Obama declared war on Truck Drivers

In a new regulation put out by the Department of Transportation (a while back in fact) truckers were going to have to put a device to track them in every truck. Obama’s DoT specifically singled out several providers of such devices (Read Cronyism) as appropriate vendors. All trucks were going to need these devices installed.

DoT said the reason was safety. However, as records indicate, Trucking has only gotten safer in the more recent years and is still proceeding on a down-ward spiral into less accidents. In fact the level is something that if it was a stock would indicate a mass sell off and a soon to be dead company! Trucking is currently safer than it ever has been in the History of the United States

These devices, commonly known by the first provider…. Qualcomm’s… would track all drivers and allow companies the ability to send messages. The system is quite expensive (A typical word can cost a dollar). The idea was to force electronic logging of driving time on drivers. However the need for such is not really there. There is a program to mandate it on companies with a lot of log book violations, which I endorse, but this regulation would put all drivers on the log and make things… difficult.

Some drivers have never used a computer in their lives. Others are finding it hard when they are asked by a company to operate the different functions of the electronic logs. However we got lucky. A lawsuit succeeded in Federal Court to stop Obama from proceeding. While specious in my opinion, it is with merit. The reason given was that trucking company dispatchers could ‘harass’ a driver with the devices (This in fact can and does happen). But Obama wont let this stop him. He has a history of not letting go of his ideas.

This unfortunately fits a pattern for Obama as he is truly attacking American Drivers. As seen on my website http://michaelharrington.org/nafta/ Obama and his policies will cost American drivers up to 600,000 jobs.

WORSE is yet on the horizon as well, as over half a million small businesses (Truck drivers who own their own trucks) could close (aka lose their trucks) due to high Diesel prices thanks to policies Obama has forced upon the oil industry as much as he can. Yes this is a guess by me, but based on the previous fuel problems we had under Bush the number may be spot on. Truck drivers who do not have a fuel adjustment built into their contract of some sort are reporting a loss of 75% of their take home income. You heard that right… Drivers who used to take home $2,000 a month to pay their mortgage, to pay electric bills, to give their children clothes and such…. are now earning $500 a month in take home pay. How would you live with 25% of your current pay?

Society seems ignorant of the plight of American Truck Drivers, and the true test on our economy will start this summer. Gasoline and Diesel prices will be followed closely by sky rocketing prices on goods at the store. When Gasoline prices keep rising past what economists estimated… you know the reason why is that less truck drivers are able to deliver fuel at a competitive rate and less trucks are available to deliver the fuel. There is a saying you will see on some trucks: “Trucks, we bring good stuff”. Well the goods will be stopped in some cases for lack of means to move it.

Obama is not stopping with NAFTA, Electronic Logs, or CSA2010 either. No… He has pushed our trucks into “Green Machines” and keeps mandating new standards. It is a sad fact that a modern Semi-Truck takes in dirtier air than the air it puts out the smoke stack. This has only increased the average cost of a Semi-Truck to 125% of what it used to be. Yes Obama has carried out his dream of “Green” on trucks, though his efforts to force car drivers to buy the more expensive Chevy Volts has faltered.

Hear our plea, here our cries for help. Support trucking, call a member of congress, or even donate today to the cause.

America lives on trucking

I am Michael Harrington, and I endorse this message!

Obama may spend 2 billion thanks to Super PAC’s

No one has said as much, but consider that the left is desperate, the Super PAC’s have changed the game, and Soro’s and such may go all in.

That part is just my 0.02 dollars

So what can we do about it?

We can argue over the current crop of candidates, all of which are bloodied and limping, or we can push for a brokered convention.

In a brokered convention there is a chance for one candidate to get max donations from everyone following that person, a chance for Super PAC’s supporting that candidate to get flushed full of money, for a rapid organization of infrastructure as ever could be seen, and volunteers who would be more fanatical than RonPaulBots (but in a good sort of way)

That Candidate is:

Sarah Palin

Let’s face it… she woo’s the crowd where-ever she goes. She has supporters aplenty even to make Ron Paul look weak, she has an established staff, name recognition, and more.

