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From The Endive – The News Leader of the Known Universe

Toyota faced another massive setback today as the beleaguered carmaker recalled 400,000 Hondas for faulty airbags.

“We are very sorry,” said Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation, “We are so, so sorry. We should have been more careful about the quality of Honda’s airbags. A thousand times, I am sorry. Please accept my apology.”

Toyota announced two measures the company will be taking in response to the recall. First, a new airbag switch will be installed in all of the Hondas in order to correct the problem. Second, all Toyota and Honda owners will receive a free fish.

A very baffled Takeo Fukui, President and CEO of Honda Motor Company, was unsure how to respond to Toyota recalling 400,000 of his vehicles.

“We were totally planning on recalling those cars ourselves,” said Fukui, “But Toyota got in there ahead of us, apologized and offered everyone a fish. I wanted to apologize! Why can’t I be the one to apologize! Dammit, I wanted to give you a fish!”

Honda owners worldwide were nervous about unpredictable airbags, which, due to a programming error, would inflate whenever someone said the word “Tromboner.”

“I was taking my kid to band practice, and suddenly I heard a loud boom and had an airbag in my face,” said Hallie Leonard, the mother of a band geek who also happens to be cheating on her husband with a chimney sweep, “I’m so glad Toyota took swift action. I think all anybody really wants is to know that their car will do what it’s supposed to do and that someone will give them a fish.”

The President praised Toyota for its quick reaction to the crisis.

“I would like to praise Toyota for its quick reaction to the crisis,” said Barack Obama, “It’s about time these corporate slimeballs owned up to their failures. I would encourage Toyota to submit themselves to a congressional panel. We would investigate them thoroughly, then direct them to build green cars, generate green jobs, and suck up tax money like the freaking Virginia DMV. We also expect fish.”

Toyota has already begun shipping the new airbag switches to dealers, as well as 400,000 fish.

“We’re prepared to install the new switches quickly and efficiently,” said Ronnie Johnston, a service manager at a Toyota dealership in Huntsville, “But we have no clue how to handle all these f**king fish. People, we have a service bay full of fish. Please take one or we’re screwed.”

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The Patriot Post Chronicles

The Foundation

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” –Thomas Jefferson

Editorial Exegesis

“Professional global warming alarmists better think about looking for new jobs. It looks like they’re in for a long, cold winter — and a frigid spring and summer as well. Those who’ve been spreading global-warming fears must be waking up each morning anxd asking themselves: What’s going to happen today? A new revelation about the corruption of climate science has become almost a daily event. On Thursday, the U.K.’s Telegraph reported that India was pulling out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and forming its own agency to study global warming. Why? Because the Indian government feels it can’t depend on the IPCC’s work. And why should it? The concerns about the IPCC’s accuracy are justified. … Compounding the headaches for warm-mongers is a probe being launched by the British Parliament into the Climate Research Unit e-mail scandal.    …    The inquiry is intended ‘to determine whether there is any evidence of the manipulation or suppression of data which is at odds with acceptable scientific practice and may therefore call into question any of the research outcomes.’ This isn’t terribly fresh news, having been announced on Jan. 22 by Parliament. But news that casts doubt on global warming tends to move slowly, if at all, in the U.S. media. If not for the foreign press, the inquiry would be virtually unknown in this country. That 2007 report helped the IPCC win a share of the Nobel Prize. But its work is looking less credible by the day. Can any of its claims be trusted? Its authors — who merely compiled others’ work and did no research of their own — sure haven’t inspired confidence in their work. In fact, their blunders are quickly pushing the global warming farce toward a grand collapse.” –Investor’s Business Daily

Upright

“The Left doesn’t want to govern, it wants to rule…. The Left is not about principles. It is about itself. It is about power. Now that President Obama has been politically weakened, look for the mask to come back on. The words of sweet reason, the entreaties to ‘make a deal,’ and feigned affection will now make a surprise reappearance. When the Left cannot rule, it will try to govern. Until the next time.” –columnist Richard Fernandez

“Republicans’ objection to national health care could be more accurately portrayed as follows: Obama’s plan to nationalize health care was a terrible idea because it would turn over one-sixth of the American economy to Washington bureaucrats, who would run the system as competently as the federal government runs everything else, from airport security to the post office to FEMA.” –columnist Ann Coulter

“The fate of ObamaCare is starting to have something of the feel of a Greek tragedy. We are not superstitious, but [Rep. Jack] Murtha’s death as the result of medical error at a government-run hospital is certainly an eerie coincidence.” –Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto

“Today’s tax system was shaped by sadists who were trying to be nice: Every wrinkle in the code was put there to benefit this or that interest. Since the 1986 tax simplification, the code has been recomplicated more than 14,000 times — more than once a day.” –columnist George Will

“Obama’s budget points to a dismal future in which half of the country subsists on welfare while the other half receives a paycheck for processing welfare claims in the federal bureaucracy.” –columnist Jeffrey Folks

“In the first post-primary Rasmussen survey in Illinois for the Senate seat briefly held by President Obama, the Republican Mark Kirk ‘holds a modest 46% to 40% lead over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias.’ How embarrassing, how debilitating, would it be if Democrats were to lose Obama’s U.S. Senate seat?” –political analyst Rich Galen

“Americans rightly believe that we can build anything that needs building and fix anything that is broken. And, that we can do that by living out our nation’s founding principles and values: constitutional government, respect for private property and life, a free market — and the gumption of hard-working, inventive Americans.” –columnist Tony Blankley

Insight

“We can’t reduce taxes until we reduce government spending, and I have to point out that government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always needs the money it gets.” –Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

“[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back.” –General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)

Dezinformatsia

A label to embrace: “President Obama [is] on the offensive. He has challenged Republicans to a kind of political truth or dare, a meeting February 25 broadcast on TV to discuss health care reform so the country can decide whether Republicans want action or are just the ‘Party of No’?” –ABC’s Diane Sawyer (As if saying “No” to socialism is a bad thing…)

Pot and kettle? “A Palin campaign would certainly be different: Appearing before friendly crowds, using Facebook and Twitter to control the message, not answering tough questions.” –NBC’s Andrea Mitchell (Sounds strikingly similar to the Obama campaign.)

That must be it: “Is Barack Obama just too complex for voters to figure out?” –New York Times columnist Richard Stevenson

World’s smallest violin: “Where are they going to go, the Left? Where, actually, are the Left going to go? They may be disaffected.” –former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown (How about communist China?)

It’s called national security: “President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. Unfortunately, the president has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Where’s the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither of which was ever fully explained or justified. Obama has merely picked up the sword that Bush left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan.” –White House press corpse reporter Helen Thomas

Newspulper Headlines:

It’s a Tough Job, but Someone’s Gotta Do It: “Bill Clinton to Oversee Haiti Aid” –Straits Times (Singapore) ++ “Ohio Strip Club Hosts ‘Lap Dances for Haiti’” –Associated Press

Socialists Have Positive View of Democracy: Now That Would Be News: “Gallup: Majority of Democrats ‘Have a Positive View of Socialism’” –FreeMarketMojo.com

We Blame George W. Bush: “Charlie Sheen’s Car Found at Bottom of Cliff” –People.com

We Blame Global Warming: “Obama Vows to Beat ‘Blizzard’ of Opposition” –Agence France-Presse

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Cross Found at Air Force Academy’s Wicca Center” –Los Angeles Times

News of the Tautological: “Climate Change Research Bungle” –Sunday Telegraph (London)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “New Errors in IPCC Climate Change Report” –Sunday Telegraph

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

The Demo-gogues

Darn that financial system: “We’ve got to be non-ideological about our approach to [economic policy]. We’ve gotta make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning. So we can’t be demonizing, uh, every bank out there. We’ve got to be the party of business, small business and large business, because they produce jobs.” –Barack Obama (Like it or not the financial system has to function? That’s reassuring.)

