Global Wubba?

Update:

• Global Warming: the bogus religion of our days
  

Mostly for my own benefit, I've compiled a short list of articles that collectively go a long ways in debunking this global warming ridiculation.

• The oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years
• Climate dissent grows hotter as chill deepens
• Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus."
• Apparently, snow in Iraq, floods in Australia, heavy snowfall in the mideast, and record snowfall in Asia, Europe, and North America are caused by Global Warming. Global warming causes everything! Hot, cold, wet, dry! "No matter what happens, we're right!"
• Antarctica ice cap growth reaches record high levels (photos)
• Record high antarctic ice levels ignored by media
• 1998 NOT the hottest year on record, 1934 is. 5 of the 10 warmest years on record all occurred before World War II
• Data used to 'prove' global warming is wrong.
• Global warming beliefs have little scientific basis
• Weather Channel founder calls global warming 'greatest hoax'
  
• Global cooling
• Many scientists say man-made global warming a farce

UPDATE: This one just in, and it is probably one of the most damning articles to the global warming hysterics. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has acknowledged that temperatures have lowered in the last 10 years even though carbon emissions have increased. Also, new NASA data shows that the computer models that predicted runaway global warming were based on a fundamental error.

Give 'em that edge to compete and start 'em young

Unstoppable Obama? Part II

I'd like to add a couple of things to the list below of evidences that Obama is NOT unstoppable:

• One in five democrats will defect to McCain if Obama wins the nomination
• Obama's race speech was a fraud
• Polls show race is quite tight between Obama and McCain with McCain currently holding a small lead
• Just weeks ago, Obamic euphoria was at its highest peak; now his negatives have sharply increased thanks to Rev. Wright and Rezko. From here, his negatives will only increase because Obama is an enigmatic, unproven figure. Most people are unaware of his radical positions. And, if the people exclusively get their news from main stream media, they have only heard positive things about him until recently. McCain has been in the public light for decades. We know who John is, the good and the bad. Few opinions about him will change.
  

Unstoppable Obama?

Many think Obama is unstoppable and destined to win the election in November. I present some facts to spur a second analysis:

• National Journal (a non-partisan organization) officially labeled Senator Obama the most liberal member of the United States (that means more liberal than Senators Clinton, Edwards, Kerry, Feinstein, Boxer, Leahy…. That truly is remarkable. He is undoubtedly far to the left of the average American, and certainly way more out of touch with the average American than McCain is.
  
• McCain is for cutting taxes and stopping pork. Obama's tax and spending plan is not what the average American will want to vote for when the time comes to mark that ballot, especially considering the state of the economy lately.
  
• The surge is working
  
• Senator Obama has served less than 3 years in the US Senate
  
• Barack has no executive experience
  
• Barack has no foreign policy experience
  
• Barack has no military experience
  
• Obama lost party primaries important and big states like Texas, California, New York, Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania
  
• His minister sounds like Louis Farrakhan and is actually friends with Farrakhan and gives him awards
  
• His speech to defend choosing the bigoted America-hating Rev. Wright as his pastor was NOT good
  
• Two words: Tony Rezko
  
• He does have impressive political skills, but he did refer to his grandmother on national television as 'a typical white person'. Can you imagine the uproar if McCain called Obama or any minority as a 'typical _______ person'? Lately, Obama has made many similarly bad mistakes that have hurt his numbers.
  

Note: I acknowledge that McCain is far from perfect and there is certainly a list like this one pointing out why Obama has a good chance. I'm just arguing that President Obama is no sure thing. His battle to the White House will be just as difficult as McCain's.

Huckabee Announces Candidacy for American Idol; Vows to Defeat Mormon Finalists

An excerpt from the 'article':

Despite the initial shock among the entertainment elite at the politician’s decision, Huckabee has a lot of support among his base of Evangelical Christians. They see two Mormons among the top twelve contestants, and clamor, “Who can stop them?”

“Naturally, I thought of Mike Huckabee,” said one Idol fan from rural Kansas. “He’s the one who can step in and stop these Satan-worshipers from winning and legitimizing their cult….’cause that’s what it is, a cult!”

Romney as VP?

I have previously written about Romney potentially being McCain's VP. Well, there have been some more developments since I last wrote. First off, Karl Rove and other Bush cronies have stated that they would like to see Romney as VP. Second, there have been several articles and op-eds that have circulated the idea that Romney is being considered and that he would make a good VP choice. And most interestingly, Romney himself has stated that he would love to run for VP with McCain, adding that "there are really no hard feelings [between him and McCain]."

So, Romney for VP? There are obviously no guarantees, but it's certainly a possibility, and it's not unreasonable to say it would be a dang good idea.

For those who lack in McCain love

While Hillary and Obama continue to neglect their responsibilities as Senators (and continue to get paid salaries), McCain has canceled campaign activities to help stop earmarks by casting a vote for Senator DeMint's amendment to ban earmarks. Hillary and Obama are scared to vote on this because it will reveal a lot to the general public for the general election - stuff that your average independent will not like.

So, the moral of the story? McCain really is serious about stopping excessive government spending and expansion and Hillary and Obama will undoubtedly expand big government drastically.