She can be our hope in these trying times, she can be the one that we all can unite around, and the one we can name MADAM PRESIDENT.

As a candidate myself, I have noticed that despite reality, we do not often enough pay attention to bilingual minorities or to those who do not speak English.

In fact in chagrin I plan a Spanish page on my own website after thinking deeper about this.

I had thought of this a while ago, and intended to try to push for us to not just get a person to write for us, but for every candidate to be able to passably speak and write a different language.

The value of knowing how to speak to minorities in their language is an amazing boost to the votes you can get from that group.

I believe Bush, a moderate, won due to his outreach in Spanish to Spanish Speakers. Every edge counts!

We Conservatives are correct in wanting to give everyone the gift of a single language, as studies show if you fluently speak and write English you earn more than otherwise (Statistically speaking).

But we also then ignore those who have trouble with languages, who feel they are to old to learn a new language, those who are deaf, and those the Democrats supress by placing them in ‘native language’ classes.

Lets not kid ourselves… legal immigrants are very staunchly pro-American, let us channel this for Conservative values.

To that end, finally, in January I started learning Tagalog (The Filipino language).

Having examined language programs I found one that can work for my schedule. I am not associated in anyway with, but just use a paid for copy, of an app called LLingo, which you can choose from dozens of languages.

Of course there is Rosetta Stone and others.

This is something we as an ideology need to incorporate into our structure. Being bilingual is not a chore, not useful…. but a necessity for stopping the tide of liberalism.

As always this is just my .02 cents.

If so please read.

I am an associate of someone who is helping with legal assistance. I would never give her contact info out, so I will instead forward inquiries to her.

If you have been suddenly sprung with an IRS request for information Since December then please email me your State, email, and the name of your Not For Profit.

I will forward this information over.

I can be reached at MichaelHarrington4rep at gmail dotcom.

All information will be strictly confidential. I am going on a spam limb here, but the cause must go on.

Yes let us have a full Conservative black out on Carbonite and all companies that have a ditched Limbaugh.

Lets shut them all down and make them realize we are the driving force of their economy not the other way around!

Carbonite in particular is antiquated, lived by advertising on Conservative Talk Shows, now they can die by Conservative Talk Shows.

I will buy Mozy or Drop Box instead of Carbonite.

When Mr. Friendship offers to pay 30% more to each talk show, cease donating to Liberals, and donate to Conservatives he can have another chance, but not until then!

Man made Global Warming (AGW) is false.

In fact it was so one sided once people started looking at evidence the profiteers started calling it Climate Change.

Now I have studied the issue at length. I know all the claims, many of the major players, and I have determined it is all false. I have had this view point from 2003 I believe. Now I use www.surfacestations.org as a primary evidence site. This  compilation site is tl;dr for 99.9% of the worlds population, but if you want access to a sorted list of evidences then read on! When I feel like mocking I use www.wattsupwiththat.com. Let me make this clear, I have no degree, no accreditation, no published papers on the topic. This is evidence laymen can find, and for the most part understand.

I am opinionated. After studying the evidence I cannot sit idly by. Some players I save my largest scorn for are CRU, the EPA, and NOAA. These organizations need 100% of their funding removed, their ‘champions’ banned from ANY Government funds forever, and need prison terms unless they can pay back the damages they have caused. That’s just my opinion. But please do read on.

Now what the AGW crowd says is warming is happening, carbon dioxide levels are rising, ergo correlation equal causation. Climate Change re-branders try several claims but the ‘strongest’ in my view is that the variability is due to heating of the oceans, changes in the currents (air and wind), all due to carbon dioxide (and a little bit to some other specific gases).

To which some laymen will tell you temperatures have flat-lined while carbon dioxide levels have increased. They are only partially correct. The truth is temperatures have dropped but the AGW and CC crowds are trying to hide that. A good tool to them is using models for area’s not covered by monitoring equipment. This practice is only increasing, via the removal of stations. There is the problem of local reporting stations that are not part of their ‘network’ but they make a variety of reasons for why they do not use that data.

Problems have arisen for the AGW crowd, such as evidence the oceans are not following models at all, that the upper atmosphere is colder than it is supposed to be, that the lower atmosphere is colder than it is supposed to be (source for all three here is NASA). Things are always being debunked that they try to bring up. Their models always have to much heat.

