I'ts nice to know you have the tools for a specific job should the need arise...

From World Tribune:

The Bush administration wants $88 million for the production of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP. The 30,000-pound conventional bomb, meant for deployment by the B-2 aircraft, would be the most powerful bunker-buster ever designed.

Analysts agree that MOP was designed to destroy Iranian and North Korean underground facilities, such as Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment plant. The bomb was said to be able to penetrate more than 65 meters of earth.

"It'll go through it like a hot knife through butter," John Pike, a leading U.S. weapons analyst, said.



Specs:

Length: 20 ft (6m) ^[2]

• Weight: 30,000 lbs (13.6 tonnes)
• Warhead: 6,000 lbs (2.7 tonnes) high explosive
• Penetration:
  • 200 feet (60 m) of 5,000 psi (35 MPa) reinforced concrete
  • 26 ft (8 m) of 10,000 psi (69 MPa) reinforced concrete
  • 130 feet (40 m) of moderately hard rock

“Shhh!”  “Be quiet!”  “Move and your dead!” 

You hear these words in hushed, yet urgent tones.  You realize they aren’t trying to kill you, only trying to keep you still and quiet.  You relent and relax in the grip of your ‘captors’. 

As you relax, so do they.  You can make out the shapes of three people.  Only one you recognize as your neighbor who lives in the house whose yard you just invaded.  You can see that there are two men and one woman in this group.  All seem to be armed in some form or fashion.  You neighbor is the only one with an apparent firearm – it looks like a lever-action rifle.  The others are holding some type of bludgeoning object – actually one has a wooden baseball bat, the other is armed with a shovel.

You regain your composure from your earlier initial terror at being grabbed.  “What’s going on?” you ask.  “We were watching TV when the power went out.  I dug out an old radio and turned it on.  The announcer was spouting something about a mass riots breaking out in several areas of the city, mostly on or side of town.  That’s all we heard for awhile.  Then the announcer became, I don’t know, scared maybe?  He started saying the ‘rioters’ were bodies of the recently deceased which had come back and attacked anything living.  People, animals, it didn’t matter.  They said everyone should stay inside, barricade your home if necessary and not answer the door or go outside until it was safe.  We were hiding in the house.  We saw several people shambling around in the street.  We just hunkered down and tried to be quiet.”

The female speaks, “We heard screams coming from your homes direction a little while ago and got really scared.”  You think back to the attack in front of your house, the attack you watched.  “We wanted to go look, wanted to see what was going on.  We thought better of it though.”

The other guy speaks, “Then we heard the shots from your house.  We knew someone was fighting back, trying to anyway.  We decided to come out and see if we could maybe, help – I don’t know what we were thinking, but we had to do something.”  “We snuck out here and were trying to figure out what we were going to do next when we saw you come out the back door of your house.  We didn’t want to call,” he looks at your shotgun, “Thinking you might be a bit trigger happy.  When you climbed over our fence, well here we are.”

Your mind is racing.  Dead people?  Impossible!  But then you think back to your engagement in your front room.  It took four shots, the fourth being a headshot, to stop that one attacker.  Immediately, you think of the one you shot who was crawling through your window.  One shot to the head was all it took.  Then you remember watching the attack in front of your house – the guy hit one attacker in the head with his bat, it bent the bat, but the attacker fell and didn’t try to get up.  That must be it, how to take them down – a headshot or severe trauma to the head...

“Look,” you say, “we need to get moving.  You said you had a radio.  Where is it?”

“Batteries died”, the guy shrugs.  “I never used that radio, only when the power went out.”

“You don’t have any extra batteries?” you want to scream at this guy.

“No.”

“What kind of batteries does it take?” the other guy asks.

“Double A’s.”

“Dude, you don’t have a damn remote control in the house?”

The guy opens his mouth to speak, but stops.  “Yes,” he says realizing his stupidity. 

