Quote of the Day

"Here's one more reason why conservatives MUST win in November 2012: Obama's EPA is demanding $21 billion and 230,000 more bureaucrats to enforce its planned regulatory regime. 

The EPA is currently fighting a legal challenge to its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases of 14,000 businesses. If the EPA wins its case, more than six million businesses could be forced to comply with burdensome new rules and regulations. But in court filings, the EPA makes this astonishing claim:"Hiring the 230,000 full-time employees necessary to produce the 1.4 billion work hours required to address the actual increase in permitting functions would result in an increase in Title V administration costs of $21 billion per year.""

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Albemarle County Pulls Out of Cool Counties

Cool Counties initiative rescinded in 

Albemarle County, Virginia

The Jefferson Area Tea Party is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, September 7, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors voted 4-2 to rescind its participation in the Cool Counties initiative it adopted in 2007.  The JATP led the effort in opposition of Cool Counties, as it did for paid membership in ICLEI - International Council for Local Environmental Issues, and once again our activism has proven successful.  Congratulations to everyone involved!

On a disturbing side note - without provocation, Supervisor Dennis Rooker waged some inappropriate, incorrect, and insulting accusations at the JATP following the vote.  These comments are transcribed below from the audio pod cast recorded by Charlottesville Tomorrow.  The entire Cool Counties discussion, vote, and post-discussion can be heard via this link:

http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/news/2011/09/albemarle-votes-to-end-cool-counties-membership.html

(Supervisor Rooker's comments about the JATP may be heard beginning at time marker 23:50)

"But, you know, I mean, where we're going now, is, in my view, is in a direction where we're afraid to be perceived as environmentally committed because, you know, I guess, the tea party has told us that's it's a bad thing and they can put another notch on their gun and send out an e-mail to all of their people saying we got Albemarle County out of ICLEI, and we got Albemarle County out of Cool Counties.  There will be an e-mail that goes out nationally today or tomorrow on that issue because it's a notch on the gun. And that's what this is about.  A notch on the gun."

JATP chairwoman Carole Thorpe has issued the following response:  

The JATP has stated repeatedly that it stands FIRMLY in favor of reasonable, responsible stewardship of our resources and maintenance of a healthy environment.  We trust our community can be environmentally committed and perceived as such by operating under scientifically sound policies and practicing common sense solutions executed within the bounds of the proper role of local government.  It is unnecessary to ally ourselves with dangerous, politically-motivated organizations (such as ICLEI) or participate in scientifically inaccurate initiatives which set arbitrary goals (such as Cool Counties). In fact, the oft-repeated motivations cited by Supervisor Dennis Rooker and Supervisor Ann Mallek to gain positive "perception" by national and international environmentalists while creating a gateway to receive grant money is seemingly, as much if not more, the reason they support these programs.  In my opinion, the dangers of bad alliances and bad policy should outweigh the benefits of outsider perception and grant money.

There is no "tea party gun".  I sat incredulous as Supervisor Rooker spouted this figment of his imagination which was both uncalled for and highly inappropriate.  His imagery of a "gun" in association with the JATP was inflammatory and irresponsible.  The tea party movement has been and remains a non-violent expression of citizen concern which operates within the confines of civil discourse and the rule of law.  Its members are taxpaying constituents who have every right to respectfully petition their elected representatives for desired action, just as members of many other organizations do.  Neither Supervisor Rooker's politics nor frustrations entitle him to misuse his prominent position on the Board of Supervisors to cast disparaging remarks against those with whom he disagrees.  

The JATP advocates for public matters as guided by adherence to its principles - not in exercise for self-aggrandizement to "put another notch on their gun."  Supervisor Rooker asserts; "And that's what this is about.  A notch on their gun."  This ridiculous statement is born out of his obvious and mounting resentment of the JATP to win the arguments and votes necessary to defeat the ill-advised policies he champions.       

It is the reasonable, common response of any organization that affects the change it seeks to share its good news with others.  This is especially true with all-volunteer groups like the JATP, where the personal satisfaction earned for many hours of hard work is part of the reward.  I typically notify our members, state and local media, and area tea party organizations of our successes - but there is no rash "e-mail that goes out nationally".  If news of anything we do reaches national awareness, it is the result of the unsolicited effort by other groups to forward the information.