Then there is the issue of Modeling their works. They cannot get a single model to work.

I will say… one model actually works, but it debunks AGW and CC.

That model is Farmers Almanac.

Now before CERN did their science experiment I was following a scientist who claimed Cosmic Radiation was the largest outside influence after the sun, and that water molecules was the only real issue in the atmosphere. CERN reinforced he was correct with a large experiment that mimicked the Earth’s atmosphere.

In short here is an explanation of the real influences on the Earth temperatures,

The Sun (and Jupiter to an extent) has a magnetic field which repulses Cosmic Radiation. This field varies in strength according the the ‘currents‘ in the Sun. This field as said stops some Cosmic Radiation, but not all, and the amount varies as per a variance in the amount coming from without and with the variability of the Sun’s magnetic field.

Now when Cosmic Radiation hits the atmosphere it binds water molecules into cloud formations (they are not the only component, but they are the primary component). Now if water vapor remains as water vapor it absorbs heat (much more so than Carbon Dioxide ever can claim) and keeps it in the atmosphere. If it forms clouds then it redirects sunlight (and heat) back out into space.

Then we have history to use against AGW and CC arguments.

Historically there has been wide, stress WIDE, variations in the temperature of the Earth. There have been periods where grapes where grown in England, and times when Ice Ages covered the Earth. The dinosaurs might testify to that fact, if we can just subpena one.

In fact there is proof that the Carbon Dioxide claims they have done is wildly wrong including ice cores. If Ice Cores are removed from the equation, then Carbon Dioxide levels are pretty much stationary.

As well as those two facts there is proof temperature and carbon dioxide were not correlated (sometimes same time, sometimes not) together in the historic past. Some scientists point to the Maunder Minimum, and try to use this to identify causation as well. Of course there is some conspiracy theory… for instance a variation of Planet X has it that a giant dust storm is headed our way and this will put Earth through an ice age… but meh.

History helps me claims further. In fact strongly so. Go to a library and you will find that Greenland is not melting away. Honestly! Read it here for instance. Or one could just dig up some old junk like this! Or if you prefer there is a nice home here.

So where did this hysteria, this lie start?

I did my best to try to discern when this all started. This is the result of my studies.

It started when Earth First, Elf, Alf, and similar groups won by falsifying evidence in Oregon. They put dead Spotted Owls in Old Growth tree’s as an effort to protect Old Growth from logging. They succeeded in this because there was not many who could, or would, map out the living habitat of an animal. In truth the Spotted Owl lives in Christmas Tree sized growth, and by limiting logging and replanting… ironically… we are limiting the living habitat (by fighting forest fires) of the Spotted Owl. (I can attest to this via knowing the history of the Spotted Owl)

Flush with success in using a lie, they continued using lies to try to get their agenda. Their next target was glaciers (insofar as I know of). They claimed a number of glaciers were shrinking. Some of there claims were dismissed as evidence at the time showed no such thing was happening. The claims gave a variety of reasons, the strongest being acid rain. Well strongest at the time.

Of course science has caught up, and seems few glaciers are shrinking, that a new one may be forming in Washington, and that a lot of lying has happened. But I digress…

Then there was the “Ozone Hole” which started Climate Science in earnest. They started recording all sorts of things at a new hyper scale.

One result of this was a sudden tracking of ice bergs as they formed, and not just when they were in danger of entering shipping lanes. This information, and others lead to a dubious claim…

THE EARTH IS WARMING (Cooling)!

Using the new data sets they had gathered, and where no data existed ‘forcing‘ results from other data, and of course mixing in all their lies in one melting pot resulted in AGW.

During these events more and more Universities were starting climate science programs and the worries got them funding. This funding got higher and higher. To validate their jobs they MUST say that bad things are happening. After all if they sound an ‘all clear’ then most of their jobs go away. AGW almost started at the right time. There was a minor stretch of warmer years where each year in a row was warmer. But the amount was very much so within natural variance. This however did not stop them.

