August 31st 2008
Sunday Scan
Life In A Liberal Democracy
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h, liberal democracies, where political discord is honored, debate is civil, where respect for opposing views is understood as the foundation of compromise, and where compromise is seen as the glue that binds together the republic.
Someone apparently forgot to teach this to the RNC Welcoming Committee, an anarchist group poised to disrupt this week’s GOP convention. Police raids at several of the groups’ domiciles resulted in the confiscation of:
Materials to create “sleeping dragons” (PVC pipe, chicken wire, duct tape), which is when protesters lock themselves together
Large amounts of urine, including three to five gallon buckets of urine
Wrist rockets (high-powered
slingshots)
A machete, hatchet and several throwing knives
a gas mask and filter
Empty glass bottles
Rags
Flammable liquids
Homemade caltrops (devises used to disable buses in roads)
Metal pipes
Axes
Bolt cutters
Sledge hammers
Repelling equipment
Kryptonite locks
Empty plastic buckets cut and made into shields
Material for protective padding
An Army helmet.
Read more about the raids here.
That’s not the stuff of peaceful protest, so we can thank the investigators at the St. Paul police who uncovered what the RNC Welcoming Committee was up to and pulled off a successful raid. The Left, however, does not share my view:
Members of various protest groups targeted in last night’s raid held a press conference today to express their anger and frustration.
The raid was an effort to “derail RNC protest organizing efforts and to intimidate and terrorize individuals and groups converging in the Twin Cities to exercise what are supposed to be their basic civil rights,” RNC Welcoming Committee member Tony Jones read from a statement.
“We will not be intimidated,” Jones exclaimed.
Yeah, well neither will we, punk.
CCSP – An Acronym To Remember
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f CCSP seems to strike you as vaguely Soviet and sinister in nature, hold on to the feeling; it’s not too far off. It stands for Climate Change Science Program and it may be cited a lot as Warmies seek funding for their programs and look to hobble America’s economy in the name of meeting the global warming threat.
Pat Michaels at The Washington Times says this of the CCSP’s commander in chief:
The “product lead” is Tom Karl, who heads the Commerce Department’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. He is perhaps the most political and politically savvy climate scientist in U.S. history. When Al Gore was vice president, he would issue monthly briefings on the horrors of climate change. When Mr. Gore exaggerated some local flood, or claimed Florida would burn because of global warming, Mr. Karl stood by and remained mute. But now, with the prospect of an increasingly Democratic Senate, and a president who will go along with the madness of climatically futile policies (Barack Obama or John McCain on global warming? Pick em!), Mr. Karl and CCSP have picked up the scent.
Even though the “S” in the title stands for science, Michaels challenges the thought:
Virtually every sentence can be contested or simply ignores published science that disagrees with CCSP’s preconceived message. In its own words: “Aggressive near-term actions would be required to alter the future path of human-induced warming… future generations will inherit the legacy of our decisions.”
Just one example:
There’s a wonderful picture on Page 55 of two senior citizens, captioned: “The elderly are especially vulnerable to extreme heat.” If that’s true, then there must be massive and increasing numbers of heat-related fatalities in hot cities with old populations. In fact, Tampa and Phoenix have a disproportionately elderly population and very few heat-related deaths; statistically, Tampa has the fewest of any major U.S. city.
It may shock the CCSP, but when heat waves become more frequent, people change their habits and localities adapt their infrastructure to better deal with the heat.
One more tidbit to keep in mind should you ever confront someone who wants to reduce your economic viability because of what CCSP cites:
Want more evidence as to the perfidy of the CCSP process? The senior editor is no climate scientist; it’s Susan J. Hassol, who wrote the HBO global warming “documentary,” “Too Hot Not to Handle.” Laurie David, the force behind Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” was the executive producer. This isn’t science, it’s science fiction.
How long will the climate charade succeed? It’s anyone’s guess, since it’s obviously still going strong.
Nuclear Holocaust – Good For Nature?
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reenies say the silliest things about nature. I remember during the California
gnatcatcher listing battles, professional ornithologists and Greenie hacks alike even light human contact was detrimental to these supposedly amazingly sensitive birds – yet we were finding successful nesting sites within yards of busy intersections.
To Greenies, nature is a fragile thing and humanity is an evil presence that threatens it. Well, then how do you explain the natural wonderland that is Christmas Island? Yes, Christmas Island, site of 30 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions, courtesy of the U.S. and British military. Writes David Wolman in Salon:
In the intervening decades since the era of nuclear-weapons testing, the natural world has quietly rebounded. Today, Christmas Island, Bikini Atoll and other Cold War proving grounds, like Monte Bello north of Perth, Australia, constitute some of the most ecologically intact corners of the world, emitting not radiation but a peculiar allure; it’s atomic tourism with a naturalist spin.
Marine biologists diving at Bikini have returned with glowing reports. Inspecting a mile-wide crater left by a hydrogen bomb that exploded with a force 1,000 times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, researchers recently found the lagoon to be 80 percent covered by thriving corals, with some species growing into huge, treelike formations.
Karen Koltes, a coral specialist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, says reefs around places like Bikini “are among the few examples left in the world of what an ecosystem looks like absent human presence and exploitation.” (Unintentionally pouring on the irony, scientists will sometimes employ the word “pristine.”) This nature-despite-nukes contrast can be seen at other former test sites, such as the waters surrounding Alaska’s Amchitka Island where, 40 years ago, the U.S. conducted three underground explosions. The same is true of the desolate dunes of a former French test site in Algeria, and even the scrublands inside the fence at the Nevada Test Site.
Mother Nature is one tough cookie. The impacts we have on her with our homes, mines and lumber operations pale in comparison to what happened to Christmas Island and the other nuclear test sites. Maybe the next time I’m up against some Greenie loons, I’ll offer them a ticket to Christmas Island so they can see just how irrational they are.
Question: Should I provide a round trip?
Bearish On America
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aturalists have reported a disturbing trend. At first, it was merely a rare sighting here and there, and no connection was made, but as sightings increased, it became clear that wildlife behavior was changing dramatically, experts say.
Animals that once were self-sufficient, providing for themselves and their young without any interference or help from people are now showing signs of belonging to the Democrat Party, as they apparently have learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.
Too bizarre? No, there’s proof:
hat-tip – Jim
What The Media Likes The Least
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f you want to make a beat reporter frustrated or angry, take him somewhere where he knows nothing about the beat he’s supposed to know everything about. According to Christopher Hayes at the Leftist pub, The Nation, that was exactly the reaction of reporters on the presidential campaign beat to the Palin pick:
I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw massive MSM backlash against the pick. I was in the greenroom over at MSNBC in Denver the morning it was announced and the dominant sentiment among the folks there was bafflement and palpable anger: Like, how dare he pick someone we don’t know about! In this respect, Sarah Palin is the opposite of Joe Biden. The Biden pick made all the members of the politico-media establishment nod their heads. “Ah yes. He’s one of us.” Sarah Palin is not.
I’m not surprised by the media’s response because they had expended plenty of punditry on other potential VPs. It’s a nice insight into the media’s bias as well, because you know that if Obama had picked a dark horse, the reaction would have been quite different. The One would have been forgiven … which makes the rest of Hayes’ commentary strangely naive:
But remember McCain has called the press “his base,” and its true: no one buys into the brand of McCain more than those who cover him in the DC establishment. But this pick, while pleasing one base (the right) has alienated his other base: the DC media establishment. It will be interesting to see this plays out.
Only the Leftists at The Nation could think that the MSM will feel or exhibit the least bit of favoratism towards McCain now that Obama has the nomination.
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