...Oregon wants to use GPS technology to tax its drivers.

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It's nice that the state says it won't track people using this technology.  Uh huh.  I'm sure the citizens can believe that.  Of course, the state being Oregon, the citizens probably DO believe it.

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Once again thousands of people are stranded in cold country airports because of delayed and canceled flights.  They get mad at the airlines because the snow in six feet deep and the winds are blowing 50 MPH and the planes can't fly.  I know that people like to be with family at holiday time, but, come on people.  Be reasonable.  Chicago's O'Hare airport is among the hardest hit in this particular storm pattern and a disruption in O'Hare can affect travellers all over the country.  When a major hub gets blasted, not only can planes that are there not leave, planes that are in other places cannot get in.  I know people get frustrated, but why do they lose all their common sense?  The passengers demand the airlines get them to their destinations but there are no planes flying.  They demand that the airlines work with them exclusively but there aren't enough employees to give each passenger immediate attention.  Lines are inevitable.  If you don't want to be inconvenienced at Christmas, stay home, have some turkey and hot chocolate and watch the news stories of idiots stranded by a "surprise" snow storm in, of all places, CHICAGO!  Make your travel plans to visit Grandma for the Fourth of July when you are much less likely to be stranded by a snow storm in Chicago, Denver, Seattle, St.Louis, Kansas City or Cleveland.  I know some tree huggers are talking about global warming, but this is one of the coldest winters in decades.  Chill.

Here's another chance for all you fans of BO to cheer his being elected.  He's a sponsor in the Senate of the Global Poverty Act which will, if passed, require the US to increase its spending on humanitarian aid from 23 to 98 billion dollars a year.  It is the US response to the United Nations Millennium Development Goal project of reducing by fifty percent the number of people worldwide who live on less than two dollars a day.  Unfortunately, it also has portions that infringe on US Constitutional rights.  It would require the president develop and implement a policy to "cut extreme global poverty in half  by the year 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief and other programs.  BO said the bill is the type of legislation, "We can -- and must -- make a ... priority." 

BO said, "It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water." 

Specifically, the Act would declare that the official US policy is to eliminate global poverty, that the president is "required" to "develop and implement" a strategy to reach that goal and requires that the US efforts be "specific and measurable."  Since the US is broke, BO doesn't say exactly how he'll pay for all this. 

The UN resolution would, if adopted, commit nations to banning small arms and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention of Biological Diversity, the Convention an the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the Millennium Project confirms the UN plan is to force the US to add about sixty-five billion dollars a year to what the US already donates.  Sachs says the only way to raise the funding is through a "global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels."  This would amount to a tax of from thirty-five cents to a dollar a gallon on gasoline in the US.

It seems that BO wants the US to fund the world.  He won't eliminate poverty, though, he'll simply expand it to include the United States.  Think how pleased you will be to have the United Nations tell you your gun ownership is now illegal because the world requires it.  Think how you will be pleased that the UN will be telling you how to raise your kids.  And remember, this is a priority project of Barack Hussein Obama, our newly elected messiah. 

Let the flames begin!

Bill Kennedy wants the United Nations to take over the government of the world. He doesn't say what that would do to the United States and IT'S government.  I'm not sure exactly WHY Kennedy would want the United States to surrender soverignty to the UN but that's what he wants. 

Bill, if we were to do that, what would you say to the ghosts of the Founding Fathers who were willing to hang together so they would not have to hang separately.  How would reconcile the U.S. Constitution with the UN charter?  Would you pledge alliegence to the UN?  I guess the hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave the last full measure for liberty in this great land died for nothing.  If we surrender our government to the UN, that's what we're saying.  I think it's treasonous for anyone to suggest submitting to the UN and a One World Government. 

Not only no, but HELL NO!

I saw this story on the internet and it reminded of some discussions on this forum last week.  I'm not sure just how I feel about it.  My Liberterian core says it's not a good idea, but I also understand that local law enforcement can be, and sometimes is, overwhelmed. 

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