Has James Cameron found the tomb of Jesus Christ? ABSOLUTELY NOT! You see, to say you found the remains of Christ, is to say he was human, and died. THE central tenet of the Christian faith is the Christ IS the Son of God, died on the cross, WAS resurrected, and ascended to Heaven without dying again. Read More at Smoke Signals Blog
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The ineffectual yet supremely self-important United Nations has indulged in hubris before, but never like this: A UN panel of scientists proposes that this club for corrupt dictators and posturing bureauweenies expand its jurisdiction to cover the weather by setting a maximum allowable temperature.
If the UN really is to be put in charge of the weather, maybe it could improve Alaska’s tourist industry by bringing the temperature up a couple dozen degrees. Citizens’ morale might also be improved by shortening those long winter nights. Here in Phoenix, we could save a fortune on air conditioning if the UN would just set the maximum temperature around 80 or so. It’s too rainy in Seattle — let’s have the UN mandate a few more sunny days for the folks up there. Kansas would appreciate a ban on tornados. After all, Americans bankroll the UN, we might as well get something out of it for once.
To enforce the maximum allowable temperature decree, a “carbon tax” is proposed. Red Ken Livingston is hardly the only one to use the War on Weather as a cover to slip his hand into other people’s pockets.
More loot could be acquired by making the tax retroactive. Then the UN could fleece descendants of Vikings and classical Romans, who lived in much warmer times than we do, and therefore must have been cranking out the CO2 at unconscionable rates.
Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Al Bore wins an Oscare (intentional misspelling) for his socialist propaganda film and claims that we must act now to save the planet. “It’s not a political issue it’s a moral issue” he claimed.
One might expect that the high priest of such a “moral issue” requiring radical change in the lifestyle of most Americans would lead the way.
So it was with interest that we learned yesterday that Gore’s Nashville home uses the amount of electricity which could fuel the homes of 20 average American families.
And we’re also reminded that Gore, who owns three homes, had a zinc mine on one of his properties polluting nearby waterways and has the motion picture company which distributes his film pay for the carbon offsets his use of private jets require.
We can only conclude that Gore is immoral and another example of a “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” liberal.
President Bush Goes Green: Environmentalists Hate Him
Meanwhile, President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch is a model of eco-friendly design. Waste water is recycled for irrigation, geothermal energy is used for heating and cooling. It’s a model for modern living as described by one of the same left wing web sites that hates President Bush and insists he wants to poison the water and the air.
That contrast alone should unmask the true motivations of the left. It’s not about the environment, it’s about enshrining socialist control of energy, the economy and lifestyles. Not the environment.
Scientists Not on the Socialist Payroll Dump On Gore’s Film
“Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it,” Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”…
Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: “Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.”
Carter does not pull his punches about Gore’s activism, “The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.”
Institut Pasteur (Paris) Professor Paul Reiter seemed to sum up the sentiments of many experts when he labeled the film “pure, mind-bending propaganda.”
More scientist reaction to the “film” here.
Patrick Michael’s Take on expanding Arctic ice here.
Something very much like the above also posted at Mike’s America.
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There is one thing that is missing out of the computer generated climate models: precipitation; which cools the atmosphere. If nature’s cycles didn’t exist, we wouldn’t exist; the earth’s surface temperature would be too hot.
Excuse me for posting out of turn, but NOBODY PUT ANYTHING UP YESTERDAY.
I will be happy to give credit for this article if I knew where it came from, I would supply a link, but the subject matter is so important, I couldn’t resist putting it up. I might have to take it down later, though. This was sent to me through email. All emphasis in this article is mine.
NOT THAT SIMPLE
GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
By ROY W. SPENCER
Roy W. Spencer is principal research scientist at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center of the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala. He is also U.S. team leader for the AMSR-E instrument flying on NASA’s Terra satellite.
February 26, 2007 — REPORTS on the global-warming debate have now become part of our daily diet of news. Actors, musicians, politicians, columnists and even the occasional climate scientist all weigh in on how soon planetary disaster will strike, who’s to blame and what we should do about it. With claims that manmade warming is anywhere from an undeniable fact to a hoax, anyone can be excused for feeling a little bit confused.
The media is, almost by definition, most interested in extreme views on the issue, so reporting seldom reveals that broad scientific uncertainty still exists. In fact, a silent majority of scientists still think that global warming could end up falling anywhere between a real problem and a minor nuisance: They can see reasons for it going either way. Call them the global-warming moderates.
