Obama on Iran - a stunning level of ignorance

It's very hard to believe Obama's level of historical ignorance and his willingness to look a mortal enemy in the eye and simply dismiss the threat as inconsequential.  Breath taking!

TIME Magazine Cover: There Can Only Be One - May 5, 2008 - Presidential Elections - Democrats -

Isn't this enough to scare the hell outta ya!!!

There Can Only Be One

May 5, 2008

TIME Magazine Cover: There Can Only Be One - May 5, 2008 - Presidential Elections - Democrats -

So much for 'settled science'

Global Warming???  We don't got no stinking global warming!!

So much for 'settled science'

Lorne Gunter, National Post  Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2008

You may have heard earlier this month that global warming is now likely to take break for a decade or more. There will be no more warming until 2015, perhaps later.

Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.

Of course, Mr. Keenlyside-- long a defender of the man-made global warming theory -- was quick to add that after 2015 (or perhaps 2020), warming would resume with a vengeance.

Hyping the threat from Iran

Yes, of course.  We are the cause of Iran's tremendous nuclear weapons advances.  Not 4+ years of weak, useless and failed EU negotiations.  Not a generation of accepting it terrorists activities by a timid world.  We need to give them respectability, welcome them into civilized society - then they will lay down their arms and admit the foolishness of their ways.  Sounds like a plan BHO, in fact, it sounds like your plan!

Hyping the threat from Iran

Barbara Slavin

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

War talk against Iran is rising again in Washington as the Bush administration enters its final months with little to show for its labors in the Middle East. Yet the consequences of attacking a third Muslim country in seven years could be far worse than an already precarious status quo. Iran hawks anxious to blunt Iran's growing regional influence also fail to grasp the real constraints on Iranian expansionism, instead creating a bogeyman that, like Saddam Hussein, may turn out to be a chimera.

Your Energy Future Under the Democrats

The Democrats do have an energy plan.  Is it really what the American people want??

Your Energy Future Under the Democrats

The "energy plan" announced by the Democrats offers one thing: a significant slowdown of our economy for at least twenty years. Those who run both legislative branches of the congress, and the energy plans of both of their leading candidates for president clothe themselves in the mantle of righteousness. That the Republicans are allowing this to happen, right before our eyes, tells us much about the sad state of American politics.

KSTP.com - News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school

KSTP.com - News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school

Imagine that.  Reporters attacked by the staff of a publicly funded charter school that appears to be teaching and promoting Islam - the Religion of Peace.  Color me shocked!!

In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to TiZA. While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera.

Settled Science? I don't think so!

For anyone, including John McCain, to make the claim that man made global warming is settled science is foolish beyond belief.  Here are 30,000 scientists who reject the idea.

ADVISORY: Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) to Release Names of over 30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Hypothesis

May 15, 2008 12:39 PM EDT

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)

Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISM

What: release of names in OISM "Petition Project"

When: 10 AM, Monday May 19

Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC

Why: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM's Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of "settled science" and an overwhelming "consensus" in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.

It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science - including 9,021 PhDs, are not "a few." Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not "skeptics."

CONTACT: Audrey Mullen, +1-703-548-1160, for the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 15/

SOURCE Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Take a look at who these scientists are:  Global Warming Petition Project

McCain Sees Right-Of-Center Nation As He Moves Against Obama

He may "see" it, but he truly doesn't get it.  He has thrown the right-of-center conservatives under the bus, and  frankly Senator, there is no going back.

Newsmax.com - McCain Sees Right-Of-Center Nation As He Moves Against Obama

WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain's game plan for beating Democrat Barack Obama rests on one huge assumption: Despite an unpopular war, an uncertain economy and the GOP's beleaguered status, the country still leans more to the right than to the left.

"There are going to be stark choices between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican," McCain says at nearly every turn as he seeks to portray Obama as out of step with the nation. The more the GOP nominee-in-waiting can frame the debate along those lines, and capture a larger chunk of the electorate's center, the better his chance to eke out a victory in an extraordinarily challenging political environment.

Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP

Yes, of course, why didn't I think of that.  Abandon Conservatism, embrace liberalism and Marxism, and then the Republican Party will truly become the Grand Old Party everyone yearns for.  How silly of me not to see that earlier!

Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP

"The Republican idea is a great idea, but we can't go and get stuck with just the right wing," Schwarzenegger said. "Let's let the party come all the way to the center. Let those people be heard as much as the right. Let it be the big tent we've talked about.

"Let's invade and let's cross over that (political) center," he said. "The issues that they're talking about? Let them be our issues, and let the party be known for that."

Evidence of Venezuela's support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves.

I am sure though, that Obama can simply whisper sweet nothings in Hugo's ear and he will see the errors of his ways!  Our savior is but a few months away!!!

Evidence of Venezuela's support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves.

THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez's Venezuelan government. Whether it does will depend to a large extent on how Colombia and the United States handle a rich but tricky diplomatic opportunity.

The computers and drives contain a staggering 610 gigabytes of data, according to Interpol, including 983 encrypted files opened by its team. What is already known is enough to demonstrate that Mr. Chávez and senior members of his government, army and intelligence service had a far-reaching clandestine relationship with the FARC and that Venezuela offered the group weapons, money and harbor on its own territory. Ecuador, which under President Rafael Correa has become a Venezuelan satellite, had lesser but also incriminating ties to the group, which specializes in drug trafficking, kidnapping and massacres of civilians.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Greedy Government vs. America’s Freedom

Our current level of governmental spending will pale when compared to what it will be in the future - no matter which candidate is elected president.  You do have to wonder when the American people will have had enough.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Greedy Government vs. America’s Freedom

Greedy Government vs. America’s Freedom

By Deroy Murdock

Americans finally will start working for themselves today rather than for their government masters. This milestone arrives two days later than in 2007, clearly proving that the era of big government is back with a vengeance. May 19 is Friedman Day, when the Massachusetts-based American Institute for Economic Research calculates that citizens finally will have toiled long enough to fund local, state, and federal spending.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

There are Republicans that truly understand how dangerous the past is in rejecting the conservative ideals that took them to power in 94.  And understand how they were punished for their out-of-control spending in 06.  Yet, the Republican Party has chosen the path of continued pork. outrageous spending and a leftward leap as their best bet to take back the Congress and elect a President.  They are truly in for a shock in November

RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

By Robert Novak

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, at age 38 and having served less than five terms, did not leap over a dozen of his seniors to become ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee by bashing GOP leaders. But an angry Ryan last Wednesday delivered unscripted remarks on the House floor as the farm bill neared passage: "This bill is an absence of leadership. This bill shows we are not leading."

Ryan's fellow reformer, 45-year-old Jeff Flake of Arizona, in his fourth term, is less cautious about defying the leadership and has been kept off key committees. On Wednesday, he said of a $300 billion bill that raises farm subsidies and is filled with non-farm pork, "Sometimes, here in Washington, we tend to drink our own bath water and believe our own press releases."

