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| Review and Comment on the News 1/31/07 |
| 01.31.07 (7:07 am) [edit] |
Panel of Climate Scientists conclude...we've got 10 years:
A NEW worldwide movement backed by celebrities, musicians, politicians and business leaders is aiming to reverse the effects of global warming over the next decade.
Global Cool launched in London and LA today and is calling on one billion people to reduce their carbon emissions by just one tonne a year, for the next 10 years. Big names including Leonardo Di Caprio, Orlando Bloom, KT Tunstall, Pink, The Killers, Razorlight and Josh Hartnett have thrown their weight behind the worldwide effort to beat climate change. Ok, I'm convinced, I'm on board now, I was waiting for Leonardo Di Caprio and Pink to weigh in before I made my final decision. Time to start burning books: Four scientists (ok, two scientists, an economist and a science writer) have the unmitigated gall to suggest that Global Warming may be part of a naturally occuring cyclical phenomonon and they were actually allowed to write a book:
Two powerful new books say today's global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.
Singer and Avery note that most of the earth's recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth's last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites.
Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth's temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth's temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can't accurately register cloud effects.
The Chilling Stars relates how Svensmark's team mimicked the chemistry of earth's atmosphere, by putting realistic mixtures of atmospheric gases into a large reaction chamber, with ultraviolet light as a stand-in for the sun. When they turned on the UV, microscopic droplets cloud seeds started floating through the chamber.
We were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons [generated by cosmic rays] do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei, says Svensmark.
The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun's irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth's temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth's atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms.Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.
Not fair, they're using science.... This will definitely help the cause as well. Good God, a Canadian said this?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.
Arrest him. They can do that in Canada. The NFL is doing it's part to combat this as well:
The National Football League is hoping to tackle the game's heat-trapping gas emissions by planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida, but the plan could be more of an incomplete pass than a touchdown when it comes to global warming, experts said.
I'm so filled with hate. Just an observation: I remember when Clinton was President and the economy grew at 3.5% it was hailed as the greatest accomplishment since the Theory of Relativity, now that HitlerBurton is CIC it's barely discussed or it's Breadline America:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy snapped out of a sluggish spell and grew at a faster-than- expected 3.5 percent pace in the final quarter of last year as consumers ratcheted up spending despite a painful housing slump.
Castro carbo loads for the '07 NYC Marathon:
HAVANA (Reuters) - State television showed Fidel Castro for the first time in three months on Tuesday and the ailing Cuban leader said he was still in the fight to recover.
And to think he overcame this:
The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
Castro, 80, looked stronger but still frail in images of Monday's two-hour meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, his closest ally in Latin America.
Hang in there buddy, the world needs you...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby must die!! Nail his milky, white forehead to the floor! The side of the DC anti-war rally we didn't see much of: What are these guys gonna do when HitlerBurton is gone?
Hugo's new, sweeping powers: Remake America, please Hugo??
If he were in Berlin and thrust his four fingers forward it would be the German equivalent of a $100.00 fine....
Bush is a Chimp, Laura's a Stepford Wife, the Daughters are Sorority Sluts, Brit Hume's the Devil:
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who is running on an anti-poverty platform, is facing questions about his $6 million estate near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Raleigh News and Observer says Edwards has been asked whether there is a contradiction between his home—which has a basketball and racquetball courts, along with a pool — and his pledge to reduce poverty. Edwards has said that he's been lucky — making millions as a trial lawyer. He has said feels the responsibility to help people help themselves. In his first presidential campaign, he was attacked for living in a Georgetown mansion while he was talking about two Americas — one rich and one poor.
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| An Inconvenient Truth: Global Warming causes Ahnold's fruit to freeze... |
| 01.29.07 (7:12 pm) [edit] |
Global Warming convert Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) California seeks federal relief after California's citrus crop spontaneously bursts into flames as a result of Climate Change:
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the federal government Tuesday for disaster aid because of an ongoing cold snap that has destroyed nearly $1 billion worth of California citrus, and industry officials said shoppers will feel the sting through higher prices for oranges, lemons and other produce. Visiting a Fresno orange grove, Schwarzenegger said he was asking the U.S. government for disaster status, which would allow California to seek aid from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Small Business Administration to offset losses to growers and other businesses. "This is not just about the crop this year. It could also have a devastating effect next year," Schwarzenegger said. "My administration will make sure that we do everything we can to help the farmers and workers get through this." Nearly every winter crop is affected by the freeze, from avocados to strawberries to fresh-cut flowers, but it's the state's citrus crop that stands to take the biggest economic hit. "We may adjust the prices as we discover the full extent of the damage next week, but for now, if you bought an orange at the supermarket for 50 cents, expect to pay a dollar to $1.49 for it," said Todd Steel, owner of Royal Vista Marketing, which sells California citrus to markets throughout the country. With the NFL playoffs in full swing, some fans may choose to go without two traditional favorites. "Avocados are expensive enough as it is," said Joseph Vasquez, a 32- year-old school teacher from Pasadena. "We may have to do without guacamole for a while. And we may be drinking our Coronas without limes." California is the nation's No. 1 producer of fresh citrus, growing about 86 percent of lemons and 21 percent of oranges sold in the U.S., according to the California Farm Bureau. Florida produces more oranges, but those are mostly processed for orange juice. More than 70 percent of this season's oranges, lemons and tangerines _ nearly $1 billion worth of fruit _ were still on the trees as nighttime temperatures in California's Central Valley dipped into the low 20s and teens on four straight nights beginning Friday. The freeze ruined as much as three-quarters of the California citrus crop, growers say; the fruit is threatened whenever the mercury falls below 28 degrees.
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/29/07 |
| 01.29.07 (8:23 am) [edit] |
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200 of Michael Moore's Minutemen begin pushing up whatever passes for daisies in Iraq: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi officials claimed Monday that at least 200 militants were killed in a fierce battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and a religious cult allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival, while bombings and mortar attacks targeting Shiites elsewhere killed at least 15 people. The Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said the raid on Sunday was targeting a group called the Jund al-Samaa, or Soldiers of Heaven, and the group's leader was among those killed, along with foreign fighters. Worldeater Bush:
A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world's youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female. The boy - originally called Tim, but now known as Kim - has started to receive hormone treatment, in preparation for the operation that will eventually complete the sex change. Tim was diagnosed as a transsexual two years ago, when doctors and psychiatrists concluded that his claims to be "in the wrong body" were so deeply felt that he required treatment. The therapy involves artificially arresting male puberty, with a series of potent hormone injections before the administration of female hormones to initiate the development of features such as breasts.
