Archive for August, 2007

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Rules For Being a Democrat
 1)      You must believe that being born to privilege is an automatic crime.

2)      You must believe that accusations against Republicans are adequate enough to convict, and that an actual trial is a minor inconvenience.

3)      You must believe that the wealthy have an obligation to fund services that they themselves won’t utilize.

4)      You must believe that wealthy is defined as anyone having more money than you do, and that they had better give you some to make it equal.

5)      You must believe that crime is merely a matter of perspective and any act, no matter how heinous, is simply a “lifestyle” choice.

6)      You must believe that eating an egg is murder, but killing a fetus is a “woman’s right to choose”.

7)      You must believe that Walmart has a team of agents who abduct people to work for them, and once in the store, the abductees are chained to their work stations so they can’t leave and work elsewhere.

8)       You must believe that Republicans control the weather.

9)      You must believe that Republicans want to destroy the air and water because they have their own private supply of each.

10)  You must believe that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to break off and slide into the ocean, and that these large chunks of ice are warming the water, spawning more frequent and powerful hurricanes.

11)  You must believe that #10 is George W. Bush’s fault.

12)  You must believe that George W. Bush is a moron and an evil genius simultaneously.

13)  You must believe that Greyhound buses can save you from a flood, but school buses cannot.  

14)  You must believe that minorities are incapable of fending for themselves.

15)  You must believe that the Chief Executive of the nation having sexual relations with an intern is a private affair and that the CEO of a corporation saying, “You look nice today”, is sexual harassment and cause for dismissal and a large civil lawsuit, coupled with public humiliation.

16)  You must believe that the government should decide when you have “enough” money.

17)  You must believe that receiving dividends from the ownership of public stocks is considered “getting paid” by the company that represents the stocks.

18)  You must believe that no coalition is complete without France and Germany.

19)  You must believe that merely feeling the pain of minorities is enough to earn their votes.

20)  You must believe that you’re entitled to minority votes.

21)  You must believe that if an African-American becomes a Republican, they also become white.

22)  You must believe the ACLU is protecting free speech by trying to get those with whom they disagree to shut up.

23)  You must believe that when Democrats say disparaging things about minorities it can’t possibly be racism because…Well because Democrats can’t be racists.

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Save The Planet…Kill A Moose

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
     There is an interesting article from the UK’s “Times Online” which states that an adult moose emits enough methane from both ends in a single year to cause more damage to the atmosphere than an 8000 mile car trip. The article is titled Moose With Wind Are Worse Than Gas Guzzlers. It indicates that the methane a single adult moose emits is equivalent to 2100 kg of CO2.
    
     This was going to be the main theme of this essay, until I began doing some more research. (Thank goodness. My daughter loves moose).
    
     I started doing some digging on the effects of methane and CO2 on the atmosphere since everyone is screaming about we mere humans destroying the planet with our SUV’s. I have searched the web extensively on this subject, and I was surprised to learn this morning that I missed this web site.
    
     It’s called “CO2 Science”. How I missed this up until now is confounding since it should have been the first place I found by doing a simple search. But I digress…
    
     What the authors on this site are saying should be of interest to anyone who is tired of the anthropogenic global warming hysterics. An excerpt:
  

 

    Actually, the ice core data do not strengthen the climate-alarmist claim that we should be concerned about greenhouse gas-induced global warming, and for two different reasons.  We discussed the first of these reasons in our Editorial of 30 Nov 2005, where we indicated that the ice core data: (1) clearly demonstrate the important role of climate in CO2 regulation, but (2) provide no evidence for the inverse relationship, i.e., a regulation of climate by CO2.  Here, we discuss the second reason.    

