An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 21 October 2007
Live Blogging
Hot Air has a live blogging of the Republican debate.
A Must Read!
An energy-rationing bill has been introduced to address “global warming.†The “Climate Security Act†would impose caps on how much carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions can be allowed and would institute an elaborate program to “trade†allowances among the industries and business affected.
Americans better hope that some members of Congress will ask if there truly is a threat of global warming and why a similar program in Europe has proven to be a resounding failure.
If you really wanted to undermine the nation’s economy, you could not devise a better way. It is the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol on steroids.
Little noted during all the headlines concerning Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize was the fact that it was shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Among skeptical scientists I know, the emails were flying. Several had served as part of the vast array of scientists whose opinions on the various IPCC draft reports were requested and then ignored.
A lot of these expert reviewers are among the 2,000 scientists that the IPCC and Al Gore are always citing as being part of the “consensus†on global warming. The problem for both is that many really, really, really disagree that any planet-threatening global warming is occurring.
One of them is Dr. Vincent Gray, a New Zealand-based climate scientist who has been a part of the reviewing process since the IPCC came into being. He is one of those scientists who will not and cannot be shut up despite the din of the IPCC propaganda.
Excellent
On The Borderline has an excellent piece about the rally in Madison last week.
We Don’t Need You, Go To Hell!
To the government union thugs who amassed in Madison (WI) last week, which included teachers, policeman, firefighters, and array of non-productive paper pushers, I simply say we don’t need you; go to hell!
In your diminutive imaginations you believe the rest of us would curl into sniveling, frightened balls of humanity without your enduring sacrifices, including taxpayer-funded pensions and healthcare; lions and tigers and bears, oh my! I am sure the mob like intimidation tactics of our government employees seen in Madison and routinely in our local communities is in the end for our own good.
Without our government, union thug teachers and administrators, how would parents educate their children? Have you ever wondered why some parents who are forced to subsidize the cost of $11,000 per student in our government schools, which includes 100% taxpayer-funded pensions, cough up the extra money for private school or extra time for home schooling? It appears they don’t need government-thug education. In fact study after study indicates that fifty percent of parents with school-age children would opt for other alternatives than government schools if they could afford it. Of course it is hard to afford what is best for your child when government thugs are clamoring to take more from your pocket.
Having dealt with the same sort of union thugs, I can very well understand the frustration of those who attended. Class isn’t one of their strong suits.
Read this piece, it’s a good one!
Debate
Interesting. Actually, the most interesting part was the pre debate stuff.  Those folks they were talking to in FL(?) said what most folks think….the Hildebeast is a socialist, and we seriously need someone with a mega backbone.
More B.S. From the P.C
CHATTANOOGA – A live Nativity scene that has been part of Chattanooga’s annual Grand Illumination has been scrapped.
Chattanooga Downtown Partnership executive director Carla Pritchard says the representation of the birth of Jesus Christ was eliminated after several people complained.
The Partnership receives funding from the city.
The illumination event takes place the day after Thanksgiving and begins the holiday shopping season and the downtown Winter Days & Lights event.
The Nativity had been performed since the 1980s by First Baptist Church of Soddy-Daisy.
Church pastor Dr. Seton Tomyn says the decision is disappointing, but understands diverse cultures are part of the city.
So, in order to appease said ‘diverse cultures’, we now have to disrespect the culture that actually MADE this country?
Morning Coffee 10/21/07
Louisiana Elects Jindal as Its First Indian-American Governor
Republican U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana late yesterday and will become the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. state.
Jindal, a Rhodes Scholar who became Louisiana’s health secretary at age 24, won 54 percent of the votes in an open primary, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Web site. A majority of votes were needed to negate the need for a Nov. 17 runoff election. Democrats Foster Campbell and Walter Boasso got 13 percent and 17 percent, respectively, while Independent John Georges won 14 percent.
I sure hope this guy does a much better job than the last clown.
Pope to talk to religious leaders
The event aims to consider how different religions and cultures can unite against violence.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and Zoroastrians are attending the event organised by the Sant’Egidio Community, a Catholic lay organisation.
Working towards a One World Religion now?
