“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
Ugh, McCain is going green and buying into the global warming nonsense. I guess it is to be expected. He is, after all, a liberal who wants to get elected as a Republican in an electoral environment that is not that friendly to Republicans no matter how liberal they are. To do that he needs Independents and moderate Democrats and one way to get them is to track left on issues like the environment. Okay, that’s the way the game is played and I accept it, although I resent his lecturing me on my disbelief in global warming.
Still, he risks losing more of his base than he has already lost and if the end result is he loses more votes from his base than he gains from the middle and left, what has he accomplished?
5. Facebook in real life. I’ve never tried it so I have no clue if this is funny or not. On the other hand, British accents always make things funny.
6. Today, (April 30th) is French No-Spank Day. Fortunately it was about spanking children, for the moment spanking brunette women on the bum is still allowed. Dodges a bullet there I tell ya.
This blogger is very upset that a Macy’s buyer didn’t know what she meant when she asked about Macy’s “green policy.” I do find it amusing that the buyer didn’t know she meant environmental policies, but other than that I have the exact opposite reaction. I love that Macy’s isn’t concerned about green policy. In fact, while I have never shopped at Macy’s before, I am going to go out of my way to shop there from now on. Green policies are sometimes doing more bad than good. Yeah, yeah, I want to protect the environment (and do more than my share actually - if you only knew), but this type of obsession is not a good thing; obsessions rarely are.
A few posts ago I said I was a global food-shortage denier. I stand by my denial, in that I don’t believe that global warming, or “climate change” as the left loves to call it now (because it is harder to define and therefore easier to defend), is the cause of any global food shortage. However, I do find this interesting. It seems that global warming may have caused food shortages - if by global warming you mean the overreaction to the alleged threat of global warming has caused food shortages.
Unlike “global warming,” food rioting is a planet-wide phenomenon, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Ivory Coast to the tortilla rampages in Mexico and even pasta protests in Italy.
So what happened?
Well, Western governments listened to the eco-warriors, and introduced some of the “wartime measures” they’ve been urging. The EU decreed that 5.75 percent of petrol and diesel must come from “biofuels” by 2010, rising to 10 percent by 2020. The U.S. added to its 51 cents-per-gallon ethanol subsidy by mandating a five-fold increase in “biofuels” production by 2022.
The result is that big government accomplished at a stroke what the free market could never have done: They turned the food supply into a subsidiary of the energy industry. When you divert 28 percent of U.S. grain into fuel production, and when you artificially make its value as fuel higher than its value as food, why be surprised that you’ve suddenly got less to eat? Or, to be more precise, it’s not “you” who’s got less to eat but those starving peasants in distant lands you claim to care so much about.
Heigh-ho. In the greater scheme of things, a few dead natives keeled over with distended bellies is a small price to pay for saving the planet, right? Except that turning food into fuel does nothing for the planet in the first place. That tree the U.S. Marines are raising on Iwo Jima was most likely cut down to make way for an ethanol-producing corn field: Researchers at Princeton calculate that to date the “carbon debt” created by the biofuels arboricide will take 167 years to reverse.
The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?”
Eh, my conscience is clear, I drive a big-ass gasoline-guzzling SUV.
Let’s put aside the fact that global warming is still very much in dispute, as is man’s contribution to it, if it does exist at all. The morphing of this iconic photograph of US Marines raising our Flag into a photograph of dyslexic lumberjacks raising a tree while wearing military surplus is insulting and belittles these brave warriors.
The editors who made the decision to publish this horrid photoshop should be ashamed. They aren’t though and more is the pity.
1. Like I’ve said before, global warming is still very much in dispute.
2. This appears to be more about the so-called housing crisis than anything else. What is disturbing to me is that Americans think it is government’s fault that people were stupid enough to buy more house than they could afford and that it is government’s responsibility to bail them out of their stupidity. Nonsense. Plus, what does “going in the wrong direction” mean exactly? Well, it means different things to different people. Had I been polled and asked that question I would have said yes because I think that our open-borders policy is the wrong direction. I think retreating from Iraq is the wrong direction. I think electing a Democrat as president is the wrong direction. So when you think about it, the question is meaningless as are the poll results.
3. Obama’s support softens. I’m not surprised. When people get to really know him they don’t like what they see as much. He’s still the nominee though. Because of his glamour and not his substance, of course. Mark my words, if elected he will have a Jimmy Carter presidency.
4. British Muslims would have killed thousands in major terrorist attack if not caught. The threat is real, folks.
5. Male rock fans vote Republican? So Led Zeppelin influenced me in more ways than I thought.
6. Sounds like a nice place to me. I do love Asian . . . food.
Ted Turner says global warming will turn us into cannibals in 40 years. That long? Too bad. I know a few tasty brunettes I would put on my menu right now.
