Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Now they want to butt into the home selling/buying process with environmental inspections! Jesus Christ!

I wrote the following to NAR today:

To the National Association of REALTORS leadership:
 
I am appalled but not surprised that the House passed this abomination of a bill. What I want to know from NAR is whether you are going to go along and support it like NAR seems to do on every big-government bill that comes along, or fight it?
 
From the Monday, June 29th Rush Limbaugh show, discussing the bill with a caller and Republican John Boehner's reading of the bill:
 
"RUSH:  Have you heard about this, folks?  When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill.  I'm not kidding, Brian.  See, you can't believe it.  You can't.  It's in the bill.  It was in this amendment that Boehner read...
 
But she's right, sell your house, before you can do that, you have to pass an environmental test that some government person is going to come in and make sure you have proper storm windows and if you live in a hurricane area the inspection is even more Draconian.  You have to have modern appliances, a kitchen and that sort of thing, energy efficient TVs and this sort of stuff and until you replace all that stuff you can't sell it.  Now, normally that would be up to seller and buyer.  If the buyer wants to accept some old TVs and a kitchen that's not stainless steel, fine, you negotiate that on price.  But now it's not going to be a matter of negotiation.  Before you can be approved in selling your house, some government regulator is to come in and give you an examination. 

Now, just to illustrate how this is going to work, once again I have a piece of property that would pass inspection, right now if this were the law.  But do you think some government regulator coming into my house is going to pass me if it's the Obama administration or if it's some Democrat-run bureaucracy?  No way.  Everything is going to be political and this is how they are going to get people to switch party to become Democrat so that they're not harassed.  Folks, consequences are dire here.  And all this is happening under this umbrella of this kind soft-spoken very smart president who only wants to save our light bulbs and save the White House and save the world and who, of course, can be against that, who's for dirty air, who's for dirty water, nobody's for that when that's not at all what any of this is about."
 
It is not really necessary, is it, to point out what these provisions will do to the real estate market? That same ruined market that the government has already blown apart with their meddling? Or the insanity of having more bureaucrats running around doing these inspections? How much more will it cost, not even counting the repairs? How much time added on to an already slow process of closing? Are the banks going to be exempt? On and on with questions...
 
If the above requirements are true, and there is no reason to believe either Limbaugh or Boehner are lying about it, what is NAR going to do about it? Applaud it or fight it?
 
It should be obvious what I think should be done...

Not to mention the total invasion of a private transaction by the government...

Pelosi and the Democrats rammed through another bill, Crap & Tax. So much for transparency, nobody even had time to read much less analyze the bill before voting. So why don't they vote "No"? Because they're politicians with their collective heads up Pelosi's ass and their hands out to lobbyists.

Here's one chart showing how much each state will have to pay:

INTERNATIONAL OFFSETS...I wonder how many China and India will buy...

Here's a reader comment from The Chilling Effect:

"Obama claimed that the average American would not bear the brunt of this historic tax-increase: he stated that instead ““It is paid for by the polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions.”

Just compare this outrageous falsehood to Ronald Reagans’ timeless quote:

“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us.

…Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business.”

And after the way the rammed this through the House with little debate, without legislators even reading it… and while quarantining the GOP from any meaningful input whatsoever, any foolhardy individuals who still believe Obama’s threadbare “bipartisanship” spiel ought to have their head examined."

Funny, but the money doesn't go into a hole, it goes into politicians favored cronies' pockets...


In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Are any of you Obama supporters shocked yet? We TOLD you the bastard was gonna do everything he has done and more...but you couldn't get past hating Bush and Cheney, could you...

You lying, cheating, scum-bag, mother------ bastard politicians from both sides in the slimy House of non-representatives, you passed Crap & Tax.