How can different scientists look at the same atmosphere and yet come to such a wide variety of conclusions? It all depends on their level of faith in our understanding of the atmosphere. We put equations into a computer that describe the basics of how we think the atmosphere works, and then we expect the computer to predict how much warming we will get when we turn up the greenhouse gas “knob.”
The Earth’s natural “greenhouse effect” traps infrared (heat) radiation because of water vapor, clouds, carbon dioxide and methane. You have probably heard that the greenhouse effect keeps the Earth “habitably warm.” So if burning of fossil fuels keeps adding more of a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide (CO2), the Earth should keep on warming up, right?
Well . . . it’s not that simple.
CO2 concentrations - now running at 380 parts per million (ppm), up about 40 percent in the last century - are indeed one possible explanation for our current warmth. But we also know that our climate is a nonlinear, dynamic system - which can go through sizeable gyrations all by itself.
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, “big picture” understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
Here, for example, is an insight that even many climate scientists are unaware of: The one atmospheric process that has the greatest control on the Earth’s climate is the one we understand the least - precipitation.
Over most of the planet, water is continuously evaporating, humidifying the air to form the Earth’s dominant greenhouse gas: water vapor. Climate scientists will tell you that the extra CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere causes a “warming tendency” at the surface, which will evaporate even more water, which will amplify the warming. This positive water vapor feedback, so the theory goes, ends up turning the relative benign direct warming effect of CO2 - only 1 degree of warming late in this century - into a much more serious problem.
But surface evaporation is not what determines how much water vapor, on average, resides in the atmosphere - precipitation systems do. These not only control the water-vapor portion of the greenhouse effect, they directly or indirectly control most of the next most important greenhouse ingredient: clouds.
These systems continuously recycle the Earth’s air, and so exert strong controls over the entire climate system. For instance, the rising air in precipitation systems is what causes the sinking, cloudless air over desert areas. Vast oceanic areas of stratus clouds form below a temperature inversion that is also caused by air being forced to sink by precipitation systems, usually thousands of miles away.
So, what does all this have to do with global warming? Unless we know how the greenhouse-limiting properties of precipitation systems change with warming, we don’t know how much of our current warmth is due to mankind, and we can’t estimate how much future warming there will be, either. To solve the global-warming puzzle, we first need to learn much more about the precipitation-system puzzle.
What little evidence we now have suggests that precipitation systems act as a natural thermostat to reduce warming. For instance, warm, tropical systems are more efficient at converting water vapor to precipitation than their cool high-latitude cousins. Hurricanes are believed to be the most efficient of all.
I believe that negative feedbacks such as this are the only way to explain the relative stability of our climate. Computerized models of our climate have had a habit of “drifting” too warm or too cold. This because they still don’t contain all of the temperature-stabilizing processes that exist in nature. In fact, for the amount of solar energy available to it, our climate seems to have a “preferred” average temperature, damping out swings beyond 1 degree or so.
I believe that, through various negative feedback mechanisms, the atmosphere “decides” how much of the available sunlight will be allowed in, how much greenhouse effect it will generate in response, and what the average temperature will be.
Finally, remember that phrase, “the Earth’s greenhouse effect keeps the Earth habitably warm?” I’ll bet you never heard the phrase that is, quantitatively, more accurate: “Weather processes keep the Earth habitably cool.”
Were it not for weather, the natural greenhouse effect would cause the surface of the Earth to average 140 degrees. Wonder why we never hear that fact stated?
I believe that when the stabilizing effects of precipitation systems are better understood and included into the models, predictions of global warming will be scaled back.
Despite current inadequacies, climate models are still our best tools for forecasting global warming. Those tools just aren’t sharp enough yet.
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Editor’s note: Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan are going to be at the Washington protest on March 17th. The group Gathering of Eagles was started in order to defend our Vietnam Wall against those mealy mouthed anti-war leftists who don’t give a damn about our boys or the Iraqis. You can get this poem on a t-shirt, and I would suggest getting one in honor of this occasion even if you can’t make the protest on March 17th. See what it looks like, here. The reason for this is-it’s going to cost about $25,000 according to organizers and they’re going to need every dime they can raise. Russ isn’t making a dime from this.
