PC Climatologists Needed...

(No shirt, No shoes, No PC-ism: NO SERVICE. And NO JOKING: Keep your mouth shut on some topics, even if you're an expert in the field. So, NO TALKING either...)



I'm having to pass up quite a bit these days, and I realize there is much going on that some are just chomping at the bit to cover. What with Iran on the brink of ...something...a relatively silent president who deigns not to go a-meddlin' in "others' affairs" all the while telling Israel exactly how she should behave, a "health care reform" bill that the CBO promises to cost over a trillion-five and push 23 million people out of their current insurance plans, and a deficit that is looking like a virtual vapor trail of zeros, in addition to a certain Kim Jong Illness across the Pacific who is threatening to make the 4th of July very memorable for the residents of Hawaii, there is certainly no lack of cocktail and blog chatter to gum about.

I'm well aware.

*sigh*

I am ALSO extraordinarily busy of late, but this was just too good to pass up: The ever present pulse-taker-of-PCism-Pen of Mark Steyn has this little ditty on the continued advancement of "progressive" pushiness on culture. I chose it to point out what the ultimate, end result of State Nannyism will look like someday--across the board in many areas of life--if current ideological and cultural trends don't cease. They say art imitates life, or is that life imitates art? Or both? Regardless, culture imitates as well as creates politics, and the over-politicization of science in the name of some putatively higher pseudo-religious calling like that of environmentalism can be a VERY dangerous thing indeed:

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I Don't Know Much about Climate but I Know What I Don't Like

(A Boston art appraiser declines to appraise oriental rug for notorious MIT warmo-denialist Richard Lindzen):

"I am sorry to inform you that after some consideration, I’ve decided not to perform the appraisal service that you’ve requested. Your writing on the subject of global warming is offensive to me personally, and I feel that I would have difficulty being an impartial appraiser of value given my view on the subject."

No shirt, no shoes, no PC views, no service.

(His rug was incinerated by global warming.)

(via Kathy Shaidle)
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.....And no reasoning given other than "I don't like what you have to say" by a noted climotologist expert du jour art appraiser from Boston.

Comments the Green Hell Blog:

"If you’re not familiar with Lindzen, here’s a clip from his bio:

'Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the American Meteorological Service’s Meisinger, and Charney Awards, the American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Council of the AMS.'"

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***UPDATE***

Do we have ADS Syndrome? It's a terrible condition in which to place something as important as science. What is ADS? Can we stop or cure it?

From Verum Serum: EPA Scientist Told to Shut Up About Global Warming:

(John on June 28, 2009)

"Remember the bad old days of the Bush administration when zealous policy makers were allowed to run roughshod over sound science? I’m glad that doesn’t happen anymore:

Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty “decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.”

The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message to a staff researcher on March 17: “The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward… and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.”

The e-mail correspondence raises questions about political interference in what was supposed to be a independent review process inside a federal agency — and echoes criticisms of the EPA under the Bush administration, which was accused of suppressing a pro-climate change document.

Alan Carlin, the primary author of the 98-page EPA report, told CBS News.com in a telephone interview on Friday that his boss, McGartland, was being pressured himself. “It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else,” Carlin said. “That was obviously coming from higher levels.”

E-mail messages released this week show that Carlin was ordered not to “have any direct communication” with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed that his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic.

“I was told for probably the first time in I don’t know how many years exactly what I was to work on,” said Carlin, a 38-year veteran of the EPA. “And it was not to work on climate change.” One e-mail orders him to update a grants database instead.

And what was the EPA afraid would get out?

After reviewing the scientific literature that the EPA is relying on, Carlin said, he concluded that it was at least three years out of date and did not reflect the latest research. “My personal view is that there is not currently any reason to regulate (carbon dioxide),” he said. “There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up, and if anything they’re going down.”

Carlin’s report listed a number of recent developments he said the EPA did not consider, including that global temperatures have declined for 11 years; that new research predicts Atlantic hurricanes will be unaffected; that there’s “little evidence” that Greenland is shedding ice at expected levels; and that solar radiation has the largest single effect on the earth’s temperature.

Yeah, I guess that would have been inconvenient, especially as the President was pushing through his Cap-and-Trade energy fiasco to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions this week.

