Uncle Jay Explains: Teddy and Media hype

The two takeaways:

1. Ignore the media.
2. Fear lightning.

John Stossel exposes gun control myth

Gun control only controls the guns legally obtained. And even then, it can only place stops so far.
Owning a gun, however, halts crime. Period. A criminal breaks into your home. You shoot said criminal. Crime over.

John Stossel, in this report, shows the myth that gun control actually lowers crime. It doesn't. Not anywhere. They can't show it, they can't prove it, because it isn't true. All liberals can do is repeat a lie often enough until you'll buy it, just like an annoying advertising jingle.



My favorite quote in this video:

"If someone gets into your house, which would you rather have, a handgun or a telephone? You can call the police, if you want, and they'll get there. And they'll take a picture of your dead body. But they can't get there in time to save your life. The first line of defense is you."

In every issue, in every move, liberals/progressives/lefties want individual empowerment and freedom removed. Because you're too ignorant to know what's best for your own life - to run a company, feed your family, buy your vehicle, protect your home. They want you beholden to the government for work, for health care, for a home, for protection, for buying options, for everything. They want government to be your god. And then they want to impose mandatory tithing, only it's far beyond 10 percent.

Big government is enslavement one tiny loss of freedom at a time.

Jon Voight: Need I say more?

Poignant. Succinct. And without pause. Jon Voight, from the moment Obama appeared on the scene as a viable White House contender, took the stage opposite him. He has spoke out and spoken up, saying the nit gritty of it without sweating a droplet.
And he's not nearly finished.



Matt Damon, have you got another email forward you'd like to share? Maybe we can talk about dinosaurs again.

It's like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. Every liberal punk looks like a insignificant child next to this guy.

Quote Them UPDATE: more outrage

"Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."

Melissa Lafsky,
Huffington Post columnist in article, What would Mary Joe Kopechne have thought of Ted Kennedy's career?


PS Trapped in a car. Water rising. Dark. No help. All alone. Unable to breath. Panicking. Driven off the bridge by a drunk, privileged, self-absorbed, spoiled rich kid.
Mary Jo Kopechne drowned while Kennedy, instead of being a decent human being and calling for help, contacted his lawyer. For nine hours, while she remained submerged in Poucha Pond, Kennedy wrote out his police statement. Then, when good and prepared, he called authorities.
To Kennedy, Kopechne was a minor annoyance, a brief spat of bad publicity, and a favorite joke.

"One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?"
Ed Klein, former editor of Newsweek and New York Times Magazine

You are solely responsible for the death of a 28-year-old woman, a woman you not only drove into a pond but left there to die, and you joke about it.

So to answer Lafsky's question: What would Mary Jo Kopechne have thought of Ted Kennedy's career? That is wasn't worth her life.

UPDATE:

I'm not done being mad about this, yet. I wanted to add another thought:
Liberals expect women to die for greedy, womanizing men and like it? If you're a feminist and hanging out with lefties, watch your back.

Monday Fun

Via Townhall.com

Sweet! Bachmann silences a heckler. And how.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a snappy comeback to a man heckling her at a town hall meeting.



While talking about the headlines coming out of the UK concerning nightmarish maternity care, like 4,000 mothers giving birth in elevators and hallways and bathrooms due to hospital bed shortages, a man thought he'd interject his thoughts. She interjected hers right back.

“I’ve given birth here probably more times than you, sir.”

As a mother of five and foster parent to 23, yeah, she won that round.

FCC head crushing on Hugo Chavez

No worries. It's not like Mark Lloyd has any power or anything. He's only the new FCC Chief Diversity officer. And he's declaring a revolution from the inside out.

Own a radio station and don't meet his standards? Fine. He'll require 100% of your yearly profits, as well as a fine. All subjective according to his definition of media diversity and localism.

Oh, if only we could be like Venezuala under Hugo Chavez. Well, if we don't oppose this guy, we might.

"I believe in the words of Martin Luther King, 'Judge somebody by the content of their character.' Why are we being dragged back into the 1950s, 1850s, where we're looking at somebody's skin color?" Glenn Beck

Because we elected a President, dragging his friends behind him, whose religion is obsessed with it and worships at the feet of Black-Liberation Theology.

Recently, I interviewed a man for a freelance article that happened to have been raised in Hawaii. He came to America in adulthood, discovering the definition of racism for the first time.

He told me he honestly didn't know what it meant. In Hawaii, an amalgam of races, it didn't exist. It wasn't part of their language, part of their heritage, part of their lifestyle.
Then he came to the Mainland, specifically California, and experienced first-hand the fixation on it.

I found that interesting, especially since our President, consumed by it, was raised in Hawaii.

We are not subject to world views. We choose them. I don't care about your experiences, I care about how you handled them. And racism or not, you can choose to let it define you, enslave you, and rule you. Or you can be stronger than that.

I grew up in an all Indian school. I, an Irish/German/Cherokee white girl, was the minority.

The Indian students received government assistance, free school supplies, free lunches, even a free annual school trip to go ice skating or attend an amusement park, while me and the other 15 "white" students spent the day in empty classrooms.

Not that I minded. It was quieter.

Does racism happen? Yes, on all sides, to every race. Get over it.

the Zo Master

Remembering past rants and looking forward to many more.

Zo, I value my silence. I LOVE it. So for me to say this is monumental: Keep talking.



Just Zo. Just a wall. Just a mic. That's all he needs.

Frightened Howard Dean: I see trial lawyers

Why is tort reform not included in health care reform? Because lawyers scare politicians.
In actuality, lawyers are politicians. Tort reform would mean they really were attempting to reform the problems (though not many, they do exist) in the American health care system. The absence of any such language proves they are only out for one thing: government control.



This is a much better video that recaps a post from yesterday concerning the man from Rep. Jim Moran's town hall who was refused a question until submitting an ID, mistakenly accused of not being himself, and then eventually allowed to ask the tort reform question neither Moran nor Howard Dean could give any plausible answer toward, except fear.

