Trying to find a middle ground between the strident control-freak socialists (national democrats) and the rest of us has spawned a personal idea. Since the oil companies are paying megabillions (record levels) of taxes (something like 12-20 billion a year!) to the federal gov-ment…why not simply write one bill that puts (say any tax revenues […]

Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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DRIVE THRU OR SAVE $$$?
Two months ago I approached my bank president here in Vidalia, La. about (maybe someday) closing their drive thru Tue-Wed-Thu to save gas and promote health… well, look how that would help now with the price jump.
Now I read that when you idle for a minute that gas could take you […]

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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“George Carlin’s “The Planet Is Fine”
We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of […]

Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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NASA’s Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.
Longtime global warming skeptic Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since […]

Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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Environmentalists’ Wild Predictions By Walter E. Williams
Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let’s look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.
At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely […]

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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