    

 

     I have been arguing for quite some time that CO2 elevations have historically followed warming temperatures rather than causing them, and this website validates my assertion magnificently. But they go even further in dispelling the alarmists’ claims that we are heating up the planet simply by driving our cars. To wit: 

    

 

Consider these two observations together.  Since the time of occurrence of the peak temperature of the past 400,000 years, the concentrations of the two most powerful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (outside of water vapor) – CO2 and methane – have increased by approximately a third and 2.5-fold, respectively; yet earth’s temperature has actually dropped … and by a full 3°C!  Clearly, the only thing we have to fear about CO2- and methane-induced global warming is fear itself, plus the climate alarmists and politicians who are trying to convince the world that black is white, and white black, and who are succeeding very nicely in that endeavor.

 

 

 

      The obvious message they are conveying is that in light of the incredibly high concentrations of CO2 and methane, the planet should be one hell of a lot hotter than it is and yet…well, I don’t have to tell you, do I?

     So unless you’re a hunter or you simply hate moose, don’t go running out on a search and destroy mission just yet. The moose are not destroying the planet any more than we are. My daughter will be delighted.

-Woody

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September 15th Looms Large

Monday, August 20th, 2007
ANALYSIS: Democrats wary of being portrayed as defeatists if …
WHDH-TV, MA - 14 minutes ago
… lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.” Reid was referring to the roughly 30000 troops and support personnel sent to Iraq this spring. …
Army Stretched Too Thin to Continue Surge
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), VA - 26 minutes ago
The Army’s 38 available combat units are either already deployed, are just returning home, or are already tapped to go to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere …
AP: US seems focused on reducing combat role next year
USA Today - 30 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — US military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on reducing the US combat role in 2008 …
US Military Looks to Reduce Role in Iraq
Auburn Citizen, NY - 38 minutes ago
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON – US military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on …
US Military Looks to Reduce Role in Iraq
Glens Falls Post-Star, NY - 49 minutes ago
(AP Photo/ Sgt. Armando Monroig, US Army) WASHINGTON – US military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on …
Iraq Progress Report: A Time to Assess and Reflect
Mathaba.Net, UK - 52 minutes ago
No matter, his report (and the others) will state progress has been made and the “surge” is working even though details will be sketchy in what’s expected …
US Military Looks to Reduce Role in Iraq
Journal Times, WI - 1 hour ago
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON – US military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on …
US Military Looks to Reduce Role in Iraq
Helena Independent Record, MT - 1 hour ago
(AP Photo/ Sgt. Armando Monroig, US Army) WASHINGTON – US military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on …
Our war-weary Iraq troops could soon be fighting the Taliban in …
This is London, UK - 1 hour ago
Meanwhile, a poll of American foreign policy experts shows most believe President Bush’s military “surge” in Iraq has failed, and US troops should be …
ANALYSIS: Democrats wary of being portrayed as defeatists if …
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL - 1 hour ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in April he believed that “this war is lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything. …

     First, I must apologize for the size of this article.  I certainly never intended it to occupy so much space, but my initial search for “Iraq Surge” under Google News yielded those first ten hits.

     Notice that 70% of the articles are about getting out, as opposed to trumpeting the success we’ve seen as a result. Instead of simply reporting that we may actually be succeeding, the leads on those 70% suggests bad tidings. And there are those who will still insist that there is no left-leaning slant in alleged “news” stories. I continue to claim amazement despite the repeated examples which should have, at least by now, desensitized me. Alas, that has yet to happen.

     Well, enough of that, let’s get back to the reason I deciced to write this piece in the first place:

ANALYSIS: Democrats wary of being portrayed as defeatists if report shows progress in Iraq

 

     WASHINGTON — Democrats are warily anticipating a September report on the Iraq war, realizing that opponents will use any upbeat assessment to portray them as defeatists just as glimmers of hope appear.

 

     If anyone is confused here, raise your hand. The Democrats are worried about good news emanating from Iraq.  What in God’s name does that say about them? For my money, it says that they hope things go poorly in Iraq so that they can win the White House in ‘08. I may be an admitted political partisan, but trust me when I say that if it were my party engaged in such obvious wishful thinking against America and our troops, I’d find another way to vote as I disavowed my membership immediately.

