Monthly Archives: December 2008

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GOP Conservatives Show Signs of Life

RNC draft rips Bush’s bailouts

Dang! Of all the unexpected political developments to have pop up, this is one of the most welcome in some time.

Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing “socialism,” underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush’s administration.

The Chief could question the wording here…is is really “dissension” to want the GOP to stick with it’s principles? Wouldn’t that be loyalism? But perhaps I quibble.

Those pushing the resolution, which will come before the Republican National Committee at its January meeting, say elected leaders need to be reminded of core principles. They said the RNC must take the dramatic step of wading into policy debates, which traditionally have been left to lawmakers.

“We can’t be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms,” said Solomon Yue, an Oregon member and co-sponsor of a resolution that criticizes the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Republican National Committee Vice Chairman James Bopp Jr. wrote the resolution and asked the rest of the 168 voting members to sign it.

Hear! Hear!

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Wishful Thinking from the KGB (or whatever)

The Chief has been watching the historical mini-series John Adams on DVD during the school break. It reminds once again how unique this American Republic is, and how much the Old World establishment would like it to disintegrate. This has been a recurring theme since the early 1800’s, and just like a bad chile, it keeps coming back up again.

Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
In Moscow, Igor Panarin’s Forecasts Are All the Rage; America ‘Disintegrates’ in 2010

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. Now he’s found an eager audience: Russian state media. In recent weeks, he’s been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. “It’s a record,” says Prof. Panarin. “But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger.”

Sounds like he’s got the nod from Putin on this.

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.

Ahhhhh! A common background with Pooty-poot…both alums of the ultimate Soviet good ole boy network of the KGB.

’nuff said.

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Mid-East Dustup, Again

Hamas-cide
While condemned as “disproportionate,” Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza are the only appropriate response to daily terror. As the U.N. Charter says, when they shoot at you, you can shoot back.

This is good. One supposes that having weapons as inefficient as the home-brew (but still dangerous) Hamas rockets would restore some “balance”…but the Chief always though the whole idea in war was to do a better job of killing the enemy and breaking his things than he is able to do to you.

So why are they doing this? Hmmmm. (THINK. THINK.)

Hey, Hamas is an Iranian supported operation. Doesn’t this all conveniently distract everyone from the continuing Iranian nuclear project?

Much of Hamas’ imported weaponry, and the expertise with which it now produces the rockets it uses to bombard Israeli border towns and villages, comes from Iran. Dozens of its top commanders have received training in Iran.

Oh well. Hamas is learning again the hard way – if you want to run with wolves, you had better know how to howl.

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Big Brother – Alive and Well in Oregon!

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Kulongoski to pursue mileage tax

A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — via a mileage tax and satellite technology — could work.

Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next step.

As part of a transportation-related bill he has filed for the 2009 legislative session, the governor says he plans to recommend “a path to transition away from the gas tax as the central funding source for transportation.”

How would this be managed? Fear not:

What that means is explained on the governor’s website:

“As Oregonians drive less and demand more fuel-efficient vehicles, it is increasingly important that the state find a new way, other than the gas tax, to finance our transportation system.” According to the policies he has outlined online, Kulongoski proposes to continue the work of the special task force that came up with and tested the idea of a mileage tax to replace the gas tax.

The governor wants the task force “to partner with auto manufacturers to refine technology that would enable Oregonians to pay for the transportation system based on how many miles they drive.”

The online outline adds: “The governor is committed to ensuring that rural Oregon is not adversely affected and that privacy concerns are addressed.”

Yeah, right. Privacy concerns? WHAT privacy concerns! How bourgeoise!

This has so many evil ramifications, that the Chief would go nuts trying to list them all.

Just one item: The system would be based (apparently) on a gas-pump register system of some sort. OK. So, a local chump loyal Oregonian decides to travel out of state. The first tank of gas bought on returning to the home turf would register the mileage driven…since the last Oregon gas purchase…before the trip! TA DA! All those out of state miles are counted! Ya gotta love the libs for ALWAYS figuring a way to make a bad idea worse.

There are MANY more problems…go to the original article and read the comments…it’s well worth it, and will give you lots of good arguments to use in your own states when your local moonbat LebDonk legislooters try to bring in something like this where you are. (You just KNOW they’ll try it!)

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Steam Driven Fusion Reactor?