Fly High you Eagles, soar (a poem)
by Russ Vaughn
Fly High you Eagles, soar
On you we all depend.
To serve, to stand, support our war,
Our fallen to defend.
Stand firm, stand brave before our Wall;
Deal those a sorry fate,
Who answer Fonda’s hateful call:
Our nation they must hate.
Fly high you Eagles, soar,
Your keen eyes see below,
The leftist fools oppose this war,
To them no low’s too low.
They seek our Wall to desecrate,
To enhance their losing cause;
They seek to doom our nation’s fate;
They see nothing but our flaws.
Fly high you Eagles, soar,
Above those who seek defeat,
Who seek submission, nothing more,
To a terror they can’t meet.
They falter when the course is long;
They’re weak-willed, failed and bitter;
Got it all entirely wrong,
So typical of a quitter.
Fly high you Eagles, soar,
Stand proud before our Wall;
You are the nation’s heart, the core,
The essence of us all.
Know that we stand there with you,
In spirit and in soul,
America’s not lost, not through,
We’ve a long, long way to go.
Fly high you Eagles, soar, from your lofty, special station,
Know this is true forever more; you’ve the blessing of your nation.
Russ Vaughn
Vietnam Veteran
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This table demonstrates in a simple visual format that Lindzen’s theory about cloud cover is completely accurate, and that the majority of ‘greenhouse gases’ are made up of water vapor. As you can see, man’s contribution is barely visible here, because it’s minimal!
Thanks to Francis T. Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario), with Artesian Geological Research, who sent me three extremely technical papers on warming, one is a very easy to understand powerpoint presentation, and that’s where this graphic came from.
This is a stark reminder of the sham that Al Gore is attempting to pull over on all of us.
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This is a heart-warming story.
Here is a man who started a local business, built it up from nothing and sold it off to make his fortune. But what is better is that seven of his staff decided to take a stake in their own hard work and bought shares in his business at the beginning.
They stumped up their own cash and essentially took a financial interest in their own work ethic. And the result. Well I think that former owner Gerry Hegarty probably summed it up in his quote in the paper “When I walked out the door on Friday I left behind seven millionaires.”
During the Great De-Nationalisation of Britain the Thatcher government brought share ownership to the masses. Public servants like my dad were able to own share portfolios and reaped the rewards accordingly. Socialists sneered that share ownership was not for the likes of the proles and that Government is the only shareholder you need.
But today there are 7 families in Glasgow celebrating because they turned their back on small minded socialist ideas and grasped at a risk. That risk paid off and I hope that each family lives in exquisite luxury for the rest of their days.
Good for them.
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Before visiting these links lets see if you can guess what this post is about. Guess in the comments.
You are looking at the readers comments against two religious texts available for purchase from Amazon.co.uk
Ready? OK … compare and contrast
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I do not like government. It does nothing well. It never has.
That said, I understand its usefulness. I willingly cede it my God given powers over self determination on such issues as national borders, warfare, police protection, and infrastructure. These things it does not so well either, but I am convinced it does them better than I could myself.
But that is where it ends. I do not believe it is governments responsibility to save the poor. To force vaccines on preteen girls. To take my legally earned money and give it to someone for the suffering of their grandparents under the guise of ‘retributions’. Or to stop me from smoking. Or to force me to wear a seat belt. Or frighten my children with end of the world pseudo-scientific scenarios. It is not the government’s concern that I make minimum wage or that I earn 100 times what other employees take in. My tax money should not be used to destroy embryos…you personally want to do that, pay for it yourself. And for God’s sakes, why would any sane human being want a bureaucrat to decide his or her healthcare?
If these things are what government is now for, I don’t want it. You can keep it. I got some guns, some basic understanding of survival techniques…me and mine will be fine on our own, thank you very much.
I am convinced that our founding fathers did not have the juggernaut that we now call the government in mind when they took their lives into their hands to found a free society. That word ‘free’, does it have any meaning left? Americans pride themselves on their freedom, I question its existence.
Every time there is a disaster, a tragedy, or simply little Johnny has the hiccups some self-important politicians take it upon themselves to draft a bevy of new laws. Laws to change our behavior. Laws that makes criminals out of decent men.
Laws should be made to protect person and property, most of the rest are simply government intrusions on freedom. Hey, there’s that word again.
