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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Is This A Crime Against Humanity or Not? Is This a Crime?

By Rich Kozlovich

These links are from Steve Milloy's Junkscience.com.

The question that I keep asking myself, is this: When is someone going to be charged with a crime? No matter what anyone tries to claim, a crime against humanity has been committed. And it has been committed by authorities at the Environmental Protection Agency and the researchers they hired. They cannot claim they were just following orders. That excuse has been dealt with and rejected ever since Captain Henry Wirz was tried and hung for what happened at Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. It was once again rejected at the Trials at Nuremberg. Are these events anywhere near as serious? In their effect and impact; no! In principle; yes!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Silent Spring: 50 Years of Junk Science, Part IV: The Legacy

“Truth would very patiently wait for us”. Benjamin Franklin

By Rich Kozlovich

Carson became the visionary for modern environmental activism, in spite of the fact that Carson was “neither profound nor original” in her thinking. Carson’s “core message was very much in line with the content of previous’ ‘books and articles published in widely circulated magazines and newspapers.” In reality the “ideological core of modern environmentalism can be traced back to ideas that have been around for centuries and in some cases millennia.”

So why did she have such much of a larger impact on society than the writers before her? Carson wrote differently than her predecessors. Their writings were so obviously misanthropic that they made little impact with anyone outside their circle of like thinkers. Carson wrote claiming there were serious health hazards from chemicals to humanity, especially DDT, and that was her message, a plea for the good of humanity. Make no mistake; it was her claims regarding chemicals and cancer that really struck a chord with the public.

She claimed that DDT was a serious carcinogenic agent that with continued use would eventually impact almost 100% of the population. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

Friday, May 3, 2013

The Value of Sequester

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently I was in Washington as part of the National Pest Management Association Legislative Day initiative. Having had my knees replaced recently I was still having difficulties walking and needed a cane. I was delusional in thinking I was in better shape than I was…..I should have stayed home. It’s good to have understanding friends with you in those circumstances. At any rate, we were scheduled to go to the Senate offices and the lines were around the block. Why? Apparently this was part of the ‘sequester’ cuts.

A couple of things happened that day I have thought about and chuckled about ever since. First, let me tell you that artificial knees set bells of on the scanners. I said to the guards, smilingly, as I pointed to my legs….”knees”. I also said it all three times they made me walk through the scanner…… without my cane…..smiling. Finally one of the guards smiled and asked; ‘both knees’? I said yes and he used a hand scanner. Then we both chuckled and said smilingly, “knees”. I thanked them, we all smiled and I move on.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

A Few Thoughts on the Arab Winter and the Media!

By Rich Kozlovich

The New Republic was and still is a leftist organ originally "founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, Willard Straight, who maintained majority ownership.” All of whom were either communists, Soviet agents or fellow travelers calling themselves ‘liberals’. Eventually Straight’s son, Michael, became an editor at the New Republic. While attending that famous cesspool noted for generating Soviet spies, Cambridge University in England, he met those infamous English Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt, all communists and all secret Soviet spies, one of which he also became. The problem with the left is a lack of consistency. They demand war today and then condemn that war tomorrow. The problem with the left’s lack of consistency is the total lack of moral foundation. Their views are based on shifting sand. Whatever works that day must be right. The New Republic is clearly a ‘liberal’ rag that is pushing for ….dare I say it….. war! Note this article:

Friday, April 19, 2013

The Gosnell Outrage

By Rich Kozlovich

Is your heart broken yet by what you have heard. If not....try this; Gosnell Trial Witness: Baby Abortion Survivor Was 'Swimming' in Toilet 'Trying to Get Out'. How can someone read something like this and not have tears in their eyes and a sick feeling in their stomach?
As more information is revealed it becomes apparent that there are many in positions of responsibility who have failed in their duties and, by any measure, in basic human morality.There is only one reason to be for abortion and that is because you don’t believe its murder, and there is only one reason to be opposed to abortion and that is because you do believe it is murder. If it is murder on any day then it is murder on every other day.

