The Movement You Need…

I can’t decide if this is more funny than it is pathetic or vice-versa:

I don’t know if I want anyone who is so ignorant about tones and notes to be President of the United States. One of my voice coaches insisted that there is no such thing as “tone deafness.” I’m inclined to believe it. That’s strike two. Take your pick for strike one: she married Bill; she’s a liberal; she’s a Democrat.

Strike three: If you don’t know the words to our national anthem, then you don’t deserve to be President. Heck, if she were an alien applying for citizenship, I’d disqualify her for making this error.

Tags: Conservatism

When I was in the eighth grade (circa 1973) I wrote a science paper on “global cooling” that got an “A” from my rather hippie science teacher (Ironically, Mr. Reagan). Unfortunately, I don’t have a copy of that today, but I do have a copy of a literary digest from my seventh grade english class in which I wrote a rather alarming poem about what man was doing to the earth that would brighten the mood of today’s Green Party members.

Fortunately I survived to shrug off early attempts by “educators” to yoke me via indoctrination. And Kermit taught me that it ain’t easy being Green.

It seems that science, perhaps particularly the fraternity of science educators, has had and freely wielded its political agenda for quite some time. Considering the “global cooling” hysteria from 30 years ago coupled with todays “global warming” fear mongering, I boldly predict that the next great meteorological con game will be “global tepiding.” Once the funding for research into the current climatological snipe hunt is exhausted, I prophesy there will be a clamor because some scientific model will be developed to show that the planet’s temperature is not varying enough. Of course, Global Tepiding would decimate the fashion industry; who would buy the seasonal clothing lines if, thanks to mans mere presence, the earth becomes so tepid that there is no discernible change of seasons! And something, something very expensive, will surely have to be done about it!

Along this same vein, I’ve noted both with amusement and concern the controversy ignited by the Weather Channel’s resident global warming doge, Dr. Heidi Cullen. She recently blogged the suggestion that the American Meteorological Society strip certification from anyone who “can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change.”

Did you get that? Is it the official position of the Weather Channel that man-caused global warming is fact?

Why, dagummit, it is!

For me, this raises the question: What’s in it for the Weather Channel to be in league with Al Gore? I know the surest ways to find the answer to a political question, which the dogma of man-caused global warming surely is, is to follow the money. Fortunately, there are AMS members willing to speak out and lead us to it:

ABC 33/40 Weather Blog » “The Weather Channel” Mess

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh? I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype.

The linked article lists the funding sources most sought by scientists with dreams of Global Warming paydays. What astounds me most in all of this is that I know too many supposedly intelligent and educated people who simply cannot think this sort of stuff through clearly. Some members of my own family drone on and on about global warming so assuredly I wonder if they’ve taken up residence in Al Gore’s pants.

The bottom line for me is this: Global warming may be true; global cooling may be true; my Grand Theory of Global Tepiding may be true. In fact, they all may be true simultaneously. And I’ll even grant that mankind may have had an effect on the planet’s climate, particularly in the past half-century. But I also consider it asinine and hubristic to assume that man can do anything to significantly change the weather…aside from the voluntary culling of about half the world’s population.

People are going to burn stuff. More people? More stuff burned. Less people? Less stuff burned. We can all do our part to save the planet by dying. But I want to see all of the disciples of phony altruism on the left show their commitment by going first, OK? Take our word for it that we’ll go next.

We promise.

Tags: climate change, global cooling, global warming scam

I’ve been meaning to write about Rep. Keith Ellison’s silly stunt ever since I learned that he would have his ceremonial swearing-in picture taken while holding a Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Koran. I found a piece that saves me the trouble of composing the details:

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be “gleaned” from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic “Barbary” states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli.

Ellison’s use of Jefferson’s Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic “Barbary” states.

Our troubles with Islam are as old our nation. Those educated by our government schools in the last half-century are unlikely to know this, so they have an incorrect or incomplete contextual framework from which to consider what we are up against. I question why our “leaders” have not taken the time - it really isn’t that hard to outline - to educate Americans about the long history of this war.

In essence, those who wage jihad against us are fighting the same war as has been waged, sometimes quietly and sometimes not, since our founding. The intent of killing or making dhimmi those who are not “true believers” is still the same. The words and themes used to incite hatred of us remain the same. Jefferson knew that the only way to deal with these types is to thoroughly defeat and humiliate them. It makes no sense for us to play the role of social worker by trying to impose the boilerplate of our centuries-in-the-making system of mores, values and laws upon peoples whose cultural pathways are so divergent from those that inform Western thought.

It is my understanding that the culture with which we’re dealing considers our displays of compassion to be a sign that we are weak and can be easily defeated if they just keep doing what they’re doing for long enough. It all makes me wonder if we have allowed political correctness dictate our considerations so completely that we cannot muster the will to win.

I hope not.