Lubricant Dealer Greases the skids for Harry:
The Republican "Culture of Corruption" envelopes The Bookish Little Snot Merchant, Senate Majority Leader Harry "Hank" Reid:
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. -- It's hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a longtime friend decided to sell property owned by the employee pension fund that he controlled.
In 2002, the Nevada Democrat paid $10,000 to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Las Vegas lubricant dealer and his friend for 50 years. The payment gave the senator full control of a 160-acre parcel in Bullhead City that Reid and the pension fund had jointly owned. Reid's price for the equivalent of 60 acres of undeveloped desert was less than one-tenth of the assessed value at the time.If Reid were to sell the property for any of the various estimates of its value, his gain on the $10,000 investment could range from $50,000 to $290,000. Six months after the deal closed, Reid introduced legislation to address the plight of lubricant dealers who had their supplies disrupted by the decisions of big oil companies. It was an issue the Haycock family brought to Reid's attention in 1994, according to a source familiar with the events. Reid's legislation was unsuccessful.
I thought what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, especially when lubricants are involved and the dealer's name is "Haycock". Reid will of course skate because he was defending "Big Lubricants" against the evils of "Big 'Ol".
Liebermann continues to frost the Left:
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 who won re-election as an independent last year, says he is open to supporting any party's White House nominee in 2008. "I'm going to do what most independents and a lot of Democrats and Republicans in America do, which is to take a look at all the candidates and then in the end, regardless of party, decide who I think will be best for the future of our country," Lieberman said Sunday. "So I'm open to supporting a Democrat, Republican or even an Independent, if there's a strong one. Stay tuned," said the three-term lawmaker who caucuses with Senate Democrats. Lieberman is an ally of GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a 2008 hopeful, and supports President Bush's new Iraq strategy. Lieberman won re-election as an independent last fall when Democrats backed an anti-war candidate who won the party primary.
Jimmy Carter Jumpstarted Modern Islamic Terrorism?
Recently Jimmy Carter was on television, denouncing President Bush’s policies in Iraq. I find this highly ironic, because Jimmy Carter and his liberal advisers helped the Ayatollah Khomeini to come to power in Iran a quarter of a century ago. Thus they gave radical Islam control of its first major state. How this happened is worth recalling, because from Carter’s failure there’s a valuable lesson to be learned in Iraq. Islamic radicals have been around since the 1920s, but for decades they were outsiders even in the Muslim countries. One of their leading theoreticians, Sayyid Qutb, argued that radical Muslims could not just promulgate theories and have meetings; they must seek to realize the Islamic state “in a concrete form.” What was needed, he wrote, was “to initiate the movement of Islamic revival in some Muslim country.” Once the radicals controlled a state, he suggested, they could then use it as a beachhead for launching the takeover of other Muslim countries.
In 1979, Qutb’s goal was achieved when the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran. The importance of the Khomeini revolution is that it demonstrated the viability of the Islamic theocracy in the modern age. And to this day post-Khomeini Iran provides a viable model of what the Islamic radicals hope to achieve throughout the Muslim world. Khomeini also popularized the idea of America as a “great Satan.” Before Khomeini, no Muslim head of state had said this about America. Khomeini was also the first Muslim leader in the modern era to advocate violence as a religious duty and to give special place to martyrdom. Since Khomeini, Islamic radicalism has continued to attract aspiring martyrs ready to confront the Great Satan. In this sense, the seeds of 9/11 were sown a quarter of a century ago when Khomeini came to power.
Khomeini’s ascent to power was aided by the policies of Jimmy Carter and his allies on the political left. Carter was elected president in 1976 by stressing his support for human rights. From the time he took office, the left contrasted Carter’s rights doctrine with the Shah’s practices. The left denounced the Shah as a vicious and corrupt dictator, highlighting and in some cases magnifying his misdeeds. Left-leaning officials such as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, UN envoy Andrew Young, and State Department human rights officer Patricia Derian pressed Carter to sever America’s longstanding alliance with the Shah. Eventually Carter came to agree with his liberal advisers that he could not in good conscience support the Shah. When the Shah moved to arrest mullahs who called for his overthrow, leftists in America and Europe denounced these actions. Former diplomat George Ball called on the U.S. government to curtail the Shah’s exercise of power. Acceding to this pressure, Carter called for the release of political prisoners and warned the Shah not to use force against the demonstrators in the streets. When the Shah petitioned the Carter administration to purchase tear gas and riot control gear, the human rights office in the State Department held up the request. Some, like State Department official Henry Precht, urged the U.S. to prepare the way for the shah to make a “graceful exit” from power. William Miller, chief of staff on the Democrat-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee, said America had nothing to fear from Khomeini since he would be a progressive force for human rights. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan even compared Khomeini to Mahatma Gandhi, and Andrew Young termed the ayatollah a “twentieth century saint.”
As the resistance gained momentum and the Shah’s position weakened, he looked to the United States government to help him. Carter aide Gary Sick reports that the Shah discovered many enemies, and few friends, in the Carter administration. Increasingly paranoid, the Shah pleaded with the United States to help him stay in power. Carter refused. Deprived of his last hope, with the Persian rug pulled out from under him, the Shah decided to abdicate. The Carter administration encouraged him to do so, and the cultural left celebrated his departure. The result, of course, was Khomeini.
The Carter administration’s role in assisting with the downfall of the Shah is one of America’s great foreign policy disasters of the twentieth century. In trying to get rid of the bad guy, Carter got the worse guy. His failure, as former Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, was the result of being “unable to distinguish between America’s friends and enemies.” Carter does not deserve sole discredit for these actions. This intellectual framework that shaped Carter’s misguided strategy was supplied by the political left.
Asking people to think that far back is a tall order. Global Warming causes ice to fall from the sky resulting in a car being totaled.
TAMPA - You probably see ice just about everyday—but not in a big block that has fallen from the sky and totaled a parked car.But it happened on Hilldrop Courtin Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning.Neighbors woke up to something they never thought they’d see.“Came out to find a large piece of ice sitting on the car, and ice all over the place,” said neighbor John Young.
I almost went through an entire "Review" without mentioning global warming...enveloping... in Town 'n Country around 9:30 Sunday morning. Communist Jane, tan, rested and ready hits the campaign trail:
strikes a Nixonesque pose...