I often ask myself, are Americans now afraid to be free? Is today’s American willing to cede his or her freedom simply for personal comfort and freedom from worry? The answer I find is nearly always unpleasant.
This is not the America I choose to inhabit. Nor the one, I believe, our forefathers had envisioned. No thank you, I’d rather secede. That is, if I could only figure out with which of the myriad governmental entities I need to file my secession papers…
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I wrote over at my own blog, about stalking taking the place of ‘debate’. I have personally been on the other end of an interstate stalker, Joe Cafasso. My car was ransacked, but he never actually confronted me. His goal, to my understanding, was to wire my phone somehow, in order to tape my phone conversations. Among some of the things he accomplished; he obtained my divorce records and other records in order to go back to Stuporpatriots and further malign me as a person.
The thing is, even if you write behind a pseudonym, leftists who don’t agree with you will expose your identity, in order to do things like publish your address and real name. In light of what happened to this college republican fellow, and what has happened to me, I strongly recommend you think about what you’re sacrificing nowadays when you take a conservative stand.
I share this story with you because I just read yesterday, at Michelle Malkin’s, about the unhinged behavior of a leftist who, under the guise of being a military recruiter, went to visit a college republican and harrassed him for not going to war in Iraq if he supports the war. This exchange ended up getting physical, and it’s a lucky thing for the college republican that he wasn’t home alone when this 200 pound brute showed up at their door.
As you can see here at Malkin’s, where she describes a lefty who brings his chickenhawk argument up close and personal and it winds up being a physical fight. I think the amazon.com video of Al Franken getting physical with a conservative is where we’re headed in these ‘discussions’, which doesn’t look very good.
It’s the same type of ‘discussion’ that I have with people who disagree with me on Jack Idema. To my horror and amazement, I discovered that Kathryn Cramer actually PAID JOE CAFASSO to come to Illinois to stalk me! In my mental review over this, it’s just because she doesn’t agree - or Cafasso doesn’t agree (same thing) - with my just questioning the circumstances around Idema, Bennett and Caraballo winding up in one of the most notorious prisons in the world alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
huh.
Now I’d like to reference this great post over at Causal Nexus about Tod Robberson, who gained access to their living quarters on or about October 19 or 20th of 2004. Robberson is one of the ’smear jack’ cabal members, who wrote about Jack early on. He made a trip to Afghanistan and stole documents while Jack, Ed, Brent and Zorro were in Kabul at their trial.
Read the whole thing.
There are several things that are completely disturbing about this, but the most glaring problem that I see is:
…it is believed that Robberson was working with two American women named Mariah Blake and Stacy Sullivan. Robberson gave their names and numbers to an Afghan translator and said he was working with them on a story which would “finally kill Jack Idema”.
Another example of people going to extraordinary lengths and measures to see to it that someone is destroyed. And it sounds to me as though they’re deadly serious and mean to do so in the most literal sense. This is the grownup version of what that college student endured. Big warning flares are going up for me in my head…this is not good at all, but it’s what I suspected all along.
Let us not forget that Cafasso would have done anything to get his hands on the Al Qaeda tapes; and went so far as to advocate Jack’s assassination.
“I told [CENSORED]…you should have just used a suppressor and blew him [Jack], blew him away,” Cafasso later said during a meeting in Washington, DC.
Sort of X Posted at Cao’s blog.
Thanks to Justin at Right on the Right
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Left wing Scottish rag the Sunday Mail gave its readers the chance to text a question to Tony Blair last week. This week they published the answers.
By their own admission they received over 200 questions but chose to pass on only 12. I guess the questions “When you go to prison have you decided if you will give or receive?” and “Why has Gordon Brown ran up huge massive debts while taxing me to my tits?” did not make the cut.
Go and read all the questions and answer and laugh at the soft ball lobbed time after time.
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I missed my posting time, but I’m trying to get ready - in my head - for starting school around work on Monday, and I think I’m obsessing a mite over it.
There are lots of great things going on in the blogosphere today, I have a lot of them on yesterday’s Friday open trackbacks. So I’m just going to pull them over here for your enjoyment.
But before I get to that, - I’m going to make a plea for you to sign a petition, if you’re so inclined.
Stop Al Gore and Reject the UN’s Global Warming Treaty
Al Gore is re-energizing the movement advocating Kyoto compliance — the biggest UN power-grab in history.