See, this is the problem with the new religion called global warming. The believers know they aren’t convincing enough of us fast enough so they start throwing out this moronic nonsense to scare people - mostly kids. I have no doubt that in a few days my youngest son will come home quoting his new-age teacher about how we will have to eat each other to survive when he grows up if we don’t go green.
Plus, Ted Turner is just bat-sh*t crazy. And his restaurants suck. too.
You can read a transcript of this interview here. Turner goes on to show amazing ignorance of our military and our enemies. Frankly, I think the guy may be senile.
1. The racist, anti-semitic, anti-Italian, anti-American Reverend Wright, long-time mentor of Barack Hussein Obama, makes an appearance at a Chicago Catholic church and is welcomed with open arms. Video here.
Is the Catholic Church TRYING to make me leave in disgust? Granted I am not the best Catholic in the world, but I am sure there are plenty who are better than me who are also disgusted by this. Is this some Chicago thing? Because I just don’t get it.
2. Medals matter. More than ever when compared to Obama and Hillary.
4. Speaking of movies, the newest anti-Iraq war, anti-military, anti-American film, Stop-Loss, is bombing at the box office just like all the others before it. Of course, Hollywood thinks it is because the American people aren’t ready to watch a war movie while the war is going on - I guess all those successful WWII movies made during WWII were just accidents - but the fact is that the American people just don’t want to see movies where Americans are the bad guys and the military is incompetent and/or evil. They are smarter than Hollywood - they know lies when they see them. Vietnam is over, guys, deal with it.
4. Considering most guys think of a lower-back tattoo on a woman as a target, this seems like a bad idea.
1. Oregon man says he is pregnant. I thought this was some big scientific breakthrough (or more probably a National Enquirer story) until I found out it was just a woman who had chest reconstruction and grew a beard.
2. Nancy Reagan is endorsing McCain. Good news for McCain which can only help his image with the Republican base. What with Obama and Hillary making fools of themselves, McCain is looking better and better.
3. Yeah, that’s what he says in public, but in private you just know da Pope and the Cardinals were exchanging high-fives and doing the baby-circle dance. Take that Mohammad.
5. If you do nothing else today, check out this video and have a good cry. Or at least tear-up like me.
6. And this woman differs from every woman on Earth in exactly what way?
7. Long story short - the Vets for Freedom were giving a presentation to some high school kids in Minnesota. The anti-American, anti-military members morons of the Democratic Underground and some equally suspect parents scared the wimpy principal into cancelling the presentation, so the local community showed up in force to welcome the Vets along with some good kids who skipped school to see them. Good on the community and the kids who skipped school. Shame on the DU, the complaining parents and the school officials who cowed down to this pressure.
1. Welcome to the preview of a Democratic president and congress and say hello to higher taxes. But the money will be for the children, right?
2. Welcome to the world of the Pastor of Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama, a man who is Obama’s acknowledged “spiritual mentor” for 20 years, married the couple, baptized their kids and who’s sermon titled “Audacity of Hope” was the inspiration for Obama’s book of the same name:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.
Nope, he’s not Obama, but you know darn well that people don’t belong to churches for decades unless they believe what the pastor and the rest of the congregation believes. If they don’t, they leave for other churches. It’s science (not to get into a whole faith/science debate here). And by the way. He raised his kids in this church listening to this crap. What kind of people do that? How good is his raved-about judgement if he does that? And to make things worse - he simply will not dump the guy. He downplays it and says he doesn’t agree but then makes excuses for this racist while at the same time playing the race card on anyone who criticises him about anything. This isn’t the way a man who is supposed to be a “race healer, not a race warrior” should act.
4. Anti-war reporting is helping Iraqi insurgents. Well, duhhh. This war has without a doubt been more difficult, costly, and lasted longer due to the main stream media’s concentration on bad news and anti-war rhetoric rather than good news (of which there has been plenty), pro-American stories, and tales of our many heroes over there. There are so many people here in America who should be ashamed for supporting out enemies this way. Despite this bombardment of bad news, it appears that only 18 percent of Americans think we should withdraw immediately from Iraq. Wow. Americans really do prefer winning over losing.
5. The Tennessee flying saucer house. I’ve seen it in person. It’s pretty cool.
7. More Obama news. Seems he got $1,000,000 in earmarks for the Chicago hospital where his wife is Vice President of Community Affairs. At a sweet salary of $316,962 which is an increase from $121,910 just before her husband was elected to the Senate. Coincidence, I am sure. I’m also sure they are she is worth every penny.
