Since we the people of the western world, just love to make resolutions of how we personally will change our lives for the better starting tomorrow, then how about destroying a few old and new myths that have been bugging the western world.

First on my list of myths to destroy is that of Darwin and his theory of evolution.  This has been very popular with the elite over educated crowd who self-righteously use the degreed initials after their names as their right to inform us of our ignorance.  And also, scientists who proclaim they want indisputable proof of everything, but cannot offer indisputable proof and yet claim they have evidence beyond disputing which turns out to be a few well produced artistic pictures of the evolutionary process.  First the atom, the cell somehow changing by banging it’s wall against another cell, and further along the path a fish, a frog, and eventually a monkey, a long armed ape standing tall loosing his large jaw, big ears, long arms and hairy body evolving into the Adam and Eve of modern times.   Believable?   Just by chance, a long shot.

The alternative is what is disdained.  The alternative is a genuine creator who could actually have been involved in the Universe from the beginning and proclaimed “It is good,” and a few other things, like “I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit and leads you by the way that you should go.”  And also infuriating things to the elite are those moral commandments telling them how to live, like: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”  “You shall not murder, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness against your neighbor, nor shall you covet what is your neighbors.”   A purpose to it all.

The choice of which to believe is yours, but the powers to be would rather you do not get a choice, and to be able to freely state your choice.  That is plain and simple censorship. 

The myth of evolution is still a myth, it’s still a theory without indisputable evidence no matter how many ways you slice it, no matter how many details are pictured.

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The second on my lists of Myths to destroy is the most current to make it to the streets of everywhere, from Sydney, to Beijing, to Athens, Paris,  London, New York, Seattle and to every community in between them all.  In a few short years, it has gone from an obscure thought to dominate thinking, which they voted among themselves to call it a ‘consensus.”  These are the same folks who believe the alternative to creationism,  the myth that Darwin started, which is now full blown hot air, as is the theory of man-made global climate change. 

These scientists have programmed into their man-made computer models 30 years of data that is supposed to be indisputable evidence that man and his industrial complex have altered the atmosphere with carbon dioxides causing a greenhouse cover that forbids the winds.  The sun that heats the earth has been dismissed as irrelevant to cause earthly changes in temperatures.  Trees and greenery absorb carbon dioxides negating the warming effect, but the trees living above a certain earth latitude cause a warming effect.  Cows are more damaging with their methane gases than cars and SUV’s and jet airplanes 30,000 ft. into the atmosphere. 

And it is all because temperatures over the last century have risen 1/2 degree.   So in order to stop this hockey stick rise, the industrial complex must be controlled, it must be regulated in a way that makes the consensus happy that all their work on the government funded studies were not in vain.  Light bulbs have to be changed, cars should run on something other than gasoline, coal must be made clean burning, toilets should flush less, solar panels should be installed on all government buildings (to set the example), while they back up their solar dependent energy plans with gas guzzling generators.  Wind turbines are a good idea as long as it’s not in their back yard.   Oil refineries cannot be built and neither can clean air nuclear power plants, because the odds are good for an explosion because there hasn’t been any in a long time.

On and on the regulations will come.   It’s a feel good situation to green the earth which has been doing it’s own thing since whenever, while the earth continues to spew out volcanic ash, twirl the winds in tornadoes and hurricanes, cracking the ocean bed for tsunami waves and tearing apart our bridges, icy storms and record snow falls, record heat waves and droughts followed by records rains. 

What we have is a recording nightmare that wishes upon a star for that idyllic atmosphere that never has been and never will be. 

It’s just a myth.   But politicians love to peddle myths, because it feels-good to do “something” to help people adjust to the changing cycles of winter-spring-summer-fall and winter again, and with their encyclopedia sized laws the details are devilish.

It felt good to start the war against drugs.  It felt like they were doing something to program a program to “end poverty forever.”  And now with the global climate change scientists, it would feel good to downsize, to regulate the number of peoples on this earth to only the few who they would choose, the ones with good genes who would perpetuate the myths.  

So in 2008, the myths need to be named and discarded into a big trash pile and burned at the stake.  Well, we could at least acknowledge them as theories in the classical meaning: abstract reasoning, speculation.  And myth as “fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology.”

As I See It

So what do they have against Thompson?  Are they really that afraid that he could pull it off and win the nomination, even after entering late, and having been accused of laziness again and again?  This is the way politics works.  Short quote.  Only emphasize the fact that Fred said “I’ve got a silly hat rule.”  But look at the CBS video of the event, and you’ll see a different version as was written. 

This is Fred.  He does not change depending on what group he is communicating with.

I can’t imagine a worse set of circumstances than achieving the presidency under a false pretenses, especially if you feel the way I do. I’ve gone out of my way to be myself, because I don’t want anybody to think they’re getting something they’re not getting. I’m not consumed by this process, I’m not consumed with the notion of being president. I’m simply saying I’m willing to do what’s necessary to achieve it if I’m in sync with the people. And if the people want me, or somebody like me, I will do what I’ve always done with everything else in my life. I will take it on and do a good job. You’ll have the disadvantage of having someone who probably can’t jump up and click their heels three times, but will tell you the truth. And you’ll know where the president stands at all times.”  NRO Campaign Spot.

Can you see some of the other candidates clicking their heels to the tune of Baptist, Methodist, Mormon, secular atheist, environmentalist, globalists , nationalist, closed border or amnesty, depending on who they are addressing that moment?   I sure can. 

Below are some of the after Christmas thumping around by Thompson, the serious and the lighter side.   From CBS, who we all know tries hard to be fair but not balance.  It’s all Fred.

Thompson Reacts to Bhutto Assassination.

Thompson Shows His Lighter Side

Thompson Says Iran is Most Dangerous

There is a race happening, but dag gone it, why can’t they report events accurately.   Is shorthand a lost art?   You’ve got to be there and then what you remember will be different than the person sitting behind or in front of you remembers.  But, we deserve accurate full discloser, right?

And then again, they too are just human like the rest of us, including the candidates?   So, instead of short quotes, how about using shorthand to record it all.

Iowa is the first recorded voting of a long list, so relax and compare, as it’s not nearly over yet and there is plenty of time for many more flip flops, eggs in the face, and foot in the mouth happenings.

The latest in one of the thousand polls being performed by the numerous pollsters of all stripes.  Rasmussen Reports today the results of their poll with their estimated 4% margin of error, you could say that it means a tie, it’s too close to call either of them as the front runner or on the back burner.  Nose to nose.  Down to a few days left for Iowa to call their shots.

McCain 17%

Huckabee 16%

Romney 16%

Giulani 15%

Thompson 12%

It’s a race.   Up for grabs. 

For all of us deniers of the hysteria of man-made global warming could we have one great big . . . “I told you so.”  Your data lacks significant amounts of data.   The computer models are man made, thus the results will also be man made.  What is needed now is more aerosols being sprayed into the atmosphere as the solution for global warming, according to a NEW ’study’ in Decembers issue of the International Journal of Climatology.

Cloudy outlook for climate models

More aerosols - the solution to global warming?

While focusing on tropical latitudes between 30 degrees north and south (mostly to 20 degrees N and S), because, they write - “much of the Earth’s global mean temperature variability originates in the tropics” - the authors nevertheless crunched through an unprecedented amount of historical and computational data in making their comparison. 

“crunched through”?  Would that mean they just kind of swallowed the nuts whole instead of really chewing and digesting those tough old walnuts?

Gee, were we not led to believe that they studied the temperature ranges throughout the entire world and their data was pulled from much further back than just 30 years ago.  Anything less than accurate data from all areas of the globe, and a time reference going back perhaps a thousand years minimum, could not ever be considered as complete data, could it?  How many millions of years has the earth been cycling?  Would that be similar to an engineer looking only at the stress levels of the top 30 stories of a 50 story high rise, neglecting to look at the stress levels on the bottom 20 floors?

Could something be missing from the climate models?

The influence of aerosols is particularly difficult to gauge, with even the IPCC admitting in section 2.4.4 of their Fourth Report that “The progress in both global modelling and measurements of the direct RF [radiative forcing] of aerosol leads to a medium-low level of scientific understanding.” 

In layman’s language, that means that they don’t understand much at all of what they published and agreed on as a ‘consensus.”

Dum-Dumpity-de-dump-Dumb.

Add this to your reading list: “Gore Milks Cash Cow, Sego May Run Again: What France Is Reading”  He [Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession] calls Gore a “crook” presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore’s French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.