Needs remedial Civics 101: “This is a democracy. Look, I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, you know, academically approved approach to health care [that] didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it. And just go ahead and have that passed. But that’s not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people. Many of whom have their constituents’ best interests at heart.” –Barack Obama, complaining about representative government — which isn’t a democracy, by the way

We will: “[I]t may be that … if Congress decides we’re not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not. And that’s how democracy works. There will be elections coming up, and they’ll be able to make a determination and register their concerns.” –the condescending and arrogant BO

Warning: “Just in case there’s any confusion out there, I’m not going to walk away from health care.” –Barack Obama (Lest there be confusion in Washington, we don’t want your health care.)

Warning II: “In a letter to President Obama, Senator Ted Kennedy wrote about the need for health care reform. He said what we face is, above all, a moral issue. At stake are not just the principles, the details of the policy, but the fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country. With Senator Kennedy as our inspiration, with the leadership of President Barack Obama and with your help, we will pass health insurance reform this year.” –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Clear as mud: “I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is we’re not handling any of these [terrorist] cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11.” –Barack Obama now trying to use George W. Bush to back himself up

Village Idiots

The battle isn’t over: “[O]ne of the things that Barack Obama said and continues to say is change isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight. And it certainly doesn’t happen in a year. He’s not done yet. He’s got more time.” –First Lady Michelle Obama

Left-theology: “We have to understand that the notion of a homosexual sexual orientation is a notion that’s only about 125 years old. That is to say, St. Paul was talking about people that he understood to be heterosexual engaging in same-sex acts. It never occurred to anyone in ancient times that a certain minority of us would be born being affectionally oriented to people of the same sex.” –homosexual Episcopal Bishop Vicky Gene Robinson (In other words, it’s okay as long as you really mean it.)

Non Compos Mentis: “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it. That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.” –NOW president Terry O’Neill on the Super Bowl ad featuring Pam and Tim Tebow

Stay tuned: “The Iranian nation, with its unity and god’s grace, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned.” –Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Short Cuts

“At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or, as the president called him, ‘Corpseman Bouchard.’ Twice. Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander in chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest. And, when you give as many speeches as this guy does, there’s no time to rehearse or read through: You just gotta fire up the prompter and wing it. But it’s revealing that nobody around him in the so-called smartest administration of all time thought to spell it out phonetically for him when the speech got typed up and loaded into the machine. Which suggests that either his minders don’t know that he doesn’t know that kinda stuff, or they don’t know it, either. To put it in Rumsfeldian terms, they don’t know what they don’t know.” –columnist Mark Steyn

“As bleak as things are, the silver lining is that [Obama] is the man who campaigned on behalf of R. Creigh Deeds, Jon Corzine and, most recently, Martha Coakley. At this point, it’s only a rumor, but I’ve heard that the RNC is negotiating with the president to campaign non-stop for Democratic candidates later this year. … Based on his record thus far, if Obama was a baseball team, he would be the Chicago Black Sox; if he was a disease, he’d be the bubonic plague; and if he was a ship, he’d be the Titanic.” –columnist Burt Prelutsky

“The president dismisses his lack of success by claiming he has not communicated his message enough. Really? I don’t care how many news conferences you have, how many speeches you give, or how much money you spend on public relations, if the dog food is bad, the dogs won’t eat it.” –former Oklahoma Congressman J. C. Watts

“The Weather Channel reported Thursday that last week’s ice storms in the South knocked out electricity in some areas for a week. Oklahoma has a firewood shortage because the trees are all frozen. People are staying warm by burning Al Gore’s books.” –comedian Argus Hamilton

“It’s going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries ‘uncle.’” –Sen. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)

“The Saints won [the Super Bowl] 31-17 over the weekend, and there was a huge snowstorm in Washington with over two feet of snow. So it’s true what people say, that the Saints would win when hell freezes over.” –comedian Jay Leno

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11:29 am Update The snow keeps coming. It’s simply gorgeous!

It’s now Snowing and Blowing. Gusts up to 40 mph.

Let’s pray for all those who are on the roads, that they may safely reach their destinations.

More pics follow at the end AND a reply to Tony about Dilmah tea.

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No Thanks to the Charlatan Al Gore and his “Global Warming” Lies!

Oh, ‘Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow’.

That’s how I feel about it. Of course if you are obligated to travel tonight or tomorrow you probably feel quite differently.

‘Let it snow” was written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in 1945. It was written in July 1945 in Hollywood, California during one of the hottest days on record.

It was first recorded by Vaughn Monroe on October 31, 1945. He has a fantastic, mellow, voice!

One of the best-selling songs of all time, “Let It Snow!” has been covered countless times. Due to its seasonal lyrics, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Despite its cheery, holiday feel, it is a love song that never mentions Christmas and both the composer and lyricist were Jewish.

In South Central Pennsylvania, It is predicted that we will get 4 to 11 inches, give or take a foot or so.        …   (more…)

By Michael Fumento

Despite massive subsidies, wind power still only provides about two percent of U.S. energy. Part of the problem is inherent. It takes a lot of turbines to produce the power that a single coal-fired or nuke plant can produce. So wind farms are going to comprise a lot of turbines. And that causes problems, as we’ve been seeing in a 10-year fight over constructing a 130-turbine offshore wind farm near Martha’s Vineyard.

It would be the first offshore wind project in the country and furnish about 75 percent of Cape Cod’s energy.

Ian Bowles, the Massachusetts energy and environmental affairs secretary, has called the project “symbolic of America’s struggle with clean energy. Its symbolism has risen above the number of megawatts.”

Although some protests have been dealt with, including potential hindrance to navigation and fishing and harm to birds, Indians are still against it. (I used to say “native Americans” until once when I was interviewing two of them and I kept saying “native Americans” and they kept referring to themselves as “Indians.”)

The Indians in the area practice a sunrise ritual on the sound and also say they may have artifacts buried beneath the seabed, according to the Washington Post. They’ve gotten the sound qualified for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, which could restrict its commercial use.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says that although his department is trying to broker a deal between the tribes and Energy Management, the company seeking to build the farm, “I’m not holding my breath for a consensus.” If both sides can’t settle on a compromise by April, he says, he’s going to just lay down the law himself in April and probably tick off everybody.

Michael Moynihan, director of the Green Project at NDN, a centrist think tank, told the Post, “It is emblematic of the difficulty of getting wind online, anywhere in America, with a system designed a century ago that is frankly hostile to renewable energy.”

Right. If it were just a few tightly-bunched turbines, it wouldn’t be a problem. But these farms, in addition to things like chopping up birds and bats have a big and obvious footprint.

Compare that with the nearest power plant to my home, which I often pass on my bike rides. It’s small, but probably provides more power than hundreds of turbines. Nonetheless, being coal-powered it drew the ire of a number of local residents. So the owners did something really smart. They built a wooden wall around the plant, then painted a very nice mural on it depicting local history.

