Too far left? Too loony!!!

Another example of the kook extremism going too far is given in the New York Times today. Readers of BestView know the screeches of Al Gore are absurd, but now the liberals are beginning to realize it and this article pointing out some of the global warming "facts" are anything but. Read it here.

Too far left?

If you are a loony liberal and have the slightest interest in deciding when you have gone too far off the ledge, what guide do you use? Well, as Lyndon Johnson once said with regard to Viet Nam, when you have lost Cronkite, you have lost the American people. Well, one thing the kooks like Nancy Pelosi might use is the liberal press. As shown by this editorial, even the Washington Post recognizes the falacy inherent in the attempt by the Pelosi crowd to micromanage the Iraq situation. Read it here.

House Schedule

House Schedule for Week of March 12

First Vote of the Week: Monday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted: Thursday p.m.

So, once again the dems will not be able to keep their pledge to work a full week.

Bush upsets the spirits

Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits". Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders said the "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace. He also said the rites — which entail chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles — would prepare the site for the third summit of Latin American Indians March 26-30.

Everyone should hear this

This is an excellent reminder of where we were once and how different it is now.

Hillary is hilarious

O.K. here is the famous clip of Hillary and her newly found black, southern accent which she delivered to the black church in Selma, Alabama. Now the question is whether her pandering is sadder than the fact that her audience didn't seem to take umbrage.

Even More on Gore

My feeble efforts to describe the Al Gore hypocrisy have been vastly exceeded by the man himself. Mark Steyn offers this as an opening paragraph, but the whole thing should be read here.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.'' Ever. I believe that was the same day it was revealed that George W. Bush's ranch in Texas is more environmentally friendly than the Gore mansion in Tennessee. According to the Nashville Electric Service, the Eco-Messiah's house uses 20 times more electricity than the average American home. The average household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours.

Abortion and Sex Selection

"At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are ‘missing’ from various populations as a result of sex-selective abortions or neglect." This sentence was part of an article I read recently and seemed to me a really big number until I realized that most of these abortions were conducted in China and India and therefore not the subject of discussion here in the U.S. This situation reminds me of the intellectual trap in which liberals find themselves with other issues. Liberals find all manner of reasons why our slavery hundreds of years ago is harming blacks in the U.S. today, but say not a word about those being held in slavery today in other countries. The problem the left has with abortion rights--a woman's right to choose death for her fetus--is clearly revealed by their complete silence on the practice of abortion to choose the sex of the new-born. It is hard enough to feign a moral stance when advocating abortion for any reason, but the cognitive dissonance required to support a womans right to choose while opposing abortion for sex selection is so obvious that the liberals choose to simply ignore the situation. Can't really blame them.

Dem Dilemma

The poor dems in Congress are at odds on the best way to surrender. Read about it here.

School Choice

There is a really good Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal today pointing out once again how phony liberals are when it comes to school choice. The only choice they favor is one for their own children. The examples are well known to those of us whose blood boils when faced with such hypocrisy. The Clintons put Chelsea in Sidwell Friends rather than any of the public schools available to her and then vetoed a bill which would have given some inner-city parents the same option. John Edwards? He campaigns with the complaint that America has two schools-one for the affluent and one for everyone else. He sent his children to a religious school because D.C. schools are "deeply troubled". He has no problem with the logic that school choice for other kids would drain resources from public schools, but his choice didn't. Al Gore, of course, is the biggest phony on this subject as on most others. He sent his children to elite schools in the nation's capitol like the one he went to when growing up, but opposes school choice for low-income families. He once said, "If I was the parent of a child who went to an inner-city school that was failing, I might be for vouchers, too." But, as Clint Bolick, the author of this piece points out, he isn't so he doesn't.

The teachers have selfish motives for opposing choice since it would expose their failures and most of them are very liberal in opposing something which doesn't guarantee everyone an equal outcome. It is far better to keep all children in a failing school than allow some of them to escape. To a liberal, that is just as unfair as recognizing that some student might excel at soccer, or some other activity, and thereby deserve an award superior to others.

All of this is very discouraging to those who actually want a better education for our kids, but the saddest aspect of the whole situation is the parents of the inner-city kids are not perceptive and knowledgeable enough to help themselves using their political clout. Instead, they follow the same failed leadership in the largely black community.

More on Gore

Once it was made public that Al Gore uses more energy in a month than the rest of us use in a year, some serious damage control was called for. So, here is what the Gore camp says:"Gore buys "carbon offsets". What are these? Well, the loony left has invented these for rich extremists who use a lot of energy. What they do is send money to some outfit which will supposedly plant a couple of trees or put up some solar panels to assuage the donors excessive depletion of resources. Gore buys his offsets from a company called Generation Investment Management. Gore is chairman of the firm and either draws money from the organization or at least would prosper if his investment prospers. In other words, this phony buys credits from himself. He is not buying carbon offsets, he buys stock in his own company.