Cohorts disavow Obama stance - - Breaking News, Political News & National Security News - The Washington Times

There are many in the Democrat party who truly understand how far off base Obama is.  Yet he will be their nominee.  You have to wonder if they think they can control him once he is elected.

Cohorts disavow Obama stance

By Joseph Curl
May 19, 2008

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Three prominent Democrats yesterday rejected Sen. Barack Obama's position of meeting unconditionally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and leaders of other American enemies.

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado and former Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee distanced themselves from Mr. Obama's position, each saying that preconditions for any such meeting would be essential.

"I'll concede, you cannot meet with foreign leaders — with terrorists, rather, those that lead rogue nations — without some conditions," Mr. Ford said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Cohorts disavow Obama stance - - Breaking News, Political News & National Security News - The Washington Times

AFP: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon

Now I am supposed to let the feelings of other countries control how I live my life??  Really??  Is this the America the Democrat party now wants to bring forth, bending a knee at the feelings of all the other nations and adjusting how we live to meet their desires??  Hello - is anyone listening to what this man is saying???

AFP: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement" | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog

Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement" | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog

Wow, defending Obama and attacking Bush by saying the Hitler's demands in 1938 were reasonable.  Sadly, I suspect many in the Democrat party would agree with this opinion writer.

 

Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement"

Posted by Bruce Ramsey

Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the Knesset, here, that to “negotiate with terrorists and radicals” is “appeasement.” The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What bothers me is the continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938.

The narrative we're given about Munich is entirely in hindsight. We know what kind of man Hitler was, and that he started World War II in Europe. From the view of 1938, what Hitler was demanding at Munich was not unreasonable, according to the prevailing idea of the nation-state. His claim was that the German-speaking areas of Europe--and ones that thought of themselves as German --be under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

Newsmax.com - Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Fuels War

 Newsmax.com - Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Fuels War

What foolishness.  UBL is long since dead.  NO IMAGES since December 2002.  None!  For anyone to believe he is still sucking air is just plain silly.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.

The terrorist leader's third statement this year came as President Bush was wrapping up his visit to Israel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state.

U.S. sees need for tangible action on Iran: Israel | International | Reuters

 U.S. sees need for tangible action on Iran: Israel | International | Reuters

Barak??   Hello???  Brak??  What's your plan Sir?  What's your plan.

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel agree on the need for "tangible action" to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman said after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.

"We are on the same page. We both see the threat ... And we both understand that tangible action is required to prevent the Iranians from moving forward on a nuclear weapon," Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said on Friday.

Saudis see no reason to raise oil production no now.

Will this be enough to encourage the Democrats to open the US to exploration for energy resources?? Somehow I doubt it.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.

The Death of the Washington Republican Party

Peggy Noon has it right, the Washington Republican Party is on its death bed and doesn't even realize it

Pity Party
May 16, 2008

Big picture, May 2008:

The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.

The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.

Ice Age on the way!

Solar activity remains unusually low - not a good sign for the global warming crowd.

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

Why is it that when things go well in Iraq the memory of the Democrat party becomes shorter?

Once, benchmarks were all the rage. Strangely, when they are met by the Iraqis and Gen. Peatrus, the Democrat group memory becomes very very foggy.

The last time General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker reported to Congress on the state of the Iraq war, "benchmarks" were all the rage. Congress had established 18 criteria in early 2007 both to pressure the Iraqis and to keep score on their progress. And in September, Congress faulted the Iraqi government for failing to meet many of those measures. Concocting a checklist of laws and actions that would lead to national reconciliation in Iraq was always a fool's errand and misunderstood the complexity of the situation. But having laid down this marker, Congress would want to hear an update, surely. Not so. The word "benchmarks" was scarcely heard last week when Petraeus and Crocker reappeared before Congress. Crocker testified that the Iraqis have actually met about two-thirds of the benchmarks, including four or five of the six key legislative benchmarks and all of the benchmarks measuring their contribution to their own security. In reply, the congressmen who insisted on legislating these benchmarks now say benchmarks are a poor way to measure progress in Iraq.

Muslim Male Swimming only debuts in Britain

While Brits seem to bury their heads in the sand, the Muslim conquest continues unabated.

This morning, my son asked to go swimming at 10 am. As he was going to play with a friend at 11.30, I agree to take him early. I checked the Pool Programme online at the Clissold Leisure Centre website, and the opening times. Apparently, the pool was open, and no special programmes were being run. So, off we trundled.

When I arrived at the pool, I was told that we could not swim in it until 10.45. The reason is that it was being used for "Muslim Male Swimming". This is apparently so, every Sunday morning.

BHO's Spiritual Advisor pokes his mouth ouf of retirement.

Without rehashing BHO selection process of a minister and a spiritual advisor for his presidential assent, it would seem that Rev. Wright is once again attempting to prove that his is a bigoted, racist and hateful preacher - even when giving the eulogy of a dead friend.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ, has kept a low profile since some of his sermons landed him in the middle of a political firestorm.

And while Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ ‘God would punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the congregation.

I'd like to think this is satire.

I will assume this is a satirical piece, but it rang a bell for me. BHO is such an overt elitist it fits like a finely made glove.

For the past two days Obama has taken a beating by the Clinton campaign for remarks he made in San Francisco, in which he said many Americans who have lost jobs have "gotten bitter and cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"It's been a very difficult time for him," said a friend from Harvard Law School who said he and Obama used to enjoy riding the Boston subway while wearing their Harvard sweatshirts just to make the other passengers feel inferior. "I called him up and reminded him that he went to the most prestigious law school in the world, has written two best-sellers, is richer than 99 percent of Americans, and has a vocabulary that most Ivy League literature professors would envy, and that made him feel a lot better."

News from the best source in Iraq - Michael Yon

No journalist has spent more time in the field than Michael Yon. Let him bring you up to date.

It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.

I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.

The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers. Yes, young Iraqi boys know about "GoArmy.com."

Obama explains the backwardness of small town America.

Ah, now I get it, I'm a gun lovin', anti-immigrant, anti-trade small town hick. Geezz, now that I know this I really gotta vote for the "B"-man so he can properly adjust my attitude.

when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser last Sunday, Barack Obama took a shot at explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County. "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

An article about Bush's failure to stop the Iranian Nuclear Program

Charles Krauthammer's article clearly shows the failure of the US policy, directed by the Bush administration, of deferring to the UN, the EU and leftist Democrat party. Iran has made stunning gains towards achieving nuclear weapons. This failure will have profound repercussions on the power structure of the Mideast.

On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges -- they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon -- in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned.