This being the land of George Washington, the murals include such as Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. The wall isn’t that high, yet it’s enough so that if you didn’t already know the plant was there you wouldn’t know it was there. It has smokestacks, but you never see anything come out of them. The only ugly aspect was the coal pile, and it’s now obscured.

Out of sight, out of mind. But you can’t do that with wind. Solar has its own problem, also based on inefficiency, in that it requires huge tracts of land for all the panels needed.

But if you’re looking for new facilities that don’t produce greenhouse gas emissions there is a fourth solution. Nuclear power. A natural gas-burning power plant under construction has just exploded, killing five people. Every year, American coal miners die violently in mines or slowly from exposure to coal dust. Nuclear power in this country has never killed anybody. No birds, no bats, and most importantly no humans. That’s also true in France, where 70 percent of their power comes from nukes.

And today’s nuke plant designs are less prone to accidents than ever.

The writing is on the wall. Go nuclear.

TonyfromOz adds …..

Secretary Of The Interior Ken Salazar gets a mention here. For more detail on his ‘perceptions’ with respect to Wind Power Generation, take this link, and for even more detail on aspects regarding Wind Power generation, take this link, these just two posts of many at our site on this Wind Power topic.

Michael Fumento is a director of the Independent Journalism Project, is an investigative reporter, author, attorney and photographer specializing in science and health issues. He contributes posts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute at their Open Market.org site.

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By Alan Caruba

It should tell you something about the federal government’s puerile efforts to advance the global warming (now called climate change) fraud that it had to cancel a scheduled press conference at the National Press Club on February 8th because a huge blizzard had shut down the entire city.

Instead, the announcement of a proposed new bureaucracy, a “Climate Service”, had to be made via a telephone conference call to those reporters either too stupid or too determined to maintain the hoax.

The fact that the Obama administration would attempt to set up a NOAA Climate Service reveals that the same cabal of warmists within the administration are determined to keep the global warming fraud alive and to make U.S. taxpayers pick up the tab. These people constitute a relentless enemy of scientific truth.

Joe D’Aleo, a respected meteorologist, reacted to the news saying, “This was expected. A climate super agency was talked about for years. Could NOAA and NASA have been competing by seeing who could be warmest and take home the prize? NOAA’s statements showed how this whole climate nonsense is politically driven…”

NOAA, for example, is warning of “earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons”, but Steven Goddard points out that “what NOAA isn’t saying is that snow is falling earlier and heavier in the Northern Hemisphere. Rutgers University Global Snow Lab has reported that January was the sixth snowiest on record, and that six of the last eight Januaries were above normal snowfall.” February is set to break former record snowfalls.

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is, according to Jane Lubchenco, PhD, an administrator, “committed to scientific integrity and transparency; we seek to advance science and strengthen product development and delivery through user engagement.”

That is hogwash!

A visit to NOAA’s new website, www.climate.gov, reveals how the same old lies about global warming are being trotted out to scare the heck out of a public that has long since concluded it is a vast pile of steaming hot lies.

It’s worth asking why a new climate bureaucracy is needed when, if you think about it, climate trends are measured in centuries!

Do we need a “Climate Service” to tell us that the climate will change a thousand years from now? The proposal is absurd, but not if you see if from the point of view of an administration desperate to expand the federal government until it literally implodes.

The proposed agency would be led by Thomas Karl, the director of the current National Climatic Data Center, headquartered in Washington, D.C., and would have six regional directors across the country. All this to predict what the climate will be in 3010 and beyond!

Consider that we already have a National Weather Service that has the best computer models available and a vast array of satellites with which to analyze the weather. At best it can only accurately predict what will likely occur over the next four days. Predicting next week’s weather is a roll of the weather dice.

Given the reports of how the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change devoted decades to fudging and jiggering the data on “global warming”, why would Congress even consider authorizing such a “climate service”? Some of those involved included IPCC scientists from academic meteorological centers in the U.S. and some are already under investigation for their role in the fraud, both here and in England.

NOAA and NASA consistently issued statements and reports intended to support the global warming hoax. Leading the effort was James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute, who kicked off the entire hoax back in the 1980s by warning Congress of a completely invented scenario of an Earth endangered by human beings using energy resources from oil to coal.

Al Gore, a former Vice President, has massively enriched himself by scare mongering of the worst kind, aided and abetted by NASA and NOAA, along with determined effort to foist the worst kind of energy sources, wind and solar, on the nation with billion dollar subsidies to these and other “clean” energy entrepreneurs. He is part of an international cabal selling worthless “carbon credits.”

The “Cap-and-Trade” Act, still waiting action in the Senate, would impose a massive tax on Americans for the crime of using energy for any reason. It would destroy what’s left of our economy.

The Climate Service demonstrates that the most thoroughly discredited information and individuals within our government are still determined to push ahead with the global warming fraud. It not only needs to be stopped, but all those involved with it need to be investigated by Congress.

Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.

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By Jeff Poor

With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow, and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns.

But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it’s ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall totals could cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. On MSNBC’s Feb. 8 “The Dylan Ratigan Show,” Ratigan criticized those who would dare express misgivings about climate change based on the so-called “snowpocalypse.”

“Here’s the problem – these ‘snowpocalypses’ that have been going through D.C. and other extreme weather events are precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing and anticipating because of global warming,” Ratigan said.

In fact, Ratigan told viewers during the “Busted” segment of his program, that the heavy snowfall totals were evidence of global warming.

“Why is that? The thinking that warmer air temperatures on the earth, a higher air temperature, has a greater capacity to hold moisture at any temperature,” Ratigan said. “And then as winter comes in, that warm air cools full of water, and you get heavier precipitation on a more regular basis. In fact, you could argue these storms are not evidence of a lack of global warming, but are evidence of global warming – thus the 26 inches of snowfall in the DC area and the second giant storm this year.” [Emphasis added]

Ratigan criticized a TV spot by Virginia Republicans designed to ridicule proposed climate change policies that could hurt the state’s job situation. He suggested there was some sort of schism in that state’s GOP because the Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell has said global warming is potentially an issue.

“On a side note, Virginia’s newly elected Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell says he accepts the science that is out there and warned that planet warming is quote, ‘a real concern.’ So I don’t know where the Virginia GOP is at, maybe they don’t know the science, or maybe they want to win at any cost. I don’t know, maybe they just wanted to make a commercial.”

TonyfromOz adds …..

This is indicative of these commentators. Go back again and watch the video very carefully. Note the times he pauses between some words. The Teleprompter sits just above or just under the lens, so as he reads it, it looks like he’s staring into the lens, and hence, out at the viewers. He just reads what is on the screen, written by the writers before the telecast goes to air. His pauses are so that he ‘get’s  it’ correctly for the viewers. He has no real idea what he’s saying, as he’s just reading it from the screen as it scrolls. Ask him five minutes later, off camera, to explain it again, and he could not, because he has no real concept of what he’s just said. If he doesn’t understand it, cannot explain it, and has no idea what he has just said, how can we trust what he’s trying to tell us as being true. This is just so patently obvious.

Jeff Poor writes at the NewsBusters site.

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By Scooter Van Neuter

TEHRAN (SR) – Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that his country will deliver a punch that will stun the Western world during this week’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

“The Iranian nation, with its unity and God’s grace will serve a powerful punch that will leave them (Western powers) stunned,” Khamenei told a gathering of air force personnel.

The Pentagon brushed aside the Iranian leader’s threat, saying intelligence sources indicate the punch does not constitute a serious danger to the United States.

