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calendar   Thursday - February 22, 2007

Lost!

WHOA, Sparky! That ain’t no Air Force base down there. I hear military chatter on the radio but it don’t sound like zoomies. I know I’m over CONUS but it sure is warm outside and those white sandy beaches down there look awfully inviting. Wait a minute! I know where I am. Unless I miss my guess, that base down there also has one of the coolest Aviation Museums in the world. I know. I been here and visited that museum. Lower the landing gear, co-pilot! Let’s hope those flyboys down there don’t jump up here and blow us out of the sky! YEEEHAAWWW!!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 03:30 PM   
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Democratic Party Cat Fight

imageimageI’ve been watching this three-ring circus for the last day or two and have been laughing my butt off at the Donk cat-fight going on. Obama and his supporters better watch out though. The Clintons don’t take kindly to any criticism and critics have been known to disappear. I read Mad Maureen Dowd’s column, excerpted below, and collapsed laughing.

David Geffen hit the nail on the head with his comments and Ol’ Slick Willy had a conniption fit. The Obama campaign staff’s reply was a precious gem: “It’s ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when he was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln Bedroom.”, and I’m still laughing over that one.

I’ll let James Taranto at WSJ’s Best Of The Web Today fill you in on this continuing soap opera ...

Dem Death Match

“An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party’s leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday,” the Washington Post reports:

The back-and-forth between the two campaigns has largely been fodder for political insiders. Yesterday, however, David Geffen, the music and film producer who is one of the party’s most prominent donors, made the fight more public. In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Geffen said that Clinton is “the easiest to beat” of the Democratic field and skewered her unwillingness to apologize for her 2002 vote to use force in Iraq. “It’s not a very big thing to say ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t,” Geffen said.

Geffen, who was a co-host of an Obama fundraiser Tuesday night in Los Angeles, saved even sharper criticism for former president Bill Clinton, to whom he was close before a falling-out over the pardoning of financier Marc Rich at the end of Clinton’s second term. “I don’t think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person,” Geffen said in an oblique reference to questions surrounding the former president’s private life.

We never thought we’d say this, but we’re glad someone reads Maureen Dowd. Geffen was once a big supporter of Mr. Clinton, so this is personal. Editor & Publisher, quotes Dowd’s inaccessible column:

They fell out in 2001, when Mr. Clinton gave a pardon to Marc Rich after rebuffing Mr. Geffen’s request for one for Leonard Peltier. “Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?” Mr. Geffen says. “Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”

We’ve got to defend Mr. Clinton here. Whatever you may think of Marc Rich’s pardon--and we didn’t think much of it at the time--at least he didn’t murder two FBI agents, as Peltier did.

As for the Hillary-Obama contretemps, it reminds us of what Henry Kissinger supposedly said about the Iran-Iraq war: It’s a pity both sides can’t lose.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 02:46 PM   
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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 01:59 PM   
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The Eternal Pessimists At The NY TIMES

imageimageMedia bias? Anti-Americanism? Defeatism? Insulting our allies? Whatever you want the NY TIMES has got it in 12pt Times font across a hundred pages of recycled paper, every day, day in and day out. All for the price of a cup of coffee. And as an extra special bonus they’ll even throw in an arrogant, insulting cartoon like the one here at right so the elite Liberals out in the Hamptons can snicker over their foie gras at those “poor, poor Brits who were fooled by Bush.”

I may have to assign one of you to read the SLIMES each day and report back to us. This is starting to make me real depressed reading this obnoxious shit every day. And they have the nerve to call themselves the “newspaper of record”. It must be a 45rpm single in a continuous loop from what I see.

Take the two editorials below (please). The first one is from the editors themselves and right off the bat they spin it as a bad thing for President Bush. Then they go on to describe how the Brits have been “cut-and-running” since Day One and finally throw in their clinical observation that Dick Cheney is fruit loops.

Then they throw at you a “guest editorial” from a Brit with a truly appropriate last name. This is probably done to assure you that there are Brits that agree with the TIMES arrogant, defeatist bullshit. Mr. Bull simply repeats the TIMES liberal mantra and obliges us with a recollection of a recent visit to the south of Iraq where he discussed pesticides with date palm farmers, ostensibly to promote British agricultural prowess.

Mr. Bull winds up his bull with a clear statement that his British mates in the field never intended to “win” anything and were only biding time until they could slink away in the dead of night while no one was looking.

