The Right Rev Rowland

In a conference call with Nevada bloggers today, Gov. Jim Gibbons answered several questions regarding Yucca Mountain and nuclear energy. Gibbons is on the record fighting the Yucca Mountain project, yet claims to be pro-nuclear energy.

Asked today to clarify, Gibbons explained his Yucca Mountain position. Yucca Mountain was planned and engineered to be the final repository of nuclear waste as we began to shut our nuke power plants down. It was planned decades ago as the end point of American nuclear energy. Gov. Gibbons is against permanent storage of nuclear waste. What he is for, he stated today, is a reprocessing plant and a nuclear power plant that will provide more Americans with energy.

What hasn’t been made apparent in past coverage is the engineering for the Yucca Mountain site is suited for only one purpose, permanent storage. There are ten-story high buildings with cranes built in to move the containers for the (semi) permanent storage. It would be cost prohibitive to re-engineer the Yucca site for reprocessing or for nuclear energy production. That is why Gov. Jim Gibbons is against Yucca Mountain.

What Gibbons said he would do is press for a Nevada reprocessing and nuclear production site as soon as the federal government and the EPA removed the restrictive licensing process for nuclear energy. He sees the importance of pushing for those high-tech jobs for Nevadans and to find a way for Nevada to provide energy to other states in the Southwestern US.

With the fallout of climategate, and the long string of lies from environmental groups, its a wonder that there hasn’t been a more clear-eyed review of our restrictions on building new nuclear power plants or for that matter, domestic drilling for oil. Enviro-nut scientists have shown their willingness to alter the data and hide facts to suit their agenda, when they believe they are serving a higher cause. For these reasons alone there should be a public airing of facts regarding nuclear power generation, transmutation, and reprocessing R & D.

UNLV and UNR could host the premier research facilities for reprocessing of nuclear materials. Nevada could lead the way in finding new, safer methods of producing nuclear energy. Money, energy, and jobs…. too complicated to grasp? Not if we get back to American innovation and capitalism.

It was refreshing today to hear Gov. Gibbons pro-nuclear stance, Yucca and the zealotry and hysteria surrounding it have managed to cloud the facts. It’s time to take another look with a clear mind and an adult attitude. The panic spread by anti-Yucca activists has been on par with the global warming histrionics that are now being proven to have little to no basis in scientific fact.

Lets move back to some firmer reality, and instead, start asking why the federal government wants to destroy Nevada? No housing funds to prevent foreclosures, No development funds for high-speed rail when we’ve been researching and working on it for decades, and our president keeps slamming Las Vegas as a vacation or business destination.

Are they trying to destroy our economy so we will jump at the repository? Will the EPA come riding to the rescue with federal dollars as long as we accept permanent storage at Yucca? Are we being set up, aided and abetted by our senior Senator, Harry Reid, and the anti-Yucca activists?

It’s time for Nevada leaders to begin pressing for a better deal for Nevadans and a better technological solution for America. We can’t just dump and forget, we need to recycle and improve. It USED to be the American Way to come up with innovative solutions, but it seems now the ’science is settled’ in too many areas that are just begging for a breakthrough. Let’s be American again and find a way through. Let’s come up with a better solution.

Gov. Gibbons, you could start leading the way now. Say it louder, please.

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With her frozen grin flashing across the House floor, Nancy Pelosi celebrated a late-night vote to pass the most onerous and oppressive governmental legislation in American History. Likening passage of this bill to the enactment of Social Security and Medicare, Pelosi’s dreams of grandeur are destined to be short-lived.

With both Social Security and Medicare facing insolvency, and funding for the Healthcare Reform Act made up partly of monies siphoned away from Medicare as well as incoming tax revenues, the pay-as-you go model is an enormous governmental ponzi scheme doomed to failure.

Looming insolvency is only part of the insult of these healthcare proposals. There is also the threat of fines and JAIL TIME for US citizens who do not want to purchase an ‘acceptable’ health insurance policy. Who decides what is acceptable? The IRS will be interpreting the legislation and enforcing compliance. So, why did we need to give the IRS another stick to beat the American Taxpayer with?

What the hell is wrong with you people? How is that in the interest of the economy, liberty, or promoting individual rights? How is this about ANYTHING other than governmental control of the populace? Who ever wants to talk to the IRS or have them involved in their business or their lives? When IRS government employees give WRONG ADVICE 50% of the time to taxpayers who call or come in for help, why should they be given more responsibility over our lives?