In conclusion, I am profoundly offended by Supervisor Rooker's unwarranted attack on the JATP.  It is not the first time he has made bizarre accusations against our organization - such as his allegation of our possible attempt to "infiltrate" local government.  I have remained relatively silent up to now, but this level of destructive rhetoric demands reaction and sharp rebuke.  

I call on Supervisor Rooker to reconsider his remarks and offer a public apology.  He has an obligation to serve his constituents, the Board of Supervisors, and our community in a rational, responsible, and more professional manner. 

August 22nd: Sustainable Development - CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Come to GCRC: ALIVE! Monday, August 22^nd, 6:30 pm at the Blue Ridge Café in Ruckersville and draw your own conclusions.

Donna Holt, executive director of Virginia Campaign for Liberty, will deliver “The History of Sustainable Development-Connecting the Dots”. “Learn about the looming threat to private property rights that is set forth in official documents published by countless government agencies and NGO’s as public policy for the transformation of our great nation for a “Sustainable America”.

These documents were rarely reported in the news, and average working people as well as state and local lawmakers have no idea what sustainable development really means, and even less knowledge of what is in store for the future. If the vision of sustainable development continues to unfold as it has in the last decade, life in the Commonwealth and the rest of the nation will be quite different in the future.

All citizens are invited to this timely discussion sponsored by the Greene County Republican Committee.

Sustainable Development: CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Come to GCRC:ALIVE! Monday, August 22nd, 6:30 pm at the Blue Ridge Café in Ruckersville and draw your own conclusions.

Donna Holt, executive director of Virginia Campaign for Liberty, will deliver “The History of Sustainable Development-Connecting the Dots”.

Learn about the looming threat to private property rights that is set forth in official documents published by countless government agencies and NGO’s as public policy for the transformation of our great nation for a “Sustainable America”.

These documents were rarely reported in the news, and average working people as well as state and local lawmakers have no idea what sustainable development really means, and even less knowledge of what is in store for the future.

If the vision of sustainable development continues to unfold as it has in the last decade, life in the Commonwealth and the rest of the nation will be quite different in the future.

All citizens are invited to this timely discussion sponsored by the Greene County Republican Committee.

Video Pick of the Day

from Patriot Action Network

"ONE MAN WITH COURAGE IS A MAJORITY" Thomas Jefferson

Check out the video 'EPA Admits Jobs Don't Matter'

	EPA Admits Jobs Don't Matter During an Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing, EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus admits to U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner t...
Video link: EPA Admits Jobs Don't Matter

UN Agenda 21 Video

Video footage from Audrey Welborn who also made a video of Tom Periello, former US Congressman, stating "If you don't tie our hands, we'll keep stealing."

http://www.welbornfreedomwatch.org

http://www.welbornfreedomwatch.org

On Thursday, March 17th, we held a forum and presentation from Tom DeWeese, from the American Policy Center, and Dr. Charles Battig, at Lane Auditorium, Charlottesville, Virginia, sponsored by the Jefferson Area Tea Party, video by Welborn Freedom Watch. Over 100 people attended this event, including two members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.

Below you will find a link to my web site that contains 6 video clips, Parts 1-6, with an explanation and a brief summary of what is in each clip. Please watch, as Tom gave an excellent history of UN Agenda 21 - ICLEI, how it is implemented thru ICLEI in local governments, and what can be done to recognize and stop this from impacting yourprivate property rights in your city, county, and state.

I have further information on my web site under a tab at the top, 'Private Property Rights - UN Agenda 21-ICLEI. There is a link on my web site to the American Policy Center for further information on this topic and others. I will send Dr. Battig's video at a later time.

Direct link:

UN Agenda 21 - ICLEI - VIDEOS: - Parts 1-6 - Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, presentation - 'The Deceptive Agenda of Sustainability in Local Government' - Sponsored by Jefferson Area Tea Party, March 17, 2011, Charlottesville, Va., learn the history of and how implemented in Albemarle Co. and across the United States, how this will impact your private property rights #2740.

