So… the kidnapper-come-Iranian Prime Minister Ahmadinejad is going to go to Copenhagen next week to address the “negotiators” at the international climate talks.

Oh, just so you know: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are also planning to speak before this… august body.

Don’t worry I’m not going to ask my question the way I really feel that it deserves… but can someone PAH_LEEZE tell me just what these nutjobs are doing there. I mean, we are supposed to believe that this is a gathering of “scientists” (read: climate hoax-mongers) there to tackle to the Earth’s climate and get it under control, not an anti-US, anti-capitalism rally.

I know… it’s not REALLY about climate change but rather more about UN dictatorship empowered by heavy taxation. Marxism and Fascism at its pinnacle.

First, They have some back-bencher assistant president from Sudan by the name of Nafie Ali Nafie starting this hand-wringing blab-fest at noon on Wednesday.

This guy Nafie, he’s the chairman of a block of developing nations that call themselves the G-77. Now the G-77 is twisting a lot of arms in its push for stricter emissions cuts from rich countries. Oh, and more money, A LOT more money (handouts) from those rich countries. Basically, all this bunch is there for is to agree on how much each of these rich countries will have to pay in their financing of this massive redistribution of wealth.

By the way, we have the G-7, G-8, G-20… and now the G-77…? Just how many “G” country groups do we need? What purpose does this bunch serve other than to whine and crybaby about how badly they’ve been treated and that it’s all the US’s fault. I looked them up and cannot find a real purpose for the G-77 except a shared open hand extended to the US. The thing is, with countries like Brazil, Chile, India… Kuwait, Yemen… these are NOT poor countries, in fact they are countries WE depend on anymore.

Ca’mon now… if it had not been for the United States, where would those countries be? Definitely nowhere near the 21st century. And this is the same bunch who would bite off the hand that feeds it and kill the engine for all those free dollars it is intending on raping, I mean reaping from us?

Hey, I’ll admit: I’m a simple man, and yeah, I grew up out in New Mexico where you have to drill quite a ways to hit water. And when you do, it’s usually pretty good water. but… sometimes you can run a well dry. These countries, same as the liberals in this country, hold this idea that they can plunder the bank accounts of anyone who has more than they do and that there is no end to that supply of money. They stifle the US with this, and it won’t be long before this well will run dry. Where will these beggars be then?

New Scientist says of the conference: “It’s being billed as the meeting that will determine the future of humanity”. You know, I think I actually have something I agree with this rag on. It WILL change humanity! But definitely not in a good way.

Like the rationed, single-payer, government healthcare bill that is currently threatening to be passed, the results of this conference could easily be the tool used against developed nations in subjugating them and killing the engines which effectively move humanity forward through advances in every aspect of our collective lives.

New Scientist is also touting this debacle as a weeklong challenge for the ‘delegates’ to agree on ways of ensuring we do not exceed a 250,000 megaton maximum amount of carbon we can put into the atmosphere – ever. That’s not a yearly ration, that is an ALL TIME MAXIMUM! What is their answer when we actually DO hit that maximum?

Now when you realize that plant life thrives, yeah, it really does thrive on carbon dioxide, you realize it actually is quite necessary! In fact, without carbon dioxide plants and trees and in turn, everything that lives off of the vegetation of this planet – DIES! It’s kind of a cycle of life, food chain thing…

Water, soil, underground nutrients, and carbon dioxide make for health plants. Healthy, good tasting plants are used to feed others higher up the food chain than they are. In turn, those animals become food for the next tier above them. As animals eat the plants waste products; solid, liquid, and… yes airborne, are manufactured and start he cycle over and enrich the environment for plants.

I guess what I‘m getting at here is that this whole Copenhagen get-together is a farce whose only purpose is to move toward total control of the entire earth. WHILE stripping the US of it sovereignty and taking us headlong down the path of destruction.

Stripping the US of its sovereignty? Yep, if this does go through United States citizens will be subject to world courts. And none other than our illustrious President is pushing to get this done.

After dissing King Harald V of Norway, President Obama went to Copenhagen, hoping his voice will add the necessary momentum to the throng in order to move the process forward.

This despite slow progress on the Cap and Trade bill at home which is to cut carbon emissions.

The one question I have had throughout writing this is: Why, if this is supposed to be a “scientific” conference, are all these heads of state running over there to line up to pressure these so-called white lab-coat researchers? If it truly WERE science that was being debated, Sarkozy, Obama, Ahmadinejad, Chavez… none of them would have any business being there.

I’ll leave you to ponder that question. I have my thoughts as to the answer, but right now ~ it’s your turn…

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

States Rights, a VERY limited central Federal government, the PERSONAL rights as enumerated in The Bill of Rights: Freedoms of Speech, Assembly, The Right to Bear Arms, The Right to Private Ownership of Property (without the fear of the government taking it at their whim), The Right of the Secret Ballot… I believe in each and every one of the enumerated rights.

