Quoteable Comments
  • Obama, like Joe Wil­son said, “You lie!”
  • Friends don’t let friends read Wikipedia.”-DonS, com­menter on WattsUp​With​That​.com
  • If you have some­thing that you don’t want any­one to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s view on pri­vacy, or lack thereof, because of Google.
  • If you have to argue your sci­ence by using fraud, your sci­ence is not valid.” – Professor Ian Plimer.
  • Poor Al Gore. Global warm­ing com­pletely debunked via the very Inter­net you invented. OH. OH the irony.” — Jon Stewart.
  • A church has to stand for its faith or it stands for nothing.” — Karl Rove regard­ing Catholic church deny­ing Holy Com­mu­nion to Patrick Kennedy.
  • You can’t vote against health­care and call your­self a black man.” — Jesse Jackson
  • You guys make a pretty good photo op.” — Barack Obama com­ment­ing on the military.
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Links of the Moment
The news and dis­cus­sion sur­round­ing global warm­ing, decline, cli­mate change, and sci­en­tific fraud per­pe­trated by Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Keith Briffa, James Hansen, and com­pany is still unfold­ing. Here are sev­eral Web sites offer­ing more detailed non-​fanatical infor­ma­tion and dis­cus­sion than you’ll find in the MSM:
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Highly Recommended!

Obama blasts lies, disinformation?!

I won­der if Politico offered this head­line with a straight face? They clearly didn’t show any skep­ti­cism or jour­nal­is­tic curios­ity in Obama blasts lies, dis­in­for­ma­tion. The com­ments, mine included, are almost all incred­u­lous at Obama’s audac­ity to con­tinue spew­ing dis­in­for­ma­tion, lies, and legal maneu­ver­ing to avoid explain­ing his past.

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Israel: An Axis of Evil

Remove “Israel” and “Jew­ish” from the text and say Coun­try A and no one would dis­pute that Coun­try A is an evil coun­try, unde­mo­c­ra­tic, oppres­sive, out­law, and an enemy of the U.S.:

  • Com­mits piracy on the high seas, killing pas­sen­gers, includ­ing an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, and hijack­ing ships to its port; note as well that these lat­est deadly attacks are against a treaty-​protected NATO part­ner and ally
  • Engages in an expan­sion­ist pol­icy steal­ing and occu­py­ing lands out­side its borders
  • Impris­ons com­mu­ni­ties and regions with mil­i­tary blockaids
  • Mil­i­tar­ily attacks civil­ian pop­u­la­tions at the slight­est provocation
  • Meets feable protests with deadly response
  • Ignores inter­na­tional calls to honor bor­ders, respect human rights, and fol­low com­monly accepted or agreed upon civ­i­lized behavior
  • Main­tains an apartheid régime that treats a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of its cit­i­zens as sec­ond class cit­i­zens and pris­on­ers within their own country
  • Is respon­si­ble for killing and injur­ing more Amer­i­cans than have those who are the vic­tim of its mil­i­tary occupation

Any coun­try guilty of the above would be rightly be clas­si­fied as an enemy of the United States. The coun­try would be ostri­cized for its war crimes and human rights vio­la­tions. Mak­ing excuses oth­er­wise would be unheard of.

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Confederates as terrorists? Yes.

I’ve always said that hon­or­ing the Con­fed­er­acy was akin to hon­or­ing the Nazis. Like­wise, it is, in my opin­ion, no less accept­able to dis­play the Con­fed­er­ate flag than it is to dis­play the Nazi flag. Roland Mar­tin, who I have very lit­tle respect for, writes today on CNN (see Were Con­fed­er­ate sol­diers ter­ror­ists?) a com­men­tary that I agree with 100%. He con­cludes, jus­ti­fi­ably, that Con­fed­er­ates were domes­tic terrorists.