“We need to get that radio back on and see if there is any other news.” You say.  “It’s not safe staying out here static like this.  Let’s go in you house”

You and your three new comrades get back into the house without incident.  Once inside, the guy looks for his remote control to get the batteries.  You go into the front room to take a look out the front window.

“How many did you say were outside?” you ask.

“A few.  Three?  Four maybe?”

You glance outside the front window from the side.  Indeed you see four ‘undead’ shambling around in the street in front of the house.  Not as many as were in front of your house – good.

“Found ‘em.”

The man replaces the batteries in the radio.  “Wait, don’t turn it on now.  These things seem attracted to noise.  Where can we listen to it?”

“How about the bathroom?” he says.

You and he and the others head into the small downstairs ‘half-bath’.  You pull the door to.  “Ok, turn it on – low volume.” you whisper.

“..definitely dead.  Again, the people involved in the riots earlier tonight are indeed deceased.  How, why they are reanimated is unknown.  Where they came from is unknown.  What we do know is that they are maniacally homicidal.  They will attack and attempt to devour any living creature they come in contact with.  Calls to the State Police and the National Guard have gone out.  Local authorities have contained most of the rioters.  The last area is the Northwest Vista area of town.  This area is extremely large and bordered by several city parks.  Numbers of walking deceased are extremely numerous in this area.”

“Most city power is out, but is being brought back online as fast as possible.  If you are in your home and can hear this broadcast – quietly go about your house and turn off all light switches and power switches to any appliances you may have had on when the power went out.  The walking deceased are extremely attracted to noise.  If the power was to return to your home and your area had not yet been cleared, this may attract unnecessary attention to your house.”

“If you are detected, these deceased bodies will continue to attempt to gain access to your home until they get in, or are destroyed.  It has been determined that the only means of destroying these deceased persons is to either separate the head from the body or cause extensive trauma to the head or brain.  Gunshots to the head are the most effective means, though blunt trauma can be effective if delivered decisively.”

“…what?  This can’t be right…what?” the announcer seems confused; “we are another report.  Apparently this has been confirmed by the authorities…any person who comes in contact with the walking deceased…any person injured by them through an attack…any person who is bitten or otherwise severely injured…will die from said attack.  Upon death, the attacked person will re-animate and assume all the characteristics of the walking deceased.  It appears these people do not respond to any amount of reasoning, they are completely an utterly, as explained before, maniacally homicidal.  They will attempt to kill any living creature they are attracted to or come in contact with.”

“By all mean, avoid contact with the walking deceased at all costs.  Stay in your homes.  Stay quiet.  Avoid attracting attention…repeating…”

You reach over and switch the radio off.  Your mind reeling yet again, “Walking deceased?  The ‘living dead’?  Zombies?”

Zombie’s man, they creep you out.

You and the three others exit the bathroom in shock.

You kneel down, trying to gain control of the thoughts swirling through your head.

The four of you freeze as if as one.  You all turn your attention towards the front door.

You all notice a scratching at the door…

And that moan…

You’ve been discovered again.

To be continued…


Tip #6:  Get up the staircase, then destroy it.

Tip#7:  Get out of the car, get onto the bike

Part IX (with links to Parts I-VIII)
http://robertsteely.townhall.com/g/4382bda2-8
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Yep.  Contrary to this sentence in the article proclaiming impending doom:

"...more research was needed to understand the associated risks of climate change."
 
What?

Here's eco-reasoning for you:  We need "more research to understand the associated risks of climate change", but even with out that same research and understanding, the following is SURE to happen in Australia.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

THE 5.4 million cases of illnesses caused by food each year, including salmonella, are likely to increase.

RURAL Australians risk worsening hygiene from lack of water as well as extra exposure to heat, dust and smoke.

THE infection zone for tropical diseases such as dengue fever, Ross River fever and Japanese encephalitis will move south.

REMOTE Aboriginal communities are particularly vulnerable to water-borne diseases which could increase instances of diarrhoea by 18 per cent by 2050.

"The current pattern of urban development means the obesity problem is going to continue," Prof McMichael said.

