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| 08.31.07 (9:00 am) [edit] |
It's Karl Rove's Last Day!!
The fact that he's merely the Republican equivalent of James Carville or Paul Begala seems lost on most of you, but this day is yours!! Rejoice!
Bwahahahahahahahaha!! Exit Stage Right!!
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/29/07 |
| 08.29.07 (8:00 am) [edit] |
Graven in his image?
Castro's winning ticket:
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election. Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination. "The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
Communists, leaders Barack and Madame Hillrod
It's official! Democrats are communists! Karl Rove (The Puppetmaster) Backs Obama:
HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. – Good Wednesday morning. On West Executive Avenue next to the White House at this moment, Karl Rove's Jaguar is covered with Saran Wrap and emblazoned with an 'I (heart) OBAMA' bumper sticker on the passenger-side windshield. It's the handiwork of loving colleagues who say they will miss his puckish humor in meetings. Rove is in New Orleans with the president. Karl's technical last day is Friday.
It's official! Republicans are Communists! I wonder if Castro would back Rove? I doubt it.
Lawrence "Brokeback" Craig:
"I am not gay!"
From the opening line of his statement yesterday, Sen. Larry Craig was in trouble. "Thank you all very much for coming out today," he began.
Way to open a press conference Larry!
"Coming out" was perhaps not the best phrase for a guy who had pleaded guilty to some rather un-senatorial conduct in an airport men's room -- and now stands accused in his home-state paper of a homosexual encounter in Union Station. Alas for the Idaho Republican, it was not his first mistake. No, his first mistake was on June 11, when he went into a restroom stall in the Minneapolis airport and, according to the arrest report, tapped his foot in a "signal often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct." Maybe he has Restless Leg Syndrome... There has been much talk about a Senator or Congressman who actually nailed a 17 year old boy (Sexual Congress if you will) and was re-elected 5 times, proving my point that something like this is a resume enhancer.... if'n you're a Democrat!!
The aptly named Congressman Studds
Uh oh! Trouble in Paradise:
An inconvenient fact Despite the anti-forestry scare tactics of celebrity movies, trees are the most powerful concentrators of carbon on Earth Dr. Patrick Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace and chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. in Vancouver. Patrick (no relation that I'm aware of) Moore, Special to the SunPublished: Wednesday , August 29, 2007It seems like there's a new doomsday documentary every month. But seldom does one receive the coverage that Hollywood activist Leonardo DiCaprio's latest climate-change rant, The 11th Hour, is getting. When we're bombarded anew with theatrical images of our earth's ecosystems when the film opens across B.C. this Friday, I'm concerned that we're losing sight of some indisputable facts. Here's a key piece of information DiCaprio, collaborator and long-time activist Tzeporah Berman and the leadership of my old organization Greenpeace are ignoring when it comes to forests and carbon: For British Columbians, living among the largest area of temperate rainforest in the world, managing our forests will be a key to reducing greenhouse gases.
Now the real heresy:
As a lifelong environmentalist, I say trees can solve many of the world's sustainability challenges. Forestry is the most sustainable of all the primary industries that provide us with energy and materials. Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, DiCaprio and Berman ought to promote the growth of more trees and the use of more wood.
Ah! Refreshing! The former leader of Greenpeace advocating the wanton slaughter of our precious forests!
My Favorite Moron is at it again:
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles. The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.
Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.
Edwards got a standing ovation when he said weapons and equipment used by America's military needs to be made in the United States. He says tanks and ammunition for M16 rifles are being made in other countries.
He says jobs that provide equipment for America's defense need to be made in the United States.
The big question is is would Mr. "My Two America's, $400.00 Haircut" Edwards surrender the keys to his SUV?
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| Good Old Fashined Vigilante Justice Still Lives! |
| 08.24.07 (11:14 am) [edit] |
Campers tie a Peeping Tom to a tree:
Richard H. Berkey, 63, was charged with private indecency, a misdemeanor, by sheriff's deputies who were called to the Big Fan Campground near Bagby Hot Springs last weekend, according to Clackamas County Detective Jim Strovink.