8. And what about that Al Quaeda - Saddam connection? You know the one that Democrats say never existed and Republicans say did, but have been hard-pressed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt? Well, it looks like there was one after all.
Captured Iraqi documents have uncovered evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism, including a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist and Islamic terrorist organizations. While these documents do not reveal direct coordination and assistance between the Saddam regime and the al Qaeda network, they do indicate that Saddam was willing to use, albeit cautiously, operatives affiliated with al Qaeda as long as Saddam could have these terrorist-operatives monitored closely. Because Saddam’s security organizations and Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network operated with similar aims (at least in the short term), considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting, financing, and training the same outside groups. This created both the appearance of and, in some way, a “de facto” link between the organizations. At times, these organizations would work together in pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust. Though the execution of Iraqi terror plots was not always successful, evidence shows that Saddam’s use of terrorist tactics and his support for terrorist groups remained strong up until the collapse of the regime.
There’s no “smoking gun” in this report, but as a criminal and counterintelligence investigator with 24 years experience I can tell you that most cases are made with circumstantial evidence not smoking guns. This is good stuff. There was a connection. Not that any Democrat is ever going to believe it, but there was a connection.
9. It keeps coming back to Obama. This time he voted against his own tax and spending bill. You know, the one he keeps campaigning on. Makes your head spin, I tell ya.
10. I don’t care who she is, no way I would pay this unless I get to play with those hooters. She would also have to promise not to talk all evening.
“Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he said in the statement. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”
Took him long enough. And I suppose I should take him at his word, but to be truthful I don’t believe him at all. He had to do this after all the race-cards he had been throwing at Hillary or he wouldn’t be able to throw anymore. Still, politically it lets the MSM off the hook as they can now call the incident over and move on to other things. They hated covering it, the little they did, and this means they concentrate on Hillary and McCain again.
Plus, his statement isn’t all it seems to be. Okay, maybe they are over-analyzing it, but hey, it’s not like he’s the only candidate that has been subject to analyzing. Then again, his distancing himself from Wright was predicted by the parties involved.
1. Of all the sins I thought I might go to hell for, driving my SUV wasn’t one of them. As if I didn’t have to apologize enough for the Church already. Then again, the Southern Baptists are also buying into the global warming nonsense, so maybe lunacy is interdenominational.
2. If I was dork riding a bike in too-short black pants, black tie, short-sleeved white shirt, white socks and goober black shoes, I don’t think I would have the nerve to mock any other religion. Except maybe Scientology, which literally begs to be mocked.
3. Man, this poor guy just can’t catch a break. They need to bring the party to him.
4. Yes, it exists. Being a gentleman that’s all I am going to say on that.
5. Obligatory comments on Democratic Governor Spitzer’s fall from grace: a) He is a moron, b) His wife is a babe - I’d hit that, c) Fifty-five hundred dollars for an hour? Who the hell pays that much for sex? I mean, I love sex, but damn, $5,500? Is that prorated? It comes down to about $92 a minute so can I buy $276 worth?
I’m at home with a cold. The second nasty one I have had in less than a month. It’s also snowing outside which is pretty, but resulted in slick roads in our area which got most of the schools cancelled. So it’s a full house here. Oh, and I woke up with a computer virus too. Some kind of Trojan that disables your anti-virus software - at least partially since it was working well-enough to let me know I had the virus. The end result was I removed the Trojan and had to reload my anti-virus software. Problem fixed.
Anyway, here are a few things for you to check out today.
1) Obama’s face found in potato? This Messiah stuff is getting creepy.
2) A town in Alaska is suing because Global Warming is making it slip into the sea. I wonder if the defense will be the fact that the Earth is actually getting colder, not hotter.
3) Girl gets banned from tennis court for grunting. I feel her pain. Loving wife and I got banned once for doing just that. We weren’t playing tennis, we were just young and going through that experimental “having sex in a public place” phase. What? Don’t act like you never thought about it.
4) Groovy Vic is talking about boobs and it seems to be a new trend among women on my blogroll. I like it. Keep it up ladies.
5) Pamela Anderson wants out of her two month old marriage. That’s surprising. I was certain they would hit that 50 year mark.
6) I don’t know if any of you are using these new environmentally friendly compact fluorescent bulbs, but don’t they suck? I hate them. They are expensive, they don’t give good light, they don’t last as long as they claim they do, they don’t fit a lot of fixtures, and what little light they do give takes forever to reach its peak. And now it turns out they are dangerous to the environment too. This isn’t news really, its just news that they are finally reporting just how dangerous they are.
