Archive for August, 2009
Ted Kennedy died a little after midnight after a year long battle with brain cancer. The Senator, long referred to as the “Liberal Lion”, spent his last few days trying to get the law that he put in place to cover his seat in 2004, should he win nomination for POTUS, changed back now. Then it was to prevent a nominally Repub governor from appointing a RINO to his seat. Now it’s to keep the seat from being vacant since that’s no longer a problem.
This pretty well defines Teddy specifically and the Kennedys in general. Do whatever it takes to maintain power and forward a left wing agenda. If you have to twist the law, run over the Constitution or BoR, or lie about murdering a girl on a bridge in the dark of night, so be it. For decades Kennedy yelled, cursed and drank his way through his career, promoting legislation to restrict the rights of gun owners, tax the productive to pay for the lazy and covering butt for his fellow lefties. Unless, of course, they stepped off the Democrat Plantation. Then Ted’s true tolerance shined through.
They say you aren’t supposed to speak ill of the dead but this is one dead white guy that earned just about all the vitriol that will be heaped upon him over the next week or so. Even as we are deluged in a state funeral and endless media coverage of the demise of this “great” man most of the US will know him for what he was: A murderer, a drunkard, a womanizer, a hypocrite, a race-baiter, a partisan hack and the Kennedy who just never could quite make it.
The US is better for his failures than his “successes”, and he’s one of the few people whose demise leaves the world a brighter place. We can only hope that there is a just God and Mary Jo Kopeckne finally gets the justice she and her family had to wait forty years for. At least for those of us left behind things are better already.
Rest in peace, Teddy. I pray for your eternal soul even as I hope there is an angel assigned to kick your metaphysical ass for the next couple millenia.
Obama and the Titanic. With a -12 approval index already it’s just a matter of time before they show as synonymous in the dictionary.
“Jimmy Carter” may be cited as an alternative pronunciation…
**With thx to ColonialMarine at FC
Before pursuing socio-economic changes, due to the somewhat specious argument that humanity is the chief cause of Global Climate Change (GCC), an analysis for reducing man made CO2 must be done. The reason for this is because the worst offenders (India, China, sub-Saharan Africa, etc), according to the Kyoto Protocol (KP), are required to do little, if anything, to reduce their CO2 levels. The United States is a carbon sink, but would be required by KP to spend TRILLIONS on a problem to which it is a net non-contributor.
The analysis must include:
- Irrefutable scientific proof that human activity, rather than solar output, is causing Global Climate Change
- The percentage of Global Warming/Cooling (GW/C) attributable to human activity.
- Scientific study showing X% reduction CO2 will result in Y% reduction of the rate of GCC.
- The cost in USD / % reduction of CO2
- Necessary technologies for achieving said reduction including:
– the costs of R&D,
– manufacturing,
– distributing,
– installing,
– operating and maintaining those technologies,
– source(s) of funding and any negative environmental effects thereof.
- Economic impacts of the technologies on the nations’ people, businesses, and governments.
- Cost of minimizing natural changes in “greenhouse gas” levels to maintain target GCC rate.
- Cost/benefit ratio for entire process and arguments against spending resources preparing for the inevitable, rather than trying to stop the unstoppable.
Before the GCC propagandists (GCCPs) distract us, we must realize a few things about our atmosphere. First and foremost is how much each of the Greenhouse Gases (GG) contribute to the Greenhouse Effect (GE). We must also ask the most glaring question – Just how much of the GE is caused by human activity? The answer? “NOT MUCH”.
When not adjusted for the Water Vapor (WV) in our atmosphere, CO2 accounts for 73.4% of the GE. Methane accounts for 7.1%, Nitrous Oxide adds another 19%, CFCs and other misc. gases comprise 1.4%
Again, this is NOT accounting for the major GG – Water Vapor.
Once WV is added to the mix, the percentages drop to insignificant, approaching comedic, levels. You see, WV accounts for 95% of the total GE and it cannot be ignored. When adjusted for WV, CO2 suddenly accounts for 3.6% of the GE. Methane, Nitrous Oxide and the other misc. gases account for 0.36%, 0.95% and 0.072% respectively.
To further exacerbate the GCCPs, we must also realize the vast majority of GGs occur naturally. Humanity accounts for 0.001% of WV, 3.325% of CO2, 18.338% of Methane, 4.933% of N2O, and 65.711% of the other offending gases. Those percentages seem high, but you have to remember all of them combined (man-made and natural sources) comprises FIVE percent of the GE. Water Vapor, almost all of which is natural in origin accounts for 95% of the GE.
To answer the question that preceded this lengthy explanation, humanity accounts for roughly 0.28% of the Greenhouse effect, if WV is taken into account. That figure rises to a mere 5.53% if one does not.
Information for the above found here:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
To further complicate the GCCPs stance on this subject, we must remember that 35 years ago in the mid-1970s the experts had the following to say on global COOLING:
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something,”
a.. ecologist Kenneth Watt April 19, 1970.
Hmmm…that one sounds familiar.
“the world has 10 years or less to turn things around before it is too late”
Al Gore, concerning global warming/climate change – July 2008
But, let’s get back to the 1970s, shall we?