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Previous Posts

  • Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel (December 22, 2009)
    Gover­nor Sarah Palin writes the following: Last week­end while you were prepar­ing for the hol­i­days with your fam­ily, Harry Reid’s Sen­ate was mak­ing shady back­room deals to ram through the Demo­c­rat health care take-​over. The Sen­ate ended debate on this bill with­out even read­ing it. That and mid­night week­end votes seem to be stan­dard oper­at­ing pro­ce­dures in D.C. No
  • Copenhagen’s political science (December 8, 2009)
    Gover­nor Palin writes the fol­low­ing in the Wash­ing­ton Post: With the pub­li­ca­tion of dam­ag­ing e-​mails from a cli­mate research cen­ter in Britain, the rad­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal move­ment appears to face a tip­ping point. The rev­e­la­tion of appalling actions by so-​called cli­mate change experts allows the Amer­i­can pub­lic to finally under­stand the con­cerns so many of us have artic­u­lated on
  • Commonsense from Governor Palin (December 4, 2009)
    No, I am not for amnesty. .… Ille­gal aliens are called ille­gal for a rea­son. .… If they are not going to fol­low the rules they need to get out. – Sarah Palin Clear, direct, and absolutely cor­rect.   Source: Radio inter­view with Lars Lar­son, Decem­ber 3, 2009.
  • Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change “Experts” – Sarah Palin (December 3, 2009)
    Gover­nor Sarah Palin on Climategate: The president’s deci­sion to attend the inter­na­tional cli­mate con­fer­ence in Copen­hagen needs to be recon­sid­ered in light of the unfold­ing Cli­mate­gate scan­dal. The leaked e-​mails involved in Cli­mate­gate expose the unsci­en­tific behav­ior of lead­ing cli­mate sci­en­tists who delib­er­ately destroyed records to block infor­ma­tion requests, manip­u­lated data to “hide the decline” in
  • Obama’s War of 1,000 Cuts (December 2, 2009)
    Yes, Afghanistan is now Obama’s War. It was his since inau­gu­ra­tion but make no mis­take, from last night’s speech, it is clearly his and we can no longer blame Bush for the mess. Obama has now cre­ated the recipe for his own disaster: First, the mil­i­tary asked for as much as 60,000 troops, Obama gives them half, and Sec­ond, while
  • Welcome to My Blog (November 30, 2009)
    You have reached my main Web site, which serves pri­mar­ily as a jump­ing off point to sev­eral topic-​specific Web sites that I main­tain. These include: Qual­ity Projects Group, LLC at http://​www​.qual​i​typro​jects​.com, which is my busi­ness and day job.  The Inde­pen­dent View at http://​www​.thein​de​pen​dentview​.com, which is my soap­box for per­sonal opin­ion and com­men­tary on a wide range of top­ics.  Planet Earth Update, a new
  • Global Warming? Show me the data! (November 30, 2009)
    It is now rea­son­able to label global warm­ing, more for­mally known as Anthro­pogenic Global Warm­ing (AGW) a fraud per­pe­trated by a group of self-​serving sci­en­tists, doom­say­ers, and wannabes. For years we’ve been bom­barded with scary fore­casts and dire reports of man-​made cat­a­stro­phe. Skep­ti­cism was met with dis­mis­sive ridicule as deniers, equat­ing crit­ics with Holo­caust deniers. Fas­cism was the modis operandi
  • Time for Obama to Reset? No, Time for Obama to Resign (November 28, 2009)
    Politico asks “Should Obama hit the reset but­ton on the White House? If so, where might he find it?” My thoughts as I wrote to Politico and as they have now published: Should Obama hit the reset but­ton? You’re kid­ding right?! Step One: Obama should apol­o­gize for bank­rupt­ing the coun­try, going around the world and apol­o­giz­ing for us as if it
  • Ten stupid qualifiers makes for one big loser of a party (November 27, 2009)
    Yep, 10 unelected mem­bers of the Repub­li­can Party are work­ing hard to ensure defeat in next year’s elec­tion with their pro­posed lit­mus test of party mem­bers. Now, as I’ve made clear on my Web site, I am reg­is­tered as a Repub­li­can but pretty much in name only. I truly con­sider myself an inde­pen­dent. Work­ing my way through the pro­posed state­ments that I must
  • Hey guys, we’ve got a problem – George Monbiont (November 25, 2009)
    George Mon­biont – never heard of him until this past week – is out with another ‘we got a prob­lem’ arti­cle in the Guardian today as he frets over the dam­age being done to the reli­gion of global warm­ing [and his career] by the actions and incom­pe­tence of the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity. Inter­est­ing that other than his buried apol­ogy in a com­ment attached
Exit Obama
    Unless Barack Hussein Obama, II is constitutionally disqualified, resigns, or is impeached beforehand, he can be replaced at noon on January 20, 2013, in 2 years, 4 months, 17 days, 22 hours, 27 minutes
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My News Clippings
  • Copenhagen's political science (Washington Post)
    Governor Palin again calls for Barack Obama to skip Copenhagen in this Washington Post commentary.  She points to the need for real science, balancing real-world costs and benefits, and the inequitable proposals and expections among nations.

  • New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill (New York Times)
    Another attempt, this time by a state legislature, to legalize homosexual marriage is decisively defeated.  Traditional marriage stands in New York.

  • Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic (Der Spiegel)
    Starting out with "Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan," this editorial admit "nausea" upon hearing Obama's speech.  They even note the instructions to West Point cadets to respond "enthusiastically" that was obviously ignored.

  • The Climate Science Isn't Settled, Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted (Wall Street Journal)
    A rather detailed discussion on global warming that looks at that the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA).  It is definitely worth a read but I'm not sure what point Lindzen is trying to make in the final paragraph.

  • When scientists behave like bullies (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Debra Saunders writes about the damning corruption of science by global warming scientists.

  • Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman (Guardian)
    Chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says global warming is not debunk because of a few scientists.  For Rajendra Pachauri--check out the picture accompanying the article as this guy is a definite look-alike of the Unibomber and his the religion of  Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)  is just as dangerous to civilization.  Anyway, he claims that despite everything, AGW is alive and well.  He even defended Phil Jones and said he should not resign.

  • Diplomacy 101 (New York Times)
    New York Times editorial the president an F for diplomacy in the Middle East.  Obama "demanded that Israel freeze settlements, Palestinians crack down on anti-Israel violence and Arab leaders demonstrate their readiness to reach out to Israel."  Nine months later, Israel still says no, Palestinians refuse talks until they do, and Arab states refuse to do anything.  Obama achieved nothing, except a dismal 4% approval rating in Israel.

  • Sarah Palin, version 2009: Going rogue, getting even (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Debra Saunders writes a review of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, "She's folksy and quotable. She has delivered a book that will thrill a base that loves to shout, "They done her wrong."

  • We will release the data...
    Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row (Telegraph)
    We threw away the data...
    Climate change data dumped (Times)
    The Climate Research Unit says, according to the Telegraph, that they will release the raw data that global warming is based upon.  At the same time the Times reports that the same folks now admit that the raw data was thrown away.  All they kept was the manipulated data they created to support global warming.  As Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, is quoted in the Times, “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’."

  • Afghans Detail a Secret Prison Still Operating on a U.S. Base (New York Times)
    According to this article, Obama continues to run at least two secret prisons--one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan--with reports of abuse and prisoners held without rights normally afforded prisons of war.  Surprising to hear that this continued after Bush left office.  This is a terrible stain on America's reputation and puts Americans at risk of similar mistreatment if captured.