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Hey, How's That Whole "Saving The Planet" Thing Coming Along?

Which single country in the world is the planet's biggest source of pollution?

Hint: it isn't the USA.

So why aren't the high priests and priestesses of the New Religion railing against this huge polluter? 

Hint: it isn't the USA. 

A major tenet of the New Religion is the idea that the USA is to blame for everything bad on the planet, and if the numbers don't support that view, it's best left ignored.

While environmentalists and congressional Democrats have shut down our domestic development of fossil fuels like oil and even clean-burning natural gas, a new coal-fired plant big enough to supply every household in a city the size of San Diego comes on line every seven to 10 days in China, exporting more pollution to California and the western U.S. than even Gore's economic straightjacket could hope to eliminate.

Artificial Life

Well, this is a huge story in the news today: Dr. Craig Venter, who first gained attention for leading a privately-funded human-genome mapping effort (and succeeded) has assembled a team that appears to have successfully replaced the entire genetic code in one organism with that of another.  In effect, this creates an entirely new species, and marks a significant step toward the development of artificial life-forms.

Venter's always been a bit controversial, and this news has folks in both the scientific and the religious communities all abuzz, as you might expect.  You might expect it, but it's hard to see what the fuss is all about.

We've had artificial life for years.  We even have names for the variants, and everbody seems to take it pretty much for granted.  Heck, in Portland, we even give them money.

"The War On Terror Is Just A Bumper-sticker"

Well, so we've been told by the folks who want to turn us all into vegetables in order to make us easier to "manage".  You know, the folks like Kennedy, Bush, Pelosi, and Hairy.  The open-borders, Amnesty crowd.

It appears, however, that the good folks over in the U.K. aren't in touch with that sentiment, as they continue to be vigilant about homeland security.  And golly if they didn't just happen to find a car loaded up with propane tanks and nails parked innocently outside a packed London nightclub.  After rendering that vehicle safe, they reportedly have begun investigation of a second such vehicle found innocently parked in an upscale London neighborhood. Gee, whomever might do such a thing?  Ya gotta wonder.

The Times, They Are A'Changin'

Hmmm.  Glaciers are now growing again in France, in Switzerland, even here in the Pacific Northwest.  Dang.  Don't you just hate it when a religion that was tailor-made for the specific purpose of scaring the hell out of everybody doesn't quite pan out?

The Global Warming hysteria promoted by Dr. Gore and others of his ilk seems likely to be supplanted soon by the same sort of hysteria we saw back in the 1970's - Global Cooling.  At least we'll have a steady supply of hysteria.  Oh, by the way - didn't you just hate paying $3.50 a gallon for gas?  How's $5 for a gallon of milk grab ya?

In the hysterical run to "Stop Global Warming", there's been this tiny little consequence: as crops are converted to biofuel, the prices to feed dairy cattle have skyrocketed.  Oh, and look for beef prices, along with chicken, to rise as well.  Fortunately, dandelions are plentiful and inexpensive.

You can make a lovely centerpiece for your empty table - which, with a dash of balsamic vinegar and well-chosen spices, is not only edible, but nutritious as well.

Welcome to your new, environmentally-friendly world.

Kerry, Pelosi - Bring Back Fairness

Lieutanant Senator Kerry, reporting for duty  along with Nancy, believe that radio is "unfair", and so they want to bring "balance".  Television's okay, because they generally parrot the liberal agenda.  Radio, however, is just intractable.  They're just looking for a way to provide some "balance" on the radio airwaves.  Airhead America didn't work out for them - and they sure as hell don't want to go onto any of the dominant programs currently in play because they might be challenged.  They might actually have to debate.

No, what they want to see is a "level playing field" - which means that they want to require radio to air unchallenged leftist propaganda.  This is how they work, folks: if the ideology fails to take hold in the listening public, then it's somebody else's fault.  And therefore, they must impose rules in an effort to force you to listen.  That's only "fair".

News flash, John and Nancy:  provide reasonable content, and people may listen.  But in general, little in life is "fair".  If you want "fair", try looking in the dictionary.  It's right in there between "face" and "fart".

Amnesty Losers - and winners

Mexico was absolutely certain that the Kennedy/Bush Amnesty bill was going to pass.  And preparations were in place to ensure that fake documentation would be readily available. 

The head of a Mexican forgery ring was convinced he could make phony documents that illegal aliens could use to indicate fraudulently that they were eligible for a new amnesty, says a government affidavit recounting wiretapped phone calls the man made.

The actual outcome has deeply angered both the above entrepenuer and El Presidente de la Mehico.  El Presidente offered harsh words regarding the death of the Amnesty Bill:

President Felipe Calderon of Mexico today blasted the U.S. Senate's rejection of the immigration bill, calling the senators' action "a grave error" that avoided a "sensible, rational and legal solution."

Well, el Presidente, how about this:  rein in the endemic corruption in your country.  Make your country a place where your citizens want to live, rather than escape from.  The only grave error, el Presidente, stems from your failure.  We have no obligation to your citizens; that's your job.

We're just getting started, el Presidente.  Most of us, whether Democrat or Republican or Independent, have just had about enough of "espanol-only" enclaves within our cities.  We expect people who come here to learn the language and to assimmilate into our society.  We ain't Quebec.

We expect the citizens of your country who wish to come into our country to do so legally, and as you may have noticed today, we not only expect it - we demand it.  Basically, we're nice folks, and we try to accommodate.  But when you let your citizens - to say nothing of other nationalities - run us over, you're eventually going to provoke us.  You've managed that quite well.  Now - what are you going to do about it?

Kids These Days...

Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.

As Churchill famously noted (not that the kids have ever heard of the quote): If you're young and not liberal, you have no heart.  If you're older and not conservative, you have no brain.

Not that it matters to them; today's kids come equipped with a sense of entitlement and self-importance never before seen.

Oregon Guard F-15 Down

An Oregon Guard fighter jet reportedly went down on a training mission into the Pacific Ocean at around 1:30 p.m. this afternoon; Coast Guard search and rescue efforts are reported as underway.  Not a lot of detail coming out at present.  Cause unknown.  One can only hope for a safe return of the pilot.

Time To Revisit The Death Penalty

Yes, the penalty's popular.  It's increasingly clear, however, that people innocent of the crimes for which they've been convicted can be, and on occasion are, wrongfully executed.  That needs to stop.  Wrongful incarceration is bad enough, but the death penalty?

It's not as though we don't have the tools required to sift the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.  People who are convicted solely or largely on the basis of "witness testimony" - which is notoriously unreliable - should never be sentenced to death.  This is a special punishment, and it should be meted only in cases of unambiguous physical evidence.

If you don't buy into the argument, imagine yourself in this scenario.

Edgar Allen Poe only wrote horror stories, so far as we know.

Limbaugh Wants Betting On Global Warming Outcomes

Well, love him or hate him, the guy is funny!  No idea when it aired, but the idea of betting on Global Warming "predictions" is great.  Would you bet cash money on the "predictions" for next week's weather?