Note that the CBS story was published Friday night at 11PM. The New York Times version — headlined in such a way that it fails to mention the suppression angle — was also published sometime Friday. Coincidence?"

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EPA, "Agenda Driven Science" is thy name and condition.

Fly Fishing...

.."help me"...

Cairo is now Arabic for "MUNICH"

The city of the president's most recent stop on the Apology Tour '09 speech circuit was Cairo in 2009. It might as well have been Munich in 1938. Sorta what I've been afraid of for some time now...


Obama's Munich Moment: WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE SAID, BUT DID NOT.

In fact, fairly much all of what was said amounts to apologizing for our very existence and then saying, for the most part:

"I have no right to tell you how to live, because we're as rotten as you are, but here's how you need to live. Oh yeah, we were very upset about being attacked on 911 but partially deserved it and we went overboard in our response by striving to get better information and trying to nail those responsible."

Now for what Obama's teleprompter should have told the Islamic world--and indeed the whole world. I don't know much about Hot Air's "Doctor Zero", but he's a good writer, and he nailed it in his own version of the Obama speech for what should have been the text all along and should continue to be. Right on the nickel. Compare and contrast to the original above.

June 7, 2009

(by Doctor Zero)

Author’s note: I know perfectly well there’s no way Barack Obama would have said any of the things that follow. This is how I think the speech in Cairo should have gone. I liked Obama’s first sentence, so I kept that.

"I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and grateful for your hospitality. I will honor you in return by addressing you directly. I came here to speak to you, not to European leaders or American media commentators. I hope you will forgive my frankness, but we have much to talk about, and some of what I came here to say will not be easy for you to hear.

I will not waste your time by carefully selecting quotes from the Koran, in a misguided attempt to tell you what your religion means. I am here to tell you what membership in the community of civilized nations means. Your faith is your own affair, but it ends where the rest of our lives begin. It is fashionable among the Western elites to say that we have much to learn about the Muslim world, but the truth is precisely the reverse. One of the bedrock principles of Western democracy is that we don’t need to understand, or even like, a particular religion in order to respect its faithful and their rights. There are some things the West is long overdue in teaching its Muslim neighbors, however. Let us begin with dismissing the notion of a “Muslim world.” There is no such thing. There is one world, made increasingly intimate by the easy movement of people, resources, and ideas. We are all in the process of learning how to live with our fellow men, and while the West is far from perfect, we are much further ahead in our studies than the nations of the Middle East. Our security, and yours, will be greatly enhanced if we can lend you some of the wisdom we have accumulated.

We did not come by this wisdom easily. We learned by taking incredible risks… and making terrible mistakes… magnified by the power of Western military tradition and technology. The people of the Middle East have never known anything to compare with the industrialized slaughter of the two World Wars, in which millions of lives were lost to decisively settle the question of what makes a government just and legitimate. You have never watched five thousand of your sons die on a single day, to secure a beachhead against the forces of genocidal fascism – a battle we commemorate on the sixth of June every year. Your fighting men have not faced anything like the battle for Okinawa, where American Marines faced an eighty percent chance of death – and did not waver. You have not sacrificed half a million soldiers to destroy the evil of slavery, as America did during its Civil War. You have not spent blood and treasure around the world to save other nations from the savage darkness of communism. You have no leaders to equal the Founding Fathers who pledged their lives, and sacred honor, to win America’s independence from imperial domination.

You have not burned and bled for freedom, as we have. We would spare you that pain, if we could. We are willing to burn and bleed for you – and we have been doing so, for eight long years. Instead of indulging in foolish paranoid fantasies about crusaders and oppression from America, open your eyes and look to the mountains of Afghanistan, where over a thousand Coalition troops have died to overthrow the Taliban, after their despicable complicity in the murders of September 11, 2001. We did not have to send those troops into harm’s way, to avenge the slaughter at the World Trade Center. We could have eliminated all life in that region, in a matter of hours. If we followed the standards of our enemies, we would have. We sent our best and bravest into battle because of who we wished to spare, not who we wanted to kill.