Bastards all...The Crap & Tax bill passed the House based on - what? Global warming - excuse me, they had to change it to "climate change" to cover the fact that temps have gone down lately - and its massive threat to mankind? BS...there isn't any global warming, there is no threat. Its nothing more than a power and tax grab and always has been. Read this:

"Why do people think the planet is warming? One reason is that the temperature data from weather stations appear to be hopelessly contaminated by urban heat effects. A survey of the 1221 temperature stations in the US by meteorologist Anthony Watts and his colleagues is now more than 80 percent complete. The magnitude of putative global warming over the last 150 years is about 0.7 °C. But only 9 percent of meteorological stations in the US are likely to have temperature errors lower than 1 °C. More than two-thirds of temperature sensors used to estimate global warming are located near artificial heating sources such as air conditioning vents, asphalt paving, or buildings. These sources are likely to introduce artifacts greater than 2 °C into the temperature record."

And now The Pelosi-run assholes have passed the biggest tax increase in the history of the universe...fortunately the Senate still has to act on it...its not about the environment, warming or cooling or anything else...its about the people in power exerting that power over you and me and directing trillions of our money to their cronies...

Read:

WSJ: Dems Lying To Pass Crap & Trade Bill

How Much Are You Going To Get Raped?

More:

Lew Rockwell:

"If anyone complained about the weather, the late libertarian giant Leonard Read would admonish him: “God takes care of the weather. Imagine if the government were running it!” Now, of course, we have the feds trying to run it, with their thieving climate bill only the beginning. There is also continued Pentagon “weather-modification” research for the usual murderous purposes. Since the core ambition of the state is to displace God while enriching its Faustian associates through redistribution, none of this can be a surprise."

Michelle Malkin outs the Republican 8 assholes who voted for the damn thing. So, we have Republicans because...?

Peter Schiff:

"As if this [socialized health care] were not bad enough, today the House votes on “cap and trade” legislation. Disguised as an environmental bill, this proposal would merely be another gigantic tax. The lion’s share of the new revenue is already committed to politically connected special interests that will reap windfalls at everyone else’s expense. To make matters worse, the bill before Congress amounts to a blank slate, with the EPA empowered to draft the details in any manner they see fit. If Congress is going to shoot the economy in the knee, they should at least be required to pull the trigger themselves...

“Cap and trade” will do nothing to reduce pollution, yet it will drive up production costs throughout the economy – rendering us even less globally competitive that we are today. In addition to the huge cost of paying the tax, its enforcement involves the creation of an entire new bureaucracy, the costs of which will be borne by American consumers in the form of higher prices."

Powerline:
Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science

The Environmental Protection Agency lies and suppresses a report for political purposes...NO! OUr beloved American government wouldn't do ANYTHING against the best interests of its citizens! Right...

Rush Limbaugh:

"This is so unnecessary, there isn't any global warming.  This bill is not about climate change.  It's not about improving the environment.  It's not about anything but raising taxes and taking away people's freedom. ...There is no global warming.  Temperatures have not risen in the last nine years in an appreciable way and this legislation is not going to lower temperatures.  It's not going to do anything they claim it's going to do.  Nobody is going to have fully read this.  There are over a thousand mandates, meaning limits on freedom, over 1,300 pages.  Even the chairman of the committee, Henry Nostrilitis Waxman [the biggest asshole in Washington] doesn't know what's all in it.  It doesn't matter to him what all is in it...

Let me tell you something else that's happened.  I read about this in a lot of different places today.  What I have here is a piece from the Competitive Enterprise Institute which summarizes it pretty well.  They are making public an internal study on climate science, which was suppressed by the EPA and Lisa Jackson.  "Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration's agenda of regulating carbon dioxide."

The point is the Environmental Protection Agency, Obama Administration, they don't care about the truth in any of this.  This is not about global warming.  It is not about climate change.  It's about nothing but taxes.  It's taxing everything they can get their hands on.  It's revenue generation.  Obama yesterday even had the gall to call this a jobs bill."

Wall Street Journal op-ed:

"The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon."

IDB: Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster

"The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump.

Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey.

Its centerpiece is a "cap and trade" provision that has been rightfully derided as "cap and tax." It is in fact a tax on energy everywhere it is consumed on everything it is used to make or provide.

It is the largest tax increase in American history — a tax on all Americans — even the 95% that President Obama pledged would never see a tax increase."

Sweetness & Light:



This chart, from the US Chamber of Commerce, maps out the regulatory process and implementation of H.R. 2454, the ‘American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.’

‘Cap And Trade’ will impose 397 new federal regulations and 1060 new mandates. It will mean that much more unwanted and unnecessary control over our lives and liberty.

The Obamanation, in just a short few months, has already given us so many reasons for impeachment, even a coup. This is just the latest and biggest reason to start a true revolution...

Now another thing Crap & Tax does is set up a new market for "carbon credits"...seeing as nobody has read the bill yet they don't really know how it works, but its been described as kind of a stock market for carbon credits; companies can buy extra credits to pollute more, I guess. But ask this: what happens when a company suddenly needs more credits and there aren't any available, what then? Obama shuts the company down? Company goes bankrupt? What about the investors in the company? Another government bailout?

Why the fuck not? Obama wants to run everything, including the USA into the ground...

UPDATE:

Ron Paul:

"If our government continues to kick the economy while its down, it will be a long time before it gets back up.  In fact, jobs are much more likely to go overseas, compounding our problems.

And for what?  Contrary to claims repeated over and over, there is no consensus in the scientific community that global warming is getting worse or that it is manmade.  In fact over 30,000 scientists signed a petition recently directly disputing the claims on which this policy is based.  Legitimate environmental claims should instead be directed towards the public sector.  The government, especially the military, is the most serious polluter in the country, and is exempt from most EPA regulations.  Meanwhile Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion.  The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!"

Those arrogant asshole bastards are at it again. After causing the biggest burst bubble in history then stealing from the taxpayers to pay off their political cronies who got burnt, Barnie Frank, one of the stooges largely responsible for the above, and another asshole have written a letter to Fannie Mae:

"Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums...

In a letter to the CEO's of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold "may be too onerous" and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.

The legislators asked the companies to "make appropriate adjustments" to their underwriting standards for condos, the paper added."



This tool...read more about Le Lips here and here.

From The Wall Street Journal:

"Telling Fannie Mae to take more credit risk. Now there's an idea

Back when the housing mania was taking off, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank famously said he wanted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to "roll the dice" in the name of affordable housing. That didn't turn out so well, but Mr. Frank has since only accumulated more power. And now he is returning to the scene of the calamity -- with your money. He and New York Representative Anthony Weiner have sent a letter to the heads of Fannie and Freddie exhorting them to lower lending standards for condo buyers.

You read that right. After two years of telling us how lax lending standards drove up the market and led to loans that should never have been made, Mr. Frank wants Fannie and Freddie to take more risk in condo developments with high percentages of unsold units, high delinquency rates or high concentrations of ownership within the development."

It was this exact same thing that started off the housing crisis: lowering of underwriting standards. Hell, let's do it all again!! Then bend over and grab them - oops, better not with Barnie around.

From Power Line:

"In his press conference today, President Obama talked about the cap-and-trade energy tax that the Democrats are trying to ram through Congress. Obama's nose grew a couple of inches as he uttered this howler:

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.
The idea that the energy tax will come to rest with "polluters"--that is to say, power companies, manufacturers, agribusinesses, and so on--is absurd. The cost will be passed on to consumers, as Obama himself admitted during a moment of candor during the campaign, when he said that electricity costs would "skyrocket" under his cap-and-trade proposal.

Obama isn't dumb enough to believe that the many billions of dollars in costs that his proposal will impose on energy companies, etc., will somehow disappear thereafter. But he thinks you are..."

