Just Say No to King Hussein's Crank Environmental Policies

King Hussein's administration doesn't know sh*t from shinola about climate change, but his army of scientists on the take don't shy from making politically motivated predictions.

I just sent this email to King Hussein:

Dear King Hussein:

You should fire Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak, and, because you are factually wrong, you might  reconsider your claim that global warming is accelerating.  Going around saying  “the science is settled” confirms that you, Moniz, and Vilsak are badly educated.  Science is never settled; ignorant people think that it can be.

Claims of extremely rapid global warming are  nonsense.  The dust bowl in the 1930s was a worse storm period than now.  Someone recently compared the models used by your ideologically motivated "scientists" with observed mean temperature increases. The reality is one fourth of the projections, so the models are wrong.  

Your scientists' models are 75% off target.  In economics that is excusable (although no competent economist would claim to be able to predict the future), but in physics a 75% error is junk.  You sound ignorant, bub, when you go around making predictions based on junk models.  

King Hussein, you aim to cripple our economy based on scientific newspeak.  Your administration is a destructive maelstrom.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

Political Editor, Lincoln Eagle

PO Box 130

West Shokan, NY 12494

Ubi libertas, ibi patria

When You Voted for Obama You Thought You'd Get Something for Nothing...Instead You Got Nothing for Something

I just sent this email to Congressman Chris Gibson:

My wife’s dental surgeon in Kingston just told me about the Obama administration’s confiscation of phone records of the Associated Press. I think of AP as a pro-Obama propaganda enterprise, so this was akin to a Stalinist purge. It comes on the heels of revelations of illegal IRS harassment of Tea Parties.  The Institute for Justice (see below) is now saying that the abuses go to higher levels than have been revealed in the pro-Obama media (including AP).  Mike Huckabee has called for an impeachment hearing with respect to Obama’s Benghazi embassy cover-up.  The targeting of dissenters for IRS harassment strikes me to have been as serious as the administration's cover-up of Obama's allowing our ambassador and his staff to be killed.

It is time for a Congressional call for an investigation and an impeachment hearing.  Obama’s ongoing abuses are akin to the early stages of Hitler’s Nazi regime.  

After years of the media's demonization of the Tea Party, it turns out that the real terrorist is in the White House.  For instance, a few years ago Mike Bloomberg claimed that a bomb found in the Times Square area had been placed by a Tea Party member.  It turned out that it hadn't been.  Similarly, a colleague who comes from the left recently said that he had heard that the Boston Marathon bombing had been done by a Tea Party member. The lies about and demonization of the Tea Party in the American media are evidence that the Tea Party was threatening to the Wall Street-big government establishment in a way that only the most extreme left-wing movements are.  Nevertheless, the Tea Party was never an extremist movement.  Unlike the lies in the HBO show The Newsroom, it was never funded by wealthy donors, including the Koch family. It was always a moderate, middle class movement whose ranks included ordinary homeowners and taxpayers. We live in a nation where moderate protest is viewed as an extremist threat, and an extremist, narcissistic president who uses the IRS to target the protestors is called a savior.  

The media has lied consistently and thoroughly about both Obama and the Tea Party. The media is serving as a Wall Street-big government propaganda agency, not as an information source. Focusing on current events is a waste of time because impartial, accurate information is impossible to acquire.

Recently, I was in Nashville, where I feel much more at home than in the North.  When I hang out in a bar in Port Authority on the way home from Brooklyn to upstate New York, I disagree with three quarters of the crowd.  When I hung out in a bar in Nashville,  I agreed with three quarters of the crowd.  If I could do it over again, I would have gone to college and relocated in Tennessee.  Because of northern prejudices, though, I wouldn't have considered doing that in the 1970s and '80s. Pretty much everything I learned as a child has been wrong. 

While conversing with a few guys at the bar, someone agreed almost completely with the libertarian point of view, but he said, "I don't want to be an extremist like John Stossel; I want to be a moderate like Bill O'Reilly."   The individual has been brainwashed. O'Reilly is not a moderate. Just because he says he wants to find a middle path between the Democrats and Republicans doesn't make him a moderate.  He's a big government extremist. The Democrats and Republicans are two fascist-style, big government parties that support America's vampire economy.

