Monthly Archives: August 2010

Isaiah 42: 1-2—Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street. SnyderTalk Commentary: This is about the Messiah, and His Name is Yahweh. (See Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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Shalu shalom Yerushalayim: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122: 6)

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Scripture of the day:

Isaiah 42: 1-2—Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights.  I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.  He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street.

SnyderTalk Commentary: This is about the Messiah, and His Name is Yahweh. (See Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

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SnyderTalk Editorial: Give us the keys to the car.  You’ve proven that you can’t drive.


Democrats are poised to take a real shellacking at the polls.  There are many reasons for this.  Foremost among them is that people know President Obama took more than $1,000,000,000,000 of our money and used a large percentage of it to pay off associations, groups, and individuals who supported candidate Obama in 2008.  Why did he do it?

I’ve given that question a lot of thought, and there is only one explanation that makes any sense to me.  Before giving you my answer, I’ll briefly summarize what happened leading up to the economic breakdown in 2008.

It’s true that our economy was a wreck when President Obama took office.  It’s also true that President Bush (W) presided over a Congress with Republican majorities in the House and Senate for the first 6 of his 8 years in office, time that he could and should have used to deal with the issues that would cause the Great Recession.  Instead, Republicans spent money as though there would be no tomorrow and gave little or no attention to the deficit and debt problems they were perpetuating.

To be sure, Republicans deserve a lot of the blame for the economic collapse.  It doesn’t matter that President Clinton pushed for the legislation that caused the problem or that Democrats like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank capitalized on the legislation in every way they could.  President Bush could have vetoed the nonsensical bills that crossed his desk almost every day and taken a message about the looming disaster to the American people.  President Bush didn’t veto a single bill until after Democrats took control of Congress.  That’s an empirical fact that will forever remain a blemish on his record.

But that doesn’t answer the question.  Why did President Obama use our money to pay off his political supporters instead of stimulating the economy as he assured us he would?  As simple as this may sound, I believe he must have thought he could get away with it.  Nothing else makes any sense to me, and it’s consistent with the style of politics he learned in Chicago.  Take former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, for example.  He brazenly tried to barter the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Obama as if it were his personal property.  Why?  He must have thought he could get away with it.  If there had been any doubt in his mind, he would have at least tried to be a little circumspect in his dealings, but he didn’t.  From his perspective, he was safe.

President Obama must suffer from the same delusion.  Like a drug-addicted lawyer who skims money from client accounts to pay for his habit thinking he’ll be able to return it before anyone finds out, President Obama must have believed the economy would turn around before mid-term elections or he would have been more careful—or using his word, more transparent.  Instead, he took more than a trillion dollars of our money and used a huge chunk of it to pay off teachers’ unions, auto workers’ unions, and liberal progressive groups of all stripes to name just a few.  He even used it to provide grants and contracts to his friends on the left.  I’m not speculating here.  That’s what the record shows.

President Obama must have known that if the economy didn’t show significant signs of improvement before the mid-term elections, he and the Democratic Party would take a beating at the polls.  He must have asked his advisors how much money it would take to jumpstart the economy.  He probably viewed the funds at his disposal above that amount as money he could use to pay political debts.  That’s the way things are done in Chicago.  “Why wouldn’t it work in Washington?” he must have thought.

Most of the time, that’s the way things work in Washington too, but this crisis was different.  The economic situation was bleaker than President Obama and his advisors realized, and they didn’t have enough slack to shower his supporters with our money.  Unfortunately, by the time they understood the reality, the payoffs had already been made.  President Obama must have thought he could get away with it but he was wrong, and he got enthusiastic support from his Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate.

There must be consequences, or we can expect the senseless waste of our hard-earned money to continue.  Rod Blagojevich is going to jail.  We need to tell President Obama and his compatriots, “Give us the keys to the car.  You’ve proven that you can’t drive.”  But we can’t stop there.  The people we elect have to know that they will be held accountable too, be they Republican or be they Democrat.

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If you haven’t been there already, you should take the opportunity to visit Natural Healthcare Store.  Each product selected for sale at Natural Healthcare Store undergoes rigorous research to make sure that it is the highest quality at an affordable price.

Natural Healthcare Store carries skin care, hair care, and oral care products.  Be sure to check out the Dead Sea products imported from Israel and support the Israeli economy with your purchases.  Natural Healthcare Store carries makeup, deodorant, and detoxification products.  It also carries supplements, weight loss products, and loose leaf tea.  Rounding out its product mix, Natural Healthcare Store carries natural household cleaning products.

Katie and I believe strongly in healthy living, and we use the products.  We’re proud to say that our daughter Melanie owns the store.

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Climate Change Update

THIS WEEK by Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

For those concerned about the environmental impact of oil exploration and development, perhaps the biggest news are studies of the impact of the BP spill on the Gulf of Mexico. On August 19, the New York Times reported that a new study by the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, being published in Science, indicates that the earlier NOAA studies of the disappearance of the oil plume were far too optimistic.  According to the Woods Hole study, the oil plume was not breaking down quickly and effects will remain indefinitely. This confirmed suspicions by other groups.

On August 24, the New York Times reported a new study by the Energy Biosciences Institute, a partnership led by the University of California Berkeley and the University of Illinois, stated that the oil plume is being depleted quickly by a previously undiscovered microorganism that appears closely related to Oceanospirillales.

Readers may recall that TWTW previously reported that the Gulf of Mexico is home to a great number of microorganisms that thrive in cold water (about 5°C) at oil seeps and that these microbes depend upon chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. The newly discovered microbe appears to be one such creature. Very importantly, it appears that the microbe is anaerobic—it does not consume oxygen. The oxygen levels are remaining high (59% inside the plume as compared with 67% outside the plume). Thus the feared dead zone from oxygen depletion is not occurring.

It should be noted that the Energy Biosciences Institute was created by a $500 Million, 10 year grant from BP for which Stephen Chu, now Secretary of Energy, was a grateful recipient. If the research holds, then this is another example that in science, it is the quality of the work, not the funding, that is important.

In what appears to be alarming news to the environmental industry, acting US Solicitor General Neal Katyal, representing the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal agency, filed a brief with the US Supreme Court requesting it throw out a decision by the 2nd Court of Appeals permitting law suits brought by the State of Connecticut and other northeast states against utilities using coal to generate electricity. The entire situation is logically bazaar.

The Attorney General for Connecticut, backed by environmental groups and other northeastern states, is claiming that public utilities using coal to generate electricity are public nuisances. According to the article in the New York Times, the environmental industry thought it had a deal with the Obama administration to allow the law suits to proceed as a means of forcing Congress to accept some form of cap-and-trade. Now the environmental industry feels betrayed. Has a bit of logic and reason hit the administration?

The hot summer weather over Russia, and elsewhere, has broken. But the chorus of alarmists, particularly politicians, blaming the unusual weather events on global warming continues. Of course, some of the politicians, including Rep. Markey and Hillary Clinton, claim these events demonstrate “climate change” which government regulations such as cap-and-tax will be able to control.

By contrast, meteorologists such as Joe D’Aleo and others write that the events, though not normal (average), are not unique or particularly exceptional—once again confirming the adage that to those ignorant of history, every event is unprecedented.

The National Science Foundation announced “powerful new computer software” by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) called the Community Earth System Model (CESM) that others can use to make regional climate projections. If the models were well tested and validated to discern the difference between natural cause of climate change and human induced changes, then it would be a valuable addition to our understanding of climate change. However, based upon the announcements it appears that the software will do little more than intensify the errors of the past. Expanding the detail of models that have not been validated does not expand knowledge.

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