The recent set-to between Hillary and Obama gives us an insight into what a Hillary presidency would be like, and it ain't pretty.

David Geffen has switched his support from the Clintons to Obama, and he made some unflattering, albeit true, remarks about the former.  Hillary immediately lashed out and demanded that Obama "fire" Geffen, even though he's simply a private citizen who organized a fundraiser.  She also demanded that Obama give back all of the money raised, even though only Geffen made the comments.

In Hillary's world, freedom of speech doesn't extend to criticizing her, nor does freedom of assembly.  Where does she get off ordering another campaign around?  Who appointed her the setter of standards?

In order to fool the public into voting for her, Hillary is going to have to be very carefully packaged.  She's going to have to pretend to be warm and caring, when she's anything but.  She's going to have to pretend to be interested in the points of view of other people, when she's not even interested in other people.  She's going to have to pretend that she's going to work with people, when she has absolutely no intention of ever doing so. 

This temper tantrum is the first chink in her well-coiffed armor.  It shows that neither she nor her handlers has a grip on her yet.  It shows that she will speak first, think second.  It shows how desperate she already is, and this desperation will only grow as she perceives her "inevitability" fading. 

Hillary is seeking an office, the necessary attributes of which are utterly beyond her comprehension and, therefore, her reach.

Come Sunday night when Al Gore lumbers up to the stage to collect the Oscar for his sci-fi thriller "A Convenient Lie," one question will be going through my mind:  "Hey Al, how'd you get there?"

Once a year, my small mountain community has its County Fair.  I stuff myself for two days content in the knowledge that there are no calories in fair food.

Is that how it is with global warming fanatics?   Are there no emissions in the fossil fuels expended to get people to the events that warn other people about the dangers of global warming?  Or does the man who says that global warming is a greater threat than terrorism, along with his fellow alarmists, simply get a pass? 

That's how it is with elitists.  With them, it's always do as I say, not as I do.  Al Gore can fly all over the world, spewing emissions into the air with impunity, and that's okay.  But he and his fellow global warmers are going to do everything they can to make it harder for us ordinary folks to drive to the stores to get food and clothing for our families. 

Global warming is simply the first step to the socialist/communist utopia envisioned by the purveyors of this tripe.  When every nation on the planet is reduced to third-world status because of the "need" to end global warming, then we'll all be equal.  Won't that be grand.  One of the problems with that, though, is that there will always be those who are more "equal" than others.  When we're doing without, they won't be.  And, they won't see anything wrong with this because they're the anointed and their needs must be met.

Another problem with that theory is that when there's an underclass, there is rebellion.  But since they will have already taken away our guns, they're not worried about that.

 Barack Obama's genetics are causing quite a stir.  First came Joe Biden, who called him the first "clean" back candidate for President.  Keep spinning, Joe, you just might find a way out of that one.

Then came Al Sharpton who said that Obama was "our color" but that didn't mean that he was "our kind."  That's simply unbelievable.  What exactly is "our kind?"  Does he have to have poor English skills?  Cheat on his wife?  Father a child out of wedlock?  Pretend to be a man of the cloth all the while stirring up trouble wherever he goes?  Just exactly what does Mr. Obama have to do to be Al Sharpton's "kind?"

It is vastly amusing to watch American blacks, many generations removed from Africa, comment on Mr. Obama not being a "real" African-American when, in fact, his father is actually from Africa.  How ridiculous is that?

Please take note that all of the foregoing comments on Mr. Obama were from democrats who, of course, are never racists and always tolerant.

 The following republicans voted against our troops, our President, and our country when they joined with the democrats to pass a non-binding resolution in opposition to the President's plan to put more troops in Iraq:

Michael Castle (Delaware)
Howard Coble (North Carolina)
Tom Davis (Virginia)
John Duncan (Tennessee)
Phil English (Pennsylvania)
Wayne Gilchrest (Maryland)
Bob Inglis (South Carolina)
Timothy Johnson (Illinois)
Walter Jones (North Carolina)
Ric Keller (Florida)
Mark Kirk (Illinois)
Steven LaTourette (Ohio)
Ron Paul (Texas)
Thomas Petri (Wisconsin)
Jim Ramstad (Minnesota)
Fred Upton (Michigan)
Jim Walsh (New York)

The following republicans couldn't be bothered one way or the other:

Charles Boustany (Louisiana)
Jo Ann Davis (Virginia)
Dennis Haster (Illinois)
Frank Lo Biondo (New Jersey)

Some global warming lemmings, led by the head lemming himself, Al Gore, have announced plans for concerts worldwide - Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, and London, with more in Brazil, Japan and right here - to mobilize action to stop global warming.