Labors Woes

Most folks aren't paying any attention to the liberal Dems efforts to placate their union backers, who take money from coerced workers and give it to them. In sum, the unions want to do away with secret ballots when workers decide whether or not to form a union. This has been the case for many decades, but now it seems workers are not voting right, so the opportunity to do a little arm twisting as only unions can twist arms seems to be just the medicine for this situation. Years ago when the Wagner Act was passed, it was widely argued that neither companies nor unions should be able to influence unionization elections, so they should be done in secret. It has been working all this time. Now we need to back-track, but in only one direction. When the Republicans offered an amendment in the Senate which would allow companies to use the check-off procedure to decertify a union (rather than a secret ballot), the dems quickly rejected this offer. Surprise, surprise.

Jefferson Roll Call

This should be interesting. Republicans plan to force a floor vote on Rep. William Jefferson's move to the Homeland Security Committee in an unprecedented maneuver to force Democrats to go on the record supporting their embattled colleague who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) pledged to call for a recorded vote on the House floor when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduces a resolution to make the Jefferson move official.

Jefferson Roll Call

This should be interesting. Republicans plan to force a floor vote on Rep. William Jefferson's move to the Homeland Security Committee in an unprecedented maneuver to force Democrats to go on the record supporting their embattled colleague who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) pledged to call for a recorded vote on the House floor when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduces a resolution to make the Jefferson move official.

Big Mac Attack from across the waters

Prince Charles today said banning McDonald's fast food, specifically the Big Mac, was the key to a healthy lifestyle.

His comments came as he attended the launch of a public health awareness campaign.

Charles, a strong advocate of organic food, was touring the Imperial College London

Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi with the Duchess of Cornwall.

He asked nutritionist Nadine Tayara: "Have you got anywhere with McDonald's, have you tried getting it banned? That's the key."

There have been previous admonitions about the dangers of inbreeding.

Big Mac Attack from across the waters

Prince Charles today said banning McDonald's fast food, specifically the Big Mac, was the key to a healthy lifestyle.

His comments came as he attended the launch of a public health awareness campaign.

Charles, a strong advocate of organic food, was touring the Imperial College London

Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi with the Duchess of Cornwall.

He asked nutritionist Nadine Tayara: "Have you got anywhere with McDonald's, have you tried getting it banned? That's the key."

There have been previous admonitions about the dangers of inbreeding.

Pelosi Scorecard

Pelosi vowed that five-day workweeks would be a hallmark of a harder-working Democratic majority. So far, the House has logged only one. Lawmakers plan to clock three days this week.

Her vow to clean up the terrible ethical mess left by the Republicans was detoured somewhat when she put Representative Jefferson on the Homeland Security Committee. This had the unfortunate result of handing someone who could not get a security clearance on a committee where he will have access to the nations most highly classified information.

The Washington Post reported during the weekend that she is helping chairmen raise money from donors with business before their committees. Wasn't that Delay's egregious crime?

The speaker has denied Republicans a vote on their proposals during congressional debates -- a tactic she previously declared oppressive and promised to end. Pelosi has opened the floor to a Republican alternative just once.

The list of such failures will probably grow.

Life is not fair

Just when everything seems to be going so well for Al Gore, someone from a group called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has to mess everything up by making him look like a hypocrite. It seems like they should take into consideration that Gore just won an Oscar for his documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth" which tries to make the case that the world is going to experience dire consequences such as massive flooding if we don't listen to him and reduce our consumption of energy and its resultant release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Well, these buttinsky types in his home state have now released this press release that reports data from the Nashville Electric Service which supplies Gore with electricity that his 20 room mansion with eight bathrooms consumes more electricity in a month than the average household in the U.S. consumes in a year. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours per year and in 2006 gore devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours which is more than 20 times the national average. Al Gore a hypocrite and phony? Say it ain't so, Joe.

I am sure this will get heavily reported by the liberal media as part of their coverage of his Hollywood honors.

Very Interesting

Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf would be willing to allow the Israel Air force to enter their airspace in order to reach Iran in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported on Sunday.

According to the report, a diplomat from one of the gulf states visiting Washington on Saturday said the three states, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, have told the United States that they would not object to Israel using their airspace, despite their fear of an Iranian response.

Al-Siyasa further reported that NATO leaders are urging Turkey to open its airspace for an Attack on Iran as well and to also open its airports and borders in case of a ground attack.

From an Israel web site.

I apologize

There was an article in our paper today reporting that the Virginia legislature was apologizing for slavery in that fair state. So, since slaves were brought into the U.S. via ships landing in that state 400 years ago, an apology was being issued. This is similar to apologies in other news items lately. Hillary's mouthpiece and attack dog, Howard Wolfson, wanted Barack Obama to apologize for something one of his donors said. In that vein, I hereby apologize for anything I or any of my ancestors might have done to anyone at any time in the past. Now, isn't that just precious?