I urge you to sign this petition now, please. We already have over 30,000 electronic signatures. We want to deliver 100,000 signatures to the Senate by the time Al Gore reaches the podium at this Sunday’s Academy Awards.
It takes only 20 seconds to sign online, link to:
http://PatriotPetitions.US/StopGore
To sign by e-mail, send a blank e-mail to: Stop Gore
Ok, here’s what’s going on in the blogosphere:
Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker linked with An Inconvenient Exaggeration
Rhymes With Right linked with Who Cares About Romney Family’s Polygamous Past?
Big Dogs Weblog linked with Obama Wants Focused Political Attacks
The Florida Masochist linked with Fast buck Florida Style
Planck’s Constant linked with Tasty, er, Hasty Pudding Award for Scarlett Johansson
A Blog For All linked with Senate Democrat Fecklessness Continues
Potbelly Stove linked with Obama: Same old defeatist…
Conservative Cat linked with The 48-Hour Key to Understanding DNA
Right Voices linked with Hybrids Not So Hot, Vilsack, Catholics and Bubba made $40 Million On Speaking Tour
Overtaken by Events linked with A Day that will Live in Famy
And Rightly So! linked with Beneath the dignity of the debate
Faultline USA linked with Troops ‘Dissent’ and ‘Protest’ to Congress
Maggie’s Notebook | Blog linked with Troops ‘Dissent’ and ‘Protest’ to Congress
Freedom Folks linked with The (retarded) Conservative Solution To Illegal I
The Bullwinkle Blog linked with Hokey Smokes! Caption Contest: Week 38
Phastidio.net linked with A Greener Country [Weekend Open Trackback]
Diary of the Mad Pigeon linked with The Pigeon on Junk Mail and Spam
The World According To Carl linked with The World According To Carl
Planck’s Constant linked with 23
Shadowscope linked with Profanity and Posting
Thoughts on Design linked with Quantifying Design
Blog @ Morewhat.com linked with Only Fools Would Vote for Hillary Clinton
stikNstein….has no mercy linked with Illegal immigrant arrests down….Prosecuting Border Patrol Agents seems to be working…..
The Amboy Times linked with Weekend Open Trackback
third world county linked with Connecticut Prison for Kids Teams Up With Fake Justice System, II
The Florida Masochist linked with The Knucklehead of the Day aw
Thanks to Justin at Right on the Right.
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These are strange days, indeed. And interesting. Stand by for “stream of consciousness” transmission.
I’m a process guy. For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed dismantling times to see what makes them go. In my adult years, that has taken the form of “how does it work and is there room for improvement?” more often than not. I despise those who can can only manage to lift themselves intellectually enough to identify a problem and go no further. far too many of those people, when we need problem solvers. Implied the same “problem solvers” will, because it has to be this way, get their hands, and maybe the rest of them quite “dirty” in the pursuit of making things better.
In looking at processes, I enjoy trying to find the core of the problem so that the “fix” might be done with the least amount of effort, while the effort in some cases will be enormous, going to cut the tap root directly is still superior to trying to kill a tree by plucking each of it’s leaves…
With those thoughts in mind, I get to the point of my current wondering:
What happened to the Republican Party? The title of this post conveys some of the problem, and thank God we have a number of our countrymen who still run to the sound of battle to offset the current trend at just about every level of government these days.
I think back to the President’s news conference and actions on November 8th, 2006. President Bush did not stand tall and face the changed balance of votes in the Congress with forthright consistency. I believe this was the day things went south. Well, actually the night of November 7th to be more precise, but the interviews and “conciliatory attitudes” couldn’t be showcased until the next morning. I am a supporter of the President, but wonder why he has stepped back from his upright stance he had from 9/12/2001 through the days before the 2006 election.
How does this factor in? The Republicans have fractured and jumped on the band wagon to try to exercise non-Constitutional control of the military operations of the country. It’s as though the team has lost its coach, and, seeing tough sledding ahead, they “separate” and believe running alone will up their chances of survival politically. Not a chance I’d postulate. That thought process doesn’t work well in the wilderness, nor when lost at sea. “we” as humans do better when we work together (which goes a lot further when trying to solve problems, too). This will be something I think history, and the electorate will not judge in a positive light when our days are looked back on.
I think the Republicans have lost their rudder and I just hope someone can step up to the plate to pull them back together.