8 ) Starbucks coffee is now perfect. Does that mean it is now affordable and not burnt to a crisp?
9) I know I am obsessing over Obama a bit (he may be president though so cut me some slack), but here is a great post about his failure to reject Louis Farrakhan and his racist teachings. It’s bothersome to many people, including liberals, and when you consider his own minister seems to believe much of the same nonsense it certainly is something that should worry his supporters. It’s a long way to November and there is plenty of time for his bubble of “hope and change” to burst.
10. “The earth’s crust does not move”- 19th through early 20th century accepted geological science. See Plate Tectonics
9. “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” — Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
8. “That virus is a pussycat.” — Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988
7. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
6. “Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
5. “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932
4. “Space travel is bunk.” — Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth).
3. “If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” — Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
2. “Stomach ulcers are caused by stress” — accepted medical diagnosis, until Dr. Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastric inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.
1. “Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.” — Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University in Time Magazine’s June 24th, 1975 article Another Ice Age?
Plus there is that flying car lie that I will never forgive these “experts.”
1. It’s true, the world does look better off than it did a year ago - “safer, friendlier, more hopeful” - but that doesn’t mean a thing if we forget what it took to get here and elect some wishy-washy Democrat who will undo all the progress we have made. Remember that come election day.
2. An armed security guard shot and killed the shooter at this Colorado church. If only security and, better yet, shoppers had been armed at that Omaha mall or Virgina Tech. I know I am carrying my weapon more often while off-duty these days. And in case you are wondering, Disney was probably less safe after this.
3. The Golden Compass isn’t doing well at the box office. Not surprising and, as a Catholic, very satisfying. And we didn’t have to cut off any heads to make em suffer.
4. Dammit, there goes my next vacation destination. And I had so looked forward to a rousing game of “Naked Twister.”
6. No link yet, but I just heard Al Gore, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, compare the “threat” of global warming to Hitler. I hadn’t realized my driving an SUV was the equivalent of running death camps. Talk about jumping the fricken shark.
7. I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again. Just a month’s subscription. Like sticking a toe into a lake to see how cold it is. I’m not going to take a plunge just yet, but it’s winter and with these cold short days I have less to do outside.
9. We’re slowly getting over the great puppy rip-off, and we are still looking for a Beagle. Unfortunately there aren’t many breeders near here - none really - so we will have to travel an hour or two to see some pups and, more importantly, their parents and the conditions they are bred and raised in. But it’s going to happen soon and we are all very excited.
Have you seen this Ford Escape hybrid commercial? You know the one where the young girl is getting a ride from her dad and she asks to be dropped off a block before they get there because “people in that part of town are riding bikes and have hybrids and stuff.”
I hate that commercial. So much in fact that I now vow I will never buy another Ford vehicle . . . ever.
And I was a big Ford guy. Granted it was mostly because my father-in-law worked for Ford and I got a great family member discount. But also because I liked their vehicles, which for about 15 years consisted of Aerostar and Windstar mini-vans.
But no more.
Now I am only buying foreign SUVs like the Honda Pilot I have now.
Not a hybrid by the way.
I’m tired of this global warming guilt trip everyone is throwing at me and not buying any more Fords is my first chance to fight back. Using kids to frame an argument, a favorite tactic of the left, including environmentalists, just disgusts me, and you can find no end of so-called public service announcements and commercials with sad-eyed kids begging us adults to save the planet before we run out of air in five years or it just explodes or something.
And what is worse is when corporations follow suit and try to guilt me into buying a hybrid so I won’t embarrass my kids.
First of all, isn’t embarrassing children the job of parents? I think it is and I take it very seriously. And secondly, I don’t buy into the “humans are the cause of global warming” crap that is being sold to me now by Al Gore and other liberals.
Yes, the world is getting warmer. And, yes, human activity no doubt ads to that warming. But I believe it is mostly a natural cycle and, while it certainly doesn’t hurt to cut carbon emissions, it isn’t going to be the world-saving deal these enviro-nuts want us to believe.
Especially if you don’t believe the world is going to end in the next million years or so like I do.
You think it doesn’t happen? Check this out. My youngest son, a 12 year old and in the 6th grade, was told by his teacher that he wouldn’t ever be able to drive when he turned 16 because there would be no gasoline left unless we moved to green power. He was naturally upset and I had to spend 30 minutes explaining to him what a putz his teacher was and that he would indeed by wrecking cars like his two older brothers did.
You want to clean up the air? Bring back nuclear power. You want me to cut my carbon-footprint? Stop flying in private jets you elitist nanny-staters.