Stossel is the moderate. He is in support of a level of government spending that was characteristic of the United States during the halcyon 1950s.  The country started collapsing and the real hourly wage started stagnating in the late 1960s, almost immediately following LBJ's expansion of government.

From the Institute for Justice

 >We have documented how severe the IRS abuse of power is – making unconstitutionally invasive demands of citizen-led groups.

We have detailed how this intentional targeting of conservative groups is still ongoing – 10 of our clients are still tied up in admittedly improper, onerous IRS inquiries.

Congress, and now the Justice Department, are investigating the draconian actions of the Obama Administration's IRS.

Join tens of thousands of Americans in demanding the IRS end its unconstitutional abuse today. Add your name before Friday's congressional hearing.

Sharad Karkhanis Book Fund

John Drobnicki sent me the following announcement:

The Office of College Advancement at Kingsborough Community College has established the Prof. Sharad Karkhanis Fund in memory of its namesake, Sharad Karkhanis, who was a library faculty member there from 1964 until his retirement in 2003.  He passed away on March 28, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 78. Dr. Karkhanis, who also taught Political Science classes, was President of the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) from 1967-1969.  He was also one of the founders of APALA, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, serving as that organization's very first President from 1980-1982.

Contributors should make their checks payable to the Prof. Sharad Karkhanis Fund and send to:

Office for College Advancement

Kingsborough  Community College Foundation, Inc.

2001 Oriental Boulevard

Brooklyn, NY 11235-9978

Dr. Sharad Karkhanis, Professor Emeritus at Kingsborough Community College/CUNY, who served as President of the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) from 1967-1969, passed away on March 28, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 78.  Sharad was born in Khopoli, India, on March 8, 1935, and came to the US in 1959.  He worked as a librarian trainee in NJ while attending Rutgers (MLS, 1962), and then worked briefly at Brooklyn College/CUNY (1963-64) before being hired in 1964 by Kingsborough, where he remained as a librarian until his retirement in 2003.  Aside from his duties as a librarian, Karkhanis also taught political science classes at Kingsborough, holding both an M.A. in Political Science & International Relations (Brooklyn College/CUNY, 1967) and a Ph.D. in Political Science & American Government (NYU, 1978).  He was one of the founders of APALA, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and was that organization's first president from 1980-1982.

Karkhanis was the author/editor of:  New Directions for the City University Libraries (LACUNY, 1968); A New College Student: The Challenge to City University Libraries (LACUNY, 1969); Open Admissions: A Bibliography, 1968-1973 (CUNY, 1974); Indian Politics and the Role of the Press (Asia Book Corp., 1981); A Select Bibliography on Retention (CUNY, 1981); Jewish Heritage in America: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1988); How to Avoid Dead End in Your Career, an Asian American Perspective; and, Library Services for the Asian American Community: Papers of the 1987 Program of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, June 1987, San Francisco, California (APALA, 1988); and Educational Excellence of Asian Americans, Myth or Reality?: Papers of the 1988 Program of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, July 1988, New Orleans, Louisiana (APALA, 1989).  Karkhanis served for many years as a university-wide officer in the CUNY faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress, when Irwin Polishook was President.  Much of his time in his later years was devoted to publishing a newsletter, first in print and then online - called The Patriot Returns.  In 2008, Karkhanis was honored as the Educator of the Year by the Queens Village Republican Club.

How Universities Induce Bad Ethics

The mass murder that anti-capitalist, socialist states have engaged in since the days of Lenin pose a much greater threat to ethics than profit making. Since the anti-profit, socialist mentality has turned out to result in serial mass murder (China, Russia, Cuba, North Korea, Nazi Germany), the anti-profit camp needs to address its own moral bankruptcy. That opponents of profit making are in charge of and predominant in education, including in business schools, has led to a confusion between ethics and opposition to capitalism. Since opposition to capitalism has resulted in the world's worst crimes, and universities have led the opposition, universities have created a moral vacuum. Positivism reflects this vacuum. An example is finance theory, which holds that meaningful action is impossible because the market already anticipates all knowledge (rational expectations). For a good description of the workings of socialism in the Nazi (National Socialist) regime in Germany, see Gunter Reiman's Vampire Economy. Because universities are still wedded to primitive, 20th century opposition to profit, they induce bad ethics.