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		<title>Social vs. Search Dominance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may have seen where I have <a href="http://paulmccord.net/2010/05/31/balanced-tech-advice/">written several posts about how the technology</a> journalist community are all from the same place and have the same thoughts.&#160; This has happened again about how they are all saying that <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> will take over <a href="http://www.google.com">Google,</a> <a href="http://www.bing.com">Bing</a>, <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> as the source for search.&#160; I have to laugh when I read these types of stories because it will never happen.&#160; The interesting part of these types of stories are how wide spread this sort of talk becomes in the tech community despite there being no evidence whatsoever.&#160;&#160; The premise is that people think that social networking is going to become so wide spread that people will get their information through Facebook rather than to go search for it on a search engine.</p>
<p>This may be likely if you are one of those celebrity worshipers that have nothing better to do than to sit around and watch awards shows and discuss gossip.&#160; A social network may be a source for creating buzz about a topic to make someone go to a search engine&#160; to find out the truth.&#160;&#160;&#160; If I want to know about a historical event, I certainly would not go to the local beauty shop where a bunch of “old bitties” are sitting around gossiping about it.&#160; That is the type of environment you get in a social network.&#160; There may be tidbits of truth in the gossip but certainly not correct factual information in a timely manner. </p>
<p>For the rest of us, we want facts not gossip.&#160; If I want to know something, I will search for it. Most people have learned the skill of searching on a search engine and weeding through the mess.&#160; It becomes second nature to search specific, then broad, and then get a little more specific with each successive search.&#160; Going into a social networking site to find relevant facts would be similar to going into the hen house with Miss Prissy in the old Looney Tunes cartoons.&#160; In the cartoon it shows many hens sitting on their eggs gossiping about everything.&#160; It is possible that I am wrong and just do not get it but I doubt that.</p>
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<p>I think that search engines are safe in their positions as being the central point for finding things online.&#160;&#160; Social networks will continue to be the place where people share pictures, gossip, and discuss politics.&#160; I do not see it being a source for a person on a fact finding mission.&#160; Of course you have those that do not think with their heads and are more into feel good information.&#160; These people may be perfectly content going to the beauty shop to study for a test.&#160; Anyone that has been to college knows that places like Wikipedia are off limits as being sources in a paper.&#160; It is not that Wikipedia is not accurate but that since many of their sources are not peer reviewed, they could be seen as not credible.&#160; Of course in some cases they are not accurate.&#160; This same idea could be said about social networking sites.&#160; They are fun to talk about things but not where a person would go to find out credible information on a serious subject.&#160; Again, this is my opinion but I feel very secure in this opinion.&#160; I do not think that technology has reached the point of being able to cipher fact from fiction in gossip.&#160; Maybe one day but not anytime soon.</p>
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		<title>False Science of Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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<p>I don’t know about you but I am just about fed up with this whole man is destroying the earth mantra from the left wing whackos.&#160; Lately we have been making jokes and poking fun at them by showing all these snow storms and asking them where the global warming was.&#160; These people have swallowed the pill and are so caught up in this fraud that they are actually arguing with us on this point.&#160; They are saying that we are just missing the big picture and short sided to think that any cold snap would be relevant.&#160; To them global warming is something that is measured over decades and cannot be compared with one winter.&#160; To them it is easy to say that all these record snow falls are another example of global warming.</p>
<p>These people refer to people like myself as deniers.&#160; They see us as those who ignore the factual evidence and say that global warming is not true.&#160; I say show us the proof.&#160; They blindly follow this global warming argument with zero evidence.&#160; Some guy produces a hockey stick chart that is never proven and they just soak it up.&#160; They think that this one leaked email scandal in England has convinced us that it is bad science.&#160; They are wrong again.&#160; We never believed in man made global warming, global cooling, or climate change even for one minute.&#160; The leaked email scandal was just one more piece of evidence to validate something that we already believed.&#160; Let us clarify something right here.&#160; There is no man made climate change at all.&#160; Zero!&#160; This movement is created by those that have a socialist agenda.&#160; You have heard the saying “follow the money”.&#160; This applies in this case as well.</p>
<p>Please do not listen to me.&#160; Pay attention to those making this argument and look at the common denominator.&#160; The ones that are advocating global warming are the same ones that are advocating the governmental takeover of industries, healthcare, and the economy as a whole.&#160; The people that were protesting in the streets against the establishment in the 1960’s are those that are in control.&#160; These people were crazy then and they continue to be crazy.&#160; These people are so caught up in this save the world mantra that they cannot even see common sense.&#160; They see capitalism as evil and unfair.&#160; They fail to see that power has the potential to corrupt anyone whether they work for a corporation or the government.&#160; They do not see that government has just as much corruption as those in corporations except that the government has more power over them.&#160;&#160; Their blinded hatred toward capitalism has kept them from seeing that their beloved government is even worse.&#160; Look at history and you will see that every government that has tried socialism has either failed or failing.&#160; They use global warming as a tool to scare those skeptics of socialism to believe that corporations are destroying the earth.&#160; They want to convince people to give up their rights to the government so that evil corporations can be punished.</p>
<p>Global warming is 100% fabrications and has no evidence whatsoever.&#160; They prey on the conspiracy theorists that hang out at Roswell, New Mexico and Area 51.&#160; I know you have seen them.&#160; They are the UFO believers and Elvis is still alive groups.&#160; They are Big Foot and Locknesse Monster types.&#160; They are in your neighborhood and mine.&#160; They like to point out crazies that shoot abortion doctors and say this is how Christians are.&#160; They use these crazies to label the whole group.&#160; They are bullies that try to label you as a hate monger if you dare disagree with them at all. In the 1960’s they were bullies and they still are.&#160; They are now media executives and school administrators.&#160; They are idiots pure and simple.&#160; </p>