“This is the answer from a doctor and a politician. Here is why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that the more stuff you put in, the more enemies you make, right? And the reason why tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on, and that is the plain and simple truth. Now, that’s the truth."
Howard Dean,
former Democratic National Committee Chairman.

Pathetic. Buy yeah, honest.

Tort reform would save between $60-$200 BILLION a year. So why no reform?

"Because the trial lawyers own the Democrat Party."
Charles Krauthammer.

That is now quite obvious. Thanks for the honesty Dean!

Just Weed It

Congressional representatives are asking for IDs, stacking town halls with labor thugs, refusing to answer questions, calling people Nazi's. A man's got to get his message out there any way he can. If need be, use weeds. A rather fitting parallel, I'd say.



Notice the news lady chuckling in the end? A closeted conservative? Hope the network doesn't see that.

Now...any other open fields available?

The Mobfather speaketh

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Like PB and J.
Hmmm...that sounds kind of good. Conservative pluck makes me hungry.



How is a president and liberal Congress to fight against one lone talk radio show host?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
Time to appoint another Czar or something.

Gallup Poll out: O'so lower

He's changing things. He's breaking records. He's dropping in the polls like few other Presidents before him. He's in O' so much trouble.

Should the slide continue, Obama will by no means be the first president to slide below 50% in the Gallup Poll, which has been tracking public approval of presidents since Harry S. Truman.

But Obama has reached his new low more quickly than most of his predecessors did, according to Gallup. The percentage of people voicing disapproval for the job the president is performing also stands at a near-high of 43%.

Slipping below 50% before November of the first year in office would represent “the third-fastest drop” since World War II, Gallup reports. Republican Gerald Ford slipped below 50% in his third month as president, Democrat Bill Clinton during his fourth month.

It took Republican President Eisenhower five years to fall below 50% in the public’s eye, Gallup notes. It took both Republican George Bushes about three years. It took Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Richard Nixon more than two years.

I know what they can do!

They should put him on Air Force One, flying him around the country on taxpayer money while we're in a recession, and hold town hall meetings about the largest government spending program in history. Make sure he mentions something about wanting opponents to shut up.

Also, he should be on multiple, if not all, Time Magazine covers.

Have a few celebrities visit the White House to talk about government policy. That's always a crowd pleasure.

The media and Democrat reps need to step in here, give him positive press. Maybe vilify his dissenters by calling them perverse sexual names or Nazis.

Then, with all these publicity stunts doing their magic, send him on vacation after six months on the job to Martha's Vineyard. People really relate to Martha's Vineyard. Have him play golf and shun the press.

I think it might work.

Papa don't preach. That's Madonna's job.

Shut up and sing.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Thousands of fans have booed pop star Madonna after she spoke out against the discrimination of Gypsies in eastern Europe during one of her concerts.

Madonna paused in the two-hour concert to say that Gypsies, also known as Roma, were discriminated against in eastern Europe. She said that made her "sad" and nobody should be discriminated against.

Thousands in the crowd of 60,000 booed her. She did not react.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Dang that's funny.

Quote Them

"We need to understand that it is very, very hard for the president or anybody else to take on not just the Republican Party, that's the easy part -- to take on all of right-wing talk radio, which covers 90 percent of talk show hosts, a whole Fox network which is nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party and the Democrats got to think long term. Why is there not a progressive television network?"

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT),
talking on MSNBC



PS Oh Sen. Sanders. How I attempted to list all the liberal networks, anchors, newspapers, magazines, reporters, websites, radio commentators, actors, directors, comedians, writers, columnists, musicians, and all lefties - great and small - in communications. Alas, my internet connection ran out of bandwidth.

Freedom of Speech: photo ID required

You want to ask your Congressman a question? Let's see your ID.

Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) doesn't demand proof of residence or citizenship for tax payers to pay for your health care. That's the really generous part of ObamaCare. But he does want proof during a town hall meeting before he'll let you ask a question.
Watch and enjoy. The man has to walk to the podium, present the ID, and Moran actually checks it out. Why not add hand stamps, too? If you're going to require IDs, why not open up a bar, sell adult beverages, and make a profit to help fund liver transplants.



Next: urine samples required to phone your representative.

Cash for Clunkers: the destruction of the American auto industry

Incredible. Not surprising. But incredible, nonetheless. This is what happens when the government messes with the private sector - private sector destruction.

I can't say this any better than Ed Morrissey at HotAir. So here is his blog entry in full. Shake your head and marvel at the current administration stupidity.

Big winners in Cash for Clunkers: Toyota, Honda, and Nissan; Update: Parts business big losers?

The Obama administration spent three billion dollars subsidizing the destruction of 700,000 vehicles in order to boost car sales. Which auto makers actually benefited from these American tax subsidies? Reuters reports that foreign car manufacturers gained market share, while the two bailed-out American automakers lost significant portions of theirs in the big summer sale. Only Ford managed to hold its own:

Transportation Department figures on the “clunkers” incentive, which offered consumers up to $4,500 when they traded in their older vehicles for more fuel efficient new models, showed on Wednesday that total sales amounted to just under 700,000 with $2.87 billion in rebates. …

According to the figures, Toyota’s “clunkers” market share was 19.4 percent, compared with its year-to-date U.S. share through July of 17 percent. Honda captured 13 percent of the “clunkers” market compared with 11 percent for the first seven months of the year.

Nissan accounted for nearly 9 percent of “clunkers” sales compared with a January-July share of 7 percent. Hyundai was the biggest winner with a 7 percent share compared with 3 percent for the year through July.

Ford’s “clunkers” sales topped 14 percent, compared with a 15 percent share for the year through July. GM reported 17 percent of “clunkers” business compared with 21 percent from January to July. Chrysler’s “clunkers” share was 6.6 percent, compared with 11 percent otherwise.

Ford had the only two American-made vehicles in the top 10 models sold in Cash for Clunkers. Toyota and Honda both had three, while Nissan and Hyundai both had one each. Two of Toyota’s entries were in the top three, the Corolla and the Camry.

