The Squeaky Wheel

• Final chapter closed on this King County corruption - too bad it was never blown open and investigated

  Two King County DOT whistle blowers have won their Federal Lawsuit this week against several of King County Executive Ron Sims' managers in DOT. They were accused of retaliating against them, because they attempted to expose corruption and wrongdoing in DOT 7 years ago.
  
  In 2002, King County' [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
  

• Tyranny of the Majority

  Alexis de Tocqueville was a famous political and cultural writer about American democracy in the 1830s. Among his writings about Democracy in 1835, were the warnings of the "tyranny of the majority" leading to a despotic government. De Tocqueville wrote, "A majority taken collectively is only an individual, whose opinions," [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 2:59pm EST
  

• Tyranny of the Majority

  UNLIMITED POWER OF THE MAJORITY IN
  THE UNITED STATES, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
  
  TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY
  Tocqueville: Book 1, Chapter 15
  
  How the principle of the sovereignty of the people is to be understood--Impossibility of conceiving a mixed government--The sovereign power must exist somewhere--Precautions to be taken to [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  

• Housing collapse nowhere near done yet!

  There's a great graph that the New York Times had done reflecting home values adjusted for inflation going back 100 years. It shows the booms and the busts, such as the 35% loss of home values in the Great Depression, as well as the booms in 1970s and 1980s. The' [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 3:05pm EST
  

• Obama deficit to equal 2000 federal budget

  From the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Briefing Book
  
  Obama budget to increase spending up from $2.983 Trillion under Bush to $3.938 Trillion this fiscal year. Will decline to $3.552 Trillion next fiscal year, down $714 Billion, but stimulus new spending remains! Obama budget forecast to increase to [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

• How much trouble are Social Security and Medicare really in?

  You won't believe it, but it's all here at
  OASDI and HI Annual Income Excluding Interest, Cost, and Balance in Current Dollars
  
  According to the Government, they look at three different scenarios based on cost trends. "OASDI" is Social Security, and "HI" in Medicare Part A. Medicare [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  

• The United States is Bankrupt!

  Jerome R. Corsi of WorldnetDaily did an article entitled, "Federal obligations exceed world GDP - Does $65.5 trillion terrify anyone yet?. This article describes the absolute reality of collapse of the American government. I can't say anymore about it, but you can read the article, and then review the'" [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• Stimulus? The rape is complete

  Too late to fight it. Not enough time to read it. Every single senate Democrat and all but 7 Democrats in the House voted for it. 90 minutes of debate and the taxpayer is now on the hook for $787 Billion to grow government and give government more control. Boy, [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 8:35pm EST
  

• Obama's Universal Voluntary Public Service

  Al Gore spoke recently to the National Youth Scholars in Washington DC during the inauguration festivities for Barack Obama. The audience included 3,000 children - our best and the brightest - including 12 year old fourth graders from across America. His message was frightening. Please tell me this doesn't send' [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 2:16pm EST
  

• First test of Obama voters

  So here we are, on the verge of the largest spending bill in the history of the United States. A 647-page list of Democrat pet-projects and handouts that will add a $1.2 trillion directly to the national debt ($825 billion plus life-time interest payments on it) at a time when [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 3:36pm EST
  

• Policies of "change" of the Messiah

  Three days into the new administration and the first actual actions by the Messiah are now more than simply words of hope and change.
  
  His first action was to sign an Executive Order to close Guantanamo within 12 months. This decision was made despite a Pentagon briefing that 61 [...]
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  Posted: January 23, 2009, 11:48am EST
  

• Does your income double every 10 years?

  Washington State Government spending is out of control. But that is nothing new for a government that's been dominated by Democrats for decades. I decided I wanted to understand just how quickly Democrats are exploding this government, and while you'd think that this data would be easily found on the [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 8:49am EST
  

• How does it feel watching your nation implode?

  Sorry for another rant, but these are remarkable times.
  
