Segment 1 - Monologue Segment
Welcome America to the Joel Gaines Show, where we dissect the issues from a common sense conservative perspective - no boiling the debate down to the bumper sticker rhetoric you get from the main stream media. The number here is 646-378-1249.
I am constantly reading and I am a big fan of historical works of all kinds. My father recently brought me a book about a relative of mine. The book is called: The First Saratoga – Being the Saga of John Young and His Sloop-of-war by William Bell Clark. Now, I have known for a long time, through research, that I had a seafaring great, great etc etc relative. However, the details of his life were not known to me. But get this, during revolutionary war, a ship was commissioned by the continental congress and it became the USS Saratoga. This ship’s captain – her only captain – was John Young and I am descended from John Young. There have been three – I think – USS Saratogas and I have been on the post-WWII one. I think they even sponsored a little league team I was on once. How, odd that is to me.
Ok – what’s up for today?
- John McCain is pushing for new measures on Auto-emission and threatening new sweeping legislation if auto-companies do not comply, while producing tax incentives for companies which do.
- Barak Obama attempts to reintroduce himself to voters (is the makeover happening)
- Who sponsored Barak Obama’s first public speech of the general election cycle?
- Communist Party USA endorses Barak Obama.
- Abrupt climate change history vs anthropologic global warming
- George Carlin
You know, I am one of those angry Republicans who thought John McCain was way too “Mavericky” to actually win the presidential nomination, let alone the white house. Yet, over the past several weeks, I have come to realize two things:
1) John McCain is an old-school politician. He’s an establishment guy with a lot of history in Congress. He is part of the game – part of the club. While I often rail against the political elite in this country, I also understand the reality of why it exists. John McCain is no amateur politician.
2) John McCain is – by far – the best bet this country has to ensure we remain secure from terrorism at home and he is going to make things happen – knowing full well he will piss off either one side or the other, while having it firmly fixed in his mind that he is doing what he does for both sides.
John McCain is not a “textbook” conservative. But neither was the man many consider a lion of conservatism - Teddy Roosevelt – especially after 1912, when he began the progressive movement in the Republican party while running against Taft. John McCain might equate himself as a Reagan Republican, but he reminds me more of the Bull Moose himself. I don’t know how Teddy Roosevelt would feel about my comparison, but he’s dead, so it really doesn’t matter, does it.
The moral of this story, kids, is simple. John McCain is pound for pound the best choice for America in 2008. He’s at least got a plan for most of the things he talks about and he definitely understands the historical context for some of the policies we have. Compare that to Mr Obama, who could use a subscription to the history channel and has not made a single definitive statement regarding policy in the 2 years he’s been running for President and the choice is pretty clear. So far, the only Change we’ve seen from Barak Obama is how he changes himself.
ON MUSIC – When we come back John McCain talks tough regarding vehicle emissions – what exactly is the deal? We’ll find out – after this.
Segment 2 –
While Barak Obama focuses on the unfairness of a skeptical America, John McCain talks policy. Now, Senator McCain has sipped from the global warming Kool-Aid vat, but it seems to have been just a sip. So, he’s announced that he will propose legislation requiring auto-makers to pursue more “earth-friendly” technologies and will offer incentives to those who do.
Senator McCain says America needs to get away from burning oil in its cars and if legislation is the impetus for that, so be it. I agree that it would be beneficial if we had an inexpensive, alternative fuel to run our cars, heavy construction machinery, military, farm machinery, etc. But let’s take a look at some realities here. Everything – including your wind turbines – require some form of oil to operate. Moving away from petroleum is not going to happen anytime soon. The entire world – including the global warming moguls – operates on fossil fuel. Without oil, everything comes to a complete halt. So, ridding ourselves of oil as a fuel source is not even on the horizon. It’s not on the horizon because there is no other form of energy that the world has come to a consensus on that we could move to. It’s not on the horizon because there is no source of power that is as widely adaptable for use as is oil. Even John McCain’s $350 million battery, if that ever comes to light, will not be able to be used as a lubricant in a tank, or a tractor, or a charging station for your electric car.
So, while we work on developing a technology that produces energy for commercial use, we have to ensure that we still have access to affordable fuel. Fuel directly translates to production. If people can’t get to work or can’t operate machines in manufacturing plants, or can’t harvest crops, everything stops. We get most of our oil from foreign sources – particularly middle-eastern sources, so our foreign policy has to be focused on securing the fuel we need. So the Boycott OPEC bumper sticker mentality has to go away. That solves nothing.
The answer to our short term problems is simple, but the impact is short term as well. We can reduce the price of a gallon of gasoline – depending on what state you live in – anywhere from $0.34 - $0.70 per gallon tomorrow. Believe me when I tell you this is absolutely possible – and we could probably keep these prices reduced for the next 4-5 years. We can cut the prices of gasoline at the pump tomorrow, if we feel so strongly about this issue.
