800-828-0498 Toll Free to U.S. Senators/Representatives

I have placed one round of calls to voice my opposition to Arms Trafficking Treaty and will do it again Monday, Tuesday, etc., until it is passed or our employees get the message. There is plenty of information on our front page to get you started and believe me, the staffers that answer the phone have no idea about any specifics so just tell them you are vehemently opposed, give you zip code and asked to be transferred to the other senator or representatives. All of this takes maybe two to three minutes and costs you nothing unlike the treaty they are shoving ahead.

I have found two websites that are new to me and I have put them in my favorites:

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ "Manhattan Institute is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility." Their range of topics is impressive.

Manhattan Institute publishes an online magazine where I found this:

Bound to Burn by Peter W. Huber

Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.

Cheap coal, like that extracted from this Chinese mine, is essential to the developing world’s economic growth.

Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. It will run you about $500 for 5 tons of forgiveness—about how much the typical American needs every year. Or about $2,000 a year for a typical four-person household. Your broker will spend the money on such things as reducing methane emissions from hog farms in Brazil.

But if you really want to make a difference, you must send a check large enough to forgive the carbon emitted by four poor Brazilian households, too—because they’re not going to do it themselves. To cover all five households, then, send $4,000....

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html

The second find is one that is indispensable when dealing with radical greenies and it is just plain fun, educational reading:

http://climatedebatedaily.com/

Onward and upward.