I might start believing in man-made global warming when:

1.  I see these rich, pampered rock stars actually use something besides internal combustion engines to get themselves, their entourages, and their equipment to all of these locations.  Don't forget, don't use the air conditioning.

2.  I see every single person attending these concerts arrive by either walking, riding a bike, or using a hybrid vehicle.

3.  I see every single person attending these concerts, including the acts themselves, not breathing.  Since carbon dioxide contributes to global warming, each and every one of these individuals should do their part by holding their breath, thereby not contributing to the problem.

Farce doesn't even begin to describe this.

A hearing entitled "Climate Change:  Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet, " scheduled to be heard by the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality this morning, had to be postponed due to inclement weather.

Kind of like when Al Gore went to New York and gave a speech on global warming on the coldest day of the year.

Kind of like when a group set out to explore the effects of global warming on polar bears and had to cancel the trip due to cold weather.

Meanwhile, America's deep freeze continues.  The weather report for D.C. was freezing rain in the morning, ice accumulation, and a temperature in the mid-30's.  A Nor'easter is creating blizzard conditions from the Poconos to New England.  A foot of snow is forecast from Northern Pennsylvania to Maine, with more than 18" forecast from the western Catskill Mountains into Maine.  Travel along the I-95 corridor from Boston to D.C. is being complicated by a mix of snow, ice pellets, freezing rain, and just regular rain, with black ice predicted for this evening.

Springfield, Illinois, got 11" of snow, the 4th greatest 24-hour snowfall in its history.  Some places in upstate New York are buried under 11'.  Heavy snow brought down trees and power lines in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

The irony of this is not lost on those of us who are able to think for ourselves and don't fall for every trend that comes along.

Global warming will cease to be a threat once the pompous jerks with all the perks realize that they don't want to live in third-world conditions, which is where all this hysteria is taking us.

John Edwards hired some bloggers that have ruffled some feathers. Rather than fire them, candidate blow-dry had this to say: “It’s not how I talk to people, and it’s not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that kind of intolerant language will not be permitted from anyone on my campaign, whether it’s intended as satire, humor, or anything else. But I also believe in giving everyone a fair shake. I’ve talked to Amanda and Melissa; they have both assured me that it was never their intention to malign anyone’s faith, and I take them at their word.”

Is he serious? Firstly, Melissa referred to Christian conservatives as the “wingnut Christofascist base” of President Bush. If her intention was not to malign, what was it?

Secondly, is this any indication of how he would handle Iran? “Now Mr. Ahmadinejad, I’m going to give you a fair shake and say I know it was not your intention to drop that nuclear bomb in New York. I know it was never your intention to cause any harm.”

For crying out loud. If he can’t stand up to one of his staffers, how on earth is he going to stand up to someone trying to destroy us?

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Barack Obama really stepped in it when he said that the war in Iraq has caused the lives of over 3,000 of the bravest young Americans to be “wasted.” He immediately began to backpedal and say that he was upset with himself for this comment and that “their sacrifices are never wasted.” What he really meant to say was that “those sacrifices have not been honored by the same attention to strategy, diplomacy and honesty on the part of civilian leadership that would give them a clear mission.” What?

Here’s the truth, Mr. Obama. If a democrat wins in 2008 and simply pulls our troops out of Iraq and leaves that country to its fate, then every single person who died will have died in vain and their sacrifice will have been wasted by a politician whose highest priority is his/her standing in the polls.

It was the democrats who got us into Vietnam. It was the democrats who turned the American people against the war there. It was the democrats who cut off funding for the troops and left millions to be slaughtered. It was the democrats who made every death in Vietnam count for nothing.

And they want to do it again because they don’t give a rip about dead soldiers, that’s just the pretty words they use to cover themselves. “Over 3,000 of America’s finest have died. We must end this war now” sounds so much better than “The war’s not polling well, and I’m bored. Time for something else.”

Useful Idiots: Republican Congressman Dana Rohrbacher has stated that if the two Border Patrol agents that were sent to prison a while back are killed while there, then President Bush should be impeached. Isn’t that just great. Democrats want to impeach him for the war in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, “domestic” wiretapping, and the list goes on and one, and now comes some Republican who wants to impeach him for the criminal act of another. Just what is it in Washington that makes people say such astonishingly stupid things?

The Painfully Obvious: The Washington Times recently stated that there is no GOP standout for 2008. This is news?

Hypocrisy: All the while she is negotiating just what kind of plane will carry her august personage back and forth to D.C., Nancy Pelosi has stated that America has to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 and that mandatory restrictions are the only way to do it. That’s a no-brainer. Pick the plane with the hybrid engine, or maybe the one that runs on nuclear power or ethanol. We have those, right?

