Globull warmists and Greenpeace

Here is another Ezra levant video. This time he skewers the global warmists and Greenpeace.

Via http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=40803

No pussy-footing with these two!

Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn discuss freedom of speech in Canada and President Obama's decision to keep us dependent on Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, instead of Canada and the U.S., for oil and natural gas.
Via: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/11/hrcs-down-for-count.html

Pakistan gets tough with the U.S.

Pakistan is not allowing these supply trucks to go into Afghanistan, and has demanded that the United States abandon an airbase within fifteen days, after a NATO strike killed Pakistanis.

Story and photo found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45442885/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/#.TtF7QFZdDz5

Update: Boinky posts this excerpt from a Strategy Page post on this story:

Since the border guards and paramilitary police in the tribal territory are recruited from the tribes, the Taliban can also recruit, bribe or coerce these troops to fire on NATO and Afghan forces. Border patrol bases are often used for this, and NATO air strikes and artillery will be used to support the NATO and Afghan ground troops that are under attack. Since Pakistan officially denies that their paramilitary forces often work for the Taliban, they declare that the casualties from NATO forces defending themselves are "unprovoked attacks on Pakistan." That fiction works for a while in the Pakistani media, but most Pakistanis know better.

The link: http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/

Outer space versus deepest oceans

For many reasons I would rather explore outer space than the deepest ocean. Think of how cool it would be to dump a bag of chips in space and then float around eating them! If you tried doing that in water, the chips would get all soggy! Also, I'd like to play a game of baseball on the moon. The whole game would be in slow motion! Doesn't this sound better than looking at weird fish and being splashed by giant tsunamis?
By Greg Agard, age ten

"It is requested that everyone maintains a level of silence... and respect!"

Via Jeffro at The Poor Farm:http://crazedpw.blogspot.com/2011/11/morons.html

Leftists

The commenters on Roger L. Simon's post about flip-flopping got into a discussion of leftism and leftists. Here are some that I liked:

In the current economic crisis, they are not rooting for capitalism to recover, they are rooting for it to be destroyed.

They are not rooting for peace in Israel, they are rooting for her to be eradicated.

They are not adherents to science and rigorous testing of hypotheses over religion and faith…they are abusers of science to promote the cult/faith of leftism.

They are not for “green” energy, or reduction of global warming…they are for “red” redistribution and global domination.

And this:

You shouldn’t feel so bad about once being a leftist. The leftist have a neat little trick: they are ALWAYS AGAINST EVERYTHING BAD in our society, our economy, our government. Don’t like racism? The left has got you covered. Hate war? So does the left. Can’t pay your student loan? The left is on your side. The left sustains itself on people’s discontent, and it sustains discontented people with promises of Utopia. To a young person with no experience of How Things Really Work, leftism seems like a perfect fit.

On Black Friday

A friend of mine at work wrote the following about tomorrow, Black Friday. I think maybe he has been in retail a tad too long:

Black Friday is coming, deals are so stunning, they'll have people running and gunning down homies and kids. They'll be tearing off their eye lids so they don't miss an ad-listed price. Hey, take my advice........ Kill Yourself.

By Bre

What is a flip-flop?

Roger L. Simon has written a brilliant essay entitled Confessions of a Flip-Flopper. Here is an excerpt from the closing sentences of his post:

In fact, there is reason to be suspicious of those that don’t ever change their views. Besides often being rigid personalities, they may have difficulty responding to the constant unpredictability of the world. (John Lennon, wrong on a number of things, surely was onto something when he said: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”)

So flip-flopping may be closer to the natural state of things than not.

Which now leads us to the key question in this election season. Since it can be argued that most of us have flipped or flopped one time or another in our lives – except, of course, for those “saintly” or “brilliant” few who realized the truth from birth and have been, ahem, unwavering in its pursuit ever since – how do we determine if a candidate is a flip-flopper or a FLIP-FLOPPER, if you know what I mean?

