Wednesday, December 16, 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY

UK Daily Express hat tip to California Chronicle "HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:"

Obama wrote a personal letter to North Korea's Kim Jong Il

Washington Post "It is relatively unusual for an American president to send the North Korean dictator a personal communication so early in his term. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eventually sent letters to Kim, but only after extensive diplomatic efforts to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Efforts early in Bush's term to send a letter were stymied by an intense debate over whether to use an honorific such as "his excellency" to address Kim."

More on this: Fmr Law & Order Actor Michael Moriarty On The Shows Liberal Bias

StoryBalloon (Video) This has always been one of our favorite shows, but difficult to watch when they deal with anything related to the war against radical Islam.

Should CIA Drone Operators Worry?

Hmmmm "It is crucial, in my view, that the administration put on the record, or be pushed into putting on the record, a plain and broad statement that its drone policy is legal, not on narrow grounds of an armed conflict in Afghanistan spilling over into Pakistan, but on broader grounds of self-defense."

Blame George Bush for Depressing Hollywood Movies

Newsbusters In a related issue, Mr. Bush has also caused an increase in acne among adolescents.

Race becomes an issue during campaign for Obama’s old Illinois Senate seat

The Hill "So Ill. should vote for a black woman because their black man left (he's POTUS but we are still racist), and after Burris leaves there won't be a black man in the Senate. BUT, anyone rooting for one of the white guys, (and the media), is RRRAAAAAAAACCCCCIIIIISSSSSTTTTTTT!!!!" H/t to Weasel Zippers So who's Bobby Rush?

Immigration bill backers try again despite jobless rate

Washington Times ""It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for American workers (Read "our union members")," said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers."

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Point/Counterpoint: Petition to Dismiss Charges against Navy Seals

Atlas Shrugs "The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it. Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers." However....Snopes calls it a waste . Only real letters are effective.

Bill would give undocumented legal status

RogueGovernment ""Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs. Those stolen jobs rightfully belong to citizens and legal immigrants. We could cut the unemployment rate in half simply by enforcing immigration laws!" said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. An immigration reform bill proposed by Gutierrez seeks to legalize undocumented immigrants by requiring them to register with the federal government, pay a $500 fine for each adult, learn English, pass background checks and meet other requirements."

Obama admits infidelity to Constitution, takes hiatus

Washington Examiner "The president's unfaithfulness to the Constitution became public knowledge as his dalliances with centralized government control of the economy became increasingly open."...."Obama's statement noted that in January he had made a solemn vow to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" but that his now very public transgressions "simply prove something about me that my supporters will find difficult to believe ... that I am human." Top White House officials acknowledged, off the record, that the president has conducted a series of "extra-constitutional affairs" perhaps because he had become such a celebrity that he felt invincible."

Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing

Breitbart "The Taunton School District said in a written statement Tuesday night that the second-grade student was never suspended over the drawing. It also said a drawing circulated to reporters by the boy's father, Chester Johnson, is not the same one that was discovered by the teacher. The district says the boy's teacher never assigned students to draw something that reminded them of the holiday season, as Johnson told reporters Tuesday. " Mea culpa for those of us who perpetuated this.

Copenhagen climate summit: Al Gore condemned over Arctic ice melting prediction

UK Telegraph "Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014. However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims."