Saturday, December 30, 2006
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Avery & Bermas Get Punked
Here is a debate from a show called "Hardfire". Loose Change creators, Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas took on 9/11 conspiracy debunker, Mark Roberts with host Ronald Wieck adding some assistance to Roberts in the area of common sense and ignored facts. Roberts stood tall and completely eviscerated the LC duo.
You can watch part 1 here and part 2 here.
You can watch part 1 here and part 2 here.
Lampooning Kramer
Man, I've been busy today. O.k. here's one more. Since everybody and their dog is poking fun at Michael Richards, I figured I would post this video I found on YouTube. By the way, if you've seen the video in which Pauly Shore gets punched in Texas; it's a sham.
Another Bust for Al Gore
Here's some info on "global warming". It's an original post. Unfortunately, it's not mine, because it's a good one.
In his zeal to prove Global Warming is man made, an enthusiast (Al Gore) dealt a crippling blow to some of the science that supposedly proves it’s man’s fault. He said science proves there was no global Medieval Warm Period. But there is ample proof of the Medieval Warm Period, so maybe what he proved is that "his" science isn't so good.
Why would he shoot down his own science?
He had to, he simply had no choice.
Why he attempted it is really simple. Global Warming caused by man’s creation of “greenhouse” gases must deal with both the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300) and the Little Ice Age (arguably 1500-1850). These were recent periods of rapid and large temperature fluctuations that don’t fit “it’s mankind’s fault” constructions. One way of dealing with the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age is to deny their existence, and find science that seems to support your denial.
Supposedly a 1,000 year Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstruction using data from multiple ice cores and tree ring records proves the Medieval Warm Period did not exist. Such proof of its nonexistence would justify its omission from Al Gore’s “hockey stick” graph of temperatures over the past 1,000 years. However, the scientists that reported that a global Medieval Warm Period did not exist conceded the existence of the Little Ice Age.
One question that seems to beg an answer is: "What caused the Little Ice Age?" If man is responsible for heating the planet now, what cooled it then?
This then leads to the next question. "What heated up the planet during previous warming periods?"
There were many. At least one following each of the four Ice Ages (actually glacial periods) of the past 400,000 years.
We're still in an Ice Age that began 40 million years ago, you know.
Major ice ages seem to be caused by many factors such as motion of tectonic plates, changes in Earth's orbit, solar variation, and changes in atmospheric gases concentrations, but probably not super-volcano eruptions and large meteorites, the effects of which dissipate quickly (in geological time, anyway).
Nature is responsible for vast changes in "greenhouse" gases because of the effects of solar energy. When sunlight strikes exposed rock, weathering occurs which absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide and causes its decrease. This reduces the "greenhouse" effect, and the Earth becomes cooler. The cooler Earth becomes increasingly covered by ice and snow, reducing weathering of rocks and absorption of carbon dioxide. Then the "greenhouse" effect increases, temperatures rise, and snow and ice retreat.
Then ...
Well, you know, the cycle repeats itself.
And repeats itself ...
A commonly accepted definition is that we're 10,000 years into an interglacial (warming) period, and some scientists think the next glacial period could start in 2,000 years. Some think it's not coming that soon, but most agree one is coming. It's just a matter of time before mankind will be freezing its tutus off again. And pining for good old Global Warming.
Less than thirty years ago the consensus of scientists (and Time Magazine) was we were on the verge of entering a disastrous period (for mankind) of Global Cooling.
"Quick, a show of hands! Global Warming, or Global Cooling? Who wants Global Cooling?"
"Only One? I'm shocked. We usually have at least two snow boarding nuts in the crowd."
If you think Global Warming would be bad, think about what Global Cooling will do.
We'll starve. Harvests will be terrible. Northern wheat fields will be frozen tundra. Only hardy crops will grow in Florida. Florida orange juice will be from Ecuador. Port cities will become former port cities as ice caps grow and oceans retreat. The Sacramento River will run under the Golden Gate Bridge, and enter the Pacific on its west side. Thousands of nuclear plants built on the sites of useless solar and wind farms will be the primary source of power for heating homes, powering industry, and growing crops in vast "greenhouses."
Millions of years ago major glacial periods occurred every 40,000 years, but more recently every 100,000 years. What happened between glacial periods? The Earth warmed, the ice caps retreated, and mankind still huddled around fires at night for warmth and protection against wild animal attacks.
