Just a few stories and thoughts for a Tuesday morning!

Islamic war: Arab Street revolt
Libyan PM: ‘It Is Not a Spontaneous Thing That Took Place That Night, No;’ U.S. Strike at Perps Would ‘Throw This Country in Chaos’
(CNSNews.c0m) Planned to “celebrate” Bloody Tuesday’s 11th Anniversary, apparently?  As many claimed and the Administration denied time and again.  As for “chaos” – what do they have there right now?

Theft by government – New religions: environists
Airline Industry Hails Senate Move Against European ‘Cash Grab’ Cap-And-Trade Scheme
(CNSNews.com) Heaven forbid that anyone elese steal money from OUR airlines, or so the Senate says!  But never fear, the dreaded manmade global warming and other environmental goals will spur them to come up with some way to get the money that would otherwise be going to Europe, and grow government here at home.

Mama’s Note: Indeed… they suffer no rivals.

Theft by government
$1.8 Trillion Shock: Obama Regs Cost 20-Times Estimate
(Washington Examiner) The Obama administration has passed a slew of regulations, including the new health care law, which together are poised to cost taxpayers and businesses more than originally assumed. According to estimates by Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost of regulations will be about $1.8 trillion annually, nearly 20 times the $88 billion initially assumed… The roundup of the costs looks at the costs estimated by federal agencies as well as hard-to-calculate costs such as antitrust intervention, regulation of electricity networks and costs of constrained access to natural resources. The $1.8 trillion estimate is close to the $1.7 trillion estimate from the Small Business Administration, which the White House is eager to distance itself from.

The regulatory state seems to grow very well in our supposed global warming, doesn’t it?  Of course, much of this is “explained” by the continued “war on terrorism,” and the ever-less-popular “war on some drugs” and of course “for the children” and to “keep Americans healthy.”  So many excuses, no wonder it costs so much!

The longer we continue in this mindset, the worse this sort of thing will get.  Failure to veer off this path (assuming it is not already too late), the sooner WE will find ourselves as a whole living on the level of the people of Nicaragua. (Link to story on Food nutrition welfare.)