Ahem! Bulldog, if you’re reading this I’ll -uh- be willing to buy you and your lads a night on the town if you can see your way to break this chaps legs. Nothing serious, you know. Just a friendly kick in the shins will do. We’ll take care of the NY TIMES over here. Their circulation is already down to three monkeys, four chimps and a small group of Manahtten hoi-poloi with over-inflated egos.

Britain Cuts Its Losses
EDITORIAL (NY TIMES) - February 22, 2007

Spin it any way you like, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s announcement that Britain will be withdrawing up to 1,600 of its 7,100 remaining troops in Iraq can’t be welcome military or political news for President Bush.

This isn’t the first reduction in the British contingent, which originally numbered 40,000. But it comes at a time of spiraling violence in Iraq and emboldened opposition in Washington to Mr. Bush’s disastrous war. It also comes as Mr. Blair is preparing to leave office, painfully aware that popular fury over the war threatens to overwhelm his entire legacy.

The British announcement has already served as the catalyst for other departures. Denmark, with 460 troops under British command, announced yesterday that it would leave by August. With the Pentagon already straining to find enough soldiers for Iraq, a troop drawdown by its most militarily capable ally can only add to the strain — and to the clamor for bringing American forces home as well.

The White House strove to cast Mr. Blair’s political necessity as a sign of “some progress in Basra,” Iraq’s second-largest city, which British forces have had military responsibility for since the invasion. Vice President Dick Cheney — even more disconnected from reality — chimed in that the British pullback shows that there are some parts of Iraq where “things are going pretty well.”

Whether it is Basra with fewer British troops or Baghdad with more Americans, nothing in Iraq is “going pretty well.”

The End of the Alliance
--By BARTLE BREESE BULL
LONDON (NY TIMES) - February 22, 2007

Yesterday’s announcement by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Britain will cut its troops in Iraq by 30 percent over the next six months and perhaps fully withdraw in 2008, followed by the news that the Danish contingent is also heading home, may seem like the death knell of the so-called coalition of the willing and a severe blow to American hopes.

Still — and I am well aware of how unpopular the presence of British troops in Iraq is among his electorate — Mr. Blair’s decision may have as much to do with strategic good sense as it does with domestic politics.

The truth is that the British gave up trying to win their war in southern Iraq a long time ago, and they probably accomplished as much as they could. Contrary to the grumbling among many Americans, they have done a lot of good work in southern Iraq. I have seen British troops on patrol in the marshes and countryside, watched grateful Iraqis rush to ask for their help in mediating tribal disputes or providing more protection from the militias.

Thanks to British oversight and protection, Saddam Hussein’s cruel efforts to drain the country’s southern marshes have been completely reversed. The marshes are now back to about 40 percent of their original size, with parts visibly flourishing. (With 75 percent of the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers now siphoned off by neighboring countries before it gets to Iraq, it is unlikely that the marshes will ever recover fully.)

When I visited a date palm plantation near Basra last year, Iraqi farmers told me that British aircraft had sprayed almost 100,000 trees with insecticide, helping their production to double since the days of Saddam Hussein’s rule. (One of the men also insisted that I visit the old British cemetery in Baghdad. It was beautiful, he said: a sanctuary, a paradise. “And the gravestones are safe,” he assured me. “I have removed them, so no one will destroy them.”)

The British successes have also been political. In the south, Iraq’s elections and constitutional processes have been far more successful in terms of security and turnout than almost anywhere else in the country. There was never a popular uprising against the British presence.

True, after the Coldstream Guards stormed a Basra police station in 2005 to free two special operations troops being held captive, a photograph of a guardsman on fire atop his armored vehicle led newspapers around the world, giving the impression of a city and a region in flames. But the reality was quite different: that day, the angry crowd numbered only 200 — this in a city of two million, after two years of war.

Even over the last 12 months, the British military posture in the south has not been as passive as has widely been perceived outside of Iraq. One night last December, in a successful effort to capture weapons caches and terrorist leaders, more than 1,000 British troops in Basra, using high-speed landing craft and dozens of armored vehicles and tanks, carried out the largest coalition “strike operation” since the invasion.

But despite these successes, it seems the British never intended to “win” the war in southern Iraq. The British withdrawal from Iraq began almost immediately after the invasion. The British presence in the south, which was 46,000 troops in April 2003, has been under 10,000 since May 2004.