One very plausible answer to what caused the Little Ice Age is solar variation, as measured by sunspot activity. The Little Ice Age corresponds with periods of low solar activity called the Spörer and Maunder Minimums. Warmer weather since seems to match the increased solar activity observed in the past hundred years. It would be odd indeed if reduced solar activity caused the Little Ice Age, and increased solar activity didn’t play a part in ending it. Or that solar variation did not play a significant part in prior cold and warm periods.
In fact, it doesn’t seem logical that the activity of our Sun, the agent of heating our planet and driving our weather, wasn’t responsible for the vast cycles of previous hot and cold periods.
This brings us to the "scientifically" proven non-existence of a global Medieval Warm Period. Do we have any proof of a Medieval Warm Period? And if that proof is convincing, doesn’t it weaken the science that underlies the proof presented by the doubters?
For proof of a Medieval Warm Period, let’s start with something mankind has been keenly interested in for a long time. Besides womankind, that is. What could it be? Spiritus fermenti, of course, and in particular, wine. During the time of the Norman Conquest (1088), vines were grown and wine was made at many monasteries in southern England, and viticulture continued through the time of King Henry VIII (1491-1547). Then the vineyards declined and disappeared.
Did the English lose interest in wine? When Henry VIII closed the monasteries, did the lack of monks lead to a loss of interest in wine? Were monks the Party Hearty Bunch of the Middle Ages?
Or is it more likely that the colder climate leading into and through the Little Ice Age made it difficult to grow vineyards in England? As evidence that bad weather was the probable cause, English imports of wine from France increased. English interest in wine hadn’t waned, but the grape-growing ability of the English climate had.
Now that English weather is warming again, vineyards have reappeared since approximately 1950 without benefit of monks or monasteries. However, even with modern science to develop grapes suited to English weather, soil conditions, and other advances in viticulture unknown to the ancients, wine production in England is an iffy proposition. Some say cruelly that the best way to get a small fortune is to have a large fortune and buy an English vineyard. Clearly, vineyards in England, even with modern advances and scientific progress, still haven’t gotten English wine production back to the levels achieved during the Medieval Warm Period.
One of the criticisms of the Medieval Warm Period is that it possibly wasn’t global. Is there evidence that it occurred in more places than England? The answer is yes, and instead of grapes, the test subjects used were humans, collectively known as Vikings, to demonstrate its existence. During the years 800-1200, Iceland and Greenland were settled by the Vikings.
Animal bones and other materials collected from archaeological sites reveal Icelandic Vikings had large farmsteads with dairy cattle (a source of meat), pigs, and sheep and goats (for wool, hair, milk, and meat.) Farmsteads also had ample pastures and fields of barley used for the making of beer and these farms were located near bird cliffs (providing meat, eggs, and eiderdown) and inshore fishing grounds. Fishing was primarily done with hand lines or from small boats that did not venture across the horizon.
The Greenland Vikings lived mostly on dairy produce and meat, primarily from cows. The vegetable diet of Greenlanders included berries, edible grasses, and seaweed, but these were inadequate even during the best harvests
However, Greenland was more hospitable then for habitation than now.
In the case of the Vikings, there was no equivalent of a Henry VIII to allow equivocation about the reason for failure of the Viking Iceland and Greenland colonies. Archeology confirms that the Iceland and Greenland colonists suffered increasingly from malnutrition as colder weather diminished crops, and drove schools of cod to better feeding grounds further south. The Vikings became shorter, and as conditions worsened, the Greenland Vikings became severely crippled, dwarflike, twisted, and diseased. By 1492, Greenland was “dead.”
The population of Iceland fell from a high of 77,500 in 1095, to only 38,000 in the 1780’s, and the average Icelander was two inches shorter than the earlier settlers.
Now we've entered another period of warming, only this time we have scientists playing Chicken Little. Thirty years ago they were all over Global Cooling. Now they're all over Global Warming. It's gotten so bad now that each hurricane, every record temperature, an El Niño or La Niña, is looked on as a portent of Global Warming.
As long as it supports the prophecy du jour, that is.
Our scientists are taking us back to the good old days of Greek mythology, when the Oracles of Delphi were consulted, and priests devined the future by sniffing vapors, and reading the entrails of animal and human sacrifices.
Now they consult tree rings and ice cores, and declare that scientific evidence proves accepted historical events never occurred.
From the perspective of the sacrificial victims, at least some progress has been made.
Thanks to Michael Combs and his blog, Strong as an Ox and Nearly as Smart.