  Liberals destroyed the credit markets and the banking system by undermining them with Fannie and Freddie. Their unions have destroyed Detroit and the auto industry by forcing uncompetitive salaries, benefits and pensions. Uncompetitive CAFE standards from Democrats in Congress [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 3:05pm EST
  

• Even in crisis Gregoire can't cut a budget

  For the last 4 years, Chris Gregoire and her Democrat allies in Washington have been on a spending spree. Such a spree that the biennial budget for 2007-2008 was $15 billion higher than the biennial budget of 2003-2004 that Gregoire built her first budget on. Yes, $15 billion of growth [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 9:35am EST
  

• REALITY CHECK: GREED

  Liberals like to call the Bush years the Decade of Greed. By their thinking, people getting educated and working to achieve the American Dream makes them greedy if they choose to use their wealth to improve their lives and the lives of their children and family. Generally the result of [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 8:48am EDT
  

• New video on challenge to Obama's eligibility to be president

  
  
  Why is Berg trying to obtain the vaulted long-form birth certificate for Barack Obama?
  
  The original images posted on the Internet released by the Obama campaign were highly suspicious, pulled, and discredited. Recently, FactCheck.org, which is funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $160 million school reform [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2008, 9:05am EDT
  

• Will media exploit new Dem scandal like they did Foley scandal in '06?

  Not likely, duh! But isn't it remarkable that 2-years after the nationwide liberal media used the Mark Foley scandal in Florida to paint the entire Republican Party as party of slimy cover-ups, today we read about the Democrat replacement of Foley in Florida, caught up in a case of adultery, [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
  

• Can a socialist fix an economy with more tax and spend?

  The National Debt is today is $10,187,754,347,408.87. Yes, that's $10 trillion dollars.
  On September 11, 2001 the National Debt was $5,773,172,068,291.89.
  
  Reality Check: The US economy was in recession in 2000 after the Tech Bubble exploded on Wall Street. We were attacked on 9/11/2001 by terrorists that' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:07pm EDT
  

• Is Obama eligible to be president?

  Is Barack Obama a US Citizen? Is he a "natural born" citizen, which is required under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, before a person is eligible to run for the highest elected office on the planet? Seems this would be an easy question for Obama to [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2008, 3:03pm EDT
  

• S. 190 - “Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005”

  The history of S. 190 - “Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005” is at the heart of our current crisis. If you're reading this you found it by searching any of the keywords within it. I can tell you that filtering through all the bull to get to' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• Imagine a nation where the media reports the facts

  Be ready with the pause button, and look at who got America into this mess. Also note who tried to get us out, and then ask yourself, how in the hell can we rely on congressmen who made this mess to fix it? Oh, and ask yourself how Obama and [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2008, 5:43pm EDT
  

• Campaign of lies

  And I'm not referring to Obama's campaign, even though it is growing daily in desperate falsehoods. The campaign of lies I'm referring to is the campaign being run by the old media in this nation to help Obama con his way to victory. Only in America could the media portray' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 9:34am EDT
  

• Democrats love disasters they can exploit

  Michael Moore: Hurricane Coming During GOP Convention 'Proof There Is a God in Heaven'
  
  Controversial filmmaker admits he's delighted to see a natural disaster potentially interfere with the Republican event.
  Moore's statement and glee over the hardship about to befall thousands of Americans giving Demcorats another crisis to [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2008, 2:23pm EDT
  

• If Obama's words mean nothing, what's left?

  Since the only thing Obama supporters appear to hear are the words of their candidate Barrack Obama, here are his words on the incredibly important issue of last year's Iraq surge. How Obama followers will react to the clear contradictions in his words is predictable. But with nothing but words' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2008, 12:41pm EDT
  

• Gravity and Global Climate

  This guy's either full of bull, or he may be on to something. If his correlation is as he claims, wouldn't it be funny if climate change was driven by the moon?
  
  Climate similar to the 1800s within the next 15 years [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2008, 11:53am EDT
  

• More Oil Facts

  US "Domestic" Oil Production today is roughly 5.7 million barrels a day. The US uses roughly 20.7 million barrels a day. World consumption is roughly 82.2 million barrels per day. We import the difference between that 20.7 million needed and 5.7 million domestically produced. Why? Because the cost of domestic [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2008, 4:33pm EDT
  

• Tire Inflation and Tune-Ups to save America

  McCain stated recently, referring to Obama's suggestion that off-shore drilling for oil could be offset with proper tire inflation and tune-ups:
  "I totally agree that tire inflation will help the higher gas prices"
  Some are calling McCain's statement a flip-flop, but this look at the issue a little more closely.
  [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
  

• Gore, Obama and the left's fuel cell nonsense

  I saw an interesting story on the local news last night. Not anything really new, but it highlighted for me the media's continuing efforts to promote the anti-fossil fuel agenda. Full of optimism and hope, the story was aimed at making anything appear possible. But in reality, it was just' [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2008, 12:08pm EDT
  

• Change we can believe in

  Definition: Barrack Obama’s ability to change his positions
  
  Obama has insisted that he wants a phased withdrawal from Iraq, with all soldiers home in 16 months.

