Daily Archives: June 30, 2010

One of the world’s biggest lies is posted near 3rd & Rosser

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I suppose it’s appropriate to have a whopper like this near the offices of professionals like Earl Pomeroy, Byron Dorgan, and Kent Conrad. This billboard is part of an orchestrated campaign to fool people into supporting “The American Power Act” – by not letting you know that it’s a repackaging of the Kerry-Lieberman “Cap & Trade” act, designed to decimate our nation’s energy industry. Energy…say, isn’t energy a very significant part of North Dakota’s economy?

Not only is this bill a total disaster for North Dakota and the nation at large, but it has another few interesting flaws:

The “Renewable Energy World” website, which is vested in the sorts of “green energy technology” bandied about by liberals bent on killing the energy industry, has an article titled “American Power Act Contains Little Direct Support for Renewables.”

The “World Climate Report” website, which purports to be “the Web’s longest-running climate change blog”, has an article posted which calls the American Power Act “climatologically meaningless.” For instance, even if this bill worked like clockwork (which never happens), they might lower temperatures by a couple hundredths of a degree over the next hundred years!

The folks at American Thinker have an article posted which points out that the Act is merely “a sugar coated version of Cap and Trade.”

Hey, guess what? It gets better! If you actually visit “PassTheAmericanPowerAct.com” you’ll get the site above. Looks pretty conservative and jingoistic, doesn’t it? The only thing it seems to be missing is a flattering photo of George W. Bush. There’s only one problem: It’s a sham.

That web address actually bounces you to the servers of DemocracyInAction.org, a liberal activist group that apparently hosts all kinds of different websites for “progressive” causes. Here’s how they describe themselves:

“DemocracyInAction, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization itself, believes technology can be a decisive force for social change. We exist to empower those who share our values of ecological and social justice to advance the progressive agenda.”

Operated by a company called Salsa Labs, and oriented around the same sort of “community organizing” as our hapless President. Here’s a list of their clients, which includes a bunch of liberal nonprofits like Code Pink and a bunch of liberal Democrat political campaigns.

If I had the money, I’d simply rent the billboard next to it and put up something like this. It wouldn’t take much, and it would help put some truth right next to the Big Lie that is trying to kill jobs and take control of more Americans’ lives in the name of the Global Cooling Warming Climate Change hoax.

A dash to one of my favorite local sunset nooks

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Bismarck and Mandan have plenty of cool places from which you can observe and photograph our wide open skies. Last night I took the opportunity to bolt over to one of them, a secret little spot out in the middle of nowhere. I had to be careful because the recent rains could have turned it into a muddy mess, and I didn’t want to get my truck stuck.

Shortly after I arrived, the colors in the sky began to change. The golds faded and the reds and purples emerged.

As the sky behind me turned pink, I spun around to take some quick photos of the line of stoic power line towers leading over the horizon.

Most of these are new towers; the old ones which previously stood here were decimated by the spring ice/slush storm which deprived many area citizens of electricity for a long time.

The sky’s last display was for the remaining clouds to turn brilliant orange, then fade to a dull gray. The sun had finished the day’s work and dusk was here. I turned the truck around and headed for home, pondering the multitude of colors I’d seen in such a short span of time.