Part 1 - History of UN Agenda 21 and how it began.

Part 2 - Social Justice, Redistribution of Wealth, Karl Marx

Part 3 - How this is implemented - 4 Paths, 1st - Wildlands

Part 4 - Smart Growth, Stakeholder Councils, Public-Private Partnerships

Part 5 - How Local Governments Will Implement thru ICLEI

Part 6 - The Hoax of Global Warming Driving UN Agenda 21 - ICLEI, How to Stop Implementation, 4 Communities Vote to Defund ICLEI.

Mr. DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, back-to-basics education, and American sovereignty and independence. Sustainable Development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of central planning of the entire economy – often referred to as top-down control.

Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life. In short, it’s all about wealth redistribution. Your wealth into a green rat hole.

During the Cold War, communists tried to get us to surrender our liberties and way of life for the wisdom of Karl Marx. Americans didn’t buy it. But now, they have taken the same clap trap and wrapped it all in a nice green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the human destruction of the environment – and so we are now throwing our liberties on the bonfire like a good old fashioned book burning -- all in the name of protecting the planet.

Read more from 'Sustainable Development: The Root of All Our Problems, American Policy Center,

March 17th: Agenda 21 at Charlottesville, VA

The Deceptive Agenda of Sustainability

in Local Government

Thursday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building

401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville VA

WITH

Tom DeWeese

Founder and President of the American Policy Center

Editor of The DeWeese Report

Charles Battig, M.S., M.D.

Piedmont Chapter President of VA-SEEE

(Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment)

Have you heard of the U.N. Agenda 21 and the sustainability agenda? What is ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, now Local Governments for Sustainability), and why should it be a concern to you locally? Their policies are openly dedicated to global government control over every aspect of our lives including housing, energy, water, food production, transportation, population control, education, social welfare...all in the name of sustainability.

Did you know that Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville are paying your tax dollars to ICLEI and are attributed status as Global Members? Do you know why the "Cool Counties" program isn't so cool , and how it allows ICLEI to participate in local decisions affecting your property rights under the benign banner of saving energy?

Spend St. Patrick's Day with the Jefferson Area Tea Party on Thursday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m. as Tom DeWeese and Dr. Charles Battig discuss the "blarney" of sustainability on this "green day." This community forum is non-partisan, free of charge, and open to the public. Our panel will answer questions from the audience following their presentations.

Everyone will receive a green sham-rock with a number on it, good for a drawing for a free, autographed copy of Tom DeWeese's new book, "Now Tell Me I Was Wrong."

On behalf of the JATP, Chairwoman Carole Thorpe sent personal invitations to the entire Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council encouraging them to attend, to learn about the hidden agenda of ICLEI, and reconsider paid participation in the organization.

This is need-to-know information for everyone

SEE YOU MARCH 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Reigning in Unelected EPA Leftists

Proposal to Limit EPA Emissions Rules Will Save Jobs, Incomes

Washington, D.C. - A proposal to keep the EPA from usurping the authority of elected lawmakers will receive a hearing this week, marking one of the first attempts by the new Congress to blunt the Obama Administration's regulatory efforts to achieve unpopular "green" goals.

"After failing to legislatively enact cap-and-trade emissions regulations, the Obama Administration relied on a perverted interpretation of the Clean Air Act. America rang in the new year to new rules on energy and manufacturing that could cause our nation's economic engine to seize up," said Dana Joel Gattuso, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs.

On February 9, the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the discussion draft of "The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011." This proposal, set to be introduced by Senator James Inhofe and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, specifies that the Clean Air Act is not to be used to address climate change and thereby bars EPA regulators from imposing and enforcing carbon restrictions based on the Act.

Regulations imposed by the Obama Administration on greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources that went into effect on January 2 could return the American economy to the conditions from which it is still trying to recover. According to Dr. Margo Thorning, chief economist at the American Council for Capital Formation, U.S. investment could decline by five to 15 percent -- a decline as large as was seen at the beginning of the current recession in late 2007.

