Wednesday - January 17, 2007
 A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS
This morning CNN was running a series called
"America on Ice." I-10 is shut down for 300 miles West of San
Antonio, Texas. That would be our southernmost coast-to-coast
expressway. Global warming, I guess .....
Today on the show ... we'll tell you about
the
latest email scam. "I've been hired to kill you. Pay me $80,000
and I'll leave you alone and give you all the information you need to have the
guy who hired me arrested." People actually fall for this stuff.
Pressure on
oil prices to go even lower.
This, of course, has nothing to do with Bush. That's global warming also, I
guess.
FLIP-FLOPPING ON
GLOBAL WARMING?
The word is that
President Bush is going to address global warming in his
State of the Union address. The White House is denying that there is any
change in policy here...but make no mistake, there is. Thanks to the
relentless drumming of the propaganda mill, It is just no longer politically
correct to question the religion of man-caused global warming. The
situation now is so grave that anyone who denies that man is the primary cause
of whatever global warming there is is a modern day version of a Holocaust
denier.
Tony Snow says the administration's position has not changed...that the
president is still
opposed to mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. But
make no mistake, Bush is going to acknowledge the existence of man-made climate
change. And in response, the global warming crowd will wet their pants
with glee. They will feel legitimized by their opposition.
And they would be right.
Thanks to the efforts of the media and the
international community, people who question the existence of global warming,
which is still an unproven scientific theory, are made to look like members of
the Flat Earth Society. How could anyone possibly think there is no such
thing as global warming? Forget the facts...forget the science...it's all
about emotion, and the anti-capitalist agenda.
Look .. I'm not denying that the Earth's climate
has warmed. It has. Perhaps by as much as one degree. Why,
though, are so many people so eager to acknowledge that the earth is warmer, but
they'll deny that the sun is and has been hotter than usual for the past 15
years or so? Why no acknowledgement of the increase sun activity?
Because to admit that would be to admit that this may be the reason for what we
call global warming.
There are really two elements to the global
warming crowd. On the one hand we have the scientists, on the other hand
the political activists. The scientists know that as soon as they
acknowledge the role of increase solar activity in global warming their research
funds will dry up. Much of these research funds are tied to the idea that
global warming is caused by the actions of man. The political activists
behind the man-made global warming idea have a goal .. .and that goal is to slow
the evil machinery of free enterprise. They are, at their core,
anti-capitalists; newbie socialists and remnants of the old world-wide communist
movement.
So next week the president will cave. Too bad.
TOLERATING IRAN'S BEHAVIOR
 Iran is saying they
shot down a U.S. spy drone that supposedly flew into their
airspace. Just how long are we going to put up with this nonsense? First
they send Islamic terrorists into Iraq to make trouble and now they're shooting
down our planes? In another time, this would amount to a declaration of
war.
What do you suppose Harry Truman would have done if some two-bit terrorist
country would've shot down one of our planes? It wouldn't have been
pretty. Ronald Reagan? He wouldn't have tolerated it either.
Yet for some inexplicable reason, we just turn the other cheek as our military
hardware is blown out of the sky by the Islamic terrorists of Tehran.
This on top of their support for the insurgency of Iraq. And don't forget
Iran is building nuclear weapons. At what point are we going to say
"enough is enough" and step in and stop Ahmadinejad? It would
seem as if the answer is never. Maybe it's the oil...perhaps the
administration doesn't want to upset the world market.
Who knows...but this routine of looking the other way is getting mighty old.
SOMEBODY'S GOTTA SAY IT
I now have the copy for the front flap of the cover of
Somebody's Gotta Say It. I guess it's OK to share it with you here:
I've come to the
conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are
simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a
free society.You might think I'm off base, but every day around
half the people in this country go out of their way to prove me
right
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REDNECK SCRAP BOOK
Now THAT'S a
largemouth bass. More in the
Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Two Afghan civilians are being celebrated as heroes for stepping in and
saving an American base in Afghanistan from a suicide bomb. A vehicle loaded
with explosives was trying to crash through the front gate and they stopped it.
Nice work.
There is a resolution going around the
Virginia House of Delegates that would apologize for slavery. This has
touched off a firestorm...from both sides. Those in favor say it would be part
of the healing process. Those with any sense think it is completely
ridiculous.
Things aren't looking so good for Fidel Castro. The thug dictator from Cuba
would appear to be dying. But don't worry...he's putting his brother Raul in
charge, meaning that when he assumes room temperature, nothing will change.
Dick Morris doesn't think much of GOP prospects in 2008. He thinks the
early favorites...Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani won't win the
primaries. Instead, he thinks a "minor-leaguer" will get the nomination and
then be blown out by The Hildabeast. He also says Barack Obama is just a
distraction.
Some 34,000 Iraqis were supposedly killed in 2006 as a result of violence in
that country. This is being reported as if it is somehow our fault, instead
of the blame lying squarely where it belongs: with the Iraqi government.
Control your own country, fellas.
Finally...somebody has been indicted in the U.N. Oil-For-Food ripoff. The
former administration of the program, a guy named Benon Sevan, has been brought
up on a long list of charges for his role in the scam. Will anything ever
happen to him? Probably not.
According to the media, it's a real problem that we have a trade deficit with
countries like China. Billions of dollars in goods are bought from that
country, but we don't send the same amount in return.
What does John Stossel think about all this? Read on to find out.
Thomas Sowell continues his series this morning on whether the war in Iraq
is anything like the war in Vietnam. He points out that miscalculations in wars
have been the rule and not the exception for several centuries. It's nothing
new.
Dr. Walter E. Williams also weighs in on whether trade deficits are good or bad.
He says news reports about the trade deficit show the level of economic
ignorance amongst the mainstream media and the masses.
Michelle Malkin recently went to Iraq and is reporting back on what she saw.
She would like to pass along a request from the troops serving there. She also
says that her experience in Iraq has made her more optimistic about the
situation than before. | 
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