Burn Witch Burn (Chirp Chirp, Chirp Chirp)

Some jokes just aren't very funny and deserve to be met with just the sound of crickets. Meteorologist Augie Auer said of global warming, "We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years..." Some joke this is; millions of wasted dollars, people put out of work because factories can't afford to retrofit for reduced CO2 emissions, third world countries kept, literally, in the dark because regulations prevent them from industrializing not to mention the hysteria created by an overeager and uninformed media.

I'm tired of this farce and five years is too long to have to put up with it and too much damage will be done culturally and industrially by the time the media figures it out. Many scientists have plenty to say against the idea that man is causing global warming. Why would you choose to believe Al Gore, or Leonardo DiCaprio? Perhaps that's the thing that is the most perplexing to me, people haven't gone out and learned about the facts of this issue for themselves, they take their science the same way they take their entertainment and from the same sources.

"The Greens are really going to go after you because you put out 49 per cent of the countries emissions. Does anybody ask 49 per cent of what? Does anybody know how small that number is? ... It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt..."

Global warming debunked

Heil the 'fairness doctrine'

I've written about many things that make me indignant, however, this really does it. I mean to say this gets my goat more than any of them. For those unfamiliar with the "fairness doctrine" it simply states that broadcasters must give free airtime to opposing view points. So, three hours of Rush Limbaugh must be matched with three, free hours of some liberal.

I can think of few things as un-American as this. First, it states that one half doesn't have to work his or her way up to the top to get air time, doesn't have to pay for it, just has to have an opposing view. Also, it forces one view on people when they don't want it. I tune into the radio programming I want to tune into and I know it isn't the government's job to force a view point down my throat!

"A soon-to-be-released study, commissioned by groups allied with the Democrats, finds that conservative dominance of the radio airwaves is growing. "

"That's the real reason, the liberals are loosing and they can't win by playing fair so they have to "level the playing field" to make it easier for them. Poppycock! If you have good ideas, if you are so right for the American people, then the American people aught to know it by virtue of the strength of your ideology. They don't know it thought, they know just the opposite, that liberalism is a dead avenue toward the removal of personal freedoms in this country and any other where such things are tried.

The Democrats just want to sound some alarms themselves. Former talk show host Al Franken, now running for the U.S. Senate in his home state of Minnesota, has his own suggestion for reform.
“You shouldn't’t be able to lie on the air,” he told me. “You can’t utter obscenities in a broadcast, so why should you be able to lie? You should be fined for lying.”"

I agree, but the liberals do it all the time. Now, when they can't get away with it anymore, they try an underhanded tactic, call it fair, but in reality it is anything but fair. If liberals can't make it, "in the market place" as Rush Limbaugh has been quoted as saying, why is it the government's job to force others to accept their lousy, good for nothing, product?

The Dems drive for the 'fairness doctrine'

Chico and the Man, you Aren't

When are we going to stop talking about someone's race in relationship to what they do? I'm so tired of hearing someone is the first woman, black, Mexican, whatever, to do something. All that's saying is that it's been done before. Comedian George Lopez recently had his show cancelled and he cried a river about it. He actually went so far as to tell about how important his show was. This was not because it was really funny (it wasn't) or because it was really well written (again, it wasn't) but simply because he is Latino. The show was a good show, I have watched it several times, but it wasn't a great show, in fact, it wasn't enough to hold my interest with its story arch. It was just a bit funny and something to watch when nothing else was on. Give me Ricky Ricardo any day.

"I get kicked out for a...caveman and shows that I out-performed because I’m not owned by [ABC Television Studios]...So a...Chicano can't be on TV but a...caveman can?" Lopez said. "And a Chicano with an audience already? You know when you get in this that shows do not last forever, but this was an important show and to go unceremoniously like this hurts. One hundred seventy people lost their jobs."

I don't feel the slightest bit sorry for Lopez. As if to solidify this opinion in me the story states, "For his part, Lopez will be fine. He has an HBO special and a movie coming in the summer, and a deal with Warner Bros. to produce television movies." All that boohoo-ing for nothing.

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This Liberal is Right on One Thing

When a liberal is right, I say so, just to show I actually think about these things and am not an ideologue. Actually, that's how I became a conservative, I think, but that's not the subject here. This liberal is jumping for joy at high gas prices because he (or she) feels this is the only way people will get mad enough to press the government into action against, "petro-dictators" in the middle east.