Open your eyes and look to Iraq, where we allowed thousands of Iraqi troops to lay down their arms and go home, instead of killing them where they stood. We paid an awful price for this act of mercy, as many of those men went on to join the brutal terrorists who dreamed of keeping the Iraqi people enslaved. Some in America and Europe find it politically expedient to draw moral equivalency between American soldiers and the terrorists they fight. I ask you to show me the al-Qaeda “equivalent” of Private First Class Ross McGinnis, who climbed down into an armored vehicle and smothered a grenade to protect his crew, when he could easily have leaped from his gunnery hatch to safety. Show me an “insurgent” who can match the valor of Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, who flung himself into an impossible battle against odds of a hundred to one… to save the lives of a hundred wounded men. These two soldiers are among those who have won the Congressional Medal of Honor for their sacrifices in Operation Iraqi Freedom. No one on the other side is worthy of such an honor. I say this to you because keeping silent – whether from misguided modesty, self-loathing, or the desire to avoid offending your vanity – is an insult to your honor, and an injury to your future.

We have made a fetish of “tolerance” in America, and it has curdled into poison. I am here to tell you what the civilized world is no longer prepared to tolerate. We will not stand silently by while women are enslaved, brutalized, or murdered. We will no longer hypnotize ourselves with self-criticism over gay rights, while you bury gay men and women under piles of jagged stone. We will not swallow our tongues for fear of offending Islam, when Islam oppresses all other religious beliefs within its borders. We know you can do better. We also know that nothing will improve unless we demand you do better… and we do demand it. The world has turned, and the old days of totalitarianism and pillage are done. There is no more place in it for barbarians. Believe what you will, follow your customs, honor the holy writings of your Prophet, and strive to understand God’s will through prayer, music, and scholarship. You will find nothing but honest respect and admiration from the West. But when you stand among civilized people, you will be civilized people. When you are shown respect, you will answer with respect. As the West reveres and protects the life of your innocents, so you will revere ours.

I speak to you as the democratically-elected leader of a great republic, which has earned the right to walk tall and proud through the halls of history. It is a right earned on battlefields… but also at humanitarian relief camps, pharmaceutical laboratories, civil-rights marches, and field hospitals. It is a right earned by rebuilding shattered enemies after terrible wars, by tearing down the statues of tyrants and building schools for the children of their liberated victims. Ours is a hard-won glory that can be seen in six men raising a flag on Mount Suribachi, or one man planting that flag in the dust of the moon… or millions of men and women stepping into voting booths. Look at the free people of Iraq, with their fingers proudly covered in purple ink after they vote, and know that America is eternally eager to share her glory. Indeed, we believe we can only render it proper honors by sharing it with all of our brothers and sisters around the world. But also remember this: the Middle East stands at a crossroads, and the heavy responsibility of reconciling faith, tradition, and the demands of the modern world rests with you. You must choose between old hatreds and new possibilities. You must choose between murder and prosperity. I have come here today to tell you clearly, and without reservation, that you cannot have both. May the next leader chosen by the American people stand in my place someday, to congratulate you on a wise choice."

In Memory...

On this Memorial Day, we remember those who died--not just served. Those who gave their ultimate sacrifice--not just those who did all other manner of duty to nation.

Let us remember today, all day, that we owe our thanks, our honor, and reverence to the men and women who fought in America's battles, and who served our country; they made significant sacrifices in fighting for the freedom and liberty we enjoy today.

All too often, we fail to remember those who gave their life or those whose lives are scarred today bears as a lasting memory of that sacrifice and commitment. But there are many who remember vividly those lives that were affected are sons, daughters, friends, coworkers and neighbors--and that their unselfish sacrifice was made with the assurance that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was their ultimate service to our nation.

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow, we gave our today."

--The Kohima Epitaph

Changey-Change

Time for some Change







Busy, busy, busy.

My oh my, so much for the Dear Leader to say on TV to the humbled adulating masses.

It seems the POTUS was on tube the other day making a pitch for what he's termed "health care reform," presumably under the impression that the way to go is the rationing inherent in European styled "health care," with the added twist of claiming (falsely) that there will merely be a government mandate for employer-offered (RE: forced) health choices.

As we see in Hawaii's experiment with the expansion of "single payer" health care, the usual result of such "mandate" is that it also forces out (or "crowds out") other health care providers as valid choices.