There is a difference between traditional wisdom and conventional wisdom. Traditional wisdom has stood the test of time. Conventional wisdom is the latest philosophical flavor of the day and may not last past supper time and we are abandoning all traditional values for what? What is the outcome of such thinking?......

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Definiton of Rights is the Real Issue!

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently I wrote the article about gun control titled, Rights Are Not Grantings To Be Given or Taken Away!, explaining that this issue of gun rights isn’t really about guns at all, and even those who don’t own guns, don’t like guns, and don’t want guns in their homes have to understand the foundational issue. It about the definition of rights – not about guns. That makes this "gun rights" issue so much deeper and more profound.

Today I received an e-mail from a friend outlining the consequences of "gun control" and what rights are left when “gun control” leads to “government control”. After that there will be no need to be able to define “rights” because they will cease to exist…….

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Falklands: The Middle East of the South Atlantic

By Rich Kozlovich

An article by Neil Tweedie, titled, “Falkland islands referendum: who were the three 'No' votes? discussing the issues surrounding the Falklands, including the fact that three Falklanders voted “No to the Falkland Islands remaining as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.”

There are three large islands and almost 800 smaller islands that make up the Falklands, with a population of approximately 2,900. Of 1,518 votes cast during the two-day poll, 1,513 came out in favor of maintaining the islands' current political status, representing 99.8 per cent of the vote. One ballot paper was rejected and one remained unaccounted for after the count on Monday night. That left three people who desire either immediate independence from Britain or a transfer of sovereignty, presumably to Argentina, which claims the islands as its own.

This isn't going away and I think it would be important to come to some kind of understanding about the Falklands through an historical lens……

Sunday, April 7, 2013

After Bankruptcy Then What?

By Rich Kozlovich

On Friday Wynton Hall posted an article titled, “BOOMTOWN 2: Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on 'War on Poverty'. He starts out saying; “since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt.”

He notes that in 1969, just 2.8 million Americans received food stamps. Today he notes that over 47 million Americans are on food stamps, and some of the biggest supporters of these programs are big business, which he describes as “crony capitalism”. And now the “U.S. Census Bureau revealed that nearly 50 million Americans live below the federal poverty line. “

When Johnson was president in 1966 the nation had a population of 196,560,338. By 1969 there were 2, 700,000 recipients on food stamps, presumably mostly families. Which translates to approximately 1.4% of the population. Let's suppose we had given every family on food stamps a million dollars and said....that's it....we're done....you're on your own now forever. What would have happened?

Presumably we would have ended poverty and we would have saved twelve trillion three hundred billion dollars. ……

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Rights Are Not Grantings To Be Given or Taken Away!

By Rich Kozlovich

I have written about this before but so much is in the news that obfuscates the truth I felt compelled to write about it again. If we want understanding we must first have clarity. History is the clarifying agent.

On April 4th Ben Shapiro wrote an article titled, Obama: Constitution 'Constrains' Me. He points out that Obama, “In his pursuit of overarching gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, President Barack Obama has been dogged. He's been relentless. He's been demagogic, too, whether flanking himself with schoolchildren (the implication being that his political opponents don't care about dead kids) or suggesting that if just one life can be saved by his legislation, we ought to buy into it wholeheartedly (a proposition that would justify almost any sort of government overreach).” He continues by saying; “on Wednesday, President Obama took his gun control push a step further: He admitted that only the Constitution stands between him and full gun confiscation”

He further points out that, “Government is not us. Government is a group of people elected by us, who then use their own judgment”, however he points out, “the founders stated that rights descend not from government — not from "us," as Obama would have it — but from God or nature.” Quite frankly it seems a worthwhile effort, considering the wider ramifications of this kind of thinking, to lay some historical foundation regarding gun ownership rights in America in order to understand this argument properly. First of all; the Second Amendment is what it says, nothing more and nothing less, yet at one point Attorney General Holder claimed "We have no right to possess guns!"………

I Have Found Another Million Green Jobs! Or Not?

By Rich Kozlovich

I posted this article today; BLS Releases Another Phony 'Green Jobs' Report. The author outlines how this administration has presented a "chock full of charts claiming millions of new "green" jobs being produced by President Obama's efforts to heal the planet and lower the rising seas." The problem lies in how one defines a green job. Here is a paraphrased definition based on this article.