Further we can reduce the per barrel cost of oil starting in about 7-8 years and the price would remain low for the next 25+ years. Now, if we can’t come up with an alternative fuel between NASA, the military, and our genius private sector here in America in 32-35 years, we never will.
So, I hear your minds clicking now – you’re wondering if this is some sort of trick. By what sleight of hand can we reduce the price of fuel tomorrow and then a few years down the road reduce the per barrel price of oil for 25 years? Right?
It’s so easy, you’ll laugh. Regardless of whether the price of gasoline is $1.75 per gallon or $4.75 per gallon, our government collects what they consider to be their just reward. Direct taxes on gasoline represents – after all the different kinds of taxes are considered – as much as $0.70 per gallon of gas. What your government has been telling you up to this point is how concerned they are that the price of fuel is causing you such pain and they are going to do something about that - - as long as they continue to get paid at the pump. The government is only concerned with your pain at the pump, if alleviating that pain does not cause the government any pain. So, cut those taxes out tomorrow and your fuel prices go down tomorrow.
Now, long term – starting about 8 years out – we need to do two things. These are the only two things that are going to bring the cost of fuel down permanently. There is a little place in the wilderness of Alaska and another place out in the ocean off the eastern seaboard that have a lot of oil under the ground. We begin building drilling platforms – and we design these operations, so we have as little impact as possible to the surrounding ecosystems. Not that we won’t impact the systems at all, but we do everything in our power – and government helps with this – to ensure we have as little impact as possible. Simultaneously, we build two new high-capacity refineries. Government does its level best to clear the way of any environmental or legal obstacles so the goal of having two new refineries built can be accomplished rapidly. Several years down the road – 7-10 by our best guess, we open up the taps. The supply of oil is dramatically increased and the growing demand for fuel is more easily met.
Thus ends the government’s part in increased fuel prices. Thus ends the speculation on what oil will cost 3 months from now. Thus ends the blight our economy is experiencing as the price of everything – including the price of the average employer to do business – goes up. This is a simple plan that presupposes one thing.
It presupposes that all Americans and all members of our government have a common goal – that goal being the welfare and success of Americans. If all Americans and all members of government share this goal, this plan I have laid out is not going to stretch by any means our ability to accomplish it.
Stay tuned America – we’ll have more to talk about as the Joel Gaines Show continues, right after this.
Segment 3
The makeover of Barak Obama has begun, America. It began with his very first general election ad. In this ad he purports to have been instrumental in passing legislation to extend health care for the troops. In his 3 ½ years in congress, tell me which piece of legislation Barak Obama passed or took significant part in that extends health care for the troops. The legislation the Obama campaign points to was House Resolution 4966 – which went into law in January 2008 in a 91-3 vote with 6 senators abstaining. Six senators did not vote on this legislation and one of them was Barak Obama – so how did he pass legislation to extend health care to wounded troops when the aforementioned legislation was not acted upon by this Senator? He is creating credentials from whole cloth and I will tell you why. Barak Obama, in 3/12 years as a United States senator, has not crafted a single piece of memorable legislation. He has no record to stand on and is known more for walking in and taking credit for the hard work of other lawmakers without any skin in the game. Barak Obama has nothing upon which to hang his shingle as a prospective president. He has done nothing in congress which anyone could point to to even back up his mantra of change. The extreme makeover – Obama edition is in full gear. He is taking credit for passing legislation that he did not sponsor, cosponsor, amend or even vote on. Is his reasoning that he would have voted on it, if he felt it was important enough to be present in congress for? Then why didn’t he just state in his ad that he believes the troops should get all the care they need – instead of saying he passed legislation? I’ll tell you why. Because when the weak man’s got nothing to offer and has bet everything he’s got, the weak man lies.
While we are on the topic of Barak Obama, Let’s take a look at who put on one of Obama’s very first general election campaign events.
Hat’s off to Gateway Pundit at gatewaypundit.blogspot.com for uncovering this. Barak Obama’s first major campaign speech of the general election was at Occidental College – one of his alma maters. The event was sponsored by an innocuous sounding group called Campaign for Economic Democracy. This group’s principal activists are members of Students for a Democratic Society – which is closely associated with some of the following names – let’s see if you can recognize them. Tom Hayden – an ultraleft activist, Bernadine Dohrn – one of the weatherman underground terrorists, Bill Ayers- another one of the weatherman group, Robert Avakian – the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, and a number of other left-wing activists from every era since the 1960s. Tom Hayden was actually the leader of the group that spawned the Weatherman Underground – If you’ll remember; this group organized the 1969 Chicago riots that lasted more than 3 days. 1970 planning to bomb Army officer’s dance at Ft. Dix NJ – a premature explosion in their safe house foiled that plot. In June of 1970, these nutbags bombed a NYPD police station and a womens bathroom in the pentagon. This is the base of Barak Obama- this is his support system.
