Jul
Would You Jump Off A Cliff…
by Bob in climate, philosophy
“If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you do the same thing ?”
How many times did you hear that one as a kid? It usually had to do with parents not wanting their children to go places deemed as unsuitable for any number of reasons. Parents opinions were based on reason and experience, something most teenagers don’t have.
Similar to teenagers are today’s advocates of catastrophic global warming. If you say you don’t believe their sky-is-falling prognostications, you are called names, your reputation is questioned, and efforts are made to exile you from polite society.
We are being told that global warming will cause sea level increases of 20 feet in the next century. People will tell you that “the weight of the evidence” proves the statement, and those who challenge this popular view are called “deniers” . It is all an attempt to vilify intelligent and rational people so the alarmists won’t have to defend an indefensible theory.
The interesting thing is that there is no empiracle evidence that sea levels will rise 20 feet. This position rests on speculation derived attempts to model the earth’s climate system with models that have never made an accurate forecast.
Modeling stuff does not produce real world values. Models produce speculative results, and depend on a large number of assumptions about real world values that cannot be measured.
So, take note of what at least one person observed about majority opinions.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. Bertrand Russel (via iGoogle page)
I am glad to see that I am in good company when questioning a majority, unsupported opinion.
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Jul
My Head Just Exploded

Financial Ruin will be good for the country.
Our Big Baby Barack Obama, Leader for Life, just announced he will sign the Democrat Financial Ruin Bill talked about so much in recent press articles.
So what’s wrong with making more regulation for banks and financial institutions? My answer is that there are laws on the books, now, that would prevent pretty much any of our financial problems. The Federal Government is just not doing its job.
The major problem with the Democrat’s Financial Ruin Bill is that it does not address the fundamental problem of the Federal Government’s mismanagement.
The fundamental problem with the government is Freddi Mac and Fannie Mae, government sponsored entities that packaged the bad mortgages into investment instruments and caused the recent world-wide meltdown of the world’s financial system.
Yep! The Feds set up the whole thing, and will not admit this problem, and the Democrats refuse to correct this problem they initiated years ago.
I am tired of blaming everything on the Democrats, but they are so inept at finance, economics, science, and just about every other subject that it’s hard to NOT blame them. In this case generalization is a accurate method of assessing culpability.
It’s too bad my head just exploded, because I really need to throw up!
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Jul
Obama Administration Funds Abortion
The State of Pennsylvania is being funded by $160 million of federal taxpayer money to fund abortions under the states high risk program. The State of New Mexico is being given $37 Million for the same kind of program.
So, just where does this leave Stupid Bart Stupak, the Democrat Congressman who got profuse promises from Barack Obama, personally, and an executive order that the Federal Government would not fund abortions.
Obama Lied!
Let me say this another way.
Obama lied, again!
Or, to go even further.
I don’t remember a program about which Barack Obama did NOT LIE!
The Obama Administration is a resounding failure.
How many times will I have an opportunity, or even a duty to say that in the coming months?
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Jul
Immigration – A Modest Proposal
by Bob in Current Events, economics, social
We have a problem.
Millions of people from the interior of Mexico and points south are pouring into our great country every year. These are the modern day hungry, defeated, despised, and wretched refuse no other country in the world wants to shelter.
In the minds of many these illegals should be sent packing back to the tropical paradise of their origin. They take jobs legitimate Americans should have, and cost local and national taxpayers billions of dollars in services they do not deserve.
Democrats and other atheists want us to do the Christian thing and show mercy to these poor souls, declare them citizens, and register them to vote for more Democrats. They want “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.
Comprehensive Immigration Reform is code for amnesty, and it’s a non-starter.
We need new solutions; stuff out of left field; brain storming ideas; and just plain bold proposals.
I have a bold plan. It is simple, but not simplistic.
We should ask our illegal Mexican squatters to go home. They are no longer welcome.
The follow-up action is to vigorously prosecute companies who hire illegal aliens. This is easier than it sounds, and does not involve buses, cattle cars, or German shepherds.
Note the simplicity, directness, and economy with which the problem is addressed.
The really big thing about the “Go Home” program is that it would not cost anything to implement. No new laws, no prisons, and you can use the same cops we have.
The one thing that will make it work is to lock down the border. Everything else will follow from this.
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Jul
It’s A Target Rich Blogging Environment
by Bob in political
There is almost too much stuff out there to comment on nowadays. Barack Obama has given the blogging world so much material with his goofy decisions and policies that one would have to blog full time keep up.
First, there is the Obama Recession. The dude has turned a bad recession into the worst since the Great Depression. Even Democrats are calling it the Great Recession.
Then, there is the Obama Health-care plan. Now that the real numbers are coming out, we learn that it will be worse than feared. The man lied to the American public like a machine.
Don’t forget the New Black Panther Scandal. Who, but a racist administration, would dismiss the most obvious case of voter intimidation in recorded history?
How about suing the State of Arizona for trying to comply with Federal Law? This is a no-brainer, but the Obama Administration will find a corrupt Federal Judge to sway it their way. That’s my prediction.
