And the Anti-Christ Is Born Again

"Be not afraid; for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: for there is born to you this day in the city of Chicago a Savior, who is me, Barack the Democrat."

BEFORE YOU VOTE .....

McCain voted to defund Planned Parenthood last year, Barack didn't and would likely expand Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding.

McCain voted to ban partial-birth abortion, Barack didn't and would likely reverse the partial-birth abortion ban.

McCain voted for Roberts and Alito and made the case for them in the media, Barack didn't.

McCain has never voted for a tax increase, Barack will increase taxes.

McCain will continue the Bush tax cuts, Barack will end them.

McCain will end pork-barrel spending, Barack supports the endowment of projects like the Woodstock Museum with taxpayer funding.

McCain will not cut and run in Iraq, Barack will work with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid to do just that and he has promised to sit down
with Muslim leaders to find compromise and more opportunities for
America to support the leaders.

LMFAO!

LMFAO – If you don’t understand, you are out of touch and probably too old to be reading my BLOG. McCain, the Phoenix from Phoenix has lived up to the mythology of the name. Having risen from a nose dive to capture, apparently at least mathematically, the GOP nomination, the conservative base is threatening suicide voting in November.

But to be a fly on Bloomberg’s wall. The GOP base will refuse to vote for McCain; Ann Coulter will campaign for Hillary. Liberal Democrats are rushing to support an inexperienced socialist in lieu of Hillary in a mass exodus away from another Clinton White House. Democrats are promising to support McCain if Hillary captures the nomination.

November 2008 promises to be an historic election. America could have its first woman or black President. Both the GOP and Democrats are scrambling to find money to go on.

Both parties are dysfunctional. Yes, Virginia, it will be a new day in November. If the nonsense continues, Bloomberg will win by a landslide by simply taking the disenfranchised and party defectors.

Perhaps the corruption of corrupt politicians has finally caused a long over due implosion of the system.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

We must ask ourselves, do we want an inexperienced DREAMER who naively forecasts baseless change?

Do we need a woman who wears her cold, passionless heart on her sleeve?

Do we need a man so out of touch with the times that he could never relate to the contemporary issues?

Or, do we need COMPLETE change?

Whatever the outcome for November 2008, it needs not to be one of angry rhetoric or punitive reaction. Calm cool heads must prevail. If Bloomberg does not offer a realistic alternative, and the race is McCain v Clinton, consider how lucky we will be for not having fallen into the hands of the Evil Wizard George Soros by proxy.

And in the end, consider Jefferson’s words.

The last days of 2007

Ayman al Zawahri ordered the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

400 World scientists claimed global warming as overstated by Gore.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19125691.100

Not one 2008 Presidential candidate spoke of the North American Highway.

Not one 2008 Presidential candidate spoke of a North American Union between the US, Mexico and Canada.

The troop surge in Iraq measured successful with little media coverage.

Global monetary hedge funds stimulated the US real estate collapse.

The fallout from the failed US real estate investment funds reached Europe.

The success of the Euro against the US dollar reached a diminishing return as Germany announced outsourcing of Airbus manufacturing to the US.

More On Green Gobble-De-Gook

AMERICAN THINKER
November 08, 2007
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History'
Rick Moran

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has written an article in which he calls the idea of man-made global warming 'a scam:"

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims.

Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus. Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens.

If there is one sciientific discipline that has generally been skeptical of warming claims overall it has been Meteorologists. The fact that these are people who study the weather - not climate - and have generally been making the point that we can't predict what the weather will be 5 days from now so how can we be predicting what it's going to be like 100 years down the road?

Coleman also wrote this:

I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming. In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.

Coleman is up against a formidable coalition of interests and it is unlikely he will prevail. But a voice of sanity in the global warming debate is always welcome and may contribute down the road to a return to sanity.

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GLOBAL COOLING ????????????? CHECK IT OUT. http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19125691.100

When You're Feelin' Sad & Lonely

I was feeling a bit depressed the other day, so I called Lifeline.

I was put through to a ‘call centre’ in Pakistan.

I explained that I was feeling suicidal.

They were very excited at this news and wanted to know if I could drive a truck or fly an airplane.

Partnership in Communism

The Communist infiltration into our legal system (ACLU) was foreshadowed in the 1955 film Trial. Trial is the story of a murder trial where a Mexican boy is accused of the death of a Caucasian girl. The two-faced attorney (Arthur Kennedy) who takes the boy's case is only interested in defending him so he can exploit his Communist-backed organization for their own underhanded purposes. He and his organization bring in an idealistic law professor (Glenn Ford) who agrees to represent the boy in court.