<p>Weather forecasting on a global scale has not even been possible until two decades ago so there is no way they could get long term forecasts and historic temperatures to measure against even if they wanted to.&#160; Since climate change is not a legitimate science but rather a fabricated left wing tool, it cannot be taken seriously anyway.&#160; They try to bully people by saying “The debate is over” in an attempt to silence the debate.&#160; One thing that the email scandal did validate with me is that these groups that are in charge actively suppress any scientist that would dare question this false science.&#160; I can think of an example of this.&#160; A couple years ago there was a guy that was actually <a href="http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=650">advocating taking away the credentials of any meteorologist that would not preach global warming</a>.&#160; If you follow the link <a href="http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=650">http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=650</a>, you can read about it.&#160; These global warming people are actively fabricating a lie and threatening to take away the credentials of anyone who dare disagree with them.&#160; This is more evidence of their disdain for freedom.&#160; Let us not forget that their beloved socialism was the title given to the former Soviet Union.&#160; You may remember the biggest bullies of them all called the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR).</p>
<p>Just as <a href="http://paulmccord.net/2009/10/12/global-warming-hoax/">I posted a few months ago</a>, these people are opposed to the true Democratic free market society and this is the motivation behind their lies.&#160; Also as I pointed out in that post, that they forget that many of us are old enough to remember the 1970’s when the same crowd was talking about global cooling.&#160; They manipulate natural weather patterns to scare people that are too young to remember that a severe weather event is not the first time it has happened.&#160; I know many of you have watched the national news in the United States after any natural disaster.&#160; They find people in the streets that have no clue and ask them what they think about this event that has never happened before.&#160; They talk about how the frequency of heavy rains, heavy snows, hurricanes, or even earth quakes are a result of man made climate change.&#160; They have discovered something about human nature that works for them.&#160; That human nature is to be lazy and not question those in authority.&#160; The media places themselves as authority figures and repeat the same lie over and over again.&#160; If they say it enough times, people are lazy and just accept it as truth.&#160; The real truth is that there is no such thing as man made climate change whether it be cooling, or warming.&#160; </p>
<p>The world is being duped and the media follows right along.&#160;&#160; This is because those crazies you saw at Woodstock of the 1960’s are now in control.&#160; They are just as crazy now as they were then.&#160; They are just as much a bully now as they were then.&#160; Wake up people and stop listening to anyone at face value.&#160; Do some research from both sides of any argument and understand that people are self driven.&#160; It is human nature to do things for one’s self and those that are in power are no different.&#160; They know that in any society you are going to have self starters, workers, and lazy people.&#160; It is easier to fall into the lazy category.&#160; They drive people there by inundating us with negative stories on the news every single day to a point that people become numb to it.&#160; Eventually people become so overwhelmed that they do not feel they have time to research things.&#160; They just sit there and listen to what the media tells them not questioning it for a moment.&#160; Stop being lazy and get off your lazy butts and learn something.&#160; Learning is not just listening to someone else.&#160; Learning is listening to an argument with a critical mind.&#160; Learning is questioning what you hear and finding out the truth.&#160; Learning is finding out from many sources and not just one.&#160; You cannot just listen to broadcast media and be educated.&#160; You have to listen to them and listen to those disagreeing.&#160; You have to listen to many sides to the argument and come to your own conclusions.&#160; Do not just listen to me, ABC, CBS, or NBC.&#160; I am biased and I will tell you so.&#160; These guys are biased and will not tell you so.&#160; That is why you have to question both of us.&#160; Learn the truth and not be ignorant.&#160; If you believe this global warming scare then you are not truly learning because I can assure you that there is zero true evidence to back this theory up.&#160; Thanks for listening to my rant this morning.&#160; </p>
<p>Happy Valentines Day!</p>
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		<title>Climate Change Needs to Hurry Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last ten years or so we have been listening to everyone in the media telling us about the impending doom of global warming.&#160; Around 1999 the temperatures started dropping and they were left with nothing to stand on.&#160; As time has passed these people have slowly begun to use the word climate change since there is zero proof that the earth is warming any more than normal heating and cooling cycles.&#160; As is well known by those that are actually paying attention to the biggest scam the world has ever known the warmest year on record was 1998.&#160; This whole global warming scam is actually comprised of three groups of people. One group is those that worship the Earth.&#160; This group is the ones that worship the Earth as was forecasted by the Bible.&#160; </p>
<blockquote><p>Romans 1:25…</p>
<p>Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.</p>
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<p>These people see the Earth as a being that must be protected.&#160; This god’s power is only surpassed by the humans god.&#160; They worship this being as being the sole source of life with limited resources.&#160; They see humanity as destroying this being.&#160; They see the world as green and feel that we have a duty to worship and protect this Earth.</p>
<p>The second group of people are socialists that are vehemently opposed to socialism.&#160; These people see global warming/climate change as a tool that can be used to rid the world of capitalism by accusing the industrialized world of polluting the planet.&#160; If they can successfully convince the majority of people that private business is corrupt and greedy then maybe they can convince the public that the government needs to step in and regulate business to a point that government controls business.&#160; By definition, Socialism is where the government is in control of financial and natural resources.&#160; In this imagined utopia everyone is equal and the rich cannot take advantage of the poor.&#160; This philosophy is failed because it ignores the fact that it is not capitalism that is corrupt but humanity itself.&#160; The same humans that are involved in corporate scandals are involved in government scandal.&#160; The only difference is that government corruption has no recourse for the citizens of the country to counter it.</p>
<p>The third group of people are those that are ignorant and partisan.&#160; These people have been raised in areas where their family voted for a party so they are going to do it too.&#160; These people spend zero time questioning their leader’s motives.&#160; They watch the news and take it all in with ignorance as though everything they hear on television is fact.&#160; They are oblivious to the idea that there are people in the media and politics that have agendas that shape their policies.&#160; These people when asked what specific policy of their political leader they support the most cannot even name one.&#160; A large portion of Obama and Bush supporters fall into this category.&#160; Those on the liberal side follow ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, and&#160; CNN as gospel.&#160; In their eyes Foxnews and Rush Limbaugh are the most evil people around.&#160; They believe that government is best suited to run the social affairs of the country.</p>