The ONLY thing government has ever done well is the military and even at that, they have been caught in enormous waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. The vote last Saturday was another nail in the coffin of our freedoms, if Harry Reid pushes the senate bill through on a procedural motion, meaning 51 votes rather than the 60 necessary to break a filibuster, then the nation should explode with indignation.

Tea Parties, Townhall protests, the 9/12 March on Washington, and EVERY independent poll shows that a majority of Americans do not want this reform in its current incarnation have had no effect on Democrats in Washington, DC. The true believers of the progressive movement are willing to force this police state on us in the area of our health. Because, of course, they know what is best for us, whether we want it or not.

Ploha, Comrade, ploha bolshoi!

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This morning on the Glenn Beck Radio Show, Michelle Bachmann (R) MN, asked Americans to show up in DC

on Thursday to demand to meet with their representatives and block passage of the new Healthcare monstrosity introduced by Nancy Pelosi last Thursday.

Appropriately released on the week of Halloween, this Frankenstein bill is a hybrid of the three House bills already introduced and debated previously. Stunningly, this hybrid bill retains the most controversial of the provisions which were argued over and stripped from the senate versions.

The true insult to Americans is the inclusion of the worst parts of the bill, such as mandatory coverage, public option, and end-of-life counseling. Yes, Sarah Palin’s DEATH PANELS have survived, ironically, since this was the provision that created national outrage and rocked the townhalls as Americans began to realize how bad these healthcare bills are. The public option is no longer on life support, but alive and thriving in HR3962.

After the uproar over the over 1000-page bills pushed out of Congress last session, Pelosi and House Democrats are doubling-down with an almost 2000-page bill to further piss off the American public. This bill will be voted on this week and sent to the Senate, where many expect Harry Reid (D) NV, to use the nuclear option to pass it on a 51-vote majority.

This Thursday, November 5, 2009, Bachmann has called all concerned Americans to arrive in Washington to express opposition to this egregious bill. We’ll see how many are able to make the trip, leaving work and home obligations in the middle of the week to go.

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Here’s an endearing video of proponents of healthcare receiving their detailed instructions on how to refute those who are concerned about HR3200 and the companion bill to be presented in the Senate. Notice how this activist gives reasoned responses to the questions and complaints of the voters.

Oh, wait….. they don’t have any, that’s right! And what response they do give is proven to be lying propaganda when you read the bill that this Congress has actually passed. Oh, and did you hear how Charlie Rangel, Democrat tax-cheat from New York,  slipped a provision to harshly punish tax cheaters and those who made inadvertent mistakes into the HEALTH CARE BILL???

This Do-As-I-Legislate-Not-As-I-Do Congress and President have chafed the average American so raw in the area of liberty and freedoms that there is outright rebellion brewing at the townhalls and tea parties. Between Harry Reid refusing to face the voters in his own state by holding open meetings, and calling those who are trying desperately to get his attention on the important issues ‘evil-mongers,’ he is hand-crafting his opponent’s campaign for 2010.

The tactics that the current leadership have undertaken to force acceptance of have been thuggish and reflect a racketeering mindset. To smear your opposition with lies and name-calling without the facts and evidence to support your wild claims is not an honest argument. Nor is it good governance. We have an incredible dearth of principled leadership in America today. Everything has become about accomplishing your goals and the goals of your party, and no one stops to ask if these goals are in the best interest of the nation.

I contend that if Harry, Nancy, and Barak want to live in an EU-styled semi-socialist to a statist nation, that they move to Venezuela or to France and go nuts! Why we need to ruin the freest, most-prosperous nation in history that has spawned hope and democracy around the world is beyond me.

I say, send them all home in 2-4 years and repeal everything that has happened in the last 20 years. Then, we tell the new batch that for every new law, they have to repeal an old one. For every new spending initiative, they have to cancel and old one, and so on. No new layers of regulation and bureaucracy, we are too far under the thumb of government already, and it’s time to start getting out.

I’m just sayin….

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Why So Serious?

The window of hope for the survival of the Constitutional United States is shrinking rapidly. This window is about to be slammed shut BEFORE the next three 1/2 years of this presidential administration passes.

Our economy is under the thumb of the federal government in partnership with big business, and the steamroller of the Waxman-Markey cap & trade bill is just beginning to power up. The banking industry is completely run by the federal government, with the board of directors and ceos being intimidated and threatened by limited pay structures and outright hostile takeovers by a ‘pay czar’ and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank.

