Interesting Items 11/17 by Alex Gimarc Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 Interesting Items 11/17 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Sixty 2. Sea Ice 3. Hansen 4. Civilian Defense Corps 5. Prop 8 6. Reversing Bush 7. Thoughts 1. Sixty. As of this writing, Norm Coleman (R, MN) has a 209 vote lead over Al Franken (D), with over 500 bogus democrat votes (redundant term) showing up after the polls were closed – all of them going for Franken. Saxby Chambliss (R, GA) is in a runoff early December. He won comfortably, but expect the Obamaoids to pour everything into Georgia and try to win the runoff. Up here in Alaska, during the counting of absentee, question, and early votes, Ted Stevens’ (R, AK) 3,500 vote lead has become a 1,100 or so vote deficit. There are some 40,000 ballots outstanding that will be counted by Wednesday. Stevens’ pollster wrote him off as a goner late last week. Now some conservative bloggers are really pushing hard the notion that Chambliss is the key vote against a 60 vote democrat, filibuster proof majority in the Senate. While the numbers may be accurate, I strongly disagree, as there are at least five current Republicans that will line up with democrats at the drop of a hat, and that the magic number of Republicans in the Senate is not 60, but 55. Here’s why: Olympia Snowe (R, ME), Susan Collins (R, ME), Lindsey Gramnesty (R, SC), John McCain (R, AZ), Lamar Alexander (R, TN). There are others, but these are enough for now. 2. Sea Ice. University of Illinois ice observation scientists observed that the amount of sea ice growing in the Arctic in October was the fastest on record. Average sea ice coverage in the Arctic varies from 16-23 million square kilometers over the period from 1979 to today. Pro-global warming scientists announced that the rapid increase in sea ice coverage is no big deal, using the recent observations a simply a downward blip in the overall global warming bogus government orchestrated crisis. Imagine what they will do when global warming gives way to the next Little Ice Age in the second half of this century. I would not expect the Marine Mammals Service to back off on their recent listing of the polar bear as an endangered species as a result of findings this year, as they will surely make the case that manmade global cooling is killing the polar bears due to too much ice and that we need to shut down all development around the arctic to save them from the effects of decreased solar activity. Daily Tech, Fri. 3. Hansen. NASA’s highest paid data dink, and designated climatological scaremonger James Hansen was caught with his data fully cooked and pants all the way down late last week when it was discovered that NASA’s conclusion that October 2008 was the warmest in recorded history was a bogus result. It seems that Hansen’s group made a little mistake and used September’s temperature data across Russia to compute October’s global average temperature. Up here, October is the month when the temperature falls the quickest on its way to winter. So when you use warm temperatures to compute global averages in a month where the entire planet is cooling at its fastest, it will tend to jack up those averages nicely. Hansen and NASA went on to use the result as yet another example of manmade global warming, and demand instant government action to keep it from getting worse. To date, nobody has been fired. Nobody has been reprimanded. Nobody has been held to account for their actions. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen’s organization, did little more than say ‘oopsie” and recomputed their results. Ladies and Gentlemen: It ain’t oopsie when you are intentionally cooking the data to push your ideological viewpoint. Hansen is fast becoming an embarrassment to NASA. Perhaps that is the way NASA wants it. Too bad for them. London Telegraph, Sat. 4. Civilian Defense. Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama are about to give the Obama youth a real lesson in leftist, liberal views of the terms freedom and liberty. They propose a Civilian Defense Corps, with mandatory universal participation. This means that every single man and woman between the ages of 18-25 will get to spend three months in involuntary servitude to the Obamaoids in so-called training (indoctrination). There may even be military style barracks and uniforms. While Emanuel’s experience with this sort of thing comes out of his experience with the Israeli Defense Force, use of such a construct in the US where we are not fending off daily attacks on our home soil by Palestinian suicide bombers leads some people to start pointing out parallels between Emanuel’s proposal and the creation of the Gestapo in Hitler’s Germany in the mid-1930s. The elimination of the draft and creation of the all-volunteer army was one of the things that got Nixon elected in a historic landslide nearly 40 years ago. The recreation of the draft with forced universal participation may be enough to fatally dent Obama’s youth support – and along with it the democrats youth support. 