Why? The answer is contained in a question:

When government mandates whatever form of "care", what happens to those businesses that cannot afford (or claimed not to be able to afford) to pay for some arbitrary level of private coverage contracts as prescribed? Where will they go? To government, now that it's available. Or those self-employed persons who're given the choice of paying hundreds of bucks a month for some basic hospitalization coverage vs. what Obama no doubt will offer elsewhere to fill in the "gaps" in coverage? They will naturally and understandably default, as the parents of kids in Hawaii--even up to and including those with sizable incomes--to simply dispensing with the idea of using their dollars to buy some preordained choice in private healthcare that government recommends and instead opt for the cheaper (err, free, actually) option of saving money and signing up for some default level of government reimbursed care. Further, this alleged scaremonger number of "40 million uninsured" is comprised mostly of those who don't care to be forced to have health insurance and can pay out of pocket for quality services in addition to a considerable proportion of illegal aliens.

For the former grouping, the whole issue is unnecessary intrusion. For the latter group, the issue is one of principle--what are we doing spending taxpayer money on people who have no business here?

The president railed against "special interest groups"(!) that are supposedly raising all manner of hell on earth against this glorious notion that rations health care in addition to pushing out private insurers. One assumes those "special interests" the president is griping about are, very understandably, coalitions of doctors and health insurance companies. And just WHY would THEY be complaining? Well, said glorious notion is the one that will eventually push them into some other line of work. Perhaps in the New America, if "comprehensive reform" on this issue gets Obama's full measure of ideology and naiveté, Blue Cross/Blue Shield's large tower just down the road from me off of I-20 can be sold for a few pennies on the dollar at auction to make room for cheap condos or laundromats and nail salons? Who knows for sure.

In response, the POTUS claims--as with so many other times where bills are passed that few people read or understand clearly--that the time to act on "health care reform" is NOW. No delay. No debate. No closer look at the "push out" issue that has plagued so many other cases of socialized medicine where tried--where private insurers are all but out of business. The time to move is yesterday.

So with the thousands of special interests and groups and lobbyists in the Age of No Lobbyists, from the local ACORN signups for illegal immigrant voters all the way to special provisions for big labor, we don't see "special interest" involvement in politics here, now do we? Not with the massive, multi-trillion buck Porkulus bill that creates all manner of temporary make-work and busybody detailing like the Washingtonization of the Census, yet little "stimulus" to the private economic realm, nor the health care bill, nor the handouts to big labor in the form of the open ballot and sumptuous benefits and now even virtual political/managerial ownership of entire industries?

I'm glad Obama has moved us past the age of "special interests." Whew. What a relief to know in these troubled times.

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Elsewhere in the Age of Aquarius from Cloud Cuckooland New America, it seems that it's chic and hip to have lesbian black women call for the rotting of radio personalities' livers and openly wish for death to the chortle of the president, apparently in response to the very notion some radio personalities called merely for the failure--not of livers and lives--but the policies of the new Chief.

In addition to the flowering of special interests and lobbyists in the Age of No More Lobbyists, one must presume this must be what is meant by "Change We Can Believe In.".

Easy enough, since little in liberal smarminess has really changed all that much. As more evidence of this, the POTUS' commencement address at Notre Dame University the other day emphasized "seeing the other side" of the other fellow's arguments, regarding in this case the nettlesome controversy of abortion--the proximate reason some attendees of this traditionally Roman Catholic university were protesting just outside and racked up an impressive number of arrests for average looking folks. Noble words, the president's: Let's all see the other fellow's side of things and hear him (or her) out. In fairness to Our Lady's elite school of higher learning, many if not most of the students as well as the board of trustees were completely on board and totally nonplussed by the president's visit, presumably under the noble auspices that the very word "university" means the flowering of thought. Or, at least the flowering of other opinions in what has become a great high brow bull session of hash thrown around. Good show. Too bad this attitude is not found in most universities, where conservative speakers and personalities are banned from campus or shouted down.

In any case, isn't that age fairly much over with? The age, so claimed, of "seeing the other guy's viewpoint", or somesuch, on the abortion issue? Was it not over decades ago? There was no debate, for the most part. There was a Court decision in 1973. The rest, you might say, is not just history, but the historical demographic bite of over 40 million missing American human beings, most of them hardly a danger to life and limb of "mommy", even if on some occasions a threat to lifestyle, sleep, and nerves.