I don't agree with everything in the article, such as why we should be urging energy Independence, but that one thing I do concur with, people won't get upset, until it hurts their pocketbooks in a major way.

People are willing to pay higher gas prices because they have to. Carpool lanes and buses aside, not many people use them, and they won't. I need to know I can leave work when I want or need to and have the flexibility that provides. I also enjoy being in my car, listening to music, or thinking. In our modern world it is one of the few places we can actually be alone with our thoughts.

I can't wait for the day when people get angry enough about gas prices to do something, for the day when no politician will get re-elected without a platform of energy independence. Pay close attention to that phrase, because I don't mean energy reduction. Americans aren't going to reduce their energy and those in charge should just come to terms with that and start supplying us with more. There is enough, despite what you may hear form some, a well informed news reader will often spot the stories that hint at what we all suspect, there's plenty, and to spare, if the tree huggers would just step aside and let us at it.

I believe, very strongly, in the Theodore Roosevelt model of conservation of natural resources. He knew we needed to use the land, after all it was the usefulness of this land that made America prosper, but he also knew we needed to protect it. I admire that, and adhere to it's foundational philosophy. I'm convinced that modern methods of drilling and minding can work hand in hand with conservation and provide us with the resources we need to break the shackles of middle eastern oil tyrants. We can't let the greenies say it's a do nothing situation. We aren't going to kill every animal in existence if we drill and extract the oil. American is one of the few nations on earth that actually can live an isolationist life if needed. I'm not advocating that, in all things, just energy production.

Record gasoline prices great news for U.S.

Station Owner Fed Up!

Mitt Romney Isn't a Mormon: No One Is

In this article we learn that Romney calls Al Sharpton a bigot. I'm not sure if that's true based on his comment about the beliefs of Mitt Romney but in terms of what causes bigotry, which is ignorance, it is true. The media at large, and certainly Al Sharpton, every time they say something like this, "...Mormons or the Mormon Church..." show their ignorance. Mitt Romney seems to be doing nothing to correct this error which, of itself, would go a long way toward correcting the ignorance. The name of the church is, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and those who belong to it can be referred to as Latter-Day Saints.

Mitt Romney isn't a Mormon, he's a Latter-day Saint, he doesn't belong to the Mormon church, he belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's a little more difficult for Sharpton to assail Romney's Christianity if he looses his ignorance and understands that Christ is the center of Romney's beliefs system.

I don't think Sharpton wants to loose his ignorance though, he likes it just where it is.

Romney Assails Sharpton's Mormon Comment

On Global Warming, the Fat Lady, Has Sung!

I love how the below story uses the term, "so-called" when talking about the Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age. They aren't so called, they are what they are. The Earth gets warmer and cooler and there's nothing man can do to start it or stop it. It doesn't work like it does in the movies, we can't send a device right into the sun to save us or burrow down into the middle of the earth to restart the core. The Earth does what it does and we are just along for the ride.

"During the so-called Medieval Warm Period between about 900 and 1300 A.D., for example, the Vikings raised livestock on Greenland and sailed to North America. New cities were built all across Europe, and the continent's population grew from 30 million to 80 million.

The consequences of the colder temperatures that plunged civilization into the so-called Little Ice Age for several centuries after 1300 were devastating. Summers were rainy, winters cold, and in many places temperatures were too low for grain crops to mature. Famines and epidemics raged, and average life expectancy dropped by 10 years. In Germany, thousands of villages were abandoned and entire stretches of land depopulated."

Global Warming: Not the End of the World as We Know It

Herod Had the Second Jewish Temple Built

Herod was king of the Jews, (even if the Romans put him there), he had a palace which was his seat of power, this palace is in the west bank, a king wouldn't have his palace in someone else's land, so who owns the west bank? The same people who own the temple mount whereon stood the temple the same Herod built...the Jews.

Nothing can take place in this region of the world except we should take notice of it and in some way try to understand how it fits in with the overall scheme things. There's always more than meets the eye with the middle east.

King Herod's Tomb Found in West Bank

Is There Really Anyone Who Still Believes Global Warming is Caused by Man?

The Earth used to be a very cold and frozen place. Glaciers covered the planet as low as where New Orleans in now, according to this article. The article asks the question, could it happen again, which as you recall was a question asked a few decades ago and a fear pumped into the hearts of school kids everywhere, including myself. The answer is, "The sun has become 6 percent stronger since the Cryogenian, so it should be harder to freeze the Earth now. "

Get that? The sun is hotter so that means the planet is less likely to freeze. And yes, that also means it's hotter. Did man make it hotter? Nope, the sun did. Give it a rest Al Gore, give it a rest.