<p>On the conservative side these people think that ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, and CNN are political tools of the liberal side.&#160; I happen to agree with them in this regard.&#160; They see Foxnews as the only media outlet that is balanced.&#160; They see Ronald Reagan as their political hero.&#160; I agree with them on this one as well with the exception of his arms trade mistake.&#160; The climate change movement is nothing new as there is evidence of their existence since the 1970’s with their global cooling scare tactics.&#160; Back then it was the same people claiming that humanity was destroying the environment that will inevitably result in a new ice age.&#160; I remember this indoctrination in elementary, middle school and high school.&#160; I thought it had gone a way until I started hearing about global warming in the 1990’s.&#160; If&#160; you think I am just making this up, do some homework and learn about these people.</p>
<p>There is a fourth group of people responsible for this and it is “The world owes me” group. These are the ones that are very similar to the union group in that they are lazy and feel that their hardships are someone else’s fault.&#160; They feel that they have been unjustly put upon and the American taxpayer owes them a free hand out.&#160; Many of the groups listed above fall into this category.&#160; The problem with these people is that they do not understand that the government has zero money.&#160; The government takes money from other people to support these people.&#160; Unfortunately this lifestyle eventually becomes so oppressive to the few workers that are left that there are not enough resources to support the ever growing lazy population.</p>
<p>You will find a clear link between those that are socialist in their beliefs and those that are claiming climate change.&#160; It is still not considered acceptable for people to admit they are socialist and in fact many of them do not even think they are.&#160; Their ideology is clear but they do not like to be called Socialists.&#160;&#160; I mean socialism as defined by <a href="http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=socialism">Wordnet</a> search meaning “a political theory advocating state ownership of industry”&#160; The Democrats have become a party of Socialism in this regard.&#160; They are comprised of many different disgruntled groups of people such as the labor unions (AFL-CIO), elderly (AARP), minority groups (NAACP), homosexual rights, the poor to name a few.&#160; These groups have one thing in common and that is “worry”.&#160; They are various groups that are worried that someone is trying to take something from them whether it be their rights, possessions.&#160; Their leaders have done a very good job in placing blame upon the Republican party.&#160; The Democrat leadership have portrayed themselves as the savior against this enemy.&#160; They galvanize these groups of people by portraying the Republican party as the sole source of their worries.&#160; This tactic has been so successful that even the Republicans have begun to do this.</p>
<p>The Republican party has given up on their ideology of conservatism because they have discovered how successful the Democrats have been.&#160; The Republican party has found refuge by many “other” disgruntled groups such as the gun rights, illegal immigration crowd, and Christians.&#160; The Republican party has a poor track record of effectively representing these groups the way they say.&#160; They use these groups to gain power just like the Democrats though they never follow through on these promises.&#160; They have shown themselves non trustworthy because they never do what they say.&#160; Since the main stream media are active participants in this Democrat versus Republican game, they will portray the Republicans as right wing extremists all the while the conservatives are scratching their heads trying to find out where these extremists are.&#160; For example the media portrayed George W. Bush as a right wing extremist while his constituency was being disappointed by his liberal spending.&#160;&#160; George W. Bush was anything but a right wing extremist.</p>
<p>The moral of the story on all this is that Democrats falsely claim climate change to advance their socialist agenda&#160; while the Republicans deceive their constituency to stay in power.&#160; For this reason, the conservatives stayed home in 2008 giving Barack Obama a commanding lead in the election.&#160; For this reason he feels emboldened to advance his socialist agenda while the conservatives are fed up with their lying leaders.&#160; The climate change is just one of many tools the Democrats/Socialists use to give the government more power over individual rights.&#160; Homeland security is just one of many tools the Republican leadership uses to do the same thing.&#160; The way I see it is that Democrats are just plain evil and Republicans are just plain useless.&#160; </p>
<p>So as we freeze to death on one of the coldest winters in decades you can blame it on global warming.&#160; That makes as much sense as putting some water on the stove to make ice cubes.&#160; You and I are being played by both parties.&#160; The Democrats are the ones feeding us this lie called global warming while the Republicans are too busy selling us out.&#160; The sad thing about all this is that the third group I mentioned above are becoming the minority.&#160; Those that will sit in their comfortable chairs and take the news reports as gospel without ever questioning their accuracy will continue to soak in the lies.&#160; The people need to wake up and realize that both parties are playing them.&#160; Neither party has the best interest of the people at heart.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sure that by now you have heard about the fraud that is global warming being exposed last week.&#160; Apparently someone has reportedly hacked into the <a href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/">Climate Research Unit</a> (CRU) at the University of <a href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/">East Anglia in England</a>. The CRU is the central focal point that is quoted from those advocating the theory of global warming.&#160; This alleged computer hack resulted in the release of thousands of private emails between scientists out to the public.&#160; Among these emails were the admission that the earth’s temperature is not climbing and “this is a travesty”.&#160; They also admit doing a trick to add the “actual” temperatures to show a rise in temperatures when there really is not.&#160; Also they discuss suppressing those scientists of opposing views from the peer review process.&#160; In other words, the so called “consensus” of global warming is not a consensus at all.&#160; The truth is that any scientist that disagrees with the global warming theory is not only ignored but denied publication in peer reviewed journals.</p>
<p> Of course the CRU is denying these reports though they admit the hacked emails are legitimate.&#160; They portray this whole thing as a misunderstanding and that the opposition is selectively posting emails out of context to deny global warming.&#160; They will not admit what others can see clearly and no one really expects them to because those with their eyes open know that global warming is really a political tool rather than actual science.&#160; It is easy to see a trend among those that preach the global warming scare and that is that most of them are anti-capitalism. The alternative to capitalism is socialism.&#160; Those that are advocates of the global warming theory are usually quick to point out that it is the industrialized nations, particularly the United States that are responsible for this fabricated crisis.&#160; </p>
<p>It is not very popular to claim socialism as a preferred political system in the open so they are using environmentalism to get the same results.&#160; If the Socialists cannot get people to simply turn over their rights, money and power over to the government, they will create a crisis to scare the public. This created crisis is “man-made global warming”.&#160; If they can get politicians to buy into this fraud then we will see more restrictive legislation coming from Washington all in the name of saving the environment.&#160; The context of this legislation taking your rights away will be to save you from yourself.&#160;&#160; This socialist way of doing things is very popular among the American Democrats in Washington.&#160; When I speak of socialism, I define it by meaning the government owns the money, infrastructure, and the financial systems rather than the private sector.&#160; The Democrats have invested a lot of energy painting the private sector as being greedy and unfair to the poor.&#160; </p>
<p>The Democrats have done a very good job of portraying private business owners as dishonest, cheating tax evaders.&#160;&#160; The agenda in all of this is to place themselves as saviors and come to the rescue of this perceived enemy called capitalism.&#160; Their solution to the problems is to take away the freedoms of the capitalists and turn it over to the government in an attempt to “over-see” in a regulatory way.&#160; They intend on making the government the steward over all of the financial and environmental resources.&#160; Unfortunately they forget that the same dishonesty that created problems in the private sector also occupy the halls in Washington.&#160; The only difference is that in the government there is no accountability.&#160; </p>
<p>I know what many are saying with this statement.&#160; Many are saying that our three branches of government are the best source of checks and balances available.&#160; That is not always the case anymore with the hostile political climate where the two parties are always at each other’s throats trying to bring the other side down.&#160; They appoint activist judges sympathetic to their points of view.&#160; The three branches of government often become accomplices of each other’s indiscretions.&#160; The problem with this is that once the government takes a freedom, it is lost forever.&#160; Once the government takes money, it is lost forever.&#160; For all the arguments that can be made against capitalism, there are no other examples of long term successes that any other type of government has had that have resulted in the overall affluence that capitalism has.</p>
<p>These people believe deep down that government has the responsibility to help the people despite the fact that the only way the government can help is to take away from someone else.&#160; They believe that government can and must be the steward of the resources in the country.&#160; By creating this theory of global warming they can scare enough people to buy into it and willingly give up freedoms all in the name of security.&#160; Unfortunately&#160; they do not see how human nature seeks power and greed and once given this power, they never give it back.&#160; There is no empire that has lasted forever and ours will not either.&#160; By strengthening the government and weakening its citizens, the country that we love so much is inevitable to fail.&#160; The one thing that has kept this nation strong is the freedoms and ability of its citizens to succeed on their own works.&#160; Once the government takes that away, there is no incentive for creativity.&#160; </p>
<p>Again, the purpose of the global warming scare is to convince more people and legislators to enact laws that will give the government more power and control in the name of environmentalism.&#160; It is a tool that is used to convert a capitalist nation into a socialist one.&#160; As you may remember, on <a href="http://paulmccord.net/2009/10/12/global-warming-hoax/">October 12th, 2009 I posted a story</a> about how in the 1970’s and 1980’s the same people were preaching about a coming ice age and how our very existence depended upon immediate action to turn around “man-made global cooling”.&#160; </p>
<p>With the release of this information from the CRU, you would think the media and the government would be all over this story to expose how the nations of the world have been victims of a hoax.&#160; This hoax has resulted in legislative decisions that have cost the world billions of dollars.&#160; They have been teaching our young children this lie for years.&#160; It is no surprise that our beloved media and government keeps their head in the sand and does their best to play it down.&#160; Those that have taken notice at all have taken the point of view that the hacker is the one that needs to be punished.&#160; There is still no public evidence that it was a hacker at all.&#160; For all we know, it was an insider that saw the fraud that was going on and publicized it as a “whistle blower”.&#160;&#160; For all we know, this inside job was falsely reported as a hacker because they did not want to lose their job as a whistle blower.</p>
<p>Usually the media promotes whistle blowers and advocates their protection to prevent corruption in companies.&#160; Unfortunately this time the media is advocating punishing the whistle blower and we are left to ask why.&#160; The only reasonable conclusion that I can come up with is that the media agrees with this fraud and wants to down play it.&#160; The American media has long been an advocate of socialism and the Democrats and this is no secret.&#160; If this fraudulent crisis had been an opposing view of their own, they would be demanding legal action and Congressional hearings.&#160; Instead we get a non questioned repeat of statements from the CRU and that this email scandal will not be a hindrance to global warming legislation.&#160; The blatant bias and cover up mentality of the American media is absolutely amazing.&#160; I have long known they have no integrity and expected this type of behavior.&#160; Now the media has become so biased that they do not even attempt a pretense of objectivity.&#160; Even I am amazed at how blatant they are.</p>
<p>Anyone that would even dare to speak a different perspective is denounced as a political tool of the Republican party.&#160; Never in my lifetime have I seen political leaders and major media outlets target another network for speaking opposing views like they have against Fox News.&#160; It is as though the political climate has become so hostile that we cannot even have a good natured debate on issues.&#160; This is why I think that both major political parties should be disbanded.&#160; The people of this nation have become so galvanized against the other side that neither can have an honest discussion.&#160; The Supreme Court, and the scientific community are no exceptions to this hostility.</p>
<p>Watch the news carefully and see how despite these corrupt scientist’s own words being released how they go into cover up mode.&#160; Watch how they ignore clear evidence because it is counter to their own agenda.&#160; They still sound the alarm of a non existent crisis despite clear evidence to the contrary.&#160; For the record, I have no opinion on this <img src='http://paulmccord.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
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		<title>NEWS: You Are Going to Die!</title>