It is time to admit the truth: The Bush administration's attempt to halt Iran's nuclear program has failed. Utterly. The latest round of U.N. Security Council sanctions, which took a year to achieve, is comically weak. It represents the end of the sanctions road.

Clear evidence has also been found regarding Iran's development of a ballistic missile capable of reaching European targets.

The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.

The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.

Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles).

Yet another article about the myth of Global Warming

Another article pointing to new evidence that there has been no Global Warming for the past 10 years and that the earth is showing a cooling trend.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Rather than fighting Islamofacists for 100 years, what if we just quit?

Much is being said about how long we may be at war with militant Islam. Why not just quit?

A growing number of Democrats have falsely accused Sen. John McCain of “promising” 100 years of war in Iraq. In fact, McCain’s point was that the presence of American forces promotes stability. That’s been the case in Europe and Asia, where Americans have been stationed for more than half a century. It’s been true in the Balkans since the 1990s, when President Clinton sent troops there. America’s military plays a beneficial role when it eliminates America’s enemies; it does so also when it stays on to prevent those enemies from reemerging.

But there is a hard truth that McCain did not state: A hundred years from now, Americans might still be fighting militant Islamists in Iraq and other places. What could be worse than that? A hundred years from now, America and the West could have been defeated by militant Islamists.

UN Official wants neo-cons investigated for their participation in the 9/11 attacks

It would be funny if not so pathetic. It is long past time to leave this organization and have it hosted by some other country.

A new UN Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Brits hand their lives to the heart of a terrorist.

I am at a loss for words. The British people should just all submit and begin their lives as slaves.

One of the world's most dangerous terror suspects was last night preparing for a life on benefits in Britain after judges ruled that his deportation would breach human rights law.

Abu Qatada, dubbed Osama Bin Laden's "truly dangerous" ambassador in Europe, could be released from jail within months following the Court of Appeal verdict.

Yesterday's decision has left Britain's anti-terror laws in tatters. It means the Jordanian father of five - who has been linked to a string of global terror conspiracies and is held in a high security prison under immigration powers - can expect to receive £1,000 a month in handouts.

Perhaps the most important blog regarding Iraq.

An outstanding resource for determining the true status of our efforts in Iraq.

Non Muslim children are dogs - well of course they are!

The Netherlands continue to be introduced to the new reality of Europe, non-muslims - children included - are simply dogs. Of course Islam poses no threat - move on, move on, nothing to see here.

THE HAGUE, 09/04/08 - A primary school in Amsterdam wished to provide its pupils with an understanding for other cultures. But during a visit to a mosque, the children were told they were dogs.

No - it's not OK to state the truth about illegals in our country.

A 13 year old student is beaten by classmates for making a sign for class saying the illegal immigration is bad for our country. The Reconquista is well underway in the youth of the southwest.

A teenager who took a sign reading "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration" to school said she was hurt after being swarmed by angry classmates, and administrators said Tuesday they have suspended three students involved in the scuffle.

Why should I be required to give up my piece of the pie???

Marxism on the march in the form of Michelle.

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

So let me get this straight. I bust my ass for 25 years, pay my own way through school, work ridiculous hours and because I become financially successful I now must understand that I need to give up more of my "piece of the pie'?? The new Marxist couple continue to be on the march.

Hillary fired for unethical behavior??? Color me shocked!

She is as much a pathalogical liar as her husband, a match made in . . . well . . . somewhere.

Details of Hillary Clinton's firing from the House Judiciary Committee staff for unethical behavior as she helped prepare articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon have been confirmed by the panel's chief Republican counsel.

The Syria raid - much more than meets the eye.

On September 6th 2007 Israel launched a very successful air strike against a North Korean built nuclear facility in Syria. What stunned me was the level of silence in the MSM. This was Israel launching a very successful air strike on a neighbor and an enemy with virtually nothing being said.

Congress is demanding that the Bush administration fess up and tell them what really happened. I don't think the Democrats will be happy with the testimony. Seems the facility was certainly capable of leading to nuclear weapons for Syria. The report to Congress will also clearly make the cast that prior to our invasion Saddam moved his WMDs to Syria.

Two articles for your consideration.

Israel Destroys a Syrian Nuclear Plant

Saddam's WMDs moved to Syria prior to the war

An interesting Global Warming site .

The myth of Global Warming is slowly crumbling. The "Science and Public Policy Institute" has two articles that I found particularly Interesting.


"35 Inconvenient Truths - The errors in Al Gore’s movie" takes a hard look at a number of myths enshrined in Gore's movie. It lays to waste the most popular of them.

"Global Warming Profiteers" presents clear evidence that there has been no recorded increase in global temperatures for the last decade. In fact, for the past 7 years temperatures have been declining with the past year seeing the largest annual temperature drop since 1880.

Global Warming has Stopped is a good summary article that brings together a number of myths and debunks them as well.

Global warming is a myth that can't die too soon in my humble opinion.

The march towards nuclear weapons continues in Iran

Iran continues its march towards nuclear weapons. Europe's efforts to egnage Iran and to change their direction on the aquisition of nuclear weapons is falling terribly short.

Iran Begins Installing More Centrifuges

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.

Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the United States and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons.

"The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz," state television reported.

Debbie Schlussel: EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals th

Little by little, the real Barak peeks out of the cloud of deception.

These people are coming to KILL YOU! Pay attention!

Over and over Hill and BHO are ready to "end the war". Perhaps they should counsult with our enemies first.

Iran joined militias in battle for Basra

Color me shocked!!

IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week.

Military and intelligence sources believe Iranians were operating at a tactical command level with the Shi’ite militias fighting Iraqi security forces; some were directing operations on the ground, they think.

One more "canary in the coal mine" about Entitlements

Canaries in mines are old tools used to tell miners when they are in danger. Ignore them to your peril. Unfortunately, when it comes to Entitlement spending, there are no little yellow birds chirping. Yet, warnings abound about our coming peril. Here is another one.

THE FEDERAL budget is on an autopilot course to ruin. Spending on the three big entitlement programs -- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- grows automatically, consuming a large and growing share of the budget with benefits that flow mostly to the elderly. Meantime, there is almost no public discussion about the trade-offs involved: Would the money be better spent on education, homeland security, defense or infrastructure? Even before the baby boomers retire, more than four dollars out of every ten go to these programs; if health-care spending increases at the current rate, within 40 years Medicare and Medicaid alone will amount to as large a share of the economy as the entire federal budget comprises today.

Absent intervention, the country faces three unpalatable scenarios: running dangerously high deficits, squeezing spending on other vital needs or raising taxes to levels that could threaten economic growth.

The biofuels scam continues to take its toll

There's a price to pay for this march towards biofuels. Both in loss of food and environmental rape. Can we drill for oil yet??

From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit to promote sustainable ranching on the Amazon frontier. "It's like witnessing a rape."

The Islamist threat to Europe - a video worth watching.