Many, as we know, have been accused of this crime: Romney, Gingrich, Kerry (and how), Clinton (he and she), Gore, Cain, Obama (of course)… I could go on, but you get the point. And I’m not sure there would be room for all the names on the website anyway. If you examined it closely you could probably find that everyone running for office from POTUS to dog catcher has flip-flopped at one time or other.

So what do we do? A solution to this conundrum might ironically be found in a wise and cynical quote attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Franz II, which inspired the title of a famous John Osborne play. When assured that a certain Austrian was a patriot, the Emperor is said to have replied: “But is he a patriot for me?”

If we replace “patriot” with “flip-flopper” we get: This man is a flip-flopper, but “is he a flip-flopper for me?” Or, more simply, is he basically going my way?

As a graduate student in social work in the 1960s, I was a fan of Saul Alinsky. Now I am a fan of Victor Davis Hanson.

One of the signs of a good post is the number of people commenting. Last I looked he had over 125. Here are some I liked.

Much as you described yourself, well, that is the American electorate. People can switch on a dime. That’s our human nature and it’s a GOOD part of our human nature because it means we don’t want to be SUCKERS. We can CHANGE our minds because we OWN our own minds.

People who are stodgy and set in their ways worry me far more than people who can roll with the punches and adapt.

Or, this one:

A flip-flopper is like a willow that bends with every breeze of the popular whim, and a changing of mind is more like the sturdy oak tree that gets broken by the storm-force of reason.
Usually, when one changes one’s mind, it stays changed. The flip-flopper, however, can flip, then flop, then flip, and when called on it, can equivocate, change the subject, project, or speak fluent jibberish. The one reason the flip-flopper never gives for flip-flopping is that he flips when public opinion flips and flops when public opinion flops. That kind of sooth-saying would cause people to think he was unprincipled and not honest.

Or, this one:

The flip requires a flop to make the flip-flop. This is so elementary, I cannot help but think you are being purposely obtuse, so you can downplay what Romney and Gingrich do.

Mandates are good. No, bad. No good.

AGW is real. No, it’s not. Yes, it is.

I recommend you read the whole thing, including the comments: http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/11/21/confessions-of-a-flip-flopper/?singlepage=true

Can you find seven things wrong with this riddle?

Seven things are wrong with this riddle. Can you figure them out? The author is Jacob, a friend of eleven-year-old Jon.

One dark morning in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back-to-back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. The deaf policeman heard the noise, and came over and killed the boys. If you think this tale is tall, ask the blind man; he saw it all.

Gingrich and Paul debate the Patriot Act

I agree with Gingrich.

"Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone"

A Marine who owns a business in Georgia regrets that he will not be hiring new employees "until Obama is gone." Read more here: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/214228/3/Company-Policy-We-are-not-hiring-until-Obama-is-gone

CIA agents captured in Iran and Lebanon

Over a dozen CIA agents have been captured in Iran and Lebanon. Read more here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/11/over-a-dozen-cia-agents-caught-in-iran-fear-execution-in-middle-east.html

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ten-year-old Greg wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey is giving the house a welcome smell.
Happy faces spread across all.
All the family eating and drinking
Nothing to worry about at all
Kicking my brother a Thanksgiving kick
Sara's had seconds, thirds, fourths.
Gone is the food when I come by.
Ice cream and stuffing fill my stomach.
Various food all across the table
I'm going to be sick after all this.
Nature seems to be leaves upon leaves.
Gone is the food when I come by.

Plain-speaking New Englanders

With all the news about the Republican primary candidates, we forget that states will also be having Democratic primaries.

New Hampshire Union Leader) Page One Editorial: Primary voters rejected Obama

These students, their generation and all Americans are facing an uncertain, perilous future. In large part, it is because we have a nice-talking, but unprepared man in charge.

Listen to President Obama today and he will lay blame on everyone but himself. His only plan will be to spend more money that we don’t have.

Four years ago, primary voters here tried to tell the nation that this wet-behind-the-ears socialist wannabe was the wrong man. (They picked Hillary Clinton in the primary.)

Here is hoping that seven weeks from today, primary voters here will put the nation on a path to unseating this glib, clueless disaster of a President.