Richard Berkey gives us another
defintion for "Tree Hugger."
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/22/07 |
| 08.22.07 (7:11 am) [edit] |
Another reason to live in fear:
The once noble moose is now a sinister
polluter according to environmentalists.
The Carbon Fartprint of a belching moose is the equivalent of a 13,000 mile (kilometer, sorry) car journey:
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting. Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year. Bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas.
Really folks, isn't this whole debate getting a little stupid? Gingerbread houses collapsing, cow farts moose burps, termite digestive musings, woodpecker dung, the trapped air in Hitler's bunker, the trapped air in Archie Bunker, the passive outgassings of condiments, condominiums, condoms, I guess the only solution is to slaughter the entire moose population of the Planet Earth, as I think the United States has far more moose than Norway and gosh, we haven't even factored in what effect Kudu shit is having on our climate...we need to have another concert and force Mother Nature to take the Carbon Neutral Pledge.
The "Cut and Run" crowd is beginning to wake up and smell the coffee Part II:
Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war. Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face of recent positive signs on the security front, increasingly focusing their criticisms on what those military gains have not achieved: reconciliation among Iraq's diverse political factions.
But shouldn't we embrace the liberal axiom, Celebrate Diversity? Isn't diversity good?
And now the Democrats, along with wavering Republicans, will face an advertising blitz from Bush supporters determined to remain on offense. A new pressure group, Freedom's Watch, will unveil a month-long, $15 million television, radio and grass-roots campaign today designed to shore up support for Bush's policies before the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, lays out a White House assessment of the war's progress. The first installment of Petraeus's testimony is scheduled to be delivered before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a fact both the administration and congressional Democrats say is simply a scheduling coincidence.
Pit Bulls should not be tortured, electrocuted, starved or subjected to any of the dizzying panoply of sadistic techniques that fall under the "Vick Method" they should just be killed quickly, cleanly and humanely:
GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Two pit bull terriers broke into a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. The woman was able to grab a gun and try to shoot the dogs, then break away from the attack and lock herself in her car, where she called 911, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a hospital in Tacoma, where she was listed in serious condition. Officers planned to talk to the dogs' owner. The pit bulls also killed a neighbor's Jack Russell terrier, which entered the house during the attack, Troyer said. "The thought is that the Jack Russell heard noise in the neighbor's house, came in and was attacked by the dogs," Troyer said. Firefighters responded first, locking the dogs in the house, treating the woman and calling for an ambulance. Officers "had to pepper spray and fight the dogs until they were detained. We almost had to shoot them on site," Troyer said. The dogs were taken to a Humane Society and will probably be destroyed, he said. It was not immediately known why the dogs entered the house, whether the woman had dogs of her own or what set off the attack.
The Lightning Round:
The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen water boards Michael Chrichton in secret ceremony! Karl Rove still quitting! Global Warming's Wrath! Bin Laden now turning up on t-shirts ala Che! Mrs. Obama pounds Hillary. The latest U.S. Military atrocities in Iraq. Boortz: How long since a hurricane has hit the United States? Well ... almost two years now! That sure leaves a lot of pissed-off global warming cultists crying in their lattes.
It's official: Republicans are stupid, Democrats read more books than Republicans:
Book Chief: Conservatives Want Slogans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why—and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation. "The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page."