“We believe it’s the same common Middle Eastern yogurt and fruit punch, “Mango Lassi,” with maybe some rat poison or antifreeze added. We suggest Westerners just not drink it,” said a Pentagon spokesman.

Khamenei was at the Tehran air force base to announce the formation of Iran’s first tactical heavy bomber wing.

My comments: I wouldn’t drink punch made with yogurt even without the rat poison. Also, I’m not all that impressed with their stupid air force. Let’s enjoy a delicious margarita while we cower in our bomb shelters:)

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Snowmageddon

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No pun in ten did

The ability to make and understand puns is considered to be the highest level of language development. Test your pun comprehension:

1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, “I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”

2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, “Dam!”

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, “I’ve lost my electron.” The other says, “Are you sure?” The first replies “Yes, I’m positive.”

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. “But why?”, they asked, as they moved off. “Because,” he said, “I can’t stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.”

7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named “Ahmal.” The other goes to a family in Spain , they name him “Juan.” Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, “They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Ahmal.”

8. A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to “persuade” them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he’d be back if they didn’t close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him … a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

10. And finally, Patriot Humor sent ten different puns to their subscribers, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

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My Dog

My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day. He has his food prepared for him. He can eat whenever he wants, 24/7/365. His meals are provided at no cost to him. He visits the Dr. once a year for his checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise. For this he pays nothing, and nothing is required of him. He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep. If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep. He receives these accommodations absolutely free. He is living like a king, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever. All of his costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day. I was just thinking about all this, and suddenly it hit me like a brick in the head: My dog must be a democrat!

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Motivation

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Ask Uncle Jay

That was exciting: a lightning-fast turnaround, a swift rush forward, and suddenly all the barriers are broken! But enough about your Toyota … how about them Saints! Uncle Jay explains it all, without funny commercials. Watch Video…

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By Andrew Bolt

James Hansen is perhaps the most radical and high-profile warmist scientist. He advises Al Gore and is head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the four main bodies (and the most controversial) which calculate global temperatures.

His building, incidentally, is above the cafe shown in Seinfeld as the hang-out for Jerry and his friends. And Bishop Hill now reveals that one of Hansen’s own colleagues thinks the chapter of the IPCC 2007 report than blames man for recent warming is just another show about nothing.

While perusing some of the review comments to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, I came across the contributions of Andrew Lacis, a colleague of James Hansen’s at GISS. Lacis’s is not a name I’ve come across before but some of what he has to say about Chapter 9 of the IPCC’s report is simply breathtaking…

Remember, this guy is mainstream, not a sceptic, and you may need to remind yourself of that fact several times as you read through his comment on the executive summary of the chapter:

There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department. The points being made are made arbitrarily with legal sounding caveats without having established any foundation or basis in fact. The Executive Summary seems to be a political statement that is only designed to annoy greenhouse skeptics. Wasn’t the IPCC Assessment Report intended to be a scientific document that would merit solid backing from the climate science community – instead of forcing many climate scientists into having to agree with greenhouse skeptic criticisms that this is indeed a report with a clear and obvious political agenda. Attribution can not happen until understanding has been clearly demonstrated. Once the facts of climate change have been established and understood, attribution will become self-evident to all. The Executive Summary as it stands is beyond redemption and should simply be deleted.

I do not think “consensus” means what the warmists say it means.

UPDATE

Pick how many of these 10 captions on a News Ltd slideshow to illustrate “climate change” are actually false or deceptive. And nominate the most deceptive of the lot. (I exclude caption 10 because confusing CO2 and water vapor with “smoke” is just a gimme.)

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

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By Alan Caruba

I couldn’t have known it at the time, but my generation that attended schools in the 1950s would be among the last to get an education that the federal government hadn’t dictated or the United Nations had not infiltrated.

The education I received was intended to be primarily a function of local communities with oversight by the states. I often remind people that the word “education” does not appear in the Constitution as a function of the federal government because it was always a local responsibility.

As the school systems, especially in the urban centers of the nation, began to grow in size, various social reformers saw the schools as the perfect place to indoctrinate students. Compulsory schooling ensured that masses of young people would be imprisoned in classrooms for the purpose of turning them into productive citizens. The result was and is masses of bored young people.

Many of the innovations and inventions we take for granted were the result of people who did not attend or do well in school. Thomas Edison was sent home because he asked too many questions! He was home schooled after that and the result was countless inventions including the iconic electric light bulb.

The government has decreed that Edison’s incandescent bulb cannot be purchased in the near future in the interest of energy conservation as opposed to actually allowing more power generation plants, coal-fired and nuclear, to be being built to meet the nation’s needs.

If there is an idiotic “solution” to a non-problem, the government will find a way to make it mandatory.

One of the many bad ideas of the Carter administration was the creation of the U.S. Department of Education on October 17, 1979. Carter was and is a dolt. He installed solar panels on the roof of the White House which, when Ronald Reagan took office, were swiftly removed.

Let me be as blunt as I can. There is no need, nor ever was, for a federal Department of Education except as an instrument of the central government to control the curriculum of schools. This one-size-fits-all approach is totally contrary to what any teacher will tell you; children learn at different rates and each needs to have their particular skills and abilities encouraged.

Nat Hentoff, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, recently wrote of “Real Education Reform” in Free Inquiry magazine. He recalled being in the office of Tony Alverado, then head of the New York City school system (1987-1998), when the reading scores from standardized tests arrived. They were collectively higher, but Alverado asked, “When are we going to teach them how to think by themselves instead of just giving us just what the tests want?”

Almost any educator today would ask the same question. One of George W. Bush’s greatest blunders was the implementation of No Child Left Behind, a pet project of the late Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The present Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan is quoted by Hentoff calling NCLB “not education, since it is tied to bad tests with the wrong goal. The biggest problem is that it doesn’t encourage high learning standards.”

Why then is NCLB allowed to continue? The answer is federal control.

Karen R. Effrem, MD, the EdWatch Director of Government Relations, has sounded the alarm over a slick deal involving more good money thrown down the federal education rat hole. “Without the slightest bit of legislative discussion in either chamber, the Obama administration quietly slipped $4.35 billion in education funding into the stimulus bill passed last year for a program called Race to the Top (RTTT).

“The federal government is using this program to bribe states to accept even more federal control of education, a constitutionally and traditionally state function.”

“RTTT is accomplishing more of that same federal control without having to go through the messy process of reauthorizing the controversial NCLB.”

Hidden within the stimulus bill, RTTT has NOTHING to do with stimulating jobs or the economy in any way, but it does require states to accept the Common Core Standards Initiative. Thus initiative is funded and promoted by the National Governors’ Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Proudly they note that it is “internationally benchmarked.”

As of mid-January, 41 cash-strapped states have signed on to this monstrosity and the result is that American school children will be taught a curriculum largely devoid of traditional American values such as the God-given rights of life, liberty and property in favor of UNESCO’s Baccalaureate Organization program.

In short, American children will be taught that the only rights they have are those the United Nations says they have. Its Earth Charter states that “sustainability education” advocates “the promotion of equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations.”

Now, let me see, who is it that believes in the distribution of wealth? Barack Obama!

The federal government is not concerned with the education of American children. It is deep into indoctrination, i.e., the victimization of American children. And it just cost the American taxpayers another $4.35 billion!

Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.

