Blatant Reality

And who says that there isn’t money to be made for global warming climatologists.

An annual contest to guess the exact moment the ice breaks on the River Tanana, 300 miles north of Anchorage, is attracting global interest, both as a chance to win a $300,000 (£151,000) prize and as one of the world’s most precise scientific indicators of the effects of global warming.

To bad with all their fancy forecast models the scientist can’t predict when exactly the ice will crack. Well, maybe they can just follow James Hansen’s example. He seems to be doing pretty well.

Obama may have his “Yes We Can” video, but we have this. I like ours more.

The answer, according to Michael J. Totten, is yes.

There has been a lot of arguments for and against the new state of Kosovo and a lot of the reason against it are taken from a national security standpoint. The main question refers to whether or not we want to have a Muslim country in Europe that could turn into a powder keg waiting to explode.

Totten’s article compares the two countries along with pointing out the the predominant Muslim sect in Kosovo is the exact opposite the sects that brought about Al-Qaeda and the like. Now, the article doesn’t bring up the topic about whether or not Kosovo has the right to secede or not. The article strictly focuses on whether Israel should recognize Kosovo because it can be seen as somewhat of a “brother in arms” with the same situation. To get what I am saying, read this excerpt:

The irrelevance of Kosovo to the Arab-Israeli conflict is underscored by the fact that not a single Arab country has recognized Kosovo. The only Muslim countries which so far have bothered are Turkey, Malaysia, Senegal, Albania, and Afghanistan. The governments of all these countries are, to one extent or another, either moderate, in the pro-Western camp, or both. All aside from Albania have sizeable ethnic minorities of their own. Turkey especially frets about its own separatists – the Kurds in the east – but still went ahead and recognized Kosovo almost instantly.

 

Many in Kosovo are well aware that they have more in common with Israel than with the West Bank and Gaza. “Kosovars used to identify with the Palestinians because we Albanians are Muslims and Christians and we saw Serbia and Israel both as usurpers of land,” a prominent Kosovar recently told journalist Stephen Schwartz. “Then we looked at a map and woke up. Israelis have a population of six million, their backs to the sea, and 300 million Arab enemies. Albanians have a total population of eight million, our backs to the sea, and 200 million Slav enemies. So why should we identify with the Arabs?”

If you liked that part, read the rest of the article. It’s just as good.

San Francisco is constantly being toted as a liberal stronghold, a city completely lost to the conservative way of thinking. With recent photo’s showing some of San Francisco’s population supporting the good Reverend (Jeremiah Wright), one would think that this idea is true.

But wait! What is this? A group of college Republicans vehemently supporting John McCain? How can this be in this city of utter hopelessness? Do they have special breathing apparatus to survive the smug polluted air?

Well it seems that San Fran is actually home to over 1,500 College Republicans who are fighting to help McCain gain some more support in the enemy’s capital. Talk about fighting behind enemy lines.

Whats the difference between a terrorist and a person who likes to detonate things in public areas? A terrorist’s aim is to hurt people. The Basque terrorist group ETA seems to have forgotten how this terrorism stuff works. Instead of calling in 30 minutes after an explosion to claim it, they called 30 minutes before it detonated in order to warn people away.

State radio said ETA had issued a warning stating the location of the bomb and the make, model and colour of the car.

 

Media reported the police station and surrounding area had been cleared and cordoned off before the explosion.

 

State television said the warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion and there had been scenes of panic as the area around the police station was crowded with people attending a Holy Week religious procession.

For all of you who don’t know what a “tableau” is, its basically a picture and I know that at the end of a long week I could definitely use a peaceful image to transition me into the weekend mode. So I have decided that I’m going to start putting up pictures the epitomize tranquility every Friday (hopefully). These are going to all be pictures I have taken myself which brings me to the second reason I want to do this: I want to show off some of my mad photo taking skillz. Hope you all enjoy.

This image is from Hunting Island, SC.

Well the results of this poll were as expected. People (or at least the readers of this site) overwhelmingly feel that Obama’s cult-like following is a very scary thing.

I’m also glad to see that everyone knows what a cult is. Very good. Ya’ll sure know how to make me proud.

Does the almost cult-like fervor of Obama’s followers scare you?
Selection		Votes
Yes, it really does	65%	11
No, I think it’s kind of cute	12%	2
Huh? What’s a cult?	0%	0
No, Ron Paulians are much worse	24%	4
17 votes total

Frank J. from IMAO wrote his version of the happenings in the District of Columbia vs. Heller case. Its pretty hilarious so you should read it.

A new theory? Bruce Callander puts forth the idea that aliens are actually the ones to blame for all this weird weather we’ve been having the past couple of decades.

Personally, I blame it on UFOs. We haven’t heard much about unidentified flying objects lately and that may be significant. There was a time there when every other week some couple reported being abducted by aliens and held aboard their space ship. During that period, the weather was pretty predictable and nobody talked about global warming.

 

Now, however, you rarely hear of UFO reports and look at the condition the climate is in. We have more floods and hurricanes and blizzards and tsunamis than ever. Coincidence? I think not.

 

My theory is that that first wave of UFO sightings was for reconnaissance. They took in those couples just to see how they were made. Once they had had a good look, they let them go and they ran to the TV stations and talked their bloody heads off. In time, the aliens either found out all they wanted to know or got tired of the people turning up on the talk shows. Either way, they stopped abducting people.

Now he’s not really serious but I sometimes feel that the climate scientists put forth about the same amount of “facts” that Callander did. It really is sad.

In his “A More Perfect Union Speech” yesterday, Obama seems to have thrown his grandmother in the same lot as Jeremiah Wright. He mentioned her to illustrate that he can no more disown her then he can disown Rev. Wright. To even put ones’ grandmother on the same level as Wright is a very horrible thing to do. Read what Gateway Pundit has to say about it here.