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Thought for the Day

Islam / Women’s Rights, Democracy, and Freedom of Religion are incompatible. Only one will survive in the end.

“You know things are bad when Red China is more Capitalistic then Obama. ”

author unknown

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Democrats? SIX WORD DEFENSE PLAN

1. It’s Bush’s fault.

2. You’re a racist.

THE DEFINITION OF “RACIST” IS ANYONE WINNING THE ARGUMENT WITH A LIBERAL.

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Racist Rangel is at it again.

From Gateway Pundit

Demacrook Charlie Rangel (D-NY) told reporters at NY1 that the tea party patriots were just like the groups that attacked blacks during the civil rights movement.

“The group that were in Washington fighting against the health bill and fighting against the President, looked just like and sounded just like those groups that attacked the civil rights movement in the South.”

Of course, several videos of the incident revealed there was no racial attack by the DC tea party protesters. Not even a reward offer of $100,000 has helped produce any proof of a racist incident.

Rep. Rangel needs to apologize as do the racist Black Caucus members who fabricated this story.

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Rep. Charlie Rangel swears at Jason Mattera over scandal questions

‘The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy’
by Smitty

…to quote Sid Meier from the game Civ IV

“As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.” – - Newt Gingrich

We owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president. – Ann Coulter

A Page From History

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 to December 19, 1968) was a leading
American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the
Socialist Party of America.

The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US., Norman Thomas, said
this in a 1944 speech:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the
name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist
program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing
how it happened.! ”

He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for
the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.”
****

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s
money.”

~~Margaret Thatcher~~

Crossposted from Flopping Aces

For a man who touts “judgment”, PEBO is hiding out in the islands…”monitoring”… but keeping his mouth shut on the latest warfare in Gaza between Hamas and Israel. While we’ve heard from him regularly on everything from the economy to the WH domestic pets – effectively nullifying his “only one President at a time bit – Obama is comspicuously silent on the ME events.

Axelrod, his talking head, made the rounds to the Sunday news shows. But there was little he could shed on Obama’s position.

But David Axelrod refused to offer an opinion on the fighting between Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas terrorists.

“As Hamas began its shelling, Israel responded,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Obama has been in Hawaii on vacation with his family during the holiday.

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Axelrod said that Israel is the United States’ strongest ally and has to defend itself, but Obama wants “to be a constructive force in helping to bring about the peace and security that both the Israelis and the Palestinians want and deserve.”

“The president-elect was in Sderot last July, in southern Israel, a town that’s taken the brunt of the Hamas attacks. And he said then that, when bombs are raining down on your citizens, there is an urge to respond and act and try and put an end to that,” Axelrod said.

But, he added, the president-elect wants to manage Mideast relations “in a way that will promote the cause of peace, and work closely with the Israelis and the Palestinians on that — toward that objective.”

Is the Obama way to “peace” to ignore Hamas’ militant actions? Does his leadership mean saying nothing in order not to offend Hamas and other Muslim leaders? In which case, welcome back Jimmah Carter…

Or is he remaining silent in order to not to repeat his past faux pas? Coincidently, he was headed to the islands the last time he put his foot in his mouth on int’l events… this time over Georgia and Russia.

Took him three tries to get the situation correct (as opposed to McCain, who struck the right tone from the first moment). First he suggested “restraint” on both sides, chiding them like battling siblings. The second time, he placed a bit more of the responsibility on Russia, but still copped a “can’t we all just get along” attitude.

It wasn’t until the third time in public where he used sufficiently strong language, befitting the leader of the free world.

Before that, it was Obama’s foot in mouth moment speaking before the AIPAC last July…where he emphatically stated that Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel, and undivided.

This, of course, freaked out the Palestinian Arabs who envisioned a Palestinian state, including East Jerusalem. It took 24 hours for Obama to backpaddle on that one…

But the statement itself – concocted to pander to the specific audience – contained a historic flaw… the US doesn’t recognize any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s “capital”, and consistently refuses to relocate an embassy there. My guess is that one falls in the “57 states” gaffe category. Unless, of course, Obama has plans to move the Israeli Embassy from it’s present location in Tel Aviv.

In the interim, the rest of the world *is* speaking out. As is usual, the anti-Israel types are using this moment to protest in Lebanon and Europe.

The UN and the EU have taken the Obama course of how to chide siblings…er… other nations. They simply call for a cease fire, sans specifics. Yeah… that’ll work.

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to condemn the Hamas provocations, and urge renewal of the truce. Problem is, Abbas hasn’t got the weight to swing in Gaza since Hamas took over control of the territory in 2007.

Condie Rice, however, didn’t balk publicly – noting who broke the truce.

Rice issued a statement on Saturday condemning “the repeated rocket and mortar attacks against Israel and holds Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire and for the renewal of violence in Gaza.” She also said the U.S. “calls on all concerned to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the innocent people of Gaza.”

Speaking on behalf of the Bush administration, she was more blunt.

Backing Israel, the administration of President George W. Bush, in its final weeks in office, put the onus on Hamas to prevent a further escalation.

“The United States … holds Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire and for the renewal of violence in Gaza,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement. “The ceasefire should be restored immediately.”

Meanwhile one Dem Senator, Sherrod Brown, has taken that Obama “hope” slogan too seriously….

I’m not sure it’s a good idea. I mean, Israel certainly has the right to self-defense, of course. Hamas has not recognized Israel’s right to exist. … But I’m hopeful that with a new president — you know, you look at President Bush is now in a petty weakened state, and countries around the world know that. I’m hopeful that as this transition comes, as we look to January, that strong presidential leadership can make a difference here,” Brown said, appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with Corker.

…”strong presidential leadership..”???

How is that? Is it strong “presidential leadership” to hide out, and refuse to offend the offensive side by recognizing their actions broke the truce?

Apparently, the foreign policy of this Bush the III is still a watered down wuss by comparison. This dancing around reality, refusing to call Hamas on the carpet, will not increase the potential for peace between Palestine and Israel. It will, however, give ample fuel to the anti-Israelis in the region… to the politically-correct, anti-Israel western media, … and to the very anti-Semite United Nations.

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Global Warming: Postponing the “apocalypse”

After four and a half hours of what is hopefully my last of the snow shoveling (at least this storm) to get in and out of my rural road, my thoughts again turn to this global warming nonsense that still bubbles under the surface of the world governments. Evidently it’s hard to sell “a sense of urgency” in an ice covered world.

The new bit? Ignore that cooling behind the curtain. Hansen and the die hards are here to tell us that the apocalypse is still coming… evidently it’s just postponed a bit.

Since 1998, the earth has been cooling… not warming.

Bob Carter, a paleoclimatologist from Australia, notes that the earth also had strong global warming between 1918 and 1940. Then there was a long cooling period from 1940 to 1965. He points out that the current warming started 50 years before cars and industries began spewing consequential amounts of CO2. Then the planet cooled for 35 years just after the CO2 levels really began to surge. In fact, says Carter, there doesn’t seem to be much correlation between temperatures and man-made CO2.

James Hansen, the global warming advocate eclipsed only by Al Gore in fame and name, apparently is aware of this cooling trend. But with nary a reference to the snowfall, he ignores the snow falling and ice storms… and continues his relentless campaign with his Nov 2008 open letter to Obama.

Although global warming to date is smaller than day-to-day weather fluctuations, it has brought global temperature back to approximately the highest level of the Holocene, the past 10,000 years, the period during which civilization developed. Effects already evident include:

1. Mountain glaciers are receding worldwide and will be gone within 50 years if CO2 emissions continue to increase. This threatens the fresh water supply for billions of people, as rivers arising in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains will begin to run dry in the summer and fall.

2. Coral reefs, home to a quarter of biological species in the ocean, could be destroyed by rising temperature and ocean acidification due to increasing CO2.

3. Dry subtropics are expanding poleward with warming, affecting the southern United States, the Mediterranean region, and Australia, with increasing drought and fires.
4. Arctic sea ice will disappear entirely in the summer, if CO2 continues to increase, with devastating effects on wildlife and indigenous people.

5. Intensity of hydrologic extremes, including heavy rains, storms and floods on the one hand, and droughts and fires on the other, are increasing.

His letter is filled with friendly scientific and policy advice for the PEBO. He speaks of the inability to capture CO2 from vehicle emissions. His answer to offset what cannot easily or feasibly be done? The “prompt moratorium on construction of new coal plants,” and phasing out existing ones linearly over the period 2010-2030 to limit the peak of atmospheric CO2 at an amount somewhere between 400 and 425 ppm.

Considering Obama’s promise to implement standards that would bankrupt any coal plant, I’d say that Hansen has a special corner all his own in Obama’s head.

Hansen also points out the futility of carbon caps, instead suggesting a “carbon tax with 100 percent dividend 4 applied to oil, gas and coal [use] at the mine or port of entry”.

It [the carbon tax] would assure that unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil shale and tar sands, stay in the ground, unless an economic method of capturing the CO2 is developed.

The entire tax should be returned to the public, equal shares on a per capita basis (half shares for children up to a maximum of two child shares per family), deposited monthly in bank accounts. No bureaucracy is needed.

A tax should be called a tax. The public can understand this and will accept a tax if it is clearly explained and if 100 percent of the money is returned to the public. Not one dime should go to Washington for politicians to pick winners. No lobbyists need be employed.