Unwilling or unable to rid the streets and farmland of Maysan, Dhi Qar, Muthanna and Basra of the militias who are the main threats to order in the largely Shiite south, the British troops’ goal has been to keep a lid on things until they could leave. They have not had the resources or the mandate to win a war against either the Iran-backed Badr Brigades or the more nationalist Mahdi Army of Moktada al-Sadr. And if those rival Shiite forces were to begin a fratricidal conflict, there is little the Britons would be able to do to intervene.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 12:15 PM   
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Riddle Me This!

Can somebody translate this for me?

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 08:22 AM   
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Ann Goes Off On Murtha

Lord help me, I love this woman. You good folks need to help me convince her to marry me so I can listen to her slice and dice Liberals all day long - and maybe I can get her to eat more often and put some meat on her bones. Whaddya say?

John Murtha: Caving In to Arabs Since 1980
-- by Ann Coulter
(HUMAN EVENTS) - 02/21/2007

imageimageRumored ex-Marine John Murtha, Democrat congressman from Pennsylvania, has become the darling of the cut-and-run crowd for trying to place absurd restrictions on our troops, amounting to withdrawal from Iraq. Were Arab sheiks whispering into his ear?

In case you missed the video on “I Love the ‘80s,” Rep. Murtha was caught on tape negotiating bribes with Arab sheiks during the FBI’s Abscam investigation in 1980. The Abscam investigation was conducted by Jimmy Carter’s Justice Department, not right-wing Republicans.

On tape, Murtha told the undercover FBI agent: “When I make a f***in’ deal I want to make sure that I know exactly what I’m doing and ... what I’m sayin’ is, a few investments in my district ...”

It is a profound and shocking fact that Murtha even showed up at this meeting, knowing he was going to be negotiating bribe money with Arabs.

Murtha added that he wanted the investment in his district to look like it was done “legitimately ... when I say legitimately, I’m talking about so these bastards up here can’t say to me ... ‘Jesus Christ, ah, this happened,’ then he (someone else), in order to get immunity so he doesn’t go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people and then the son of a bitch all falls apart.”

For those of you just joining us, no, this isn’t a scene from “The Sopranos.” It’s an actual conversation between a U.S. congressman and an FBI agent posing as an Arab sheik offering a bribe.

Murtha further said that although he was not prepared to accept cash at that time, “after we’ve done some business, then I might change my mind.” You know, just what you or I or any American might say when offered a cash bribe by an Arab.

The ever-helpful media exposed the Abscam investigation before it could be completed, and consequently we were deprived of the possibility of seeing Murtha on tape stuffing cash in his trousers like the other Democratic congressmen (and one “moderate” Republican) convicted in the Abscam investigation. Or, as Al Gore used to call such a fund-raising procedure, “community outreach.”

- Much, much MORE of this rant from Ann at Human Events Online (Enjoy!) ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 05:22 AM   
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Don’t Look Back

There are days when I wake up and wonder if half the world has gone stark, raving mad. Today is one of those days. I think it was this cartoon that set me off today. All I hear from peaceniks, Liberals, Leftists and their Democratic Party stooges nowadays is “VIETNAM”. They yell “get out now” and “quagmire” and “lessons of Vietnam” and on and on and on, resurrecting the dread ghost of Vietnam Past, rattling its chains of horrendous mistakes and losing effort in a lost cause.

For the education of the illiterate peaceniks out there who seem to be missing several clues, let me make three very important points: (1) the Viet Cong never attacked America or killed American citizens inside our country, (2) the Viet Cong never planned on following us home and bringing the war to our shores and in fact they have left us alone, (3) the Vietnam War was lost, not by the soldiers in the field, but by an extremely vocal segment of the American people back home who, in a fit of pique, destroyed the old Democratic Party in 1968, dropped support for our troops and dishonored them when they came home, consorted with the enemy and finally convinced enough of the “new” Liberal Democrats in Congress to cut off all funding and throw the Vietnamese to the wolves.

Now you may notice first of all that items (1) and (2) do not apply to our present enemy in the War On Terror. They have already killed American citizens here in our midst and they have sworn openly and repeatedly that they will follow us home if we don’t defeat them over there. Unlike the Viet Cong their goal is not to win a country and drive Americans and democracy out. Their goal is to kill “infidels” - everywhere around the world. That would be you and me.

