Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton

Posted on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Filed Under War & The Military, World Affairs

The Iran / British hostage situation is now over. Everything is back to normal and all the children in the world have a stick of beef jerky in their dirty, poverty-stricken hands and warm clothes on their shirtless backs. Peace and happiness abounds! Yay!

NOT!

The captured British military persons (aka. the hostages) have been given tacit approval to sell their hostage stories for monetary gain and a mad bully now knows he can do what he wants with impunity.

Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton — “This passive, hesitant, almost acquiescent approach barely concealed the Foreign Offices real objective: keeping the faint hope alive that three years of failed negotiations on Irans nuclear weapons programme would not suffer another, this time possibly fatal, setback.”

The lesson for Iran was that “it probed and found weakness.” Ahmadinejad could now “undertake equal or greater provocations, confident he need not fear a strong response,” Bolton wrote.

“Emboldened as Iran now is, and ironically for engagement advocates, it is even less likely there will be a negotiated solution to the nuclear weapons issue, not that there was ever much chance of one.

Ahmadinejad has been called a bully, a madman, a hitler in a headscarf, and other names — all not too far from the truth. But one thing is for sure, although the Mullacracy in Tehran has their eyes on his every action, this wily fox is not someone to underestimate.

Care has to be given to each and every tense situation — to use diplomacy or force. And although the nations of the world will condemn every unilateral movement of force or military pressure by Britain or America or Israel or whomever upon any Islamic or Arab nation, America and every freedom loving allied nation must keep resolve and a firm backbone in the face of this petite devil. Otherwise, we all become as the whimpering child in the playground deathfuly afraid of the neighborhood bully.

And it looks like Bolton was right, Iran won this round. Iron-clad borders, notwithstanding, this is a recipe for disaster.

Formalized Surrender – American style

Posted on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Filed Under Life and Liberty, Politics

Wow, this is an easy-to-read article that explains pretty well my feelings on the latest spectacle of sad buffoonery from our elected representatives.

The Iraq Surrender Act of 2007 by Joe Mariani — Both House and Senate have now sent a clear message to the world: Osama bin Laden was right. America does not have the stomach for a fight. We cannot stand the sight of our own blood. Our allies, especially those in Iraq who are depending on us to help them stabilise their country, get the message loud and clear. So do our enemies, who now know that if they manage to hold on for another eighteen months, they will prevail. Worst of all, our troops get the message, too.

As the article explains, it’s no secret now to the whole world that our politicians are up to business as usual and have their own personal, political interests that override their duties as representatives of the US citizenry. All of the blatant pork-barreling, partisan bickering, obstinate name-calling, one-upmanship, and the like has finally taken their toll. It seems, we are unable to sustain a military campaign longer than a 30-minute sitcom.

Now, I’m not sure the President “going on strike” and refusing to sign any bill would be the best course of action, nor am I sure it would be a fruitful endeavor… but I am sure that we simply have to stop playing party politics and start being Americans, first and foremost! Until this happens, we sink and slide lower and lower towards a national abyss.

Sayet Loud and Proud

Posted on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Filed Under Politics, Sign of the Times, Stupidity, Video

Confessions Of A 9/13 Republican – Say Anything — Evan Sayet, Hollywood writer and former New York liberal, telling it how it is.

Hat tip: Say Anything blog

Turning Up the Heat on Gore and the mind police

Posted on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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Turning Up the Heat on Gore is an article by NRO Editor Jonah Goldberg that ends up calling Gore’s environmentalist mission a faith-based initiative. Ha! That’s really quite amusing and so appropriate at the same time.

After hearing scientist after scientist dismiss Gore’s notion of man’s significant role in global warming and CO2 being a prime culprit of the same, you really do have to have “faith” (and a little old Appalachian Stubbornness) in Al Gore’s message to dismiss the dissenting opinions that have been backed up by scientific deduction that is, at the very least, as sound as the science Gore touted in Inconvenient Truth.

Goldberg is right-on-the-money when he says that Gore wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems. Some folks say that politics is all about compromise. Well, nowadays, politics has become hyper-polarized and is more about persuading the masses than compromise where if you don’t believe a certain politically correct way your labeled stupid, dumb or an heretic at worst… and ignorant at best. And that is exactly what is happening — a changing of the masses’ minds where friendships and relationships are broken because one might not go along with the prevailing wisdom on global warming or at least not subscribe to the notion that although it’s clearly evident the world is warming slightly, there’s no evidence to suggest a truthful link to humans as the great contributor of this evil natural phenomenon.