MORE Australians will die from heart attacks, strokes and respiratory diseases as the planet heats up, a study has found.

Instances of obesity, food poisoning, and mosquito-borne diseases such as the deadly Ross River fever are also likely to rise as climate change raises average and extreme temperatures.

Lets debunk these in order starting from the top of the list:

1.  Food illnesses will increase - How?  Why?  The article conveniently doesn't say.  The article does mention salmonella however.  What does heat have to do with this?  In my own experience, you don't want to eat any foods or products containing milk type products (Miracle Whip, mayo) on a picnic if the food has been out in the heat for awhile.  So you stupid Australians - stop having picnics and parties outside in the heat!  Either that or maybe use some ice?  Even simpler, don't eat raw eggs maybe?  What that has to do with heat though escapes me.

2.  Worsening hygiene?  Do we really need to go there?  I don't want to sound this way, but how hygienic are the aborigines now?  They are a tribal people right?  Are they keeling over from lack of showers all of a sudden?  More smoke?  Will australia internally combust if the temp goes up a degree or two?  Dust?  Isn't it dusty everywhere there is a summer?  Extra heat?  Question - How do Australians deal with the heat now?  Would one degree really make that much of a difference?  If so, how about turning the AC down another notch? 

3.  The best way to stop tropical diseases in their tracks now, let alone waiting for the evil global warming - how about a little DDT?  Are these scientists willing to sacrifice some humans if the temps go up instead of using some insecticide?  I guess the question is already answered - they don't use it now and people are dying so...

4.  Diarrhea?  Easy - airdrop in some Imodium morons!  While your at it, drop a few bottles of Evian with the Immodium if needed.  I'm a little confused by how a 1-2 degree temp increase would cause an increase in water borne diseases all of a sudden, but that's just me.

5.  Obesity will continue to be a problem?  I thought if global warming attacked the world food supply would be destroyed?  Which is it people?  Of course asking an enviro-wacko to be consistent is like asking a liberal to pay for their own health care.

6.  Heart attacks, strokes, respiratory problems increase.  This ones easy - if it's hot outside, stay inside with some AC.  How about exercising some common sense?

And now how about some plain old common sense:

You know, I still have yet to have anyone answer this question for me.  Maybe it's too hard for a PHD:

If right here where I live, I experience a 30-40 degree shift in temps in just a matter of hours (this morning when I woke up it was 49 degrees.  When I leave work today it will be 80 degrees.  A localized temperature increase of 31 degrees in less than 12 hours) and I don't explode, the rivers still run and San Antonio doesn't melt into the ground, how is a possible worldwide temp increase of 1 degree is going to kill us all and destroy the planet? 

Using some of the alarmist predictions lets ask this question:  If the worldwide temperature increases five degrees over the next 100-150 years, how will that lead to all this localized doom and destruction specifically in Australia?  Will all the temperature increases localize over Australia?  If so, how is that 'global' warming?

Hmmm.

Riddle me that Goracle.

Didn't you know that the typical homeowner uses this type of military hardware to defend their homes and 'murder' burglars?

You didn't?

Well then read this report from the AP:  (emphasis mine throughout)

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house.

John Woodson, 46, found that out last week when he ambled into Dennis Baker's open garage in a Dallas suburb. A surveillance video showed the robber strolling inside, hands in his pockets.

From the shadows, Baker opened fire and killed Woodson.

"I just had to protect myself and that was it," Baker told reporters despite the fact Woodson had not tried to enter the bedroom near the garage where Baker had been sleeping.

The incident made national headlines since it was Baker's parrot that gave the alarm when it innocently squawked "good morning" at the intruder.

But Woodson's death seemed anecdotal compared to another Dallas resident who a few days earlier had killed his second robber in three weeks inside his home.

Police are investigating both cases, but it is unlikely charges will be filed. Texas recently passed a law branding anybody breaking into a home or car as a real threat of injury or death to its occupants.

In contrast with traditional self-defense laws, this measure does not require that a person who opens fire on a burglar be able to prove that he or she was physically threatened, that force was used only as a last resort and that the victim had first tried to hide.