The mystery "enthusiast"s I.D. being Gore, is my emphasis.
In his zeal to prove Global Warming is man made, an enthusiast (Al Gore) dealt a crippling blow to some of the science that supposedly proves it’s man’s fault. He said science proves there was no global Medieval Warm Period. But there is ample proof of the Medieval Warm Period, so maybe what he proved is that "his" science isn't so good.
Why would he shoot down his own science?
He had to, he simply had no choice.
Why he attempted it is really simple. Global Warming caused by man’s creation of “greenhouse” gases must deal with both the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300) and the Little Ice Age (arguably 1500-1850). These were recent periods of rapid and large temperature fluctuations that don’t fit “it’s mankind’s fault” constructions. One way of dealing with the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age is to deny their existence, and find science that seems to support your denial.
Supposedly a 1,000 year Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstruction using data from multiple ice cores and tree ring records proves the Medieval Warm Period did not exist. Such proof of its nonexistence would justify its omission from Al Gore’s “hockey stick” graph of temperatures over the past 1,000 years. However, the scientists that reported that a global Medieval Warm Period did not exist conceded the existence of the Little Ice Age.
One question that seems to beg an answer is: "What caused the Little Ice Age?" If man is responsible for heating the planet now, what cooled it then?
This then leads to the next question. "What heated up the planet during previous warming periods?"
There were many. At least one following each of the four Ice Ages (actually glacial periods) of the past 400,000 years.
We're still in an Ice Age that began 40 million years ago, you know.
Major ice ages seem to be caused by many factors such as motion of tectonic plates, changes in Earth's orbit, solar variation, and changes in atmospheric gases concentrations, but probably not super-volcano eruptions and large meteorites, the effects of which dissipate quickly (in geological time, anyway).
Nature is responsible for vast changes in "greenhouse" gases because of the effects of solar energy. When sunlight strikes exposed rock, weathering occurs which absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide and causes its decrease. This reduces the "greenhouse" effect, and the Earth becomes cooler. The cooler Earth becomes increasingly covered by ice and snow, reducing weathering of rocks and absorption of carbon dioxide. Then the "greenhouse" effect increases, temperatures rise, and snow and ice retreat.
Then ...
Well, you know, the cycle repeats itself.
And repeats itself ...
A commonly accepted definition is that we're 10,000 years into an interglacial (warming) period, and some scientists think the next glacial period could start in 2,000 years. Some think it's not coming that soon, but most agree one is coming. It's just a matter of time before mankind will be freezing its tutus off again. And pining for good old Global Warming.
Less than thirty years ago the consensus of scientists (and Time Magazine) was we were on the verge of entering a disastrous period (for mankind) of Global Cooling.
"Quick, a show of hands! Global Warming, or Global Cooling? Who wants Global Cooling?"
"Only One? I'm shocked. We usually have at least two snow boarding nuts in the crowd."
If you think Global Warming would be bad, think about what Global Cooling will do.
We'll starve. Harvests will be terrible. Northern wheat fields will be frozen tundra. Only hardy crops will grow in Florida. Florida orange juice will be from Ecuador. Port cities will become former port cities as ice caps grow and oceans retreat. The Sacramento River will run under the Golden Gate Bridge, and enter the Pacific on its west side. Thousands of nuclear plants built on the sites of useless solar and wind farms will be the primary source of power for heating homes, powering industry, and growing crops in vast "greenhouses."
Millions of years ago major glacial periods occurred every 40,000 years, but more recently every 100,000 years. What happened between glacial periods? The Earth warmed, the ice caps retreated, and mankind still huddled around fires at night for warmth and protection against wild animal attacks.
One very plausible answer to what caused the Little Ice Age is solar variation, as measured by sunspot activity. The Little Ice Age corresponds with periods of low solar activity called the Spörer and Maunder Minimums. Warmer weather since seems to match the increased solar activity observed in the past hundred years. It would be odd indeed if reduced solar activity caused the Little Ice Age, and increased solar activity didn’t play a part in ending it. Or that solar variation did not play a significant part in prior cold and warm periods.
In fact, it doesn’t seem logical that the activity of our Sun, the agent of heating our planet and driving our weather, wasn’t responsible for the vast cycles of previous hot and cold periods.
This brings us to the "scientifically" proven non-existence of a global Medieval Warm Period. Do we have any proof of a Medieval Warm Period? And if that proof is convincing, doesn’t it weaken the science that underlies the proof presented by the doubters?