Excuse me if I’m ranting but dung from horses and cattle contribute many multiples of 10 times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. The falling and decomposing autumn leaves contribute many times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. Volcanoes, every year, contribute more CO2 as well as many other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere than do humans. In fact, as large as the human population has gotten (over 6 billion), as much dung is produced by animals on a global basis, and as many trees with leaves that fall and decompose in the Fall, and also as many volcanoes erupt every year, the earth’s oceans dwarf all of those as the greatest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. We are not the problem. Humans are not the problem. Do you hear me? On the grand scale, humans aren’t making much noise in global warming.

This rabid environmentalism has gone beyond asking us to reuse, reduce and recycle… this is more than a movement and more than a simple political struggle… it’s a quasi-religion with preachers of the gospel of environmentalism demanding from adherents their hearts and souls while insisting on compliance to their message as if compliance meant salvation or something. This makes televangelists seem innocuous.

Daily, we are seeing challenges and competent and quite exhaustive challenges to Al Gore’s assertions made in Inconvenient Truth. Here are two that I’ve noticed.

The guys over at Verum Serum blog have done a nice job of listing 25 examples of One-sided statements, Misleading statements, Exaggerated statements, Speculative statements, and just flat-out Wrong statements. VS logically asserts that Inconvenient Truth is “ill-suited to serve as a guide to climate science and climate policy for the American people.”

-UPDATE- Michael Barone adds his 2¢ on the argument with Gore the Preacher Man: His faith is bad science

Mental Midgets in the “Ban-It” Crowd

Posted on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Filed Under Sign of the Times, Stupidity

This is hysterical and so telling. Intellectual Level of the “Ban-It” Crowd Exposed — Hat Tip: Church of the Painful Truth blog

How warm is our globe, anyway?

Posted on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Filed Under Sign of the Times, Video

In the battle for our minds, our time and our tacit support, politicians, propagandists and marketeers the world over are pushing their “agendas” for everything from toys for your children to the biggest debates of our era. It’s the story of how a campaign turned into political bandwagon.

Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has been labeled a politicization of weak and shaky science. I’m puzzled as to why a politician is the chosen spokes mouth for such a production, anyway. Be that as it may, many of the world’s top environmental science professionals as well as geological and meteorological professionals simply dispute the assertions that as Carbon Dioxide, introduced by human industrialization, increased the temperatures warmed. Scientists rightly assert that Carbon Dioxide is a relatively small part of all greenhouse gases and is not a significant factor of climate warming.

In fact, most of the Earth Science professionals and Paleo-Climatologists in this video directly assert that one who keeps their methods clean and beyond reproach cannot directly link whatever warming is occurring to a carbon dioxide. Oh, there’s some kind of relationship, alright…but it’s not what Al Gore says in his documentary. The data shows that as the climate rises and falls the carbon dioxide levels are not in sync with the temperatures. In fact, unlike Al Gore’s main premise of Inconvenient Truth, that Carbon emissions are the problem, the real inconvenient truth is that the temperature has been reliably proven to have about an 800 year lead on the carbon emissions. So, it seems that the heat (or the rise in temperatures) eventually brings about more Carbon Dioxide…not the other way around.

This all reads like a mantra from a political campaign…a political activist movement, if you will. I for one, will not get on his bandwagon.

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The Great Global Warming Swindle (Complete)

—UPDATE—
In an article filled with a gauntlet of rip-roaring charges against Al Gore and “Inconvenient Truth”, WorldNetDaily news editor, Bob Unruh tells how “Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today told former Vice President Al Gore his theories on global warming are not supported by the facts and if Gore’s desires are implemented, there would be no new businesses, cars or even people allowed in the United States.”

Rep. Barton gives point after point and lists, quite meticulously, the assertions of Gore and bats them down one by one. For instance:

“In your movie, you display a timeline of temperature and compared to CO2 levels over a 600,000-year period as reconstructed from ice core samples. You indicate that this is conclusive proof of the link of increased CO2 emissions and global warming. A closer examination of these facts reveals something entirely different,” Barton said.

Barton said a Science magazine article he was submitting for the record shows that historically, increases in CO2 concentrations actually lagged temperature changes by up to 1,000 years.

“The temperature appears to drive CO2, not vice versa. On this point, Mr. Vice President, you’re not just off a little. You’re totally wrong. And it’s not just this one article; the president of the National Academy of Sciences agreed, under oath, last summer in an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on this very point,” said Barton.

If you’re not convinced that there is more at play here than simply wanting to protect the environment, read this article and pay careful attention to what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has to say about the environmental movement. He sees a strangely hauntingly familiar relationship with today’s movement and the beasts of old Soviet Communism. This is a must-read article.

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