Well we are one week away from Christmas 2009 and I don't think we have ever needed a little Christmas more.
The Senate is so determined to pass ANY bill before Christmas that the White House has allegedly threatened national security to get Senator Nelson of Nebraska to fold. Unlike Mary Landreau in Louisiana, Nelson seems adamant about his principles unlike Landreau whose $300 Billion bribe is being called the "Louisiana Purchase".
The GOP finally borrowed a backbone and called for a reading of Vermont Senator (and self-proclaimed Socialist) Bernie Sanders 750 page amendment. The Dems and their willing patsies in the press are outraged by this "trick" of parliamentary procedure but in a sane world, what they and we should all be outraged by is that a bill can be passed without ever being read in the Senate chamber. For one thing, I'm betting that if EVERY bill had to be read before both chambers, no one would write a bill or amendment as long as the health care bill and Senator Sanders' amendment are. Having the clerk read a bill should not be a delaying tactic; it should be the rule rather than the exception.
Bangladesh wants the Western world to pony up $500 BILLION per year to counteract the effects of non-existent global warming. Yeah, right! Aside from the fact that we are broke thanks to the Socialist traitors in our midst, I would suggest that if the Bangladeshi government actually believes that global warming is real (man caused or not) they should start a crash program to teach all their people how to swim and hold their breath.
One of my favorite British Prime Ministers, William Pitt the Younger, once said: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." Hmmm. One would think that Mr. Pitt caught a glimpse of the Obama Administration and the current Congress.
One of my favorite Bible verses is Ecclesiastes 10:2: "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left". Boy if that isn't a blatant political statement I don't know what is. I'm sure that many a theologian has presented it as another example of God placing the righteous on his right but it doesn't expressly say that in this verse. No matter the theological interpretation, it's a great way to irritate your liberal friends. Let's face it, if you are wise, your heart and head will guide you to the political right. We currently have plenty of examples of fools where are on the left...isn't that right B-HO?
Have a great weekend dear readers! Next week will be sparse due to Christmas.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Glo-baloney!
Before I hit my topic, global warming, I want to alert readers to a rumor that the White House is pressuring Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to vote for the Reid Health care bill by threatening to put Offutt Air Force Base on the base closure list. It would be a weak threat at best as no bases are scheduled to be closed for the next four years or so but it explains a lot about the way the White House works and exposes their willingness to hold national security hostage to their radical leftist agenda. Offutt was the home to the Strategic Air Command Headquarters and is still a vital part of our strategic and nuclear defenses. It is the place that President Bush was sent to in the unsure hours after 9/11. Playing politics with a place that important should be considered treasonous but what else should we expect in the age of the Audacity of Hoax.
While out shoveling snow the other day, I spent the quiet moments ruminating on the controversy over global warming or, as it is known now, global climate change. The recent scandal over the hacked e-mails at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit has done considerable damage to the global warming alarmists who, mercifully, are coming unglued in Copenhagen right now and bolstered the arguments of long time skeptics; myself included. In high school science lab, ignoring a result or leaving out results of a test to get the 'right' answer was known as fudging the data and our science teacher did not tolerate it. Well the e-mails prove that the climate 'scientists' have been fudging their data for some time.
I am a devout Christian but also well educated and have a generally high regard for science. Unlike some Christians (those usually used as examples of scientific ignorance) I have never believed that the Earth is only 6000 years old and I really have no problem reconciling an old Earth with Genesis because I believe in a Genesis gap that allows a long period between the creation of the universe and the formation of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. I do not believe in evolution as it is currently put forward but I accept that there was a creation that existed before Adam and Eve but was, for some reason, wiped out. And I also have never bought into man caused global warming or the potential disaster scenarios put forward by modern 'science'. I am backed up in that belief by the promise of God given to Noah in Genesis 8:22: As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. He also promised Noah never to flood the world again. Obviously God doesn't mean that local conditions will vary but that doesn't alter or abolish the promise. Based on where you live, planting and harvest time rarely vary outside of a couple of weeks and there will be summer and winter in their appropriate place - sometimes mild, sometimes harsh. If Al Gore was a man of real Faith in God, he would not try to convince us that Cuba will disappear under the ocean (never mind that the highest peaks in Cuba are 6000+ feet tall so if it disappears so does much of the rest of the land in the world).