Yes, Patty dear, it's republicans who are embracing such slogans as: Bush Lied, Thousands Died, No Blood for Oil, Another One Percent for Peace, Impeach Bush, It's the Economy Stupid, Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they're open, (Translation: They only function when they're Liberal), Hate is not a family value, Give Peace a Chance, Impeach Cheney, Question Authority (unless they're in power of course), 51% is not a mandate, Go Green, Cheney-Satan '08, Support our Troops Bring Them Home, Arms are for Hugging, Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican, Don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets and a plethora of others, it appears the Carvilles of the world have built a generation of sloganeers as well. Or are all of these novels? |
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/20/07 |
| 08.20.07 (7:38 am) [edit] |
Karl Rove's future plans include playing God:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life." "It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways—in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict." That first cell of synthetic life—made from the basic chemicals in DNA—may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it. "Creating protocells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."
..and waterboarding puppies.
Protest duly noted:
Full nudal frontity on shrinking glacier:
Nearly 600 volunteers stripped before the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps on Saturday as part of a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change. The eco-conscious volunteers turned up under blue skies near the foot of the Aletsch glacier, a protected UNESCO World Heritage site.
Don't these morons understand that their collective body heat is only going to contribute to the glacier's further shrinkage? Yeah, next thing ya' know they'll want us to stop flying.
Oprah wants to invade Pakistan:
In America, it is known simply as the "O" Factor. As the reigning talk-show queen, trusted arbiter of taste and general adviser on everyday life, Oprah Winfrey has persuaded millions of devoted viewers to buy everything from bras to books.Now the world's richest black person is aiming to transfer her Midas touch to the world of politics, as she tries to market Barack Obama as the first black American president.
I half jokingly (well, maybe more than half) think this woman had a hand in the demise of my marriage ( read the advice column sometime) so be careful Barry.
More BBC bias??:
After a long struggle, the BBC removed a statement referring to Jesus as a "bastard," meanwhile many claim that it will remove anti-Muslim comments almost immediately.
Hurricane Dean hammers Jamaica, I should check Huffington Post to get little Bobby's thoughts:
KINGSTON (Reuters) - A strengthening Hurricane Dean took aim at Mexico's Yucatan on Monday after battering Jamaica's southern coast, flooding its capital and littering streets with broken trees and roofs during a Caribbean rampage that has killed at least nine people.
Jamaicans exscape Chimpstein's wrath
Then again, Chimpstein's Wrath might sum up Little Bobby's thoughts quite nicely. Rats!! after a quick perusal of Huff Post I saw no opprotunistic bleatings from Little Bobby, only the usual stuff, GITMO is a torture chamber, Rove is a Nazi, he's secretly in love with Hillary etc. etc.
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| 08.17.07 (7:03 am) [edit] |
One of my not so secret guilty pleasures is now history:
Bat Boy, a living sequestered Elvis and various extra terrestrials are now only available online. I'm sure this paper was a big influence on The Onion and Art Bell.
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/15/07 |
| 08.15.07 (7:15 am) [edit] |
Karl Rove's sinister legacy:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — Certain vinyl baby bibs sold at Toys “R” Us stores appear to be contaminated with lead, laboratory tests have shown, making the inexpensive bibs another example of a made-in-China product that may be a health hazard to children. The vinyl bibs, which feature illustrations of baseball bats and soccer balls and Disney’s Winnie the Pooh characters, are sold for less than $5 each under store brand labels, including Especially for Baby and Koala Baby. Tests this summer, financed by the Center for Environmental Health of Oakland, Calif., found lead as high as three times the level allowed in paint in several styles of the bibs purchased from both Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in California.
...Waxman to hold hearings. Winnie the Pooh? Karl, how could you??
One of the most vicious partisan hitmen in all of politics calls the kettle black:
There is an old joke that campaign veterans toss around war rooms, bars and BS sessions. We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some – and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars. The joke reflects an obsession with winning as the real benchmark of success in politics. By that measure, Karl Rove’s career has to be deemed a success. He built the Republican party of Texas into one of the most powerful state parties in America.
...this piece is actually fairly diplomatic for Carville. Global Warming's wrath: Hurricane Flossie to be followed by Hurricane Brushie:
SOUTH POINT, Hawaii (AP) - Flossie was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm hours after sideswiping Hawaii's Big Island, turning its seas into roiling giant surf. Flossie had delivered 30 minutes of steady rain to the small town of Naalehu on Tuesday night, but there was little significant wind. The storm spent most of its wrath at sea, but residents stocked up on supplies and stayed home Tuesday in anticipation of possible flooding and wind damage from the first hurricane to come so close to the islands in 15 years. Schools and businesses across the Big Island were to remain closed Wednesday. Other Hawaiian islands, including the main island of Oahu, enjoyed tropical breezes and mostly sunny skies, with little impact on tourism or commerce.
The political club (with which to beat Da Fuhrer) of ever worsening hurricanes due to Climate Change doesn't seem to be panning out. FOX News Fuhrer morphs into Heidi Cullen:
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Readers of the The Sun, a British tabloid best known for its bare-breasted Page Three girls, opened their newspapers to see a young woman named Keeley Hazell wearing only green paint. Ms. Hazell is the face - well, not just the face - of the paper's campaign against global warming. When subscribers to the British satellite TV provider BSkyB order new set-top boxes, some installers now also deliver, at no additional charge, three energy-efficient light bulbs and a low-flow shower head.
By contrast, Murdoch has boldly promised to make News Corp. carbon neutral by 2010 and to weave environmental issues and themes into his newspapers, TV shows, movies and online properties - a tricky business, particularly when it comes to news.
Groan...Holy trendy posturing Batman. The more things change, the more they stay the same:
D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared." "This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."
Sound familiar? I bet this is all a Faux Noise plot.
(HT Junk Science)
The Lightning Round:
Obama blasted for toeing the Democrat Party line. Michael Moore's "minutemen" kill 200. Michael Bin Vick? Eco-weenies (who spearheaded the bottled water movement in the first place) now want it stopped. Bush, Republicans, FEMA, unable to stop bridge collapse, RFK Jr. blames budget cuts, Halliburton, Haley Barbour and Climate Change. They have farmland??
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/13/07 |
| 08.13.07 (7:30 am) [edit] |
Turd Blossom, The Architect, The Puppetmaster, The Fulcrum, The Source, calls it quits:
Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff known as "The Architect" for guiding Bush from being the governor of Texas to two terms as president, is the latest in a series of senior aides to quit as the clock ticks toward the end of Bush's presidency."I just think it's time," Rove, 56, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Monday."There's always something that can keep you here and, as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."Rove's departure could complicate Bush's agenda for his remaining 17 months in office. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, who confirmed Rove's departure to Reuters, called it a "big loss." Rove has been a key figure throughout Bush's presidency but not without his own controversy, including being investigated by a special prosecutor searching for who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent. He was never charged.
...and out where the busses don't run, there was much rejoicing!
The Boy Genius, "Turd Blossom" plots his next move.
Bwahahahahahahahaha!! For the sake of his family!! Pah! That's what they all say! We all know he's going to spend his spare time dangling children's pets over vats of corrosive acid, ripping the heads off of dolls and fine tuning the Halliburton Orbital Death Laser for Bush's ascension to the Godhead as Supreme Leader for life!!
The "Cut and Run"crowd is beginning to smell the coffee:
DES MOINES, Aug. 11 — Even as they call for an end to the war and pledge to bring the troops home, the Democratic presidential candidates are setting out positions that could leave the United States engaged in Iraq for years. John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, would keep troops in the region to intervene in an Iraqi genocide and be prepared for military action if violence spills into other countries. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would leave residual forces to fight terrorism and to stabilize the Kurdish region in the north. And Senator Barack Obama of Illinois would leave a military presence of as-yet unspecified size in Iraq to provide security for American personnel, fight terrorism and train Iraqis. These positions and those of some rivals suggest that the Democratic bumper-sticker message of a quick end to the conflict — however much it appeals to primary voters — oversimplifies the problems likely to be inherited by the next commander in chief. Antiwar advocates have raised little challenge to such positions by Democrats.
BBC bias exposed:
In the past four weeks there have been two remarkable changes in the public attitude to the BBC. The first and most newsworthy one was precipitated by the faked trailer of the Queen walking out of a photographic portrait session with Annie Leibovitz. It was especially damaging because the licence fee is based on a public belief that the BBC offers a degree of integrity and impartiality which its commercial competitors cannot achieve. But in the longer term I believe that the second change is even more significant. It started with the BBC’s own report on impartiality that effectively admitted to an institutional “liberal” bias among programme makers. Previously these accusations had been dismissed as a right-wing rant, but since the report was published even the BBC’s allies seem to accept it. It has been on parade again these past few weeks on the Radio 4 programme The Crime of Our Lives. It included (of course) the ritual demoni-sation of Margaret Thatcher (uninterested in crime . . . surprisingly did not take a closer interest), a swipe at Conservative magistrates and their friends in the golf club and occasional quotes from Douglas Hurd to preserve the illusion of impartiality, but the whole tenor of the programme was liberal/ progressive/ reformist. But we were not just anti-Macmil-lan; we were antiindustry, anti-capital-ism, antiadvertising, antiselling, antiprofit, antipatriotism, antimonarchy, antiempire, antipolice, antiarmed forces, antibomb, antiauthority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place – you name it, we were anti it.
Speaking of bias:
If you wanted to see an example of biased journalism, a good place to start would be the Aug. 13 cover story in Newsweek about global warming.
The issue’s cover says “Global Warming Is A Hoax,” but there is an asterisk, which leads to the statement “Or so claim well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change.”
In other words, Newsweek has an agenda to promote global-warming hysteria, and they don’t feel any need to give equal time to a point of view they disagree with. Indeed Newsweek’s author Sharon Begley denounces global warming skeptics as “deniers,” a term which I think establishes the pseudo-religious quality of the global warming crusade as well as anything.
We are indeed reaching the point where “science” has become the equivalent of religious dogma, and “deniers” of the “received truth” (from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in this case) have the same status as the poor saps who dared to tell the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (previously known as the Inquisition) that church dogma was wrong.
Although “deniers” of the faith of global warming cannot yet be executed, they can be excommunicated — from the one true church of government funding for scientific research — and that threat of lost funding has marginalized skeptics of global warming to the point where they probably feel a little like Galileo under house arrest.
The Weather Channel's overseer Heidi Cullen also stated recently that anyone who doesn't toe the line on Climate Change should be stripped of their credentials. The whiff of fascism? One square people, one square...
Warmest year on record is no longer 1998 but 1934:
Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA's Web site and look at the "U.S. surface air temperature" rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that something has changed. Then again, you might not. They're not issuing any press releases about it. But they have quietly revised their All-Time Hit Parade for U.S. temperatures. The "hottest year on record" is no longer 1998, but 1934. Another alleged swelterer, the year 2001, has now dropped out of the Top 10 altogether, and most of the rest of the 21st century – 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 – plummeted even lower down the Hot 100. In fact, every supposedly hot year from the Nineties and this decade has had its temperature rating reduced. Four of America's Top 10 hottest years turn out to be from the 1930s, that notorious decade when we all drove around in huge SUVs with the air-conditioning on full-blast. If climate change is, as Al Gore says, the most important issue anyone's ever faced in the history of anything ever, then Franklin Roosevelt didn't have a word to say about it. And yet we survived. So why is 1998 no longer America's record-breaker? Because a very diligent fellow named Steve McIntyre of climateaudit.com labored long and hard to prove there was a bug in NASA's handling of the raw data. He then notified the scientists responsible and received an acknowledgment that the mistake was an "oversight" that would be corrected in the next "data refresh." The reply was almost as cool as the revised chart listings.