For proof of a Medieval Warm Period, let’s start with something mankind has been keenly interested in for a long time. Besides womankind, that is. What could it be? Spiritus fermenti, of course, and in particular, wine. During the time of the Norman Conquest (1088), vines were grown and wine was made at many monasteries in southern England, and viticulture continued through the time of King Henry VIII (1491-1547). Then the vineyards declined and disappeared.
Did the English lose interest in wine? When Henry VIII closed the monasteries, did the lack of monks lead to a loss of interest in wine? Were monks the Party Hearty Bunch of the Middle Ages?
Or is it more likely that the colder climate leading into and through the Little Ice Age made it difficult to grow vineyards in England? As evidence that bad weather was the probable cause, English imports of wine from France increased. English interest in wine hadn’t waned, but the grape-growing ability of the English climate had.
Now that English weather is warming again, vineyards have reappeared since approximately 1950 without benefit of monks or monasteries. However, even with modern science to develop grapes suited to English weather, soil conditions, and other advances in viticulture unknown to the ancients, wine production in England is an iffy proposition. Some say cruelly that the best way to get a small fortune is to have a large fortune and buy an English vineyard. Clearly, vineyards in England, even with modern advances and scientific progress, still haven’t gotten English wine production back to the levels achieved during the Medieval Warm Period.
One of the criticisms of the Medieval Warm Period is that it possibly wasn’t global. Is there evidence that it occurred in more places than England? The answer is yes, and instead of grapes, the test subjects used were humans, collectively known as Vikings, to demonstrate its existence. During the years 800-1200, Iceland and Greenland were settled by the Vikings.
Animal bones and other materials collected from archaeological sites reveal Icelandic Vikings had large farmsteads with dairy cattle (a source of meat), pigs, and sheep and goats (for wool, hair, milk, and meat.) Farmsteads also had ample pastures and fields of barley used for the making of beer and these farms were located near bird cliffs (providing meat, eggs, and eiderdown) and inshore fishing grounds. Fishing was primarily done with hand lines or from small boats that did not venture across the horizon.
The Greenland Vikings lived mostly on dairy produce and meat, primarily from cows. The vegetable diet of Greenlanders included berries, edible grasses, and seaweed, but these were inadequate even during the best harvests
However, Greenland was more hospitable then for habitation than now.
In the case of the Vikings, there was no equivalent of a Henry VIII to allow equivocation about the reason for failure of the Viking Iceland and Greenland colonies. Archeology confirms that the Iceland and Greenland colonists suffered increasingly from malnutrition as colder weather diminished crops, and drove schools of cod to better feeding grounds further south. The Vikings became shorter, and as conditions worsened, the Greenland Vikings became severely crippled, dwarflike, twisted, and diseased. By 1492, Greenland was “dead.”
The population of Iceland fell from a high of 77,500 in 1095, to only 38,000 in the 1780’s, and the average Icelander was two inches shorter than the earlier settlers.
Now we've entered another period of warming, only this time we have scientists playing Chicken Little. Thirty years ago they were all over Global Cooling. Now they're all over Global Warming. It's gotten so bad now that each hurricane, every record temperature, an El Niño or La Niña, is looked on as a portent of Global Warming.
As long as it supports the prophecy du jour, that is.
Our scientists are taking us back to the good old days of Greek mythology, when the Oracles of Delphi were consulted, and priests devined the future by sniffing vapors, and reading the entrails of animal and human sacrifices.
Now they consult tree rings and ice cores, and declare that scientific evidence proves accepted historical events never occurred.
From the perspective of the sacrificial victims, at least some progress has been made.
Thanks to Michael Combs and his blog, Strong as an Ox and Nearly as Smart.
The mystery "enthusiast"s I.D. being Gore, is my emphasis.
You Want Freedom of Speech?
Try this on for size...
Pretty Powerful Stuff,
On Your Hands
J. D. Pendry
Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine sir. You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanimo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraq’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of the perpetrators of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.
American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America’s axis of idiots. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war – this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
No Commander in Chief, you don’t get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.They need you to do it now.
Copyright © J.D. Pendry 2006**********JD’s weekly commentaries are copyrighted. You may forward them by email if unedited and forwarded in their entirety, which includes this notice and all information that follows. They may be printed. Commentaries can be republished in other formats and at other locations by permission only.
