How Best to Describe "Climategate"

Our man Vin Suprynowicz here in Las Vegas lets ‘em have it:

To land continued government grants, it was necessary to “develop” evidence that would “prove” the claim that “man-made global warming will fry us all on a griddle unless we cede massive new power, massive wealth, our standard of living and our industrial dominance of the world to the ‘scientific’ central state.”

What those who dutifully excreted such steaming piles of crap have come close to accomplishing is to require that the world now presume, in self-defense, that any state-funded “science” is little more than government-funded propaganda to justify taxing us, regulating us, licensing us, fining us, advancing National Socialism under a new, Green flag.

Mind you, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving gang of grant-chasing welfare leeches and receivers of stolen property.

Suprynowicz is good like that – he is, after all, the man who invariably refers to our public school system as “government youth propaganda camps”. Can’t always agree with all his libertarianism, but he’s hit the nail on the head here. And just this sort of brazen exposure is what is needed.

Its no good softening the blow, good people. Our liberals are armored from ear to ear against logic and appeals to decency. The rhetorical 2 x 4 is the only way to reach them. Any hemming and hawing – any attempt, that is, to concede they might be at least working from honest motives – just gets us further behind the 8 ball. Give them a debate inch, and they’ll take a mile – say anything even remotely nice about them or their views and you’ll find yourself “quoted” in liberal-land as supporting liberalism. Better to just keep them at arms length, and then bash them with a big stick.

GOP Leads in Generic Ballot for 25th Week

I’m still just amazed at this:

Republican candidates have bounced back to a seven-point lead over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

As a life-long Republican, I’m just not used to this sort of thing. My side is always behind on the Generic Ballot. To be ahead at all is thrilling – to be ahead for nearly 6 months is downright amazing.

The US Criminal Code Needs Complete Revision

Here’s why:

…It’s for good reason that our Constitution mentions only three federal crimes (treason, piracy, and counterfeiting).

The Founders viewed the criminal sanction as a last resort, reserved for serious offenses, clearly defined, so ordinary citizens would know whether they were violating the law.

Yet over the last 40 years, an unholy alliance of big-business-hating liberals and tough-on-crime conservatives has made criminalization the first line of attack — a way to demonstrate seriousness about the social problem of the month, whether it’s corporate scandals or e-mail spam…

…There are now more than 4,000 federal crimes, spread out through some 27,000 pages of the U.S. Code. Some years ago, analysts at the Congressional Research Service tried to count the number of separate offenses on the books, and gave up, lacking the resources to get the job done. If teams of legal researchers can’t make sense of the federal criminal code, obviously, ordinary citizens don’t stand a chance…

Every now and again, in any human government, the law books get a bit cluttered and its time to revise to ensure that the laws are short and easily understood. If we’ve got 27,000 pages of US Code, then we’re about 26,500 more than we need.

One of the tasks for Sara….errrmm…I mean for the next President of the United States is to preside over a full revision of our law code. And we have to be certain that no liberal gets within 100 miles of the revision process – nothing but the most rock-ribbed conservatives leavened with libertarians should have anything to do with it.

And then we pass a constitutional amendment which requires that each bill cite constitutional authority for its existence and that all bills be 50 pages or less. Time to jackhammer the bureaucrats out of our way and the best way to do it is to cut down on the sheer volume of paper they’ve buried us under.

Remember: December 16th, 1944

The Battle of the Bulge – here’s a recent account about a veteran of the battle:

The crisp, winter sun burned through the fog around noon in the town of Longchamps, Belgium … revealing a wall of German tanks aligned on the snow-capped hillside.

No sooner did 2nd Lt. Everett “Red” Andrews call the target back to his fellow troops in the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, than he was struck through the mouth by shell fragmentation from the ensuing German onslaught.

“I hold the record for the shortest time spent as a forward observer ever,” he joked, before calmly describing the scene in graphic detail. “I peaked my head above the fox hole to see if we hit the targets, and next thing I knew I was clutching the blood from my mouth in my hands and trying to put it back in me. I thought I was going to die. I was twenty-two years old, I didn’t know. I guess besides my bright red hair at the time, that was another reason folks call me ‘Red.’”

The fragmentation is still lodged in his lower jaw, sixty-five years after forcing his early exit from the seminal World War II Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle in U.S. Army history.

Andrews received a Purple Heart for his injuries suffered during the battle. He is quick to defer the significance of his service and the harsh conditions he experienced, first mentioning the hardship of the infantrymen he served alongside.