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By Andrew Bolt

Claudia Rossett, who helped to expose UN corruption in the oil-for-food scandal, now turns her attention to the UN warmists. One in particular:

With UN climate guru Rajendra Pachauri under fire for alleged conflicts of interest and the purveying of flawed “science,” another United Nations eco-official is stepping forward to defend UN climate findings.

His name is Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Program, or UNEP, based in Nairobi. If you are curious about potential conflicts of interest among the UN climate crowd, Steiner, along with Pachauri, is someone to watch.

Like Pachauri, Steiner is still talking about “overwhelming evidence” supporting the findings of Al Gore’s co-Nobelist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — despite the growing body of evidence that the IPCC’s findings were more a product of UN politics than of science. In recent remarks featured as a top item on the UN’s official news site, Steiner has just praised the IPCC and re-issued the UN’s usual apocalyptic warnings: “Any delay… risks of a magnitude…urgent international response” — etc.

Who is Achim Steiner? A German, born in Brazil, he is a longtime environmentalist, former head from 2001-2006 of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN….

Anyway, in December, 2005, Achim Steiner served as a judge on a panel in Dubai that awarded a $500,000 environmental prize to then-Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan. With a big smile, at a banquet in Dubai, Annan — then the UN’s top official — accepted this six-figure purse for his personal use. About three months later, Annan named Steiner, one of the judges who picked Annan for the prize, to head UNEP.

Green is the colour of the cash.

UPDATE 1

IPCC Warmist Draws On His Favorite Peer Reviewer: Himself

Marc Sheppard says it’s bad enough that the IPCC bought the theory of warmist Professor David Karoly that man-made warming was causing the higher temperatures and evaporation in the Murray Darling basin in Australia.

After all, new research suggests almost the very opposite – that the higher temperatures come from a natural fall in cloud cover, and a lack of rain and a subsequent lack of evaporative cooling. Drought causes higher temperatures, and not vice versa.

But Sheppard notes that Karoly’s theory was heavily relied upon in a chapter the IPCC’s alarmist 2007 report that was supposed to be reviewed by … Karoly himself:

But amazingly, the story doesn’t end with how wrong the chapter was. Professor Franks also pointed out that … David Karoly, whose work was also heavily cited in WG1 Chapter 9, was its Review Editor.

Fabulous peer reviewing, guys. The man in charge of the reviewing supervises reviews of his own theory.

Is this the kind of thing that Climategate ringleader Phil Jones meant when he once boasted he’d ”redefine what the peer-review literature is”?

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

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Monday Brief from The Patriot Post

The Foundation

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” –Federalist No. 62

Culture

“The U.S. Census Bureau … squander[ed] $2.5 million on a half-minute Super Bowl ad starring D-list celebrity Ed Begley Jr., plus two pre-game blurbs and 12-second ‘vignettes’ featuring Super Bowl anchor James Brown. It’s a drop in the census boondoggle bucket (otherwise known as the tax-subsidized National Democratic Future Voter Outreach Drive). The Obama White House has allocated a total of $340 million toward an ‘unprecedented’ promotional blitz for the 2010 census. That’s on top of $1 billion in stimulus money siphoned off for increased census ‘public outreach’ and staffing. In all, the census will triple its total 2000 budget to $15 billion. Ads pimping the census have already appeared during the Golden Globe awards and will broadcast during the Daytona 500 and NCAA Final Four championships. Some $80 million will be poured into multilingual ads in 28 languages from Arabic to Yiddish. Racial and ethnic groups have been squabbling over their share of the pie. The U.S. census is a decennial census mandated by our Constitution. Should Americans know about it? Sure. Should the P.R. budget become a bottomless slush fund in recessionary times? Surely not.” –columnist Michelle Malkin

Government

“Last month, Obama announced a new set of tax credits for so-called green companies. One window company was on the list: Serious Materials. This must be one very special company. But wait, it gets even more interesting. On my Fox Business Network show on ‘crony capitalism’, I displayed a picture of administration officials and so-called ‘energy leaders’ taken at the U.S. Department of Energy. Standing front and center was Cathy Zoi, who oversees $16.8 billion in stimulus funds, much of it for weatherization programs that benefit Serious. The interesting twist is that Zoi happens to be the wife of Robin Roy, who happens to be vice president of ‘policy’ at Serious Windows. Of all the window companies in America, maybe it’s a coincidence that the one which gets presidential and vice presidential attention and a special tax credit is one whose company executives give thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign and where the policy officer spends nights at home with the Energy Department’s weatherization boss. Or maybe not. … On its website, Serious Materials says it did not get a taxpayer subsidy. But that’s just playing with terms. What it got was a tax credit, an opportunity that its competitors did not get: to keep money it would have paid in taxes. Let’s not be misled. Government is as manipulative with selective tax credits as it is with cash subsidies. It would be more efficient to cut taxes across the board. Why should there be favoritism? Because politicians like it. Big, complicated government gives them opportunities to do favors for their friends.” –columnist John Stossel

The Gipper

“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.” –Ronald Reagan

Opinion in Brief

“‘I am not an ideologue,’ President Obama insisted at his truly refreshing confab with the Republican caucus in Baltimore [recently]. When he heard some incredulous murmurs and chuckles from the audience in response to the idea that the most sincerely ideological president in a generation is no ideologue, he added a somewhat plaintive, ‘I’m not.’ The president’s defensiveness isn’t surprising. He holds his self-definition as a pragmatist dear, and not just because it polls well. It’s clear from interviews that he is fond of the notion that he is above ideological squabbles and is a clear-eyed appraiser of facts and adjudicator of political disagreements. He’s described himself as a ‘pragmatist,’ even a ‘ruthless pragmatist,’ countless times. The evidence offered that Obama is no ideologue rests almost entirely on two contentions: He has annoyed some members of his ideological base, and because he says so. … Every president annoys his base. Are we therefore to believe that no president has ever been an ideologue? And how has Obama angered his base? Not by tacking to the center but by not going fast enough in pursuit of their shared goals. As for Obama’s personal testimony, so what? Is this the one instance in American history when a politician’s self-serving statements are to be taken at face value? … Of course Obama is an ideologue. The important question is whether he is sufficiently self-aware to recognize the truth.” –National Review editor Jonah Goldberg

Re: The Left

“President Obama’s State of the Union address was the greatest American rhetorical embrace of fascist trope since the days of Woodrow Wilson. I am not suggesting Obama is a Nazi; he isn’t. I am not suggesting that he is a jackbooted thug; he isn’t (even if we could be forgiven for mistaking Rahm Emanuel for one). President Obama is, however, a man who embodies all the personal characteristics of a fascist leader, right down to the arrogant chin-up head tilt he utilizes when waiting for applause. He sees democracy as a filthy process that can be cured only by the centralized power of bureaucrats. He sees his presidency as a Hegelian synthesis marking the end of political conflict. He sees himself as embodiment of the collective will. No president should speak in these terms — not in a representative republic. Obama does it habitually.” –columnist Ben Shapiro

