the media is winding down. Of course the state run media is still doing quite a lot to cover for the Obama-Fuhrer's incompetence, but they can only do so much. As time wears on, the luster has come off and the reality is sinking in.

North Korea, Land of No Smiles

In this photo essay from Foreign Policy, we get a glimpse into one of the left's favorite utopias. It's not a pretty picture.

The Collapse of CNN and MSNBC

The Tax Day Tea Parties brought out more than just patriots who are interested in limited government and lower taxes. It also brought to light the failure of The Elite Media Monoculture. Here we have two different stories, one from Real Clear Politics and the other from Microsoft Money Central, that show us that Fox News is crushing the competition. In the first quarter, and again on April 15th, Fox news destroyed its competitors.

Now I know that some of you want to throw yourselves on the floor and bang your fists while screaming "NO, NOOO, NOOOOOOO it can't be TRRRRRUUUUUUUEEEE!!!!!!!!!." But I assure you, it is a fact; it is true and no amount of tantrum throwing will make it otherwise.

The reality is that if you are a media outlet and you have a hard left tilt, you worship socialism, you think Obama is the bee's knees and you think that regular Americans are "racist teabagging rednecks, then you have probably driven most of your audience away.

Green Jobs

Patterico reports that Green is the New Ponzi. But if you had a brain you knew that already.

Considerable forces have been, and are being arrayed, that will force you to bow to the false god of environmentalism. But it is not about clean air or clean water or 'saving' the climate. The climate does not need to be saved because it is not in danger from Man, or anything else for that matter.

Here is a news flash for you in case you have been the unfortunate victim of public school brainwashing; Man does not cause Global Warming. If you cook up a steak on the grill this weekend the ice caps will not melt, nor will the sun explode, nor will the Earth fall into a black hole if you happen to drive an SUV. Let me repeat, Man Does Not Cause Global Warming.

No dear friends, it is the sun that is responsible for Earth's climate, and the last time I checked, we don't have much to do with what the sun does. What this is really about is control. Elites who think they know better than you do want to have control over what you drive, what you eat, where you live, where you work and what you think. But you don't have to buy the propaganda. As another blogger says, you can take the red pill.

More Garofalo

Just a few more thoughts on Janeane Garofalo. It should be pointed out for all you liberal left retards who cannot bear to face facts that the Garofalo vid in which she claims to be both a mind reader who knows that millions of specific people are racist and an expert in phrenology who can tell you just what you are thinking by the size of the lumps on your forehead.

Across the blogsphere, on the other hand, the reaction was to recognize that the wretched little bag of frustration is a deeply disturbed excuse for a human being who should perhaps take a look in the mirror first before casting stones at others. For just a small sample of such opinion on this sad and bitter person look here and here and here.

Or you could just do a google search and find about 30 thousand more.

DHS Report on Right Wing Extremists

That would be me

I didn't get to this earlier because last week was so busy with the Tea Parties and the resounding media meltdown that followed, but this story is another example of the Obama-Fuhrer's continuing attack on free speech and the criminalization of opinions with which he and the left disagree.

World Net Daily brings us this story on The Department of Homeland Security report recently issued that warns us, not against hostile foreign governments or dangerous Islamic terrorist groups or the exploding drug war on our southern border, but rather against conservatives. Because we all know just how awful it can be to hear about those evil right wing causes, like freedom, liberty, capitalism, small government, the Bill of Rights and low taxes.

CNN CYA

Blogger Patterico reports what we all know happens when you post something on YouTube that The Elite Media Monoculture finds embarrassing; it gets pulled down. The Soviets were very good at this sort of reverse engineering of history; inconvenient truths were routinely airbrushed out of the picture when it became necessary. It is typical of the left. But then again, the Soviets did not have to contend with the Internet or talk radio.

In our latest adventure from dying leftist media, CNN demanded that the video of the Susan Roesgen report from the Chicago Tea Party be removed from YouTube because of 'copyright' violations. But the argument does not hold up for long. The purpose of the video posting, which can be seen all over the Internet at this point and not just on YouTube, is to offer criticism and comment on the performance of CNN itself; something which is protected by the 1st amendment and the doctrine of 'fair use.' If you want to offer your opinion of CNN's coverage of the Chicago Tea Party, you can use that video in order to point out what you think is wrong with reporter Roesgen's behavior. The use of the video is as evidence for editorial opinion. And that is what CNN is really against. Copyright isn't really an issue here because the people posting the vid aren't claiming it as their own; rather they are making fun of it. And CNN doesn't like that at all. They know that they look like fools for putting this reporter on the scene. They know how they are made to appear because of this video and they are doing whatever they can to erase this annoying little bit of history. But fortunately for us, it is very difficult to do that in the age of new media.

The reality is that Dinosaur media still doesn't get it. I was watching a panel of liberal journalists on C-SPAN over the weekend discussing the collapse of old media, (they didn't call it that of course) in particular the 'feature story' that seems to be more and more rare in journalism, which was the topic of this particular panel. They offered many different explanations such as the centralization of corporate ownership of media, etc., to try to understand what is happening to their publications. All of the usual explanations from the left that we have heard before. None of them dared to ask whether the content they were offering might have something to do with the fact that people were no longer buying their product. It just does not occur to them to imagine that in the world of new media with the Internet and talk radio, that you can't get away with treating half of your audience with disdain and contempt and not see a serious decline of your product, in this case the liberal newspaper or newsmagazine.

CNN got crushed in the ratings by competitor Fox over the Tea Parties and for a simple reason; they had better coverage. Fox took the protests seriously and covered them as a serious news event. They asked questions and covered the issues raised by the protests in a way that recognized that the audience really would want to know and understand the meaning of the event. CNN sent Susan Roesgen. The difference between the two was clear for all to see. The problem for CNN and for the rest of Dinosaur Media, aside from the fact that everyone knows about the Roesgen report by now, is that with the advent of the Internet regular people can now talk back to them and let them know what they think about the 'coverage.'. Speaking Truth to Power is how they used to put it when the only speaking we heard was from the left. But now that the conservative right has a voice, feedback is just a bit too inconvenient for them to deal with. But try as they might, they can no longer silence the true voice of the people. And of course, they cannot hold onto viewers who have alternative sources of information from which to choose.