Here is an excellent description of the overall battle. It is important that we remember these events, and the men and women who served in them. We are forgetting far too much of our history – we aren’t teaching our children and grand-children just what this country has done, and what it has meant to those who sacrificed the most for it.

FL-22: Lt. Col. Allen West

You have to check out this video of Florida Congressional Candidate Lt. Col. Allen West.

You got to follow this guy on Twitter, and join him on Facebook.

Obama's Economic Advisors Clueless About Economy

On one hand, you have an economic advisor of Obama’s saying “everybody agrees that the recession is over,” and on the other hand you have another saying “Of course not.”

These people are clearly clueless, and are just saying what they think sounds the best at the moment. Remember, these are probably the same people that told Obama that the stimulus would keep the unemployment rate below 8% and that Cash-For-Clunkers was a good idea.

The only thing Obama has to show for his economic policy is double-digit unemployment. When his own advisors are definitively stating opposite conclusions about the economy to the media, you know we’re in trouble. They don’t know what’s going on and they clearly don’t know how to solve the problem.

Obama Grades Himself: B+

Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?

Obama, in an interview that aired Sunday, gave himself “a good solid B-plus” grade for his first year in office.

Speaking with fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey, the president claimed progress on economic and international fronts.

Obama said the only thing that stands in the way of giving himself a better grade is the fact that some elements of his agenda — health care reform and putting more Americans to work — remain undone.

“The biggest burden on me right now is that economic growth has happened, but job growth has not happened,” Obama told Winfrey on the ABC special.

Now, let’s be serious now. Obama can’t honestly believe he deserve that grade, even by left wing standards.

Let’s just consider the following.

• Several of his nominees have had to withdraw due to tax problems.
• Giitmo will not be closed in the timetable he promised.
• Unemployment has gone up to double-digits despite his promise the stimulus would keep it below 8%
• Despite majorities in both Houses of Congress, he can’t get his health care plan passed
• His approval ratings have declined at a historically fast rate, and are below 50% with Rasmussen and Gallup.
• Republicans won governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, two states Obama won last year.

Okay, I could go on… but you get the idea… Obama has been destroying the economy, his image, and his party. I can’t possibly explain how he thinks he deserve a B+ as a grade.

John Hawkins lists 20 other historic B+’s Like Obama’s. Sister Toldjah calls it denial.Alex Conant notes Obama’s self-grade is lower than the family goal.

So, let’s put it to you guys… what grade would you give Obama for his first year?

Did the First Lady Have Something to do With the Firing of the Americorps IG?

Interesting bit of news from Byron York:

Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.

According to Republican investigators, Alan Solomont, then the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, had denied meeting with Jackie Norris, at the time the First Lady’s chief of staff. But recently-released White House visitor logs show that Solomont met with Norris on June 9 of this year (as well as on two earlier occasions). President Obama fired Walpin on June 10 after an intense dispute over Walpin’s aggressive investigation of misuse of AmeriCorps money by Obama political ally Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, California.

After being presented with the visitor logs, investigators say, Solomont explained that he met with Norris to discuss Corporation business but did not discuss the Walpin matter. When pressed, Solomont said he might have made an offhand comment, or a mention in passing, about the Walpin affair, but that he and Norris did not have a discussion about it.

Shades of the Clinton-era White House Travel Office scandal! This does smell very much of that sewer we know of as Chicago machine politics. Protect your flunky by getting rid of the man who might find out the truth – all very easy; and it just takes a wink and a nod in the right place. Its not like Michelle Obama or her staffer would have to call and order the firing…just the right hint at the right time works very well for those versed in Chicago politics…as are the Obama’s and their staff.

"Climategate" Update

According to Watts Up With That?, climate data is disappearing.

Nothing like shoving the bad news down the Memory Hole, huh? Of course, if you have to massage your data to make it look like you weren’t conducting a scam all along, it does help if its off line for a while – so, hopefully, people will forget what you said before.

Obama At New Polling Low

I really didn’t expect it to get this bad:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18.

That’s a one point improvement from yesterday when Obama’s Approval Index rating fell to the lowest level yet recorded. Prior to the past three days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office.

We’re heading towards GW Bush post-Katrina numbers here.

Now, is this a permanent trend? I’m not sure, but it doesn’t seem to be related to just how the economy is going. There hasn’t been any major bad economic news for a couple months now and lots of alleged good news – so what is driving Obama down isn’t “its the economy, stupid”, but something else.

It could be that the bloom is just off the rose – we know what we’ve got for President, and we don’t like it. He’s just been terrible – and the more he travels around and talks about himself, the worse it gets.