Vote No!! on Executive order 10-289!!!

Ok, so I am taking some license here. Yes Papa Doc is preparing to sign a bunch of Executive orders to get things he wants that Congress won't give him.. Like a the Committee on the deficit etc.. Funny, the Dems, MSM, and Papa Doc screamed when "W" even thought about an Executive order or a recess appointment...

Here is the "Fictional" Directive 10-289 from the Novel "Atlas Shrugged" . Mr Wesley Mouch has basically become a Dictator after being a type of Czar in the Govt. Bureaucracy.

Directive 10-289

"In the name of the general welfare," read Wesley Mouch, "to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that--

"Point One.-  All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail.  The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources.  All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.

"Point Two.-  All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under pentalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.

"Point Three.-  All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights.  The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation.  No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used.  Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board.  All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.

"Point Four.-  No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufacturerd or sold afer the date of this directive.  The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.

"Point Five.-  Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less.  The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive.  Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.

"Point Six. -  Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less.  Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.

"Point Seven. - All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive
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"Point Eight.-  All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisionswill be final."

It can never happen here.. Can it?  In 1949, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989,  or 1999, did you ever think it possible that the US Govt would Nationalize GM and give it to the UAW? I would have never even considered it Possible with Chrysler let alone GM, once the world's largest and most profitable corporation...

Global Warming strikes again

As you may know from reading some of my posts and tweets. I am not exactly a big fan of the "Theory Global Warming". I personally think that it is a plan for a world wide "Share The Wealth" scheme. If  CO2 were really destroying the environment, why allow its production at all? Why allow those evil corporations and evil capitalist countries to buy allowances or as the Catholic church used to do, buy absolution?
When the evidence didn't support the theory, it became "Climate Change". Therefore not matter what the weather it could be used to explain "Climate Change". Supposedly when there is an imbalance according to the "Climate Change" theory it is "balanced" by equally unusual weather somewhere else.. When a area experienced unusually dry weather, another experienced unusually wet weather. This also worked for cold/warm. The only issue I can see with this is that while the area I live in, in the mid-Atlantic US is experiencing an unusually cold winter. There is no place on earth that is experiencing unusually warm weather. There have been thousands of records set/broken this winter for cold and snow accumulation all over North America and many other regions of the world.  Here is the current situation here in Virginia.. 

Borrowed from Rich Galen's "Mullings"

• At 10:00 last night this was the official language from the National Weather Service winter storm warning:

  A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect from 10 AM Friday to 10 PM EST Saturday. Precipitation type: Heavy snow.
  Accumulations: Storm total accumulations of 18 to 24 inches.

• Now, I know those of my many readers who live in Antarctica or along Prudhoe Bay in the Arctic consider this a mere dusting. But, for those of us who live in normally habitable climes this is a lot of snow!
• In Your Nation's Capital and its environs we consider 2-4 inches of snow grounds for schools closing for at least two days, invoking "liberal leave" policies in Federal, state, and local government offices; and gathering up enough bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper to last the 82nd Airborne Division three weeks; a good three weeks. 
• The good news about this storm is it is coming over a weekend, just as the 16.4 inches of snow we got from the storm in mid-December. The bad news about this storm is that even at the low end of the NWS' estimate - 18 inches - it would qualify as the third or fourth heaviest snow in DC history.
• The top snowstorms have been:

  1 - 28" Jan 1922 2 - 20" Feb 1899
  3 - 18.7" Feb 1979
  4 - 17.3" Jan 1996
  5 - 16.6" Feb 1983
  6 - 16.4" Dec 2009 & 16.4" Feb 2003

• If this storm comes anywhere near what is being forecast, plus the four inches we got earlier this week the snowfall for the winter of '09-'10 will total over 38 inches. That is somewhat higher than the average of 15.2 inches for Washington.