Many Liberals and Europeans seem to totally discount the threat Islamofacists pose to Europe. Perhaps if they heard it in the words of the Islamofacists themselves??

Unintended Consequences.

You move land use from the production of food to the production of fuel. A food shortage follows. Why is that so hard to understand??

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices - partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation - threatens to trigger global instability.

"We need to be concerned about the possibility of taking land or replacing arable land because of these biofuels," Ban told the Guardian in Bucharest while attending this week's Nato summit. But he added: "While I am very much conscious and aware of these problems, at the same time you need to constantly look at having creative sources of energy, including biofuels. Therefore, at this time, just criticising biofuel may not be a good solution. I would urge we need to address these issues in a comprehensive manner."

OK, so now we need a policy to fix an old policy that was the result of a faulty global warming policy. Just what did these folks think would happye??

Have we forgotten why we went into Iraq?

As anyone can see by my posts, I have a rather big mouth and have no problem sharing my opinions with anyone who will listen as well as those who would rather not. Sometimes I share these in our local paper via letters to the editor. A post towards the end of March remembering that gassing of the Kurds in 1988 was one such letter.

At times, local folks respond with their thoughts on my letters and I usually just read them, listen to what they say and let it go. However, recently a gentleman responded by comparing America to Nazi Germany, deriding our decision to invade Iraq and declared the for the good of the troops and for their honor we should leave Iraq immediately. It is obvious that he had forgotten many events that had happened, starting in August 1990, that have brought us to today. I took some time to remind him.

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A bit of truth about the Iraq War

As anyone can clearly see in my letters to the editor, I am a person of strong opinion. My purpose for sharing my thoughts is simply to spark debate in the community and to get folks to think about the many issues facing our nation, especially in an election year.

And, usually, I simply read the responses or talk to folks who come up to me and chat about something I have written. Seldom do I feel any need to respond directly to a fellow letter writer. In Mr. Nelson’s case however, I feel the need make an exception.

Mr. Nelson seems to have conveniently forgotten the numerous events leading up to our invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Perhaps he should revisit the month of August 1990 when Saddam seized Kuwait. This was a brutal and unprovoked attack with the sole intent of subjugating the Kuwaiti people and stealing their resources. To let this stand would have thrown the entire region into chaos and the US led a global coalition to eject Saddam.

The first Gulf War ended in February 1991 and a number of expectations were placed on Saddam. A major condition was his elimination of existing WMDs and their manufacturing capabilities. As much as Mr. Nelson would like to ignore Saddam’s WMD program, UN documents describe the discovery and destruction of thousands of rounds of chemical weapons including sarin and mustard gas. UN reviews of Iraqi manufacturing records clearly found large discrepancies between the number of rounds found or accounted for and the number manufactured, something Saddam refused to address right up to his ejection of all UN inspectors in 1998. Large stores of raw nuclear product were also found after our 2003 invasion with the US removing over 500 tons of yellowcake and 2400 pounds of lightly enriched uranium. Saddam clearly had existing stores of WMDs. Perhaps a better question to ask would be “Where did they go?” during our 16 month run up to our invasion.

An additional condition of our cease fire with Saddam was that he was to leave the Kurds of the North and the salt-marsh Arabs of the south in peace. This he clearly ignored with a broad purge of the salt-marsh Arabs resulting in an estimated 100,000 dead – a direct result of our broken promise to protect them after Gulf War I. As a result we established no-fly zones in both the Kurd north and the south. For over 10 years US forces enforced these restrictions including the Air Guard units of Iowa.

During the period from February 1991 to March 2003, Saddam broke or ignored 17 UN resolutions. Perhaps Mr. Nelson would care to remember the final “straw”, Saddam’s refusal to accept the conditions of UN resolution 1441. This document came after nearly a year of evaluation, diplomatic efforts and pleas on the part of many countries that Saddam reinstate the inspectors he had ejected in 1998, allow “complete and unfettered access” to all facilities and to provide a full accounting of all WMDs. Perhaps he could review the reports to the Security Council by Hans Blix in December 2002 and early March 2003 detailing Saddam’s utter failure to address any of the UN’s concerns. UN 1441 passed the Security Council unanimously with all 15 members voting in favor of the resolution which set a clear deadline of 45 days to submit.

As for the congress’s participation in this, their Authorization of Use of Force of October 2002 passed both the House and Senate overwhelmingly. The United States and the President clearly filled all the squares for our entry into Iraq in March 2003 as much as Mr. Nelson would like to ignore that fact. The one person that could have stopped it was the same person who started it – Saddam - by simply bending to the will of the world.

My next disagreement with Mr. Nelson is the comparison of our country and our military to that of the German Wehrmacht of WWII. I have had the distinct honor to listen to WWII vets during some of our VFW meetings and through participating with them on panels at our local high school on Veterans Day. To listen to one vet’s description of freeing an extermination camp in Europe and another’s description of walking through one of the nuclear craters in Japan is a truly humbling experience. I suspect they may not see the US and the US military of March 2003 in the same light as Mr. Nelson. As an American and a 21 year veteran, I find his comparison distasteful to say the very least. In fact in a rather odd twist in Mr. Nelson’s article while describing Saddam’s Baathist regime as vicious he failed to note that it was founded in 1940 on the principles of the Nazi party. In fact, Saddam’s uncle led a revolt against British forces in Iraq in 1941 and requested military support from Germany. Perhaps Saddam would fit the Nazi mold better than our US forces.

As for Iraq’s threat to the US, I believe that during the run up to the March 2003 invasion, the only politician to call Iraq an “imminent threat” was John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia. President Bush’s primary contention was clearly stated as Saddam’s continued 10 year rejection of the demands and expectations of the UN and the Security Council. But, to ignore Saddam’s support of suicide bombers in the Mideast at the rate of $25,000 per bombing, to ignore his training bases, to ignore his support for terrorists on the run including Abu Nidal who was responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout Europe is simply wrong. These people and organizations clearly were a threat to the civilized world including Americans.

As for Saddam’s participation in 9/11, I don’t believe the Bush administration ever said such a thing. However, a review of the 9/11 report clearly shows Saddam provided some level of logistical support and training and that Muhammad Atta met with Iraqi security people in Prague prior to the attacks.

Finally, as for delivering the Iraqi people into a “sheer hell of madness and mayhem”, perhaps Mr. Nelson should spend a bit of time researching the Iraq of Saddam. According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights Saddam executed over 600,000 people. This does not include those killed in his various purges of the Kurds and salt-water Arabs nor does it include the 800,000 Iraqi and Iranian soldiers killed in the Iraq/Iran war. While the loss of a single life is a tragedy, the website iraqbodycount.org estimates that in our 5 years in Iraq an estimated 82,000 to 90,000 civilians have been killed. The vast majority of these were not killed by US soldiers, but by insurgents intent on shattering Iraq. Regardless, the Iraqi people are clearly under less threat today than during the reign of Saddam.

And, as for the health of the country, a few facts: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates 2008 will see a 7 percent growth in their economy. Iraq has paid their entire $470 million debt to the IMF and they were approved for a $720 million dollar line of credit in December. More than 2 million barrels of oil are being pumped every day, exceeding pre-war levels. Total inflation has fallen by 60 percent to a 5 percent level. Over 30,000 businesses have opened in the last 2 years. Cell phones and satellite dishes cover a landscape where an information vacuum once existed. Blogs by Iraqi people fill the internet with their hopes, dreams and their thanks. Political progress, while slow, is steady. Agreements have been struck regarding oil sharing, regional elections, and reinstatement of former Baathist members to name just a few.

But, to paint Iraq with the broad brush of “sheer hell of madness and mayhem” shows a tremendous lack of respect of the Iraqi people and of our military forces who risk their lives every day to give these folks a chance for the peace and freedom everyone wants for themselves and their children.

So Mr. Nelson, I respectfully disagree. Iraq is not near the quagmire so many Democrats and liberals wish it was. And the best way to honor our soldiers is by standing by them and letting them finish what we as a nation asked them to embark upon rather that looking at them and saying that their sacrifices, their family’s sacrifices, the sacrifices of those who have lost their lives or have been wounded have been for naught.

China rats our Iran's nuclear program.

Imagine that, Iran does seem to have a nuclear weapons development program - color me suprised!!

China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nationswith intelligence on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.

Concern over Tehran's secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons.

The world needs MORE CO2, Yep, that's what I said - - MORE!!

Imagine that, to combat rapid global cooling due to reduced solar output, the world needs to increase the level of CO2 in the atmosphere - yep, INCREASE IT! Imagine that.

"In a few short years, we will have a reversal of the warming of the 20th century," Archibald warned, according to CargoNews Asia. "There will be significant cooling very soon. Our generation has known a warm, giving sun, but the new generation will suffer a sun that is less giving, and the earth will be less fruitful. Carbon dioxide is not even a little bit bad – it's wholly beneficial."

And this is why politicians should stay out of the war!

Is this really what we want our soldiers to be concerned about??

The platoon leader in me knew we couldn’t shoot yet, and tugged at my brain like a giant anchor holding in place a battleship on full throttle. Escalation of force. Fuck. Rules of engagement. Double fuck. They haven’t technically dug anything yet, thus, haven’t begin emplacing anything. SGT Axel was ready, certainly, zeroing in on the two human silhouettes with a long-barreled machine gun of raw destruction, but the Iraq War has become so PC, so cluttered, so trigger-shy five years into the war, that any round fired – no matter how justified or understandable at the time of the incident – yields paperwork inquiries and scrutiny more fitting of a Senate Judiciary Committee report. Staff monkeys have found new purpose in this combat zone as Monday morning quarterbacks, conducting investigations with omnipotent spotlights to cut through the fog of war days after the storm passed. I’m not claiming that such retrospective studies are not healthy for a military unit, nor am I arguing that precision and restraint should not be fundamentals ingrained in every soldier fighting an insurgency. Part of what makes an American soldier an American soldier is that he fights with rules that sometimes hinder him, in an attempt to keep sight of the ideals and principles which led him to fight in the first place. That’s all gravy. I am stating, however, that the fact that these thoughts clouded my mind in a decisive moment of combat – and not just my mind, as it would turn out – proves that we are officially no longer on the offensive here. To repeat a new mantra of some of my NCOs, “Uncle Sam has gone soft.”

A Democrat Congressman working to undermine Columbia's government

This story offers a glimpse into the Democrat Party's view of global politics. Columbia is one of our best friends in South America. Venezuela is fast becoming an enemy. Why am I not surprised a Democrat sides with our enemy.

A hard drive recovered from the computer of a killed Colombian guerrilla has offered more insights into the opposition of House Democrats to the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

A military strike three weeks ago killed Raúl Reyes, No. 2 in command of the FARC, Colombia's most notorious terrorist group. The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia's elected and popular government.

Let me get this straight - - -

Video of beheading - OK. Calls for the murder of Israelis - OK. Video on bombmaking - OK.

But, video of the faults of Islam - wwweeeellllllllll now, THAT'S a different story:

Web host suspends site planned for anti-Koran film
Source: Reuters

AMSTERDAM, March 23 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based web service, which Islam critic and Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders planned to use to show his film critical of the Koran, said on Saturday that it had inactivated the site due to complaints.

"This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site's content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy," the company said on the site www.fitnathemovie.com.

Amazing how persusaive violence and the threat of death can be. Inch by inch, the world surrends to the evil of Islamists.

The bravest man on earth this Easter Sunday.

Let all Christians welcome the bravest man on earth into their fold this Easter Sunday.

Pope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim

VATICAN CITY -
Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book "Long Live Israel." As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Allam's head and said a brief prayer in Latin.

Obama: 'Outrageously wrong' to reprint Hamas manifesto

Does Obama ever really go to church???

Says 'I certainly wasn't in church' when defenseof terror appeared on 'Pastor's Page' of bulletin.

Huh, imagine that! The planet has been COOLING for the past 10 years.

Imagine my suprise. Recent data seems to show the planet has been COOLING for the past 10 years. Silly me, I thought it was warming.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it.

State of the christian church in Britain?? Under attack.

The Christian Church is under attack by Islam. This latest attack comes from Britain.

Canon Michael Ainsworth, a priest and colleague of mine just a couple of miles from my rectory in the City of London, was recently attacked in his churchyard by three youths. Michael suffered two black eyes, cuts and bruises. He was taken into hospital and his wife Janina, also a priest, said: "It's obvious that the attack on Michael does contain a religious element." It certainly is obvious: his attackers shouted, "You f------ priest!" as they beat him up.

Obama a Marxist mole??

To me, he is undoubtedly a Marxist. A mole?? That might be stretching things a bit, but the argument seems to have merit.

In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama’s life
as a “secret smoker” and how he “went to great lengths to conceal the habit.”
But what about Obama’s secret political life? It turns out that Obama’s
childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.

An important Anniversary

An important Iraq Anniversary occurred this past week. Many in our community have loved ones who have served our country and the Iraqi people proudly and with honor over the past five years. Many to the point of giving the ultimate sacrifice for country, a friend or Iraqi.

Yet, this is not the anniversary I am speaking of.

An Anniversary in January went largely unmentioned, yet the veterans of Desert Storm and the family of those lost were sure to have taken note of its passing. And to have remembered with pride that their efforts freed a people ruthlessly attacked and conquered by a vicious enemy intent on taking their country and their natural wealth as his own.

Yet, this is not the anniversary I am speaking of.

