The bad news for Obama? He’s at 38% approval according to Gallup. The only person listed who had a worse third August was Carter. And we know how that turned out.
Gore: AGW Skeptics are Like Raaaaacists!
It just had to happen – from the Daily Caller:
One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.
In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky broadcasted on UStream on Friday, Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists to succeed, they must “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis…
In the future, all opposition to liberals will be racist, I guess.
Might help you , Al old buddy, if your theory had facts and logic behind it.
One other small bit of advice – if you’re trying to convince us that oceans are rising then it would be best if you bought your next vacation home in Kansas, rather than next to a California beach. You also might want to cool it on the amount of money you make off the global warming industry. It would also be nice if you would give some respect to those who dissent from all or part of your theory…especially as many of those who do dissent have vastly better scientific credentials than you. All in all, if there is some general thrust I can give you for your future efforts it would be to advise you against acting like a a grasping, bloody-minded, hate-filled con artist. Ok?
What’s Wrong With the West?
Mark Steyn nails it:
…The problem for the Western world is that it has incentivized non-productivity on an industrial scale. For large numbers at the lower end of the spectrum (still quaintly referred to by British reporters as “working class”), the ritual of work — of lifetime employment as a normal feature of life — has been all but bred out by multigenerational dependency. At the upper end of the spectrum, too many of us seem to regard an advanced Western society as the geopolitical version of a lavishly endowed charitable foundation that funds somnolent programming on NPR…
Do read the whole thing.
What are the Limits of Self Defense?
Interesting story from the Colorado Springs Gazette:
An El Paso County jury on Friday awarded nearly $300,000 to the daughter of a burglar who was fatally shot in 2009 while breaking into an auto lot…
To nutshell the linked article – a family-owned business had been victimized of late by burglars and the owners (realizing that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away) decided to stand vigil over their property through the night. Some time during the night, two drug-addled, petty thieves broke in and the family members sprang in to action, firing a total of four shots, one of which killed one of the two burglars. The DA referred the shooting to a Grand Jury which declined to indict, so no crime was committed as far as Colorado is concerned. The plaintiff’s attorney argued that the family deliberately set out to kill whomever might break in and as they were never in personal danger, this was a wrongful death…the civil jury agreed.
I, personally, would never kill to defend property – not even 100% sure I would kill to defend myself, but I would kill to defend any innocent person, if there was no other way to protect them. But my attitude about criminals is that they have chosen a path fraught with danger…if they wind up injured or dead as a result of their voluntary actions, then no fault accrues to anyone who assists them in to the hospital or the hereafter (except if some weirdo took captive a criminal and then did him in, or some such thing like that – once a criminal is definitely rendered harmless, no one has a right to take his life except by due process of law). It is too bad that the burglar died – but his death sentence was signed when he got stoned and decided to steal to support his habit. If it hadn’t been this bringing an untimely end to his life, it would have been something else…and perhaps something much worse, and maybe with the burglar taking innocent people with him.
On that jury, I would have told the burglar’s family to take a hike. People have a right to defend their lives and property – and anyone who enters property without the owner’s permission and with an intent to do wrong has just taken his life in to his hands.
What do you think?
The TEA Party Keeps Rolling
And here’s why – from Pajamas Media:
I have been part of the kick off of the Tea Party Express bus tour as it starts its 17 day, 30 city tour, ending in Tampa, Florida on September 12th for the Tea Party Express/CNN debate. The tour starts in Napa Valley, and then heads east to Reno, NV, then across the nation up to Maine, finally following the eastern seaboard South to Tampa Bay.
On Friday, August 26th, the Napa Tea Partyheld a dinner in celebration of the impending Tea Party Express launch. Over 400 people attended a night of music, laughter, conversation and cigars (if you were anywhere near me!) At the table I sat at, I met a gentlemen in his sixties who drills water wells. With his wife by his side, he told me that he has been drilling for near 40 years, and this is the first year – ever – that there is simply no work. The economy has just stalled his business…
Things our lousy, our country is broken and our leadership incompetent when it isn’t corrupt. That is why there is a TEA Party – patriotic Americans who want to rescue the nation. And no matter how much slander and filth is heaped upon it by the DNC/MSM smear machine, it will just keep rolling on. And this is just a curtain-raiser…in 2012 it will just stride from strength to strength as the people mobilize for a revolutionary change in our government.