Which brings me to item (3) ... which does seem to apply to our present situation. Once again the same rabble-rousing crowd is clamoring for withdrawal and claiming to support the troops while emboldening the enemy with public demonstrations. Democratic politicians and celebrities are going to Iran, Syria and other countries consorting with people who have publicly announced their intent to drive us out and follow us home.

Finally, the ghost of Vietnam Past is indeed rearing its ugly head in the US Congress as newly empowered Democrats are already sliding down the slippery slope of defunding the war, forcing a withdrawal of our troops prematurely ... and throwing another country to the wolves.

What is obvious here is that the radical elements of our population learned the lesson of Vietnam and are applying the same tactics today to gain the same dishonorable result. My question to you is, “did the rest of us learn anything from Vietnam”? Are we going to sit back quietly like we did before and allow these nihilists and anarchists to pull off the same hideous betrayal that they managed in the early 1970’s?

They haven’t changed their tactics even though the enemy we face is determined to destroy us this time. We need to change our tactics with respect to the internal troublemakers - or else this time we’re going to lose much more than our honor.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 04:35 AM   
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Nancy’s Hissy Fit

I have raised two boys. They are both fine men nowadays, having grown up and gone out on their own. It seems like just yesterday though that my afternoon reading or watching the news on TV was being interrupted by one or the other of them pitching what I call a “hissy fit”. That’s a Southern description of a person (usually young) screwing up their face into a horrible grimace, crying great big tears of indignation and screaming at the top of their lungs about some horrific evil that was just done to them - most often by a sibling.

My response to their hissy fits involved three steps: (1) slowly turn my head, make eye contact with the monster midget and give him “the look” (that patient but evil glaring look that only fathers know how to give), (2) if the wailing persisted I gave them “the growl” (that deep-throated Dad voice asking v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y “YOU GOT A PROBLEM?”, (3) if that didn’t quieten the storm I went to DefCon Three (reach out, grab the little brat, pick him up and put on my angry voice, yelling at him “THAT’S IT! I’M TAKING YOU BOTH TO THE ORPHANAGE AND GIVING YOU BACK!").

I rarely had to go all the way to (3) - fear trumps anger all the time. To this day they’re not 100% sure they weren’t adopted and can be traded back in any time. They also know not to pitch a hissy fit - especially around the Old Man.

It’s too bad Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a Dad like me. I don’t care if she is a grandmother nowadays. I’m afraid I’d have to DefCon Three all over her bony ass for this behavior. You can read what Cheney said below - seems to me he was just “tellin’ it like it is.” Little Nancy got her feathers all ruffled and went running to Daddy (Bush) who probably told his secretary to tell Little Nancy he was in a meeting and then ducked into the bathroom to avoid having to listen to a grown woman pitch a hissy fit. Sad, but true.

This childish behavior seems to be a trademark of modern-day Democrats. They pout and cry when they lose elections. They pitch hissy fits if the election was close. They call the adults names and get all indignant when they think someone is picking on them. They scream, wail, moan, cry, whine and just generally make life miserable for the adults (like you and me and Dubya).

Isn’t there some orphanage somewhere that we can return these obnoxious brats too?

Pelosi Calls Bush to Complain of Cheney’s
Comments on Democrats’ Iraq Strategy

WASHINGTON (FOX NEWS) - Wednesday, February 21, 2007

imageimageHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney’s comments that the Congressional Democrats’ plan for Iraq would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy.”

Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney’s comments wrongly questioned critics’ patriotism and ignored Bush’s call for openness on Iraq strategy.

“You cannot say as the president of the United States, ‘I welcome disagreement in a time of war,’ and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country,” the speaker said.

The quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., over their plan to place restrictions on Bush’s request for an additional $93 billion for the Iraq war to make it difficult or impossible to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq.

“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy,” the vice president told ABC News. “The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.”

Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney’s criticism of Democrats was “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support.”

“And you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to call the president and tell him I disapprove of what the vice president said,” Pelosi said. “It has no place in our debate.” Bush had previously urged her to call him when a member of his administration stepped over the line by questioning Democrats’ patriotism, she said.

Later, Pelosi said she had tried to reach the president but was only able to get through to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten. Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism or commitment to national security, she told reporters.