Florida was the first state to adopt in 2005 a law that was dubbed "Stand your ground" or "Shoot first."

But now they have proliferated largely under pressure from the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA), the main weapons lobby in the United States.

Today 19 out of 50 US states, mostly in the south and the central regions of the country, have this kind of laws, and similar legislation is pending in about a dozen others.

"This law will bring common-sense self-defense protections to law-abiding citizens," said Rachel Parsons, a spokesperson for the NRA.

"If someone is breaking into your home, it's obvious that they are not there to have dinner with you," she continued. "You do have a right to protect your belongings, your family and yourself.

"The law needs to be put on the side of the victim, and not on the side of the criminal, who is attacking the victim."

But for the Freedom States Alliance that fights against the proliferation of firearms in the United States, these new laws attach more value to threatened belongings than to the life of the thief and only serve to increase the number of people killed by firearms each year, which currently is estimated to stand at nearly 30,000.

"It's that whole Wild West mentality that is leading the country down a very dangerous path," said Sally Slovenski, executive director of the alliance.

"In any other country, something like the castle doctrine or stand-your-ground laws look like just absolute lunacy," she continued.

"And yet in this country, somehow it's been justified, and people just sort of have come to live with this, and they just don't see the outrage in this."

And how did the obviously unbiased AP illustrate the types of weapons typical honmeowners may use to defend their "castles"?



Here's the caption:  A US airman with a machine gun in Indian Springs. Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Millar)

There you have it sports fans.  The unbiased MSM getting the 'facts' out to the American people about guns and how they really have no right to defend themselves or their homes.

Typical and laughable as well.

The latest and greatest wastes of mind power and money in the American Public School System:

Oh, criminey. Just what American high school students need: “Less homework, more yoga”

Welcome to 21st century public education in the US, where one in 10 schools are “dropout factories:”

No more honor rolls to reward the high achievers.

Birth control for middle schoolers.

Forced bilingual ed for students who don’t speak Spanish.

Pledges of allegiance to the planet.

The penetration of fuzzy math, whole language, and other destructive pedagogical fads.

And just this summer, the U.S. dropped out of prestigious international math competitions in the wake of bottom-of-the-barrel test results.

Self-esteem rises, academic rigor plunges.

American kids’ brains are getting emptier every year.

But they’ll have the most limber muscles in the world. Hooray.

Tha above posted from Michelle Malkin.com.

Panic is welling in your gut.

“How could I be so stupid?” you think as you realize you forgot to reload your shotgun.

The intruder is reaching, straining towards you arms outstretched.  Torn, fleshy hands grabbing for you in a desperate attempt to – what?  You know – to feed!

You somehow manage to push your panic down and reach into your ammo pouch for some shells.  “Load one at a time.”  “Just keep some distance.”  You grab a shell, slam it into the magazine; then another and another and another - slow and methodical, like your attackers steps.  You cycle your bolt, chambering a shell.

You shoulder the firearm – BLAM!  The intruder, the attacker falls; his head rendered a coagulated mass of brain matter, bone and tissue blown onto the floor and the wall behind.

You notice you’ve retreated from the front room of your home into the living area.  You have two options:  You can head back upstairs, or you could go out the backdoor into your backyard.

“Think!” you tell yourself.  You’ve taken out two attackers already in your home.  More are trying to get in.  Sooner or later they will.  The front window is already broken, blocked only by the body of your first kill.  Those outside will get in, breaking the window further, crawling over the motionless, headless corpse currently barring their way.

“Think!”  You know there are at least eight to ten more of these whoever they are outside your house trying to get in.  You can barricade yourself upstairs, but you could get trapped.  You don’t have time to really barricade the stairwell so the only barrier between you and anyone getting in your house would be a locked doorway.  No way out onto the roof from any of the bedrooms – yeah, you’d be trapped.  You could hold out awhile, but for how long?  You don’t know.