The business-killing environmental bill will destroy what is left of the free-market economy not already destroyed by government takeover along with the recession and deficit spending. The FCC ‘Diversity Czar’ proposes a 100% TAX on the profit of privately-owned radio and television stations and no one in government has a problem with that?

Socialized medicine is being forced forward by clueless congressmen in obedience to the leader of the Democratic party, the exalted Barak Obama, and now REPUBLICAN Senators Grassley, Snowe, and Enzi are meeting behind closed doors the opposition to hammer out a compromise. Thanks, RINOS! This bill will open your TAX RETURN info to all branches of government having to do with benefits and healthcare, which is broadening every day.

Now there is a bill in the senate that will allow the immaculate Obama to seize control of ALL INTERNET COMMUNICATION! If you think that this president and this progressive juggernaut is done, slap yourself for being stupid, wake up and admit it is ONLY THE BEGINNING! Never in our history as a nation have we been pushed so far from our Constitutional liberties and protections. And it has only sped up frighteningly in the last 8 months.

This has been planned for for the last century or more. In the last few decades, the planning and co-opting of governmental and educational institutions has grown exponentially. What we see happening today is the fruit of the progressive movements efforts over the last century.  That’s why this Joker-poster speaks so deeply to me.

The mask Obama wears is one of socialism, he admits it freely. He operates in it, by taking over banks and car companies, pushing for the public option in healthcare, AND he spoke plainly to Joe the Plumber about the redistribution of wealth handled by the federal government.

But, BEHIND the mask, is a radical statist. His grab for power is unparalleled in our history. I don’t think even FDR had the ambition of this president and his supporters. I also think that even he isn’t completely in touch with where this will all take us as a nation. I think he blindly trusts the revolutionaries, progressives, and marxists that he has grown up around and worked with his entire life. When the Joker makeup comes off, what’s behind it is even more frightening.

His instinctive distrust of state’s rights, individual liberties, individualists, conservatives, third-party activists, and people of faith is a telling commentary on his thought process. His racist response the the Professor Gates arrest showed what was in his heart. The liberal black RADICAL professor, who has said in the past that he likes to “get into” white people’s faces, could in NO WAY have been at fault, nooooooo….. it MUST have been the white cop! And, of course, we ALL know that people who believe in state’s rights are racist terrorists who want to re-establish slavery. That’s why he has us on the DHS domestic terrorist list and established the flag@whitehouse.gov email snitch site.

Uncle Sam Snitch

Add to that the comment he has made that the Constitution is a list of negative rights, that it is deficient in that it only enumerates what government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t list what the government is supposed to do FOR you. (He missed that part about providing for the common defense and establishing peace and the PURSUIT of happiness.) If he were the constitutional scholar that he pretends to be, he might understand the formation of our government and Constitution.

The Founding Fathers lived in a time when oppression and suffering came in the form of BAD government. World-wide, empires and monarchies used their citizens as property and denied the most basic rights whenever it suited them without the slightest regard for the individual. Freedom and Liberty were the ideals that they fought for, and they fought to wrest it FROM oppressive government.

The Constitution recognizes that government is the biggest evil when it comes to human suffering. The Constitution recognizes that individuals need to be protected from government, so the Founders greatly limited the powers of government and subjected it to continual reviews by the citizenry. Now, the government has been on a path for the last century to exalt itself above the people and above the Constitution.

Every time a 1000-page bill is forced through by emergency procedures, our window of hope closes more. Every time a new czar or ’special advisor’ is appointed by this White House the window of hope closes more. Every time the MSM covers for the lies and deceit of this administration and congress, the window closes more. The more FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS, numbering in the billions, is funneled to groups like Americorps, ACORN, the Tides Project, SEIU, and the like, the window closes even more.

I’m going to DC on 9/12. Go to www.912dc.org today and find out how to get there. Call, write, email, and VISIT your elected representatives before the window closes completely. Give to conservative causes and organizations like SarahPAC or the IAPN (if you’re in Nevada) But get involved and DO something.

When we gather in DC on September 12th, we will be providing a show of force that the world will not be able to ignore. Not a force of arms, but a force of our individual rights, protected by our Constitution. If we don’t make a stand THIS YEAR, and continue to stand through the election cycle of 2010, our country is lost to the very oppression the Founders tried to guard against.

Now is the time….. and this is our moment and place of decision.

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