The Need for a Nuclear Build Up
Part of the problem with getting slip shod and thinking that the world has changed is that those who are determined and know it hasn’t changed can steal a march on you – China is doing this. From the Washington Times:
China is expanding its nuclear forces with a new multiwarhead mobile missile and keeps its strategic stockpiles in deep underground bunkers, the Pentagon disclosed in its annual report to Congress on the Chinese military.
China is thought to have up to 75 long-range nuclear missiles, including hard-to-find, road-mobile DF-31 and DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), according to the report, which was released Wednesday. China also has 120 intermediate- and medium-range missiles…
The additional information that China has developed a massive underground network to protect its nuclear force indicates that China is reaching for a first class nuclear force – something which will give China the strategic ability to start wars, and then retreat behind a nuclear umbrella if the war does not go in China’s favor. While the United States maintains sufficient nuclear force to destroy the Chinese population, we may lack means to strike hard a China’s nuclear force. And massacring Chinese is not making war – no decent American government would ever contemplate doing that except in the extremity of the Chinese government massacring the American people via nuclear war.
While China is building a 21st century nuclear force, the United States has not produced a nuclear weapon in 20 years – and recent (asinine) nuclear agreements require us to reduce our aging force to 2,200 warheads or less – none of which, I’ll bet, are capable of penetrating China’s very hardened nuclear sites. While the Strategic Defense Initiative will increasingly protect us from an “out of the blue” nuclear strike, the fact that we lack “first strike” capability (ie, the ability to hit it so hard that any response would be suicidal on China’s part) gives China immense strategic flexibility.
They can use this flexibility to start wars – on their own or via proxies like North Korea – with impunity. If we fight and lose, China is happy – if we fight and win, we can’t fight it to a finish because China can retreat behind a nuclear umbrella and threaten a massive attack against the United States if we go for total victory. We must redress this strategic balance.
First and foremost must come the most aggressive possible deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Technology is advancing so fast that we may soon have the capability even of thwarting a massed attack upon the United States. This will go far towards curbing any Chinese nuclear-armed ambitions. But crucial to a balanced nuclear strategy is the ability to wipe out all or most of China’s nuclear force in a first strike. This will take new types of warheads designed for deep penetration, as well as the most advanced targeting systems to ensure we hit the target squarely.
It is time to wake up from the 1991 false hope that strategic nuclear thinking was obsolete. We live in a world of nuclear weapons, and those weapons are simply going to spread, and more and more nations will develope the capability of hitting the United States. As in all things military, the safety of the United States lays in maintaining an overwhelming qualitative edge. In 1991, we easily had that over China – we very likely still do, but we won’t have it for long, if we don’t start rebuilding our nuclear force. This is not a plea, necessarily, for more warheads than we have now but, instead, a plea that the warheads we have be of the latest technology, and fitting for our needs…and our need right now is to be able to destroy deeply buried nuclear sites (and not just in China – Iran and North Korea also deeply bury their nuclear forces).
The real world goes on, whether we will or no…time get back in to it as far as nuclear weapons are concerned.
Hurricane Irene Open Thread
Seems a bit of a fizzle – and Real Science is saying that it came ashore with only 33 MPH winds. I don’t know about that – not nearly enough in the know to make a judgment. So far, it does seem like the wall-to-wall news coverage is overblown…but, then again, what else is there to report? Not like there are any wars involving American soldiers to report about; nor is it like there are any ongoing major revolutions and civil wars to cover; we know darn well that the economic news is boring because there is no risk out there of any sort of downturn…so, might as well cover the storm.
I know we have a bit of a national psychosis because of Katrina, but we should really understand what happened…it wasn’t a big storm so much as grossly incompetent government. The city of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana (under weak executives who were no more than mouth pieces for a corrupt Ruling Class) failed, and that is why so many people died…under non-corrupt government both New Orleans and Louisiana have weathered post-Katrina disasters with no mishaps. The bottom line is that the chances of a Katrina-like event happening again can only be calculated as the day by day odds of a major storm hitting an area long under liberal-Democrat control…if you don’t have both sides of that, then you’re not going to have too much trouble unless it is a truly gigantic Category 4 or 5 storm.
At any rate, my prayers for those under the storm – even a modest hurricane can cause quite a lot of damage and disruption and I hope everyone gets through it ok.
Liberal Nastiness Continues in Wisconsin (Updated)
We have some video:
Which side is the side of reason and decency? We report, you decide.
They don’t seem to realize just how nauseating they are becoming – from 620 WTMJ:
Protesters crowded the street outside Messmer Preparatory School in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood as Governor Walker visited the school Friday to read to children. The protests came just hours after someone vandalized the school ahead of the Governor’s visit.