They set out to discredit any opposers from the start, which is a Saul Alinsky model… attack the person and you destroy their efforts. They also set up to coordinate, at a deep level, from the start. This gave them the time to get politicians and news reporters on board. This lie had to be pushed, pushed hard, and any issues glossed, or painted, over. By now legitimate scientists were noticing the money involved and tried to do research as well. But they found the errors were to much, and when they talked to a core person, they got attacked.

This started the resistance.

Out came the hockey stick, out came Al Gore’s true (fictional) movie, out came other clearly dubious claims. With this the resistance grew. I joined the resistance sometime in 2003.

At first the resistance was fragmented, our voices unheard, with no leadership. Then some of the more financially stable and/or smarter ones set up clearinghouses for information.

This is when the resistance started winning.

• The first blow was real evidence that they were wrong.
• A showing of models that all failed.
• It was a landslide that some tried to ignore.

The enemy of our enemy then published emails from CRU (Twice no less!) and other facts started leaking from the Great Wall of Environmentalism. The end is near for AGW, and CC.

If you read this and you do not believe their religion, then you are now part of the resistance!

American Trucking

American trucking would qualify as a threatened species if we were an animal.

In the next few years this group, which is currently short drivers as it stands, will lose more than 10% not through attrition, but through regulations and subsidized competition.

It is pretty bad when under NAFTA it will be cheaper to move cargo as far as 90 miles North of the Mexican border to Mexico first, and then drive it as far as 600 miles in.

It is sad that it could become Mexico that ships a lot of our goods as well, since it would be cheaper by 30% to have goods hauled 600 miles to a Mexican port than 600 miles to an American port.

The plight of American trucking may be the only thing to unite the Teamsters Union with Republicans. So severe is the damage that my estimate is NAFTA may ultimately cost America 500,000 jobs. Tied with the damages happening due to new Department of Transportation rules and a minimum of 10% of American trucking jobs will be lost.

It would be bad enough if this was the only assault going on right now… but it is not. New rules on emissions have increased the cost of a new truck as high as 125%, cities and counties strapped for cash are pulling trucks over more often due to the higher ticket payouts trucks generate, new regulations make for less pay, new requirements make independent drivers face impossible to continue being independent, and so forth.

We are under a full assault, and we are losing.

Truckers are aware of what is happening, but the general public is mostly unaware. Talks of boycotts keep climbing from drivers… wether denying certain cities goods or with a rolling roadblock effort… the talk is getting grimmer in truck stops.

However those efforts would fail, ultimately because the affected cities would get goods anyways, the roadblocking trucks would get hefty tickets they could ill afford to pay.

Our only two hopes are for the public to hear us, or for politicians to hear us.

If you, reading this today, emailed this to ten others, you can do you part to save 600,000 jobs. Bring awareness, bring stability, bring back common sense! Thank you for your time.

P.S. another way you can help is to donate to my campaign, a donation of $5, $10, $15, or $20 can go a long ways to helping my campaign to help truckers. In Oregon ANYONE can contribute, and in any amount they wish to do so. Click here to donate

I am Michael Harrington and I endorse this message!
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I love math, but Statistics is my true love.

Statistics plays a lot in everything you do, and everything around us.

Statistics do not lie. Humans do.

A famous quote goes “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics”

Proof that lies happen… there are more women than men, and more white women than white men. Yet women are considered a minority…

So when i saw that the SCOTUS was going to review Affirmative Action I grew excited (source).

Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity are nightmares.

The supposed goal of one is to prevent abuse of minorities.. the other is supposed to give opportunities to minors who would not otherwise have earned them. Or did I flip that?

Regardless what we have is a system neither representational nor fair.

Oh the lefties will bring out math to try to say it is representational, and emotions to say it is fair…

But let me break this problem down.

In Chicago there is whole areas filled with only “African Americans”, in some areas of California there are whole counties filled with “Latino Americans”, and in some areas of Alaska you have whole tribes of Inuit’s only. Diversity my backside. Those regions just are what they are.

You can visit huge regions where a white man is a minorty, a black man a minority, or whatever floats your statistical boat.

Then we have other statistical flukes.