As with all memorable occasions, there are names to remember: Omar Osman and his son, Nadriyeh Mohammed Fattah, there is Osman Mustafa’s Soiba and his niece Rahnasas well as Najiba Mustafa’s father, there is Soiba Muhammed whose two daughters, three sons and husband were killed, there is Mu'min Hama-Arif, who had 24 members of his family killed in the attack, there is Haseeba Muhamed, who had 12 members of her family slaughtered. These are but a few of the over 5,000 people who died.

There are dates that are memorable that commemorate these people, that specify their last days, their last moments, their last breaths. In this case, the date is March 16^th. The event was short lived, its initiation taking only as long as it takes for aircraft to fly over a small village. And only the short time it takes for a person to die – starved of air – moments really to seal its memory in history.

These occasions need a place to contain the event, to display to the world the vileness of such things and to harbor for all time the memory of man’s ability to inflict cruel deaths on innocents. In this case, such a place would be named Halabja in a country rich in violence, Iraq.

Tools are needed as well. Tools to inflict death and carnage on a mass scale, to destroy on a mass scale – weapons of mass destruction, one might call them. Such was the case on March 16^th.

These tools, these weapons have names: Mustard Gas, Sarin, VX, Tabun, Hydrogen Cyanide. All crafted to kill humans, each in their own unique way.

Mustard Gas is a blister agent. At a point of direct contact with a victim’s skin deep, itching and burning blisters occur. Contact with a persons eyes results in blindness. If breathed, blisters in the victim’s lungs result in the person drowning in their own blood as their lung’s blisters rupture and bleed out.

Sarin is a nerve agent. Sarin disrupts a victim’s nervous system. With the total collapse of the nervous system, victims die within moments typically amid an onslaught of vomiting, urination and defecation. Tabun is another nerve agent but a bit slower acting taking one to two hours to complete the death of the victim, but completing it none the less.

The nerve agent VX begins with a tightness in the victim’s chest. Vomiting follows and suffocation within moments since the victim’s ability to breathe is eliminated.

Hydrogen Cyanide is a blood agent. It is one of the tools used by Hitler during the holocaust to rid Germany of Jews. It works by stopping a cell from exchanging carbon dioxide with oxygen resulting in a victim’s body being suffocated one cell at a time.

Such an event, such a vile attack on humanity, with such horrendous tools and weapons needs someone to permit it, someone to demand it, some one to sanction it, someone to set the time and date. In this case, his name was Saddam Hussein.

And finally, such a horrendous act, to have a complete Anniversary, must have a complete date, an exact point in history to be remembered. In this case such the date is March 16, 1988.

As we pass five years in combat, fighting to save and protect the innocent, let us remember Omar, Nadriyeh, Haseeba and the over 5,000 innocents that died at the hands of a mad man who had, and easily used, weapons of mass destruction to conduct his slaughter. Our military has been doing good and honorable work in Iraq. They are making good progress. They are protecting the innocents. Let us all honor their service and remember that we are blessed to have citizens who have heard the call and answered with their lives and sacred honor.

And, let us remember to say a prayer for the victims of Halabja who died 20 years ago. Let us not forget them.

Putting faces to the holocaust.

Palestinians appetite for violence.

Is it any wonder Israel finds itself in a fight for its existence???

According to the poll, of 1,270 Palestinians in face-to-face interviews, 84 percent supported the March 6 attack on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, one of Israel’s most prominent centers of religious Zionism and ideological wellspring of the settler movement in the West Bank. Mr. Shikaki said that result was the single highest support for an act of violence in his 15 years of polling here. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

What????? No warming is 4-5 years???? I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED IT TELL YOU!!!!!!!

Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

Is hatred just a natural part of the black preacher??

I am speechless. No wonder the black community struggles with spiritual leaders like this.

Who profits most from today's high oil prices?

Would you really be surprised if I told you governments?

CNN attributes most of the profits from gasoline to crude oil producers, and while that’s true CNN did leave another aspect out: Regulatory, usage and royalty fees paid to the government. Crude oil may be at $110/barrel right now, but it can cost as much as $70/barrel to actually get it.

And of that $40 per barrel, CNN attributes most of the profits from gasoline to crude oil producers, and while that’s true CNN did leave another aspect out: Regulatory, usage and royalty fees paid to the government. Crude oil may be at $110per barrel right now, but it can cost as much as $70 per barrel to actually get it.

"While Exxon made over $40 billion in 2007, a 60% increase from 2004, it paid over $100 billion in taxes and royalties."made over $40 billion in 2007, a 60% increase from 2004, it paid over $100 billion in taxes and royalties.

Read that sentence very closly, they paid governments MORE THAN DOUBLE what their profits were.

From the mouth of Obama's preacher: "Hillary ain't never been called a nigger," he says at the climax.

And this is the spiritual guide of a man who wants to be President??

Barack Obama’s controversial pastor and the church he’s served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator’s run for the White House.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches that he follows the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line.

Although Wright delivered what was billed as his final sermon last month on his path to retirement, prior to his departure he delivered commentary from the pulpit now being scrutinized in which he praised Obama.

The video of his sermon is mind boggling - a true racist bigot at work.

Update: Honestly, you can't make this stuff up. More words of wisdom from Obama's spiritual mentor.

Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

I think Obama has some explaining to do.

A closer look at McCain's record is more than a little disturbing.

A closer look at the ease with which McCain can change position should send a cold chill up the spine of the RNC.

The prevalent view of McCain is that he is a generally conservative figure with a few maverick stances and an unwavering authenticity. Nearly every liberal editorial board that has made a Republican endorsement has chosen McCain, and nearly all have offered variations on the same theme. "Voters may disagree with his policies, but few doubt his sincerity," editorialized The Boston Globe. "The Arizona senator's conservatism is, if not always to our liking, at least genuine," concluded the Los Angeles Times. This is the consensus: McCain's basically a right-winger, but at least you know where he stands.

Actually, this assessment gets McCain almost totally backward. He has diverged wildly and repeatedly from conservative orthodoxy, but he has also reinvented himself so completely that it has become nearly impossible to figure out what he really believes.

Just what about Clinton's claims of being experienced enough to lead the nation??

Well, it would seem that her main claims to fame are all in her mind. What a surprise!

TIME decided to cut through the spin with a series that will take a closer look at the claims candidates make. As Senator Clinton is fond of saying, It's time to get real. We kick off the series by evaluating three of the achievements she mentions most often:

Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom

What the clear eye of the Czech President sees.

A WEEK ago, I gave a speech at an official gathering at Prague Castle commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1948 communist putsch in the former Czechoslovakia. One of the arguments of my speech, quoted in all the leading newspapers in the country the next morning, went as follows: Future dangers will not come from the same source. The ideology will be different. Its essence will nevertheless be identical: the attractive, pathetic, at first sight noble idea that transcends the individual in the name of the common good, and the enormous self-confidence on the side of its proponents about their right to sacrifice the man and his freedom in order to make this idea reality. What I had in mind was, of course, environmentalism and its present strongest version, climate alarmism.