Maybe so…

STEAMPUNK FUSION

The picture you see above is a steam driven fusion reactor. I know what you are thinking. This is some kind of joke. It is no joke. General Fusion has a design that I think has an outside chance of working.

A lot more information on this here, in a PopSci article.

This is an elegant idea. The Chief hopes it works, and wishes he had some serious money to invest in it.

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Reid to Repeat Daschle Example?

Sen. Reid Hits the Ground Running in Uphill Re-Election Bid

We in South Dakota demonstrated what can happen when a LibDonk Senate Majority Leader gets so involved in national politicizing that he loses touch with what the home state voters think is really relevant to them; which in OUR case resulted in the end of the Senatorial career of ex-Senator/now B.O. cabinet designee Tom Daschle.

Now may be Nevada’s chance to repeat the process:

Sen. Harry Reid will command the biggest party majority of any Senate leader in a quarter century when the new Congress convenes in January. But the Nevada Democrat is already worried about his own re-election fight in 2010.

Sen. Reid, perhaps the most-vulnerable Democrat who will face re-election in a midterm race that is likely to favor his party once again, began interviewing campaign managers last week. The Senate majority leader also recently stepped up fund-raising.

Will Nevada repeat the phenomenon of a sitting Majority Leader being voted out? One can only hope!

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Glowbull Warming Updates – cont’d

This from across the pond in the London Sunday Telegraph:

2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved

Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph.

The first, on May 21, headed “Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts” , reported that the entire Alpine “winter sports industry” could soon “grind to a halt for lack of snow”. The second, on December 19, headed “The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation” , reported that this winter’s Alpine snowfalls “look set to beat all records by New Year’s Day”.

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

This is as about a concise a summary of this issue as the Chief has seen in one place:

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare….After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century…..

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world’s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that “consensus” which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions….

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month’s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and “environmentalists” gathered to plan next year’s “son of Kyoto” treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for “combating climate change” with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

So…how long will it take the enviro-ideologues and Gaia-worshippers to lose their stranglehold on what is known as the “main-stream media”, especially in light of a profound ignorance of real science as opposed to junk science?

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Who REALLY owns B.O. (or at least his house)?

Rezko attorney ‘owns’ Obama mansion

An attorney for convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko is listed as the owner and taxpayer for Barack Obama’s Chicago mansion, according to records obtained by WND.

William Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which also formerly employed Obama.

The controversy began when a website called News and Commentary for Thinking People published a 48-page document that lists Miceli as the owner of the Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood.

Miner, Barnhill & Galland was Obama’s employer when he did extensive legal work for Rezko, who awaits sentencing after he was convicted in June of fraud, money laundering and bribery-related counts.

“The Chief is figuring out finally what is meant by “Change you can believe in”.

Every time you think you know something about B.O., it changes to something altogether different.

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Savage’s Hypothesis Confirmed

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Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill

Here, several years after radio talker Michael Savage’s book Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, comes another book on the topic…this time from a non-political psychiatrist.

Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.  “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”

Once again the libDonks are reminded that “reality is a bitch” sometimes.

Defense Matters!, National Insecurity

“Anchors Aweigh” for ChiCom Naval Deployment

Chinese Warships Set Sail for Pirate Fight

Chinese warships — armed with special forces, guided missiles and helicopters — set sail Friday for anti-piracy duty off Somalia, the first time the communist nation has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.

The three vessels — two destroyers and a supply ship — may increase worries about growing Chinese military power. The mission will also challenge China’s ability to cooperate with other naval forces patrolling the Gulf of Aden, one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.

Warships from India, Russia, NATO and the U.S. are also cruising the Somali waters that have been plagued by pirate attacks in recent months.

This could be good news, or it could be bad news. One thing that it IS, unfortunately, is rational, at least from China’s point of view. The Chief commented in an earlier post that perhaps if the US and other western navies were doing the job, that the ChiComs wouldn’t feel as much of a need to get into the picture. On the other hand…maybe they would do it anyway…just to prove that they can.

Denny Roy, a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii, said countries in the region will view China’s mission off Somalia differently.

“For Japan and some in South Korea, this is another step in the unwelcome growth of the Chinese navy as a capable blue-water force, which has only downsides for Tokyo and Seoul,” said Roy, an expert on China’s military.

But he said most Southeast Asian countries may see China’s involvement in the anti-piracy campaign as a positive thing. It would mean that China was using its greater military might for constructive purposes, rather than challenging the current international order.

However, the analyst added, “The Chinese deployment gets at a question the U.S. and other governments have been asking: ‘Why the big Chinese military buildup when no country threatens China?’ Or more bluntly, ‘Why do the Chinese need a blue-water navy when the U.S. Navy already polices the world’s oceans?”‘

Roy said the answer is that China is unwilling to rely on the U.S. to protect China’s increasingly global interests.

Given what B.O. stated before the election about a desire to radically chop U.S. defense capabilities, perhaps it is only prudence that the ChiComs actively look out for themselves.

Beijing still believes it needs to enter the field, Roy said, and that leaves open the possibility of a China-U.S. naval rivalry in the future.

A rivalry? THAT would be an improvement over the supine attitudes of the current higher US Naval leadership.

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Rumors of War

Looks like the India-Paki pot may be getting ready to boil over – which COULD get very interesting indeed…since they both have nukie.

Pakistan cancels army leave as India tensions rise

Pakistan canceled army leave and redeployed some troops Friday in a sign of rising tension with India.

The United States urged both sides to refrain from further raising tensions, already high after India blamed Islamist militants based in Pakistan for attacks on Mumbai last month that killed 179 people.

The latest strains followed media reports in Pakistan and India that “several” Indian nationals had been held in the last two days after bombings in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Multan.

The old game of tit-for-tat again.

The South Asian neighbors both tested nuclear weapons in 1998. They have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, and came to the brink of a fourth after gunmen attacked the Indian parliament in December 2001.

Although many analysts say war is very unlikely, international unease is growing.

How reassuring. “Commentators” said war was unlikely in August 1939, also.

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“…we all scream for ice cream!”?

The chief received the following from an e-mail correspondent who is a fellow educator:

Subj: Excellent analogy from a teacher in the Nashville area…

We are worried about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream”

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president.

We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. Heended by promising to do his very best. Every one applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium.

Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down. The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”

She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the  ice cream? She wasn’t sure.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn’t know. The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a land slide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream. The other forty-eight percent know they’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

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Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy

Clinton moves to widen role of State Dept.

Even before taking office, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to build a more powerful State Department, with a bigger budget, high-profile special envoys to trouble spots and an expanded role in dealing with global economic issues at a time of crisis.

Mrs. Clinton is recruiting Jacob J. Lew, the budget director under President Bill Clinton, as one of two deputies, according to people close to the Obama transition team. Mr. Lew’s focus, they said, will be on increasing the share of financing that goes to the diplomatic corps. He and James B. Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, are to be Mrs. Clinton’s chief lieutenants.

Well, a Clinton, is in the end…a Clinton. When in doubt go for more power.

National Insecurity

“Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”

This is a PRIME example of the above proposition.

Carter laments: Terrorists lack ‘defense’ against Israel

The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization lacks missiles to “defend” itself from Israeli aircraft, former President Jimmy Carter claimed upon returning from a trip last week to Lebanon.

“The general showed us a graph of the many flights of Israeli planes over all parts of Lebanon, averaging about a dozen each day. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense,” wrote Carter in a first-person report posted on his Carter Center website.

This is just crazy.

Firstly, the Hezbos are certifiably a hard militant Islamoterr group.

So…Jimmy Peanut cries crocodile tears for them that they don’t have Stinger missiles to shoot down the Israelis? HUH!

Apparently Carter forgets about the penchant that terrs have general mayhem and destruction. Now, what could they do with anti-aircraft. (Think, think!) Have terrs ever been known to go after COMMERCIAL aircraft? Like the Pan-Am that was blown up over Scotland, as an example?

With anti-air, they wouldn’t even have to worry about trying to sneak something past that pesky airport security, and, they might even have a pretty good chance of getting away using “shoot and scoot” tactics.

Carter had his head where the sun doesn’t shine even when he was President 30 years ago. In his case age hasn’t brought wisdom…quite the contrary!

Which brings us back to the opening header of this posting which the Chief shamelessly borrowed from the title of a Michael Savage book.

Q.E.D.

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Animalistic Wierdities

For some reason, these wierd animal items all all popped up at ppretty much the same time.
At least this gives a lot of grist for the mill of the “Crypto-news” department of the late-night talk show COAST-TO-COAST AM.

Yeti ‘photo-fit’ shows ‘potentially explosive’ evidence of elusive mountain beast

Yeti ‘photo-fit’ shows ‘potentially explosive’ evidence of elusive mountain beast

Wildlife painter Polyanna Pickering was shown what is believed to be a 100-year-old yeti scalp at a remote monastery in the Himalayas. At least one expert believe it could be the most important proof yet that the giant apelike beast is more than mere folklore.

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Ms Pickering was gathering material for a new exhibition in the remote Bhutan region of the Himalayas when she made her chance discovery

Next, from the Jersey shore:

Montauk Monster: Mystery animal corpse becomes web sensation

A fearsome sea monster that has trawled the depths of the oceans without discovery for millennia, or just a dead dog?

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Not much comment. Read the story…the Chief inclines towards a decaying dog hypothesis.

Ever wonder who collects the “data” for those studies on bovine digestive gas emissions cow farts that the envirowackos are talking about taxing?
This picture from the London Telegraph is worth 1000 words…or something else, like a scientific grant renewal.

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There are possible early reports of gay activists and P.E.T.A. issuing conflicting opinions as to whether  or not this constitutes animal cruelty, or an acceptable lifestyle choice.  Any further word on this will be watched for.

The Chief is sure you will agree that this story has a somewhat different shading:

Purple squirrel baffles experts

A purple squirrel which appeared at a school has baffled experts who are unable to explain its colour.
Teachers and pupils at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, were amazed when they saw the creature through the window during a lesson.

Since the squirrel, now nicknamed Pete, was first seen, it has become a regular fixture at the school but no one has been able to say whether the animal has fallen into purple paint, had a run-in with some purple dye, or whether there is another explanation.

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No, really! ThisIS  a real news story!

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Glowbull Warming Update

Frankly, the Chief is pleased and rather surprised to see this coming from CNN.

CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory ‘Arrogant’
Network’s second meteorologist to challenge notion man can alter climate.

Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather?

CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.

“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”

Myers is the second CNN meteorologist to challenge the global warming conventions common in the media. He also said trying to determine patterns occurring in the climate would be difficult based on such a short span.

There’s more detail in the original article. Read it if you’re interested in this….if not, you’ve got the gist of it above.

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What’s Chinese for “Anchors Aweigh”?

Chinese flag up anti-pirate fleet

China is considering sending ships to fight pirates off the Horn of Africa in what would be the country’s first significant long-range naval combat mission since the 15th century.

Senior Colonel Huang Xueping, spokesman for China’s ministry of national defence, told the FT an anti-piracy mission was “still in the consideration stage”. But he said: “There will be an announcement very soon.”

What’s wrong with this? Nothing in and of itself, but why isn’t the US Navy acting against piracy?

What in the heck do we have the 5th Fleet in the Indian Ocean for?

The U.S. Navy built its first ships in the 1790’s specifically to respond to demands for “tribute” from Islamic pirates operating from North Africa. Prior to the vote, one Congressman proclaimed “MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE! NOT ONE CENT FOR TRIBUTE!”, and Congress voted accordingly to build such historic ships as the frigate USS Constitution (which is still officially commissioned and on the fleet list).

Nowadays we’re saddled with Admirals that apparently couldn’t find their posteriors with assistance from GPS, extra lookouts, along with surface and air-search radars as evidenced by their apparent lack of knowledge of what our naval ships can do.

Admiral Mike Mullen has expressed surprise at the range of action demonstrated by the Islamopirates operating out of Somalia, and has apparently forgotten that navy ships have GUNS that REALLY can shoot, and MISSILES that do a good job at killing enemies and breaking their stuff too. Perhaps India, whose Navy has demonstrated that it remembers this basic knowledge can send us some advisors to refresh the memory of the Pentagon about the capabilities of naval warships.

The Chief would have thought that the US just MIGHT be able to exercise some leadership in dealing with this problem…but not until those in charge manage to rediscover that they have some cojones. Unfortunately, there probably won’t be much, if any, improvement from the incoming B.O. administration. More’s the pity.

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Not Only Detroit…

News fom across the pond. Looks like the “Big 3″ aren’t the only ones with a problem.

Jaguar Land Rover claims car industry crisis is ‘national emergency’ for UK

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover has claimed that the UK car industry is facing a “national emergency” as new figures showed that production tumbled by a third last month.

It’ll be very interesting to compare and contrast how the Brits deal with this one, after watching the fecklessness of both Congress and the administration.

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Obamacized GOP

Principle: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell wants his party stripped of the Reaganite values that won it the presidency for 20 of the last 28 years. Meet the “Grand Obama Party.”

For many years it has been accepted that Gen. Colin Powell — who became a national icon thanks to appointments by President Ronald Reagan and both President Bushes — was more moderate than many of his colleagues.

What was not known until lately is how much animus he has for the governing philosophy of those who gave him the opportunity to achieve fame and millions in book sales.

In a Sunday CNN interview, Powell charged that Republicans have been “shouting at the world and at the country.” They “use polarization for political advantage,” listen to talk radio hosts who “seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts,” and aren’t looking into the “hearts and minds” of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

ENOUGH ALREADY! As a military leader Powell was supremely successful. Unfortunately, when faced with the political environment where folks don’t snap to a crisp brace when he enters the room, and reply “Yes, sir! Right away sir.” to his political ruminations, they are obviously political trailer-park trash, worthy of no respect or consideration.

The conclusion of this IBD op-ed couldn’t state the result of this, that the path of liberal Republicanism (cough! gag! retch!) is truly the political bridge to nowhere.

Who, after all, would vote for a dime-store Democrat when they can have the Saks Fifth Avenue version? Republicans lost this election not for opposing Roe or supporting tax cuts, but because they nominated a selfless patriot whose position was suspect on issues ranging from taxes to immigration to global warming. They lost because during 12 years of control of Congress, they too often spent money like out-of-control Democrats, thus tarnishing their brand.

When Americans get a taste of the long-term fruits of the taxpayer-funded rescues of industry and finance now being doled out so casually, it won’t be an Obamacized Republican Party they will want to turn to for help; whatever America’s ethnic makeup in the future, we will need leaders who shout on behalf of the principles of freedom.

The LAST thing the GOP needs is another dose of RINO-virus, expecially after the failure of the RINO-ish “maverick” run of the senior senator from Arizona.

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A Failure to Communicate

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS RELEASE REPORT LAMBASTING FCC CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN

Initially received via e-mail from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national ham radio society.

Doesn’t exactly sound expeditious at the FCC:

On Tuesday, December 9, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce — the congressional committee that oversees the Federal Communications Commission — released its majority staff report “on the bipartisan investigation of the FCC’s regulatory processes and management practices.” The report — “Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin J. Martin” — stated that the investigation was prompted “by allegations to the effect that [FCC] Chairman Kevin J. Martin has abused FCC procedures by manipulating or suppressing reports, data and information”

“Our investigation confirmed a number of troubling allegations raised by individuals in and outside the FCC,” said Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. “The Committee staff report details some of the most egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data under Chairman Martin’s leadership. It is my hope that this report will serve as a roadmap for a fair, open and efficient FCC under new leadership in the next administration.”

One can always hope for a change…wait a minute…didn’t that happen?

Unfortunately, the new administration doesn’t seem poised to improve the situation…what with the talk about a revival of the late, un-great “Fairness” Censorship Doctrine.

“Here comes the new Boss, same as the old Boss.” – The Who (Won’t Get Fooled Again)

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More of that Glowbull Warming!

Sleet, snow tail off in New Orleans

For the first time in nearly four years, snow fell across the New Orleans region this morning, with flurries reported on the north shore and in the city, Metairie, Kenner, LaPlace and other parts of the south shore….By mid-morning, enough snow had accumulated on the ground in some areas to lure children and adults onto their front lawns to build snowmen or have snowball fights. In the city, neutral grounds remained blanketed in white, though the streets generally remained clear as the wet stuff melted upon hitting the pavement.

Right….glowbull warming!

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Glowbull Warming Updates – cont’d

Several items giving a snapshot of some current glowbull warming items:

First, The Priests and Authorities of the Great Green Orthodox Church of Gaia have spoken squawked again:

Thousands Negotiate New Climate Treaty

Scientists studying the changing nature of the Earth’s climate say they have completed one crucial task — proving beyond a doubt that global warming is real.

Sorry…these so-called authorities are severe victims of GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. Their data and logic is fatally flawed. Enough already!

Now they have to figure out just what to do about it.

This is admittedly a HUGE problem. Said experts would be unable to find their way to reason with the help of satellite views, Google Earth, GPS, and a live OnStar consultation, so how could they be expected to figure out how to solve a problem that they are essentially powerless to affect anyway. (Last time the Chief looked, no one has figured out how to regulate solar activity yet.)

“It is critical for us to get a much better understanding of the impact of climate change in some parts of the world,” Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.

WOW! Truth at last! It IS critical to get a much better understanding of the subject, since they are thus far patently incapable of figuring things out with any degree of scientific rigor.

Anyway…can it be…science is NOT unanimous aboout this stuff?

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? – Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’

The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.

Wait a minute! Only 52 “scientists” wrote the IPCC Policy Summary? And 650 refute it? Uh….where’s the bit about “proving beyond a doubt” noted in the previously noted piece?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, in Texas, glowbull warming makes its presence felt with a winter heat wave:

Snow surprises Houston-area residents

White stuff fell across much of the Houston area Wednesday evening, as temperatures hovered just above freezing, tying a record for the city’s earliest ever snowfall.

Jingle bells!

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Arab Literacy?

UN Survey: Arabs Read Approximately 4 Pages Per Year

This explains quite a lot.

The average Arab in the Middle East reads approximately four pages worth of literature a year, according to a RIA Novosti Russian news service report published in November.

The Syrian newspaper Tishreen, commenting on a recent survey conducted by the United Nations, said that according to the study, Americans read an average of 11 books a year, with the average Briton reading eight books.

The Arab Thought Foundation, which reports on cultural development in Arab countries, concluded that only a little more than 8 percent of Arabs aspire to a higher education.

The U.N. survey reported that every year, one new book title is published per 12,000 people in the Arab world, as compared with one per 500 people in Britain.

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“I Want to Make Money”

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Ill. Gov. arrested in Obama successor probe

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president.

Hmmmm. Seems like the Gov got caught doing the next best thing to putting the Obama Senate seat up on e-Bay, among OTHER things.

Having grown up in St. Louis, the Chief was always bemused (at least) by the news drifting across the Mississippi like some type of political air pollution, bearing word of various and sundry forms of political machinations, corruption, and irregularities, all on a grand enough scale to make even south St. Louis look clean by comparison.

Illinois has a LONG tradition of this sort of thing…it’ll be sort of fun to watch it all unwind…could it move in the direction of the new White House? Nah – of COURSE not! Just because B.O. was groomed and promoted by the Daley Chicago Machine, THAT’s nothing…or is it?

Stay tuned. Wonder if any TV caught the Gov doing the “perp-walk”.

Can you say “S-C-H-A-D-E-N-F-R-E-U-D”?

Space Patrol

Private Space – Soon Available!

RocketShip Tours to Sell Rides to Edge of Space Aboard XCOR’s Lynx

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A travel entrepreneur who introduced hundreds of thousands of Americans to European travel in the 1960’s has taken luxury travel to new heights – the edge of space.

Jules Klar, founder of Phoenix, AZ-based RocketShip Tours, has announced that his company will immediately begin selling rides to the edge of space for $95,000 per flight. Participants will fly aboard the Lynx, a two-seat suborbital vehicle being built by California-based XCOR Aerospace.

The future is now.

Anyone got an extra $95K to sponsor the Chief for a great report? Ha ha.

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B.O.’s Slide to the Right Continues

Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: aide

Another encouraging note from the “Office of the President-Elect”, as B.O. has designated it.

President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday.

The Chief can only hope that thi trend continues…a Donk practicing centrist beats the heck out of what could be expected based on past history, with Ayers, “Rev.” Wright, etc.

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Georgia Elephants Hang Tough!

Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff

Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight.

Chambliss’ victory thwarted Democrats’ hopes of winning a 60 seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. It came after a bitter month long runoff against Democrat Jim Martin that drew political luminaries from both parties to the state and flooded the airwaves with fresh attack ads weeks after campaigns elsewhere had ended.

Minnesota – where a recount is under way – now remains the only unresolved Senate contest in the country. But the stakes there are significantly lower now that Georgia has put a 60-seat Democratic supermajority out of reach.

With 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Chambliss captured 60 percent to Martin’s 40 percent. Chambliss’ win is a rare bright spot for Republicans in a year where they lost the White House as well as seats in the House and the Senate.

So much for the Donks’ dreams of a veto-proof majority. Chambliss did pretty good too! 70% is impressive any time…even more so this year.