Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Stan, you might want to review the many prominent scientists interviewed in the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" or the recent statement by 1,600 scientists including two Nobel Prize winners who debunk the theory of manmade global warming. The fact are that the greenhouse effect is necessary to keep the earth warm enough to support life, that C02 is a necessary nutriet for plants and without it all plant life would die, that CO2 is a very minor greenhouse gas, that water vapor is by far the most important greenhouse gas accounting for 90% of the greenhouse effect, that humans provide only a miniscule portion of the CO2 in the atmosphere, and that the Earth has continuously gone through multi-century climate cycles. We are now in one of those natural warming cycles following the end of the last cold cycle know as the Little Ice Age or Maunder Minimum in the 19th century. The previous warm cycle, when it was warmer than today, known as the Medieval Warm Period, was a time of great wealth and prosperity for the human race.

The theory about human produced CO2 making the Earth warmer was concocted by a Swedish psychicist in the 1890s and got almost no traction beyound his own writings, until an article in the British scientific journal, The New Scientist, rehashed it in the 1970s. The only reason it got traction then was political, not scientific. It was convenient to Margaret Thatcher in her battles with the coal miners unions and the arab oil shieks to bolster her desire to move to nuclear power, so her government put out gobs of grant money to promote it, and scientists came running to collect that money. Then the UN discovered how it could be used for their own political purposes and jumped on the bandwagon.

Watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle". It totally debunks the claim that man's actions have anything at all to do with climate. Here is a link to it:
www.youtube.com

Commented: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Denial is not a river in Egypt, Little Bobbie. The CNN clip where Hillary made that outrageous and totalitarian statement is embedded in the media links in that post. Did you shoot from the hip about your personal opinion without even watching the clip where she said it?

Commented: Friday, October 6th, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Half of Canada? There goes Bullshot Bob on another of his wild exagerations.

There is a long known and understood short term climate cycle between El Nino and La Nina that cuased weather conditions favorable to wildfiree this year. That was also true in Europe, and there it was arson that was found to be the main ignition source. Indeed, there is one interesting video out of some Greek citizens making a citizen arrest of a group of illegal alien migrants attempting to light a wildfire and locking them up in the back of a truck until they got the cops there.

Another big factor many places in wildfires is that too many governmental bodies are following the diktat of some eco-freaks and not clearing the underbrush as used to be done regularly in forest management, so that now once a wildfire starts, it has a lot more fuel to expand and keep burning.

That video is impressive as are the speakers environmental credentials. The likes of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Greta Thunberg are not even close.

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 10:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Legislating punitive penalties and fees at the state level on wind and solar is hardly "loving it". The problem is that the wind and solar grifters "love" the federal subsidies, and Texas is imposing fees and penalties to counteract those so they can put the brakes on wind and solar. Texas taxpayers are also having to kick in $10 billion to incentivize new gas power plants to keep the grid up and prevent blackouts when the wind is not blowing (or blowing too hard) and the sun is not shining.

The Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial this past April on the problems that "green energy" brings to Texas that was entitled "A Texas sized Energy Fiasco" which begins "What a mess. Renewable subsidies have distorted and destabilized the Texas electric grid . . ." To avoid the paywall, that editorial is reposted in full at the link below:
stopthesethings.com

Commented: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 7:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Republican Party in Beaufort County is riddled with these stupid personality conflicts. What matters is how they vote on real issues, and how they vote to organize government bodies.

Commented: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 1:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

They need to cut off welfare checks when there is a government shutdown to get the Democrats is line. They also ought to cut off the paychecks of Congress, including staff, and not reimburse those ever.

Commented: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:26 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why has the school board not gotten involved in this problem? Clearly the superintendant is not stopping it since it seems to keep popping up.

Commented: Friday, September 29th, 2023 @ 7:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Not only is "green energy" an environmental nightmare, but it also wrecks economies, as the Germans are now finding out. stopthesethings.com

Who pushed North Carolina down this path? Our own local RINO State Senator Jim Perry, for one. He needs to GO.

Commented: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So only the powerful special interests have the money to buy Pay-to-Play Perry? Like Big Medicine or the Green New Deal crowd? Look at Perry's liberal voting record and then look at the special interests that bought him. The latest is the casino cabal, and it cost them over $40,000 to buy Perry. Yeah, he is not cheap, but he is for sale to the highest bidder.