While not exactly the same implementation, Alaskans benefit financially from the oil revenue-endowed Permanent Fund… a tax on the oil drawn from their lands (which, of course, differs from a blanket windfall tax on companies deriving their profits from Research and Production in foreign countries). However that Fund does require bureaucracy… and Hansen offers little insight on why he believes government would keep their hot little hands off this income.

While many may believe Obama would be apt to support a carbon tax that goes directly, non-stop, to the taxpayers… I don’t. A President Obama – along with cohorts in spending crime, Pelosi and Reid – would absolutely not allow those funds to bypass Congress. They have big spending projects… and those funds would make their eyes light up like a kid’s on Christmas morn.

What is missing from Hansen’s letter is any mention of the earth’s cooling trend. Instead he continues to boldly propagate the “global warming” phrase – avoiding the more vague “climate change” moniker used by so many now. Apparently, Hansen merely believes we have a stay of execution, courtesy of the earth’s oceans. Per his guest op-ed on the WorldWatch site this past June:

But more warming is already “in-the-pipeline,” delayed only by the great inertia of the world ocean. And climate is nearing dangerous tipping points. Elements of a “perfect storm,” a global cataclysm, are assembled.

Gotta give the guy credit for balls, along with his stubborness. But why does Hansen not only ignore the cooling, but also the sun’s influence?

Two weeks before Hansen was to testify front of our gullible Congress this past summer, ScienceDaily was noting that sun’s “silence” on sunspots for a longer period than the more common 11 year cycles. And while Hansen focuses on what he feels he can predict with CO2 and temperatures, he cannot predict the sunspot activity. Nor does he seem to apply the sun’s activity with any notable impact on his findings. But the sun does indeed have an effect on the earth’s weather… as The Daily Tech science blog stated back in Feb 2008:

Dr. Kenneth Tapping is worried about the sun. Solar activity comes in regular cycles, but the latest one is refusing to start. Sunspots have all but vanished, and activity is suspiciously quiet. The last time this happened was 400 years ago — and it signaled a solar event known as a “Maunder Minimum,” along with the start of what we now call the “Little Ice Age.”

Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada’s National Research Council, says it may be happening again. Overseeing a giant radio telescope he calls a “stethoscope for the sun,” Tapping says, if the pattern doesn’t change quickly, the earth is in for some very chilly weather.

During the Little Ice Age, global temperatures dropped sharply. New York Harbor froze hard enough to allow people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island, and in Britain, people reported sighting eskimos paddling canoes off the coast. Glaciers in Norway grew up to 100 meters a year, destroying farms and villages.

Back in 2005, when global warming fear was “heating up” frenetically, other scientists were predicting global cooling.

In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov predicted the sun would soon peak, triggering a rapid decline in world temperatures. Only last month, the view was echoed by Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. who advised the world to “stock up on fur coats.” Sorokhtin, who calls man’s contribution to climate change “a drop in the bucket,” predicts the solar minimum to occur by the year 2040, with icy weather lasting till 2100 or beyond.

Observational data seems to support the claims — or doesn’t contradict it, at least. According to data from Britain’s Met Office, the earth has cooled very slightly since 1998. The Met Office says global warming “will pick up again shortly.”

Others aren’t so sure.

Researcher Dr. Timothy Patterson, director of the Geoscience Center at Carleton University, shares the concern. Patterson is finding “excellent correlations” between solar fluctuations, a relationship that historically, he says doesn’t exist between CO2 and past climate changes. According to Patterson. we shouldn’t be surprised by a solar link. “The sun [is] the ultimate source of energy on this planet,” he says.

Such research dates back to 1991, when the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study showing that world temperatures over the past several centuries correlated very closely with solar cycles. A 2004 study by the Max Planck Institute found a similar correlation, but concluded the timing was only coincidental, as the solar variance seemed too small to explain temperature changes.

Just as in the late 70s, when the cry was raised about a coming ice age and Mother Nature did an about face with a warming trend, it appears only time is going to tell whether the predictions of continued cooling, or warming, come to pass. One thing certain can be said… climate *does* change… with or without man. And despite all our best intentions or technology, this planet will eventually be uninhabitable for any species in the future. In the interim – just as in epochs past – life on earth will morph… some species becoming extinct, others evolving into a new species.

Tho global warming advocates say the apocalypse has been postponed, they have not postponed the education propaganda machine. With much to gain financially from government legislation in all countries – and perhaps only a narrow window in which to do so in an increasingly cold world – the global warming advocates are resurging in their ad/fear campaign. And now, as disgruntled Sierra Club’s David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, so aptly demonstrates, they are displaying their successful indoctrination of our youth… using them to tout the even more extreme “runaway global warming”.

Wonder how those young kids will feel if they’re frantically stoking their alternative energy stoves trying to keep warm in the future? Will they look back to their participation in this commercial and recognize they were taken for fools by their teachers and the education system?