Oh! Don’t forget about NASA’s new mission – reaching out to Muslims to make them feel good about themselves. How sweet is that?
Have a nice day, and don’t forget to check Fox News every half-hour. You never know when Obama will do something sensible, like resign.
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Note: Yes, I know I have left out the Great Obama Oil Spill, the Obama Cut And Run Afghanistan policy, and the Worst Stimulus Idea In History. I told you it was a target rich environment.
Jul
Spam On Spurious Missives
by Bob in housekeeping
It has finally gotten to me. I don’t know where the stuff comes from, but it comes in flocks, bushels, loads, and tons from everywhere. It shows up in the comments to be moderated, and is a big pain to rake through every day.
Up until now, I have just been erasing the spam, and maybe some regular comments, too.
To help with the problem, there is now a “captcha” feature on the comment page. When you want to enter a comment, you have to type the letters from one of those rediculous panels. It does, however, help with the spam because most of it is generated with machines with the URL’s and email addresses they have read.
The captcha form is not machine readable, and should help with the spam problem.
Thanks for your understanding.
bb
Jul
The Racist Post Racial Administration
by Bob in Current Events, Illegal, political, social
We have a whistle blower. A senior attorney in the Department of Justice, and a lead attorney in the prosecution of the New Black Panther’s intimidating presence at a Philadelphia voting poll has resigned in protest of the dropping of the case, even though the case had already been won. Nothing remained except for deciding the punishment of the evil doers.
See the YouTube video, below, taken by a University of Pennsylvania student of the actual incident. The Black Panther dudes were not Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormons out to convert you to their brand of worship. They were there to intimidate poll workers from challenging the legitimacy of thousands of illegal voters registered by the Democrats favorite stooge organization, ACORN.
One of the charges against the Department of Justice is that there is an internal, non-published policy of NOT prosecuting cases where the victims are white. How does this happen?
This happens when the President of The United States has befriended, and belonged to a black supremacist church for 25 years. Barack Hussein Obama’s past and subsequent influences are now showing themselves, and it’s not pretty.
Opponents of Obama were belittled for observing that he has a Muslim background, and was likely to prejudice US policy towards leniency to Muslim terrorists. Barack Obama’s bowing and kissing up to terrorist leaders, and trying to shut down the Guantanamo detention facility bear witness to his bankrupt, Muslim leanings.
It became obvious in the campaign that Obama was using the language and reasoning of the discredited Marxist movement which has failed, or is failing, in ALL of its host countries. Socialism is just a cousin of Marxism, and the source of Obama’s swooning love for socialism is probably his Ivy League education.
Prior to his election, Obama made the statement that he would bankrupt coal companies. Liberals tried to laugh it off as a remark of the moment. Now, we know that Barack Obama meant what he said, and he is ignorant enough to follow through with his threats.
Now, we have a Racist, Marxist, Extreme Environmentalist President, and the nation is in huge trouble. Everything Obama believes in is either anti-American or injurious to our freedoms and economic health of our great nation.
Read the Pajamas Media article written by J. Christopher Adams, the bravest whistle blower in US history. He is braving the onslaught of the Democrat, liberal media slime machine for telling the truth. The Department of Justice is trashing Mr. Adams, but the truth will eventually come out.
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Jun
Jun
Senator Robert Byrd Seriously Ill
by Bob in Current Events, political
An Associated Press article on Yahoo is alerting us that the 92 year old Senator from West Virginia is seriously ill. There is no prognosis on if he is deathly ill, but with his age and frail health, nobody would be surprised.
One of the inviting things about news articles on Yahoo is that you have the opportunity to comment on the article. Unfortunately, everybody else has that opportunity, too.
It is inevitable that many of the comments are saying that it is about time the old man died. This is a reprehensible attitude, but a review of Senator Byrd’s past could lead you to give these ill-wishers a pass.
The Senator is a past member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). At some time in the past, Byrd renounced his membership in this racist organization. It is obvious that Senator Byrd’s conversion to racial rationality was a political, not moral, decision.
It should be remembered that one of the founders of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forest, later renounced his membership in the organization because he felt that thugs had taken over. Senator Byrd obviously joined the KKK in the age of thuggery. Forest was a slave trader before the Civil War, and had no compassion for black people. I don’t think Byrd has compassion for people of any color.
You see, when somebody joined the KKK, it was for a reason. These reasons revolved around fear, hate, and ambition. To be a member you had to have no compassion for black people, and this was part of Byrd’s psyche.
He is revered in the Senate because he rubber stamps Democrat programs, and can get elected time after time in West Virginia.
I wish the old man no ill will, but maybe this illness will get his worthless backside out of the Senate.
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Jun
Karl Rove Planted Masseuse To Tempt Gore
Just kidding.
It is a wonder that we haven’t seen a blog using this theme among the “progressive” internet organs favored by the brainless liberal Democrats. This is just the kind of thing you would expect from them.
Of course, Karl Rove, Republican Political Advisor to President Bush, is not in action anymore as advising major Republican candidates.
With Rove out of action, who will the liberal left blame with tempting Al Gore to do his Sex Crazed Poodle Act?
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