THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 147, June 20, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AM I BORING YOU?
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & ITS DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT RADICAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, REPLACING
FREE MARKET CAPITALISM WITH STATISM & SOCIALISM & REPLACING THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF CHECKS &
BALANCES WITH MAJORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP: THE U.S. WHITE HOUSE & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, IN LEAGUE
WITH THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, SEEKING ENACTMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL REGULATORY & TAX
LEGISLATION THAT WOULD RESTRICT ENERGY USE & SEVERELY DAMAGE THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- SWALLOWING THE
PROPAGANDA OF GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS -- SEEKING THE ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF U.S. ENERGY
POLICY BASED ON THE LIES DISSEMINATED BY POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS
FULL STORY:
Years ago, beginning around 1984, I became “famous” as the creator of The Boring Institute, a media spoof that literally
garnered international attention for its annual list of “The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year.” Until around 2002, I
averaged a thousand radio shows and television appearances as the result of the Institute’s spoofs.
Along the way, I became an expert on the subject of boredom and was astounded at the links between boredom and
many social problems. It is a frequent factor in various addictions, in crime, as a reason why children drop out of school,
why marriages fail, and a host of other problems in people’s lives. It can be an indicator of depression.
You can criticize people in many ways, but telling them they’re boring are fighting words.
We spend a lot of time avoiding boredom because it is such a constant factor in our lives. Watching television is, for the
most part, boredom avoidance. Almost anything that does not require us to actively use our brains falls into this
category. Thinking is scary.
So, because I tend to write about certain topics and am increasingly convinced that Barack Hussein Obama is just about
the worse thing to happen to this nation since the horrid Jimmy Carter, my question is — am I boring you?
Because, if I am, I suspect a lot of other people are bored as well, and I suspect that they are the people who voted for
Barack Obama. One wag suggested his campaign motto was “This is a great nation, and I am going to change all that.”
The rate of change occurring since Obama took the Presidential Oath of Office in January, 2009, has been astonishing, and it
has been bad for America in almost every way. This determined effort to introduce changes swiftly suggests that, if
given the normal discussion and debate, most, if not all, would have been rejected. Given a rubber stamp Democratic
Party-controlled Congress, however, Obama knows he has a small window of opportunity in which to enact changes
that essentially seek to replace capitalism with statism and socialism.
Writing a daily blog as I do, I find myself forced to return to certain themes, not the least of which is the fact that there is
no “global warming,” as in a sudden, dramatic warming of the Earth, because the Earth, in fact, has been experiencing a
cooling cycle for the past decade.
The repetition of this simple truth is a response to the daily torrent of lies being put forth from the White House, the
Congress, government agencies, some corporations and the countless environmentalist organizations, all seeking
damaging legislation such as “Cap and Trade,” entirely based on lies about “climate change.”
Chief among the lies is that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a “pollutant” responsible for the non-existent “global warming” when,
in fact, it plays no role whatever in climate change, except to show up in larger quantities hundreds of years after a period
of warming.
Imposing limits on CO2 emissions, resulting from of the use of all forms of energy, would raise the cost of everything our
economy depends upon to produce goods, to transport them, and to use them. The Big Lie that carbon is a threat to all life
on Earth ignores the fact that all life on Earth is based on carbon, including human beings.
Boredom is often a response to too much information. The vast machinery of media in America continues to repeat the lies
about the environment and, as a result, people “tune out” much of it or uncritically accept it. Recent surveys by all the
leading polling organizations demonstrate, however, that most Americans have concluded there is no global warming,
rating it last among their concerns.
Recessions are known to last about 18 months and we are approaching that time limit. That suggests America will begin to
emerge from this latest recession, the result of the “housing bubble” that burst, but most Americans are still unaware that
it was caused by federal government intervention into the housing market by requiring banks and mortgage loan firms to
make loans to people who were clearly unable to repay them.
Similarly, government intervention in the automotive market has been part of the cause for the collapse of General Motors
and Chrysler by imposing mandates that increased cost, altered design and engineering. The Obama administration just
imposed new, higher mileage requirements at the same time as it has interfered in the normal process of bankruptcy,
providing taxpayer’s billions to these two companies, government loans that are not likely to ever be repaid.
These unconstitutional actions require a daily response, but that, in turn, leaves many Americans confused and inclined to
leave such matters to Congress. They have grown bored with the complexity of the issues. So Congress is able to pass
legislation involving hundreds of pages that even its members do not read before voting.
A government calling for “energy independence,” while shutting off access to the nation’s own vast reserves of coal, oil
and natural gas, is engaged in a vast deception.
A government imposing baseless “global warming” taxes is impoverishing Americans, denying them the capital necessary
not just for ordinary expenses, but vital for the growth of our economy.
Our system of government was designed to slow the process by which laws are passed. Government by crisis is an open
door to deception and the destruction of the protections the Constitution extends to every citizen. When there are no
“checks and balances,” everyone is at risk, as sacred concepts of private property and contractual law are thrown
overboard.
Thus, writers like myself and many others face the prospect that our warnings are ignored by a public grown bored with
the many weighty issues that will determine whether the nation emerges from its current economic woes and whether
issues such as national security and even national sovereignty are cast aside.
Americans cannot afford to be bored by such matters.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & OTHER POLITICAL REGIMES
Modern Constitutional Democracy:
Fundamental Character & Essential Ingredients
Constitutionalism: The First Essential Ingredient
of Modern Constitutional Democracy
Dictatorship: The Opposite of Constitutionalism
Representative Democracy: The Second Essential Ingredient
of Modern Constitutional Democracy
Direct Democracy & Representative Democracy
Political Culture & Modern Constitutional Democracy
Modern Constitutional Democracy:
Summary & Conclusion
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THE AMERICAN POLITICAL REGIME
American Government -- Constitutional System
The Constitution of the United States of America
The American Political System -- Politics &
Government in the U.S.A.: Political Science Course
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
English Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
Colonial & Early American Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- Ratification & Adoption
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- The Scheme of National Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Constitutionalism, Republicanism, Separation of Powers,
Checks & Balances, Legislative Bicameralism,
& Balanced Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Federalism -- Fedural Union of States
The U.S. Constitution -- Underlying Political Theory:
The Federalist -- Selected Essays
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary,
"Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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