Up until recently the climate alarmists have had it their way on everything. When it got hot that was global warming; if it was extra cold that was global warming; if temperatures were normal for an area that was global warming. Dissent from that line made you a religious fanatic or insane which is the same thing in the eyes of 'learned' men of science. They have ignored the fact that world temperatures have been flat for the last decade and lower in some places. Even now, they claim that 2009 was the 5th warmest year on record in spite of the fact the much of the US and Europe had below normal temperatures last summer. But the real rub is that tiny phrase 'on record'. Accurate temperature readings have only been around for about 2 centuries. Guess what? At the beginning of the 1800s the world was just coming out of the worst of the so-called Little Ice Age that started about 1350 so world temperatures were rising anyway. Not only that but the hyper accurate readings we now get on a world wide scale have only been recorded since the advent of the satellite age (around 50 years but actually less for weather satellites). Looking at 50 years of climate history for the earth is like trying to figure out a murder mystery by opening to the middle and reading a couple of words.
As a historian, I have long known about climate change. One reason the Romans hated being posted to Britain and along the Rhine frontier was because of the cold winters. Supply was difficult in the winter because the Thames froze making it nearly impossible to get to London. Yet as Europe emerged from the 'Dark Ages' temperatures rose and brought on what we know as the Medieval Warm Period. Remember in grade school when we were told that the 'Vikings' told people Greenland was nice so people would go there instead of to Iceland? That was a lie. Coastal Greenland actually was nice. Unlike now, coastal Greenland was ice free and had a growing season similar to that of modern Scandinavia. Many flocked to it and even colonized North America. England was so warm that the Thames did not freeze in the winter and the southern region was better known for good wine than France at that time. By the end of the 12th century the population of Europe was booming thanks to mild winters and unheard of crop yields (keep in mind agriculture was largely the same as it had been during the Roman Empire). That all came crashing to a quick end in the 1350s and 1360s (which proves that the climate can change dramatically and quickly). In the course of two decades the climate changed dramatically. Two consecutive years of wet, cold summers ruined the crops and Europe turned cold, dark, and hungry. The conditions allowed for the great plague that wiped out 1/3 of Europe's population. It would take them until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to get back to pre-plague population levels. The Thames began freezing over again and during the reign of Elizabeth I, people used the frozen river to avoid paying tolls to cross on bridges and played on the ice as well. Queen Victoria is supposed to have learned to ice skate on the frozen Thames but she was also the last British Monarch to witness it freeze over. According to paleo-climatologists we haven't reached the average global temperature that they estimate for the bulk of the Medieval Warm Period. We are several degrees Centigrade below it. While shoveling snow, I find myself strongly in favor of a warmer earth. Longer growing seasons would make food more plentiful than it is now. Mild winters would drop demand for heating oil and make us less dependent on Middle East Oil. Shorter, milder winters would mean I could spend less time scooping frozen water off my walk and more time telling everyone what I think...and that IMHO, is a much better use of my time!
While out shoveling snow the other day, I spent the quiet moments ruminating on the controversy over global warming or, as it is known now, global climate change. The recent scandal over the hacked e-mails at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit has done considerable damage to the global warming alarmists who, mercifully, are coming unglued in Copenhagen right now and bolstered the arguments of long time skeptics; myself included. In high school science lab, ignoring a result or leaving out results of a test to get the 'right' answer was known as fudging the data and our science teacher did not tolerate it. Well the e-mails prove that the climate 'scientists' have been fudging their data for some time.
I am a devout Christian but also well educated and have a generally high regard for science. Unlike some Christians (those usually used as examples of scientific ignorance) I have never believed that the Earth is only 6000 years old and I really have no problem reconciling an old Earth with Genesis because I believe in a Genesis gap that allows a long period between the creation of the universe and the formation of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. I do not believe in evolution as it is currently put forward but I accept that there was a creation that existed before Adam and Eve but was, for some reason, wiped out. And I also have never bought into man caused global warming or the potential disaster scenarios put forward by modern 'science'. I am backed up in that belief by the promise of God given to Noah in Genesis 8:22: As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. He also promised Noah never to flood the world again. Obviously God doesn't mean that local conditions will vary but that doesn't alter or abolish the promise. Based on where you live, planting and harvest time rarely vary outside of a couple of weeks and there will be summer and winter in their appropriate place - sometimes mild, sometimes harsh. If Al Gore was a man of real Faith in God, he would not try to convince us that Cuba will disappear under the ocean (never mind that the highest peaks in Cuba are 6000+ feet tall so if it disappears so does much of the rest of the land in the world).
