The Enemy Within

One of the main problems with being a socialist, arms-wide-open, welcome-to-all, PC'ized nation of mindless sheep, as we are, is that eventually, you will be made to pay a price for your weakness, with 9-11 being the most glaring example. That lesson cost over 3000 innocent people their lives, and people are still dying from the toxic clean-up.

The bloody massacre at Ft. Hood by a radical Mooselamb who disguised himself as a patriotic member of our military was another example of what happens when political correctness and a dreaded fear of possibly offending someone or something replaces common sense. That lesson cost over 20 people their lives. And from all reports, it was all due to the fact that the military powers that be at Ft. Hood were afraid to even suspect the radical enemy in their midst, in spite of serious "concerns" from fellow military officers. It now seems it may have happened again, although this time, no one has been killed, that we know of.

With each passing day, more and more intelligence reports are warning us that Al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups, are now recruiting terrorists right here in the U.S. Perhaps Al-Q never realized what a huge pool of prospective killers they have available here? Or, it's more likely that they see just how easy it is to infiltrate this country at almost every level. I'll bet many of our enemies look at how this country is run and think we must have a death wish, that we would make life so easy for those who are devoted to our destruction. I wonder if they're right...


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/us_serviceman_arrested_over_alleged_DvLt2RDRY5TSqlfbPrFVLM

Smart Meters

http://goldsilver.com/video/smart-meters/

I'd sign this, today or any day.

Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound maybe this would be a solution we could live with.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT -- This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! Whatever he runs for, I'll vote for him!

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Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.:

We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms.. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.

2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.

3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.

5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.

6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.

8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.

9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.

10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .

11.. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.

12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.

14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.

15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.

17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."

19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World".

20. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.

P.S.S.: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
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Schteveo

Only White's Are Terrorists

"Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Asian or Arab..."

"Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the DHS’ own internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists, such as Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests that are largely the domain of white middle class Americans..."

So, how does that make you feel? Well, if you're black, or an illegal Mex, or some Islamic decapitator, probably pretty good, since it takes the spotlight off the real threats. Reading this article tells me that Butch Napilitano and her Dept. of Homeland Stupidity are now an official part of the Twilight Zone. It also tells me that someone may be laying the ground work for disarming White America. Hey, why not? Generally speaking, White America has shown the govt. that there's no limit to the amount of abuse they will endure. They continuously show the govt. that no matter how hard we're stepped on, we'll just smile and keep voting for the same crooks who's custom-made boots are on our throats. Can you really blame the elected lying crooks for abusing a nation that doesn't seem to mind it?

http://www.infowars.com/dhs-video-characterizes-white-americans-as-most-likely-terrorists/

How's your stimulus package?

More tax money well spent.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/18/nih-backed-study-examined-effects-penis-size-in-gay-community/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C219294

Hey fella, can I push your stool in for you?

Politics, NY Style

Millions of tourists visit NYC every year and one of the things many look forward to seeing are the legendary hangouts and crime scenes associated with some of the city's (and the nation's) most notorious Mafia figures. Many of these places, restaurants, social clubs, bars, etc. are in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. These days, thanks to the FBI, all the guys with the pinkie-rings, fancy clothes, and broken noses are gone. Today, Little Italy is about 90% Chinese, and whatever places still remain are all tourist traps selling counterfeit Gucci bags for $25.

What the tourists don't realize when they visit these places is that they're not seeing "the true" organized crime in NYC. For that, they would have to visit City Hall and the City Council, both totally controlled by Demoncrats. And, if they wanted to see some of the biggest crooks in all of NY, in fact the country, well, that would call for a visit to the state capital in Albany. BTW, check the names and see if you can find the common denominator...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/stop_the_slush_fjJ7BOf6vJNgePVxkTSzeO

IF you have Fox Business Channel

you should go over there to see Herman Cain. It's a re-run from last December. But Cain is still the right man at the right time!

He's talking SENSE!! OMG!!! Sense from someone who wants to be POTUS.

Imagine that, a black man, who is a business guy, who is conservative, and he wants to cut the IRS down about 90%!! It will run again, at, midnight tonight on the Regular Fox News channel, and 4 AM on that same outlet.
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Think You've Seen It All?

Any doubt on how the President Plans to ensure his re-election next year? Remove it. He will do it by Executive Order.

You, the American tax payers, just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States and supply them with housing, food, transportation, the whole enchilada. Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S. Needs to Know....H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news. Just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen. "Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA ." This is the news that did not, and will not, make the headlines. By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza .

The "presidential determination" (ain't that nice?) which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed and appears in the Federal Register. Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing, transportation and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006. Now we learn that he is allowing thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding bailouts and "stimulation" packages...

Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488_http://
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488


Borrowed from the patriotic minds at PIG...

Government Ordered Acceptance

If this story had come from anywhere other than Mexifornia it would be shocking. But out there in the twilight zone, that leftist utopia by the sea, it's just business-as-usual.

Mexifornia's school children will now be forced to learn about, and accept, the gay lifestyle. And just so they don't miss anyone, this mandated brain-washing will start with (kids in kindergarten) Apparently, things like strongly-held religious beliefs and family-taught values and morals are being swept aside simply to placate radical gays, a very small, but very loud group which has managed to get itself seen as, "special above and beyond all others". Why would gays do this? One of the things many gays do, especially the radical activists, is to recruit as many into their cause and lifestyle as possible. Bigger numbers mean a louder voice, a louder voice means more political power, and more political power means getting whatever they want, whenever they want it. Of course, there are many who would say that condition already exists. But for radical gays, even having everything (gay marriage laws, gay military, special protection laws, etc.) is still not enough.

Radical gays understand that never before have they had a govt. in power that is more favorable to their cause, even though the Liar-in-Chief makes public statements to the contrary, such as, "marriage being between a man and a woman". Then again, he lies about everything else so why should this topic be any different. One of the biggest concerns here is that, like so many other things coming out of the west-coast Twilight Zone, this "clear form of child abuse" will, like political correctness, infect the entire country. If it is allowed to spread, what will a future America look like? And, could it look any worse than today's America? I wonder when we'll read about the first parent being arrested for refusing to allow his child to be brain-washed...


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/15/MNL61KAHVQ.DTL

It's Fiday, this IS Funny, SO...

You've heard of the Rastaman Vibration, about Rastafarians and their music? Well then, have you heard about the Pastafarian Religion?

An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".

Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.

Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.

Later a police spokesman explained that the licence was issued because Mr Alm's face was fully visible in the photo.

"The photo was not approved on religious grounds. The only criterion for photos in driving licence applications is that the whole face must be visible," said Manfred Reinthaler, a police spokesman in Vienna.

He was speaking on Wednesday, after Austrian media had first reported Mr Alm's reason for wearing the pasta strainer.

After receiving his application the Austrian authorities had required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive.

According to Mr Reinthaler, "the licence has been ready since October 2009 - it was not collected, that's all there is to it".

The idea came into Mr Alm's noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point.

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A buddy of mine sent this too me thinking I'd be outraged at this guy making fun of God / religion. He was quite shocked when my ire was directed toward the over officious gub'ment jerks who dictated that regulations be put in place that made / allowed this guy (to) poke them with a sharp atheist stick!.

I have no problem with atheists, I just think they are wrong. One day, we'll ALL know who's right!

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Schteveo

He opened the Door!

I've long been fan of REMOVING children from bad households. And I don't mean ones where I disagree with their music, politics, or religion. I mean a place where mom or dad (or both) are drunks, druggies, thieves, repeat offenders of whatever stripe.
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But every time I suggested this, some liberal would tell me that I had NO right to tell someone how to raise their kids! Well, Dr. David Ludwig, a liberal doctor from Boston as far as I can tell, thinks the same thing. ONLY he wants to include removing kids from FAT homes.
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Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of advocates who say the government should be allowed to intervene in extreme cases.

It has happened a few times in the U.S., and the opinion piece in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association says putting children temporarily in foster care is in some cases more ethical than obesity surgery.

Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, said the point isn't to blame parents, but rather to act in children's best interest and get them help that for whatever reason their parents can't provide.

State intervention "ideally will support not just the child but the whole family, with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible. That may require instruction on parenting," said Ludwig, who wrote the article with Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and a researcher at Harvard's School of Public Health.

"Despite the discomfort posed by state intervention, it may sometimes be necessary to protect a child," Murtagh said.

But University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan said he worries that the debate risks putting too much blame on parents. Obese children are victims of advertising, marketing, peer pressure and bullying — things a parent can't control, he said.

"If you're going to change a child's weight, you're going to have to change all of them," Caplan said.

So a fat kid is at risk, and there is need of intervention. But a kid living with a crack whore mother and a gang banger, drug running father, is a Life Style Choice by his parents.

Yeah, and if I start beating my dog, and wearing a live mongoose on my head, I'll call it a religion and apply for tax free status.

What, what's that you say?

The suggestion is ridiculous?

Really?

Which one?!