Why did GM and Chrysler, both owned in part by the same government that launched C4C, do so poorly? In part, they didn’t have cars to sell. Both GM and Chrysler had curtailed their production during their bankruptcies but had worked to have inventory ready for the new sales year. By launching C4C in the middle of the summer, when most dealers are already cutting prices to move inventory off the lot, the administration practically guaranteed that C4C would leave them on the sidelines. Chrysler had the worst inventory problems, but GM also had serious inventory issues. Ford, which didn’t take the bailout, had continued production and had inventory ready to sell.

Shouldn’t the owner of GM and Chrysler had known this? Didn’t anyone on the Auto Task Force — say, Ron Bloom, the auto czar with no automaking experience — bother to check whether their companies were ready to compete in this program, and whether July was a smart time to launch this even apart from that? This is what happens when government enters the private sector; it makes decisions based on politics rather than sound business sense, and it picks leaders based on cronyism and political payoffs rather than expertise and competence.

Update: Commenter Daft Punk lists the top ten models destroyed in C4C:

1. Ford Explorer 4WD
2. Ford F150 Pickup 2WD
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD
4. Ford Explorer 2WD
5. Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan 2WD
6. Jeep Cherokee 4WD
7. Chevrolet Blazer 4WD
8. Chevrolet C1500 Pickup 2WD
9. Ford F150 Pickup 4WD
10. Ford Windstar FWD Van

All of these are American models. Now, what happens to the companies that make parts for these cars? Under normal circumstances, people would replace parts as they fail while keeping the cars on the road. Suddenly, the after-market parts industry has 700,000 fewer cars for maintenance. And since Americans mainly traded American cars for foreign vehicles, that parts market will not bounce back for years.

Smooooooooth move.

Unintended consequences? Or completely intended?

You want change? Here ya go.

Ladee da dee da. Times really are changin'.




Curtsy to reader Guitanguran. Thanks for the link!

Real Unemployment: 16%

I feel the need to sing, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. And then click my heels together and hope for Kansas.

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.

"If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent, said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.

Word of the Day: TedCare

TedCare - noun -

The phrase coined by Rush Limbaugh to describe the stellar health care Ted Kennedy received in America's private health care system, even though Kennedy was diagnosed at 76 years old with a malignant brain tumor. Not required to stand before a death panel or wait months for medical treatment, Kennedy was allowed to value and fight for his life, extending it for another year.

Rereading or still reading?

Obama's vacation reading list includes a book he's been reading since last year. Or maybe he simply wants to reread it. Or maybe he never read it but when you spin the truth so frequently, sometimes the wheel never stops moving even when the facts are inconsequential.

Looks like President Obama is one slow reader.

The commander in chief's list of beach books for his Martha's Vineyard vacation includes an environmental best seller that he bragged about reading almost a year ago on the campaign trail.

Obama was so taken with Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded" that he quoted it at a rally last September in Flint, Mich., and one media outlet described it as the book that was currently on the then-candidate's nightstand.

He's read the 1,000-plus page health care bill, though. Twice. Three times. He takes breaks between golfing and snubbing the media to peruse it sporadically at Martha's Vineyard.
The man is a workaholic.


Curtsy Jammie Wearing Fool

A News Chunk: a chunk of news

Welcome to your future. Consider not getting pregnant.

The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets

By Jenny Hope and Nick Mcdermott
Last updated at 8:36 AM on 26th August 2009

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:

• 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
  
• 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
  
• 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
  
• 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.

Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.

Can you imagine this happening in the United States? Under ObamaCare, imagination will not be necessary.

Quote Them

"He wanted to be his brother’s brother, and then he turned that torch over last year to Barack Obama. And the great thing about the Kennedys is that they always grew as a family. They tended to get better as they got older. Some families like the Long family of Louisiana dissipated. This family got better. The Kennedy commitment to civil rights was almost accidental. It began because of history — ‘63 and Martin Luther King’s march. By Bobby, it became passion, by Teddy it became real. And then Teddy turns it over to the first African-American and says, “You got the ball.” Amazing history. Barack’s now the last brother."

Chris Matthews,
MSNBC host with a tingling leg malady


PS Obama is the last Kennedy. Clinton was the first black President. And liberals are all sane. Ooookay.

Quote Them

"I know there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness."

Barack Obama
President and pot or kettle



PS Obama, overdosing on his own press coverage, has become disassociated with the words coming out of his own mouth. Quick. Turn off the TV, put down the Time Magazine, and step away from the mirror.

Democrats breaking own windows, blaming conservatives. Chicago politics in Colorado.

A volunteer cleans up the broken glass Tuesday at the state Democratic Party headquarters south of downtown. (John Sunderland, The Denver Post)

Demonize the opposition, if you can't win the argument. Much like a magicians slight of hand, it's all about misdirection. And so far, it's blowing up in their faces.
Tuesday morning 11 windows at the Colorado Democrat Headquarters in Denver were smashed.
This is what Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said about the incident: That it was..

"an effort on the other side to stir up hate."

Then Waak found out it was actually a long-time Democrat activist who has even been previously paid by the Colorado Citizens' Coalition to canvass neighborhoods for a Democrat politician. Democrats were breaking their own windows and blaming it on conservatives.

Uh.Uh.Uh. Oops. And now we have Waak clarifying herself for herself's sake.

"What I've been saying is there is a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides of the spectrum. That's what's been disturbing to me. People are saying a lot of things not appropriate for civil discourse."

People are "saying" things? That's what's disturbing?

I'll tell you what's disturbing:

- When union thugs, with a pattern of violence, are bussed into town halls.

- When peaceful conservative protesters are physically punched, kicked, their clothing torn, and sent to the hospital for simply showing up at a town hall meeting.

- When Democrat Party leaders go on national television and use their pulpit to call concerned citizens "brown shirts", "un-American", and accusing them of displaying "swastikas", when it's their own fringe Democrat members protesting with Hitler signs.

- When Democrat Congressmen and women hold their town hall meetings at SEIU headquarters, in order to control and intimidate their constituents from asking questions and voicing their dissent.