  Now Obama has changed his mind. Before going to Iraq he said, “I am going to do a thorough assessment when I’m there. When [...]

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  Posted: July 11, 2008, 11:23am EDT
  

• CO2 driven by Temp, not the other way around

  The real inconvenient truth Al Gore doesn't want you to know is that historical CO2 has lagged behind temperature, and not the other way around. When temperatures increase, so does CO2 levels. When temperatures drop, CO2 levels decrease.
  
  Note the CO2 curves are generally to the left of the [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2008, 10:17am EST
  

• Can fear, defeatism, and negativity save America?

  After watching this, ask yourself if Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Hillary Clinton are the solution to America's problems?
  
  
  And if you answer, "yes", then God help America. [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2007, 8:03pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• Global Warming driven by the Sun? Say it can't be so!

  For all those followers of the man-made Global Warming religion, the sun's output is NOT static, and has not been static.
  
  Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
  
  Global Warming in a single image:
  
  [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2007, 10:00pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• The Great Global Warming Swindle

  See the side of the Global Warming debate that the media doesn't want Americans to see.
  
  
  
  Go to Google Video to watch the rest of "The Great Global Warming Swindle."
  
  Update:
  
  Per NOAA: The average temperature in April 2007 for the United States was 51.7 [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2007, 8:34pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• Why must we go to Baghdad for optimism?

  Compare the optimism and perspective from this column with the perception promoted by the Democrats and the old media.
  

  The young men of little education--earnest displaced villagers with the ways of the countryside showing through their features and dialect and shiny suits--who guarded me through Baghdad, spoke of old [...]

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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 11:00pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• Huge increases in CO2 with little increase in temperature - is it really CO2 or just Solar cycles?

  Ok, not a climatologist here. But maybe someone can tackle a question on the effect of CO2 on temperature.
  
  Science argues that the temperature of the Earth without the Greenhouse effect would be degrees F. The result of CO2 in our atmosphere adds 59 degrees F for an average [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2007, 2:00pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• Democrat hypocrisy - So what if Bush fires some US attorneys?

  It was March of 1993, when Bill Clinton's new Attorney General, Janet Reno, announced the firing of all 93 US Attorneys across the United States. All were Republican carryovers, but Republican disgust and outrage at the firings, and especially with two of them involved in the middle of corruption investigations [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2007, 3:00pm EDT
  by Mike Costello

• Why do Democrats appear to so hate fair, honest, and uncoersed elections? Are they simply working for their real masters?

  First it was the minimum wage bill, aimed at elevating union wage scales. Now it's helping unions to coerce employees to approve union representation by forcing their votes to be public. Today's Wall Street Journal discusses this latest action, not "for the people", but for the unions that spend union [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2007, 9:00am EST
  by Mike Costello

• Democrats placing power above Victory, power above our soldiers, and power above the security of the American people

  What has happened to the Democrat Party? What has happened to the people that would support their efforts to defeat America for the sake of their own demands for power?
  
  God help this nation.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2007, 2:30pm EST
  by Mike Costello

• Global Warming - young minds full of mush - and propaganda

  I was saddened to get my latest Cal Poly Alumni email and read of the Global Warming proponents polluting the minds of young college students at my alma mater. I'm forced to admit that whenever I read of a New York Times reporter doing or writing anything these days, I [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2007, 11:00am EST
  by Mike Costello

• Fed Chair calls on Democrats to join Bush to fix Social Security - What problem?

  "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress Thursday that the economy could be gravely hurt if Social Security and Medicare aren't revamped."
  
  "If early and meaningful action is not taken, the U.S. economy could be seriously weakened."
  
  "Without policy changes by Congress and the White House, rising budget [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2007, 5:00pm EST
  by Mike Costello