5. Prop 8. The loving, tolerant, gay and lesbian community of California took their defeat on Election Day just as those of us watching their behavior over the years had come to expect – by acting like a bunch of spoiled two year olds. Better yet, the narcissistic vermin populating the community’s most activist supporters of gay marriage all but declared war on the Mormon Church in California over the course of the last week. They have been threatening parishioners. They have been forcing people who donated money in support of Prop 8 to resign from positions in the fine arts community in California. They have sent white powder to at least two Mormon Temples. They have been calling individuals that donated in support, and promising to shut down their small businesses. Dennis Prager interviewed one such gentleman Friday, complete with the threatening voicemail phone message. I cannot think of a better way for the homosexual community to trash what little respect and tolerance the rest of us have for them than to embark on this path of intimidation, bullying, and frankly, fascist thuggery. The only thing missing is the rainbow colored brown shirts. Congratulations, people. Tell me again why your lifestyle is a Good Thing? If you are singularly unable to tolerate the choices of your neighbors and fellow citizens at the ballot box, why ought anyone else tolerate you? 6. Reversing Bush. One of the things the Obamaoids are considering is a mass rollback of all Bush administration executive orders. Appears that in the near term they plan to reprise the Begala “stroke of a pen, new law” routine the Clintonoids tried during he second half of his infestation in office. Also remember that Clinton issued a bunch of toxic Executive Orders right as he left office, things like the Roadless Forests rule and executive support for embryonic stem cell research. The Bush administration chose to unwrap these things piecemeal and in doing so, managed to stir up a hornets’ nest on each issue. They should have shown up on day one and simply repealed all the last minute EOs at a minimum and dealt with the rest of them on a case by case basis. Appears that Obama plan a wholesale repeal of a wide range of Bush EOs the first day in office. They also plan on using a 1996 law as a vehicle to overturn Bush regulations from as far back as May. Mostly targeted will be environmental and health (read abortion) related regs. This law has only been used once in the 12 years since it was passed. However, should the Obamaoids set the precedent for wholesale repeal of Bush-era EOs, rules and regulations; they set the precedent for a future conservative president to do the same to their new rules and regs. 7. Thoughts. Folks, it is going to be a tough four (or more years). Fight the political fights as best you can and never, ever give up. Here are a few Pollyanna thoughts for today: Obama spent somewhere between $600-700 million on his election. The majority of it came from online, non-traceable, medium to low dollar credit card donations. Much of it is suspected to be foreign in nature. Campaign finance reform as embodied in McCain-Feingold is officially dead.
Obama and Acorn registered over six million new voters; had over 95% of the black voters; had a 2:1 majority of all over 30 voters; had a sitting president at below 25% approval; yet managed to only beat McCain by 8 million votes, with just marginally more voters voting this time around than had voted for Bush in 2004. Additionally none of the vaunted PUMAs showed up for McCain as promised, with Obama winning the vote of single women by over 70%. Expect Obama and the democrat majority in congress, aided and abetted by 4-5 RINOs in congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, creating instantly 12-22 million new Hispanic voting democrats. McCain’s vote was down by around five million from Bush’s 2004 total, which indicates a rejection of him by conservatives that had previously supported Bush. Expect the incoming administration aided and abetted by their drive-by media lackeys to do everything possible to Hooverize President Bush, and blame every single economic disaster over the next several years on the failures of the Bush administration. Expect them to get away with this for a while, until it becomes clear that they are responsible. How long will it take to turn it around? Who knows? It only took four years for the economic disaster of the Carter years to get him removed from the political gene pool. Note that at the time, there was a significant and ongoing economic education effort by conservatives. Economic education is going to be an important part of retaking control of Washington DC as we survive and endure (and prevail) against the new administration. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations: MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com ; District 28 http://www.dist28.com/ , subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/ and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: http://www.thevanguard.org/ I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With ACORN, La Raza, and Ohio Dem officials sitting on 20,000 suspect voter registrations and other Dept heads releasing Joe the Plumber's confidential information, this has been an incredibly, uncreditable election. Hope you didn't waste your time and gas to stand in line at one of their polling places hoping the electoral system isn't a fraud. Rich Martin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hasEML = false;