J. D. Pendry is author of The Three Meter Zone.You may comment on articles at Misanthropundit – JD’s Townhall.com Soapbox or see them in the reader’s articles at RealClearPolitics.com
Pretty Powerful Stuff,
On Your Hands
J. D. Pendry
Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine sir. You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanimo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraq’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of the perpetrators of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.
American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America’s axis of idiots. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war – this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
No Commander in Chief, you don’t get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.They need you to do it now.
Copyright © J.D. Pendry 2006**********JD’s weekly commentaries are copyrighted. You may forward them by email if unedited and forwarded in their entirety, which includes this notice and all information that follows. They may be printed. Commentaries can be republished in other formats and at other locations by permission only.
J. D. Pendry is author of The Three Meter Zone.You may comment on articles at Misanthropundit – JD’s Townhall.com Soapbox or see them in the reader’s articles at RealClearPolitics.com
More on Murtha
For months before Election Day, Americans were brainwashed by the media concerning a Republican “culture of corruption,” and the need for the Democrats to clean it all up. Unfortunately, in the middle of this web of lies, the press chose to ignore the misdeeds of any politician with a “D” next to his or her name.
Now that the elections are over, and the press got the result they wanted, exposés about liberal politicians are suddenly acceptable again. On Christmas Day, roughly seven weeks after it helped pull off one of the largest bait and switches in campaign history, the Washington Post published corrupt revelations about one of its heroes, Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pennsylvania).
Sadly for America, some of the content in this front-page article by Jonathan Weisman has been available for almost a year and a half. But, investigative reporting like this that might out a Democrat was specifically verboten by members of the drive-by media before November 7 (emphasis mine throughout):
*Thanks to Noel Sheppard and his post over at NewBusters.org
Now that the elections are over, and the press got the result they wanted, exposés about liberal politicians are suddenly acceptable again. On Christmas Day, roughly seven weeks after it helped pull off one of the largest bait and switches in campaign history, the Washington Post published corrupt revelations about one of its heroes, Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pennsylvania).
Sadly for America, some of the content in this front-page article by Jonathan Weisman has been available for almost a year and a half. But, investigative reporting like this that might out a Democrat was specifically verboten by members of the drive-by media before November 7 (emphasis mine throughout):
*Thanks to Noel Sheppard and his post over at NewBusters.org
Monday, December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to gather videos of my favourite Christmas movies, videos and moments from all over the net, so the sources vary. Here are some of the ones I was able to find and/embed. One of my perrenial favourites, "It's a Wonderful Life" couldn't be done, at least not embedded. However there is a link. I hope it's accessable for a while. Yes, I like It's a Wonderful Life. I watch it every year, without fail. Wanna fight about it?
Click here watch George Bailey rediscover his life...again.
Peanuts // Merry Christmas Charlie Brown
Seinfeld - 166 - the strike festivus
Uploaded by limblessjudo
Peter Griffin's Christmas Album
Do ya think I've gone nuts on the videos?
Click here watch George Bailey rediscover his life...again.
Peanuts // Merry Christmas Charlie Brown
Seinfeld - 166 - the strike festivus
Uploaded by limblessjudo
Peter Griffin's Christmas Album
Do ya think I've gone nuts on the videos?
The Baker Boys (aka The White Flag Gang)
Here's a little reminder to all those who may not know or care about history and what we're facing right now. Kinda like left-wing moonbat Liberals.
Since you have absolutely no idea who Neville Chamberlain was and by the sounds of you and your denial of everything that is reasonable and sane, you probably have forgotten who Adolf Hitler was, so there's no sense in trying to explain the irony of this clip to you.
For everyone else that doesn't share a brain between their friends, enjoy.
Thanks to Wayne at Downer's Grove and his blog Wayne's World (which you can find a link to on my blogroll)
Since you have absolutely no idea who Neville Chamberlain was and by the sounds of you and your denial of everything that is reasonable and sane, you probably have forgotten who Adolf Hitler was, so there's no sense in trying to explain the irony of this clip to you.
For everyone else that doesn't share a brain between their friends, enjoy.
Thanks to Wayne at Downer's Grove and his blog Wayne's World (which you can find a link to on my blogroll)
Sunday, December 24, 2006
More Kerry Stuff
I just found this. I should have had it up on an earlier post, since the information was right there along with videos I already used. Ah well, no harm no foul; except for John Kerry that is. Again, why don't Republicans USE this stuff publicly?
Thursday, December 21, 2006
O'Donnel v.s. Trump
I have never liked Donald Trump, but I like Rosie O'Dummy even less. I don't give a hoot about celebrities or what they have to say outside of a script, especially on foreign policy. And I couldn't care less if their "feuding" with each other. But today, I have to say, with a big smile on my face, good job Donald. Apparently Rosie said that "The Donald" was a "snake oil salesman". I assume she was referring the reaccuring character on "Little House on the Prairie" (there's a wholsome show that's needed on the airwaves nowadays)
Anyways, "The View"'s resident trouble maker said that Trump wasn't exactly the "moral compass for 20-year-olds in America" and to "sit and spin, my friend". Now if anyone should be making comments on anybody else's morality, it sure as hell isn't O'Donnel, although she's not totally in the wrong here. You don't have to look far and wide for Trump's quite public business dealings. The man is self-absorbed and not the real estate genious he wants everybody to think he is, but that's neither here nor there.
The bottom line is, I just love seeing Liberal whackos tear into each other.
Trump fired back with "Rosie's a loser. A real loser. I look foward to taking lots of money from my nice, fat little Rosie." Ouch.
Again, I could care less what celebrities have to say, but I inform you on this matter because I just dislike O'Donnel that much. I guess I'll go with Trump on this one. Just the lesser of two evils, I guess.
Anyways, "The View"'s resident trouble maker said that Trump wasn't exactly the "moral compass for 20-year-olds in America" and to "sit and spin, my friend". Now if anyone should be making comments on anybody else's morality, it sure as hell isn't O'Donnel, although she's not totally in the wrong here. You don't have to look far and wide for Trump's quite public business dealings. The man is self-absorbed and not the real estate genious he wants everybody to think he is, but that's neither here nor there.
The bottom line is, I just love seeing Liberal whackos tear into each other.
Trump fired back with "Rosie's a loser. A real loser. I look foward to taking lots of money from my nice, fat little Rosie." Ouch.
Again, I could care less what celebrities have to say, but I inform you on this matter because I just dislike O'Donnel that much. I guess I'll go with Trump on this one. Just the lesser of two evils, I guess.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Perry Logan Part II
This guy can keep me writing and laughing for years.
Here's some more paranoid, unintelligent, misinformed rhetoric from Perry Logan. You have to check this guy out, he is freaking hilarious.
More fun points to utterly embarrass this jagoff with: Weird and Untrue (from Logan's website) v.s. Fact
He's speaking (again) about Republicans, of course.
W&UT- "Everybody hates them."
FACT- With shrinking ratings of the MSM news outlets, including: CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc. coupled with Bill O'Reilly and the rest of FNC obliterating the cable news scene and talk radio ruled by conservative talk-show hosts (and the over-due death of Air America) plus conservative authors consistently owning the top spot on the New York Times best-seller list, I believe this claim is a little more than absurd.
W&UT- "Everything they have ever done has failed."
FACT- Let's see...strong economies, record DOW Jones, millions of jobs created, millions of people world-wide rescued from oppression and hunger, defeated the Soviet Empire (in doing do, winning the Cold War) defeated Communism almost to the point of extiction, rebuilt Europe, helped to turn our two biggest enemies in history (Germany & Japan)into not only allies, but helped to make their economies the fourth and fifth biggest in the world; stopped four wars in Africa (Nixon) opened up China (Nixon), the American Revolution, the American Civil War, etc, etc.
W&UT- "Their legacy in history will be a page at once black and ludicrous."
FACT- Unlike the Kennedy's and Clinton's, Republicans do have things to be proud about...see above. But for this point, let's see what the Democrats have accomplished:
-Supported slavery (check it out)
-Supported the Confederates secession from the Union.
-Alowed America to become disenfranchised and defeated after Vietnam and the fall of Iran.
-Tell everyone else how to live their lives.
-How to spend their money. (of course, they know how to spend it better than us, remember?)
-What values to have; that San Francisco treat.
-What values to teach their chldren.
-Support abortion, genocide, and the slaughter of innocent children everywhere.
-Support terrorism and all it entails (don't believe me, just listen to the rhetoric of bin Laden and his crew and that of Democrats and their talking points)
-Indoctrinated America about the myths of evolution, gun usage, and just about everything else that can possibly be manipulated and lied about.
-Have re-written history to cover-up their own incompetence and appeasement of the enemies of the world.
-Throw money at everything from AIDS and abortion to healthcare and education, yet nothing ever gets solved, then they continue to do so (remember, it's your money)
-Use scare tactics like the myth of gobal warming to frighten everyone and achieve THEIR political agendas, like the Kyoto accord. (by the way, did I mention that AlGore was wrong again recently about the non-existent hurricane season and that he claims cigarette smoke controbutes to a depleted ozone?)
-Advocate the erosion of Christian and family values.
-Turn a blind eye to liberal celebrities (who consistently espose their message) who support clemency for gang-founder/murderers, but totally ignore the death sentences of people in Muslim countries who want to convert to Christianity.
-Are complicit (with the help of the MSM) in turning public opinion against two wars and three Presidents.
-Keep racism alive by simply bringing it up. Only when it suits their needs do Democrats talk about racism like it's the same as it was in the 50s and 60s, or even the 1860s. simply not true.
-Use homosexuality (ad nausiem) as an attacking point when nothing else will do.
-Foolishly and explicitly keep referring to Bush as the worst President ever when it's a economic historical fact that Jimmy Carter (the anti-semite Jimmy Carter, that is) was the worst, so-called" leader in the history of the Republic.
-As mentioned above, are completely anti-semetic, pro-terrorist.
-etc.
W&UT: "...They eat breakfast everyday believing babies are being murdered by the thousands..."
FACT: since the Roe v. Wade decision, 46 million babies have been aborted since Sept. 2001. And check out this disgusting fact.
W&UT: "Wherever Republicans go, babies die."
FACT: Democrats as a whole support abortion on demand. Republicans do not.
W&(kinda)UT: "Republicans like to bugger underage boys and girls."
FACT: Some did. But some Democrats did also. Let's be fair here. Oops, I forgot I'm dealing with a kool-aider.
Perry Logan himself: Advocates suicide and mass murder.
Down further on his page, Logan goes into full Clinton Defense Lies, I mean mode.
Claim: "Longest economic expansion in american history."
FACT: Although this may be true, it is wildly deceptive. Clinton inhereted a surplus economy from Reagan/Bush, thanks primarily to what? Corperate tax cuts.
Claim: "22 million jobs were created in less than eight years-the most under a single administration."
FACT: These numbers are misleading, studies indicate the number was more closer to 18 million. Pretty damn good, but not exactly 22 million. But even those numbers include the employment of illegal immigrants.
Claim: "Highest home ownership in american history."
FACT: Not anymore. That distinction now belongs to President Bush, which also includes for the first time black home owners.
Claim: "Lowest unemployment rate in 30 years; unemployment dropped from more than seven percent in 1993 to just four percent in 2000."
FACT: Again, while this is not a lie, Bush also has a four percent unemployment rate.
Claim: "Made the federal government smaller."
FACT: Is this guy serious? The direct opposite is true. Clinton admimistration had one of the biggest cabinets in history, while Bush has one of the smallest AND most ethically diverse.
Claim: "Lowest crime rate in 26 years."
FACT: Again, not a total misrepresentation of the truth. However, since 2000, the crime rate against hispanics has fallen 55%, murder overall has fallen roughly 50% since 2000. Since then it has risen 4% which can be attributed to liberal judges (appointed by Clinton) releasing repeat child molestors, and rapists (much like the whiny, liberal dems who want to release terrorists at Gitmo, only to have them e-join the fight against liberty) the revolving-door justice system and total idiots like Logan who obviously have no sense of history or common sense.
Claim: "Lowest poverty rate in 20 years. Poverty declined from 15% to 11% in 1999."
FACT: It is now at 10.8%
Claim: "Higher incomes at all levels."
FACT: Ditto as of last year.
Claim: "Lowest teen birth rate in 60 years."
FACT: I couldn't find any reliable information to dispute nor confirm this (yet) but these numbers are in no doubt due to monster abortion rates.
Claim: "Lowest infant mortality rate in American history."
FACT: No longer. It stands as of 2005 at 6.5 per 1000 live births.
Claim: "Paid off $360 billion of the national debt."
FACT: Again, thanks to the surplus provided by Reagan and Bush(41)
Claim: "Converted the largest budget DEFECIT to the largest budget SURPLUS"
FACT: What can I say? Another blatant lie.
Claim: "Lowest tax burden income and more family owned stock than ever before."
FACT: Too bad for Logan and Slick Willy that these honors have now gone to Dubya.
Claim: "Median family income up $6000 since 1993."
FACT: Again underestimating (or simply lieing about) Reaganomics.
Claim: "7 million fewer Americans living in poverty."
FACT: Other than bad grammar (you never start a sentence with a number-especially if it's not spelled out) that number under President Bush is now at roughly just over five million.
Lies About "Clinton and Terrorism"
Logan reeeeeaaaaally stretches on these. He claims that Clinton stopped a whole mess of al Quada plots between 1994 and 1999. Trouble with that is didn't Clinton bitch at Chris wallace about "not knowing al Quada existed then"? Anyways, Logan in his usual total twist on history, coupled with a touch of xenephobia; claims credit for Republican Congress and Bush administration achievements. Everything from the Millenium bomber to the UN headquaters (fo rthe life of me why they didn't turn a blind eye to that one). Just trust me when I say this guy is a loon.
I do not believe there will be a "Perry Logan III". I know everything comes in threes and the rule of a trilogy and all that, but I just can't take losing I.Q. points every time I read his drivel. He'll still make you laugh though. Just for all the wrong reasons.
Will They Riot Over This Now?
I know this is old news and I do this not to offend moderate or true Muslims, but just to show that I have the freedom to do so. I know it and appreciate it. I'll be damned if the threat of violence by a bunch of hypocritical whack-jobs is going to stifel my freedom of...well, everything. Plus, I just saw a couple of these for the first time, just now. Thanks to Mark Sprengel over at Mark My Words.
This is my favourite, simply because of the irony.
This is my favourite, simply because of the irony.
All Hail Danny Bonaduce
Okay, I admit I was never really a fan of him, although his talk show wasn't all that bad and his radio show (from what I've heard from it) is passable. Plus, didn't you just dig him in Corvette Summer? But ever since I saw Danny Bonaduce just shove it sideways right up John Connor's conspiracy-laden backside, I now love this guy. I'll say it again, I now actually love Danny Bonaduce. In case you don't know who he is (and really, why should you?) John Connor is a one-man idiot machine who runs the Resistance Manifesto.com website. Go ahead, check out his blog. Like they say at www.screwloosechange.com, why do people like this continue to post videos where they make themselves out to be total fools. Ah well, less work for the rest of us. I first saw this over at Hot Air, then on the above mentioned Screw Loose Change that you can find right here on Blogger. Check it out, this guy Partridge is the Man!! This is what we conservatives need to do to get some things right in people's heads, straight foward, in-your-face honesty. Everybody from conspiracists to Cindy Sheehan (how's that fast going?) to Michael Moore to all the rest. Just shut up already!
Just for your own sake (and that of our collective minds) read these sites debunking this joke that should have died long ago. Mind you, I shouldn't really be giving credence, much less time to these crackpots, but they are funny, aren't they?
www.screwloosechange.blogspot.com
www.911myths.com
www.internetdetectives.biz/case/loose-change
www.debunking911.com
Hey, remember when I reported on the rumored conservative version of The Daily Show, well since Danny boy has talk show experience and since he's an obvious conservative, I say put him in as host. He's got my vote. By the way, this Connor guy epitomizes the word goof.
You may have also noticed that I finally learned how to post embedded videos directly. Yay for me.
Just for your own sake (and that of our collective minds) read these sites debunking this joke that should have died long ago. Mind you, I shouldn't really be giving credence, much less time to these crackpots, but they are funny, aren't they?
www.screwloosechange.blogspot.com
www.911myths.com
www.internetdetectives.biz/case/loose-change
www.debunking911.com
Hey, remember when I reported on the rumored conservative version of The Daily Show, well since Danny boy has talk show experience and since he's an obvious conservative, I say put him in as host. He's got my vote. By the way, this Connor guy epitomizes the word goof.
You may have also noticed that I finally learned how to post embedded videos directly. Yay for me.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Dems in the Eyes of the Rest of Us
I know I haven't blogged in almost two weeks (I've been busy with school stuff)and I'm just going to post some some catoons I found on Townhall.com. But first, and you'll see the accompanying cartoon with this, I'd like to give out a big AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! to Al Gore. What happened to all the hurricanes that were supposed to wreak havoc on the South-East this summer? Al, that feeling on your face is called egg. I believe that the balderdash your trying to pass on the American public, nay the world, that is continually debunked is oh, what? Let's all say it together now, An inconvienent truth?
Anyways, here's the Democrats in the eyes of the public post November 7.
Anyways, here's the Democrats in the eyes of the public post November 7.