You can go outside, out the backdoor.  You didn’t see anyone out back earlier and you haven’t noticed anyone trying to get in from the back of the house.  You would be exposed, yes, but more maneuverable.  You know your neighborhood and the streets around where you live.  These people don’t seem to be very fast, perhaps you can outrun them, get help.  But go where?  What help?  Screw it.  You’ll burn that bridge when the time comes.

You decide to take your chances outside.

You switch off your Surefire light and head to the back door.  You take just a few seconds to let your eyes readjust to the dark.

More glass breaks, moans louder than before, more numerous meet your ears.

“Time to go.”

You unlock the back door, open it and slip outside.  You close the door behind you as quietly as possible.  You step to the side of the door away from the window glass so you can’t be seen from inside the house; hopefully you weren’t noticed.

You take notice of the cool night air, a slight breeze ruffling your hair.  You stand for a few minutes, taking some measured breaths – listening, looking.

The yard looks clear.  You step off the back porch into the soft grass.  You take slow measured steps, not rushing but alert.  “Well smart guy?  You’re outside.  Now what?”

The only ways out are either over a fence into a neighbors yard, or over to the back yard gate and into the area where you really don’t want to be – the front of the house and the street where you witnessed a murder earlier.  You hear moaning and scratching from the fence by the gate anyway – “So much for the gate.” you tell yourself.

Crashes from inside your house grab your attention.  You glance towards the back door of your now invaded home and notice movement.  “Time to hop the fence,” before they follow you outside.

You sling your shotgun and shambled over the back fence into your rear neighbor’s yard.

Hands grab you, pulling your hair, your arms, grabbing at your feet.

You begin to scream only to have it muffled by a hand grabbing your throat…

To be continued…

Tip #4:  Blades don’t need reloading.

Tip #5:  Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.

Part VIII (with link to Part I-VII) , TZSG - Appendix A

That's how much carbon was emitted by NBC hypocrites Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Ann Curry while reporting on the effects of climate change.

Again the media is all about telling you how to live your life while creating emissions equal to more than three times what an 'average' American emits in a year.  All for a story.

Of course there will be no mention of the other wasteful exoenditures for this trip:  the fuel, food, wear and tear on equipment, etc. which could be used elsewhere.

Remember this the next time some sancitmonious enviro-wacko tries to excoriate you for owning an SUV.

As far as I'm concerned, these enviro-sheeple can go ahead and nail themselves to their carbon-neutral crosses.  

From Newsbusters:

It appears that the hypocrisy of reporting global-warming alarmism stories has no bounds.

NBC Universal’s “Green is Universal” initiative is sending staff across the planet to either cover or cause global warming. That effort “takes an unprecedented look at Planet Earth.” Three members of the ‘Today’ crew – Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Al Roker – will emit 24.9 tons of carbon to go to the ends of the earth to show viewers climate is affecting the planet. That number is more than three times what a typical American emits in a whole year.

“Well, the journey has begun,” “Today” co-host Matt Lauer said on the October 29 broadcast. “‘Today’ is going to the ends of the earth to report on the changing climate and examine the limits of human exploration in an unprecedented simultaneous broadcast from the top, the bottom and the middle of the world.”

Curry will be making her way to Antarctica – an 11,686 miles mile trip. That round-trip will emit 12.9 tons of carbon, 2.15 tons each way – New York to McMurdo Station, Antarctica and back counting three people. (Footage from New Zealand on the October 29 “today showed more than that.) The math comes from the carbon calculator on Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Web site.

Lauer’s trip to the Arctic Circle in Greenland – from New York, N.Y. to Thule A.F.B., Greenland (airport closest to the Arctic Circle) is 2,487 miles. Assuming a crew of at least two will be embarking on the trip with Lauer – that’s six tons of carbon emissions (one ton each way – New York to Thule A.F.B and back with three people).

Roker’s trip to the Equator in Ecuador – from New York, N.Y. to Quito, Ecuador (airport closest to the Equator) is 2,822 miles – that’s also six tons of carbon emissions (one ton each way – New York to Quito, Ecuador and back with three people).

