NC Media Watch

Over e-mail transon: Want to kill jobs, hire government regulators

 Russ  Steele

A regular reader sent me a link to this chart in the Investor Business Daily.



I thinks that it is self explanatory.  The more government regulators that are hired, the more friction created for businesses large and small. These business are the real job creators, and they are being constrained by more regulators at all levels of the federal state government. 

National Forests are not National Parks

Russ Steele

In the 1950s I lived in the Salmon-Challis National Forest, the first time from 1948 to 1952 and the second time from 1956 to 1957 and have visted it many times in the 1980s and 2000s.  It is not a National PARK, thought some of the environmentalist would like to treat is as though it were a National Park.  It is a National Forest with a multi-use mission. 

Here is a Fox News Video where they keep refering to Salmon-Challis National Forest as a park. It is NOT a Park!   If the environmentalist get to ban ATV, then motor bilkes will be next, then pack horses, and then only day hikers will be able to use the forest. Some might remember the environmentalist tried to ban pack horses from the Tahoe National Forest, the day hikers got tired of stepping over the horse turds on the trail.

I wrote about the new Forest Service Planning Rule that could restrict your future access to the National Forest here . 

H/T to regular reader for this video link. I watched the Fox News Presentation live and was concerned about the references to a park.

Government is incapable of protecting citizens from evil

Russ Steele 

How do you defend yourself from evil, when the government proves it is incapable of defending it’s citizens?  The British Government made a commitment to the citizens when they took a way their means of self protection, and they have clearly failed.   

John Hinderaker writing in the New York Post:

Traditionally, looters have been shot -- and not with plastic. Napoleon’s “whiff of grapeshot” always works. The first volley goes over the heads of the rioters; the second is never needed.

But nowadays, there seems to be an implicit admission that rioters are entitled to take over the streets and wreak destruction in revenge . . . for what?

What makes the present such a frightening time is that a number of nightmarish phenomena that we had thought consigned to the dustbin of history are reappearing. Rioters in the streets. Burning buildings. Plunging markets and the threat of depression. The scent of socialism in the air.

Who, as of, say, 1989, could have imagined that in barely 20 years, what was then known as the Free World could sink so far?

What we are seeing in London and other English cities is an outpouring of evil. To try to explain evil as the result of something else is almost always a mistake.

I think this growth in evil was inevitable. The British government mandated gun registration and they they force the people turn in their handguns, as many liberals want to do in the US. England's political leaders criminalized the possession of handguns — the final deadline for turning them in was Feb. 27, 1998. These hoodlums know that citizens have no means of defense, so they rob, rape and rampage with immunity. The police have proved they are incapable of defending the citizens of London and other British cities.

We need to take a lesson from what we are seeing in the burning of London. We must resist every attempt of liberals to take a way our means of self defense. When the police are incapable of defensing us from evil, we must have the means to do it ourselves.  Do not let liberal political leaders take away our guns, our means of self defense.

Over the e-mail transom: Grinding Down America

Russ Steele

A regular reader sent me this video.  As a cold war vet, I am have a hard time refuting the facts presented in the video, perhaps some of NCMW's readers have read the documents referenced in the video and can provide more insight.

 

The price of things in California

Russ Steele

Ellen and I just finished a cross county RV trip from Californa to Delaware, North Carolina and then back to California. On that trip I used a 12 oz Starbucks Ceramic Coffee mug.  When we stopped for diesel, I would fill up my coffee mug. Most of the time, the charge was about a 99 cents to $1.15, one time it was $1.50 at a rural station in Tennessee. I thought that was highway robbery, as I was providing my own mug.  Yesterday, I was in Auburn and stopped at the Flour Garden for a cup of coffee in my Starbuck's mug. The charge was $2.04.  I noted that the $4.00 eggsalad sandwiches are now $6.24.  We bought some eggsalad sandwiches on the road and never paid more than $2.75 each. 

Why are California prices so much higher than the rest of the County?

Fourth of July One of Nation’s Most Important Holidays

Russ Steele

Rasmussen Report:

While many people look forward to the Fourth of July for barbecues and fireworks, most Americans recognize the importance of our nation’s Independence Day—but that does not mean barbecues and fireworks are off the table.

A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that 65% consider the Fourth of July, Independence Day, one of the nation’s most important holidays. Just three percent (3%) consider it one of the least important, and 31% see it as somewhere in between.

Exit Question: Who are those betweeners, we know who the 3% are?

Texas Gov. Perry was in CA -- He gave some jobs advice, but could have given more.

Russ Steele

Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a swing through California last week amidst speculation he might run for president.  He was  giving Republican Legislator some advice on how to create Californians jobs.  All the while Texas has stolen dozens of California companies and tens of thousands of CA jobs.  While not taking great joy in this, Perry points out  that if California policies are causing firms to leave the State, then Texas will welcome them.

Some advice the Gov. Perry could have give our Democratic Legislators while he was here, involves some of those regulations, specifically AB-32 spawned regulations. In his  book Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, he writes that global warming is "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight."

Global warming is "flat out hogwash," says Perry.

I think that Gov. Perry should run for President.  He is a highly successful Governor, knows how to create jobs, knows that regulations are job killers and that global warming is "hogwash". I am with Dan Logue on this one,  Rick Perry for President! I am sure with a strong conservative President we can get our country back on track to prosperity, and stop trying to same planet by distributing nations wealthy using the phoney science of anthropogenic global warming.

California loses 70,600 financial jobs in 10 years, Texas gains 47,200

Russ Steele

The Sacramento Business Journal has the details in a story on the financial sector from 2001 to the present. Financial sector employment in 21 states has improved, while 29 states have fewer financial jobs than 10 years ago, with California at the bottom of the list.

California lost 70,6000 financial sector jobs in 10 years, according to an On Numbers analysis of new federal data. The second largest drop was in New York, with 64,400 jobs lost.

Texas is enjoying the sharpest upswing — its financial sector contained 622,900 jobs last month, which was 47,200 above the corresponding figure for April 2001.

North Carolina was second with a 10-year gain of 16,100 financial jobs. The only other states to post five-figure increases were Arizona (up 10,500 financial jobs in a decade) and South Carolina (up 10,000).

The Business Journal links to a data base with a state-by-state breakdown of the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While the states Democrat leaders are claiming that California is recovering,  the numbers indicate the recovery is taking place else where.

No know water risk from fracking - EPA's Lisa Jackson

Russ Steele

We have been having an on going discussion here on the threat of fracking to surface water after the movie Gasland tried to convince the public that fracking was responsible for threatening farmers and ranchers water supplies.  At the U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, President Barack Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, admitted the environmental risk of hydraulic fracturing is practically nonexistent.

“I’m not aware of any proven case where the fracking process itself has affected water, although there are investigations ongoing,” she said.



Sen. James Inhofe, ranking member on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, commended Jackson’s honesty and pointed out that ". . . States are regulating hydraulic fracturing effectively and efficiently, and there is no need for the federal government to step in"

The Great Frost?

Russ Steele

I just posted an interesting article by Dennis Avery on my The Dalton Minimum Returns blog.

The Great Frost followed a period of very few sunspots—the Maunder Minimum (1645–1715). Today, we know that fewer sunspots predict colder temperatures, and the modern world has just undergone a similar dearth of sunspots, from 2007 to 2011.

Read the whole article at The Dalton Minimum Returns.

Exit Question: Could these cool temperatures result in an early June killing frost in America's Bread Basket?