Condoms for inmates sparking controversy
In California, it’s illegal for one prisoner to engage in sexual relations with another, even if the act is consensual.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger knows that, but it hasn’t stopped him from instructing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to start a pilot project to distribute prophylactics in a prison to be named later.
Methinks Aaaahnold has flipped his wig.
Of all the curiosities about the world Barbara Munroe built for herself and her hundreds of pets, one of the most unnerving for her friends was that the lights in her home never worked.
Munroe, arrested last week in Lee County on animal cruelty charges after 300 living and 200 dead pets were found in her home , had unscrewed the lightbulbs. When the sun went down, she navigated her rooms by flashlight.
Yikes! You’d think her neighbors would have noticed the smell.
Tenn. system sometimes misses teachers fired for sex misconduct
Middle-school teacher Steven Craig Fults was allowed to resign quietly after he was investigated in 1999 for looking at pornographic Web sites of teenage boys.
His problem in DeKalb County public schools didn’t prevent Rutherford County, just 30 miles away, from hiring him to teach seventh grade and coach the soccer team.
Don’t they actually investigate potential teachers? With the safety of children at risk, you’d think they’d tear someone life apart to make sure those kids remain safe. Criminy!
PM expresses ‘discomfort’ over release of would-be assassins
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad on Sunday said Olmert was never seriously threatened by the assassination plot, and promised to do his best to rein in West Bank militants.
There was nothing “imminently dangerous,” Fayad said as he arrived for a meeting in Jerusalem with Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik. “We are trying the very best we can to bring law and order to the cities, villages and areas that are under our control.”
I suppose because Olmert is Jewish, they don’t take such threats seriously? Hmmm…
Syria ‘open’ to diplomatic ties with Lebanon
Syria reiterated on Friday that it respects Lebanon’s independence and is ready to open diplomatic relations, but only if the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is replaced by a more courteous government. In a letter sent to UN chief Ban Ki-moon and published by the state-run news agency Thursday night, Syria said it respected Lebanese sovereignty and independence and was not interfering in Lebanon’s presidential elections.
“Syria is completely ready to establish full diplomatic relations with a Lebanese government that believes in friendly relations and not hostile ones like the current Siniora government,” the letter said.
Gee, I think I’d be a tad ‘hostile’ too towards a country that keeps assassinating my leaders.
Macomb County may explore a way to generate electricity by vaporizing trash at temperatures equal to the surface of the sun.
A startup company based in Washington Township, SunCrest Energy, wants to build a facility in the county to convert garbage into gas and eliminate the need for landfills.
One thing this country has a lot of, and that’s trash! Should have done this a LONG time ago!
Tighter Border Delays Re-entry by U.S. Citizens
United States border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings not seen since the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The increased enforcement is in part a dress rehearsal for new rules, scheduled to take effect in January, that will require Americans to show a passport or other proof of citizenship to enter the United States. The requirements were approved by Congress as part of antiterrorism legislation in 2004.
Are these people completely void of any common sense?
12 Turkish Troops Killed in Rebel Attack
The pro-Kurdish Firat news agency, based in Belgium, later said rebels also took several Turkish soldiers hostage. Firat cited guerrilla sources, but there was no immediate confirmation.
The soldiers died when rebels blew up a bridge as a 12-vehicle military convoy was crossing it, CNN-Turk television said. The Turkish military said it killed 23 guerrillas in a counteroffensive, and Iraq reported Turkish shelling toward Kurdish villages in the border area in northern Iraq. There were no casualties in the artillery bombardment.
Separately, 14 people were injured when a bomb exploded as a minibus passed near the area where the soldiers were killed, CNN-Turk said.
The world has gone mad.
Second Grade Student Suspended for Drawing Stick Figure Firing Gun
A second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
Kyle Walker, 7, was suspended last week for violating Dennis Township Primary School’s zero-tolerance policy on guns, the boy’s mother, Shirley McDevitt, told The Press of Atlantic City.
Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child’s parents complained about it to school officials, McDevitt said. Her son told her the drawing was of a water gun, she said.
Again, I question the common sense, or lack there of, in our public school system.
Ouch! Hillary Clinton’s softer image is clawed over dumped cat
AS THE “first pet†of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly†Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?
Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks any more. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky.
Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first woman president.
There are many reasons the Hildebeast shouldn’t be president. This ain’t one of ‘em!
