Texas is baking.  The heat of this summer is worse than ever.  Obama has given the overzealous Environmental Protection Agency the go ahead to shut down electricity production in Texas.  When this is done, a summer like this one will resort in blackouts and brownouts.  The cost of electricity will “necessarily skyrocket” and those who are poor will suffer the most.  This would result in lots of deaths in Texas.

The EPA wants to shut down coal-fired plants.  They say the little children will die of asthma if we don’t.  The little children will die because they are in airless rooms in 100 heat with no electricity.

Nothing new.  Obama hates Texas (NASA, the oil industry, electricity production, military contracts, low taxes, employment gains, etc.)  Gotta let illegals vote so he can win again.

Andy Stern, former leader of SEIU. was appointed to the National Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform by Pres. Obama.  This is the committee that will give recommendations to congress on cutting the deficit sometime in December.

Andy Stern left SEIU in April.  While he was their leader, SEIU debt grew from under 10 million to over 100 million.  The pensions were left in a mess also, with massive underfunding of the rank and file members pensions.  Stern’s pension was completely funded, in fact, it was funded at 102%.  So why is this man on any committee to reduce the nation’s deficit?

Check the Washington Post on Andy Stern.  Check Michelle Malkin on some of Andy’s other deeds.

I will never join AARP.

Their new commercials push just how great a life you can have if you belong to AARP.

Pet Peeve:  They send me solicitations to join that leave the impression that I have joined already.  It is deceiving.  They shouldn’t operate like this.

My husband and I started reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes. The introductory chapter has some definite parallels to the current administration. It is a little like reading Atlas Shrugged.

Channel surfing brought me to this series, based on the book set, A History of US. It would be a good choice for the day. I first learned about these books after they were published on Book Notes on C-Span. I was a faithful watcher. When we moved to our current house, the books served as our curriculum for a year of home school for our kids. We read them all. They were great, even though there is a bias of the author against Reagan that comes through at the end. Flash forward to today.

I had heard this is a great series on the History Channel. I tuned in in time to see Custer blow it at Little Big Horn. Now I am watching the late 1800′s and the rise of industrialism in the US. It would be a great series if whoever produced it had resisted the urge to put celebrity interviews in segments. The story of the Statue of Liberty features Meryl Streep. The story of the influx of immigrants around the late 1800′s features an unintelligible vignette from Michael Douglas. I keep shaking my head at their inclusion. Since the series is probably playing out in chronological order, I have probably missed the part where they interview Meg Ryan on the assassination of Lincoln. Darn. They should have left the vignettes to the professors, biographers, and historians. Not celebrities.

Interesting to Note:
About a week ago, our oldest son (a new 2nd Lieutenant) was preparing one of his wool berets for use. This preparation involves shaving a massive amount of fuzz from the outside of the beret. Then you dampen it and weigh it down. Then after this, he put it on his head for further shaping. I went upstairs, he was sitting at a desk with his beret on his head. I couldn’t help but notice a tag peeking out from under the back. It said “Made in Vietnam”.

As a further aside, the large telephone books that he used to weigh down the beret stayed on the kitchen counter for close to a week before I put them up. As Glenn likes to say “the country’s in the very best of hands”.