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<p>This just in…&#160; You are going to die!&#160; The H1N1, Swine Flu is taking over the world and you have less than a zero chance of survival.&#160; Hug your children and bow before the great Obama for your healing.&#160; The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that one out of every one people will contract this deadly disease and will likely suffer a slow and painful death.&#160; There is no hope and you are going to suffer miserably.&#160; Let’s go to our Washington correspondent for an update on how things are in the nations capital.</p>
<p>Thank you Bob…&#160; The scenes in the nations capital are grim and likely to get worse.&#160; This disease has shown itself to be racist and homophobic while black homosexuals seem to be the most affected.&#160; Stop for&#160; moment and realize that if our legislators had shown courage early and passed hate crimes legislation, this would never have happened.&#160; It is bad enough that these individuals are suffering but to know that because of the color of their skin and their sexual orientation they are being piled upon making this even worse. The world is an evil place Bob and I am afraid that anarchy is not a strong enough word to describe the pandemonium that has ensued upon our nations capital.&#160; Back to you Bob…</p>
<p>Thanks Eugene…&#160; It is a site that we have not seen since the Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994.&#160; With that, I would like to see how Frank is holding up in Massachusetts.&#160; Frank… how are things in the nations birth place?&#160; Eugene, I am afraid that it is worse than ever.&#160; Barney Frank, our senator has been attacked for his sexual orientation but because he is not black, he has been spared the worst of it.&#160; There are people dying in the streets like cock roaches.&#160; I cannot stress enough that your child may be at risk.&#160; In all my years of journalism I have never been exposed to such horror since Ronald Reagan won the presidency with 49 states.&#160; I feel tears bubbling up… Back to you Eugene…</p>
<p>Frank…why did you have to mention Ronald Reagan?&#160; Now I have tears in my eyes.&#160; Pull yourself together and get a tissue! Cough Cough…&#160; Onto another story…&#160; It has been discovered that gun owners and pro lifers seem to be healthier than others.&#160; Word has been floating around certain circles that it is in fact conservatives that are spreading this disease.&#160; We are just reporting the news and have no agenda at all.&#160; To recap on tonight’s story, if you are a non conservative, black homosexual, or any other minority, you are going to die a slow death from a disease perpetrated by conservatives.&#160; We report, you decide.&#160; Now onto more positive news.&#160; You are going to die from H1N1 because white heterosexual males are hiding tens of millions of vaccines. There is no hope and you are going to die.</p>
<p>Ha ha ha ha ha…&#160; Now over to meteorologist Benjamin Netanyahu…&#160; Thank you Eugene… There seems to be a storm that is approaching that will kill millions of Arabic people.&#160; This storm has been responsible for the deaths of nearly every Arabic person as it approached the Seattle area.&#160; This mysterious storm seems to be killing its victims by surgically striking them with lightning.&#160; On a given street full of white males and two Arabic people, it seems that both Arabs are likely to be hit while the white males are spared.&#160; Women and children, and the elderly seem to be the most affected.&#160; It is a sad sight seeing the dead being brought out of their homes especially while their white neighbors are sitting comfortably on their front porches with a smirk on their face.&#160; Back to you Eugene.</p>
<p>Thank you Benjamin… Now over to our sports correspondent, Louie.&#160; Thank you Eugene.&#160; It has been a very active day in sports with unprecedented mutilation of players of all sports.&#160; This mutilation seems to be only affecting those that are of the protected minorities.&#160; For some reason, innocent minorities are playing their respective sport only to be attacked by white males carrying shotguns with NRA patches on their white hoods.&#160; These white males&#160; had Bibles in their hands while mutilating their victims.&#160; It has been said that Republicans are involved in this gruesome activity.&#160; Several award winning sports celebrities were killed on national television by someone carrying pro life leaflets while listening to talk radio.&#160; This anarchy must stop.&#160; (Whisper) Psssst, Eugene, tell the control room they are supposed to be playing sad music but someone hit the wrong button and now Madonna is playing.&#160; Back to you Eugene…</p>
<p>Thank you Louie for that insightful, informative, yet unbiased report. On behalf of the entire news room, I would like to thank you for choosing us for your news.&#160; We strive to be as balanced and informative with our reporting.&#160; Until tomorrow, good night everyone.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: October 26, 2009</strong></p>
<p>I originally posted this message yesterday and it was meant to be humorous.&#160; Even with that said, I read it a couple times and thought maybe I went a little over board on this post.&#160; Then I got up this morning and watched Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today show.&#160; He was interviewing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the Swine Flu.&#160; She was telling about this vaccine’s availability and his tone was absolutely inflammatory.&#160; He was putting words into her mouth and saying isn’t it true that by the time you can get this vaccine available that it will be too late?&#160; He speaks of over a thousand people nation wide having this disease.&#160; He fails to point out that in a country of more than 300 million people that is less than 1% of the people.&#160; It was his reporting of this as though it was the largest crisis the world has ever known that really bothers me.&#160; It is this very type of reporting that I am making fun of with this post.&#160; NBC, or MSNBC in my opinion does this worse than most.&#160; They are so bad in their reporting that it seems that they do not even make an attempt at appearing objective.&#160; I use to think it was CNN that was the worst but now I think NBC is hands down the winner in this hysteria type reporting.&#160; I just had to update this post and reaffirm my original feelings about this.</p>
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		<title>Racist Swine Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Americans, we have been faced by the greatest form of racism the world has ever known with the onset of the H1N1 virus.&#160; This virus was created by white males in their attempt to get the West Nile virus off the news.&#160; As most of you have probably noticed that six months ago the West Nile virus was the worst disease in history if you were to watch the news media.&#160; Now the West Nile has taken a back seat to the new swine flu, or H1N1.&#160; Experts are beginning to see a racial component to the proliferation of the swine flu.&#160; The swine flu is deliberately attacking blacks and Mexicans and must be stopped.&#160; Just <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583219/ns/health-swine_flu/">read this story from</a> the objective MSNBC.&#160; The fair and balanced reporting of the Los Angeles Times also <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/08/swine-flu-are-blacks-and-hispanics-at-higher-risk.html">echoes the horror imposed on our brothers and sisters of color</a>.&#160; <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/08/18/cases_of_swine_flu_higher_among_bostons_blacks_hispanics/">The Boston Globe is also among the many</a> that are shining a light on this E-VIL virus attacking minorities.&#160; Just search the Internet for “Swine Flu and Minorities” and you will see that I am not making this up.&#160; I have even heard reports that a swine flu virus molecule was seen under a microscope wearing a white hood dancing around a camp fire.&#160; </p>
