Profitable Global Warming Enterprise and Man-Made Drought

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Admin

“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”– Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

Folsom Lake
Photo credit: KTVU Channel 2
Another co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist who was a member from 1971-1986, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, “After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective. Climate change was not an issue when I abandoned Greenpeace, but it certainly is now.” He said that environmental groups use “faulty computer models and scare tactics in promoting claims man-made gases are heating up the planet.”
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Malalai, an Afghani’s Story

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Admin

Bamiyan Valley
Malalai is tall and willowy, an elegantly dressed Afghani beauty with a witty sense of humor. Her piercing and fascinating green eyes remind me of Michael Zhang’s iconic 1995 National Geographic portrait of the mysterious “Afghan Girl.”
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“Engineering” Climate Change

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Admin

Ice Formations.
Photo credit: Jeremy Smith, 2014

Our omniscient government is going to spend $1 billion in addition to the billions already wasted so far in order to attempt the impossible, “engineering” climate change to satisfy the Green agenda.
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Eating to Live Not Living to Eat

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Admin

Photo: Ileana Johnson, 2014
I don’t look at food the same way most Americans do. I grew up on my grandparents’ small farm in the village. Everything we ate came from our garden and our livestock – fresh vegetables in season, canned vegetables in winter and spring, goat and cow’s milk, butter, goat cheese, eggs, smoked meat, lardy bacon, fatty sausages in natural casings, and eggs.
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Why Global Citizenship and Not American Citizenship?

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Admin

Photo: Ileana Johnson, 2014
I have asked many students over my 30 teaching years why they attended college. The answers encompassed a wide range:
– It’s a family tradition and my parents are making me
– I want to learn more about a particular subject
– I want a higher-paying job
– I want to be a doctor, a vet, an engineer, a pilot, an astronaut, an artist
– I want to do research and find a cure for cancer
– I have nothing better to do with my time and I like being a student
– I want to be perennial learner and the tuition is paid by the government
– I want to make American lives better
– I want to be the first college graduate in my family
– I don’t want to work in a blue collar job like my father
– I want to help my small hometown who needs a doctor or a vet
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Shameless Communist Propaganda from the Left

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Admin

Photo credit: Ileana Johnson, 2013
Lately I see a lot of Marxist propaganda in our country, particularly in the MSM and in education. I know all the slogans because I lived the lies of the communist propaganda for 20 years.

I will start with equal pay, social justice, and equality across the board by government fiat. The commie social justice was equality of misery, hunger, poor, cold, and cramped living conditions, scarcity of food, basic needs, electricity, water, and everything else spoiled brats in America take for granted that is produced by a free market model. The Sochi hotel accommodations are a case in point. To deal with the misery, the workers (the proletariat), which was all of us (except the ruling regime), joked that the “communists pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work.” I choose capitalist inequality any day.
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The Incredible Legal Immigrants

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Admin

I am always fascinated by legal immigrants who left their loved ones and their homes behind, came to this country, and made America a special place unlike any other on earth. Their individual stories of true grit and endurance in the face of adversity gives our American citizens their unique character and cultural fabric.
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On Being A Xenophobe

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Admin

Humans are creatures of habit and do not like to uproot – unless of course, you are an American with a sense of adventure and pioneer blood cursing through your veins. With its vast lands, lakes, rivers, prairies, and mountains, mobility in America by any means is not a problem. Ask the die-hard pioneers who braved snow, rain, mud, droughts, deserts, mountains, wild animals, and predatory outlaws to find their magical piece of land where they could settle and raise a family.
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Arlington National Cemetery is 150 Years Old

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Admin

There was a quiet and peaceful stillness about the cemetery this January day. It was snowing heavily and the pristine white was accumulating between thousands of rows of headstones marking the graves of our true heroes who gave their lives in battle or died in old age, having served our country for decades, fighting enemies to preserve our freedom.
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Blazing the Trail of Seven Vultures

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Admin

The sudden balmy day prompted him to explore the newly forged and difficult trail in the forest, leading into the marshy area along the Potomac. A creek’s tributaries flow into the river all over the densely forested and marshy banks.
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ILEANA JOHNSON

American By Choice

Monthly Archives: February 2014