A "green" job is any job that is of benefit to the environment, or is capable of conserving natural resources. Any job in which a workers' duties involve making their establishment's production processes more environmentally friendly or use fewer natural resources.

It would seem to me that a "green" job would be job that didn't exist before we adopted "green" alternatives to something that already existed, and unlike 'all' these green initiatives existed effectively I might add. However, that isn’t the case……

Friday, March 22, 2013

NPMA Legislative Day: A Few Thoughts

By Rich Kozlovich

This year was tough on an old man with two new knees. Although the weather was beautiful on Tuesday when everyone went to the Capitol, the lines into the Senate offices were around the block, and that was brutal on my knees. It is good to have understanding friends in that kind of situation…..thanks to all who helped me. I clearly should have stayed home this year, but in spite of it all, I enjoyed this event, and the food was really good.

What I enjoy most are the talks by prominent politicos or news commentators, since I generally try to make some point or at the very least ask pointed questions. On Monday we saw a debate between former Democratic Senator from North Dakota Byron Dorgan and Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Poor Kieth Olbermann Can't Find a Job: Imagine That!

By Rich Kozlovich

Yesterday this article, “Out-of-work, liberal news anchor 'seeks sympathy' -Report: Leftist host has tough time getting another job", was posted by Joe Kovacs. As I read this post I had to chuckle since Olbermann has never been a person for which one easily feels sympathetic. When he was fired by Current TV I posted this article, "Olbermann: Imagine That!" on Saturday, March 31, 2012. After reading Kovac’s post I thought it might be worthwhile to repost it below. There has got to be a comedy skit somewhere in this whole story for Saturday Night Live. I certainly find it humorous…..

Friday, March 1, 2013

If It Turns Green It Isn’t Gold

By Rich Kozlovich

In years gone by you would hear about some girl who had been given a ring that looked like gold but left a green residue on the finger. Well, there were a couple of things that were clear to everyone. The ring wasn’t gold and the guy who gave it to her was a cheap phony. Those promoting green initiatives in power generation, automotive enterprises, and who knows how many other things, fall into that category, but unfortunately, they aren’t cheap. They are sticking the taxpayers with debts to the tune of billions of dollars for so-called green investments. Those investments are going down the rat hole and there is no end in sight.

I subscribe to the e-newsletter from Environment and Climate news. I received their latest edition for March yesterday which listed some economically green disasters for which the American taxpayer is on the hook. As you read this you begin to wonder what is wrong with the minds of those who promote this stuff. It certainly can’t be ignorance because we have historical foundation to show that all these ‘green’ initiatives are economically disastrous. They were failures when promoted by Jimmy Carter, and they are still economically disastrous. The only difference is Carter could be excused for promoting these ‘alternative’ schemes because no one really knew if these were good ideas or not, and society had been prepped by circumstances for just such an effort. ….

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Silent Spring: Fifty Years of Junk Science, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich

Rachel Carson is commonly known as the mother of the environmental movement due to the publication of her book Silent Spring. Why did this book have such an impact? First of all, she was an exceptional writer. Her writing skills placed her beyond the works of others of her time discussing many of the same subjects. Originally her major in college was English, which she later changed to biology, but first and foremost she considered herself a writer. Although classified as a scientist, she wasn’t a practicing scientist. While “working for the U.S. Bureau of Fish and Wildlife Services in the Commerce Department, her job there was as a writer, summarizing then popularizing the work of scientists in the lab and in the field.”

Before she wrote Silent Spring she was already well known for her books about the ocean. Her personal research included “a brief and shallow dive clinging to a boat’s ladder”. She never claimed to have been where she had not, but she wrote with a technique “guiding the reader in narrative form, observing as if with her own eyes- or the readers.” …….

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Thursday, January 31, 2012

Get Out of Debt Card!

Wednesday, January 30, 2012

Book Review: Silent Spring at 50

Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Lady is a Hag
Monday, November 12, 2012

The Stench of Systemic Corruption

Saturday, November 10, 2012