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Here are several snippets from the Daily Kos about how liberals blame GWB for everything from their marriage breaking up to having to move back in with their parents.

After you read it, you have to hope this stuff was made up:

angrybird: Have the Bush years taken a toll on your relationships?

I wrote a diary a short time ago about how the Bush administration helped ruin my marriage. It wasn't because my husband was a Bush supporter or anything...it was because of all the stresses from job loses, living without health insurance and getting sick, to my husband being forced to take a job where he wasn't home much that helped ruin my marriage.

However...I started thinking about other relationships that have indeed been killed because those people where Bush supporters.

...Please share your stories about how the bush administration has taken it's toll on your relationships; they can be stories from economy related to the personal. I promise you will feel better if you share :-)"


begone: Hmmm, my relationship with myself, mostly.

Before my head began exploding a few years ago in response
to Busharama, I'd exercise a lot... I mean, almost daily, joyous-type
exericising. Now I come home with a slight frown on my face and
come here to hear the news & be a mojo-mama even if too
tired to comment, and hang for hours here and on other blogs,
as if the light will shine again and I'll be present to hear the
BREAKING news about that.

Bush, I blame you for my new-ish extra 20 pounds....

delphine: I haven't had a relationship since he took office.

But I can say that I've been trashed by potential online dating partners for stating I couldn't date anyone who thinks bush is a good presznit....

cowgirl: I have two co-irkers who are die hard Bushies. I've known them for years. Although we weren't all that close, I've spent time with them outside of work, spent many breaks and lunches together, and generally liked them a whole lot.

Eventually, their support for Bush got to the point where talking with them simply infuriated me. I'm still polite and cordial with them, but we don't hang out the way we used to. It's just hard to fathom their belief system. How can they not be angry at the war alone? That many deaths makes me sick to many stomach, and they support it? W.T.F.

I'm not a violent person, but the last few times I discussed politics with them, I had the strongest urge to thump them upside their pointy little heads...HARD.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, I guess.

Boadicaea: Somehow my family AND relationships are almost all at odds with me. If they're not pro-Bush, they're disparaging about my uphill efforts to do something about him ("You really think a march/what you write/a sign/etc. will make a difference?"). One of my oldest friends called me a "kook." And they all get frothy over who deserves their tax money.

The hardest is my dad, but he's steering clear of politics lately and I just spent six weeks with him with only a few mishaps. He's a retired USAF pilot and looks at everything as bad guys/good guys, liberal media, etc. We're both old enough now for thoughful avoidance; if I feel like the top of my head is about to blow off, I go somewhere far away. He knows why, but accepts it. We talk a lot about family and faith, so conversation isn't superficial.

There was an incident--he called me in to view a video he'd received in his email. Before I knew what it was, I was watching a smart bomb blow up a group of Iraqis--"bad guys"--while my dad raved about our advances in weaponry. He absolutely had no awareness of my reaction to the video and to his enjoyment of it.
 

I was down the hall, thinking I would puke, when he hollered "Do you want to see it again?" I knew if I said anything but no we'd have a horrible and fruitless spat, so I just disappeared for a few hours....

meldroc: Bush has also damaged my mental health.

After I actually took the trouble to inform myself about politics a couple years ago, and learned the true extent of the damage Bush has done to this country, I have a constant boiling rage inside me. Absolutely constant. Never ceases, though sometimes I can get it down to a simmer so I can go out in public and hang out with friends without doing something stupid. On top of the anger is a generous dose of fear and anxiety, coming directly from the Bush administration's march to fascism.

Frequently, I'm so intensely angry that I hit things. I just broke my bookshelf today because I hit it. My knuckles have decent callouses on them from hitting things, and various pieces of my property show signs of my rage. Thankfully, I've never turned violent against people since I was in high school, though I was sorely tempted to deviate the septum of a wingnut who called me a traitor and faggot to my face at the anti-war march last Saturday.