“I said to him perhaps when he saw what the vice president said he might have another comment,” Pelosi said. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Cheney “was not questioning anyone’s patriotism.” But she said Bush and Cheney believe that Pelosi and Murtha’s “position to immediately pull out our troops would be harmful to our national security and that it is the wrong strategy to pursue.”

Pelosi said she hopes “the president will repudiate and distance himself from the vice president’s remarks.” In the interview, Cheney also said Britain’s plans to withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq — while the United States adds more troops — was a positive step. “I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well,” the vice president said.

In response to that statement, Pelosi said: “If it’s going so well, we’d like to withdraw our troops as well.”

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/22/2007 at 03:51 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - February 21, 2007

Happy Hour Humor

New Orleans Safer Than Baghdad? Maybe. Maybe not.

This happened on a flight getting ready to depart for New Orleans .

Jack was sitting on the plane when a guy took the seat beside him.

The guy was an emotional wreck, pale, hands shaking, moaning in fear.

“What’s the matter?” Jack asked.

“I’ve been transferred to New Orleans , there’s crazy people there. They’ve got lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor public schools, and the highest crime rate.”

Jack replied, “I’ve lived in New Orleans all my life.  It’s not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, enroll your kids in a nice private school. It’s as safe a place as anywhere in the world.”

The guy relaxed and stopped shaking and said, “Oh, thank you. I’ve been worried to death. But if you live there and say it’s OK, I’ll take your word for it. What do you do for a living?”

“Me?” said Jack. “I’m a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck.”

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2007 at 05:06 PM   
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Lost!

Not lost this time either. At least not too lost. I left our last “Lost” location and started flying North. I’m still over CONUS and what I believe is one of the oldest US Air Force bases in the world down below. I could be wrong but it sure looks like .... Yep, there’s a large Army base off my right wing tip. Tell me where I am, Zoomies! You have 5 minutes. Ready - Set - GOOOOooooooo .....

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2007 at 04:29 PM   
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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2007 at 02:48 PM   
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Through The Looking Glass

Meanwhile, down in Rio the party is in full swing! Carnival!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2007 at 12:25 PM   
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Greenland

I haven’t harassed the Glowbull Warming Freaks in a few days so here goes. I’ll let former Delaware Governor Pete DuPont jump on them today, although he is just repeating what I’ve been saying for quite some time - the idiots who are selling this bullshit are taking a narrow set of climate data (the last hundred years) and basing their (fake) assessment on a bottom-up approach. Pure horse-feathers.

Is the planet warming? YES. I’ll grant you that - but “why?” is the bone of contention. I take a top down approach, i.e., what are the biggest factors in climate change from top to bottom. I start with the Sun (that HUGE hydrogen bomb continuously going off only 93 million miles away), then the planet (a drop of molten rock and superheated iron covered with a thin layer of dried dirt), then the arrogant hairless monkeys ruling the planet (who think SUV’s are cool). I also prefer to look at climate data from the entirety of Earth’s history (as much as we have knowledge of) and not just the data from last week.

For now though, I’ll step aside and let Governor DuPont fill you in ...

Plus Ça (Climate) Change
The Earth was warming before global warming was cool
-- BY PETE DU PONT
(WALL STREET JOURNAL) - Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:01 a.m.

imageimageWhen Eric the Red led the Norwegian Vikings to Greenland in the late 900s, it was an ice-free farm country--grass for sheep and cattle, open water for fishing, a livable climate--so good a colony that by 1100 there were 3,000 people living there.

Then came the Ice Age. By 1400, average temperatures had declined by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the glaciers had crushed southward across the farmlands and harbors, and the Vikings did not survive.

Such global temperature fluctuations are not surprising, for looking back in history we see a regular pattern of warming and cooling. From 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 saw the Roman Warming period; from 600 to 900, the cold period of the Dark Ages; from 900 to 1300 was the Medieval warming period; and 1300 to 1850, the Little Ice Age.

During the 20th century the earth did indeed warm--by 1 degree Fahrenheit. But a look at the data shows that within the century temperatures varied with time: from 1900 to 1910 the world cooled; from 1910 to 1940 it warmed; from 1940 to the late 1970s it cooled again, and since then it has been warming. Today our climate is 1/20th of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than it was in 2001.

Many things are contributing to such global temperature changes. Solar radiation is one. Sunspot activity has reached a thousand-year high, according to European astronomy institutions. Solar radiation is reducing Mars’s southern icecap, which has been shrinking for three summers despite the absence of SUVS and coal-fired electrical plants anywhere on the Red Planet.