- When the President of the United States publicly belittles those who disagree with him, while stating he wants them to shut up.

- When a government is so massive, so intrusive, so out of bounds and beyond the limits of the Constitution, that the citizens of that country must rise up to battle it back.

Yeah, that's what I find disturbing.

Sticks and stones, Waak. All we're doing is talking.

Quote Them

"I like seeing Obama and his party commit political suicide; I really do. But the problem with that is: What expires first? Our country or the Democrat Party?"

Rush Limbaugh,
August 25, 2009

Julia Stiles: making clothes for the environmental psycho in all of us

Hollywood star making fun of ridiculous, eco-obsessed, green-on-the-brain Hollywood? Blockbuster.

I'd pay eight bucks to see an entire full-length feature. And I'd bring friends.

Red meat Marine back again

And kicking some verbose butt. No minced words here. He's a great spokesman, solid one-line talker, and enough education and backbone to say exactly what he means to say.

We've got ourselves a grassroots mascot. Bring in the band.



Thanks David Hedrick. All we ask is that you keep talking.

Tribute from a Friend....I'm blushing

This is completely self-serving. But I recently discovered a great friend of mine, Lindsey, is doing various tributes to her friends. I was the first.
It takes a lot to make me speechless. This did it.

Here's her blog. And this is my way of saying, "Lindsey, you rock my world, girl. You have honored me. I'm completely undeserving and touched beyond words."

Friends Lindsey and Kristin, with me on the far right, after handing out McCain/Palin envelopes through mazes and mazes of neighborhoods during the election.

A tribute to... Tara Lynn Thompson, blogger extraordinaire! =)

1. Passionate about knowing and teaching TRUTH in every area!
2. Extremely talented and witty writer… and in my opinion, should totally publish her Singularity book… (which I still want a full copy of, by the way!)
3. Sarcastic, deep, funny, and fun!
4. Intelligent, and has Godly wisdom and discernment
5. Cared enough to teach me a lot about healthy eating; introduced me to Whole Foods… (granted, I didn’t do a great job of following through, but I am slowly improving my habits and losing weight now…)
6. Devoted patriot – loves America and wants to help restore it to the nation the founding fathers originally had in mind
7. Fights against injustice and boldly stands for freedom
8. Has a positive outlook; loves getting to know new people, and believes the best in them
9. Compassionate and has a servant’s heart… started the Remnant group as a way to bring Christians together to really walk in love by actively serving others… you know, to BE the church God calls us to be!
10. Loyal and trustworthy friend
11. Very passionate about exposing lies and finding the truth in politics
12. Dancing queen… seriously amazing dancer and can follow any lead… I love to watch her on the dance floor (more accurately, I want to BE her on the dance floor! lol) …sexy and smooth, and you can tell she really loves it! =)
13. Introduced me to Jason’s Deli… yum!
14. Inspiring, unwavering faith and hope – genuine hope, not Obama-"hope!”
15. Secure and confident in who she is, and makes you feel comfortable being yourself
16. Loves brilliant old movies and TV shows, and doesn’t watch anything that mocks or belittles her beliefs and values (ie most of the movies and TV on now)
17. Convinced me to try several new things, (including guacamole for the first and only time! Lol)
18. Fabulous dry, sarcastic sense of humor
19. Uniquely beautiful… I love her freckles and perfect naturally curly hair
20. Bold and unintimidated; doesn’t bow to the constant pressure to conform to society or be quiet about her views
21. Eats gluten free and enjoys it… (still love the pic of her looking sad by all the donuts at Krispy Kreme! lol)
22. “Would rather sleep on a bed of poison ivy than participate in a bouquet toss.” …love it! =)
23. Generous with her time and money; kind and unselfish.
24. Confident, but not arrogant. Optimistic, but not naïve. Humble and loves peace, but not a pushover!
25. In a word… integrity!

Gitmo popular again, 75% back in love

Our most popular President evah has left the stress of his tanking popularity, from his job approval to individual issues like health care, to play golf and pretend the sun will come out tomorrow.
One of his major campaign issues - the closing of Gitmo - isn't so Hopeychangey anymore. American opinion is shifting. That's good news for our national safety, bad news for Obama. Tragic those two things are in opposition.
The reality of having international terrorists hanging out in local prisons, or just plain hanging out, is changing minds and fast.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of U.S. voters are at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free if the Guantanamo prison camp is closed and some prisoners are transferred to other countries. Fifty-six percent (56%) are very concerned.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 24% are not concerned about the potential danger.

Support for the president’ s plan to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba continues to erode. It’s been steadily dropping since Obama announced the camp closure just after taking office in January. Only 32% of voters now favor closing the prison camp, down six points from May and down 12 points since the President announced his decision in January.

Fifty-five percent (55%) now oppose closing the prison, with 13% not sure. In January, just after the president announced his decision, just 42% were opposed.

Ed Morrissey from HotAir adds this:

Obama has gone from a virtual dead heat on this question to a 23-point gap in just seven months. Even though Obama had run on the issue during the campaign, his rollout of the decision helped sap strength from his policy. More than halfway through to his goal, Obama still has no plans for the remaining Gitmo detainees, no decision on how to process them and adjudicate their cases, and has wound up right back to where Bush was in proposing indefinite detention under military auspices. The performance reeks of incompetence, which has hammered his support.

I have nothing left to add, except HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Circumcision for all and to all a goodnight

They dictate the light bulbs you use. The car you drive. The amount of money you can make. The type of fat you can consume. What made you think they'd stop at your pants?

Report: CDC Considers Promoting 'Universal Circumcision'

Monday, August 24, 2009

In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, public health officials are considering the promotion of “universal circumcision” for all baby boys born in the United States.

Because baby boys can't say, 'My body, my choice.'

The move comes after officials analyzed the results of several studies that show in African countries hit hard by HIV, men who were circumcised reduced their infection risk by half, the New York Times reported. However, those studies focused on heterosexual men who are at risk of getting HIV from infected female partners. The main issue in the U.S. is men who have sex with men.