Global(oney) Warming: Much of America remains in a deep freeze. Roads, schools, and businesses are closed. Pipes are bursting everywhere. Northern Michigan is experiencing some of it’s coldest weather in 100 years. And in Sweden, the reindeer are starving to death because thick ice is preventing them from getting to their food source.

All is not lost, however, as two welcome blasts of hot air came from recent Nobel Prize nominee Al Gore and Ted Turner who said, respectively: “Never before has all of civilization been threatened. We have everything we need to save it, with the possible exception of political will. But political will is a renewable resource.” And, “What we need is a moratorium on all new coal plants, on all new carbon-producing energy power technologies, and work on replacing them with renewable alternatives. The biggest danger is we won’t do enough soon enough.”

Here’s a little truism that isn’t getting much play in the press: all those espousing all the things we need to do to solve global warming will go along only until such time as the things that need doing affect them. Let’s see how Mr. Turner really feels about global warming when it starts to cut into his finances.

Big Heads on the Bench: U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger sentenced a Fresno attorney to six months in prison for forging the signatures of two judges, saying: “What is more serious than forging the signature of a judge?” Let’s see, there’s murder, rape, child molestation, assault with a deadly weapon.  Shall I continue?

Are You Kidding Me: The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance (the state, not the district) has filed Initiative 957, which would require that marriage be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would have to prove that they can have children in order to get a marriage license. If they do not have children within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment. All other marriages would be defined as “unrecognized” and people in those marriages would not be eligible for marriage benefits. Apparently, this is a jab at conservatives. What isn’t these days.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
          Karl Marx

“The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.”

“It’s time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals.”

“Many of you are well enough off that [the] tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good..”

“The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to find alternative smart energy.”
          Hillary Clinton

She has gone from the benign, wanting to put the national interest ahead of individuals, to the sinister, actually advocating the theft of a company’s profits so she can “invest” them as she sees fit. The Social Security Trust Fund is a good example of how government “invests” our money.

I think it’s time to take away the profits from a certain ex-president and his wife. If they want to inflict socialism and/or communism on this country, they can bloody well start with themselves.

  Rick Perry, the Republican Governor of Texas, has issued an executive order that all girls entering the 6th grade must get a new vaccine for a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Texas is the first state in the nation to do so. Other states are considering it.

  This is simply unbelievable. This vaccine was approved by the FDA in June. According to Merck’s own website, the phase III program only followed women for an “average” of two years. Where are the long term studies on the possible and future side effects? Hormone replacement therapy was all the rage until it was discovered that it offered none of the protective benefits it promised and, in fact, caused cancer and blood clots.

  Elected officials are notoriously reluctant to apologize for their missteps. These young girls could very well pay the physical and emotional price because an overzealous do-gooder decreed that young girls will have this shot. This is nothing more than government-ordered medical experimentation on a helpless segment of society.

  Sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it.

  The global warming propaganda juggernaut is now officially in overdrive. The latest tripe is that mankind is causing global warming and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Another article claims that we only have ten years left.

  My gosh! Are we simply going to sit back and accept this from the so-called “experts” who can’t even tell us if it’s going to rain tomorrow? There’s no profession in the world more ridiculed than that of a weatherman. “There’s a 20% chance of rain tomorrow,” which means there’s an 80% chance that it won’t. Way to cover your backside!

  In just 30 short years, the “experts” have gone from touting the coming ice age to the era of global warming. NEWSFLASH! Human-caused global warming is simply not a fact. It is a theory. Unfortunately, it has a whole boatload of fanatics behind it who have pushed it from theory to fact to undeniable reality. This is no longer science, and it’s way past hysteria. It’s now insanity run amok.

  A crackpot element of the movement wants global warming “deniers” put on trial for their opinions. Are we moving towards a time when these very same crackpots say that the population of the world must be reduced in order to save the world? I saw a sci-fi movie once  about aliens who were willing to give us technology. All we had to do in exchange was slaughter our people. Lotteries were set up. If you were called, you were dead. Is that what we’re going to do?

  Are we going to sacrifice all common sense and humanity to some theory that has as many detractors as supporters?

  Right now, the global warming fanatics are 100 times more frightening than the muslim fanatics, who have actually said that they want to kill us.

Contrary to what John McCain says, the global warming debate is not over. In fact, there has never even been a debate. Dissent has been silenced by global warming totalitarians such as Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe, both of whom have behaved disgracefully. There is even talk that doubters should be put on trial merely for holding a different opinion. Concentration camps, too?

The chicken little hysteria on this subject has been blown out of all proportion. But, just for the sake of argument, let’s say that Mr. McCain, who is so desperate to be president that he thinks this is the way to achieve that, is right. In that case, I expect Congress to lead by example.