<p>The swine flu is single handedly responsible for the growth of right wing malitias around the United States.&#160; Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are out trying to advocate the mass spreading of this racist disease.&#160; Talk radio is the avenue that has been used to spread this disease as scientists have discovered how flu molecules can attach themselves to radio signals infecting entire black families.&#160; If this swine flu is not stopped soon, the only people that will be left will be anglo-saxon males.&#160; The last statement was not a mistake as this virus also attacks women as well.&#160; The West Nile virus was a predominately white disease and for this reason, executives in smoke filled rooms have conspired to bury this story while engaging in the proliferation of the H1N1.&#160; As if this was not enough, it has recently been discovered that union workers are more than twice as likely to get the swine flu than non union workers.&#160; </p>
<p>Americans, I plead with you to write your Congress person to address this right wing disease aimed at hurting black union workers.&#160; The seriousness of this crisis cannot be overstated.&#160; African American children are being left orphaned and homeless as a result of this racist, and dare I say E-VIL disease.&#160; Do your part to stand up and take a stand to right this wrong.&#160; Your neighbor of color is depending on your action.&#160; If you have any compassion at all, you must take a stand and do your part to stamp out this racist that plagues this nation.&#160; The very lives and careers of your neighbors are at stake.</p>
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		<title>Global Warming Hoax</title>
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<p><strong>Yes I am a denier because I have common sense.</strong>&#160; </p>
<p>I just thought I would take this opportunity to tell how the temperatures have been well below normal almost the entire year.&#160; After doing some research, I have found that temperatures have been cooling world wide.&#160; This is pretty much the trend that has the media and left leaning politicians alarmed because they have so much invested in scaring the public on the whole fabricated global warming.&#160; I do believe the temperatures change around the earth but I also believe that humans are completely irrelevant to these changes.&#160; These changes are natural and happen without any help from humans.&#160; The left leaning politicians and media have spent billions of dollars over the last twenty years misrepresenting the effects of carbon dioxide CO2 on the environment. The truth is that CO2 is needed for life to continue on the earth.&#160; The more CO2, the more life.&#160; The so called “green house gases&#8217;” are a necessity and are natural in the earth.</p>
<p>For those of us that have been around for a while, we can vividly remember being in school in the 1970’s and 1980’s being told that we were approaching another ice age.&#160; Back then it was global cooling that was the culprit and humans were responsible for it as well.&#160; Get this, it was the concerns of CO2 then that was being blamed for global cooling.&#160; In fact, you can <a href="http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm">read this article from Newsweek from 1975</a> that paints just as scary picture for the earth cooling as these left wing militant environmentalists are doing today about the myth that is global warming.&#160; Or you could <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm">read an article from BBC October 9, 20</a>09 asking why the temperature has been falling since 1998.&#160; Environmentalism has become a political movement that is intended to take freedoms away from average businesses and citizens all in the name of protecting the environment.&#160; I think most people are environmentally conscious to a point that they think it is wrong to pollute willfully.&#160; The difference is that environmentalists go way beyond using basic responsibility. They intend to indoctrinate people and leave out the part that just twenty years ago they were afraid of global cooling.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that yesterday we had the coldest high temperature on record for Oklahoma City on that date.&#160; The normal high for yesterday was 76 with a normal low of 53.&#160; Our high temperature was only 49 degrees yesterday.&#160; Anyone that pays attention and has a computer can just as easily go on the Internet and see that we are not an isolated case.&#160; It seems that people have put all their faith in those with a PhD. at the end of their title. This is tragic because these people may have been to school longer than most but they are only learning what someone else has taught them. It is easy to make these outrageous claims for things to happen in another generation because no one can prove them wrong until it happens. </p>
<p>I guess the one thing that really amazed me more than anything is that people still actually watch ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and FOX News without questioning their reports.&#160; I am not saying they are bad people but I will say that the very nature of journalism is to incite people with wild claims.&#160; They are a ratings based business every bit as much as professional wrestling.&#160; The more wild and exotic the claims are, the more viewers that come.&#160; No one seems to notice that Jerry Springer was so popular for so long and his show specialized in outrageous behavior.&#160; It is the human nature to follow the ambulance as it comes up the road.&#160; The media lives by that nature and will report anything with that in mind.&#160; They will report it as though “_________” is reporting, or “__________” group says this or that.&#160; I am not saying that everything you hear on the news is wrong but I will say that if it sounds outrageous, it should be questioned.&#160; Critical thinking is something that is not heard of in this day and age when it comes to the media.&#160; One thing that seems to be the common denominator when it comes to global warming is that those that are scaring everyone are on the left end of the political spectrum.&#160; Do not take my word for it, rather pay attention to those that are calling for something to be done on global warming.&#160; Take note of who it is that is saying it.&#160; Most of us have heard the phrase “follow the money” at some point.&#160; The same can be said when it comes to this climate change debate.&#160; The vast majority of those that claim that humans are destroying the environment are those on the liberal side.&#160; </p>
<p>Another thing to note is the liberal side trying to change their name from liberal to progressive.&#160; Since the term liberal still has a stigma attached to it, they are calling themselves progressives.&#160; These two titles are the same thing.&#160; When you hear someone on television referred to as a progressive, then you can bet they are a liberal.&#160; I really hate to make everything a political argument but the facts are the facts.&#160; I wish it were not true but if you pay attention to this global warming argument, you will find that the person making the claims are almost ALWAYS a liberal.&#160; That is the reality and as much as I hate to point that out, it is the truth.&#160; All I ask is that people watch the news with a suspicious eye.&#160; Question outrageous claims and not let them get away with this.&#160; People and businesses are being affected by this Jerry Springer attitude of the media and politicians.&#160; I think journalism as an occupation needs to be brought back to some sort of non championship wrestling mentality.</p>