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/26/07 |
| 01.26.07 (7:59 am) [edit] |
A New Strain of Fundamentalism:
Let's start today with a little fan mail courtesy of my favorite spamblogging left wing cliche spouting, self appointed arbiter of all that is right and (in my case) wrong, Sewergate, who claims to be Jesus or writing as Jesus or claims to know how Jesus wrote, because you see ladies and gentlemen, Jesus was a liberal and I'm glad we have people like Sewergate around to set us straight, otherwise guys like me would go around thinking that maybe Jesus didn't have a political agenda based on today's two party system. But then again, maybe 1,000 years ago Greenland was green, a gigantic grassland, and man caused global warming turned it into a giant ice sheet in the 20th Century because I drive a car....
Hope you don't have kids. Sometimes, ya know, just after we lefties are suddenly concerned by something you folks have known about for some time, like the threat of terrorism, which, frankly I hadn't even heard of till the Democratic response to the SOTU address the other night, we read fairy tales about stuff that irrefutably shows how fucked up the climate changes have been over the past twenty years, but then we fall asleep soundly after being reminded by brilliant folks like you who say it's all foolishness. And the rationale is so reassuring as well... "critics say...." "some pundit's claim..." "Al Gore said it so we know it's false"
As I said... Hope you people don't breed.
Just for fun, look at some sat photos of Antarctica from, say, twenty years ago, ten, five and last year... Ask Rush to explain it. He'll say, "Many scientists don't believe it's a problem.... Then he'll quote non-scientists who've written articles about the subject using HIM or folks just like him as a "source."
A hundred and ten years ago, you'd have been in the camp who knew for a fact that automobiles would never catch on, and forty years ago, you'd have made jokes about the idea of people having computers in their homes... after all, there were EXACTLY the same kind of articles and derisive tripe you post about these new subjects, and from the same sort of shortsighted goof-balls. (Go back and look at some old publications - they're full of sarcastic opinion articles like you post... Easy to find.) Thankfully, like them, your lack of thinking become largely irrelevant. You'd have been one who thought Eisenhower's huge Federal Highway program was tantamount to totalitarianism and would wreck the country. "Cant have the fed's involved... blah, blah, blah."
Your sort doesn't really DO anything do you? It's all poorly written self- referencing shit you copy and post from one web-site to the next then use each other as "proof" of your own "right" thinking.
Keep thinking that I'll come here just once and see something well thought out and thoughtfully presented.
Maybe someday.
Naw, I wouldn't want to disappoint you. If people such as yourself ran the world "you people" like me wouldn't be allowed to breed? Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Sewergate my little cupcake, here are some examples of just how far around the horn we've been with the issue of Climate Change in a mere110-120 years. And yes, the Earth is just a smidgen older than 110- 120 years: (HT James P. Hogan )
THOSE OLD, FAMILIAR TUNES GLOBAL COOLING: 1890s-1930s The Times, February 24, 1895
"Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again"
Fears of a "second glacial period" brought on by increases in northern glaciers and the severity of Scandinavia's climate. New York Times, October 7, 1912
"Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age" Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1923
"The possibility of another Ice Age already having started ... is admitted by men of first rank in the scientific world, men specially qualified to speak." Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1923
"Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada." Time Magazine, September 10, 1923
"The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age." New York Times, September 18, 1924
"MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age" GLOBAL WARMING: 1930s-1960s New York Times, March 27, 1933
"America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise" Time Magazine, January 2, 1939
"Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right.... weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer." Time Magazine, 1951
Noted that permafrost in Russia was receding northward at 100 yards per year. New York Times, 1952
Reported global warming studies citing the "trump card" as melting glaciers. All the great ice sheets stated to be in retreat. U.S. News and World Report, January 18, 1954
"[W]inters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing." GLOBAL COOLING: 1970s Time Magazine, June 24, 1974
"Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 1974
"Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster than Even Experts Expect"
Reported that "glaciers have begun to advance"; "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter"; and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool". Science News, March 1, 1975
"The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed, and we are unlikely to quickly regain the 'very extraordinary period of warmth' that preceded it." International Wildlife, July-August, 1975
"But the sense of the discoveries is that there is no reason why the ice age should not start in earnest in our lifetime." New York Times, May 21, 1975
"Scientists Ponder Why World's Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable" GLOBAL WARMING: 1990s-? Earth in the Balance, Al Gore, 1992
"About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of systenance because of the rising sea level due to global warming, in the next few decades." Time Magazine, April 19, 2001
"[S]cientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible." New York Times, December 27, 2005
"Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming" And my personal favorite:
The Daily Telegraph, February 2, 2006
"Billions will die, says Lovelock, who tells us that he is not usually a gloomy type. Human civilization will be reduced to a'broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords,' and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot where a few breeding couples will survive."
Nothing like a little drama. If one were to "flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic" wouldn't one still be on earth? Climate is what we want, weather is what we get. Anyway, come back anytime Sewergate, I love hearing from you.
Nanci Pelosi and Jack (Abscam) Murtha do Baghdad:
Pelosi, a key player in the Democratic takeover of Congress, has helped lead opposition in Washington to Bush's retooled Iraq strategy which envisages sending 21,500 reinforcements to help quell raging sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad.She has accused Bush, a long-time foe, of playing politics with soldiers' lives and said after his State of the Union address to Congress this week that he had ignored the concerns of the American public over the unpopular war.A U.S. embassy official said Pelosi, the first woman speaker of the House, had arrived in Iraq at the head of a six-member congressional delegation for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. officials but did not plan any public appearances.
She's also heading up a governmental panel to save us from Climate Change, she can do it all...she doesn't even need to go there, she just needs to say we're stretched too thin, we're in it for the oil and Saddam was never a threat and we're losing. Nanci, we need you here, back home, to save us from Climate Change not gallavanting around the globe cataloging HitlerBurton's wreckless military adventurism. I finally got something right didn't I? Global Warming pounds NYC:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
0718 AM EST FRI JAN 26 2007
...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT KENNEDY...
A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 9 DEGREES WAS SET AT KENNEDY TODAY AT
647 AM. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 9 SET IN 1994.
 New Yorker in denial, sports a down jacket to seek
relief from searing tempratures
Carter apologizes for stupid book passage, in which he calls for the annihilation of Israel...just kidding, calm down. And then there's this:
The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
Don't worry, according to Chavez, he's jogging now.....
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/24/07 |
| 01.24.07 (8:05 am) [edit] |
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From the dim, distant cavelike recesses of the "No Shit Department": At a time when the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is censuring free market organizations for accepting donations from ExxonMobil, critics have turned the spotlight back onto the UCS, its left-wing positions, and its own funding practices.
In a recent report, the UCS charged that organizations are using oil industry money to create public uncertainty about what it calls "consensus" about climate change and the role of human activity in affecting temperatures see related story. Organizations named in the report have denied the claims.