Political Futures

“Barack Obama is probably the most union-friendly president since Lyndon Johnson. He has obviously been unable to stop the decline of private-sector unionism. But he is doing his best to increase the power — and dues income — of public-sector unions. One-third of last year’s $787 billion stimulus package was aid to state and local governments — an obvious attempt to bolster public-sector unions. And it was a successful one: While the private sector has lost 7 million jobs, the number of public-sector jobs has risen. The number of federal government jobs has been increasing by 10,000 a month, and the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession. Obama and his party are acting in collusion with unions that contributed something like $400,000,000 to Democrats in the 2008 campaign cycle. Public-sector unionism tends to be a self-perpetuating machine that extracts money from taxpayers and then puts it on a conveyor belt to the Democratic Party. But it may not turn out to be a perpetual-motion machine. Public-sector employees are still heavily outnumbered by those who depend on the private sector for their livelihoods. The next Congress may not be as willing as this one has been to bail out state governments dominated by public-sector unions. Voters may bridle at the higher taxes needed to pay for $100,000-plus pensions for public employees who retire in their 50s. … Obama’s Democrats have used the financial crisis to expand the public sector and the public-sector unions. But voters seem to be saying, ‘Enough.’” –political analyst Michael Barone

For the Record

“[T]he Obama administration’s new budget will propose to zero out funding for Nevada’s Yucca Mountain nuclear repository — in effect, killing it. Instead, the Energy Department has announced the formation of a ‘blue ribbon’ commission ‘to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.’ … And why are we forming yet another blue ribbon commission to study a matter that has already been studied to death? The commission is empowered to study ‘all options’ except the one that has already been chosen by the United States government. So much for the previous blue ribbon commission that had settled on the Yucca Mountain site. American taxpayers have already invested more than $13 billion over 30 years to build the facility and make it redundantly safe. … There is nothing dishonorable about opposing nuclear energy — though the greenies who claim that global warming is their chief worry have some explaining to do if they reject nuclear power — but there is something dishonest about claiming to favor nuclear power while simultaneously short-circuiting the most viable solution to the problem of long-term waste storage.” –columnist Mona Charen

Reader Comments

“How ironic that the Commander-in-Chief can’t pronounce ‘corpsman.’ His Black Liberation Theology religious mentor (Jeremiah Wright) just happened to be a Navy Hospital Corpsman at Bethesda. Maybe he never heard Wright talk about his background like he didn’t hear his hate filled rhetoric over the twenty years he sat in the pews.” –Tommy

“Next up for Obama: The Marine Corpse and the Army Corpse of Engineers. Imagine the uproar if Bush had said this or used a teleprompter while talking to 6th Graders. Give him some credit — he’s got that nose in the sky pose down pat.” –KN

“What do you expect when you’ve got a guy who can’t do anything but read a TelePrompter eloquently. Maybe they need to project the stuff to him phonetically.”

“It is good to see Mark Alexander point to the downfall of the economic programs Ronald Reagan wanted. To only submit tax cuts without a corresponding reduction in government programs spells challenges for success and skews the data to a spin doctor’s delight. Today many point to Reagan’s failed policy yet it was not his failure, it was the failure of those surrounding his valiant efforts to reduce federal government, restore state level controls, and repair the damage of an out of control general growth begun and embraced in earnest under Roosevelt, Johnson, and Carter. When we hear people slam Reaganomics as failed this is the part of the historical facts they either do not know or will not accept. His programs were stopped from full implementation, government was not reduced as he so dearly wanted it to be.” –Gary

“Thank you for compiling so much information from so many sources! I’m a homeschooling mom with seven children (yes, I’m sure I’m on the homeland terrorist watch list). I can spend a few minutes reading the Brief in between grading math problems or grammar and have a good understanding of many of the important talking points for the week. Thank you for making me more efficient!” –Anne

The Last Word

“I can’t recall the wheels coming off the bus of any expert-driven hysteria as fast or as completely as they are now coming off the global-warming scare. … News of the manipulations, distortions and frauds perpetrated to advance and preserve the environmentalists’ cause celebre are so numerous and coming so fast, it’s hard to keep up. First, of course, there were the e-mails and computer files leaked from Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) — one of a handful of climate-research centres around the world that are the pillars of the United Nations’ claims about impending climate doom. … Then a couple of weeks ago came the news that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN’s climate-change arm, had based its most recent findings on Himalayan glacier melt on an old study that had never been peer-reviewed or even published and which was based entirely on the speculation (not research) of a single Indian scientist who now works at the environmental think-tank run by the head of the IPCC, economist Rajendra Pachauri. This by itself wouldn’t be devastating, except that the scientist in charge of the glacier chapter of the IPCC’s latest assessment report (AR4) admitted he had known the melt estimate was wrong but had included it anyway because ‘we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.’ That’s not climate science, it’s environmental activism, pure and simple…. Another revelation of malfeasance this week was the discovery that the chapter on Amazon rainforests in the IPCC’s AR4, the one that included the often-repeated claim that 40 per cent of the forest is under imminent threat from climate change, was written not by climate scientists but by an policy analyst who works for environmental groups and a freelance environmental author. … In all, so far, at least 16 major claims made in AR4 (the report for which the IPCC won a Nobel Prize) have been shown to have originated with environmental groups rather than scientists…. Does all this prove global warming is a hoax? I believe it does. But at the least, it shows the science is far from settled.” –Edmonton Journal columnist Lorne Gunter

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By Alan Caruba

In the wake of the enthusiasm swirling around Sarah Palin, Barack Obama is likely to turn out to be for conservatives what the later years of the 1960s and early 1970s were for the beginning of conservative political ascendancy.

The early years of the 1960s are remembered now as the wonderful years when a young, handsome, and charismatic President, John F. Kennedy, took the nation into outer space and, along with his beautiful wife, Jackie, brought grace and style to the White House.

“You can tell if you were a liberal or a conservative if you thought the sixties were a good or bad decade,” said former Senator Rick Santorum in 2007.

I was raised a liberal, but I recall the 1960s as a mostly terrible decade, filled with assassinations, the growing involvement in Vietnam, and the strife that accompanied the Civil Rights movement. I remember it for the “hippies”, the drug culture that emerged, so-called “free love”, and the beginnings of the feminist movement. The 1960s turned me into a conservative.

In a book only a political junky could love, “Framing the Sixties”, historian Bernard von Bothmer writes that conservatives see the 1960s “as the beginning of the decline of beloved American values: self-reliance, self-discipline, personal responsibility, strong local communities, and love of country.” For liberals, it was “the peak of the quest for social justice.”

Guess what? Social justice in the form of government programs to spur home ownership, even if one could not afford it, led to the recent financial crisis.

The final years of the 1960s were quite awful, filled with anti-war marches and rioting. The 1968 Democrat convention is still etched into political memory for the turmoil it engendered, ironically in the streets of Chicago. His decisions regarding the war forced Lyndon Johnson to forego a run for reelection.

In 1971, the publication of the Pentagon Papers, revealed how the government had deceived Americans about Vietnam for decades, confirming voter’s suspicions and fears. In combination with the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal further discredited government, forcing the resignation of Richard Nixon. It swung the nation into the embrace of a toothy unknown Georgia Governor, Jimmy Carter, who replaced Nixon’s successor, Jerry Ford.

Carter’s failed presidency yielded the election in 1980 of Ronald Reagan whose political ascendancy, along with the conservative movement, had begun in the 1960s. In 1966, he was elected Governor of California. In 1968 he took his first crack at running for President.

Sound familiar? War-weary from Afghanistan after 9/11 and the decision to invade Iraq, the first decade of the new century led voters to first turn Congress over to the Democrats in 2006 and then, in 2008, to embrace a totally unknown politician from Chicago. Young and a gifted orator, he evoked “change” and married it to “hope.”