What a homophobic study. Haters.

In 2008, the CDC estimated that more than 56,000 people were newly infected with HIV in 2006 (the most recent year that data are available). Over half of those new infections occurred in gay and bisexual men.

There is nothing dangerous about the homosexual lifestyle. I choose to ignore these numbers.

Meanwhile, critics of the recommendation said it subjects newborn boys to “medically unnecessary” surgery without their consent.

Government knows best. We should let them run health care.

But Dr. Peter Kilmarx, chief of epidemiology for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC, told the Times that any step that could stop the spread of HIV must be given “serious consideration.”

Like castration. That might help. It should be given serious consideration.

“We have a significant HIV epidemic in this country, and we really need to look carefully at any potential intervention that could be another tool in the toolbox we use to address the epidemic,” Kilmarx told the newspaper. “What we’ve heard from our consultants is that there would be a benefit for infants from infant circumcision, and that the benefits outweigh the risks.”

Teaching morality is too risky politically to be considered. Prep the boys for surgery.

An official draft of the proposed recommendations by the CDC is due out by the end of the year. In the meantime, the CDC is hosting its National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta this week.

Where condoms, I'm sure, will be ample.

So God, who advises sex remain between a husband and wife, is being mean. He's trying to ruin all our fun. It couldn't possibly be because He loves us, knows the terrible consequences of sexual promiscuity, and is trying to protect us.

No, He's mean.

And since we can't expect people to control themselves, to practice self-restraint, to be anything other than animals, we need forced medical procedures for baby boys. Not education on the consequences of sex. Not a society less obsessed with sex. Not the idea of waiting until marriage. Not the mention of purity or self-respect or personal consequences or emotional and physical safety.

No, we need free condoms passed out at school. And since that's obviously not working, we need circumcision.

Then, we have the homosexual lifestyle. It is good and healthy and usually brings out applause in a crowd whenever mentioned. (I don't understand that. I can say I'm heterosexual all day, no one claps.)

Homosexuality is so wonderful, so amazing, that therapists will no longer help anyone wanting out to get out. Churches who offer therapy are vandalized and attacked. Anyone offering help to those who want help is banished as a gay-hater, even if they speak out of honest concern and care.

Don't you get it? If you are homosexual, you're stuck. We don't want you out. Even if you want out. Forget it. You must stay in. There is no escape. Just submit.

And in the process, we don't particularly care if you are exposed to HIV at an alarming rate. We don't care of the danger of the lifestyle. We don't even talk about the emotional issues. And we dare not mention the idea there are homosexuals wanting out and there is help available.

Oh, and this one's the worst. Don't ever utter the idea people are not prisoners to sexual desires, be it pornography, homosexuality, pedophilia, sexual addiction, oh how I could go on.

But I won't. I won't speak it. I will never mention that God can empower us to be masters of our body and mind, to never be slaves to any sin or addiction, to live healthy lives free from exposure to mental turmoil, emotional emptiness, and physical danger.

Sssshhhhh! Don't speak it. Just get the scalpel. We've got work to do.

Quote Them

In one of the revealing moments of the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama rightly observed that the Reagan presidency was a transformational presidency in a way Clinton's wasn't. And by that Reagan precedent, that Reagan standard, the faults of the Obama presidency are laid bare. Ronald Reagan, it should be recalled, had been swept into office by a wave of dissatisfaction with Jimmy Carter and his failures. At the core of the Reagan mission was the recovery of the nation's esteem and self-regard. Reagan was an optimist. He was Hollywood glamour to be sure, but he was also Peoria, Ill. His faith in the country was boundless, and when he said it was "morning in America" he meant it; he believed in America's miracle and had seen it in his own life, in his rise from a child of the Depression to the summit of political power.

The failure of the Carter years was, in Reagan's view, the failure of the man at the helm and the policies he had pursued at home and abroad. At no time had Ronald Reagan believed that the American covenant had failed, that America should apologize for itself in the world beyond its shores. There was no narcissism in Reagan. It was stirring that the man who headed into the sunset of his life would bid his country farewell by reminding it that its best days were yet to come.

In contrast, there is joylessness in Mr. Obama. He is a scold, the "Yes we can!" mantra is shallow, and at any rate, it is about the coming to power of a man, and a political class, invested in its own sense of smarts and wisdom, and its right to alter the social contract of the land. In this view, the country had lost its way and the new leader and the political class arrayed around him will bring it back to the right path.

.......

American democracy has never been democracy by plebiscite, a process by which a leader is anointed, then the populace steps out of the way, and the anointed one puts his political program in place. In the American tradition, the "mandate of heaven" is gained and lost every day and people talk back to their leaders. They are not held in thrall by them. The leaders are not infallible or a breed apart. That way is the Third World way, the way it plays out in Arab and Latin American politics.

Those protesters in those town-hall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama's charismatic moment has passed....

Foud Ajami,
teacher at the School of Advanced International Studies at The John Hopkins University and adjunct fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute,
as quoted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed


PS This one's long. But so worth the read. I recommend the entire op-ed. These were simply the juiciest pieces. And by juicy, I mean so relevant they're lethal.

From Black Panther to Obama Czar, in America anything is possible

From Communist to Green Jobs Czar. Know your Russian-styled leaders. Glenn Beck makes the introductions. And you thought revolutionists didn't wear suits.
Van Jones has put his Black Panther days behind him, leaving all those communists and anarchists (his MySpace top 8) behind. Now, he only wants to give Mother Earth a big, tight, suffocating hug and dictate your every move while alive here. Let's give him a hand, ladies and gentlemen. He threw away the combat boots, put on a tie, but kept his twisted moral code. That's commitment.



Van Jones also co-founded Color of Change, because he is anything but obsessed with being black, and the group is currently attempting a failing boycott of Glenn Beck's advertisers. Glenn, it seems, is making off like a bandit, with skyrocketing support, ratings, Facebook groups, and a website, DefendGlenn.com, that garnered 1.9 million hits within five days.