I mean, really. Are the "pro-choicers" going to allow ANY departure from the abortion-on-demand ethic that now reigns with the arrival of a man in office no doubt set to appoint Court justices with the most lax application of Roe? Is there going to be a retraction of laws that for all practical purposes allow so much as a late term abortion for any girl needing to fit into her prom dress?

These soft compromising words, from a president who voted down any attempt to modify law in his home state that would at least rescue the lives of those victims of botched abortions who're actually born alive? How seriously can this be taken? And for the pro-lifers, is there going to be any quarter given? Of course not. This is more than a dispute over the proper level of Social Security taxes among the working class, etc., or whether or not the War on Terror should shift defense appropriations.

The president can get away with this precisely for the reason he can say many other things. Two main reasons, actually:

A) As far as he is concerned and/or wishes, nothing is about to change any time soon. Not on certain issues. On abortion on demand, the coast is clear.

B) If it does change, the Change will be along certain ideological lines only.

Likewise with this odious notion the president preaches (especially to college grads, as witnesses by the attendees of Notre Dame's commencement the other day) that life is all about "fortune" flowing to the select few and thus they should "give back." More noble-sounding words. Indeed. "Give back!"

Give back what? College kids are legendary for not having two dimes to rub together. One assumes then the president is smart enough to understand that he can only ask for alms from the future earnings of the college youth of tomorrow. Possibly, you can argue the parents of these little darlings deserve some credit, and in some cases, repayment of their labor and money to help Junior and Sis realize the dream of a college degree. It is unlikely this is what the president was speaking of. No doubt what he meant was that some disembodied gargoyle called "Society" is the main reason the "fortunate" are where they are at any particular activity or setting in time. The president admonished the new grads still garbed in cap-n'-gown attire, they should work for government or non-profit organizations, now that their saddling of massive debt (both college debt, in most cases--or their dear parents--and the new national debt placed on all of us in order to "stimulate" liberal special interest groups the economy puts most of them in the hole. What the president is trying to have us to believe by this clarion for "public service" and "giving back" to some entity that bequeathed to us health and wealth, is that life itself is a fickle and capricious master anointing some with "luck" and others with poverty and torment. It has nothing to do with trying hard. Or studious habits. Or eschewing party time for higher pursuits. No, life hands out wealth Helter Skelter, with some kids "finding" themselves in college and others working at the local restaurant or oil change service just by sheer chance. A flip of Cosmic dice, if you will, in the hands of a diabolical God or devil or Mother Earth or somesuch, separating the quotidian masses from the successful fortunate and blessed with income and talent.

Is something going to "change" here, regarding the liberal penchant for seeing life as Cosmic Dice? Or for that matter their desires to use the power of government to correct these pereived slights from Mother Nature?

Of course not. And the policies to come that inflict more government micromanagement on life will demonstrate this and merely become more burdensome to productivity and human happiness.

There's your change. Put it under your mattress.

Euromuzak Soothes the Savage Nation?

Hail Britannia?




Controversial (and you might say never shy) and wildly popular conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, of the Savage Nation was banned from the Queen's Dominion for...


...opening the head of a child with a rifle butt.

Blowing people to smithereens with improvised devices..

Cutting a living human being's head off with a dull fish knife..

Inciting violence against whomever, resulting in death and gore in Madrid, and London Tube horrors...

Shouting in the streets of London about when and how to kill the Infidels as the British bobbies stare at lamp posts and do something next to nothing..

Ah!

Here we are, at last: For opinions about illegal immigration, gay marriage, the Dear Leader not to be automatically worshipped as one of the gods come to Earth to walk among us, and a host of other topics some people would just as soon not hear but others listen to by the millions, now that the politicians have decided that to take no action on some things is a type of action. Yeah--that was it. That's why he joins the proud and few killers and loonies doing the wonders of Allah's will and some others. He's got a big mouth. That's the ticket that did him in as far as the Ministers of Correctness in Britain's learned sections are concerned.

This is what the mighty lion of Britain was afraid of, as mice and little men tiptoe nervously into the "leadership" roles of the bland, Euromuzak, Euro-Statist, bureaucratic multi-culti humbug?

