June 8, 2009 – There is an old saying, “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can figure it’s a duck.”
During the 2008 presidential campaign, rumors circulated that Also Known As (AKA) Obama was a Muslim; that he had studied Islam extensively while an Indonesian citizen attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia.
In response to these rumors, AKA’s website fightthesmears posted the following:
“Barack Obama is a committed Christian. He was sworn into the Senate on his family Bible. He has regularly attended church with his wife and daughters for years. But shameful, shadowy attackers have been lying about Barack’s religion, claiming he is a Muslim instead of a committed Christian. When people fabricate stories about someone’s faith to denigrate them politically, that’s an attack on people of all faiths. Make sure everyone you know is aware of this deception.”
June 8, 2009 - There are times that I wonder what the hell is wrong with me. All through my life I have been a rebel. I never followed orders too well and I always questioned the reason for things I was ordered to do.
People always thought I was just an argumentative little shit, but I think it came from a ingrained desire to understand how things worked, to know the truth.
Although I was shy as a kid I was never afraid of getting into an argument when I felt that I was right about something. On certain occasions this got me into some pretty heated discussions, especially with my father, who was just like me.
June 8, 2009 – Radical national and international environmentalists, the United Nations, the European Union and the U. S. Congress have all adopted the policy commonly known as the “Precautionary Principle”, which goes like this: “….. if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action.”
The principle implies that there is a responsibility for the government to intervene and protect the public, or the environment, from exposure to harm where scientific investigation discovers a “plausible” risk (that could be anything folks) in the course of having screened for other suspected causes. (If they screen at all)
June 8, 2009 - I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty or fifty years from now.
At the third Conference on Climate Change held last week in Washington, DC., an event sponsored by the non-profit, free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, “Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” (NIPCC) was announced. It offers a very different picture from the endless scare campaigns of the leading environmental organizations or, for that matter, from the White House and Congress.