The UCS describes itself as an "alliance" of over 200,000 citizens and scientists that initially came together in 1969. It integrates "independent scientific research" with "citizen action" for the purpose of developing and implementing "changes to government policy, corporate practices and consumer choices."
But critics say it is an openly political group.
According to James Dellinger, executive director of Greenwatch - a project of the Capital Research Center - the UCS has a long financial association with elements that have a "partisan view of science."
David Martosko, executive director of ActivistCash.com - a division of the Center for Consumer Freedom - agrees. He told Cybercast News Service the UCS would be "more aptly named the Union of Pro-Regulation, Anti-Business Scientists."
As I recall, all you have to do to belong to the Union of Concerned Scientists is send them $15.00 and wa lah (or viola) you're a "Concerned Scientist". Sure saves on college tuition. HitlerBurton's Speech:
BUSH BEATS 'IDOL'
STATE OF UNION SPEECH PULLS 6.7 RATING/10 SHARE FOR FOX-TV, TOPS NBC'S 6.6 RATING/10 SHARE, 5.7/8 CBS; ABC LAST PLACE AT 5.0/7... MORE... TOTAL BIG 4 'STATE' 24.0 RATING/35 SHARE OVER 'IDOL' 19.0 RATING/28 SHARE ON FOX... DEVELOPING...
I didn't hear HitlerBurton's rallying cry however I did catch the Democratic response and it appears Boortz and I had very similar reactions: The Democratic response to the president's speech last night sure was a real knee-slapper. Now the Left is suddenly worried about Islamic terrorism, concerned about our troops and doing the political backstroke on their surrender plan for Iraq. And Jim Webb was the stooge to deliver it all. Who ever thought the former Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan Administration would be carrying water for Nancy Pelosi?
Webb whined about how the economy really isn't that good. He launched into his class warfare routine, complaining about how corporate CEO's make 400 times the money regular workers do. It really is a tired act. Funny how the economy is doing better than it was 10 years ago, but when Clinton was in office, the Democrats and the media declared it an economic boom. The Big Lie continues.
Then there was the laughable line about how the president took us to war in Iraq recklessly. Really? Were Hillary Clinton and John Kerry reckless when they voted for the war in Iraq? Somehow that little fact seems to escape critics of the war. The Democrats want the war to end ... OK, we get it. But what is their plan for dealing with the violence that will only escalate if we withdraw now? Just sit back and watch it?
Mahmoud: America must die! Oh, and Israel too...
Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said in a report."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives," the Iranian president was quoted as saying.
Good thing Iran is engaged in the peaceful production of nucular energy or we'd really be in trouble..
 Are you a "Global Warming Skeptic"? Turn yourself in:
Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." The Weather Channel has taken up that task with its series "It Could Happen Tomorrow." The Weather Channel started its "It Could Happen Tomorrow" series in January 2006. The program includes episodes where a tornado destroys Dallas, a tsunami destroys the Pacific Northwest, Mount Rainier erupts and destroys nearby towns, and San Diego is devastated by wildfires. They omitted a program showing a meteor striking my house, for it, too, could happen tomorrow. Of course, any one of these events could happen tomorrow, but I'm reminded of a passage in Shakespeare's "Macbeth," where after Macbeth listens to the predictions of the witches, Banquo warns him that "Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence." That is, gain our confidence with trifle truths to set us up for the big lie. The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming, and they're vicious about it. Heidi Cullen, Ph.D., the Weather Channel's climatologist, hosts a weekly program called "The Climate Code." Dr. Cullen advocates that the American Meteorological Society strip their seal of approval from any TV weatherman expressing skepticism about the predictions of manmade global warming, according to a report by Marc Morano, communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. Dr. Cullen has had a lot of help in demonizing skeptics of catastrophic manmade global warming. Scott Pelley, CBS News "60 Minutes" correspondent, compared skeptics of global warming to "Holocaust deniers," and former Vice President Al Gore calls skeptics "global warming deniers." But it gets worse. Mr. Morano reports that on one of Dr. Cullen's shows, she featured columnist Dave Roberts, who, in his Sept. 19, 2006, online publication, said, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards – some sort of climate Nuremberg." (See the Morano report.) He didn't say whether the death penalty should be administered to those found guilty of global warming denial. Global Warming will tighten it's merciless grip on America:
Weather forecasts released Thursday suggested that the cold weather expected to hit the U.S. Midwest between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1 will now persist longer than previously expected. One model run by meteorologists at MDA's EarthSat Weather Group in Rockville, Md., forecasts "the coldest outbreak in years" for large parts of the U.S. between Feb. 2-6.
I know, this is starting to look like the "Skeptic of the Environmental Apocolypse Page" but oh well. If only R.F.K. Jr. will save us I can get off this menacing topic.... I.Lewis "Scooter" Libby must die!! Nail his milky, white forehead to the floor!!! One bazillion Chinese can't be wrong:
BEIJING - China is on pace to surpass the United States within two years as the nation with the most Internet users, the government and news reports said Wednesday. China's online population grew by 23.4 percent last year to 137 million people, about 10 percent of its 1.3 billion population, the China Internet Network Information Center reported on its Web site.
Time to invade China...This Day in History...Global Warming causes worst earthquake in history... enveloping... Drats!! Swiftboated again!!
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/22/07 |
| 01.22.07 (7:34 am) [edit] |
Have scientists oversold Global Warming?:
Scientists long have issued the warnings: The modern world's appetite for cars, air conditioning and cheap, fossil-fuel energy spews billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, unnaturally warming the world.Yet, it took the dramatic images of a hurricane overtaking New Orleans and searing heat last summer to finally trigger widespread public concern on the issue of global warming.
Climate scientists might be expected to bask in the spotlight after their decades of toil. The general public now cares about greenhouse gases, and with a new Democratic-led Congress, federal action on climate change may be at hand.Problem is, global warming may not have caused Hurricane Katrina, and last summer's heat waves were equaled and, in many cases, surpassed by heat in the 1930s.In their efforts to capture the public's attention, then, have climate scientists oversold global warming? It's probably not a majority view, but a few climate scientists are beginning to question whether some dire predictions push the science too far.
Maybe not scientists as much as overzealous politicians and policy advocates..and of course the scientists who love them. Global Warming pounds Arizona:
Parts of northern Arizona received more than a foot of snow, and children as far south as Tucson got a rare chance to play in the whiteness as one of the strongest winter storms of the year moved through the state.
Children find relief from the searing heat by building a snowman
Horseback Mountin':
PARK CITY, Utah -- "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.
"Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews (two of the three men involved did not want to appear on camera) with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
Devor and his writing partner, Charles Mudede, live in Seattle and were stunned, as were many in the state, by a story that broke in 2005 about a local man who died after having sex with an Arabian stallion. Though bestiality is not illegal in Washington, the subsequent revelation of the existence of an Internet-based zoophile community (the men refer to themselves as "zoos," hence the title) was a shock.
If one is going to do a movie about "the last taboo" I suppose it should at least be lyrical. Grab the hip waders!!
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Bubba throws her hat in the '08 ring:
One day after declaring for president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) gave her first public glimpse of how she will run: as the mother of a daughter, (what about running as the daughter of a mother)? as a serious student of policy and as a two-term senator from New York. With minimal staff, no family members and not even a sound system to amplify her remarks, Clinton appeared on Sunday at a colorless community clinic in Manhattan to announce a piece of health-care legislation, her first real outing since launching her presidential bid online. Despite a media crush that overwhelmed the participants, Clinton treated the event like a routine stop, acknowledging only during a question period at the end that she had finally decided to run.
Finally? Isn't it technically a little early? Superbowl XLI: Go Colts!! Michael Moore's Minutemen kill 67.
Fresh Steaming Pantload of the Day: (Literally when you think about it)!
Castro is dead! Long Live Castro?
A spam e-mail with messages including "Fidel Castro dead" and "Saddam Hussein safe and sound" contains a virus which has infected thousands of computers, Spain's Association of Internauts has said. Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition. The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
If incompetent doctors sewed my asshole to my armpit I'd be dead too...or walking funny to say the least. Besides, I thought Cuba had the greatest health care system in the world? A local giant of the the sociall y conscious in my neck of the woods, Charles "Chuck" Caughlin, General Secretary of the Gallatin Valley Liberal Human Rights Task Force told me so. Nyah, nyah!
Cindy Sheehan's snuggle bunny tells us to go to hell:
That's nice. How about we tell him and his oil to go to hell? That might put just a little crimp in his wallet, but he would certainly change his tune. You see, Hugo Chavez exists only because his country has oil...and a lot of it. We buy a lot of said oil from Venezuela....and that government even owns one of the large oil companies operating in this country...Citgo. So they're a big player.
So why would Chavez tell one of his biggest customers to go to hell? The answer is simple...because he can. He knows he can impress his tyrant friends around the world by telling us off and getting away with it...because we need the oil. How about we tell him off? The only way we can do that is by increasing our domestic production to the point where we don't need his oil. But the Democrats won't have that....drilling for oil in the United States is bad to the Left. Energy independence is bad for the left.
So we have to put up with it. Hugo Chavez will continue amassing power in Venezuela...becoming an all-powerful dictator at the expense of democracy. These are the people we continue to do business with because we refuse to drill for oil in Alaska and off the coast of Florida. With Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the show on Capitol Hill, get used to it.
Poser:
Now here's a good question from Rich Lowery: "If we were to leave Iraq and it descended into a genocidal bloodletting, would the George Clooneys of the world favor a new intervention on humanitarian grounds?"
This would be fun to watch from the standpoint of watching the veins explode in the collective neck of the Left, especially if he won...'er I'm sorry, I mean stole the election...enveloping.. Loose Lips?
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/19/07 |
| 01.19.07 (8:05 am) [edit] |
Fresh, Steaming Pantload of the Day:
Nanci "Flower Power and Beads" Pelosi to start McCarthy style hearings dealing with the issue of Global Warming:
"I promise to do everything in my power to achieve energy independence ... and to stop global warming," Pelosi said.
Mush: Meanwhile, Barbra Streisand is busy training for the Iditarod in Malibu, whilst James Brolin constructs an igloo for shelter:
Snow Falls In West L.A., Malibu
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- Motorists stranded on the Golden State (5) Freeway overnight near the Grapevine continued their journeys Thursday morning when the California Highway Patrol began escorting drivers on the icy stretch of road.
The CHP began escorting motorists north on Interstate 5 through the Grapevine area at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday. By 9:30 a.m., the California Highway Patrol was escorting motorists in both directions. The roadway had been closed overnight due to snow and ice. "It's been hard," said trucker Harvey Seals. "I've been here about 13 hours. It's very inconvenient. There's no place to use the bathroom. There's no place to get anything to eat." The Motulikis were driving from Anaheim to Reno, Nev., for a funeral. They spent seven hours in their sport utility vehicle. "We'll be there because our relatives and everybody is over there," said Louie Motuliki. "Hopefully, we get over there today." Louie Motuliki said he was too worried about his family to get much sleep. The situation frustrated many drivers, but left one experienced trucker bemused. "That's a first time for this one," said trucker Jack Dolen. "I don't believe they shut down the road for snow. I came out of Canada, so I can't believe this."
Ok Nanci dahling, convene your stupid little panel and make sure you start out with the answers you want to prove, don't leave any doubt, scare us up real good now will 'ya? Make sure you get objective warming experts like Al Gore and RFK Jr. so we can get a balanced look at this staggering menace that threatens us all...
I'm not sure what this means for our country, but I am very frightened.
impeachbush.com domain name is for sale.
We have received numerous inquiries and offers over the years for this premium, highly recognizable domain name, but an open and public online auction seemed the most fair and democratic approach to its sale.
On the exact day this auction ends, two full years of George W. Bush’s presidency will still be ahead of us. This domain name has never been developed or associated with any group, website, product, or movement, though its applicability as a focal point for fundraising, awareness raising, or commercial development is self-evident.
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Impeachbush.com has never been used in connection with any other site, product, or movement. It would be yours to define and apply.We are only selling the name.Transfer would go through a mutually agreed upon escrow company.Please let me know if you have any questions. You can email me at impeach.bush.domain@gmail.com, if you like.
I think maybe I'll bid on it. If I win, I could use it to sell hunting gear. Bwahahahahahahaha!
Put your money where your mouth is:
There may be a growing battle between Congress and President Bush over the Iraq War strategy, but new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she won't block funding for additional troops. Pelosi's position, revealed in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, comes days after a group of senators announced a bipartisan resolution condemning the Bush administration's plan to increase U.S. forces in Iraq by more than 20,000 troops.
Boortz opines thusly:
As predicted, Nancy Pelosi is not going to stop funding for President Bush's troop surge. Why not? If you're so opposed to it, Madame Speaker...why not put your money where your mouth is? The answer is because no one is buying her alternative to the war in Iraq. The Democrats that have taken power in Washington D.C. this month largely due to the war in Iraq. They got there by criticizing the Bush Administration and capitalizing on the public's frustration with the lack of progress over the course of the last 4 years. They did not get there by offering any sort of alternative plan. They don't have one. All they have is the surrender option, which nobody wants. So what else is Nancy Pelosi going to do?