Bush: ‘Fairness Doctrine’ unfair

You just have to wonder why he is making a statement about this. I suspect that a Democrat congress will certainly push forward on this front, but why make a comment like this now??

In Nashville today, during a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, President Bush said there’s nothing fair about the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” that once required broadcasters to offer air time for competing ideologies.

The FCC got rid of it about 20 years ago. Now, some Democrats in Congress - long the target of popular conservative radio talk-show hosts - think it’s time to bring it back.

Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

Interesting thing to consider. Would it decrease dialog within the country? I suspect so.

68% of scients and engineers DISAGREE with the view that Global Warming is settled science.

Imagine that, real honest to goodness scientists and engineers disagree with the view that Global Warming is man-made. Imagine my shock!

Only about one in three Alberta earth scientists and engineers believe the culprit behind climate change has been identified, a new poll reported today. The expert jury is divided, with 26 per cent attributing global warming to human activity like burning fossil fuels and 27 per cent blaming other causes such as volcanoes, sunspots, earth crust movements and natural evolution of the planet.

A 99-per-cent majority believes the climate is changing. But 45 per cent blame both human and natural influences, and 68 per cent disagree with the popular statement that "the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled."

What oil shortage?

Is there truly an oil shortage - probably not.

The World Has Plenty of Oil

By NANSEN G. SALERI

Many energy analysts view the ongoing waltz of crude prices with the mystical $100 mark -- notwithstanding the dollar's anemia -- as another sign of the beginning of the end for the oil era. "[A]t the furthest out, it will be a crisis in 2008 to 2012," declares Matthew Simmons, the most vocal voice among the "neo-peak-oil" club. Tempering this pessimism only slightly is the viewpoint gaining ground among many industry leaders, who argue that daily production by 2030 of 100 million barrels will be difficult.

In fact, we are nowhere close to reaching a peak in global oil supplies.

More on Harvard's bending a knee to Islam.

More on the administration at Harvard submitting to Islam. In light of this, can Harvard really be considered among our top educational institutions??

What can a 19-year-old guy in jogging shorts do at Harvard that a rich Saudi sheik who sponsors terrorism can’t?

Get banned from the building.

Six times a week, Harvard kicks all the guys out of the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center at the request of the Harvard Islamic Society. This is to accommodate those female Muslim students whose faith won’t let them work out in front of men.

A look at what "change" means for Obama's foreign policy.

A look at what the word "change" means to Obama regarding our foreign policy and the Mideast.

Obama's scary foreign policy.
by Alan W. Dowd

The centerpiece of his foreign policy has always been an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Reasonable people can and do disagree over whether it was right to invade in March 2003, but even some of the loudest critics of the war warn that withdrawing now could derail the fragile progress made during the surge and make a difficult but tenable situation worse.

Iran Marches Ahead Towards Nuclear Weapons

Iran's nuclear threat continues to grow. I honestly
don't think the world will act.

Iran Marches Ahead Towards Nuclear Weapons
by Richard
Fernandez

Here’s a question: If Iran halted “its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure,” as the U.S. NIE concluded in late 2007, then why is the UN Security Council now preparing to “approve new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment”?

Global Warming - a fraud. Why is this a suprise??

Global warming is one of my "right to the edge" issues. The fact that it is a fraud is now beginning to make the headlines as well.

Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is 'Telling Us What to
Think' TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose
'the fraud of global warming.'

Iranian military captured in Iraq.

How can this be?? Iran has assured us they have no military involvement in Iraq. They wouldn't lie to us, would they??

U.S. captures Iranian special forces commander near Baghdad

BAGHDAD — The U.S.-led coalition has captured a senior Iranian operative who helped finance and equip Shi'ite militias.

U.S. Army paratroopers detained the suspected senior leader of the Iranian-sponsored Special Groups network during an operation in Baghdad's Beida neighborhood on Feb. 27, Middle East Newsline reported.

Officials said the Special Groups was trained and equipped by Iran. They said the organization, believed to comprise a series of cells, introduced the Explosively-Formed Penetrator, designed to destroy U.S. — and other Western origin main battle tanks.

Illegals registering voters.

This falls into my "right to the edge!!!!" category. An illegal, going to a US college, is registering voters. Why the hell isn't ICE packing his butt back to Mexico!!

Legal or not, immigrants are getting political on campus
By Javier Erik Olvera

Jose Ruiz is like many college students. He's outspoken. He's politically active. And, most importantly, he wants to make sure as many people as possible hit the polls come Election Day. Why? Because he can't. Ruiz is an illegal immigrant.

Buoyed by Super Tuesday's record Latino voter turnout, a San Jose State University student group — made up of both legal and illegal residents — is planning a widespread, grass-roots campaign to register voters, especially those who can speak for them at the polls. "I don't need to live in the shadows anymore," said Ruiz, a 24-year-old San Jose State student whose mother brought him from Mexico on a tourist visa when he was a child.

No son, you don't need to live in the shadows anymore, you need to live in Mexico so you can make a difference in YOUR country, so you can change the political culture in YOUR country, so you can create jobs in YOUR country - not the US.

Obama takes his first real shot!

There are two festering stories out there regarding Obama. The first is the about the corruption trial of his 20-year friend, Tony Rezko, who made substantial contributions to the various campaigns of Obama. The second involves whether a chief financial advisor to Obama, Austan Goolsbee , assure the Canadian government that his rant against NAFTA was simply campaign rhetoric and that nothing would change.

Well, these two issues caught up with him at a news conference Monday night:

Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!

By Dana
MilbankTuesday, March 4, 2008

The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.

Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama's trade policy. A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter. The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.

An additional link on the NAFTA story:

Obama, Canada, NAFTA and Some 'Straight Talk'

Is Obama Lying About NAFTAGate?
He certainly doesn’t seem to be telling the whole truth.

Obama quotes Che

I realize that Che has become fashion chick over the years as history is lost and goes untaught, but Che Guevara was a murderous thug who was personally (as in he held the pistol) responsible for dozens of executions at the request of Castro. Yet, Obama's Huston precinct captain proudly fly a Che/Cuban flag in her office and at home. To further ad to the insult of those murdered by Che, Michelle quotes Che in her stump speeches as well. Is anyone in the MSM going to call him on this??

Obama for Che Guevara?
By Humberto Fontova
FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Those Che Guevara posters recently spotted in Obama's Houston campaign offices were not hung by a young volunteer who dug the cool looking dude's awesome guitar licks for the Smashing Pumpkins, nor by an older one who thought she remembered the groovy guy with the beret "hangin" with Wavy Gravy at Woodstock.