Up until recently the climate alarmists have had it their way on everything. When it got hot that was global warming; if it was extra cold that was global warming; if temperatures were normal for an area that was global warming. Dissent from that line made you a religious fanatic or insane which is the same thing in the eyes of 'learned' men of science. They have ignored the fact that world temperatures have been flat for the last decade and lower in some places. Even now, they claim that 2009 was the 5th warmest year on record in spite of the fact the much of the US and Europe had below normal temperatures last summer. But the real rub is that tiny phrase 'on record'. Accurate temperature readings have only been around for about 2 centuries. Guess what? At the beginning of the 1800s the world was just coming out of the worst of the so-called Little Ice Age that started about 1350 so world temperatures were rising anyway. Not only that but the hyper accurate readings we now get on a world wide scale have only been recorded since the advent of the satellite age (around 50 years but actually less for weather satellites). Looking at 50 years of climate history for the earth is like trying to figure out a murder mystery by opening to the middle and reading a couple of words.
As a historian, I have long known about climate change. One reason the Romans hated being posted to Britain and along the Rhine frontier was because of the cold winters. Supply was difficult in the winter because the Thames froze making it nearly impossible to get to London. Yet as Europe emerged from the 'Dark Ages' temperatures rose and brought on what we know as the Medieval Warm Period. Remember in grade school when we were told that the 'Vikings' told people Greenland was nice so people would go there instead of to Iceland? That was a lie. Coastal Greenland actually was nice. Unlike now, coastal Greenland was ice free and had a growing season similar to that of modern Scandinavia. Many flocked to it and even colonized North America. England was so warm that the Thames did not freeze in the winter and the southern region was better known for good wine than France at that time. By the end of the 12th century the population of Europe was booming thanks to mild winters and unheard of crop yields (keep in mind agriculture was largely the same as it had been during the Roman Empire). That all came crashing to a quick end in the 1350s and 1360s (which proves that the climate can change dramatically and quickly). In the course of two decades the climate changed dramatically. Two consecutive years of wet, cold summers ruined the crops and Europe turned cold, dark, and hungry. The conditions allowed for the great plague that wiped out 1/3 of Europe's population. It would take them until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to get back to pre-plague population levels. The Thames began freezing over again and during the reign of Elizabeth I, people used the frozen river to avoid paying tolls to cross on bridges and played on the ice as well. Queen Victoria is supposed to have learned to ice skate on the frozen Thames but she was also the last British Monarch to witness it freeze over. According to paleo-climatologists we haven't reached the average global temperature that they estimate for the bulk of the Medieval Warm Period. We are several degrees Centigrade below it. While shoveling snow, I find myself strongly in favor of a warmer earth. Longer growing seasons would make food more plentiful than it is now. Mild winters would drop demand for heating oil and make us less dependent on Middle East Oil. Shorter, milder winters would mean I could spend less time scooping frozen water off my walk and more time telling everyone what I think...and that IMHO, is a much better use of my time!
Monday, December 14, 2009
The Evil That One Man Does
When the righteous triumph there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power men go into hiding. - Proverbs 28:12
Certainly in the US today we can agree that wicked people have risen to power. However some of those who wield that power are hidden from us by a compliant media and pawns in position that appear powerful. One of those people is an amoral, atheistic, self-loathing Hungarian Jew (not that I care about his racial heritage nor do I want to imply that I believe any of the stupid conspiracy theories about Jewish world takeover) with American citizenship known as George Soros. I don't know if Soros is the mastermind or just a powerful piece on the board but he is directing the actions of a number of pawns including Barrack Obama, the Democrat party machine, left-wing activist organizations, and even Republican 'maverick' John McCain.
Soros is a money speculator without equal and his greed coupled with a complete lack of ethical standards has resulted in him rising to the 29th richest man on Earth. He made his first billion back in 1992 by shorting the British Pound Sterling and literally breaking the Bank of England. Thanks to Soros, British citizens lost billions as the value of their savings and homes was cut in half over night.
In France, Soros has been convicted of insider trading (something he does not believe to be wrong) and fined $2.8 million. The French Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction on appeal.
Though I can't seem to find any information on this (yes, I am claiming cover up and still researching it), I heard a news story that he was convicted by one of the Baltic nations for breaking their currency during an economic crisis and actually toppling a government.