I drive a semi truck for a living. It is really hard work, the average work week is 60-70 hours, I am never home, I put on some serious weight, and liberals see you as a monster, States see you as a piggy bank, and the Federal Government is set to ruin you as much as they can.

Sadly few women are in the industry. Especially as solo drivers. Over-all there may be 1 in 20 drivers being that other sex, but less than 1 in 100 (based upon experienced observations) are solo driving females.

Next lets look at Secretaries… holy female empire batman! Yeah you guessed it… men need not apply or do they just care not to apply?

Sports is a good show of regional and identity differences… Basketball versus Hockey. Do I need to say more about the spectrum difference, or how regional differences play into it?

When you try to tell a company they need a certain number, based upon a math model, you are automatically using a wrong math model. There can be no doubt that no model can adequately cover regional differences, sexual choice differences (not as in changing sex, but what each sex prefers to do), religious differences, sociological differences, and other factors.

Then we can talk education. College is supposed to be for higher education, universities for the best and brightest seeking higher education… so the idea of putting enough seats on the side for minorites to enter even if they have less than ideal grades is grotesque.

“The sports teams refused me, the music director said i have tone deafness, so the only other thing with scholarships is brain suregon” sort of talk should scare you. I want someone who went after the choice of a career before hand versus someone who chose a career cause it was someplace they could get in to. That reads poorly…. I would rather you pushed hard for that career than getting it because your supposedly underpriveledged and you think it could be good money.

I rather Bill Gates do what he likes than if he was given a center position on the Blazers team due to a lack of nerds there (for the record I self identify as a nerd, suck it).

So if I were called to testify about Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action I would say they are racist, sexist, regressive, and un-American. PERSUE YOUR DREAM!

Greetings fellow webactivists.

I am seeking to catch up, and then pass the Democrats in high tech GOTV (Get Out The Vote) activities.

Believe it or not… Crowd Sourcing is a new (or repackaged) method to gather ideas.

So here is the Stated Goal:

To write a comprehensive technological plan with links, explanations, methods, and FAQ’s for Republican candidates to use.

To get to this goal we need to talk bar code readers, mobile credit card readers, smart phones, data banks, new map services, social networking, auto texting, mailing lists, forums, and more.

So your mission, if you accept, is to help put together our collective knowledge.

Obama has the lead in this arena… let’s work to reverse this. He has smart phones with drawn up maps of previous donors and credit card readers. He has a huge twitter following, and updates people with text’s sent to their phones.

I am a forward thinker… I know I can do a smaller version on my own… but our collective knowledge easily can make this effort… The most effective tool for Republicans ever

My fellow Oregonians we are on the cusp of history. Oregon shall have Republican control over the House, and there is a real chance we can take the Senate.

Which is why I wish to ask you.

Will you help push us over the line?

We need to win exactly one house seat to win the house. We need three to get a firm Conservative hold on the Senate.

I want you to help leap beyond those numbers.

I want you to goto your elections office, or call your County Republican Party Chair and ask to sign up as a Precinct Committee Person.

This is an actual elected position, but you need only three votes. Most of the time no one runs for the positions so you wont have a challenger. There is flexibility of where you will serve.

This is not a painful position. It is a volunteers position indicating you are willing to help Republican campaigns you believe in. It also gives you the right to vote on the leadership of your County and affects the leadership of our GOP State Leaders.

I want you to step up, become a PCP and volunteer a small fraction of your time to help a candidate for Mayor, City Council, State Rep., and/or State Senator. Who you help is your choice, or you can try to just learn from the experience as well.

The deadline is March 8th.

If you are in Multnomah County you can contact myself or the Vice Chair of Multnomah County, John Payne.

I am Michael Harrington, I am running against Tina Kotek… the leader of the Democrats in the House… and I can use Tea Party people to help in any way they want to. I can be reached at 971-533-3116. I have strange hours as a truck driver, but do try anyways.

John Payne recovered the Multnomah County District from disarray, i have met the man and was deeply impressed. He is now the Vice Chair under Jeff Reynolds and they are running a tight ship with the resources they have. John Payne can be reached at 503-997-2708.

I am Michael Harrington, and I fully endorse this message. Making Oregon’s Future!