No Neutrality

I Call It "Heresy"

This is nothing less than pestulent anti-science! Next they'll say second hand smoke isn't dangerous!!

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.  The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

DailyTech - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Do As I Say! (Not As I Do)

Oh, but they're not like those pesky Christians--"shoving their religion down your throat"--this is just being fair:

Gregoire, a Democrat, applied public pressure to the Pharmacy Board, warning that she would replace board members who didn't follow her wishes on the issue. She later worked out the compromise rule that was approved by the Pharmacy Board.

So let's see:

• Christians MUST pay taxes that go towards what we consider to be murder, i.e., state funded abortions.
• Christians may also end up having to fund embryonic stem cell research.
• Christians MUST also allow "safe sex" to be taught in public elementary schools where their children attend (but must fight tooth-and-nail to keep abstinence in the curriculum). And in some public schools they also must "tolerate" detailed explanations of gay "safe sex."
• And if the "tolerant" left had their way, Christian pharmacists would also be forced to participate in what some of them consider a form of abortion. (Still curious why folks can't go to a pharmacy that does carry what they want instead of forcing someone else to violate their conscience.)

This is the same Left that forced ALL restaurants in WA state to become non-smoking establishments, regardless of what the owners of those establishments might have wanted. (Indians are excepted; apparently, "fairness" is only skin deep.)

Seeing a pattern here?

The Left has a vision--a salvific vision--that is just as absolute in its reach as any "fundamentalist" religion. There is no neutrality: you are either on board with them or you are against them. They have a vision for the world and it will be implemented whether you agree or not and the favored tool for implementation is government. Besides, if you disagree it's because you are ignorant, mentally ill, or just plain evil. All else failing, they mean well and they are smarter than you anyway so shut up and sit down.

Americans, behold your future! A coercive, all-knowing, all-powerful entity in the State that will ultimately set all to rights and wring every last bit of compliance out of each of its subjects--for your own good.

Funny, that sounds an awful lot like the caricature of the "right-wing God" the Left so vigorously opposes...

ACLJ • American Center for Law & Justice

Senate passes bill to change Electoral College process | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional

This is nothing but a thoughtless, emotional reaction to the election of 2000 as the writer acknowledges below. The Framers of this nation, however, arrived at the system of government that we have only after deep learning and earnest reflection.

In a twist of irony, the point of the electoral system, as I understand it, was to safeguard against the majority always trumping the minority. It was an attempt at "fairness" that the Bush-deranged in WA state completely misunderstand:

The proposal is aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2000 election, when Al Gore got the most votes nationwide but George W. Bush put together enough victories in key states to win a majority in the Electoral College and capture the White House.
The Washington state bill was sponsored by Sen. Eric Oemig, D-Kirkland.

The laughable part is that under this new rule, Bush would have taken the WA state electoral votes handily as he won the popular vote by some 4 million+ voters.

NOTE: It's the same Sen Oemig that repeatedly keeps pushing impeachment proceedings against the president.

HT DBPJ

Fidel Castro Resigns Cuban Presidency -- GOPUSA

"Younger Castro"??? 76 is young in Cuba, I guess. Must be all the cigars.

The resignation opens the path for Raul Castro's succession to the presidency, and the full autonomy he has lacked in leading a caretaker government. The younger Castro has raised expectations among Cubans for modest economic and other reforms, stating last year that the country requires unspecified "structural changes" and acknowledging that government wages that average about $19 a month do not satisfy basic needs.

GOPUSA

Watch Your Step--Professional Editors At Work!

UPDATE: They fixed it already.

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So just in case it gets fixed by the time you hit the link...

I browsed to MSNBC looking for story on the supposed verbal "slip-up" Jane Fonda made in talking about the play, Vagina Dialogues, when I was greeted with this headline:

Can we please agree on English as the official language once and for all?

MSNBC Web Site

Enough Is Enough!!

But I'm actually surprised. I thought the typical Western Anglican had thoroughly accommodated himself to a theologically weak and insipid pastorate:

The Archbishop of Canterbury was facing a crisis of confidence in his leadership yesterday after calling for parts of Islamic law, or Sharia, to be introduced into Britain.

Times Online

Here It Comes...

This is exactly why a McCain presidency alarms me (and admittedly, this approach is the same more or less as that of President Bush):

"I think every day that goes by and Congress does not act on a stimulus package, I think is not helpful," McCain said. "If I had written that package, it would've been somewhat different, but we need to send a signal to the markets and the American economy that we're trying to do some things in their behalf."

As I understand a free market economy, we don't need to send any "signals" to the market or the "American economy" (I'm assuming the differentiation is between the "Wall Street" vs the general American consumer). The best thing government can do is get OUT OF THE WAY.

McCain to critics on right: 'Calm down' - Yahoo! News