And actually Causey has a very strong record of helping consumers when they have a problem with insurance companies. The problem between Perry and Causey has to do with that crooked Blue Cross bill that Perry pushed and Causey vocally opposed. That bill royally screwed consumers to pander to a special interest that gave Perry money. And Perry was throwing consumers under the bus while Causey was standing up for their rights.

Commented: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 9:06 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

One of the big threats to fishing are the offshore wind turbines that Biden and Cooper are pushing. For a bottom swelling fish like a flounder, the power cables from wind turbines present a major threat, as they do to crabs, lobsters, and other sea creatures. Wind turbines are already causing whale deaths.

Commented: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That so-called "stormwater utility" was always just a dishonest shell game to hide tax increases. For many decades, the city has been dealing with stormwater out of the regular city budget with tax money. This was hived off as a "utility" to cover up a tax increase some years ago. They kept the official tax rate the same, saying they were just adding a utility fee. As if voters could not see through that bullshit. Now they are playing similar dishonest games to hide another tax increase. After raising our city taxes a whopping ten percent last year, they are now back to their crooked shell game in an election year. Shame on you, Mayor Sadler.

Commented: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 2:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Sen. Perry's worst betrayal of the taxpayers was the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. A few years down the road, when the federal government's promise to cover most of the new cost expires, state taxpayers are going to be taken to the cleaners for this boondoggle. In the meantime, all that extra cost is going out of the taxpayers' other pocket in federal taxes. Taxpayers are being socked for a huge cost either way. And most of the new recipients of this Medicaid welfare have previously had private health plans funded by their employers. The big hospitals want that group shoved onto the taxpayers back because it is a steop toward their socialitic wet dream of single payer health care. Perry just helped shove us farther down that evil road. He needs to be G-O-N-E from politics.

His Green New Deal, is also going to be a nightmare for NC electric ratepayers as this green energy nonsense already is in other countries.

Commented: Thursday, September 7th, 2023 @ 3:15 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Fauci's positions on just about everything are political rather than medical.

Faucism = fascism

Commented: Monday, September 4th, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate charade has always been a political ploy since it was revived in the 1980s. A Swedish physicist concocted it in the 1890s and it got no traction then. When a British scientific magazine mentioned this old and discredited theory in an article, Prime Minister Thatcher saw it as useful in battling her enemies the coal miner unions and the arab oil sheiks and to help in promoting her vision of nuclear power, so her government put out a bunch of grant money. It was totally politically motivated, but they knew if they set out a pig trough of money, scientists will come running with their tongues hanging out for grants, and they did. Since then, the globalists at the UN, WEF, and elsewhere have seen the benefit to keep the money flowing to advance their agenda, as have the Russians and Chinese.

The globalist totalitarians have even been floating the idea of climate lockdowns.

Former Czech Republic president and prime minister Dr. Vaclav Klaus said it best when he described climate alarmism as "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today." President Klaus has written a book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: what is in jeopardy - climate or freedom?" that has been published in eight languages.

If Margaret Thatcher had known who would have picked up on this charade, I suspect she would never have gotten it started with the politically motivated money she put into it.

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Gas prices - No one else seems to have joined Speedway's big increase this time. In fact, one station reduced its price in response. The 76 convenience store on Bridge Street lowered its price by 3 cents from $3.42 to $3.39 after Speedway upped its price from $3.45 to $3.59. So that 76 station is now the cheapest in town and 20 cents a gallon lower than Speedway.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 1:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

These things have lots of impacts. At least in Pamlcio County, there is no local taxpayer money going into it, although there will undoubtedly be taxpayer money from other levels in it. There are also impacts on nearby property values that need to be considered and other impacts. It is feared that Beaufort County's Democrat-RINO alliance will push us even deeper into this mess than a mere resolution.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 12:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I cannot remember a presidential general election debate where the GOP nominee was not having to debate the biased liberal moderators as well as the Democrat nominee. I read that the RNC is not going to deal with the badly biased establishemt swamp Presidential Debate Commission any more but instead negotiate directly with the Democrat Party to arrange debates. That is a step forward, but reining in the ezcess control by the moderators needs to be part of the equation. In last night's debate the bias of the moderators showed repeatedly.

Their trying to rope the candidates into agreeing to the globalist climate orthodoxy with a show of hands was repulsive. It was good to see multiple candidates rebuke them in detail on that.

Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer