Obama and the monkey god

I thought this was a joke when I first saw it at The Times of India website. Then I googled “Obama Lord Hanuman” and got a bunch of hits. It probably would be counterproductive to make too much of Obama’s lucky charm, but a story about his “faith” in a golden monkey idol of is just too good to ignore.

 

10 Concerns about Barack Obama

Bill Bennett has put together a two page summary of 10 Concerns about Barack Obama  that’s very well thought out.  He talked about it yesterday on his radio show (5-8am at 1070 AM).  I could make a similar list of problems I have with McCain, but on every one of them Obama is even worse.

 

The sky is falling!

“James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming…” [Link]

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I suppose pointing Mr. Hansen to the first amendment’s guarantee of free speech would be too much to ask of him, and do little good anyway. He would just point out that it doesn’t give us the right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. On the other hand, just who is it that’s yelling “fire”?

Question of the day

Just curious…..How long have the Dimocrats been saying that drilling new wells won’t help reduce the price of gasoline because it takes 10 years to get it into production?

Also, if it’s true that ‘speculators’ are one of the culprits behind the recent price increase, doesn’t it follow that futures markets would react quickly if the U.S. announced an aggressive energy policy?

 

Just another broken promise

Obama Breaks Earlier Pledge on Public Financing
[Wall Street Journal]
Barack Obama announced today that he will not accept roughly $85 million in public funds for the general election, breaking his earlier pledge to do so if his Republican rival John McCain opted in to the system.

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

by John Coleman
(founder and former President of The Weather Channel)

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.  It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline.  All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam.

[full text of speech]

 

$4 Gasbags

Wall Street Journal - June 12, 2008; Page A16

Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress's recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate's carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for "price gouging" – everything except expanding domestic energy supplies.

Amid $135 oil, it ought to be an easy, bipartisan victory to lift the political restrictions on energy exploration and production. Record-high fuel costs are hitting consumers and business like a huge tax increase. Yet the U.S. remains one of the only countries in the world that chooses as a matter of policy to lock up its natural resources. The Chinese think we're insane and self-destructive, while the Saudis laugh all the way to the bank.  [link to full article]

Mallard nails it!

Dimocrats

Earmarks After Dark
Wall Street Journal - May 31, 2008; Page A10

Remember those Congressional pledges of earmark reform? Democrats are hoping you don't, as they try to pull a fast one and evade President Bush's pledge to block these special-interest spending projects slipped into legislation without scrutiny.

The battle is over the $601 billion defense authorization bill, which the House passed last week, 384-23. Earmarks are supposed to be included in the text of legislation. Instead, the Members have "airdropped," in Beltway parlance, a huge number of them into the conference report that accompanies the bill. And, to ensure that the money is spent on these dark-of-night additions, the Members have included language insisting that federal agencies do so.

This is a blatant attempt to override Mr. Bush's executive order earlier this year on earmarks. That order took direct aim at "airdropped" earmarks on grounds that they lack the force of law. If Members think their projects are defensible, then put them into actual legislation and vote on them. But because this can be politically embarrassing – think "bridge to nowhere" – Members prefer to slip their pork into the conference reports that offer instructions on implementation. These reports are written by staff members, aren't debated or voted on by Members, and aren't signed by the President. [full editorial]

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One more proof (as if we needed it) that the only thing worse than a Republican is a Democrat.

Promises, promises.

Susan Sarandon vows move to Italy or Canada if McCain elected...[link]

 

Didn’t Alec Baldwin promise the same thing 8 years ago?  Has he left yet?

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

The following is the winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term was 'Political Correctness'.

The winner wrote:

'Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'

Operation Chaos

John Kerry said today that "Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary."

 

Sometimes I wonder if Kerry (and the other Dimocrats) are as much worried about terrorists as they are Limbaugh.

 

Service to America

"Every challenge is an opportunity to
measure one's strength of character."
--John McCain

John McCain's Service to America speech in Meridian, Mississipi on March 31 offers some excellent insights into his own strength of character, and how it was forged. We need to enthusiastically support this man. He may not be right on every issue, but he clearly understands the most important ones.
Remember what the Good Book says:

Whatever is true,
whatever is noble,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable—
if anything is excellent
or praiseworthy—
think about such things.
--Philippians 4:8

Global Warming Takes a Holiday

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say

by Jim Efstathiou Jr. on Bloomberg

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

``Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,'' Wood said in an interview. ``Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there's no global warming going on.''

``If we don't experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn't mean that greenhouse-gas warming is not with us,'' Keenlyside said in an interview. ``There can be natural fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term.''

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Gosh, I’m sure glad they told me!  I might have ‘erroneously’ concluded that natural fluctuations in the solar cycle might have something to do with it.

America

The consequence of our common humanity is our responsibility to one another, to our fellow Americans foremost, but also to every child of God. It is an obligation which is fulfilled by Americans every day, here and across the globe, without regard to creed or race or nationality.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America’s sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century’s terrible wars — no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty. America’s resolve in the defense of liberty has been tested time and again. It has not been found wanting, nor must it ever be. America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom.

Mitt Romney at College Station, Texas, 12/6/2007

 

Why are we even bothering to hold an election? 
On one side, we have a bitch who is a lawyer and is married to a lawyer, 
campaigning against a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is also a lawyer.
On the other side we have a war hero married to a  

woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship. 

What was the question? 

 

Science

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

- Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi

 

Is this really an Oboma-nation?

 

Obama baby

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, speaking of his daughters, said, if they “make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

I suppose it’s true that one woman’s blessing might be another’s curse, but it does shed new light on a mindset that supports partial birth abortions.

 

Poor, poor pitiful me...

John McCain says “Americans are hurting today.”

Barack Obama says Americans are “bitter.”

 

Why do these politicians think it’s good strategy to make us feel sorry for ourselves?  What makes them think stroking my self-pity will make me want to vote for them?