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Schteveo

Shocking But Not Surprising

Back when the Marxist-in-Chief named Leon Panetta to head the CIA, i knew that agency would be going in the wrong direction under his command. Apparently, i was right. With eight years of the Clintons doing everything they could to weaken and derail the agency, Panetta, a devoted left-wing Demoncrat hack who's been working in the DC shadows for years, and a guy who had as much experience as Obummer, (ZERO) was perhaps sent in to finish the job. Many will point to this story and say that's exactly what he's done. Our enemies will see this move for what it truly is, yet another sign of our national weakness...

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/11/cia-to-sponsor-lgbt-advocacy-group-summit/

Is Anyone Looking?

It seems the First Ho is the living, breathing, symbol of one of the Left's basic principles, "do as we say, not as we do"...



Michelle Obama's 1,556 Calorie Lunch Raises Eyebrows:

Updated: Monday, 11 Jul 2011, 4:05 PM EDTPublished : Monday, 11 Jul 2011, 4:01 PM EDT
By NewsCore

WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama may have temporarily forgotten the lessons of her own anti-obesity campaign when she indulged in a sinfully caloric lunch Monday at a popular new hamburger restaurant.

A Washington Post reporter said the first lady ordered a cheeseburger, french fries, chocolate shake and Diet Coke at Shake Shack -- a trendy hamburger spot that recently opened an outpost in Washington's Dupont Circle.
Based on nutritional information on the restaurant's website, the meal added up to a scale-tipping 1,556 calories!!

Obama has made the fight against childhood-obesity a central focus of her White House tenure and launched the "Let's Move" campaign to promote exercise and ensure children have access to healthy food. The Post noted, however, that she has also admitted to having an "obsession with french fries." "It's all about moderation," she has told reporters.

I'd move there!!

'South California' proposed as 51st state by Republican supervisor

The 51st state should be named South California, says Jeff Stone, a Republican on the the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. But the proposed 13 southern California counties that would split off from the Golden State would not include Los Angeles.

Stone told the Times' Phil Willon that the ommission is intentional and is part of a plan that would make for a new conservative Californian state.

"Los Angeles is purposely excluded because they have the same liberal policies that Sacramento does. The last thing I want to do is create a state that's a carbon copy of what we have now,'' Stone said.

"Los Angeles just enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags. That put three or four manufacturers out of business,'' Stone, a pharmacist from Temecula, said.

Stone plans on formally proposing secession Tuesday during a meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

The proposed 51st state would be the fifth largest by population, more populous than Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. South California would take nearly a third of the population away from California, making the Golden State the second-largest state after Texas.

"If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there's a place called Arizona," Brown spokesman Gil Duran said.
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I'd love to live in SoCal again. I miss the weather, the area, the desert, the beach. But I'll NOT live there under Governor Moonbeam or his ilk!
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And, for you old farts primarily, remember back during the '60s, the lefty, Bill Ayres types, SDS, rioting students all said it wasn't 'cool' for the Right to say, "America, Love it or Leave it!"? Remember that? I sure as hell do.
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I'm guessing they think, "California, Love it or Leave it!" has a better ring to it!? Liberal jerks!
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Schteveo

STOP the Killer Roller Coasters!!

First news story of the day I hear is telling me we need FEDERAL Legislation because of theme park ride deaths / injuries. And why this clarion call early on Monday morn you ask? Because a LEGLESS Iraq War Veteran fell out of a roller coaster in NY over the weekend.
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An Iraq war veteran who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in 2008 died Friday after falling out of a roller coaster at a theme park near Buffalo, N.Y., officials told WGRZ-TV.

Army Sgt. James Hackemer, 29, "came out" of the roller coaster, called the Ride of Steel, at the Darien Lake Theme Park about 5:30pm and "passed away," according to park officials.

Officials said an initial investigation showed that restraints fitted in the ride were working properly. A full investigation by police and park safety experts was to continue Saturday.

The ride will remain closed until the New York State Department of Labor determines it fit to reopen.

Genesee County Sheriff Sgt. Greg Walker and a park spokeswoman confirmed that Hackemer was at the park with his children and sister. His children were not with him on the ride at the time of the accident, WKBW-TV reported.

Hackemer reportedly lost both legs and suffered a brain injury when the vehicle he was in hit a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2008.