Please notice that I DID NOT say or in any way imply that these rights are granted to us by or from the government – they ARE NOT! We the PEOPLE grant the government the powers and rights it has NOT the other way round.

This all said; can I be a Conservative?

I may not agree with what someone is saying. In fact, I may very well ask them how stupid does someone have to be to come up with such a ridiculous idea, but… I will defend their Right to freely voice their (idiotic) opinion.

Classifying some speech as ‘Hate Speech’ or ‘politically incorrect’ is nothing more than an attempt on someone’s part to stifle or censor what someone else not only says but, by extension; what they think.

Undocumented worker… it supposedly is not right to call someone who has snuck into our sovereign nation at over invasion force levels exactly what they are: ILLEGAL ALIENS. We wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings while they bankrupt entire segments of our society and economy… I don’t care about their feelings, they are here illegally and this invasion HAS GOT to be STOPPED!

I understand that because I believe whole-heartedly in the capitalist idea of free market enterprise… I might be a conservative. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how ANYONE can actually believe that a collectivist state will ever produce anything. The state may own everything, but at that point what incentive is there for anyone to go beyond the barest minimum expected of them to excel and achieve?

To be a Conservative do I have to believe that we as a people, as a nation are taxed just WAY TOO MUCH? I DO! Can i give a plug for the Fair Tax here? Taxing the labor of everyone while they are alive is an insult. Especially for the quality of the services and products that those confiscated dollars return to us.

Then, when you die, the fruits of your labors are again taxed so as to ‘share the wealth’ with those whose backs you built your estate on. All this does is allow vultures who feed off the carcasses of a families loss to steal that which the family had struggled a lifetime for. And to add further insult to injury, these carrion feeders seek to indenture the family to work for them. All the while being held up as icons of the ‘American Way of doing business’. Excuse me while I clear my throat and spit in the gutter at their feet.

To be a Conservative do I have to listen to Rush Limbaugh everyday? I do. Not out of obligation, but out of devotion and choice.

To be a Conservative do I have to agree with everything Rush says and believes? I hope not, because there are times I don’t… Am I starting to slip in being a Conservative? Although we are of the same age bracket, I consider him not only a true hero of this country but, although I have never and doubt that I ever will, meet him; to me… he is a mentor, a friend, and a guiding light. That said, I still… don’t agree with him 100% of the time.

Do I HAVE to accept EVERYTHING Rush, Hannity, Levin, Boortz, et al. say to be a Conservative? If I don’t agree am I to be called Liberal? Or worse yet… a moderate?

Well… if that’s what makes you feel righteous and pious in your Conservatism, go for it.

I do hold a few (VERY FEW) social beliefs that lean to the left. Ready to burn me at the stake for such heresy, put the match down, there’s more…

I DO NOT care what two, or even three, consenting willing ADULTS do in private. Thankfully, I am married to a beautiful woman who loves me (she would have to for some of the stuff I have put her through – I don’t have enough money for her to stick around otherwise).

But it is no more of your business what we do in our private time together than it is what any other two consenting ADULTS do. Who do you think you are and just WHAT RIGHT do you have to tell someone how to live and WHO they may love? Am I still a Conservative?

Ok, time to light your matches and hold them at the ready:

For years there has been an all out assault on anything remotely smelling of ‘the taint of the Religious Right. Stop here and find my comments on Liberty University’s choice of asking the Democrat’ic’ Party to leave. After you’ve read that, come back and finish this.

**Ok, you’re back; I saved your place for you.

Now, you know that although I am an Atheist I do not follow their views that if you believe in a higher deity that you should be the object of any and all abuse they can heap upon you.

It’s amazing… even before discussing the freedoms of speech, the press… any of that; the founding fathers addressed religion. Even the Atheists among them agreed to ‘…make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…’.

My fellow Godless Americans: GET over yourselves and move on. Leave these people alone. So you don’t like to hear about their God on TV, radio or wherever: push the button to change the channel and live your life…

OH! As to labeling me a fluttering in the wind, middle of the road, finger in the air moderate. Let me explain something: I may stick my finger in the air but it is to give someone an idea of what I think of them.

I have VERY definite ideas of where I stand on just about any issue out there and I DO NOT generally wait to check around to see what everyone else is thinking and to make sure I think like they do. I may not have the brightest mind out there but… I DO know how to use the mind I have to THINK for MYSELF. I may not think what you want me to, oh well, ask my wife, she’ll tell you stories of how she’s worked at trying to change my thoughts (not a pretty picture).

So, back to my question: Can I be a Conservative?