The campaign volunteer who hung the Che poster is named Maria Isabel (second photo above) and according to the Lone Star Times, she hung similar banners from her balcony at home. Apparently she's no "low-level" volunteer either. She serves as a campaign 'precinct captain" and the co-chair of the Houston Obama Leadership Team.

Obama's staffer solution to the Palestinian issue - Invade Israel

The solution to the Palestinian issue - a massive US force used to impose a Palestinian state on the region and left in place to keep the peace. Sure - that'll work. The onlyl problem is that I suspect she reflects her boss's thoughts as well.

Samantha Power is the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide, and she has a professorship at Harvard (in something called "Global Leadership and Public Policy"). She is also a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. This isn't an honorific: she has worked for Obama in Washington, she has campaigned for him around the country, and she doesn't hesitate to speak for him. This morning, the Washington Post has a piece on Obama's foreign policy team, identifying her (and retired Maj. Gen. Scott Garion) as "closest to Obama, part of a group-within-the-group that he regularly turns to for advice." Power and Garion "retain unlimited access to Obama." This morning's New York Times announces that Power has an "irresistable profile" and "she could very well end up in [Obama's] cabinet."

She also has a problem: a corpus of critical statements about Israel. These have been parsed by Noah Pollak at Commentary's blog Contentions, by Ed Lasky and Richard Baehr at American Thinker, and by Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

It isn't too difficult to see all the red flags in this answer. Having placed Israel's leader on par with Yasser Arafat, she called for massive military intervention on behalf of the Palestinians, to impose a solution in defiance of Israel and its American supporters. Billions of dollars would be shifted from Israel's security to the upkeep of a "mammoth protection force" and a Palestinian state—all in the name of our "principles."

As Hillary fades, Obama will get a much closer look!

As Hillary fades, Obama will get a much closer look. Articles like this, about his immediate family and their Islamic and terrorist ties will be hard to suppress, even for the MSM.

Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist

Barack Obama stands behind Kezia (stepmother) in a Kenyan family shot. Included in the photo is brother Abongo "Roy" Obama who is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture." "Abongo's new lifestyle has left him lean and clear-eyed, and at the wedding, he looked so dignified in his black African gown with white trim and matching cap that so me of our guests mistook him for my father," Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father.

Barack Obama's cousin Raila Odinga is accused of ethnic cleansing and is currently battling for power in Kenya.

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes - the devil is always in the details.

The bottom line:

As I showed in a post last month, the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of federal income taxes. The top 25% of taxpayers pay 86% of income taxes.

A man who's head is about to explode!!!

I have a friendlly back and forth with my kids when they push all the old man's buttons. And with a daughter over 30 and a son pushing 19, believe me they know all my buttons.

And then, of course, the "real world" can find them just as quickly.

And this one take me "RIGHT TO THE EDGE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Obama Eye Wear!!
That's right! The next President of the United States is so cool he deserves his own line of sunglasses. A percentage of the profits will go to the Barrack Obama campaign so besides advertising his name, you are also helping out financially. Also, in keeping with the Obama motto of goodwill, we hire the homeless and residents of a women's shelter to help us with our logo process (and we pay above minimum wage too!)

Right to the edge I tell ya, right to the frigging edge!!!

Obama the Rookie

I think that all the swooning, chanting and adoration are rapidly going to Obama's head. The rate at which he is going through positions on such dramatic issues as gay marriage, abortion and his Christian values is mind-numbing! Now it would seem that Christ condoned same-sex marriage during the Sermon on the Mount, that abortion is tragic but a child born during a botched abortion is not a human. Words actually escape me on this one - read the account for yourself:

Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews.com
Editor in Chief March 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) -

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian."

"I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state," said Obama. "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans." (See video here) St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.

Not quite sure America is ready to slide that far left all in one election.

Update: An updated story from WorldNetDaily

Obama ties same-sex issues to Jesus' Sermon on Mount

Democrat maintains famous speech by Christ 'more central than obscure passage in Romans'

Obama the Cult

A number of sites have linked to this video. Seems to creep them all out - me too! These followers have surrendered their reason and intellect to - - - what exactly?? A young man, with little experience that has hope and wants change. Nothing good has ever come from mindless people following a savior without question.

Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama!!

Barak might want to check his numbers.

Obama's latest rant against our involvement in Iraq focused on his claim that we are spending $12 Billion dollars per month - and that, in his view, is unsustainable. There is another set of financials he might want to review as well: the cost of ignoring our enemies.

9/11 by the Numbers

Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics.

The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.

The cost to NYC for ignoring our enemies. This does not include losses to the rest of the country, losses to our industries (think of the losses and additional costs to the airline industry alone!), increased recurring costs of our on-going security efforts. So, before Obama proposes an exit from Iraq to save $12 Billion per month, perhaps he might want to consider the real costs of such an act.

Obama's plan for our military defense.

If this isn't enough to scare the crap outta you, I have no idea what would!

The surrender begins at Harvard

Of course, of course - it's just for the young lady's modesty. Surely we can understand - right??

To accommodate Muslim students, Harvard tries women-only gym hours

Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men. Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan. 28, after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women's Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women.

Nothing to see here - move on, move on.

More evidence of Global Cooling

Imagine, 100 YEARS of Global WARMING eliminated in a SINGLE YEAR!! Why isn't this on the frontpage of the NY Times. Won't the glaciers damage NYC??

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the
list goes on and on.

So, what do you need to be legal in Mexico??

Let's say you wanted to purchase property in Mexico. Let's say you wanted to move there in retirement. Just what would it take? Surely it's as simple as just walking across the border and laying the money down - right? Isn't that what the Mexican government is expecting from the US, can't we all just get along??

Turns out it's just a bit more complicated:

Hi Michelle - I live in Chicago but own a parcel in San Felipe, Mexico (east side of Baja, on the Sea of Cortez) Thought you’d get a kick out of what I need to do if I want to retire there….legally. Here’s the info from the El Dorado Ranch Estates website:

WHAT’S REQUIRED TO OBTAIN AN FM-3 OR FM-2 VISA?

For those of you who either lease lots, rent houses, or have purchased property through a Fideicomiso Irrevocable, you must have an FM-3 Visa to be legal in Mexico. Once you have signed any sort of contract, you are no longer a tourist. I would like to say at the outset, that if you do not have an FM-3 Visa and you find yourself in a property dispute or other entanglement which puts you in the arms of jurisprudence, you literally have no rights as an “illegal alien”. This means your property, bank accounts, vehicles and personal belongings, are in jeopardy. The very minimum you need for owning or leasing property is the FM-3 Visa which is renewable every year for 5 years. The following is a list of items you will need to obtain your FM-3 or FM-2 Visa:

You would think that the Mexican government would certainly grant us the same level of expectation for those wishing to live in the US, wouldn't you??