Going a little further down this path, If you think this is just a coincidental thing. Let’s look at another group that finds Barak Obama quite acceptable. Here is a quote:
When Barack Obama surpassed the 2,118 delegates required for nomination, his unity appeal and outreach to Clinton supporters deeply touched the country and was greeted around the world.
Unity — especially unity of African American, Latino and white voters, women and men — will have to be fought for and forged anew, broadened out and deepened in this new phase of the battle to defeat McCain and the corporate ultra-right in Congress.
The choice is clear — stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or come together and raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right.
That is from none other than Joelle Fishman –who chairs the Communist Party USA Political Action Commission and is also chair of the Connecticut Communist Party.
I was always taught that you judge a fellow by his actions and by the friends that he keeps. From Rev Wright to Bill Ayers to the Communist Party USA, Barak Obama’s friends are not the kind of people we want influencing the President of the United States.
Next up, America – . Stick around for more of the Joel Gaines Show.
Segment 4
Climate Changes – just like you know what happens – neither is being debated. There are two questions we are trying to answer.
1) Is climate change human caused or simply a part of the natural order of our earth?
2) Regardless of weather it is human caused or not, is there anything we can do about it?
Now, I want to look at this as a purely abstract thing for a second. Looking back through history, humans have not had a lot of luck controlling nature. There was that whole 40-days and 40 nights things a while back. More recently, we’ve seen a tsunami or two, some hurricanes which overwhelmed our ability to prevent damage to a city down south. More recently, there is this big flood that apparently nobody anticipated and that has caused a lot of problems for the people along the Mississippi river. I probably missed a couple of things over the past 5,000 years or so, but the idea I am posing here is that maybe our approach to this whole thing is a bit arrogant. Perhaps everything that happens TO the earth is not necessarily because of something happening ON the earth. Whether you are a Druid or a Christian, there is something to be said about a bit of reflection in this direction. Maybe, we have gotten a little too big for our britches.
The debate about whether warming causes CO2 or CO2 causes warming is inconclusive. The debate about the state of polar ice and its impact on warming or cooling is inconclusive. The climate models stink and the investigation of climate change – at least as far as those who are claiming to be a part of this grand scientific consensus – is presupposed that our global warming or global cooling trend on any given 10 year cycle of your choice is un-natural. Then we take it a step further to suppose we can actually DO something about it.
I think 99% of the people screaming about climate change are crooks or morons. I think most of them are arrogant knuckleheads trying to remove you from your money. I’ll bet there are a lot of guys from my side of the aisle who feel the same way. We’re tired of the hand wringing, fear mongering ploys to remove us from more of our hard-earned cash. It’s like a lot of animal activists and I know a couple – they would save a drowning puppy before a drowning kid. These climate activists think they can save the earth at the expense of the human inhabitants – and this is simply a means of extending their socialist worldview into enough fear to become an impetus for their otherwise pathetic cause.
I look at Al Gore – a guy who HAD to be the President to have any meaning in his life. He talks about it even today – he was robbed he says. Well, he has found his place. He has found a means to be – in some ways – even more powerful that the President. Do you think for a minute I am going to believe a guy who has 300 million tied up in “Green” industry? Do you think for a minute that I trust him any more than a communist trusts a big oil CEO? Especially when one of his espoused ploys is a carbon offset? Carbon Offsets are a stupid tax. If you are stupid enough to buy a carbon offset for your car, house or website – and especially if you listen to this show – I want to know about it. Because that, my friends, is going right into my media kit for potential advertisers. There will be a line in there in bold lettering that says, “These people buy carbon offsets – they are certain to buy whatever you are selling.” If you have recently bought a carbon credit, you need to email me at joel-gaines-@-aol-.-com because I have an anti-carbon credit that I can sell you to bring you back into balance. You can pay me via paypal or starbucks gift cards. Here is how I do this. I will put every dollar you send me – or the equivalent in the case you send me a starbucks gift – into the tank of my Dodge 3500 V10 Dually and I will drive the appropriate number of miles to buy a cappuccino. I don’t drive this truck very often because it is primarily a towing vehicle for my toys. However, it does need to be run from time to time and this is a chance to get yourself right with the world again.
Listen, fear is the greatest marketing tool known to man. If you can be made afraid of something you can’t see – something lurking out there in the minds of a few scientists and entrepreneurs – and be made to fear it enough to part with your dough, there is always someone who will use that against you – In this country, the only thing you need to be afraid of, is those who want you to give them something for nothing – I don’t think the listeners of this show are that gullible - so it is with that in mind that I say to you. God bless you and God bless America.
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