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
- Harvard biologist George Wald, 1970.
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
- New York Times editorial page, 1970.
“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.”
- University of California, Davis Prof. Kenneth Watt.
Earth is warmer because solar output is higher than it was 35 years ago, not because of anything humanity has done, or CAN DO.
In fact, Dr. Roy Spencer, who made his career studying climate for NASA states, “Were it not for weather, the natural greenhouse effect would cause the surface of the Earth to average 140 degrees.”
http://www.reason.com/blog/printer/118878.html
The reason for this, according to Dr. Spencer is our weather patterns short-circuit the GE. Funny how we never hear about that.
In conclusion, and I’ve only begun to scratch the surface, Global Warming/Cooling and Anthropogenic (Manmade) Climate Change are nothing more than a group of people trying to get rich by scaring the masses. They are aided and abetted by those in the liberal mainstream media.
When Mr. Gore figures out a way to put a dimmer switch on the Sun then, and ONLY then, can we talk about humanity’s affect on Earth’s climate. Until that comes to pass, I invite Mr. Gore to sit down, shut the heck up, and quit perpetuating the grand daddy of all hoaxes upon humanity.
So, what’s the skinny on Global Warming/Climate change? Only that the argument is so thin, it’s anorexic.
Dan Hennessy resides in Grand Forks, ND and has been studying the dynamic in the hysteria perpetuated by the Climate Change Propaganda Machine for 5 years.
I’ve decided to embrace the label. Why, you ask? Because as someone on the radio is heard to say, “words mean things”. He’s correct so far as he goes. What he fails to acknowledge is that in the modern world of leftism the things words mean are dependent on the desires and agenda of the word user. What was once a descriptive term used to denote an ugly form of humanity can suddenly become a tool to silence those who don’t think like you.
Such is the case with “racist”. Might as well embrace it. The word once meant someone who bases their opinion of another on the color of their skin. Now, according to the Obamabots, it means anyone who opposes Obastard. So based on the NewSpeak definition I am a racist! Thank you and have a nice day…
Such is the style of the tolerant left. It’s the final expression of what we used to call the race card but must now call the race deck. There’s just too much use of it to refer to the device in a singular fashion any more. And therein we arrive at the problem, the issue of meaning and acceptance, even embracement, by those tarred and feathered with it.
I disagree with Obama’s policies. I do not buy his Euro-leftist medical scheme or his billions in bailouts. I do not accept that government taking over major public corporations to “save” them is the logical, let alone Constitutional, thing to do. I can’t be quiet about the massive debt he is creating with the full and willing participation of a Democrat CONgress. I hope he fails and I am smart enough to realize and understand that just because HE fails doesn’t mean the United States fails. I am not stupid enough to think the events at Townhall meetings are anything but what they are, grasroots anger at bloated government expansion. Nor am I dumb enough to not recognize the Chicago style union thuggery for exactly what it is.
In short, I oppose Obama and as such, according to the tolerant left, I am a racist. Because, you see, none of the above matters. Policy and principle and the Rule of Law and faith in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are not legitimate reasons to speak up. The only reason, according to an increasingly shrill left, to speak against The One is because of the color of his skin. They chant this, not because they believe it but because people have for so long been conditioned to recoil from the racist label that they know they can silence their rational opposition without engaging in debate. Debate they can no t win.
This is the verbal and written equivalent of those SEIU thugs at the Townhall meetings. And it will work as it always has in the past…unless we choose to refuse to accept their redefinitions. Embrace the term while laughing at the stupidity and arrogance of those who sling it about. Take away its mystery and power by greeting it with a smile and a nod.
“Yes, I oppose Obama and his unconstitutional policies and if you call that racism then by all means, call me a racist!”
From here on I do so. I encourage everyone at every Townhall and every public encounter and private discussion to accept the label with pride. If this be their new meaning then so be it. A racist opposes Obama, so they say. I do, so I am and that is something to be proud of and if that bothers them they have only two choices, shut up about it and find a new label or admit to their own disingenius use of a sad shade of NewSpeak.
That and they need to find a new word to describe people like Jesse Jackson and Robert Byrd, though somehow I think the irony may be lost on them. Most everything else seems to be these days…
The One says to “hit back” and then calls in his union cronies to actually do it. And with racial slurs, no less. Then we get to see lefties cry the black conservative beat to the ground by these thugs is an “Uncle Tom” and “anti-American for handing out Gadsden Flags.
The desperation of the left is already getting thick in the air. In two years they wrecked the economy and in 6 more months Obastard has laid bare the bones of their socialist agenda. The only rational response is to oppose them at every front now, people. Don’t let the thugs intimidate you. Stand for the Republic and against this Kenyan bastard and his Democrat cronies and rich puppetmasters.
The left is crying already that these posters, which have started appearing in LA, “…goes beyond political spoofery,” says (Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari )Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.”
But when the left portrayed Bush as a bumbling idiot from before the day he was first elected, when they call Sarah Palin every name in the book and continue to slander her after she’s left office, when they went so far as to cheer Reagan’s death, it’s all OK. Just politics.
Here’s another one for the left to cry about…
Awww…poor lefties. Are we picking on your Messiah? Deal with it.