Snowball fight erupts over frozen Earth theory

Holy Freaking Cow!

I have to admit, when I think shoe bomb I think bad, but not that bad, not knock down twin towers kind of bad. But after seeing this video, I have a different perspective. Seeing videos like this are positive as they educate the public on the seriousness of the threat.

I for one am tired of Bush and his never ending rhetoric about the "war on terror". It's the same lines over and over again and after a time they loose their effectiveness and after just a little more time they loose their meaning.

This video does more to bring meaning to the current conflict than all the hot air in Washington.

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We Can Call Them French Fries Again!

This article states, 'Sarkozy added that he wanted to tell his "American friends that they can rely on our friendship ... France will always be next to them when they need us." '

So, does this mean Bush was right and Charac was wrong? And the French people weren't happy with his decision and so they elected someone who would better represent them?

Sarkozy: I have mandate for change

Submitted for Your Approval

Consider if you will, mysterious 'in-between particles' that have the power to render the massive climate change computer models...inaccurate. At the sign post up ahead...

One scientist says, “The effects of this zone are not included in most computer models that estimate the impact of aerosols on climate,” said lead author Ilan Koren of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel. “This could be one of the reasons why current measurements of this effect don’t match our model estimates.”

First, how many of you were aware that the actual climate did not meet the expectations of the models? Second, this new set of particles, which were unknown, are not in the computer models. Perhaps once the data is plugged in, we will see there is no reason to be scared of global warming after all. I wonder what excuse they will come up with next to make sure we remain afraid?

'Twilight zone' could hinder climate predictions

Burkini Beach

While she may not have liked the man's opinion of her swimwear, at least she had the right to go and tell him so to his face, without fear of beatings, or being jailed.

Certainly the situation would have been different if she were in a Muslim country, if she had chosen not to wear the "burkini", and then got defiant against a man who pointed this out.

Her complaint, "It strongly disturbs me that I was disregarded as an individual..." leads me to wonder, what did she expect? The entire idea behind this type of clothing is to cover up a woman so that she doesn't temp men. What that means to me is, she isn't anything more, in her religion, than a vessel for sex that should only be unwrapped when in use. Do they regard her as an individual?

Then there's the part of me that's so sick of seeing women's body parts, of the Madonna, Brintey Spears, type of dress, that the photo of the burkini above looks pretty good. There's part of me that thinks, 'man, why can't women dress that way?' but then I realize, there should be moderation in all things. There has to be a middle ground here between being modest (meaning morally dressed) and not being supressed in an unrighteous manner. In the above case she chose to dress like this, but in many countries they have no choice and can even be arrested for not doing it.

Other than the examples below, there is also a story on CBS News, "Iranian Walks Out of Dinner with Condi" which he did because a female violinist was dressed too revealingly. Don't get me wrong, I don't think women should dress revealingly, I think that men and women should dress in a modest fashion. However, just what modest means, is something very different in the Muslim world.

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It's Time to Melt into the Melting Pot

The Berlin wall was meant to keep people in, people who wanted to get out. The walls springing up today are not the same, they do not represent the oppression of a government over its people, but rather the protection of a government from other people who would enter a nation without regard to its laws of entry.

So many have been quoted as saying, "We aren't criminals." However, by definition, they are criminals because they have broken the law to be here in America. Liberals love to say this is prejudice or discrimination against our brown skinned brethren, but nothing could be farther from the truth. It relates to laws, to integration into a society, and respect. It will only be when politicians realize that these are the true reasons for their constituents' unease that a solution will be found and the truth satisfied.

This issue, perhaps above all others, shows the disgraceful people we call our elected officials. They do not represent, but instead allow for lies to stand as the truth and have neither the strength nor the wherewithal to stand up for a cause greater than their re-election fund.

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Woah, Dude...I Knew This

"We've long suspected that cannabis is linked to psychoses, but we have never before had scans to show how the mechanism works," said Dr. Philip McGuire, a professor of psychiatry at King's College, London.

So much for pot not being harmful. They have long suspected it and normal people have always known it. Now can we finally put to rest the whole, "pot is as harmless as cigarettes" myth?

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