One year into Barack Obama’s presidency, even his fellow Democrat politicians are fleeing his far Left program of “transformation”, seeing the embodiment of every socialist aspiration for an all-powerful, huge, centralized government. Every candidate Obama endorsed lost and the Democrat lock on Congress was broken when one of the most liberal states elected a conservative candidate to replace JFK’s younger brother, Teddy.

For the conservative movement and its candidates Barack Obama is the gift that keeps on giving.

As someone for whom the 1960s began with service in the U.S. Army, followed by several years as a journalist, I had a first-hand look at the events of that decade and the one that followed. From LBJ to Nixon to Carter, it is hard to describe how disappointed and angry Americans became. The Vietnam War was bad enough, but LBJ’s Great Society was a classic redistribution of wealth sold as a way to end poverty in America. It didn’t. Only jobs end poverty.

By contrast, Barack Obama’s tripling of the national debt will make debtors of everyone including a generation or more to come if government borrowing and spending is not dramatically reduced. Voters understand this, resent this, and will elect candidates who promise to fix it.

There is a factor that is unique to the present administration. Previous administrations were more or less responsive to public opinion. This one is tone deaf and/or indifferent. As Obama put it recently, “I won’t quit”, and he means it.

He is the liberal’s last chance to impose its extreme socialist agenda on America and, if that means lying to everyone every day, he and his fellow conspirators intend to do it.

The Massachusetts election must have come as a shock. The election of Ronald Reagan surely had the same effect as the 1980s dawned.

A combination of factors presage a significant conservative return to power in the months and years to come.

There is significant distrust of the presidency and the Congress. The effort to expand the federal government is being resisted in the voting booth and in state capitols around the nation.

There is anger at the way huge, 1,000-page bills have been either voted upon unread and in haste or kept from public review and voted through the House and Senate using bribery and pressure tactics.

The mood of the electorate is an amazingly swift reversal from 2008. It bodes ill for Democrats and progressives, and that’s good for America.

Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.

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By Nancy Morgan

Although I didn’t vote for Barack Obama, I welcomed the election of a black man to America’s highest office. I assumed his election signaled that white America had finally atoned for the sin of slavery. I assumed that Martin Luther King’s dream of judging a man by the content of his character instead of the color of his skin had become a reality.

No more would I have to spend my life proving a negative, as in ‘I am not a racist.’ No more would I have to automatically lower my voice when issues of race entered the conversation. No more would I have to censor my thoughts and actions when dealing with people whose skin color differed from my own. Alas, I was wrong.

America’s elites seem intent on continuing to identify citizens by their skin color instead of their character or achievements. Case in point: This February has been designated by President Obama as National African American History Month, sending the clear message that black history is separate from the history of everyone else.

Hispanics also have their own Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15) in which they focus on their own cultural achievements, as distinct from American culture. Even American Indians have their own Native American Heritage Month.

With all this focus on celebrating multiculturalism, whites, especially white Christians have gotten a bum rap. For the last 40 years white Americans have been blamed for all of the world’s ills. Possessing white skin is automatically associated with oppression, slavery, paternalism and colonialism. And everyone knows that’s bad stuff.

No-one has dared point out the absolutely phenomenal achievements of White Americans. That would be considered racist, under the faulty assumption that any white achievement necessarily demeans or excludes black achievements. This premise, however, doesn’t apply when touting black progress, or Hispanic progress, or progress of any group not burdened with white skin.

Last week, the city of Farmington, New Mexico, unanimously voted not to participate in any event celebrating a proposed “white history month.” As a white American, this tells me that whites are still not allowed to celebrate their own achievements. The media backed, self anointed race hustlers have decreed that whites are still the oppressors and blacks are still the victims, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Whites must still atone for the sin of being white.

NBC is currently being lambasted for the sin of offering fried chicken on the menu of a special NBC Black History Month lunch spread. How dare they point out that blacks like fried chicken! I guess its a good thing they didn’t offer watermelon on the menu, as that might have triggered a national boycott.

No-one, however, is questioning the overt paternalism and outright racism evidenced by billionaire Bill Gates. His Millennium Scholarship Project specifically excludes whites from participating. I guess that kind of racism is OK. After all, it perpetuates the myth that whites are the ones with all the power. Tell that to the increasing number of whites displaced under the racial spoils system that operates under the benignly named ‘affirmative action.’

If Obama were truly a ‘post-racial’ president, I would be allowed to comment on the fact that blacks dominate the NBA. I wouldn’t give a thought to mentioning the overwhelming percentage of blacks working for the postal service.  I could, without fear, comment on the fact that most blacks dance a heck of a lot better than whites.

But no, for a white to dare mention cultural differences between blacks and whites is verboten. But when blacks set aside a whole month to celebrate these very differences, it is somehow acceptable.What’s wrong with this picture? And how much longer will whites have to atone for the sins of their ancestors? Inquiring minds want to know.

Link to post – White Racism: Part 1

Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com and she lives in South Carolina.

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By Noel Sheppard

One of the reasons many people watch the Super Bowl is for the ads, and one that surely will be talked about at watercoolers Monday is Audi’s Green Police commercial.

In it, ordinary citizens are arrested for using plastic instead of paper, throwing away batteries, not recycling orange rinds, possessing incandescent light bulbs, and setting their hot tub thermostats too high all while Robin Zander sings refashioned lyrics to Cheap Trick’s ’70s classic “The Dream Police.”

To give you an idea just how scary this futurist vision of environmentalism running amok was, even the New York Times found it “misguided” (video below, hat tipSeton Motley):

AUDI Officious “green police” punish citizens who are not sufficiently eco-conscious, but an owner of an Audi A3 TDI with clean-diesel technology drives away scot-free. This misguided spot put the “mental” in “environmental.”

Imagine that. I guess environmentalism can even go too far for the good folks at the Gray Lady.

Who’d have thought it?

Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters

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By Andrew Bolt

Fifty per cent of hype deducted:

Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian colleagues (1) have shown that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years. Recent data from the SPOT 5 and ASTER satellites have enabled researchers to extensively map mass loss in these glaciers, which contributed 0.12 mm/year to sea-level rise between 1962 and 2006, rather than 0.17 mm/year as previously estimated.

(Via Watts Up With That.)

TonyfromOz adds …..

Man, I don’t think I recall a time when I’ve ever been more relieved upon hearing some news. I can breathe so much easier now. Oh! By the way that sea level rise of 0.12mm is four thousandths of an inch, the same as for the thickness of one sheet of paper.

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

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Satire by  Shawn Goodwin

In the past few decades, the United States has enjoyed friendly trade relations with China. These relations have more or less normalized in recent years, and American financial investment in the country is well over $40 billion. In fact, China and Japan account for almost 10 percent of all American trade. Suffice to say, the arrangement has been beneficial to both countries. Lately however, there have been serious issues with Chinese exports, specifically with clothing and children’s toys.

The complaints are too numerous to mention: dangerous lead levels in baby rattles, toxic formaldehyde in clothing, and pajamas that are more flammable than Rip Torn’s breath. Heck, when given the choice between American-made underwear and a Chinese-made videogame, most children would gladly take the underwear! To date, no person has ever found an “Inspected By #99” sticker in a Beijing export. Evidently, their components and their quality control are an ancient Chinese secret:

“The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued three voluntary recalls involving children’s products that were manufactured in China. About 7,200 children’s hooded pullover sweatshirts and zip hooded sweatshirts distributed by New Mode Sportswear in Garden Grove, Calif., are being pulled from shelves because the drawstring on the hood can pose a strangulation hazard.

