Natick Food Pantry Moves

This morning the Natick Food Pantry moved to its new location on Cottage Street. To move the food, the Natick Service Council organized a food ‘chain’. About 400+ people formed a human chain from the old location at St. Paul’s Episcopal church to the new location. It’s about half a mile, and the chain was solid. Here’s a picture of the chain as it went across the common:




A great day for the event, and 900 grocery bags of food were moved in about an hour. Lots of kids, people of all ages helping out. No political insight here what-so-ever, just thought it was a nice community effort worth mentioning. A few more pictures here.

Author: Mark

Global warming theory melts

For quite some time we at the NRTC have been sounding the alarm over global warming. Not that the planet is heating up due to human contributions to CO2, but that the entire global warming phenomenon is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated in the history of the planet.

From its roots in England in the early 70s as a platform for Margaret Thatcher to gain politically, it has snowballed into a giant, global scam. Global warming ‘scientists’ have made fortunes in corralling government grants, and Al Gore, the PT Barnum of the circus, has pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars on the enterprise. And last week we learned that the leading climate ‘scientists’ have been making up data, colluding to block differing view points, and hiding data.

In what is now being called “ClimateGate”, it appears the entire foundation of the fraud has been exposed. I would expect many of these ‘scientists’ to lose their jobs. And if the NY Times has any shred of journalistic integrity left, it will fire Andrew Revkin, a shill for the fraudsters.

With so many people involved with the sale of invisible clothes to the emperor, the demise of the man-made global warming frenzy will not happen over night. But I believe the tide has now turned, and true science can now make its way into the public consciousness without the fraudsters blocking the information. Slowly the advocates of the fraud will be turned out of their institutions, slowly the global warming snowball will melt. To whomever leaked those emails to the public, the world owes a great deal of thanks.

Author: Mark

Unemployment certainly got stimulated

The administration talks of “Jobs created and saved” with the stimulus plan – and yet the unemployment rate continues to skyrocket. What went wrong? Is there anything we can learn from a $787 billion mistake?

Alan Reynolds, writing in the New York Post, makes one of the best observations on the unemployment rate that I have come across. His contention is that the stimulus package actually INCREASED the unemployment rate substantially. By extending unemployment benefits, at no cost to the states, there is no incentive to go back to work. Subsidize unemployment, and you get more of it. That explains a lot.

Every time a liberal uses the levers of government to ‘do good’ by interfering with the market economy, the law of unintended consequences ALWAYS comes around to bite them in the butt. No grounding in finance or history, no grounding in reality.

Alan asks:

Why did the unemployment rate rise so rapidly -- from 7.2 per cent in January to 10.2 percent in October? It was clearly the administration's "stimulus" bill -- which in February provided $40 billion to greatly extend jobless benefits at no cost to the states.

When the government pays people 50 to 60 percent of their previous wage to stay home for a year or more, many of them do just that.

And the stimulus bribed states to extend benefits -- which have now been stretched to an unprecedented 79 weeks in 28 states and to 46 to 72 weeks in the rest. Before mid-2008, by contrast, only a few states paid jobless benefits for even a month beyond the standard 26 weeks.

When you subsidize something, you get more of it. Extending unemployment benefits from 26 to 79 weeks was guaranteed to leave many more people unemployed for many more months.
And longer unemployment translates to higher unemployment rates -- because the relatively small numbers of newly unemployed are added to stubbornly large numbers of those who lost their jobs more than six months ago.

Read the whole thing here.

At least the American public is beginning to catch on that the emperor has no clothes:



Author: Mark

Mr. Brown is Back in Town

Yesterday Massachusetts’ next State Senator Scott Brown dropped by Natick for a visit. On a rainy Saturday evening the turn-out was impressive. Scott talked about the lunacy that has overwhelmed Washington policy makers, as the national debt is hiked through the roof, and unemployment skyrockets. While the President and Scott’s Democratic challengers are pushing full-tilt on nationalizing large parts of the economy (healthcare), and imposing significant new taxes, the economy remains in ruins, and will only get worse if the current direction continues. Scott’s position is that Nationalizing healthcare should not be the top priority right now – the economy should be the top priority, and he is absolutely correct.

Below are some pics from the event. The special election is January 19th – if Massachusetts elects a Republican Senator, the effect will jolt the Democrats nation-wide, and put the brakes on the lunacy. So get involved! This is a rare opportunity for the efforts of a few to have a massive effect on national policy. Join the fight! Here is the Scott Brown for US Senate web site.







Author: Mark

Barney Frank, Dopey in Maine

I simply can not let this pass without comment. Yesterday the news broke that Barney Frank, US Representative of Massachusetts Fourth Congressional District, was a witness to his boyfriend being arrested for possession of Marijuana plants a couple of years back. The arrest was at the boyfriends house in Maine, and Barney was there at the time. If you click on the link above, watch the FOX News video, and hear Barney’s response. It’s just too funny as he claims he does not know what a pot plant looks like. And of course, the jokes are running rampant today: “Hey Barney, if you want to know what dope looks like, look in the mirror!”.

We have a longstanding issue with Congressman Frank, and his pivotal role in the collapse of the US economy through his backing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. More on that can be found here.

So the question is, how do we get rid of this embarrassment to Massachusetts?

Here is a map of the congressional districts of Massachusetts. Barney’s district, the 4th district, consists of the following towns:

Newtown, Wellesley, Millis, Dover, Foxboro, Mansfield, Sharron, Taunton, Lakeville, Rochester, Wareham, Middleboro, Halifax, Westport, New Bedford, Dartmouth, Freetown, Berkley, and Dighton.

It is these towns that have the power to dump this bozo. Who is the Republican challenger for US Rep against Barney for 2010? I am not saying there isn’t one, I just don’t know who it is. If anybody reading this knows the answer, post it as a reply or send me an email.

Also, I am looking for the Republican Town Committee Chairmen in all of those towns, so I can get a real-time status update as to how the challenge is progressing. If anyone knows those names, let me know. I know Foxboro has a strong town committee, with Angela Davis as the Chair.

As I get the info, I will post it over in the ‘Elections’ section of www.natickrepublicans.org

-Author Mark

To get out of the hole, first stop digging

Today I want to point readers to this editorial in Investor’s Business Daily. It is a great synopsis of the current state of the US economy. Anybody who has had even a basic college course in “Macro Economy 101” knows that tax hikes hurt economic growth, tax cuts boost growth. It’s been proven time and time again. And yet this administration, with unemployment over 10%, continues to propose massive health-care tax hikes. Gold prices are shooting through the roof, and the dollar is collapsing, because federal deficits are soaring. A falling dollar brings on higher oil prices, which slows the economy further. The stimulus was a total failure, which anybody with a iota of finance understanding predicted.

Let’s take a look at a few charts. The first one compares the unemployment rate with the projections provided by the administration as it was lobbying for the 'stimulus' package:

This second graph is simply a graph of the unemployment rate over the last several years. The problem does not seem to be under control.

And the third graph is gold prices. Gold is viewed as a hedge on inflation and depreciating dollars.

The market certainly seems to be betting on things getting worse.

One of my favorite sayings is that elections have consequences. Too many people did not do their homework before going into the voting booth last year, and we are all paying for it now. It’s going to be a long 12 months to the 2010 election.

Author: Mark