I agree with Joseph Farah that this was a hit job done by someone on THIS side of the Pond. It is unlikely the Brits care all that much about Savage ( he's had no desire to enter Britain for any reason) and THEY had probably never heard much of HIM. This is a shot across the bow, conveniently launched from a smaller vessel, but directed at America from America's own elite governing class to subtly make us aware of what might be around the corner. Just who the tipster is, is the only mystery at this point.


****UPDATE****

Not all Brits are whiney Euro-Statists...

I knew that, of course, and many of my aquaintences on the Net are of Brit extraction and utterly despise the Multi-Culti, PC direction the UK is taking with no small help from the Home Secretary beer mutt. The one who is banning radio personalities for talking about culture and language and borders so much, but then wants to have many of the Motherland's GITMO detainees returned.

But just to have on record.

Thanks be to Ed West for some Brit perspective on all this crap.

"Aloha" Means Good-Bye!

I know I didn't just run into this.

Oh, yeah. Actually, I did.

Despite his recent supposed "refutation" at the hands of someone not looking at the numbers in better lighting, it seems Mark Steyn was correct.

It is almost closing time in the gardens of the West.

Eurabia this is not. Or, at least not in quite the same way. However, when it comes to the Western Society Extinction Advocacy Movement, also known by the more popular and easier to digest term "multi-culturalism", I guess I held out for the longest time on some notions, not willing to believe the worst idiocy (or at least high levels of cultural gullibility) of the homo sapiens creature.

No more:
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Hawaii Lawmakers Back A Plan To Celebrate 'Islam Day' Despite Some Objections

HONOLULU, May. 6, 2009, in the Year of Allah, and the Final Collapse....


(AP) Hawaii's state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate "Islam Day" _ over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn't want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.

The Senate's two Republicans argued that a minority of Islamic extremists have killed many innocents in terrorist attacks.

"I recall radical Islamists around the world cheering the horrors of 9/11. That is the day all civilized people of all religions should remember," said Republican Sen. Fred Hemmings to the applause of more than 100 people gathered in the Senate to oppose a separate issue _ same-sex civil unions.

The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote. It had previously passed the House.

The bill seeks to recognize "the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions" that Islam and the Islamic world have made. It does not call for any spending or organized celebration of Islam Day.

"We are a state of tolerance. We understand that people have different beliefs," said Sen. Will Espero, a Democrat. "We may not all agree on every single item and issue out there, but to say and highlight the negativity of the Islamic people is an insult to the majority" of believers "who are good law-abiding citizens of the world."

But Republican Sen. Sam Slom argued that the United States has become too sympathetic toward Islamic extremists.

"I don't think there's any country in the history of the world that has been more tolerant than the United States of America, and because of that tolerance, we've looked the other way a lot of times, and many thousands of our citizens have been killed by terrorists," said Slom, a Republican.

The lone Democrat voting against the bill opposed it on church-state separation fears.

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On the Net:

HCR100: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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Imagine THAT--the sole reason given by the ONE Democrat lawmaker in the sovereign State of Hawaii for any theoretical rejection to this fall into Multi-Culti oblivion and symbolic Cloud-Cuckooland is..."Separation of Church and state" fears.

Presumably this means nothing else came to this person's attention regarding Western culture, Western values, and/or other symbolism? Guess not.

Good show. Yet no one advocating this sayeth a twitter about Separation of MOSQUE and State, now did they? Wonder how this might play out with "gay marriage" in the Aloha State...

Bowling for Effective Staff Help

In a diplomatic coup d'état sure to rock the world of international high stakes with inordinate warp-velocity political intrigue, Barack Obama has just named Corky, from the old, saccharine sweet smash TV series Life Goes On, to be his diplomatic attaché' to the Iranian government and to oversee all appropriations for science reasearch dollars. The "Overnighters" are stunned! MSNBC's own handy harridan-for-hire, Rachel Maddow, piped up last night to remind her audience of 47 hippies in a Vermont commune that share a brand new CFL lightbulb and a color TV, that "tongues will be wagging about this appointment for decades!"