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		<title>Jimmy Carter, Democrats and Racism</title>
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<p>One thing that is amazing to me how Jimmy Carter’s desperation to stay in the spotlight would cause him to say people that oppose Barack Obama’s policies are driven by race.&#160; This week Jimmy Carter has been making many public appearances all over the media telling anyone that would listen that the fierce opposition to Obama is driven by the color of his skin.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” Carter told NBC News.</p>
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<p>This statement is presumptuous at best and an outright lie at worst.&#160; There is no evidence of the opposition to his policies being based on the color of his skin.&#160; It is shameful that it is Democrats that scream racism all the time yet they are the first ones to notice the color of a person’s skin.&#160; Is it that difficult to believe that someone could disagree with his policies simply on the policies themselves?&#160; There is a fundamental difference of opinion between liberals/socialists and conservatives.&#160; I know there are many people that tune out at the mention of the word socialist because it has such a stigma to it but if you look up the definition of the word you will see that it is an accurate description.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism">Socialism</a>: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.</p>
<p>Socialism. (2009). In <i>Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary</i>.</p>
<p>Retrieved September 19, 2009, from <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism</a></p>
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<p>Sometimes people forget that the once feared Soviet Union’s real name was the Union of Soviet <strong>SOCIALIST</strong> Republics (USSR).&#160; In fact another definition of socialism can be found on Dictionary.com</p>
<blockquote><p>Socialism: (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.</p>
<p>Socialism. (2005). In American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. </p>
<p>Retrieved September 19, 2009, from <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Socialism</a></p>
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<p>This is one of the things that really disturbs me about the modern day Democrat”<em>ic</em>” party.&#160; I make the distinction between the Democrat “<em>ic</em>” party and the true Democratic philosophy because the party is anything but Democratic by definition.&#160; In their attempt at attaining socialism, they cannot win the argument that socialism is better so they start claiming racism against those that would dare stand up against it.&#160; People are opposed to government run healthcare because the government was not meant to work that way.&#160; People have seen plenty of examples of how the government’s own bureaucracy tends to make things worse.&#160; The government is not driven by financial success and therefore has no incentive to prevent waste.&#160; This waste would be done away with in private industry because they need to be competitive. There is no competition in government.&#160; Assuming the arguments for government run healthcare are legitimate then 47 million more people would be having tax payer funded insurance.&#160; This does not address that there will not be anymore doctors available to serve the extra work load.&#160; Secondly the only way to pay for this is to increase taxes dramatically.</p>
<p>People have been dealt bailouts, bogus stimulus packages, and excessive spending by both former President Bush and the current President Barack Obama.&#160; All the while being preached to about the economy being in shambles.&#160; By definition a recession is when the economy has negative growth for two consecutive quarters.&#160; Negative growth means negative income, meaning negative taxes.&#160; The last thing that should be done in a negative growth economy is to impose new taxes on them. Raising taxes does just the opposite of growth.&#160; Despite this reality, the Democrats have an unprecedented majority in all branches of government that is not likely to happen again for a long time.&#160; This is why they are so determined to get this passed despite the negative impact on the economy.&#160; They fully understand that if they do not get it this time, then it will be a considerable amount of time before they can have another majority to this degree.</p>
<p> As Margaret Thatcher once said “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money&quot;.   </p>
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		<title>You Think I Am Making This Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently I spoke on this blog about how people on the left are trying to silence their critics.&#160; You may remember the post labeled “<a href="http://paulmccord.net/2009/08/10/has-obama-lost-his-mind/">Has Obama Lost His Mind?</a>”.&#160; In this post I highlighted how there was an attempt to silence those who would dare to oppose this joke they refer to as health care reform.&#160; In that post I spoke about how Obama was hoping to intimidate anyone who would speak out against him with a new program where people are asked to report their neighbors to <a href="mailto:flag@whitehouse.gov">flag@whitehouse.gov</a>.&#160; It is interesting to note the address is to “flag” people, or take note, highlight, or bring attention to as though they are someone to be concerned about.&#160; Today I stumbled on an outrageous story called “<a href="http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=10953015">Experts Warn of Increase in Anti-Government Groups in U.S.</a>”, or I should say that a Twitter message from KWTV was thrown into my email box.</p>
<p>In this story is another tactic of the liberal/progressive/left and that is to discredit anyone that opposes them as some sort of extremist.&#160; Someone that is unworthy to listen to because they are mentally unstable and dangerous.&#160; This story explains that in America there are conditions that exist that could result in dangerous extremist right wing groups gaining power. If they are able to paint those that oppose them as someone to fear then they have nullified their positions.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that in this story on KWTV’s web site, it speaks of people being angry about illegal immigration and having the first African American president.&#160; This is an absolutely outrageous claim and I think KWTV should apologize for even suggesting such a thing.&#160; The truth is that most people have no problem with the color of any elected official’s skin but rather disagree with policy.&#160; This story has a multi pronged purpose and that is to divide white against black, and to discredit anyone who would dare to oppose Obama’s policies.&#160; The source of this story is the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> (SPLC), an organization that is famous for its left wing ties and is completely subjective.&#160; This organizations entire purpose is to keep people of race angry.&#160; They are there to inflame people of color and convince them that white America is against them and that is completely not true.&#160; The facts are counter to this and they know it. </p>