Furthermore, the Affordable Power Alliance estimates 2.5 million jobs will be destroyed by 2030, and household incomes will decrease by $1,200 a year while consumer prices will increase. In particular, the Alliance points out the discriminatory nature of the new rule, noting: "The EPA regulation will impact low income groups, the elderly and minorities disproportionately, both because they have lower incomes to begin with, but also because they have to spend proportionately more of their incomes..."

"What the Obama Administration is ramming down America's throat is a cap without the trade, and it could plunge our nation further into recessionary despair," added the National Center for Public Policy Research's Gattuso. "This hearing on the Upton-Inhofe proposal is the first step in putting accountable, elected representatives back in charge of the duties assigned to them by our Constitution."

The National Center For Public Policy Research is a conservative, free-market non-profit think-tank established in 1982. It is supported by the voluntary gifts of over 100,000 individual recent supporters, and receives less than one percent of its revenue from corporate sources.

Quote of the Day

"The problem is that Obama thinks that green jobs are the answer to the anemic economy recovery. And he clings to that belief in the face of contrary evidence."

Debra J. Saunders

Quote of the Day

"Since the economy does not want green jobs, the State must force them into existence… and yes, this is an exercise of compulsive force, since it takes funds away from taxpayers, and uses them to force labor into channels undesired by the private sector. These green projects are far less efficient and productive than rational uses of energy and industrial technology, so large amounts of spending are necessary to make the economy accept them."

John Hayward

Quote of the Day

"What’s needed now is something BP can’t do: to restore some of the lost jobs to the entire region by lifting the drilling ban. Only the president can do that. It remains to be seen whether Obama can put his socialist agenda on hold and admit he was wrong."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Video Pick of the Day

From Patriotic Resistance

Check out the video 'Oil/Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC'

	Oil Spill shrouded in more complex lies.... Oil and water samples were taken from both the Shores of Grand Isle and from 20 miles out...
Video link: Oil/Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC

Quote of the Day

"Barack Obama has said repeatedly that his administration’s number one priority is jobs. But who knew that meant destroying U.S. jobs? Here’s the latest example: Bucyrus International, a Wisconsin-based company that makes mining equipment.

Bucyrus recently landed a contract for $600 million to build equipment for a major project in India. The contract, which was contingent upon Bucyrus getting loan guarantees from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, would have created 984 jobs at Bucyrus. But it didn’t get the loan. Why not? Because the project in India is a coal mine.

Fred Hochberg, chairman of the Export Import Bank, cited the “projected adverse environmental impact” of the mine. Hochberg said, “President Obama has made clear this administration’s commitment to transition away from high-carbon investments and toward a cleaner energy future.”

Unemployment is at hovering around 10% and Obama’s bureaucrats are fretting about coal use in India? This is insanity! Here’s a newsflash: America gets half of its electricity from coal! But if Obama’s gets his way, under his cap and trade plan your electricity rates will “necessarily skyrocket.”

But if it’s not coal in India, it’s something else, like an oil pipeline from Canada. We all know that we import too much oil from unfriendly and unstable places, including the Middle East and Venezuela. But we also get a lot of oil from our friendly neighbor to the north, and there is a lot of oil in the Canadian tar sands. Believe it or not, the radical environmentalists don’t want us using that either!

Friends, I’ve said this before but Obama’s devotion to the radical Left’s agenda is going to destroy this country. If his socialist tax and spend policies aren’t enough, his radical environmental policies will guarantee our economic decline and double digit unemployment for decades to come."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

A Prayer for Americans on the Gulf Coast

Our Heavenly Father and Giver of Life,

Today we are praying for our fellow Americans on the Gulf Coast who are suffering under such an enormous environmental tragedy. Many of them have lost their way of life and livelihood. We pry that an engineering solution will be found quickly to stop this tragedy.

We pray for the families and the souls of our soldiers who gave their lives for our country.

In Jesus' name we pray,

Amen

John Underwood

MCRW Chaplain

Quote of the Day

"... while the oil continues gushing in the gulf, Obama will be partying it up again Tuesday night with his homosexual and lesbian allies in a big bash at the White House in celebration of “gay pride month.”