We heart Glenn here at TaraLynnThompson.com. So keep up the boycott Color of Change! Keep shouting. The sleeping giant is waking up.

Life worth life?

Jonah Goldberg talks with Fox about this flippant take on life being the exact path taken by Nazi's eugenics.




The flippancy disregards the value and preciousness of each life - no matter the outer or inner circumstances.
The beauty of life is often in the struggles. ObamaCare and government-run health care supporters are wanting to white wash the bitter sweetness of life into nothing more than scheduled checking ins and checking outs.

It's the obstacles that create character.
It's the difficulties that create depth.
It's the insurmountable odds that birth tenacity capable of defying odds and standing with boldness, though the mountains crumble into the seas.

And here's the really dirty little secret...Government wants to be your god.

They don't want you praying, finding strength with Christ, and looking toward a future mandated by Him alone. He's too unpredictable. He might heal a terminal patient. He might create a path out of financial ruin. Or He might simply give you the grace to endure. That makes you unbeatable.
The big fear and unmentioned worry of Socialistic supporters is this: They can't control God. They can only control you. And only when they can separate you from Him.

So they have to set a value on life and then control that value and control that life. They have to puff up obstacles in life to seem unbearable. You can't get through them. You're too ignorant, too incapable, too needy. You either need the government or you need to die and get out of the way.

It's ugly. But all evil is ugly. And make no mistake, the devaluing of life, born and unborn, is evil.

That's my soapbox stance for the day.

I wanted to leave you with some inspiration. Maybe you're like me, maybe you're not. However, I don't find anything inspiring about an easy life. I find no encouragement from hearing stories from beautiful movie stars and how they overcame acne. It does not stir anything inside of me to be better, do better, and never accept the challenges in my life as unconquerable.

This man, however, does.

Meet Nick Vujicic. By all standards of what our current culture deems worthy, he should have been aborted, not even given the chance to breath in and out. Thank God, he wasn't. And this is a little bit of his inspiring story.



That is the beauty of life.

Death Book: coming to a mailbox near you

The VA, the shining example of ObamaCare and our future, wrongly diagnosed 1,200 veterans with 100 percent fatal ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. And, of course, mailed them the "Your Life, Your Choices" pamphlet, better known as the Death Book.

At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.
One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.
Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake.

Just a coding error, folks. No need to panic. You were only told you were dying. Don't get so disgruntled over a little thing like your life. Considering the big picture, individuals are expendable. What's the loss of 1,200 veterans, anyway? That just means more for the rest of us.

Starting to see a problem, yet?

Handouts for Hairspray

And you thought the stimulus cash was for jobs. Silly.



The government wants you to look good. And they are willing to spend your money to make it happen.

The Office of Economic Stimulus granted Coiffures by Michael, Inc. $35,088 in a “direct payment for specified use,” and another $1,571 in “student financial assistance.”

New Hampshire was suppose to see job growth with stimulus funds. Instead, the feds have done nothing but tease the idea.

Instead, according to a report issued by the New Hampshire Office of Economic Stimulus, the stimulus act has created only 96 private sector jobs and has “saved” a little over 700 state government jobs. Meanwhile unemployment has climbed to 6.8% since the stimulus became law.

I like to total the number of calories I'm capable of eating, subtract that from the number I do eat, and count that as pounds I've "saved" my body from gaining.

The reason for the low level of job creation is easily gleaned from the so-called Progress Report issued on August 19th: At least $175,000,000 of the first $336 million of stimulus money spent in the New Hampshire has replaced existing state spending on education, housing and safety programs which may have been cut due to state budget constraints.

The government is spending your money, which you haven't made yet, to save government jobs, which you can't afford, and saying it's helping your economic situation, which is deteriorating due to government spending, and saying it's all for you, which you know is a lie.

A NowHampshire.com investigation reveals almost $37,000 of that money went to a Bedford beauty school that does not grant degrees.

And that's not all New Hampshire. Here are a few other pet stimulus jobs not stimulating.

Other stimulus funded programs may raise eyebrows, as well, including $68,590 for youth theater in Henniker, $35,008 for a pot washer at Manchester’s Beech Street School and $293,100 for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

We should all get government jobs. Everyone. Jump ship. Get out of the private sector. And then we'll get paid by taking money from....yeah, I haven't figured that out yet.

Monday Fun

Via Townhall.com

Red, red, deliciously grilled meat - Marine tells it like it is

I clapped, too, along with the other attendees of a town hall meeting with Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash). This Marine is so quotable. This is why I love our men and women in the military, because they are courageous, intelligent, and bold.
Click play and enjoy.



He's reading my diary.

ObamaCare goes Broadway

I'm sitting on my exercise ball bounding along to this song. Very catchy. It is now in my head for the rest of the day.

O in bed with Big Pharma; Air America losing hopenchange

Racist, Nazi, right-wing headcases are saying Obama is making backdoor deals with Big Pharma, the same Big Pharma he blased over and over and over in the campaign. These people are so insane. What a ridiculous lie. If only we could get them to shut....
Wait. What? Who?

Okay, sorry. This comes from far lefty radio Air America. And they are furious.



Interesting to hear lefties say Obama makes them want to "puke". Me too! Hey, we're simpatico. Let's be BFF's!

This video is amazing. And despite the fact I know ideologically I wouldn't agree with Investigative Reporter Greg Palast, I am always impressed with journalists who do their job, seek the truth, even against the grain of their own political leanings. It's called journalistic integrity. It is rare. And it should be acknowledged and thanked.

What Mr. Palast found is disturbing. And he thinks so, too.

In fact, the more he learns, Mr. Palast is beginning to think these town hall protesters might actually be telling the truth. And eyes were opened.
Imagine that, American citizens, real grassroots people, unorganized, unconnected, and coming from all walks of life and all political leanings, are saying ObamaCare is a socialistic take-over of health care. Imagine they are right. Just imagine.
Mr. Palast, just like you, they are collecting the facts, reading the bill, and calling Obama out with their findings. Yes, they are definitely in the right.