Now, note that the red states will pay up the ass and the green states somehow come out ahead. Michigan is in red and one of the hardest hit. That big green slab on the left coast is, of course, California, and gets more out of the bill than any other state. Now, Henry Waxman is one of the sponsors of this fraud and also the biggest asshole in a House full of assholes. Any guess where Waxman is from?

Scream this: ITS NOT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING OR POLLUTION. FOLLOW THE GOD DAMN MONEY TRAIL.

Its all been written about this man, as a player, and as a person...Perhaps Detroit's most beloved athlete ever, certainly in my lifetime.

Congratulations, Steve Yzerman...NO ONE ever deserved it more.

New All-Time Lows for Both CBS & ABC Evening Newscasts

"CBS Evening News has once again set an all-time low last week with 4.89 million Total Viewers and 1.42 million A25-54 viewers. But it was also the lowest (since records began in the 1991-'92 season) for ABC's World News with Charles Gibson. The Gibson program drew 6.42 million Total Viewers and 1.77 million A25-54 viewers."

That's what happens when you tout the leftist, socialist agenda. But will they get their collective heads out of the left's asses. Nope.

UPDATE:

Curl: Press rolls over for Obama -- again...

"Although the White House basketball court is still under construction, President Obama on Tuesday got in a quick game of hoops, throwing some sharp elbows, batting down weak shots and eventually falling back into a one-man, four-corners defense to run out the clock.

His opponents, the White House press corps, looked at times like the Washington Generals, known for their long-running losing streak against the invincible Harlem Globetrotters. The president put on a clinic of fancy dribbling just like Curly Neal, and even played Meadowlark Lemon to the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney, when he asked the Internet site "reporter" to lob up an alley-oop question so he could slam-dunk the answer."

The media in this country have become a total joke.

Photo from Rushlimbaugh.com

Why is the left so in favor of global warming legislation? Read this from The American Thinker blog:

"A study at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis in Washington, D.C. has found that by 2035 the proposed Waxman-Markey global warming legislation would inflict GDP losses of $9.4 trillion, raise an average family's energy bill by $1,241, and destroy on the average 1,145,000 jobs.  (Morning Bell:  What is the Bigger Threat?  Global Warming or Global Warming Legislation).  Meanwhile China and India will be firing up coal-fired power plants, benefiting economically, while this nation's regulates itself to death.

Given the possible economic down side of enacting the Waxman-Markey energy bill and how its "cap-and-trade" provision would control and penalize large industrial sources that emit carbon dioxide, it would seem prudent to first examine the urgency for enacting global warming legislation

On Wednesday, June 17,  an interesting graph appeared in the Wall Street Journal.    (Building Up /Total Carbon-Dioxide Emissions).   It indicated that even if the U.S. were to reduce its output of CO2 by 50%,  it would have no perceptible effect on the world environment as enormous amounts of CO2 is produced by nature every year.   Further stated was that such an effort "will probably destroy the economy, reduce the dollar to junk status, and end the U.S. as a free and productive country as we know it."

So, why? There is a never-ending cacophony from the tree-huggers and Al Gore about it. With Gore its all about him. I always find it interesting that Algore's family fortune originated from owning shares of Occidental Petroleum...and now we are supposed to do what he says...go to hell, Al. This is NOT about saving the planet, folks...follow the money...

He's 17 and, in his own words. wants to know:

1. Where are the tax cuts?
2. Why are you hell-bent on making health care socialist?
3. How the fuck is his generation going to pay for your bullshit programs?
4. How bad were your "create jobs" predictions - or were you just plain lying your ass off?
5. Is everybody going to end up working for the government? Why the hell would we want that? Doctors too?

He came up with these on his own, out of the blue, during a car ride.

Or perhaps you saw the latest polling data:


Here's the article.

More and more people are finally figuring out that you are not just some nice guy coming in to save us all from Bush. Your programs, your vision, your ass-buddies, your nose-right-up-your-ass media are EVIL. FUCKING EVIL. And you will be stopped as soon as more people figure it out.