     General Petraeus is doing a magnificent job, and he has a report due to the CiC in September. The mainstream media is already setting the table for the final report to Congress as a re-write by the White House. What they won’t tell you is that the Congress asked the White House for the report. They then spun that to fallaciously indicate that it would be the General himself appearing before Congress.

     So when the Petraeus report is submitted to the CiC, and then presented to Congress, expect cries of “re-writes” and “edits” to abound. But above all, expect any reports of progress to be dismissed just as easily as the lead subjects I presented were spun to reflect negatively from a simple search on Google.

     And then come back and tell me that the right has too much sway in the media arena.

-Woody

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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

   “Like Cindy Sheehan, Hal knows all too well the cost of war. But Hal’s pain reaches well beyond the scope of what Cindy Sheehan can only imagine, if even that would be possible, for Hal has mourned far more than Ms. Sheehan’s imagination could ever comprehend.

     In Iraq alone, Hal has lost more “family members” than any 10 parents combined, all while trying to clear IED’s from the paths of their “fellow soldiers”, saving countless numbers of young men and women. But that is small consolation to Hal. His losses continue to mount, and there are 3000 more of his “family” on their way to Iraq. Odds are, they will meet the same fate…”    

     
     No, this is not a made up story. Well, to be fair, it is a bit misleading since Hal is the fictitious rogue computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Sue me.
    
     There was this story today :

Unmanned “Surge”: 3000 More Robots for War

 

(more…)

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Save The Animals (Kill The People)

Sunday, August 12th, 2007
     Animal rights activists really do have a noble cause, that point is difficult to debate. Who doesn’t like animals, especially the domestic type? The thought of someone torturing an innocent animal makes my blood boil, as well, such as the case involving Michael Vick. But do I think he should be killed? The answer to that question is a resounding no.
    
     No one suggests that activists do not have every right to protest. It’s when they begin to take it up a notch and actually attempt to murder people that it’s time to slam on the brakes.
    
     Dr. Arthur Rosenbaum is a pediatric ophthamologist in Los Angeles who uses animals to do testing, presumably to further advance the care of children, an even nobler cause. But the Animal Liberation Brigade  wants to kill him. How nice. But it’s not only doctors they want to kill.
    
     Here is an excerpt from an essay on the ALB website:
The factory farm system is semblable to Nazi prison camps.  Over 90% of
farmed animals in the U.S. are raised in intensive confinement.  American’s meat
centered diet necessitates the slaughter of over 8 billion animals a year.  A figure
that exceeds the worlds human population by over 2 billion inhabitants. Animals are
exploited (milk, eggs) until  there productivity rates decline, and are then
systematically slaughtered for human consumption.
    
     The real irony lies in the fact that people like this seem to have no qualms at all about treating human babies the same way. They demand embryonic stem cell research which theoretically will require the farming of human embryos for a supply of stem cells. Imagine that, creating human embryos solely for research, and not a peep from animal rights activists.
    
     I guess they wouldn’t mind if we had a baby-barbeque after we extract the stem cells from the embryos.
    
     Yeah. Save the animals, kill the people. It must make sense to someone.
-Woody

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Financial Olympics

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

     OK, here we go. We now have a new psuedo-terrorist threat looming in the Chinese government’s threats to bring down America via the dollar.

     China is threatening to use its $1.33 trillion in foreign reserves to crash the dollar and bring us to our knees. There will be beyond any doubt and beyond even less doubt within the next few days, countless editorial pieces tomorrow,  plaintively wailing that we have sold America to our enemies. “Aha!”, they will shreik in unison, “our own greed has finally caught up with us”.  (Make no mistake, the screeching voices heard here are true lovers of our great nation).
    