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The news story I saw said he has had multiple strokes that caused the brain injuries.
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First let me say I thank Sgt Hackemer and his family for his service and their combined sacrifices. But I know enough about physics to understand that a LEGLESS man is top heavy. I also know enough to understand that someone who has had multiple strokes has less ability to hold on, lean, balance, etc.
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I'm am woefully sorry this young hero lost his life. But we do NOT need ANY laws telling us that roller coasters are deadly killers!!!. What we need is people who can see INDIVIDUAL situations that might be dangerous, like this one was. Because a legless and wheelchair bound vet who plays "Murderball" will not be falling out of the roller coaster.
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Schteveo

The UN Isn't Overbearing Enough?

Ready for the UN to double in size? The new tower may be at least as large as the existing one.

Here's to the one- world government


http://murrayhillspews.blogspot.com/2011/07/un-plans-massive-expansion.html

Proof of Evolution!

OK, I was taught that primarily Evolution occurs for one of several reasons. The evolving life form is trying to defend itself, or it is trying to find more food or trying to get BETTER at those two things.
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Here is an article that proves a modern case of Evolution. I'm starting to change my mind, maybe the science types are right.
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Ohio shop's gorilla mascot attacked by banana

The manager of a cell phone store in Ohio called 911 to report a gorilla had been attacked by a banana.

The Wireless Center in Strongsville, near Cleveland, advertises at curbside with a man in a gorilla suit. Manager Brandon Parham says he was watching last week as a kid dressed as a banana emerged from some bushes and took a flying leap at the store mascot.

Parham says the attacker looked like a Spartan from the movie "300" — except he was a banana.

Police think it was a prank. They weren't able to find the offending fruit.
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I don't think it's quite right that they think the banana was GAY! We don't even know IF the Gorilla was male or female!!
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Schteveo

search for Annie

found this at http://www.leppertmortuary.com/GuestBookView.aspx?ID=130

Anne Washburn / La Jolla, CA / tgrtfinancial@aim.com



also this blog site looks active but there are no postings
http://neighborhoodreactionary.blogtownhall.com/2011/07

it is run by:
About Me
Name: Annie
Email: tgrtfinancial@aim.com


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I Hate To Be Right

Right about what? I said, when the Marxist-in-Chief was first running for the WH, that if he were to win, it would be seen as a sign "by some", that they were now free to do whatever they wanted. I also said that we would see a sharp rise in the general arrogance of this group, an arrogance that only comes when you know you're protected.

What do all of the below-linked stories have in common? Might it be that they (and many, many more like them) are all stories of rampant violence perpetrated by members of the same ethnic group? Might they be people who, since 2008, believe they are protected by the WH? Could they be people who have seen proof that they're protected by the WH and it's DOJ? Or, perhaps they are people who find no excitement in being given everything by the Nanny State, but do find excitement in taking what they want from those who work for it?

How about all of the above. And plenty more...


Mob in Peoria shoots fireworks at police, firefighters...

MAYHEM IN MOBILE: 300+ fight street corner, man shot in face...

13 stabbed, shot in Boston in just 5 hours...

CHICAGOLAND: 5 Dead, 23 Hurt Over Violent Holiday Weekend...VIDEO...

4-Year-Old Boy Shot While Watching Baltimore Fireworks...

2 Shot During Massive Brawl Outside Atlantic City Casino...

Dozens of teens loot store, then attack passersby...VIDEO...

But I thought smog CAUSED Global Warming?!

It's like this monster won't die! And now they've tried to resurrect it, as both a good and bad thing. I'm stymied by the whole barrel of BS that they continue to push over this kind of anthropomorphic stuff.
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Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.

The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution.

World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show.

The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland's University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect.

Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space.

"Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role," the paper said.

Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun's output fell.

The study said that the halt in warming had fueled doubts about anthropogenic climate change, where scientists say manmade greenhouse gas emissions are heating the Earth.

"It has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008," said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

UH huh. So, some smog is "bad", a lot of smoke is "better" and going back to just "some" is more than "bad" was to start with. What the hell did I just say!?

Schteveo

Utopia Is Getting Ugly

Below are some thoughts by NR's Victor Davis Hanson on the state of education in 2011 America, and how the system has been subverted (and destroyed) by the Left...


"We have suffered through decades of declining test scores and rising teachers’ salaries, and we now have a trillion dollars in college loan debt, more remediation for incoming college freshmen, weaker skills apparent in graduating college seniors, an omnipresent -studies curriculum, and a new national dialogue over whether college is even worth it — not just in terms of whether college degrees raise salaries sufficiently to justify huge loans, but whether the new therapeutic race, class, and gender curriculum is antithetical to classical liberal arts with their emphasis on reading, written expression, math, and science.