And read this one: “How many lobbyists does it take to change a light bulb?”  Earlier this month, Thomas Edison’s GE, together with Sylvania and Philips won a legislative victory when Congress passed an energy bill that would outlaw sale of the standard light bulb by 2012. These two companies, together with Dutch-based Royal Phillips Electronics, concede they basically wrote the new light bulb law. It goes without saying that they stand to profit from it — at consumer expense.”

The whole world is a stage.

The IPCC and the UN are the producer and director of the play.  They call the shots and get a huge payoff.

The scientists wrote the script and get a huge payoff.

The actors are the politicians and get a huge payoff if their performance meets the approval of the director and producer.

The audience is the media and large corporations who are profiting off the scripted industrial changes, and they both get to observe and cheer.

While the rest of us are the stage hands being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it at compensation determined by the producer, if our performance meets their demands.

And That’s, “As I see It,” and that is as it is according to my computer model.

This is one of those end of the year lists that will not make the front page of Time, Newsweek, the NY Times, CNN or any of the other MSM’s.

From Judicial Watch, “Promoting Integrity, Transparency and Accountability in government, Politics and the Law.   It’s not a very popular thing among politicians to want to be held accountable for what they say and do, to prove integrity by exhibiting integrity, and not resisting transparency into their own doings (you know places like behind closed doors and in secret meetings) but it IS what we voters expect, but rarely get.

Just in time for the Iowa caucus, here is the Judicial Watch list of the ten most corrupt politicians of 2007, and take a guess who is at the top of the list. 

Yep, you are right.  Hillary Clinton heads the list.  “In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records.”  Read all the details.

2.  Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)

3.  Senator Larry Craig (R-ID)

4.  Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA)

5.  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) 

6.  Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR)

7.  I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby

8.  Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)

9.  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

10.  Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

Four of those on this list want to be the president of these United States.  

Now it would be natural for a politician to want to get on a top ten list and get all that free notoriety showing that they worked hard for that achievement.   Gee, Al Gore made it as number 2 behind Vladimir Putin of Russia and what a blow that must have been to Gore having to suck up behind Putin as the 2nd person of the year.  Hillary was officially 1st lady to Bill, but Monica and others got the 1st person award.

Now Hillary has made it as number one, numero uno as the most corrupt.   Hmm.  What will her staff come up with to refute this honor?

Also on the list on the democratic wannabe list is Barack Obama in the number 8 spot, behind two GOP hopefuls: Giulani in 5th and Huckabee in 6th place, both of those as front runners for the GOP nomination. 

It ought to be interesting to see how this is played out in Iowa.

As I see It.

Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.

There is a poetic justice to this of course. It is conservatives who are giving us the candidates who steadfastly refuse to have the nation take steps that could slow the pace of climate change, so it is appropriate that they should bear the brunt of its impact.  Dave Lindorff in Baltimore Chronicle.

I suppose that statements like this are supposed to get us deniers to kneel down and kiss their feet and say “Thank You for warning us of our pending doom.”

Juvenile. 

They’re everywhere folks. 

The purpose is to get you to feel guilty about your comfortable living standards, your abundant use of energy in any and all forms, and to get you to cut back here and there, cancel your vacation travel, trade in your comfortable SUV for a hybrid, get rid of your incandescent light bulbs and on and on it goes.  Meanwhile these idiots continue to live in 3000+ sq ft homes and never once set an example, which if they really believed this crap, they would be the first to never fly in a jet again, sell the mansion (or demolish it so no one else could use it) all for a log cabin in the woods with an outhouse, nicely decorated with a quarter moon on the door and the Sears and Roebuck catalog nearby.

What a bunch . . . . ? 

At least the Amish demonstrate their religious beliefs by their life style.

As I See It.

“This is a war, a clash of civilizations,” is what Fred Thompson had to say about the Bhutto killing in Pakistan.

“The chance that a secular woman had a possibility of ascending to power in Pakistan drove the more radical Islamic elements in the country to violence,” Thompson said.

The former Tennessee senator said the Bhutto assassination was “part of a much larger picture.”

“This is an international war we are engaged in,” he emphasized. “Bhutto’s assassination is not a law enforcement matter. This is a global conflict, and al-Qaida wants to bring Western civilization to its knees.”

That’s Fred Thompson. 

Now here is Huckabee: “our sincere concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”    Apologies? 

John McCain: The “winners” in the “tragic” assassination of Bhutto are the “radical Islamic extremists.”