Soros funds the left-wing Human Rights Watch, the organization responsible for nearly all the claims of genocide against former Yugoslavian/Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. While I don't consider myself a Slobo supporter, I always sensed something wrong about the way he was dragged up to the Hague and brought up on 'crimes against humanity'. I suspect that Soros made a great deal of money during the breakup of Yugoslavia and wanted to keep the region unstable as long as possible to maximize his profits but evidence is scarce on that count. Either way, Miosevic was convicted largely on anecdotal evidence (again provided by Human Rights Watch) and a damning written statement made by Rade Markovic was extracted under claims of torture by NATO officials which the chief Hague judge said was irrelevant (do you really want to sign over our sovereignty to that body now?).
That's just one of Soros' many organizations. He has dumped billions on left-wing organizations. Here is a partial list of his tentacles:
Moveon.org - created to destroy George Bush personally and support for the War on Terror generally.
Apollo Alliance - this group largely wrote the 'stimulus' bill which is the equivalent of porn for Marxists.
Media Matters for America - leftist organization that attacks Limbaugh, Beck, and others when they cite facts that refute left-wing 'truths'.
The Tides Foundation - essentially a money laundering front group that funnels money to far left groups for donors who don't want to be directly linked to said groups.
The ACLU - fronting as a protector of our liberties, the ALCU is actually a far left group that works to twist the words and meanings of the Rights we hold in the Constitution
ACORN - Marxist front group
Project on Death in America - a pro-euthanasia group (Soros is rumored to have 'helped' his mother commit suicide)
La Raza - a radical Marxist, Latino supremacy group that fights any and all action on border security and is dedicated to a 'Reconquista' of the American lands ceded in the Mexican War.
Center for American Progress - radical left-wing 'think tank' dedicated to shredding the Constitution and pushing the Progressive agenda.
Soros funds other radical leftist groups and has made the most of the loopholes in the McCain/Feingold 'campaign finance reform' act (for which both named were well reimbursed) that brought the rise of the 527 charter groups. He also holds 'shadow' conventions at the same time and in the same cities as the conventions of both the Democrat and Republican parties.
That brings us to the 'renown' and 'maverick' Republican Senator; John McCain. It seems that the ill-tempered, media darling has ties to the star of this blog. In 2000 as his bid for GOP candidate was failing on one side of Philadelphia, McCain was giving the keynote speech at Soros shadow convention! In 2001, McCain founded the Reform Institute in Alexandria, VA in order to receive funding from Soros' Open Society Institute and the Tides Foundation (also funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry). McCain had to abandon ties to it after a scandal involving Cablevision in 2006. For now, McCain appears to be at odds with Soros. One might speculate that McCain was double-crossed in the 2008 election or didn't get what he was promised for being the weak GOP candidate...
Then there are Soros' actions in the wake of 9/11. While president Bush was begging us to shop normally and quietly pleading with investors to stay in the market (which affirms my belief that we were economically hurt worse than ever reported), George Soros made his first serious attempt to harm the US economy by shorting the market. In my eyes this is the same as treason and he should be charged with that crime. (I wonder if he was obliquely referenced in the James Bond movie Casino Royale when M was speaking about baddie Le Chiffre shorting the market after 9/11.)
Soros own words damn him as well. "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States."
Soros may fall short of being the Antichrist but he certainly is a physical embodiment of evil. The man destroys economies on a whim while ignoring the consequences to hard working people in the middle and lower classes. He is worse than the worst caricature of 'evil, greedy capitalists' painted by the left but because he funds most of them his crimes are ignored by the left and the media. This man is dangerous and qualifies as an Enemy of the Republic. He should be stripped of his fortunes, his family, means to make money, and imprisoned (or better yet, eliminated in means similar to the way he killed Milosevic).
Certainly in the US today we can agree that wicked people have risen to power. However some of those who wield that power are hidden from us by a compliant media and pawns in position that appear powerful. One of those people is an amoral, atheistic, self-loathing Hungarian Jew (not that I care about his racial heritage nor do I want to imply that I believe any of the stupid conspiracy theories about Jewish world takeover) with American citizenship known as George Soros. I don't know if Soros is the mastermind or just a powerful piece on the board but he is directing the actions of a number of pawns including Barrack Obama, the Democrat party machine, left-wing activist organizations, and even Republican 'maverick' John McCain.