Back on Earth, a NASA study reports that solar radiation has increased in each of the past two decades, and environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg, citing a 1997 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, observes that “the increase in direct solar irradiation over the past 30 years is responsible for about 40 percent of the observed global warming.”

Statistics suggest that while there has indeed been a slight warming in the past century, much of it was neither human-induced nor geographically uniform. Half of the past century’s warming occurred before 1940, when the human population and its industrial base were far smaller than now. And while global temperatures are now slightly up, in some areas they are dramatically down.

According to “Climate Change and Its Impacts,” a study published last spring by the National Center for Policy Analysis, the ice mass in Greenland has grown, and “average summer temperatures at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet have decreased 4 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since the late 1980s.” British environmental analyst Lord Christopher Monckton says that from 1993 through 2003 the Greenland ice sheet “grew an average extra thickness of 2 inches a year,” and that in the past 30 years the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet has grown as well.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2007 at 11:36 AM   
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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

Republican Governor Mitt Romney had barely left office in TaxatwoShits before his successor, Democrat Deval Patrick started hosing the people by ordering a $46,000 luxury car and $28,000 worth of new drapes and furniture for the Governor’s office. Stop me if you’ve heard this joke before ...

Patrick ran on a platform of “shared sacrifice”, environmental awareness and the need to cut back spending - all typical Democratic platform lies. I’m really beginning to wonder about the folks in TaxaTwoShits who keep electing Kennedy, Kerry and morons like Patrick. Can they all be completely stupid or are the polls rigged?

Either way, this gets the selection for “Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day”, and maybe for the week. Wake up, TaxaTwoShits! Elect some political leaders who are worth TwoShits - for a change ...

Patrick To Repay Taxpayers For Decor
$10,000 spent for drapes; governor to offset car costs
(BOSTON GLOBE) - February 21, 2007

imageimageGovernor Deval Patrick spent more than $10,000 on damask drapes for his State House office as part of a $27,387 makeover that also included a new desk, settee, and other furnishings paid for with taxpayer money. Yesterday, after an inquiry from the Globe, Patrick abruptly announced that he would repay the state for the draperies and furnishings.

At the same time, Patrick said he would contribute $543 each month to the lease of the Cadillac DTS he uses for state business, bringing the cost to the public in line with the more modest Ford Crown Victoria used by Governor Mitt Romney.

Patrick, who just days ago defiantly defended his lease of the $46,000 luxury car, said he changed his mind after a weekend spent struggling with the state’s dismal finances and the budget cuts he has asked his agency leaders to make to bridge a deficit of at least $1 billion.

“I realize I cannot in good conscience ask the agencies to make those choices without being willing to make them myself,” Patrick said in a statement released late yesterday. Aides declined to permit a Globe photographer to photograph the new furniture or the draperies, hung at the enormous windows overlooking Boston Common. Patrick’s reversal occurred after huddling with advisers about how to deal with a rising political and media storm, the first of his seven-week-old administration.

In his statement, Patrick said he replaced items that Romney had personally owned and taken with him when he left office. But Romney left behind drapes, a desk, and other furniture, according to Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for the former governor. Kyle Sullivan, Patrick’s press secretary, later said that the drapes left behind had fallen off the wall because of crumbling plaster. The governor’s aides declined to provide a breakdown of the costs of the furniture. An administration source who asked not to be named confirmed that the drapes cost $10,000.

Patrick’s sudden change is a calculated shift to defuse the mounting criticism and ridicule he has been facing over the lease of the Cadillac. It occurred as many in the political world began to question his judgment, particularly his initial blithe dismissal of the criticism of his car lease. Some of his Democratic supporters were privately speculating that he was operating with a tin ear and with a staff that has little experience in shaping a governor’s image or understanding the implications of seemingly insignificant decisions that can dominate the news.

His political opponents lost no time taking aim at his missteps. “He’s learning how important symbolism is,” said House minority leader Bradley H. Jones Jr. , Republican of North Reading. “To be doing these things at the same time he’s saying, ‘My campaign made commitments I can’t keep’—like 1,000 police officers or property tax relief—that doesn’t sit well with the public. At a time of shared sacrifice, not sharing in the sacrifice personally is the wrong thing to do.”

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