Rudy Giuliani used the attack as a reminder that terrorism can strike anywhere—”in New York, London, Tel-Aviv or Rawalpindi”—and said, “We must redouble our efforts to win the terrorists’ war on us.”

Hillary Clinton talked about her friendship with Bhutto, which spanned the dozen years since she stood on line with Chelsea to meet the first female leader of the Muslim world.  “it certainly raises the stakes high for what we expect from our next president. I know from a lifetime of working to make change.”  Politico.com  NY Times.

Who killed Pakistan’s Bhutto?

Since the gunman also blew himself up it may take awhile to identify his associations, but we know the simple answer.  Islamic fanatics, radicals, tyrants, terrorists, or bums, if you will. 

If you do not already know it, Islam is a religion that welcomes and teaches radicalism, that teaches the jihad against infidels, and anyone who leaves Islam is an infidel worthy only of death by stoning or any other method.  That is sharia law.

Benazir Bhutto was such.  As the prime minister of Pakistan for two terms, 1988-90 and 1993-96 she did have a loyal following and also an opposition group of radicals.  She was a marked woman by the Muslim terrorist organizations.  Her life had been threatened over and over again.  She returned just recently to Pakistan after 8 years of self-exile after charges of corruption against her and her administration in ‘96, when she was dismissed as Prime Minister.  Musharraf finally granted her amnesty on the corruption charges this year and she returned from Dubai in October.    An assassination attempt on her life had failed once.

I decided not to be holed up in my home, a virtual prisoner. I went to my ancestral village of Larkana to pray at my father’s grave. Everywhere, the people rallied around me in a frenzy of joy. I feel humbled by their love and trust.

Although it remains difficult to know for certain, I doubt that a suicide bomber was involved in the attack on me. I suspect, after talking to some of the injured, that the terrorists used a small child as a ploy to get to me. They were trying to hoist the child — dressed in the colors of my party’s flag — onto my truck.

Failing to do so, they dropped the child near my vehicle. Some witnesses said the child had been rigged as a human bomb. I can’t be sure. What followed was a massive explosion, killing scores immediately, tearing many bodies in half and sending blood, gore and flames up into the vehicle.  More . . .

What kind of people use babies as bombs?   May they all rot in the pits of a firery hell forever and ever in consciousness screaming mercy, mercy.

The wimpy pc TIMES Online of the UK called the “suspects” “Islamic militants.” 

Here is one writer who has it right.  Andrew C. McCarthy on NRO.

We don’t have the political will to fight the war on terror every place where jihadists work feverishly to kill Americans. And, given the refusal of the richest, most spendthrift government in American history to grow our military to an appropriate war footing, we may not have the resources to do it.
But we should at least stop fooling ourselves. Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill the jihadists first. Or they’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed Benazir Bhutto. 

Where is the loud voices of the peaceful moderate Muslims condemning this brutality?  Supposedly the moderates outnumber the radicals by overwhelming numbers, so their voices of condemnation against this type of brutality by fellow Muslims should be heard loud and clear by the rest of the world.   Right?  I’m listening.  CAIR does have condolences. “We condemn this cowardly terrorist act, and offer our condolences to the Bhutto family and the families of the others who were killed.”

But the fact remains, Islamic radicals are on the lose and there is only one way to deal with bullies - take them out with force.  It would be better for all the world if the Muslim community could and would solve it’s own problem, but they appear to be either powerless or short of will to come against some of their own, or just fearful of the possible brutality those radicals would and could do to those, who like Bhutto, do not follow the strict fundamental actual wording of sharia law.

This should be a wake up call.  Official around the world and here in the US, to formally proclaim intentions of resisting, with all superior military force if necessary, any and all attempts to disrupt the democratic processes and life of the people of the free world.

That’s just my short take of it all.

As I see it.

Will the western elite ever accept that fact about Islam?

Considering that the world is considerably smaller in scope and the issues facing us are also global issues facing most other nations as well, America needs a statesman to assume the duties as our commander in chief in 2009.  Is there any among us that qualifies?   Can you visualize any of our presidential candidates sitting at the head of a table with the heads of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, China, Russia and other nations commanding respect and honor at what is being said, at the clarity of vision and purposeful will, or as a person who is dismissed as someone to tolerate because of the position he/she holds as president of these United States?   Would the content and intensity of the meetings have more weight than the photo shoots the gathering commands?

So what is a statesman?  Simply: a statesman is a leader, a political leader regarded as a disinterested promoter of the public good, a respected leader in national or international affairs whose advice is sought by others.

Could any of the republican candidates fill the shoes of a statesman?   On the democratic side, Hillary is no Margaret Thatcher, Obama is no Martin Luther King, and Edwards is just a lawyer.  

So what about McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Paul, Giuliani, or Thompson?  I left out Hunter and Keyes as no chancers, 3rd rung, nice effort, but no thanks.

Historian Paul Johnson has an excellent article entitled “Heroes: What Great Statesmen Have to Teach Us.” available for the full read at Hillsdale College - Imprimis.

For brevity, I’ll summarize his five keys to democratic Statesmanship.

Paul says “. . . that the ability to see the world clearly, and to draw the right conclusions from what is seen, is the foremost lesson which great men and women of state have to teach us. But there are many more, of which I would single out the five most important.”

First, ideas and beliefs. The best kind of democratic leader has just a few—perhaps three or four—central principles to which he is passionately attached and will not sacrifice under any circumstances.

Next comes willpower. I think the history of great men and women teaches that willpower is the most decisive of all qualities in public life. A politician can have immense intelligence and all the other virtues, but if will is lacking he is nothing.

A third virtue is pertinacity. Mere flashes of will are not enough. The will must be organically linked to resolution, a determination to see the cause through at all costs.

Fourth is the ability to communicate. The value of possessing a few simple ideas which are true and workable is enormously enhanced if the leader can put them across with equal simplicity.

The fifth and last of the virtues we learn about heroes is magnanimity: greatness of soul. It is not easy to define this supreme quality, which few even among the greatest leaders possess. It is a virtue which makes one warm to its possessor.

Now comes the most important part for conservative voters.  Who, if any, among the republican candidates fit the character of a statesman?   Does a statesman come to mind when you see and listen to him? 

Read the entire article here.

As I see It.

Now that Americans are returning gifts too large, too small or just plain stupid, and looking forward to the bash of New Years eve, hoping that 2008 will fair a bit better personally, and making resolutions too large or too small and then forgot.   2008 starts quickly with events that will impact us all for years to come, our presidential election caucuses testing the rest of 2008.  Possibly as soon as Super Duper Tuesday, the candidate could be picked, but at this point the winner is still not so certain as some things.  A few important high delegate count states remain for March and April: PA, OH, and TX, which could determine the chosen ones.  If the count is wide and sure, or if the count is done and over, the media will still drag it on like a suspenseful novel milking it till the goat is dry.

One thing is for certain as the page is turned; forgetting to write 2008 on our first few checks and the time of reconciliation with the IRS is still April 15. 

2007 was a year of being endlessly informed of the culture divide, global warming climatic changes as Gore entered the room to take a trophy, the war that is not a war but a surge crusade and yet still more body counts amid much more peace in the streets of Baghdad, educational flip flopping around offensive curriculum, a housing mortgage inflated crisis, rising prices of oil and corny alternatives, illegal alien invasion techniques, escalating food prices and tummies, changing terror alerts from yellow to red to yellow, and last and always a big story for the MSM is the microscope on Hollywood’s pregnant kids and stars flipping off.  Some things never change.

At least we are not told to worry about a Y2K scenario for one second after midnight.  So, it’s almost a worry free New Year bash.  The Times Square ball will drop amid millions of people wasting global energy on fun as scientists have their carbon meters running for the latest federally funded study.

But 2008 is an election year when day in and day out news of the political maneuvering will be in the dirt again until November.   Until the one of each party is chosen it’s throwing dirt at comrades, but then the dirt flies across the line because dirt is more fun to headline sell than boring issue debates. 

As far as the major issues facing America in 2008 is concerned, the MSM portray to us that meaty reporting is harder to digest than baloney headlines.   So more baloney will be tested as news in 2008, the Gore machine in bed with the MSM, will continue to make progress causing prices to rise on light bulbs and corn, illegal’s continue to get winked at by the feds while states try to enforce laws and the media divides, while just good average Americans grind it out day in and day out wanting the Super Bowl ads and half time flaps to be more spectacular than Super Tuesday. 

And I continue to be cynical as ever about a broadcast media that really does not care about average Americans.

As I See It.