George W. Bush called her bluff...and she folded. We have just witnessed a rarity in American politics. A president with a 30-some-odd percent approval rating staring down a brand new, popularly elected Congress. Bush and his team correctly calculated that the American people will not tolerate any shorting of our troops when it comes to spending money, so the Democrats can't stop his surge.
Is Iraq a mess? No doubt, it is. The consequences of cutting and running at this time might be worse.
Worldeater Bush: Want a sex change? Take a swim:
An investigation into the cleanliness of rivers feeding Washington's Potomac River has revealed the presence of sex-changing chemicals. Pollutants which contain the chemicals, known as endocrine disrupters, were found in several tributaries and in the smallmouth bass fish living within. The US Geological Survey (USGS) study followed the discovery of high numbers of intersex fish in the Potomac basin. Endocrine disrupters can mimic or block hormones in the body.
What does "intersex" fish mean? I'm embarrased for our country and very afraid...enveloping. I hear the distant chuff chuff of a black helicopter:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The son of "The Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early rock `n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Jay Richardson, who performs tribute shows as "The Big Bopper Jr.," hopes an examination of his father's remains will settle rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane, and tell whether the Big Bopper might have survived the crash impact and died trying to go for help.
Maybe he was trying to exscape federal agents? Global Warming McCarthyism:
"If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement."
To Cullen the "fundamental science of climate change" is that global warming is being caused by man. She completely discounts cyclical weather patterns which have been proven by science. The earth has been this warm in the past .. warmer .. many times. Cullen doesn't explain why. By the way ... it has been pointed out that hurricanes do rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere -- but why be picky.
I see a new strain of fundamentalism on the horizon.... Women drivers, no survivors? Think again.
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The next time you see someone with a gunny sack full of cell phones, look the other way.
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/17/07 |
| 01.17.07 (7:43 am) [edit] |
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An exhausted, overheated Planet Earth is seared to a crisp before our very eyes: Hundreds of people hunkered down in emergency shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states. About 320,000 homes and businesses in several states were still without electricity late Tuesday after a storm that brought ice, snow, flooding and high winds to a swath of the country from Texas to Maine. At the First Baptist Church in McAlester, Okla., where most of the city's 18,000 residents have lacked power for four days, residents huddled under blankets and in front of space heaters. Subfreezing temperatures were expected to continue in the state Wednesday, with little sunshine to aid in melting the ice until Thursday or Friday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Brown.
Malibu suffers the wrath of Global Warming.....
HitlerBurton W. McChimpstein to address this terrible problem:
President Bush will outline a policy on global warming next week in his State of the Union speech but has not dropped his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House said on Tuesday. U.S. allies such as Britain and Germany have pressed for a new global agreement on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Bush withdrew the United States from the protocol in 2001, saying its targets for reducing carbon emissions would unfairly hurt the U.S. economy.
Lawyers in Love:
A criminal defense lawyer was arrested after a sheriff's deputy found him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, authorities said Tuesday. Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the Police Department's Special Victims Unit. A sheriff's deputy making his rounds in the Criminal Justice Center on Monday afternoon looked into a lawyers' conference room on the third floor and discovered Charles and the girl, Bagnell said.
Kidnapped by Space Aliens, Fidel deftly avoided the "Intergalactic Garden Hose Enema":
Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition. The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
 Alrighty then, that's something I've long been curious about and desperately needed to know... Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight. It's roughly about 8:30 a.m. here. Obama assumes the Godhead:
Surely, no one saw this coming: Barack Obama, everyone's favorite Illinois Senator who hasn't actually completed a first term, announced that he has created an exploratory committee to determine if he's definitely going to run for president.
He's Howard Dean with a brain and charm and personality and wit and.....Ooh! An indictment in the most underreported scandal of all time:
A federal grand jury in New York yesterday indicted Benon Sevan, former administrator of the United Nations' oil-for-food program, on charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the first criminal charges filed against a U.N. official in connection with the humanitarian program.
T he indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in New York, also named a brother-in-law of former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, New York businessman Efraim Nadler, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen.
B ecause both men are assumed to be abroad -- Mr. Sevan in his native Cyprus and Mr. Nadler in Europe -- the U.S. government has lodged arrest warrants with Interpol to extradite them to the United States for trial.
& quot;The oil-for-food program was created to provide critical humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people," said U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia in New York. "But the former government of Iraq thoroughly corrupted the program by employing undisclosed Iraqi agents in the United States to try to influence the terms under which the program was adopted and by demanding secret kickbacks from participants in the program during its operation."
The All Time High oil prices in times past were said to be Bush's fault as he merrily greased the skids for his sinister, fat cat Vladimir Harkonenlike oil baron buddies. Shouldn't he get credit for oil prices falling to a 19 month low?
Oil prices edged lower Wednesday, below 19-month closing lows the day before, holding on to the momentum they took from comments by Saudi Arabia's oil minister that further OPEC productions cuts were not needed right away. Forecasts of ample stocks added to the downward pull, with U.S. inventory figures, to be released Thursday, expected to show builds across the board - crude, gasoline and distillates, such as diesel and heating oil. He has a secret dial in a sealed vault with high and low oil prices engraved in crystal and lowers and raises them according to his whim...we're all doomed.
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/15/07 |
| 01.15.07 (8:12 am) [edit] |
Saddam's Half Brother Hanged, other half escapes:
Saddam Hussein’s half brother and the former chief of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, but the half-brother's head was severed by the noose — leading to outrage from Sunnis who claim the body was mutilated. Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, once head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad.
Cindy Sheehan's Uterus unearthed from it's resting place in Crawford Texas and is to be part of a grisly experiment:
First came kidney, liver and heart transplants. Then a few doctors started transplanting hands. French surgeons even did a face.Now, doctors are planning the first womb transplant in the United States.A team based in Manhattan has begun screening women left barren by cancer, injuries or other problems who want a chance to bear their own children."The desire to have a child is a tremendous driving force for many women," said Giuseppe Del Priore of the New York Downtown Hospital, who is leading the team. "We think we could help many women fulfill this very basic desire."
Al Gore's prophecy of an overheated Earth comes to fruition:
Freezing rain, snow, sleet, flash floods and at least one tornado walloped the United States this weekend, killing at least 13 people in accidents on slick roads as a massive storm front blanketed much of the country.
Eritrea plans to invade U.S.:
Eritrea warned the United States on Friday that its involvement in Somalia would "incur dangerous consequences" following a U.S. air strike in the Horn of Africa nation targeting al Qaeda suspects.
Nanci "Flower Power and Beads" Pelosi's husband Paul "Flower Power and Beads" Pelosi is involved in raw tuna deal. Republicans are somehow to blame, they have to be! Millions of Samoans will die. I'm embarrassed and very afraid for our country.
During the 2006 House campaigns the Democrats famously ran without an agenda until, toward the end, they kinda needed to say something. So what did they say? Well, Nancy Pelosi said, "Millions of Americans are working hard and are unable to get ahead. For the first time in generations, parents worry that their children will not be better off than they are. Working families are being squeezed as their earnings do not meet their needs." She then went on to offer their plan, which they called a "New Direction for America." To go along with this, America's Mother-in-Law proclaimed
Democrats are fighting for middle-income tax cuts - education, health care and retirement - and fiscal discipline to ensure strong economic growth. Democrats will repeal taxpayer subsidies that promote shipping jobs overseas and we will raise the minimum wage. Democrats will ensure that economic growth benefits all Americans, not just the privileged few. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi thinks one of the following: Read on . . . (1) American Samoan are not Americans. (2) American Samoans are "the privileged few" despite 75% of its workers making less than $3.75 an hour having a 29% unemployment rate. (3) Mr. Pelosi's $17,000,000.00 investment1 in the majority corporate owner of Starkist Tuna is more important to her than the lives of American Samoans. (4) It is socially acceptable for Democrats to discriminate against the American Samoan minority. This guy has me rethinking whether or not John McCain would make a decent president:
A prominent Christian leader whose radio and magazine outreaches are solidly in support of biblically-based marriages – and keeps in touch with millions of constituents daily – says he cannot consider Arizona Sen. John McCain a viable candidate for president."Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," said James Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based as well as the cultural action organization set up specifically to provide a platform for informing and rallying constituents.
I wonder what he has to say about Rudy....enveloping.
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| From the Get a Life Department... |
| 01.13.07 (7:59 am) [edit] |
If Bush were really Hitler these asshats would be hanging from their thumbs with Weaponized Anthrax for underwear....
(HT Zombietime, Brassknuckles.net)
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/12/07 |
| 01.12.07 (8:52 am) [edit] |
Greek Terrorists Fire Rockets at U.S. Embassy:
Suspected leftist guerrillas fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday in the boldest attack staged by leftwing militants in years. The blast shattered windows and woke up nearby residents in the central Athens area at 5:58 AM (0358 GMT) but no one was hurt, police said.
'Bout fucking time:
US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident. Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees.
Boxer pulls no punches: Rice scolded for having no children.
January 12, 2007 -- Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go - attacking Secre tary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman. Boxer was wholly in character for her party - New York's own two Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, were predictably opportunistic - but the Golden State lawmaker earned special attention for the tasteless jibes she aimed at Rice.
I thought the childless career woman was revered by many on the Feminist Left? Please enlighten me.
Tuna Companies in Pelosi's district exempt from the minimum wage increase:
House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week.
& quot;I am shocked," said Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican and his party's chief deputy whip, noting that Mrs. Pelosi campaigned heavily on promises of honest government. "Now we find out that she is exempting hometown companies from minimum wage. This is exactly the hypocrisy and double talk that we have come to expect from the Democrats."
O n Wednesday, the House voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour.
How can Tuna company workers expect to survive on $5.15 an hour?
They'll be forced to kill, maim and steal from their employers to feed their families. This is a perfect example of Speaker Nanci "Flower Power and Beads" Pelosi greasing the skids for her fat cat big bidness cronies at the expense of the proletariat, the common worker, Joe Six Pack, the much vaunted little guy. I'm embarrassed and very afraid for our country....
Global Warming Pastes Los Angeles:
A cold snap hit the Southland amid forecasts of record or near-record low temperatures Friday and Saturday night in metropolitan, coastal and valley areas of Los Angeles County. Post-midnight lows early Friday included 16 in Woodland Hills and 8 in some mountain areas of Los Angeles County, including Warm Springs and Sandberg. The National Weather Service issued a Freeze Warning, effective from 1 a.m. Saturday until 9 a.m. Sunday, for the Santa Monica Recreational Area and the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Santa Clarita valleys -- areas where a "hard freeze" was expected . A Freeze Warning is issued when temperatures are expected to dip to 28 degrees or lower for a period of two hours or more.
Exxon cuts ties to the very people who are in denial over this vital issue:
Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations and has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims — moves that some say could indicate a change in stance from the long-time foe of limits on heat-trapping gases.
Death to Smoochie:
A criminal defense attorney has been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge involving kissing as a crime. Ralph Crozier, 55, of Southbury was arrested Thursday for kissing a female judicial marshal at Waterbury Superior Court on Dec. 22. Crozier said state police investigators told him the marshal did not invite him to kiss her, which was why criminal charges were filed.
Cutting edge science:
Michael Moore proposes using embryonic stem cells as pizza topping....enveloping...
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| Review and Comment on the News 1/10/2007 |
| 01.10.07 (7:23 am) [edit] |
Bush Speech- Democrats: No more troops:
Preparing to present a weary nation with his highly anticipated new war plan, President Bush faced Democrats determined to confront him over sending thousands more Americans to Iraq. Fresh troops are to be in place within three weeks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pledged to hold a vote on the troop increase. Many Democrats are likely to oppose an increase, as are some Republicans. Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said she said did not know when the vote would occur, or what the legislation would include.
Weren't they the ones screaming the loudest that "we need more boots on the ground"?
Bush tries to clean up Clinton's mess:
Airstrikes in Somalia
The Pentagon confirmed Monday's strike targeting al Qaeda operatives late on Tuesday, but did not give any information on who was actually killed.
The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reported. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
Earlier, Somalia's president said that the U.S. was pursuing suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, and that the effort has his support.
Al-Queda chief in Somalia may be toast. Redux:Ted Gone Wild,Vietnam is George Bush's Iraq or Chappaquiddick: Blah! (hic) blah! (burp) Blah! (barf) Didn't Ted say this in '04? More Global Warming Apocolyptica: 2006 was the 2nd Warmest Year on record. The Warmest? 1936. Which was actually the first year HitlerBurton W. McChimpstein put the interests of Big 'Ol above environmental protection and refused to sign Kyoto. Prescott Bush had Geronimo's skull at that point as well. Heady times indeed.....Enveloping.