     Not so fast, Kimosabe. One thing Americans are known for is our uncanny ability to surprise our enemies into total shock. Just when they think we have gone belly-up in classic submissive fashion, we rise with the ultimate trump card. Our military masterminds have demonstrated this trait for centuries, our “common” people for perhaps a lesser amount of time. But our capitalist-minded entreprenuers may prove to be our greatest asset in the latest chapter of our greatest attacks.
    
      Many Americans, perhaps led by the media or perhaps out of petty envy, love to hate the rich among us. But what if those very people we denigrate regularly are the ones who will be our saviours in this instance? Think of it this way:
  
     People generally think of protectors as larger and stronger than themselves. What if the opposite were required in any given situation? What if an invading force demanded chess matches to settle disputes rather than superior firepower? Great good God, where would we turn? To the “nerds”, of course. And we would watch each match with an interest we’d never acquired prior to the “invasion”.
    
     While we all complain about and point fingers at our Congress, we may have every right to do so. They are NOT who we should entrust our wealth to, but rather, who we should remove it from. But what if the billionaires know better? (I for one believe that they do).
    
      Who do you trust to wage and win this “war”? Does anyone think that the Chinese government, despite how much they may have invested, can defeat the Gates’ and the Trumps’ of our country? Does anyone really believe that the Chinese can sink us militarily OR  financially?
    
     We are vulnerable in one sense. We must rely on those few who have worked as hard as they have to accumulate such wealth to actually care enough to defend against such an attack by the Chinese government. Whether they care for the country or only for themselves, I feel confident that they will easily quash any threat by a communist regime designed to destroy our economy.
    
     I would bet the ranch on a handful of rich American nerds over the entire Communist government of another country hands down. Everytime.
-Woody

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The Party Of Pessimism: Modern Democrats

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
    
     Like a firefighter who commits arson just so he can be the first to respond to the scene, Democrats are not only pessimistic in their collective view of society, particularly America’s, they are actively engaged in either wishing and hoping with all their might that something goes wrong, or they are doing what they can to ensure that it does.
    
     Take race, for example. They claim to be the champions of minorities when it is the very policies they implement that keep minorities in a second class state. They keep them down purposely so they can be seen as trying to help them up…perpetually.
    
     Now with the war in Iraq, they are doing the same thing. They are hoping against hope that they can be seen as the party who got our troops out of their post haste, thereby currying favor with radical left PACs and constituents. Who they would blame the ensuing genocide on is anyone’s guess. Well maybe not who, but how they manage to do it would be a wonder.
    
     I can just hear the leadership of al Qaeda at their “meetings”: “We don’t need to kill all of the Americans, but we have to kill more this week so their media and politicians will report it”. Common sense says that, free speech notwithstanding, it is a bad idea to provide this sort of fodder to your enemy. Harry Reid declaring defeat to the world was no help, either.
    
     But then Harry and the Dems went pro-active. They’re starting to realize that things may be turning for the better in Iraq. Why else would Harry be so eager to cut General Patreus off at the knees and once again declare the war is lost before the alotted time frame for his report? And why is there already a crack in the Democrats alleged solidarity that would permit a high ranking member to actually admit that a favorable report by Patreus would be “a problem” for the Dems?
    
     Cal Thomas wrote a piece today titled, “What If We Win“?, in which he notes that House Majority Whip James Clyburn said that a good report from General Patreus would “be a problem” for Democrats.
    
     David Limbaugh also wrote a piece called, “Democrats Can’t Handle the Good News” with the same theme.

     What really must have the Dems shaking with fury is the story which ran in the usually fertile ground of dissent, the New York Times, called “A War We Just Might Win“. I’ll bet Pinch received more than few heated emails over that one! For the Old Gray Lady to break ranks in such brazen fashion must have sent shockwaves through the left side of the aisle.

     It should be an interesting next 6 weeks. I wonder if any of the non blue-dog democrats will be captured on the battlefields of Iraq in the near future. There isn’t much more they can do to stop us now. Harry would really enjoy the cuisine I’ve heard they serve at Club Gitmo.

-Woody

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