On the flip side, there are some media pundits… no doubt doing their fair share of shivering and snow shoveling themselves… now penning their skepticism. One such example is The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker in his piece today, 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved.

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.

Ever shriller and more frantic has become the insistence of the warmists, cheered on by their army of media groupies such as the BBC, that the last 10 years have been the “hottest in history” and that the North Pole would soon be ice-free – as the poles remain defiantly icebound and those polar bears fail to drown. All those hysterical predictions that we are seeing more droughts and hurricanes than ever before have infuriatingly failed to materialise.

Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to “natural factors” such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely “masking the underlying warming trend”, and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).

…masking the underlying warming trend??

It’s gotta be a tough go right now… touting global warming with any credibility in the midst of weather so obviously the opposite. I’d say the onslaught of doom will be stepping up it’s advertising campaign during such adverse conditions. After all, the real agenda is to drive thru legislation that financially benefits some of the world’s heavy hitters. And apparently the more snowy cold winters the world has, the more snow the resorts get, the more likely it is they will be viewed as crackpots.

And boy do I look forward to that day….

Now one can only hope there are no drastic moves taken by the US Congress and a new President… who seems to hang on Hansen’s every word.

Finally:

Hamas Wanted War, They Got It

And here we were all told the election of the one was going to spread good will and peace throughout the globe. Doesn’t seem to be working. I mean Hamas wanted a war when they ended the truce with Isreal last week and sent in almost 200 rockets.

They wanted this, now they got it.

After sending wave after wave of rocket attacks into Israel (3,000 rockets since the beginning of the year), including this one:

A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.

Israel decided enough was enough and sent warplanes in to demolish every known Hamas compound, killing hundreds:

Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding 270 others in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.

Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were also among the dead. Hamas said all of its security installations were hit and responded with several medium-range Grad rockets at Israel, reaching deeper than in the past. One Israeli was killed and at least four people were wounded in the rocket attacks. With so many wounded, the Palestinian death toll was likely to rise. (more…)

So let me get this straight…if you do not like Obama, you are a racist, but if you do not like Palin, you are not a sexist.

I guess that makes sense to someone that thinks a guy who went to a racist church for 20 years is a uniter.

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican
mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)….since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.

Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’
(more…)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are
uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
- Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by
the handle.
-Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow
man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a
sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
(more…)

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, when this was written) that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D. C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. (…and that was while handguns were outlawed!!)

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U. S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional,
illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream
media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to
pick up a turd by the clean end.”

Delbert Buttman

Charles Krauthammer wrote “As part of the vast social project of moral leveling, it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized. The normal must be found to be deviant”.

Hat Tip John C.

“diversity” is not meant to actually be diverse.

Larwyn

Worth remembering

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus
Christ and the American G. I.

One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

and too many in this country who should know better have forgotten both of them……

Not all Democrats are liberals, but all liberals are Democrats..

…and not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.

a thanx to Ann Coulter for borrowing her line for my title.

Tonight’s Kos Kid diary is a rant against patriotism: Daily Kos: Red, White and Blue Idolatry & Why I Walked out of Sunday Morning Service.

But, uh… don’t question their patriotism.

Today I walked out of church about a third of the way through the service. A soloist was performing “God Bless the USA.” I have always found that song to be especially cloying, but when I noticed it listed in the bulletin I decided to attempt to tolerate it. And I might have managed to do just that had not one or two individuals prompted the entire congregation to stand.

At that moment I felt as though I’d been punched in the gut. And it was a double whammy – not only was I offended politically, I was deeply offended spiritually. I would never under any circumstance stand in tribute to a performance of that particular song. As far as I’m concerned asking me to stand in a sanctuary bordered on blasphemy. How could I in good conscience stand to embrace the lyrics “I’m proud to be an American” in the very same week we learned U.S. soldiers raped an Iraqi woman then murdered her and her family to cover up the crime? What spiritually unwise person planned this nonsense?

from LGF.

First of all, the soldier might be guilty, but he might not be. Notice how quickly the liberal is to judge our soldiers guilty. It is a shame they do not have the same standard over terrorists.

And this just proves the point that Liberals and their Democrat allies do not support the troops or this country, and if we follow their lead, this country will be great no longer.

And if God Bless America offends him, then maybe he should move, to Iraq perhaps, since he seems to think better of them.

Fight for Freedom of Speech, Fight against liberalism.

In the old days if you collaberated with the enemy you had your head shaved or was shot. Today you end up on time magazine or is nominated by the Democrats…..

by the way, did anyone notice the treason chicks on the cover of Time? I’m sure the fact that one of them retracted their apology over Bush has nothing to do with it. I wonder who Bin Laden’s favorite band is???