Global what?

Dear Ms. Elperin:

I’m sorry to see that you’ve joined so many of your colleagues in the elite, formerly mainstream, media in succumbing to the global warming hysteria. You’re obviously too young to remember that only 30 years ago this same lunatic fringe was warning us of the coming cataclysmic consequences of global cooling. See the attached Newsweek reprint of some whacko environmental group using the same scare tactic language of today’s global warming alarmists. The ten-year figure seems to be one of their favorites. I must have been out of town for the great famine of 1985! Today’s lunatics are using the current hurricane cycle to “prove” their global warming THEORY. In 1975 it was the “most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded.”

Juliet, the earth has been here, by many accounts, in the BILLIONS of years, yet the environmental lunatics want to take a 10-50 year period, a veritable millisecond or less to expound on some moronic doomsday theory. We keep hearing that the earth has cooled a degree or so in the last hundred years. Please tell me that those people 100 years ago, with no indoor plumbing, somehow figured out the accurate temperature of the earth. Give me a break. Also attached is an AP article concerning the greatest mass extinction in the history of our earth. The extinction was caused, they say by global warming. Must have been all those internal combustion engines, Freon using air conditioners, and aerosol hair spray! Gee, I hate to break it to you, but global warming then was not, and is not today, caused by man. The absolute arrogance that we insignificant creatures can affect nature is simply laughable.

Did you see the devastation caused by the Mt. St Helens eruption? It looked like the surface of the moon. How many years, would it take all of the autos in Washington State, driving 24 hours a day to spew as many pollutants into the air than that one eruption did in a few hours? The place looked like the surface of the moon. Today, if one didn’t know, there would be no way of knowing what happened. Did After Disaster clean up the place, including the atmosphere? No, nature took care of itself as it always does after every natural disaster, such as volcanoes, and man made disasters such as atomic testing at the Bikini Atoll in the 1940’s. Remember all the stories of how long many of the atomic/nuclear substance would take to dissipate? In the hundreds of years, yet some 60 years later the Atoll is almost back to pre-testing conditions. Nature revitalizing itself with no help from pipsqueak man!

I don’t understand how seemingly intelligent people are so short sited. Well, I do understand. These issues have become cause Celebes’ issues with the left. Global warming, drilling in ANWAR, Tookie Williams, Roger Coleman, Alar, DDT, and volumes more. ANWAR is another beauty. The same loons who warned of the destruction of Alaska, and the Caribou herd, over 6 months supply of oil from Prudhoe Bay, are now saying exactly the same things about drilling in ANWAR. The 6-month supply is now 20-30 years ongoing. The caribou, rather than being wiped out have increased 6 fold. I really don’t understand how these loons with such a horrendous track record are still taken seriously. Well, outside your circles, they’re not! If you are serious about being a journalist, you might want to look beyond the usual suspects for your information.

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

January 30, 2006

Black sheep liberals

Not only are today’s liberals, led by Congressional Democrats, descendents of Satan, they are the black sheep of the family. Their most admired “dissident,” Osama B Laden while reciting the Dems talking points, also thanked them for their continued support. Saying that he also hates W., he will continue to help them to bring down the Bush presidency, and if necessary, the country. He agreed with the Dems that it is foolishness to waste so much time fighting terrorism when protecting abortion is the major issue of the day, particularly with the right-wing, extremist judge Altio about to be confirmed.

B. Laden particularly praised Senator Reid for killing, the Patriot Act that has been a real thorn in Osama’s side.

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

January 27, 2006

Tax-o-crats

I’m flabbergasted that the people of this state continue to elect arrogant, tax happy Democrats. Ironically, those most adversely affected by these mostly regressive taxes are lower income, and middle class workers, the very groups theTax-o-crats claim they care about. Our New Year’s presents from the Tax-o-crats are a 40 percent increase for license tag renewal, a 40 percent increase in cable taxes, and another 15 percent increase in gasoline taxes. Who among you have gotten a 15-40 percent pay raise lately? We now pay higher gas taxes than all but two states. We are the highest taxed of the twelve Southern states, and the only one controlled by the Tax-o-crats. When some sensible legislators argued to rescind the increase the Tax-o-crat governor said the 15 percent increase was “insignificant” and the people wouldn’t even notice. Isn’t this the same tax happy governor who was cited for using the state helicopter for personal use?

We were told that the high gas taxes are necessary to build and repair roads. If so, why have the Tax-o-crat thieves taken millions from the highway fund to use for other purposes? How do the 48 other states with lower gasoline taxes build and maintain roads? How do Texas and Florida, among others, with lower gas taxes, and no state income tax build and maintain roads? I’m looking for the study that shows North Carolina to have one of the best highway systems in the country, as opposed to only one of the most expensive. Thanks to the Tax-o-crats we are in the top quarter of states in taxes, but in the bottom quarter in wages. Even other tax happy Tax-o-crat controlled states like New York or New Jersey don’t tax food. Pennsylvania doesn’t tax food or clothing. It’s time to vote your pocketbook!

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

January 6, 2006

Democrats endangered nation’s security

Never has there been a period in our history when having two, vibrant political parties was more critical to our security, and our economic survival. The Republicans, in control of the congress for 10 years now, are succumbing to the thirst for power, and the corruption that we saw from the Democrats when they had been in control for an extended period of time. The Republicans have learned that the way to keep power is to dole out taxpayer money in massive amounts whether needed or not. The Republicans, presumably the party of small government and fiscal responsibility, have given us bigger government, and even more wasteful spending than had the Democrats during their own reign of horror. The Republicans, after years of acting as the Democrats are now acting, came up a positive agenda, a “Contract for America.”

Unfortunately the Democrats have become an idealess, morally bankrupt whose only issue today is making certain that abortion on demand, the wanton slaughter of millions of innocent, unborn children. The Democrats have recently bragged that they have endangered our nation’s security by killing the Patriot Act, and bragged that they killed Social Security reform. Either they have forgotten 9/11, or that there have been no attacks here since. I don’t think the terrorists have called a truce. Do you think perhaps the Patriot Act might have disrupted the terrorists? Yet the Democrats called a press conference to gloat about their bringing down this legislation so necessary to fighting terrorism.

This same decaying party, despite an ever increasing, untenable, national debt, caused in large part by an explosion in entitlement spending, bragged about defeating Social Security reform. They love to tell us because we have spent 350 billion thus far in Iraq, we can’t meet our obligations here. They don’t tell us that in one year we spend 950 billion on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

January 2, 2006