“Some of these folks super glued our front doors at the prep school,” said Br. Bob Smith, OFM, the president of Messmer Catholic Schools, about the school on the corner of North Fratney and East Burleigh Streets.
He told Newsradio 620 WTMJ that a woman was walking in front of the school Thursday, asking people to protest.
According to Br. Smith, one protester said ” ‘Get ready for a riot,’ because they were going to disrupt the visit.”…
A riot at a Catholic school where the Governor is coming to meet the kiddies and read them a story. Petty vandalism thrown in, too. These liberals just don’t understand – they have no sense of proportion or any grasp of how a democratically governed Republic is supposed to work.
You fight out an election and then abide by the results…you don’t keep trying to reverse them with recall after recall, and you don’t make every last aspect of life a heated political debate. A while back ago the same sort of disgusting leftists disrupted Walker’s efforts to honor the kids of the Special Olympics. If the left really thinks this will win hearts and minds and get people on board to recall Walker next year, then they’ve got another think coming. After a while, it is time to admit defeat, and start gearing up for the next election…not keep up an unending drumbeat of political vitriol.
Keep hate alive, liberals…we’ll know how to answer you, next year.
UN Idiocy
From the PJ Tatler:
Did someone secretly swap reality with what the Onion writes as a parody of reality? There’s this little story about Maxine Waters apologizing to Castro (but the Tea Party can still “go to hell” since they’re the real enemy), and now this story about the UN’s nuclear watchdog swapping hands from Kim Jong-Il to the the world’s other rogue Communist family dynasty.
A top House lawmaker ridiculed the United Nations after Cuba assumed the rotating presidency of a nuclear arms control panel, replacing North Korea at the helm of the group.
Cuba succeeded North Korea on the 65-member U.N. Disarmament Conference in Geneva.
“It’s hard to fathom a more ludicrous image than Kim Jong Il passing the chair of the Conference on Disarmament to the Castro brothers, but that’s what passes for change at the U.N.,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
In reality there is no place in a global body for any nation not governed under American principals of government – most importantly that government obtains its power by the consent of the governed. If a nation doesn’t have that, then it isn’t a real nation…the government isn’t a real government; such a ruling body is nothing more than a group of armed thugs latched upon a body of slaves. Such ruling bodies have no moral authority whatsoever…not to even issue a parking ticket, let alone dealing with armament issues.
The whole concept of the UN is a fraud – cooked up by rather short-sighted bureaucrats in the waning days of World War Two where the four pillars of the global order were to be the United States, Great Britain, Chiang’s China and Stalin’s Russia – with France added in as an afterthought. It was absurd from the get-go, and all that perpetuating it has done is create a gigantic amount of hypocrisy and lies regarding international affairs. The actions of decent players in world affairs are hamstrung by a UN at the beck and call of tyrants.
That is not a world body for a nation with a sense of honor to belong to – get U.S. out of UN and have done with it.
Obama: “I’m Irresponsible and Unpatriotic”
Well, that is the case if we take his own words at face value – from NRO’s The Corner:
…Two days ago, CNSNews unearthed a video that captured a July 3, 2008 campaign speech by then-candidate Obama. In it, he said:
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from 5 trillion for the first 42 presidents–number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have a 9 trillion dollar debt that we are going to have to pay back–$30,000 for every man, woman, and child. That’s irresponsible. That’s unpatriotic.”…
If that is the standard, then Obama is vastly more irresponsible and unpatriotic than President Bush…it took Bush 8 years to pile up $4 trillion in debt, Obama did it in 2 years, 8 months.
To be sure, it is doubtful that Obama really meant what he said – it is highly likely that he was just doing the typical liberal Democrat thing…saying whatever proved necessary to win. Had President Bush lowered the debt by $4 trillion, Obama would have accused Bush of being unpatriotic and irresponsible for not “investing” in America…and If Obama charges up another $8 trillion by 2017 (presuming he is re-elected) he still won’t consider it unpatriotic or irresponsible. And if the next President is Republican – in 2013 or 2017, doesn’t matter – and creates only $2 trillion in debt over his 8 year term, Obama and the Democrats will call it irresponsible and unpatriotic.
For a liberal Democrat, the only test is victory – if Democrats obtain more power and personal wealth, then it was good…if they don’t, then its bad. Right and wrong, human decency, the fate of the nation and the world – all is subordinate to the power and wealth of our liberal Democrats, their RINO enablers, and their crony capitalists. Keep that in mind any time a liberal Democrat speaks…they aren’t saying what is relevant and true, but what they think (and have likely poll-tested) will help them win.
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