The link: http://tammybruce.com/2011/11/how-bad-is-it-for-the-obamas-booed-flipped-off-and-told-to-quit.html

"It's just the right thing to do."

The Onion features a story about a man who will never be financially well-off, because he just keeps on doing the right things (It is The Onion, so, unfortunately, some rough language is used): http://www.theonion.com/articles/high-integrity-moral-decency-has-cost-idiot-man-mi,26639/

She worked with Cain for ten years and says he was always a perfect gentleman

Here is a link to an article in which the receptionist for Godfather's Pizza for the entire decade Cain worked there comes forward to say that she does not believe a word his accusers are alleging: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283838/cain-and-women-robert-costa

Cover those eyes!

"Women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under Saudi Arabia's latest repressive measure, it was reported yesterday.

The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes in public.

A spokesperson for Saudi Arabia's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Sheikh Motlab al Nabet, said a proposal to enshrine the measure in law has been tabled."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063143/Saudi-women-attractive-eyes-forced-cover-resolution-passed.html#ixzz1eUTJNW68

Perry rising?

Ace of Spades has this to say about Governor Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney:

Perry was in the Center Seat on Bret Bair's Special Report last night. As usual, he sounded prepared and fluent in an interview setting, even with several questioners. He also apologized again -- and castigated himself -- for that "you don't have a heart" line.

It does seem that Perry has a particular problem with debates, not a general problem with speaking.

Yeah, I know, the polls show him out of it. But I think that's partly due to preference falsification, as people don't support him because they guess that most other people don't support him.

All I know is that, despite Newt Gingrich's verbal agility, if he's our nominee, we cannot talk about the central role that the Democratic client-organizations Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae played in the destruction of our economy. We can't point out that it was not a lack of government intervention that caused the meltdown, but rather it was government intervention itself which created, and then overfilled, the bubble, with all sorts of ridiculous mortgages.

We also can't talk too much about Obama's individual mandate, as Gingrich was an early champion of it. (As Mitt Romney claimed in one debate -- "I got it from you.")

And if we nominate Romney, of course we cannot talk about ObamaCare at all.

I think these are central issues. If our nominee has to soft-pedal them due to the fact he's compromised on them as well, we're ceding an awful lot to Obama.

My belief is that while it's possible, albeit unlikely, that Perry will become better in debates, it is not possible for Gingrich to go back in time and refuse to consult with Freddie Mac (consult? okay), and it is not possible for Romney to go back in time and undo RomneyCare.

I gotta admit I'd really like a candidate whom the media cannot brand "dumb." I gotta admit that -- I'll be happy with Gingrich or Romney, if only for that reason.

Let's face it, Obama's not particularly smart and both Gingrich and Romney are. What a wonderful change of pace for the Republican to be demonstrably more intelligent than his Democratic opponent.

But still, as nice as that is (and it is pretty sweet, I admit), I think I'd rather have the issues.

I'd also like to have that tiny little apparently-inconsequential point that Perry's Texas has created half the country's jobs in the past two years.

I sort of think the election will be fought and won on that issue. And not so much on anything else.

Ace also notes that Perry has written an op-ed piece for the Washington Times in which he says Eric Holder should be fired by Obama for Fast and Furious. I agree. I also watched the Fox News program referred to above, and was impressed with Perry. One thing he said was that he would not fund foreign aid to China, because they are forcing 35,000 abortions a day!

The link to Ace: http://ace.mu.nu./

Why didn't I write this post?

This comes under the heading Why didn't I write this post? Tommy De Seno asks, What answer should have Herman Cain given about Libya? The media has excoriated him for his brain freeze on the subject, but I recall from watching the video that he did go on to give a thoughtful and persuasive answer.
The link: http://ricochet.com/main-feed/By-the-Way-what-answer-should-Herman-Cain-Have-Given-About-Libya

Politics and message coordination; not science

What do you get when you mix science with politics? Politics! Message coordination! Ace of Spades tells it like it is in a post entitled New Round of ClimateGate Emails Reveal "Scientists" Extremely Interested In "The Cause," Public Relations

Read more here: http://ace.mu.nu./