In the Who Cares Dept: Keith Ellison swore (or done sweared) in using Thomas Jefferson's Quran. Legions of Cloned Farm Animals to fufill Orwell's sinister prophecy. I myself look forward to legions of supersized steaks.
Winter to arrive with a vengance? In some parts of the country many people would argue that it already has.
The unseasonably warm winter experienced by much of the country is likely to "turn on a dime," in the words of AccuWeather.com Chief Long-Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi.
Bastardi said that the weather pattern from mid-January through mid-February has a chance to mimic the winters of 1965-66 and 1957-58, each of which ended cold and stormy after a warm start. A worst-case scenario would be if this winter plays out as did the winter of 1977-1978.
Further evidence of the Bush Police State:
Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can't get on because they speak English.That's right, English. It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing. Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn't take them home that afternoon. Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School. Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.
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Hillary farted:
NEW YORK -- People over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas odor, but no cause has been identified. Numerous people have called 911 to report the odor. Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating. This I would expect:
Democrats are not ruling out raising taxes for the wealthiest people to help pay for tax cuts for middle-income families, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
This I wouldn't:
More than the ascension of Nancy Pelosi & Co. was disturbing congressional Republicans last week. They ask this question: Will President Bush embrace a tax increase that would produce potential economic disaster and guaranteed political catastrophe?
Israel plans nucular strike on Iran:
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters&rdq uo;, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. Why not a one day work week? The less they work, the less damage they can do to us.
DEM VOW ALREADY BROKEN: HOUSE SETS 4-DAY WORK WEEK
Sun Jan 07 2007 15:03:38 ET
Democrats ran to expand the work week in the House to 5 days.
But guess how long that lasted?
Not even one week! "Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week" front-paged the WASHINGTON POST in December.Majority leader Steny Hoyer said members of the House will be expected in the Capitol for votes each week by 6:30 p.m. Monday and will finish their business about 2 p.m. Friday.
Explained the POST: "Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January."But on the morning after the night before, on the first full week of the new congress, Hoyer has pulled back from his vow!A Hoyer press release obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT boldly declares: "Monday, January 8, 2007: The House is not in session."Hill sources claim The House is taking Monday 'off' this week, because of the championship football game between Ohio State and the University of Florida. And, of course, the following Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Ahnold. Centrist.
Hobbling to his inauguration on crutches, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised Friday not to be beholden to a political party in his second term and declared that "centrist does not mean weak."
He's morphing into a muscle bound Al Gore, "Global Wahming moost be Tuhminated". Time to dig up Saddam to heal the rift:
A week after Saddam Hussein stood on the scaffold at Camp Justice in Baghdad and was taunted during his final moments on Earth by followers of the militant Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, none of the emotions that were aroused have faded.
He should have been kept on Death Row for 80 years ala America, he didn't outlive enough of his victims.
I thought they were going to bury him at an undisclosed location so his grave doesn't become a shrine to wannabe terrorist thugs and dictators. Democrats cutting funding for troops?
We've heard for a long time from Democrats that despite their opposition to the war, they would never dream of cutting off funding for the troops in Iraq. An example of this would be Robert Byrd...the Grand Wizard himself would rail against the war for hours on the Senate floor, then vote for whatever appropriation the Pentagon asked for. The theory is simple: the troops should have everything they need to complete the job.
But once the Democrats took over, you knew things were going to change. The difference now is the Democrats are in control...of both Houses of Congress. They have the checkbook. President Bush can send more troops to Iraq if he wants...the so-called surge that's being reported...but it won't matter. How can he do this without the money to support the extra troops? And if the Democrats deny him that money, can it truly be said that they support the troops?
Nancy Pelosi is reminding everyone of this. In an interview that ran yesterday, here's what Madame Speaker had to say: "The burden is on the president to justify any additional resources for a mission. Congress is ready to use its constitutional authority of oversight to question what is the justification for this spending, what are the results we are receiving. There's not a carte blanche, a blank check for him to do whatever he wishes there." If you listen to the Democrats you it will be clear that they have already admitted defeat in Iraq. There is no will to succeed in the Democrat Party. There is no will to retain any degree of respect for America among those who are relying on us to see this through. Over one-half of Europeans recently said that they would like to see a weaker America. Apparently the Democrats agree.
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Democrats were out of power for 200 years:
Flower Power and Beads assumes control:
Swept into the most powerful political job ever held by a U.S. woman, Nancy Pelosi embarked on a jubilant victory lap with children and grandchildren in tow and a soundtrack by Tony Bennett: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." The crooner performed his signature tune at a $1,000-a-head fundraiser Thursday night where Pelosi, 66, celebrated her historic swearing-in as the nation's first-ever female speaker of the House, second in line to the presidency. "Democrats are back and that is cause for celebration, and we are back after 200 years with the first woman speaker," the San Francisco Democrat told the roaring crowd of 1,200 at the National Building Museum. "Thanks to you, working moms in this country know there's a mom in the speaker's office who understands their challenges."
Former Speaker Erect, now Speaker Nanci "Flower Power and Beads" Pelosi flanked by Secret Service Agents.
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He survived Squeaky Fromme....but!!!:
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Nixon's fingerprints found on Ford's body.
Global Warming ravages The Plains and Colorado:
Utility crews struggled to restore electrical service to tens of thousands of homes as grocery store shelves went bare and ranchers tried to reach hungry cattle isolated after a blizzard dumped nearly 3 feet of snow on the Plains and Colorado. National Guard and state workers were preparing Tuesday to bring groceries into snowbound areas with Humvees and drop hay bales into farm fields.
You driving your car is causing this catastrophic meltdown. Stop it.
U.S. Toll in Iraq Lower Than Past Wars
Americans may question this war for many reasons, but their doubts often find voice in the count of U.S. war deaths. An overwhelming majority - 84 percent - worry that the war is causing too many casualties, according to a September poll by the nonpartisan research group Public Agenda. The country largely kept the faith during World War II, even as about 400,000 U.S. forces died - 20,000 just in the monthlong Battle of the Bulge. Before turning against the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Americans tolerated thousands more deaths than in Iraq.
I suppose if anything good emerged from the miserable, fucking year just past it's this:
Hitlerburton W. McChimpstein to send more troops:
For some time now, the Bush Administration has been signaling that in order to enhance the security situation in Iraq, it intends to increase the number of US troops there. The Wall Street Journal reports White House officials now "say a troop 'surge' almost certainly will be the centerpiece of Mr. Bush's new strategy for Iraq." However, the Financial Times says Bush "is facing mounting opposition" on that proposal, with "a number of prominent Republican senators, including Arlen Specter and Richard Lugar, the | |