Who is this man who understands American climate data so much better than NASA? Well, he's not even American: He's Canadian. Just another immigrant doing the jobs Americans won't do, even when they're federal public servants with unlimited budgets? No. Mr. McIntyre lives in Toronto. But the data smelled wrong to him, he found the error, and NASA has now corrected its findings – albeit without the fanfare that accompanied the hottest-year-on-record hysteria of almost a decade ago. Sunlight may be the best disinfectant, but, when it comes to global warming, the experts prefer to stick the thermometer where the sun don't shine.
....those darn Canadians, raining on Al's parade like that....
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/10/07 |
| 08.10.07 (7:48 am) [edit] |
The "Our soldiers are Nazis, the war is lost" crowd is slowly being forced to eat crow:
There’s good news from Iraq, which has produced almost nothing but bad news since the 2003 invasion. The U.S. military surge, widely denounced as a last-ditch effort by an embattled, lame-duck president fighting an un-winnable civil war, is working. Even as vocal a war critic as Deputy Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has now acknowledged as much, telling CNN that the U.S. military is “making real progress.” Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multi-national force in Iraq and author of the counterinsurgency surge strategy now underway, told Talk Radio host Allen Colmes that during the past seven weeks, U.S. troops have inflicted “enormous damage” on al Qaeda forces in Iraq, causing three times the losses sustained by coalition forces. Petraeus added that al Qaeda in Iraq, which is responsible for most of the high-profile car bombings and suicide attacks, has been “clearly linked to the... al Qaeda senior leadership, located in the Pakistan Afghanistan border trial areas.” In other words, beating al Qaeda in Iraq is clearly a serious blow to Osama bin Laden wherever he is hiding.
...Durbin should be forced to eat a lot worse than crow but I'll take it.
We've got 2 years before Climate Change really rears it's ugly head:
Natural weather variations have offset the effects of global warming for the past couple of years and will continue to keep temperatures flat through 2008, a study released Thursday said. But global warming will begin in earnest in 2009, and a couple of the years between 2009 and 2014 will eclipse 1998, the warmest year on record to date, in the heat stakes, British meteorologists said.
...by then we will really be safe because Madame Hillrod will safely be ensconsed as president and it will all be better. I read somewhere that the hottest year on record was actually in 1934 or 1938.
Not quite sure what this is a picture of,
some melting coastline or iceberg no doubt.
Worldeater Bush:
Nearly half of all U.S. murder victims are black:
African-Americans are victims of nearly half the murders committed in the United States despite making up only 13 percent of the population, a report published Thursday showed. Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.
The NASA shuttle (which must have a massive carbon footprint) prepares to dock with ISS:
The US shuttle Endeavour prepared to dock with the International Space Station on Friday after sustaining minor damage to its external fuel tank during lift-off, NASA said. The Endeavour, which blasted off on its 11-day mission on Wednesday, was set to rendezvous and dock with the ISS at 1753 GMT after the shuttle crew inspected the spacecraft's thermal insulation on Thursday. A NASA official said it may have been hit by three small pieces of insulation material from its external fuel tank on blast-off. Altogether, nine pieces of insulation flaked off during the initial minutes of ascent, but only three may have struck the shuttle itself, Mission Management Team chairman John Shannon told reporters, adding he was "very confident" there was no serious damage.
Mr. "My Two Americas, Mr. $400.00 Haircut" taps into supposed "populist rage:"
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is taking a page from Bill Clinton's playbook and building on it. He feels your pain - and your anger. The upbeat Mr. Sunshine and Southern moderate of the 2004 presidential race has turned into the populist pursuing support from the party's liberal wing in hopes of overcoming leading rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Edwards has given voice to voters' frustrations over an unending Iraq war, rising health care costs and disenchantment with Washington. Anger can be a tricky emotion for a politician. In 2004, Howard Dean was known as the angry candidate and it proved to be part of his downfall. "The electorate gets to be angry, but politicians typically should be more temperate," said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, who added that "there's a fine line between channeling anger and being angry."Edwards is different from Dean, who had a tendency to get ticked off at times and pop off unexpectedly. Edwards is channeling his emotion in a more deliberate way.