Watch to the end. The word "facist" comes up and he isn't talking about protesters or Bush. I wake everyday to realize I can always be pleasantly surprised.

Christian President offers Ramadan blessing

Odd. But perhaps it could have been overlooked. Except....

1. It's five minutes long. FIVE minutes.
2. He canceled the annual National Day of Prayer event at the White House, preferring instead to observe it privately, i.e. not observing it at all. Bush usually invited Christian and Jewish leaders to the White House. Obama ignored that tradition, also nixing the early service and skipping the Catholic prayer breakfast.
3. Six months in office he still hasn't found a church. So his "Christian" background consists of 20 years learning a hateful Black-Theology from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who is not a Christian.
4. The White House blog translated his Ramadan blessings into many languages. Let's make sure everyone hears the word from The One. He did nothing for the National Day of Prayer, not a blessing, not acknowledgment, other than sign the yearly proclamation.
5. At no point in his life, not one, have I seen evidence of any Christian faith, not in his liberal stance on abortion, on senior care, on sincerity, or his recent reinstatement of the "Death Pamphlet" issued to veterans through the VA, which encourages them to not seek medical attention and simply choose to die. Bush canceled the brochure. Obama reinstated it.

By your fruits, you shall know them. I don't care what a man says, it's his actions that speak. When you can't trust his words, and with Obama you can't, then stop listening and watch.

the Gratitude Campaign

Ever see a soldier and wish you could, without embarrassing them, say how truly grateful you are for their sacrifice and service?
Now you can. Scott Truitt has launched the Gratitude Campaign, a movement to tell people about a simple gesture that says, "thank you from the bottom of my heart." It's easy to learn and says so much.
To learn more about the Gratitude Campaign and help spread the word, go here.

Also, I'm posting the Gratitude Campaign video, the long and short versions, if you want to help spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, or your own blog.

This is the 2:35 version.


This is the 1:10 version.

Obama: all "wee weed up"

This quote is so ridiculous, so preposterously substandard for a President, it deserves two posts. So here is the full story and full quote, along with a video at the end of Robert Gibbs, WH spokesman, trying to explain it.
Let's have some fun with it, shall we? We shall.

Obama fires back at political critics

US President Barack Obama launched a mocking counter-attack Thursday at pundits who believe the euphoric early promise of his presidency is evaporating amid bitter political warfare.

He considered the "I'm rubber and your glue" defense, first.

Obama, who has watched his poll ratings dip sharply over recent months, drew comparisons to his 2008 presidential campaign, which was several times all but written off by media experts who set prevailing political wisdom.

All he needs is love, bop ba dadada.

"We have been through this before, in Iowa," Obama said, referring to the first state to hold a 2008 Democratic nominating contest, which saw him capture a come-from-behind win.

With Obama, you should always watch your back.

"All Washington said 'Oh, it's over,' hand-wringing angst ..."

Washington wrings its hands in Edgar Allen Pole'esk "angst"? Nevermore.

Then Obama drew parallels to the media frenzy that greeted the nomination of firebrand Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.

Poor Obama. Competition is hard on him.

"The media was obsessed with it, cable was 24 hours a day," Obama told a friendly audience of grass-roots Democratic activists at a Washington forum broadcast live over the web.

Uh, the media was "obsessed" with destroying Palin. But that meant less face time for you and that hurt, didn't it bubba?

"'Obama's lost his mojo,' you remember all that?

Does mojo fall under capital gains taxes?

"There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!"

Note to self: Never visit DC in August or September. That sounds contagious.

Obama's counter-punch, delivered at a meeting of his Organizing for America network of supporters, follows a run of town-hall appearances and speeches, which have seen him mount a stern defense of his health care reform plan, which is facing stiff Republican attacks.

Oh, his highly organized, well-funded, obnoxious grassroots people who play doctors at town hall meetings. Fine, decent people.

He told backers not to get obsessed with polls, pundits and "cable chatter" but to take aim at what he described as fabrications drummed up by opponents to doom his top domestic priority.

His ratings are tanking. So...Don't Get Obsessed! He means it. Stop Obsessing! OBSESSION NOT!!!

Oh my. Good times, good times. Every time he opens his mouth off teleprompter, I have a good day.

Robert Gibbs, WH spokesman, tries to explain the "wee weed up" statement.

"Bed wetting"? That the more "family-friendly" explanation, Gibbs said. So, the President was being crude? From his discomfort in being asked to explain, Gibbs seemed to be eluding that "wee weed up" is vulgar.

Oh, this just keeps getting worse, or better, depending on if you're Obama or if you're me.

Quote Them

"There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!"

Barack Obama
President and 4-year-old little girl




PS I need to know, do grown men use this phrase? This is a question for the masculine gentlemen out there. Heterosexuals only, please. Do you use the term "wee weed"?

Greenpeace lying more about lying. It's a tangled biodegradable web they weave.

In an effort to keep my conjecture out, I'm posting the entire follow-up article from Big Hollywood concerning the Greenpeace interview with BBC's 'Hardtalk'.
Should I decide to comment, which I will because this is my blog, I'll try to keep said comments brief and sarcastic. It's the least I can do.

Greenpeace Urges ‘Astroturfing’ to Counter Revelation of Lies

by Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney‏

Greenpeace is scrambling to explain away an embarrassing admission by its outgoing executive director that the group exaggerated a statement about melting Arctic ice and “emotionalizes” issues to sway public opinion.

Talk. Talk fast. But not too much. Carbon kills.

On its blog, Greenpeace tried to cover-up the admission by executive director Gerd Leipold as the work of “the handful of global warming skeptics still standing.”

We're skeptics, we're standing, though sometimes we sit, and we like our flatulent-happy cows.

Gerd Leipold

In an attempt to “astroturf” (create a false impression of a grassroots response to an issue), Greenpeace urged online followers to spread its cover-up “clarification” via social media tools like blogs, Twitter and Facebook.

Oh Ben, my new special friend and recent blog commenter, say it isn't so.

Environmental and left-wing organizations often accuse conservative groups of astroturfing on contentious issues.

They accuse us of worst things than that.