Modern university education has achieved the dubious result of turning out a self-described sensitive, caring mind that has never been more ignorant of the past and the present. The modern therapeutic university has managed all at once, with its various “centers,” reduced teaching loads, empty faculty research, and legions of new administrators, to put tuition costs beyond the reach of most Americans, to spark an entire new competing industry of no-frills, private, for-profit certificate-granting trade schools, and to end the old idea that a student’s B.A. degree was synonymous with competency or a faculty member’s Ph.D. with wisdom.

We live in an age in which advocates do not believe in their own advocacy: A “planet is doomed” Al Gore refuses to fly economy; a statist John Kerry won’t pay taxes on his yacht unless he is caught; an anti-war Barack Obama won’t honor the War Powers Act he once deified; and the liberal congressional and media establishment will not put their children in the D.C. schools that are the reification of their own ideology.

In short, the generation that came of age in the 1960s succeeded in bringing to life the Frankenstein’s monster it designed in its own image — but suddenly it seems terrified of the very thing it created..."

It's As If He Knew

"This Fourth of July, as in years past, Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence and our Nation's 211th birthday with parades down Main Street, ceremonies at town halls, worship at churches and synagogues, and patriotic moments at picnics and fireworks shows and baseball games. Americans overseas pause in thoughts of home and what our country means to them. All of us remember with wonder and gratitude that we celebrate a profound conception of freedom, one our countrymen have asserted and defended over and over.

That conception of freedom is expressed with eloquence and wisdom in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution whose bicentennial we observe this year. The Declaration affirms our belief that government exists to secure our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution provides for a system of limited government which secures these blessings of liberty, ensuring that We the People remain truly in charge.

On this Independence Day, let us recall our Founders' pledge to make any sacrifice as they fought for liberty and freedom. Let us remember that millions of Americans have struggled to pass on to us the precious gift of Independence -- that it is from them that the light of this great national anniversary is truly drawn, and that it is in their name today that we pledge ourselves anew to keep that light burning proud and strong.

On Independence Day, when we salute the handiwork of the Founding Fathers, we need to remember that they did their part, when they laid the solid foundation for our liberty. Upkeep is, always has been, OUR job. Maybe we should get started on it, before it's too late."–- Ronald Reagan, July 4th, 1987...

Iran is supplying Iraqi and Afghani Jihadists. Anyone shocked?

This isn't EVEN news at this point IMHO.
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Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries.

The Revolutionary Guard has smuggled rocket-assisted exploding projectiles to its militia allies in Iraq, weapons that have already resulted in the deaths of American troops, defense officials said. They said Iranians have also given long-range rockets to the Taliban in Afghanistan, increasing the insurgents' ability to hit U.S. and other coalition positions from a safer distance.

"I think we are likely to see these Iranian-backed groups continue to maintain high attack levels" as the exit date nears, Maj. Gen. James Buchanan, the U.S. military's top spokesman in Iraq, said in an interview. "But they are not going to deter us from doing everything we can to help the Iraqi security forces."

But invading and kicking the shit out of Iran is not even in our sights. There are days where I wish I was POTUS.

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Schteveo

OH, there's no Conflict of Interests in THIS situation

We all know the MSM is head over heels in love with all things Obama. But are they so much in love with the current POTUS that they'd actually help him raise money for Democrats? You boot yer' boots they would.
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Here's a story about David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President of Comcast Corporation. And Comcast owns and operates NBC. Not an affiliate of NBC, they run ALL of NBC. Yeah, that Comcast! Well the story is about Mr. Cohen of Comcast helping Mr. Obama of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. raise $1 Million for Mr. Obama's 'causes'. but wouldn't that make them Mr. Cohen's 'causes' too?
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Now lemme axe youse a ques - chun.
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Just how much separation do YOU think we need between the media, and our government / politicians?
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I think we need a great deal. We need guys who will dog the government and the politicians 24 by 7, 365, day and night, good weather and bad, skipping sleep and holidays so we get the TRUTH out of what's going on, to keep us safe. Does this situation,...no, wait, this isn't a situation,...this is an 'arrangement'!
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An 'arrangement' that will only make certain that we WON'T get any truth.
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Schteveo

Equality Takes 10 Steps Backward

From CNN alerts:

"A divided federal appeals court has struck down Michigan's controversial ban on consideration of race and gender in college admissions.

The issue is likely to renew the national political and legal debate over affirmative action, which the Supreme Court could be poised to resolve in coming months.

The 2-1 ruling at the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded the voter-approved ban on "preferential treatment" at state colleges and universities was unconstitutional, and "alters Michigan's political structure by impermissibly burdening racial minorities."