The second recall also involves a drawstring hazard. This time, GTM Sportswear Inc., of Manhattan, Kan., is recalling more than 200,000 children’s hooded nylon jackets in [various] sizes. Styles include the youth medalist jacket, legacy jacket, eclipse jacket, dominator jacket, booster jacket and achiever jacket.

The last recall pertains to children’s toy jewelry sets imported by Playmate Toys of Costa Mesa, Calif. About 250,000 charms sold with the ‘Tink Tink and Friends’ jewelry sets are being recalled because the charms contain an illegal amount of lead.”

If the story ended here, it would be scarier than catching a soaking wet Helen Thomas toweling off. Unfortunately, every single Chinese product must be examined with scrutiny because of the safety violations that have been uncovered. The simple fact of the matter is that there are so many tainted items flooding into the country that the shelves of the local stores are full of “illegals.” And of all these shady products, these three are the most egregious offenders:

Mandarin Oranges. The refreshing fruit is heavily exported to the West, and while both delicious and nutritious, the oranges have one downside: DDT. The United States banned the pesticide in 1972, but rumor has it that the Chinese are using the poison in their orange groves. In fact, some have speculated that the government is whipping up a harmful preservative cocktail of DDT and MSG, but the officials are keeping it on the QT, and doing so PDQ.

Chairman Mao-llomars. Is there anyone alive today who does not like Mallomars? chocolate-covered marshmallows atop a crispy graham cracker crust is a recipe for yummy in the tummy. Of course, the Chinese equivalent is named for the country’s former communist overlord, and tastes just as evil. The chocolate has been replaced with carob, a substitute so unappealing that even Bear Grylls wouldn’t eat it. The marshmallows are genuine, but they are a tad aged, since most of them are from the Allied air drops to Burma during World War II. The graham cracker? Decades-old cardboard. Separately, these ingredients wouldn’t be fit for a dog or Keith Olbermann. Combined, they are a recipe for disaster and should be destroyed upon delivery.

Fortune Balloons. Asian engineers took a great idea and made it that much better. A delicious cookie with words of wisdom inside is terrific for those with a sweet tooth, but what about the corpulent and diabetics? Thanks to fortune balloons, those who are watching their figures can partake in some knowledge. After being filled with helium, participants can pop the balloon at a time convenient for them and enjoy the fortune that falls to the ground. Fantastic idea, right? It would be if the balloons weren’t riddled with more lead than Bonnie and Clyde.

A majority of exported balloons have dangerous levels of lead, so much so that the origin of the popular saying “went over like a lead balloon” most likely originated in the Orient. The lead content in the average Chinese balloon is so high that not even Superman could see through the things. Would anyone really want their children to handle one? Not likely.

Strangely enough, the only product China exports that does not have lead in it is their leaded x-ray vests!

Far too often, Americans criticize government agencies for appearing to needlessly meddle in their affairs. No one, besides Congressional Democrats, wants bigger government. In this case, however, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is right on target with these recalls. Quality control in Red China is a joke, and sooner or later some poor American kid is going to end up in the hospital because of one of these toys. That cannot happen. Until Beijing cleans up its act, we should keep their ill-conceived wares on their side of the Great Wall.

FamilySecurityMatters.org’s official satirist, Shawn Goodwin, is a blogger and police detective from Philly.

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By Alan Caruba

Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to the word “global”, endowing it with an almost spiritual quality.

Mostly, though, I think it is my utter disgust with “global warming”, having spent the better part of three decades striving to defeat this plot to enable all forms of governmental intrusion into people’s lives and choices.

A bit of personal history; as a child I recall riding the train to and from the Jersey shore when it was filled with young men in uniform, all destined to fight in far-off places whose names even then seemed exotic to me; Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Normandy, and Sicily. It was the harsh geography of war, but to a youngster it only meant someplace far away.

By the time I was a teenager, an older brother was already in Japan at the headquarters from which the Korean conflict was conducted. There were new names to deal with, Seoul, Incheon, and the Yalu River. By then the Cold War was well on its way.

The 1950s were full of talk of A-bombs and then H-bombs, and then intercontinental missiles. In college I took scant notice of events in Cuba, but a few years later I would be in full combat gear waiting for orders to invade. Then the problem went away without ever really going away. It has since spread to Venezuela.

Like many Americans, I learned about the world because we were sending troops somewhere to push back against some form of aggression or some new oppressive regime. At home the streets were filled with Civil Rights marchers or anti-war marchers, both of whom would be replaced by new groups demanding to be heard. It was the era of Woodstock and Watergate.

And no trains filled with soldiers because the military had ceased to be every young man’s duty to serve their nation. It became a voluntary military and, we’re told, one that is superior to the former model. It would suffer casualties in Beirut, wrest Grenada from a communist takeover, invade Panama to remove yet another corrupt leader and then, in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, go there to set things right. After 9/11, in 2001 it would drive the Taliban and al Qaeda out of Afghanistan and then in 2003 invade Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein.

Is it any wonder Americans are weary of war? Is it any wonder that the word “global” to my generation means some new place where young, dedicated Americans are battling some new despot, regime, or threat to peace anywhere and everywhere?

All of which brings me to the new meaning of “global” for the generations that followed mine. It is attached to “global warming”, the greatest hoax, not merely in the modern era, but in all of history! And it was initiated and implemented by an international institution that was supposed to end wars, the United Nations.

Some years ago, the UN published a book called “Our Global Neighborhood”, but we do not live in a global neighborhood. We live in our own, local neighborhood. The UN is all about global government with, of course, global taxes, a global army, and, as in the case of every dictatorship, a global restriction on gun ownership.

It is all about a vast matrix of global treaties that involve the surrender of some element of U.S. sovereignty to the UN to oversee “heritage” sites and our national parks. It is about an educational indoctrination program to turn American children into “citizens of the world.”

So you will have to forgive me if I look at the world and see places where Americans have continually had to sacrifice blood and treasure because someone or some nation had ambitions to impose their will on people who just wanted to be left alone.

If something terrible happens in America I do not expect to see one single other nation on Earth come to our aid.

In America today, the enemy is not always in some far-off place. It is in Washington, D.C. where an out-of-control Congress is spending and borrowing to the point where we are being warned that our dollar is at risk of being worthless. Led by a feckless new president, it has imposed huge debts on generations yet to be born.

The White House is trying to expand an “entitlement” program, Medicare, that is already broke for the purpose of controlling one sixth of the nation’s economy.

The White House is giving money to banks and then threatening to tax them after they have repaid it.

The White House has bought General Motors and Chrysler instead of letting them go through a bankruptcy process like any other business.

The White House is squandering billions on “clean energy” and “green jobs”, both of which are mere fantasies while billions of barrels of oil go untapped, billions of cubic feet of natural gas remains unavailable, and hundreds of year’s worth of coal is not mined.

Congress is engaged in phony, multi-billion dollar “stimulus” programs instead of cutting taxes to jump-start the economy.

“Think globally. Act locally” is the mantra of the environmental movement, but the movement itself is a global monster, determined to decide what you can eat, how you should deal with your garbage, what kind of car or truck you can drive, how much you should heat or cool your home.

It is despotism, no matter what other name you call it.

And then there are those insane followers of Islam who want to inflict more harm on America because they are not content with killing their fellow Muslims.

I wish I could ignore the world beyond my neighborhood, but it won’t let me.

Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.

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