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

Regarding Virginia's lawsuit to overturn the individual mandate contained in the recent healthcare bill:

"On May 24 the Federal government responded in the U.S. District Court with a motion to dismiss the suit.

This is routine and we expected this to be their response.

My team and I will respond to this motion to dismiss by June 7. The Federal government then has until June 22 to reply to Virginia's response."

Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli

Quote of the Day

"Even a global depression lasting several decades would not be enough to lower CO2 concentrations from today's level--roughly 390 parts per million--to 350 ppm, the new politically correct "stabilization" target advocated by former Vice President Al Gore, the Center for Biological Diversity and numerous other environmental groups. Yet under the Clean Air Act, states are obligated to attain NAAQS within five years or, at most, 10 years. The endangerment finding thus sets the stage for environmental activists to transform the Act into a deindustrialization mandate via litigation. The Murkowski resolution would nip all this mischief in the bud."

George Allen and Marlo Lewis

The EPA's Shocking Power Grab
Forbes.com

Video Hits of the Day

Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test

Chimp Predicts 6-8 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2010

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's track record in predicting the number of Atlantic hurricanes is so abysmal that a trained chimp could do better, says The National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

The group is putting this claim to the test, issuing a 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Forecast today determined by a chimpanzee, "Dr. James Hansimian."

A video of Dr. Hansimian and his methodology can be found at

www.nationalcenter.org/HurricaneForecast.html or http://tw0.us/DNm.

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From Patriotic Resistance:

Check out the video 'Obama Tells Mexico President We are not defined by our borders....'

Please watch then share with others and then contact the White House!

	Obama Tells Mexico President We are not defined by our borders.... Unbelievable....Just who does he think he is representing? Contact the White House and let him know you are outraged by this!
Video link: Obama Tells Mexico President We are not defined by our borders....

Quote of the Day

"Americans are less concerned now with Global Warming than at any time over the last ten years. That ideological change doesn't happen in a bubble, and it doesn't just happen to skeptics and moderates. When the country shifts its views on an issue like this, the skeptics become more skeptical, the moderates become skeptics, and the one-time supporters start to doubt. How else to explain this story about China's shifting view on the cause of Global Warming?"

Patrick Gallagher

Green Watch America

Coal: A Reliable and Inexpensive Energy Source

In response to Blue Virginia’s post citing the Washington Post saying coal mining only accounts “2 percent of employment in central Appalachian region”, Governor Allen wrote the following for GeorgeAllen.com.

Coal Jobs Vital for Virginia, America

www.georgeallen.com/2010/02/28/coal-jobs-vital-for-virginia-america

By George Allen

It is wise to diversify job opportunities in the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia and elsewhere in Appalachia. But these writers, who are against or unfriendly to coal, are concocting misleading facts to diminish the positive attributes of American coal.

The Reality is that coal mining provides very good-paying jobs for those involved directly in mining as well as for people who manufacture and supply mining equipment and those who transport coal to electric power plants, steel mills and our Virginia Ports. A job is important to all men and women whether in retail or mining. These writers miss the fact that coal-related jobs pay more than retail jobs.

All of us who use electricity benefit from American coal, which by all measurement is the most available, reliable and least expensive source of power. Beyond the hundreds of thousands of American jobs related to American coal, the coal severance taxes in Southwest Virginia actually help fund the attraction of new businesses via the Coalfields Economic Development Authority.

As a country, we are blessed with plentiful coal resources. Rather than become more dependent on foreign, more expensive or intermittent energy sources, let’s creatively and cleanly utilize our American coal.

Saturday Statistic: Just “2 percent of employment in the central Appalachian region”

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Blue Virginia Blog

From this morning’s Washington Post comes a factual response to those who claim, against all evidence to the contrary, that the highly mechanized form of coal extraction known as “mountaintop removal” is a major employer in Appalachia (or anywhere else). As Justin Maxson, president of the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, explains, it’s not.

Go to http://www.bluevirginia.us/2010/02/saturday-statistic-just-2-percent-of.html to continue reading.