Of course, it's unhealthy to harbor this much anger, especially if I'm stuffing it down all the time so people around me don't see me acting borderline psychotic. These emotions leak out, turn into other emotions, like depression, which I've fought with since college. I've also developed a venomous hatred of Bush and his cronies and the 23-percenters that support him. Hatred's never a good emotion to hold, but there it is. I literally hate those motherf*ckers who are destroying our country.

By all rights, I should be getting help, but I'm not going to. I was soured on the psychiatry business by my experience with anti-depressants - I ended up nearly emotionless, apathetic, and lost my motivation and creative drive, and as a result, I was unemployed for three years and had to move back in with my parents. I was your classic anti-depressant zombie. They didn't like the changes to my personality either, and stopped paying for the meds.

After I tapered off the anti-depressants, I got my drive back, I was able to find work as a software engineer again, move into my own apartment, and now I'm supporting myself again. On top of that, if I told a counselor about my feelings, or that I'm so afraid of my government that I literally spent several hundred dollars on a shotgun, a deadly weapon, to defend myself against my government, I'm afraid I could get thrown into the psych ward. And I value my freedom enough that I will not allow that to happen under any circumstances. So, no shrinks.

I haven't talked to my best friend and ex-roommate in weeks because of a few personal issues between us, including politics - he's Republican, and though he's no fan of Bush, he constantly mocks and belittles my politics when I talk to him. So I don't."

The classic liberal playbook:  claim zero responsibility for yourself or your actions/shift responsibility to others, project your failures and depressed life view on others, make excuses, etc.

I'm no psychologist, but these people have some serious issues.  Depression, anger, rage, irresponsibility, ralationship issues, failure of commiment, the list is almost endless.

Is it any wonder you can't talk with these folks?  Is it any wonder their lives are fouled up?

But as is the case with liberals and liberalism it's always easier to find a scapegoat.  It is hard work to really look at yourself and find fault - and then do something about it.  It takes work and comittment and responsibility.

These things are anathema to libs anyway so it's no surprise their lives suck!

Unfortunately when Bush is gone, they won't have him to blame anymore.  Oh, they'll keep it going for a few years, but after that noone is going to give that excuse any real credence.  Then the real implosion will commence for these sad folks. 

(H/T: RightWingNews)

So, how has the 2007 hurricane season stood up?  You could sum it up with this - "Heh."

Seems the climate alarmists have blown it for a second straight year.  Never fear, all they need to do is keep making alarmist predictions.  Sooner or later they'll get it 'right' just playing the odds.  Then the cries will commence: 

"You see ye unbeleivers?!  Ye of no faith in our Prophet the Goracle!  The EVIL Global Warming hath doomed us ALL!  Ye scoffed at the CFL; ye mocked the hybrid; ye denigrated thy holy windmill and solar cell!  REPENT!  REPENT and bow before the great and Holy Goracle!  His light shall ilumine your ignorance!  KNEEL!  KNEEL before Zod!!!  BWA-HA-HaHa-ha-ha-ha!!!!

Take a look at this info:

Unless a dramatic and perhaps historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy). However, the year is not over...

2007 lowest September activity on record since 1977

2006 and 2007 lowest October activity on record since 1976 and 1977

For the period of June 1 - TODAY, only 1977 has experienced LESS tropical cyclone activity than 2007.

There are currently two worldwide tropical cyclones: Tropical Storm Noel and Unnamed Arabian Sea TS...

On average to date (1970-2006), the Eastern Pacific season is 97% completed, Western Pacific 82%, North Atlantic 93% and overall Northern Hemisphere 87%.

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Seems to me that these things DO move in cycles as responsible meteorologists say. 

No matter how hard they try, Mother Nature doesn't bend to the will of a political ideology.

A more appropriate title might have been "Sticking your head in the sand about islamofascism because I don't want to seem discriminatory to our brother Muslims who only want peace and happiness and to pet little puppies and kitties."

Very illustrative video.   Content Warning: Language at the end of the video.