Soros is a money speculator without equal and his greed coupled with a complete lack of ethical standards has resulted in him rising to the 29th richest man on Earth. He made his first billion back in 1992 by shorting the British Pound Sterling and literally breaking the Bank of England. Thanks to Soros, British citizens lost billions as the value of their savings and homes was cut in half over night.
In France, Soros has been convicted of insider trading (something he does not believe to be wrong) and fined $2.8 million. The French Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction on appeal.
Though I can't seem to find any information on this (yes, I am claiming cover up and still researching it), I heard a news story that he was convicted by one of the Baltic nations for breaking their currency during an economic crisis and actually toppling a government.
Soros funds the left-wing Human Rights Watch, the organization responsible for nearly all the claims of genocide against former Yugoslavian/Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. While I don't consider myself a Slobo supporter, I always sensed something wrong about the way he was dragged up to the Hague and brought up on 'crimes against humanity'. I suspect that Soros made a great deal of money during the breakup of Yugoslavia and wanted to keep the region unstable as long as possible to maximize his profits but evidence is scarce on that count. Either way, Miosevic was convicted largely on anecdotal evidence (again provided by Human Rights Watch) and a damning written statement made by Rade Markovic was extracted under claims of torture by NATO officials which the chief Hague judge said was irrelevant (do you really want to sign over our sovereignty to that body now?).
That's just one of Soros' many organizations. He has dumped billions on left-wing organizations. Here is a partial list of his tentacles:
Moveon.org - created to destroy George Bush personally and support for the War on Terror generally.
Apollo Alliance - this group largely wrote the 'stimulus' bill which is the equivalent of porn for Marxists.
Media Matters for America - leftist organization that attacks Limbaugh, Beck, and others when they cite facts that refute left-wing 'truths'.
The Tides Foundation - essentially a money laundering front group that funnels money to far left groups for donors who don't want to be directly linked to said groups.
The ACLU - fronting as a protector of our liberties, the ALCU is actually a far left group that works to twist the words and meanings of the Rights we hold in the Constitution
ACORN - Marxist front group
Project on Death in America - a pro-euthanasia group (Soros is rumored to have 'helped' his mother commit suicide)
La Raza - a radical Marxist, Latino supremacy group that fights any and all action on border security and is dedicated to a 'Reconquista' of the American lands ceded in the Mexican War.
Center for American Progress - radical left-wing 'think tank' dedicated to shredding the Constitution and pushing the Progressive agenda.
Soros funds other radical leftist groups and has made the most of the loopholes in the McCain/Feingold 'campaign finance reform' act (for which both named were well reimbursed) that brought the rise of the 527 charter groups. He also holds 'shadow' conventions at the same time and in the same cities as the conventions of both the Democrat and Republican parties.
That brings us to the 'renown' and 'maverick' Republican Senator; John McCain. It seems that the ill-tempered, media darling has ties to the star of this blog. In 2000 as his bid for GOP candidate was failing on one side of Philadelphia, McCain was giving the keynote speech at Soros shadow convention! In 2001, McCain founded the Reform Institute in Alexandria, VA in order to receive funding from Soros' Open Society Institute and the Tides Foundation (also funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry). McCain had to abandon ties to it after a scandal involving Cablevision in 2006. For now, McCain appears to be at odds with Soros. One might speculate that McCain was double-crossed in the 2008 election or didn't get what he was promised for being the weak GOP candidate...
Then there are Soros' actions in the wake of 9/11. While president Bush was begging us to shop normally and quietly pleading with investors to stay in the market (which affirms my belief that we were economically hurt worse than ever reported), George Soros made his first serious attempt to harm the US economy by shorting the market. In my eyes this is the same as treason and he should be charged with that crime. (I wonder if he was obliquely referenced in the James Bond movie Casino Royale when M was speaking about baddie Le Chiffre shorting the market after 9/11.)
Soros own words damn him as well. "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States."
Soros may fall short of being the Antichrist but he certainly is a physical embodiment of evil. The man destroys economies on a whim while ignoring the consequences to hard working people in the middle and lower classes. He is worse than the worst caricature of 'evil, greedy capitalists' painted by the left but because he funds most of them his crimes are ignored by the left and the media. This man is dangerous and qualifies as an Enemy of the Republic. He should be stripped of his fortunes, his family, means to make money, and imprisoned (or better yet, eliminated in means similar to the way he killed Milosevic).
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