The Simpsons = Eternal Truth (a shameless plug)

Since eternal truths exist, that must mean that there has to be a big list of them somewhere. I would like to propose we add one to that list - The Simpsons. The Simpsons have been around since before the end of the cold war, which means a really long time. In April 2006 Matt Groening said, "I honestly don't see any end in sight. I think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome... but right now, the show is creatively, I think, as good or better than it's ever been... stories do things that we haven't done before. So creatively there's no reason to quit." That sounds like something eternal to me.

Ok, I used to be a huge, big fan of the Simpsons. At my parents' house in Colorado there is a picture of me when I was 7 wearing a Bart Simpson's shirt and sporting a crazy cool haircut and microphone. We used to watch the show every week as a family during this time of my upbringing. But I hadn't seen the Simpsons (sans the Simpsons movie) since 2002 until just recently when my boss showed me hulu.com, a place where you can watch many episodes of the Simpsons. Behold, an old joy rediscovered. You can also watch many movies, and other television shows. So check out hulu.com and watch stuff for free. (I should get paid for this post.)

Another reason we should fear Obama

California, a state that is notorious for its insanely liberal courts, recently surprised no one by ruling that parents in California do not have a right to teach (read: home school) their children. I don't live in California, but this ruling both incensed me and scared me. And, obviously, the power hungry and child hurting union known as the Teacher's Union applauded the decision saying:

"We're happy. We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting."

For those of you who don't have good enough eyesight to read between the lines, what he really said was:

"We're very selfish. We always put the students and parents last and ourselves first by ensuring that our monopoly and power continually grow. We must protect our jobs! That's why we donate to the Democrats more than almost any other group. Oh, and we suck!"

If you want to use that anger in your bones for something useful, you should sign this petition to request depublishing of the California court case.

Oh, and the moral of the lesson? Do not let Obama turn the US Federal courts into a mirror image of the Californian state courts. Cause if he's elected, he will. I guarantee it.

Another Grand Canyon

"Hooray for killing Jewish children! Wooohoo!" You sick, confused people.

Over the past 5 years I have asked many acquaintances one question, "Who's more right, the Israelis or the Palestinians?" I get lots of responses from "I have no idea. Is Palestine one of those oil countries?" to "I guess they're equally wrong." Not one of them said that there is a moral Grand Canyon sized difference between the two. I have asked others since then, and very few people, other than my close friends, have stated the truth about the situation.

This is both interesting and disturbing.

I could tell dozens and dozens of stories to back up my belief that Israel as a whole is vastly morally superior to Palestine. But I will just tell one. (And yes, I acknowledge that there are individual Israelis who are terrible people, and individual Palestinians who are wonderful people.)

Yesterday, after a Palestinian terrorist broke into a Jerusalem seminary school and murdered at least 8 students, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza celebrated in the streets.

Click here to see pictures and a more detailed depiction of what happened at the massacre. *Warning* The pictures are very bloody.

Now, Israel will hopefully retaliate, and morally confused people will condemn them for doing so. But you CANNOT negotiate with monsters whose main goal is to have your people completely annihilated. Israel has a right to defend itself. And when it defends itself, it goes after the terrorists who cowardly hide among civilians. These terrorists, on the other hand, go after school children, babies, families at shopping centers, and then take to the streets to celebrate it.

That, my friends, is just one example of the Grand Canyon sized moral difference between a good society and an awful society.

UPDATE: The United Nations did not condemn the shooting. The condemnation was blocked by a Libyan who equated killing children inside a school to killing terrorists who hide among civilians. Becki J should add to her list of "what's not real" the United Nations.

Global Warming? No, Global Cooling.

We have "unequivocal proof that Earth's temperature has cooled in the last year."

In other news, the earth occasionally experiences an ice age. The last one was in the early 1800's. In that time, we have records of ice near the Gulf of Mexico, frozen water bodies near Long Island, and other things. Apparently, we are due for another ice age anytime. Is that time now? And if so, we may be wishing global warming was real as our poor bodies shiver in the cold, cold air.

Do you think we'll hear an apology from the global warming hysterics and alarmists (ie Nobel Peace Prize winner and inventor of the internet, Al Gore)? Indubitably, no. Our good friends on the Left have a history of hysterical false alarms, and never have they been held accountable for being so embarrassingly wrong. Some examples? Overpopulation, heterosexually transmitted HIV in America, Global Cooling in the 70's, water shortage, the dangers of DDT, the Ozone layer....

If you can't stomach giving McCain money

Many people experience cognitive dissonance and/or vertigo whenever they think about donating money to McCain - even if they plan on voting for him. I am not one of these, I will donate to McCain. But, if you are disinclined to spend money on the old man, consider donating to one of the GOP candidates for spots in the US Senate.

It is important to remember that a US president will have little success at pushing through their agenda without the support of the Senate or House. So what better way to ensure that McCain doesn't go too far to the left (a worry many conservatives have about him) if the GOP has a majority in the Senate.

Go here to donate.

Good news, bad news

For those of us who do not want a Democrat for president, you should be quite pleased with what is going on with the Presidential Primary on that side of the aisle. Twelve contests remain and they offer a total of 611 delegates. Of those, Obama needs 77% to win, and Clinton needs 97% to win. Not gonna happen. It's gonna be more like 60-40 or 55-45. That means that this race is going to end in August at the convention and it will be the Superdelegates who decide the victor. Which will undoubtedly be polemical and rift causing. In the mean-time, we get to watch as they attack each other, spend lots of money, exhaust themselves in order to try and win the nomination. And McCain gets to get his campaign in order and raise money while all this mayhem ensues.