Presidential hopeless $400.00 Haircut, receives communion
from the elfin Dennis Kucinich
We need another 9/11??:
ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America. What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing? A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically - thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq - that we have forgotten who the enemy is. It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or Bill O'Reilly or Giuliani or Barack. It is global terrorists who use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women and children. Iraq has fractured the U.S. into jigsaw pieces of competing interests that encourage our enemies.
...no doubt you are correct on the preceding point. Gentlepersons, Murtha, Reid, Durbin, Hagel et. al. should be bitchslapped for giving our enemies the impression that we are as Dennis Miller put it "imminently conquerable" but I'm sure the resulting political unity from another 9/11 is not worth another 9/11. Besides, were there another 9/11, there would very likely be no political unity, there would be endless fingerpointi ng and the "competing interests that encourage our enemies" would grow ever more vitriolic.
Moonbats locked in mortal combat:
With goofy anti- war activist Cindy Sheehan now officially running against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, talk hosts across the country are understandibly ecstatic. Could anything be more entertaining than watching these two duke it out?
More than that, it's symbolic of just how extreme Left Coast politics have become: Sheehan's in the race because Pelosi isn't liberal enough. Even more astounding is the fact that Cindy has a relatively good chance of winning!
Imagine...Madame Speaker Sheehan!
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| Review and Comment on the News 8/8/07 |
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Future Climate Change said to be responsible for an increase in nature:
Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it. Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.
...and the '06 and '07 hurricane seasons really panned out the way little Bobby FK Jr. said they would didn't they? I'm sure Climate Change causing more volcanoes landslides and tsunamis also falls somewhere under the "Global Warming Causes Everything" link to the left on my blog page.
I'm surprised Little Bobby's mighty fingers haven't tripped the light fantastic across the keyboard blaming this on Climate Change and HitlerBurton:
Dangerous conditions that forced rescuers to halt attempts to reach six trapped miners will prevent crews from reaching the men for at least a week, a mining executive said. Seismic activity "wiped out" all progress rescuers had made in clearing rubble that has trapped the miners since Monday, said mining company executive Robert E. Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., owner of the Crandall Canyon mine. "We are back to square one underground," he said, adding that the rescue operation would resume no earlier than Wednesday afternoon. Though rescue crews withdrew from inside the mine, drilling continued on the surface Tuesday.
The sinister right wing FOX network keeps trying to go Green but is thwarted by the Academy.
I read this wrong, I thought it said "Spain hauls in 8 ton jellyfish" I was going to have some fun with it, but alas:
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has launched a campaign to investigate and collect a plague of jellyfish on its coastline, and so far has collected eight tons of them, the Environment Ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry's "Campaign for the Study and Detection of Groupings of Jellyfish" has attracted 200 volunteers who are being specially trained to study the jellyfish and find out what attracts them to the coastline.
(Special Commentary: I'll save them some time: Global Warming.)
"A vigilance network has been created to detect banks of jellyfish and predict their possible arrival on beaches," the ministry said in a statement.The increase in jellyfish, a nuisance for holidaymakers in the Mediterranean in particular, is believed by climate experts to be due to warmer sea temperatures and the reduction in predators such as tuna and turtles. Bush is now slightly more popular than gum disease:
We’re seeing some slight hints of positive news for the Bush administration. For one thing, Bush’s job approval rating has stopped its downward trajectory. Bush hit bottom with his administration low point of 29% in early July (based on our USA Today/Gallup poll readings). Now – in the data just about to be released from our weekend poll – Bush's approval rating has recovered slightly to 34%. That’s not a big jump, but it is the second consecutive poll in which the president’s numbers have been higher rather than lower.
Well, I'm a bit rusty after the layoff but that's all I've got for today....
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