<p>It is no surprise to anyone in this country that Michael Jackson’s death was the biggest story of the year.&#160; Michael Jackson had a huge following by white people and in fact more white people bought his records than black.&#160; It is no surprise to me that Bill Cosby would have the number one television show in the 1990’s and most of his viewers are white.&#160; It was white people that elected Barack Obama as well.The purpose in my pointing this out is to illustrate that the vast majority of Americans want blacks to succeed and are not racist against them.&#160; Yes there are individual racist people and there always will be but the majority are not.&#160; The liberal Democrats are shameless in their exploitation of issues like this in an attempt to silence those that disagree with them. Another interesting point in this story is when they say fifteen years ago the SPLC wrote then Attorney General Janet Reno to warn about these extremist groups just six months before the Oklahoma City bombing.&#160; Did you catch the common denominator? Janet Reno was Bill Clinton’s appointee and a Democrat.</p>
<p>My point in all this is that if you follow the sources of these types of stories you will see they have a similar root and that is from the Democrat”<em>ic</em>” party.&#160; Just as the “Fairness Doctrine” always resurfaces when a Democrat is in charge.&#160;&#160; The Fairness Doctrine is another way liberals try to silence those that disagree with them.&#160; It is a failed policy of the past that requires broadcasters to give equal time to controversial subjects or subject themselves to a law suit.&#160; The end result is that broadcasters avoid anything political in an attempt to avoid a law suit.&#160; In this way, the news is the only source of information and as we all know it has become nothing more than a left wing editorial.&#160; </p>
<p>As I do in most of my political stories, I will add my disclaimer.&#160; This disclaimer is to point out that my addressing the indiscretions of the Democrats is in no way an endorsement of the Republican party.&#160; My distrust of the Republican party has grown over the last few years as well.&#160; I just wanted to point out the outrageousness of these types of stories because they are so predictable.&#160; They happen every time there is a Democrat in office.&#160; These types of stories are strategically placed to discredit any dissent as some sort of crazed mob.&#160; It is very clear the media has been going full force in their coverage of these town hall meetings.&#160; I think it would be safe to say that many of those that are in these town hall meetings are actually left leaning but appear on television to sound as crazy as they can to get people to think all dissent is crazy.</p>
<p>I for one think it is a tragedy that our two party system has become so galvanized that people would rather vote for a party than for what is right.&#160; People are more concerned with the “R” or “D” designator at the end of their name than they are about getting the most ethical candidate.&#160; As I have spoken before, my opposition to government programs is that it is nothing more than buying votes.&#160; Secondly once a government program is in place, they are always bureaucratic, inefficient and ALWAYS have strings attached.&#160; Any time you accept money from the government, you are giving up freedoms because their will be strings attached.</p>
<p>I would hope that KWTV would not stoop to going to left wing political sources like the SPLC when writing a story.&#160; This attempt at silencing the dissenting voices as extremist is shameful.&#160; Yes there are crazies in every crowd but the majority of those dissenting voices are genuinely concerned about preserving our freedom.&#160; Freedom from a repressive government, freedom from debt, and freedom of speech.&#160; Most dissenting people are opposed to violent behavior. We will not be silenced!&#160; We will remember those that would take our freedoms at the election booth and not through violence.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think most people in this country are very suspicious of politicians in general because of theindiscretions of those in the past.&#160; This is tragic because as much as we do not trust them, we need them.&#160; There is one thing that seems to be common among politicians that I have noticed is the way that they never commit to ANYTHING.&#160; There answers are always vague, non-committal and even deceptive.&#160; This is not unique to one party or the other.&#160; In fact I have noticed that both Democrats and Republicans are famous for doing this.&#160; To take this a step further, you can look at their use of the word “reform”.&#160; If you look at the definition of the word, you get a clear meaning.</p>
<blockquote><p>To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition.</p>
<p><i><a href="http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/reform">The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. (2000). Houghton Mifflin Company.</a></i> </p>
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<p>When a politician uses the word, they do a fairly good job of applying it as an active word yet undefined.&#160; The word is usually followed by another term that is usually the political word of the day.&#160; Some examples of this are campaign finance reform, immigration reform, and health care reform.&#160; In each case, the word is used to mean an improvement to these problems/topics.&#160; Where the problem comes in is the how one defines campaign finance, health care, immigration as it relates to being a problem.&#160; To one person, immigration may be seen as a good thing.&#160; This idealistic view that our country was founded on immigrants coming in and making a home.&#160; To another person, immigration may be seen as going too far.&#160; To this person, immigrants are becoming a problem because of their high numbers.&#160; In either case, the same problem is seen from completely different points of view.&#160; To use the word immigration is to be vague and not very descriptive of the problem to begin with.</p>
<p>When a politician comes in with his or her use of reform, they are not addressing the problem at all.&#160; Yes, they do have an agenda and do want to take sides in the issue but they will never state which side they are on.&#160; They will say we need meaningful “immigration reform” while never spelling out which side they are on.&#160; At this point, the ignorant populace just takes it in as this politician wants to fix things.&#160; The politician is never pressed to spell out what immigration reform really means.&#160; They are never pressed to define health care reform or any other topics.&#160; This play on words, or rhetoric is often allowed to go unchallenged.&#160; Whenever you hear a politician use the word reform, hold on to your wallet because more often than not, it is going to cost you.&#160; If it were not going to cost you, then the politician would have no reason to be so deceptive.&#160; Why not come right out and say what they really mean?&#160; To say what they really means would be to take a side.&#160; To take a side, alienates those on the other side and thus, lose their vote.&#160; </p>
<p>If a politician really had any integrity, they would speak how they really feel and if the media had any integrity they would not allow them to get away with this.&#160; People are often quick to forget the last politician that did this so they ignore it when it comes up.&#160; When you hear health care reform on the television, you can rest assured that it is going to cost you.&#160; When they speak of immigration reform, you can be just as assured that it will cost you.&#160; The next time you turn on your television and they are talking “REFORM”, I would suggest you perk up and pay attention.&#160; What ever it is,&#160; you need to call your elected official and go against it.&#160; If it were real reform defined as it was above, they would not be using the word reform at all.&#160; They would spell out specifically what it is that they want to do.&#160; Listen real hard for the word REFORM.</p>
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