(Hot tip, Rachel! You GO girl--you rock and RULE our world! The blogosphere is now humming with a 64-bit, Dickensonian melancholy madness keyboard tapout and bit crunching!)

Corky's qualifications, said senior White House staff members, are every bit as noteworthy as those of Janet Napolitano and Tim Geitner.

Corky knits, bowls, climbs trees and yodels like Johnny Weissmuller, likes Honeycomb Cereal, writes lyrics for Snoop Dogg and some of his homies, playfully teases his sister about her new Coke-bottle glasses, has a really neat spider collection in his parents' basement just like most liberal bloggers---and has a penchant for kicking Iranian-Mullah arse! Whoa, Nelley!

When asked about this stunning double-deal development among high-warp power brokers in the Beltway, Obama's teleprompter told reporters--to thundering ovation--that Corky is a great American smart enough to know durn well his own tax duty to the State, contrasted with those icky Republicans who do nothing all day but make the big bucks by sitting around the pool and sucking down one martini after another. And (said the teleprompter) for the Iranian government's hardass nuke plumpers, Corky is much easier on the eyes than Hillary Clinton. This follows persistent rumors that the Iranian religious police have stepped up dress code enforcement on their women in anticipation of Hillary Clinton's cankles expected to traumatize various people during her upcoming Middle East tour this summer. Obama is making it his personal mission not to offend the Muslim World, with whom we're NOT at war, even when they send some of the Junior Jihad graduating class (Class of '01) smashing through buildings in Manhattan. Donning his best Al Gore "strike-a-pose," and resisting the urge to chortle cola through his nose when asked if the new administration had given him the "Crash Course" on Islam that Janet Napolitano has already forgotten about, Corky was then asked what he thought of Mr. Obama's prowess with Iran's attempt to bring in the legendary "12th Imam Age" via nukes, and glugged ,"ith gud, dee-dah-dee-da-blurb, and dis progwam wath alhll well-vetted, and the dam republicn red-liner blugmutts, mufin splath”, before realizing his own teleprompter was on the fritz. However, raising some nettlesome public relations concerns for the administration, as well as eyebrows in the Chatter Class, later that day several reporters indicated that in their opinion they weren't sure if Corky was upset, had to go poopy--or was simply imitating Barney Frank's labyrinth elucidation of the intricacies of Fannie Mae's fall from grace. No matter, the Mullahs are caught in an apoplectic, catatonic trance of disbelief.

As reported by science-on-behalf-of-ideology Vaudeville shtick buff/breathless tenured professor of far leftist web crankery, P.Z. Myers, just the other day at the National Academy of Sciences, it was duly noted by Obama that if Corky had been on the White House staff to help the CDC untangle the Rube-Goldberg complexity weave of Mexican Flu Swine Flu H1N1, and we'd spent yet another vapor trail of zeros--paid for by our grandchildren--for science's "rightful place" next to Corky at the helm, Swine Flu could have been a memory. Corky and Obama both nodded rapidly when asked if the inclusion of money and power and politics along with ideological cheapjack shots that had utterly nothing to do with the actual, proximate vector of Swine Flu (so-called national "borders" that leak worse than a spaghetti strainer) is what they meant by "not playing ideology and politics with science."

Corky also indicated he wants to do a bake sale for "science, not bombers," next Saturday--and also wash cars and wave at all the pretty girls in the two piece bathing suits signed up to help.

Next on the agenda for Obama and Corky will be the world-renown, CIA-approved, documented tactic of sticking tongues out and rendering middle fingers at the Mullahs to stop them from getting nukes and putting up bumper stickers like "Free Darfur!" right next to the old ones that say "War is NOT the answer." Now that waterboarding and other tactics about on par with the brutality of being stuck in traffic on I-285 or listening to Nancy Pelosi, are outlawed, we need to make dad-gum sure that nothing at all works for garnering vital information on stopping attacks, as did waterboarding on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others, Corky reiterated to a smiling press--and some assembled ACLU lawyers.

Corky clarified his earlier statement on Obama by saying “He’s alright, I guess…but he can’t bowl worth a Special Olympian gutter ball.”

To which John McCain sent a memo this morning saying "Fine words, my friends. Fine words."

Life DOES go on, Corky!

Bo' Rock th' Bama!