Watching the Democrats since 11/8/2006, all I see is a more shrill “voice” to impose their way on the entire nation. They said they would bring a new conversation to Washington, and I’d have to agree, but it is in the form of demanding they have their way, not in bi-partisan open discussions to solve the problems of this nation. Frankly, there are big issues facing this country, and the majority party is frittering away valuable time by spending their waking hours merely trying to oppose the President.
That being said, for those on the opposing side of the political scale than I, it’s one thing to just stand up and vote your power in funding as a Constitutionally valid method to exercise “checks and balances” and quite another to waste time putting forth legislative work that will most certainly be turned down when reviewed in a court of law. You want a prime example of “waste, fraud and abuse?” The “slow bleed” strategy of the Democrats in the House is just that. For those who complain about $400 toilet seats in military aircraft projects, will you also put your elected Federal representatives on notice that they are mis-handling your tax dollars now, or will you give them a pass?
As many others have said, if Congress believes the will of the people is to get out of the Middle East and bring the troops home, that can be communicated loudly and clearly by just not giving money to the military.
“Revoting” how much authority the President was given is also a time wasting, cheap shot at halting the gears of the Nation. At least I have to acknowledge that John Edwards has the courage to say he voted one way and now has changed his mind. Hillary (the smartest women in the world, some would claim) just wants to pretend she was out-foxed. Think about that one: The “Shrub” who is the stupidest man/president ever according to many, out thought the smartest women in the world. If I were Hillary, I’d shut up now, before people realize a dumb man convinced her to do something she shouldn’t have…..
Lately I have heard accusations that the President didn’t plan adequately for this war. I agree, wholeheartedly. In retrospect, and in his favor, who could have predicted that after the deaths of 2996 people on our own soil, in a deliberate attack, that the response would have had to have included plans to counter a national and world press that would consciously not seek the truth, would accept as “news” fabricated stories, photographs and videos provided without fact checking from the enemy in caves and alleys of war torn towns, showing more Americans dying at the hands of a driven, brutal enemy, and then let the same culture demand they not be spoken of in terms to describe, at best their apathy and at worst their clearly stated blood lust and murderously conducted actions?
Who would have known to plan for those same things, pushed in the face of the world daily would be blamed on the man who was in a classroom of an elementary reading class, not having planned to, in cold blood, execute 2996 people on the same day? And, further, that that accepted meme would then cause a party out of power to use this as fodder to re-gain those positions where they could personally gain in political stature? Besides having to plan on how to combat an effort on an world-wide, internal to the nation and from without, war against us, by an enemy who would hide in plain sight, and chose to be stateless in order to confound the reaction to their attacks?
Just as the cry of concern that a fictional television show might influence someone to cross the line and commit crimes in and interrogation, the media is a powerful voice, and it’s not just “24″ that may influence. Tipper Gore wanted music controlled, because of the influence. about 20 years ago, ads for smoking products were banned, as “the nation” agreed they were influential. As one talk show host said when wondering why only “24″ was singled out: “If only ‘24′ is influential, why are corporations spend $2.5M for 30 seconds of Super Bowl air time?” Because the media influences, plain and simple.
Quite honestly, I wonder at the depth of understanding of those in leadership who would trust the polls of the American public to guide their policy positions. For one, they were elected to be leaders, and not to just follow the crowd (which is why, duh!, we refer to them as leaders). Secondly, if they haven’t figured out we are kind of fickle in our positions, then they really have lost touch with the regular Americans and don’t comprehend the comings and goings of fashions, music, the “coolest” cellphone, the hottest movie, the “in” band/musician, do they?
So, to wrap up some random, yet connected thoughts on the state of the Union, it occurs to me that constancy, vision and dogged determination in the face of adversity has been the quality that has served this nation, in public and private affairs the best. Bickering over the “how” of the “how to get the job done/problem solved” is wasted energy and, with the issue of global warming being the impending death of Mother earth, I’d suggest the exhaled breath would serve us all better if it was used to form sounds of conversations about making the future safe for us now, and our heirs later, rather than used to call names and quibble over who had better grads in college/law school.
From here, I return to my regularly scheduled analysis of just what the heck is going on. I refuse to publish a timeline for my plan, just in case you are going to demand one.
Real solutions to the real problems can be submitted in the comments section below.
“Fairness” provided by comments section below.
Common sense and reality accepted.
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