There will be no more flying back and forth to D.C. Teleconferencing has come of age. Everyone can stay in their home districts and still conduct business quite nicely. They can have press conferences at home.

Every single global enthusiast in Congress will buy a hybrid vehicle, immediately. No more gas-guzzling SUVs for them.

There will be no more political junkets involving airplanes or internal-combustion vehicles of any kind. In fact, I fully expect Congress to ban airplanes in the near future.

Every single global warming enthusiast in Congress must refrain from using an air conditioner in the summer.

Finally, and for obvious reasons, spicy foods must be banned. Eventually, of course, cows will have to be banned and the remaining ones slaughtered.

When every single global warming enthusiast in Congress has embraced these ideas, and this is just the beginning, then and only then will I even start to believe that global warming is actually the problem that alarmists say it is. If they refuse to put their money where their mouths are, then we will all know for a fact that global warming is simply another bandwagon they have chosen to jump on in order to score political points since, of course, the good of America will always come second to their own immediate needs.
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P.S. American actor Josh Hartnett, one of the many celebrities involved in the man-made global warming hysteria, was in London recently for the launch of Global Cool, an effort to curb CO2 emissions and beat climate change. Wonder how he got there.

Hillary Clinton wants President Bush to get our troops out of Iraq before the next president is sworn in. Since I believe that she believes that she will be that president, I think Bush should give her what she wants.

Beginning January 1, 2009, if not before, he should start pulling our troops out of Iraq. By Inauguration Day 2009, every single American should be out of Iraq. 

The democrats will then have gotten exactly what they want, and they will be responsible for the consequences thereof. 

If it hits the fan, the democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.

Hillary Clinton, who believes that she has a divine right to the presidency, said that President Bush should “extricate our country” from Iraq before he leaves office because it would be “the height of irresponsibility” to pass the war on to the next President.

Apparently, it was the height of responsibility to pass the terrorist threat on to President Bush.

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John Kerry recently went to Switzerland to bad mouth President Bush. He said that the United States is a sort of “international pariah” and it’s all Bush’s fault. “When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.”

The Kyoto Protocol was first submitted to the Senate during the Clinton administration, where it was defeated 95-0. George W. Bush was not in the White House, but John F. Kerry was in the Senate.  So, in fact, it was John Kerry who defeated Kyoto and not George Bush.

With regard to AIDS in Africa, no less a Bush hater than the New York Times had this to say in 2005: “Mr. Bush has done much more for Africa than Bill Clinton ever did, increasing the money actually spent for aid there by two-thirds so far, and setting in motion an eventual tripling of aid for Africa.” In his recent State of the Union speech, President Bush said that “Because you (Congress) funded our Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the number of people receiving live-saving drugs (in Africa) has grown from 50,000 to more than 800,000 in three short years.”

Who’s really the duplicitous hypocrite here?

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John Warner has decided to speak out against President Bush’s plan for a troop surge in Iraq. Who cares? How seriously can you take a man who actually thought that Elizabeth Taylor was going to stay married to him?

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Where is Howard Dean? Why hasn’t he been out crowing about the democrat takeover of Congress? Isn’t he still chairman of the DNC? Whatever or whoever is responsible for shutting him up, Thank You!

  In her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton wants to play up the fact that she’s a mother. Which mother would that be: June Cleaver or Joan Crawford?

  Speaking of presidential campaigns, does anyone really think that Barack Obama would be getting all this attention if he was fully white instead of just half white?

  “An Inconvenient Truth,” the propaganumentary by Al Gore has been nominated for two Oscars: Best Documentary and Best Song. Global Warming: The Musical. Who knew.

  Speaking of global warming, did you know that there are some fanatics out there who are actually advocating Nuremberg-style trials for those who don't believe all the hype and hysteria, i.e., the global warming deniers.  America:  land of the free, except for when you don't agree with the liberal lemmings, then it's prison for you, buddy.

  According to a BBC poll, the view of the role of the United States in the world has deteriorated internationally and domestically. Fine with me. All the ungrateful nations of the world can just call someone else when it hits the fan.  It's long past time they learned to stand on their own two feet anyway.

  Two experts on Iran claim that Ahmadinejad’s days in the limelight just might be numbered. According to these experts, 50 members of the parliament have signed a letter calling on him to appear and explain his actions. The real leader of Iran has, reportedly, given parliament the right to criticize him. Ahmadinejad can be out the door by impeachment or simply removed by the supreme leader. He can also be talked to sternly.

  The AIDS Healthcare Foundation plans to sue Pfizer for “illegally” promoting recreational use of viagra. The group says that Pfizer’s advertising has led to risky behavior by men and an increase in HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Yea, right. It’s Pfizer’s fault that men can’t keep their pants zipped.