Since the story was broken on Big Hollywood yesterday dozens of blogs and media outlets including Instapundit, Hot Air and Power Line, have linked to the story about Greenpeace’s admission, and embedded the key video clips from the BBC segment. In the interview, Leipold said his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” “I don’t think it will be melting by 2030,” he said.

Poor guy. Not the most popular boy with the cool kids anymore.

BBC reporter Stephen Sackur accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism,” but Leipold defended the group’s tactics as a necessity to convince people of its views on global warming.

Chicken Little tried that tactic, too.

Okay, well that was fun. Go here to see the original post and BBC interview of Leipold.

Quote Them

"I was listening to Johnny Mathis the other day and I said, 'What an amazing voice.' I have yet to hear another person sound like Johnny Mathis. How are we so arrogant to think the 51.5 million babies who have died in this country… Look, I am for helping women. I just don’t see abortion as helping women. And I don’t love my career that much to say, 'I’m going to remain silent on this.' I’m defending every single baby who has never been born. And every voice that would have been unique like Johnny Mathis’. How do we know that we didn’t kill the very child who could have created a particular type of medicine that saves other lives?"

Jim Caviezel,
star of “The Stoning of Soraya M.” and “The Passion of the Christ"



PS I would marry this man. Alas, it can never be. For one, he's already married. For two, he doesn't know about my ice crunching fetish.

Steven Crowder, ladies and gentlemen, with the Zo Master, too

Let"s dance. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.



Public option is off. It's on. It's off. It's partially on. But since the argument is solely between the Democrats - the Blue Dogs and the Lefties - it's time to boogie.

I have a remote. And I'm not afraid to use it.

It's amazing how quickly you can stop watching movies and discover the world's a happier place. Avoid the theater and your love for the common man increases.

Growing up, I was a huge movie buff. To this day, I still have a hard time finding a movie from the 80s I haven't seen. It was the era of John Hughes and I was a fan.
These days, I look at movies and can only think, 'That is so not worth eight bucks.' Even more so, it isn't worth my time. Movies, it seems, are nothing more than feature length propaganda machines. For a conservative, going to the movies takes deep breathing exercises before hand and long chats with your pastor afterward.
Films are no longer for entertainment but for raising one's blood pressure. If you are a conservative and looking for two-hours of excruciating pain, try a Sarah Jessica Parker film.

A few Christmases ago, low on cash but high on holiday spirit, a friend and I splurged for a holiday film, The Family Stone. Snuggle in and enjoy the yuletide cheers.
Instead, I was force fed two hours of a gambit of homosexual agenda issues, like gay marriage, gay adoption, and the ridiculously laughable gay gene. It was like passing up my mother's amazing pumpkin pie holiday feast to have cocktails with an angry LGBT support group.
I seethed, mind you. Seethed. I had come for Christmas and instead got a Rainbow parade.

Learning partially from my previous mistakes, I rented Failure to Launch, determining if it sucked at least I had spent less money. And it did, suck that is. We have a female lead who, desperate to not be proven wrong, has sex with a guy she's clandestinely treating as a psych patient. Again. Yuck. Yet somewhere people are paid to write these stories, say these lines, and produce these movies.

When Sex and the City came out, no one needed to warn me away. If offered an evening of that movie or cleaning public toilets, I would have gone shopping for plastic gloves and a scrub brush.

And now, we have this, Did You Hear About the Morgans?. Personally, the fact they make fun of Sarah Palin even in the trailer - generally designed to promote neutrality and thus wider audience appeal - means I can save my incisors and skip it.

Avoiding the theater is getting easier and easier. Stars, producers, directors, executives, they keep opening their mouth and I keep closing my wallet.
Megan Fox, of Transformers 2, would like Megatron to spare the planet and just kill "all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America.” And I would like not to see Megan Fox in a movie, thus I'm spared the second installment.
Then G.I. Joe, saving me even more money and time, decided to change our American Hero into a "Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity."

I'm investing all this saved cash in gold, not green energy, by the way.

Hollywood wants to criticize, vilify, and demonize Christians, conservatives, or anyone not sacrificing their self-respect and critical thinking skills at the foot of Obama. And yet we're suppose to pay to see their movies, buy products they endorse, and follow them on Twitter to keep up with their dietary changes.
They take us for idiots. They must. And as long as we continue being attacked while simultaneously funding their methods for attack, they should.

These days, should the entertainment mood strike, I pull out a Cary Grant or John Wayne movie, enjoy I Love Lucy, or watch shows like LOST, Fringe, or even Chuck, which do not overly hype nor nakedly expose their actors. The scripts are tight. The storyline flows. And should they decide to make light, make fun, or make barbs about my core beliefs, I have a remote and am not afraid to use it.

Obama's "grassroots" well funded

The King of Transparency is dead.

Quote Them

"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

Barack Obama
President and Grim Reaper



PS I don't remember God asking for his help.

Greenpeace...lied? Say it ain't so

Greenpeace released a press release on July 15 which stated, "As permanent ice decreases, we are looking at ice-free summers in the Arctic as early as 2030."
Global warming, caused by exhaling (inhaling is okay), would rid the arctic of ice in about 20 years, they explained.

Except...well...maybe their Apocalyptic prediction was...I don't know...probably wrong.

Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said, “I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake."

It took a hard-hitting and educated journalist on BBC's "Hardtalk" Program to get the truth, but darn it, wouldn't you know it, a journalist can find the truth when they want it.



The BBC reporter points out: the Greenland Ice Shield is 1.6 MILLION square kilometers, with 3 km thick in the middle, and has been around through many periods of history warmer than now.
How does Mr. Greenpeace respond, by explaining how he and Greenpeace have had to "emotionalizing issues" and are not ashamed of emotionalizing. Um, what about fact?

My hat is off to BBC reporter Stephen Sackur. He wouldn't relent until Mr. Greenpeace admitted they released alarmist information not based on fact. Now...if we could get him to interview Algore.



Curtsy to Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney from www.noteviljustwrong.com, via Big Hollywood