(Posted fromHot Air)

It is much better than the first, but we're talking amateur night here folks.  Maybe they should have stuck with the volunteer 'actors'?

How about the last line of the add.  Why would Ron Paul need to tell us he's Ron Paul twice in the same ad when it's him telling us who he is and that he approved his own message?  Is there some campaign law stating he needs to say that after any ad even if he's the one appearing in it?

Oh, and he is the only candidate who has pledged to bring the troops home immediately (though he's done nothing as Congressman to do that very thing) and he's the only one who has pledged to cut government spending (of course this must not apply to earmark spending he has engaged in for his own district back home).

None of the other republicans has pledged to cut government spending?  Really? Apparently he's also all about increasing the welfare state here at home according to this ad.

I mean how contradictory can he be here?  We stop wasting trillions overseas which will save us countless money so we can then waste that money in America on those "who need it"?  What about all the money we'll save by eliminating the CIA the FBI and IRS and the Federal Reserve?   
 
Oh, and no American flag pin for you either Mr. Paul?  Can anyone tell what that pin on his lapel is?  It doesn't look like a campaign pin, and it definately isn't a American Flag.  

I look for one of the next three to be a real anti-war ad.  We'll see.  So far it's the big thread through both his current ads 

Maybe it's me and I'm just picking fly poop out of pepper here, but do this guys campaign managers understand anything about anything?  Does Paul?

Here's the ad:

Of course not, but it will make top ten lists for decades to come.  Watch the video:

An open letter to Ron Paul:

Dear Congressman Paul:

Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 “Truthers” and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.

Do you welcome- or repudiate – the support of such factions?

More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press –a publication of the nation’s leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the “comforts and amenities” provided for inmates of Auschwitz.

Have your columns appeared in the American Free Press with your knowledge and approval?

As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?

As a guest on my syndicated radio show, you answered my questions directly and fearlessly.

Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?

Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.

Respectfully, Michael Medved

Let's see what happens, but this is why it's important:

Ayn Rand said that one ought never to grant one's moral sanction to people or ideas that one opposes. She observed that in any collaboration between men of differing principals, the more evil always wins. (In any collaboration between men of similar principles, the more cosnsistent always win.)

Regardless of your feelings about Ms. Rand, her philosophy, or her fiction, the above statement is dead on.

By accepting donations from white supremacist hate groups and 9/11 truthers, by receiving open endorsement from these same hate groups and 'truthers', and by actually paying a known conspiracy nut from his campaign coffers, it may already be to late for Ron Paul.

Does Ron Paul sanction what people like Alex Jones and Stromfront believe?  And that sanction can be passive as well as active (one could make the argument that Ron Paul has already given active sanction by appearing on Jones's radio show) or does he repudiate this garbage.?

No spin allowed Paulbots.  Ron Paul himself needs to answer these questions.

Or will Ron Paul and his supporters take a 'non-interventionist' stance on this like so many other things?

(H/T: LGF)

It's also income-discriminatory.  And just in case you thought they wouldn't, they also threw in a slap at the Wiccans/Satanists in the last sentence.

MSNBC and AP, mutually inclusive offenders.

I know what some of you think about Halloween, but this is just completely ridiculous now sin't it?

From MSNBC:

WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.

The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat.

Overall, 86 percent of those questioned in the survey said their neighborhoods are safe for trick-or-treating. Ninety-one percent of whites, compared with 75 percent of minorities, said they felt their kids would be secure when they went out seeking candy in their area.

Similarly, 93 percent of people earning $50,000 or more said their communities are safe for trick-or-treating, compared with 76 percent of those making less than $25,000.

“It’s demonic,” said Donna Stitt, 37, a nursing aide from Barto, Pa., with four young children. “People are celebrating the dead. I’m not into that.”

Veterans Day is next on the calendar.  What new offense can they dream up for that?

Well, if kids read this story at least they'll know which neighborhoods to get the good candy from huh? 

(Disclaimer: For the Paulbots looking for ammo, that last sentence was sarcasm.)