Reference: AMERICAN THINKER, October 14, 2007
The Buried Legacy of Hollywood Anti-Communism, By J.R. Dunn

……………. Glenn Ford plays a liberal lawyer of the "communists can be decent people too" school who gets put through the wringer. Dorothy McGuire is present to inspire bad thoughts in the minds of the male audience. But if you can wrench your attention from Dorothy (not an easy trick, granted) the revelation here is Arthur Kennedy, one of the film world's truly great supporting actors. Here he plays a manipulative Party lawyer with exactly the right mix of superficial charm, coldness, and sheer malice.

No other film deals more effectively with Party techniques -- somebody, Robson, the producer, or the screenwriter, must have once held a Party card. But what makes this film stand out is the way it depicts the human cost of the communist impulse. In reading memoirs of former communists, what comes across most clearly is the destruction it wrought on the human level -- the wrecked marriages and friendships, the victims left to face suspicious authorities with no aid from their erstwhile "comrades", the true believers who found themselves on the wrong side of some Party "line" and subject to absolute personal destruction. Trial reveals this aspect of communism more clearly than any film I know of. The scene where Ford discovers that McGuire has betrayed him on behalf of the Party she no longer particularly believes in has an impact hard to match.

Robson went on to make bigger films (the 70s disaster extravaganza Earthquake was one of his), but nothing to match Trial. And along with most of the films mentioned, it's impossible to get hold of. While Fuller's films are available on DVD (his anticommunism is today viewed as simply one of many endearing eccentricities), there is no sign that Trial has ever been available in any format. END Reference.

If stated in terms of dealing with personal health issues. One can prevent cancer or wait until cancer is present and then try to remove or suppress it. The US long ago lost its opportunity to prevent the spread of Communist ideology. The example of one poor mis-understood Mexican boy as portrayed in the film Trial is a nano-concern compared to the massive protests, lobbies and well funded efforts our courts, Immigration Service and police deal with on a daily basis surrounding the countless millions of undocumented people who have exploited their way into our country. These law breaking people demand and receive free education, free medical care, free college educations and all of the rights otherwise conveyed to our citizens. This “cancer” spread one cell at a time while Americans sat passively by enjoying the cheap labor. Now that pay day has arrived and schools, emergency rooms and other services are threatened, the rush to get rid of the cancer is too little too late.

Hollywood has long been a gear in the propagandist engine. Fifty years ago, the stories were about the poor Mexicans who needed to be defended by the fair minded Communist lawyers against the ignorant, closed minded Americans. Today, Hollywood is pumping out films, and media about the poor misunderstood Islamic extremists. The same machine that has promoted the illegal immigrant cause is well tooled to take on the Muslim challenge.

With Hollywood backing them up, the left is ever at the ready to move against traditional values, morals and American traditions. If Christmas trees in airports offend Muslims, the ACLU is right there to defend their rights to have them removed. If American traditional holidays offend Muslims our schools are forced to abandon or rename the celebration. The mention of God in our Pledge of Allegiance offends anyone and the challenge to remove God is taken all the way to the Supreme Court. Hollywood is all too happy to write and dictate history, to manipulate people via films, television and outspoken, high profile actors.

HEALTH CHECK ALERT: There is a new cancer in our system. Too late for prevention. Never too late to remove or suppress it.

GREEN-GLOBAL-GORE

Captain 3G is ready to take the position. He will announce his candidacy before Hillary can buy the Kryptonite. Prepare yourself – Green Global Gore is not a bird, not a plane he’s Captain 3G.

Stay tuned!

www.draftgore.com

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:20 AM

Newsweek reports this week that Democratic activists across the country are pressing Al Gore to enter the presidential race — and believe that if Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize this month — it may just trigger his entry.

NewsMax’s e-letter “Insider Report” first disclosed back on June 10 that the former vice president was considering entering the race if he won the Nobel prize. Winners are announced this October 12 in Oslo, Norway.

NewsMax reported, “Party insiders believe that a Gore campaign launched as late as October will still have enough time to raise money and challenge front-runners Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards.”

Gore has been nominated for the prize for his efforts to draw attention to the dangers of global warming. Speculation about a Gore run has been increasing as the date draws near.

Gore supporters believe a Nobel win “would burnish his reputation and remind Democrats that he’s been a leader fighting what voters consider the world’s premier environmental battle,” Newsweek reports. “Some Gore backers think he’s already decided to run, but speculate that he doesn’t want politics to interfere with his Nobel chances.”

The national DraftGore.com organization has gathered around 127,000 signatures to put Gore on primary ballots, and is planning to run an ad in The New York Times urging him to run.

The California 4 Gore group has volunteers circulating petitions in all 53 congressional districts. And a poll in Michigan by Detroit News/WXYZ-TV had Gore winning 36 percent of the vote, beating out Clinton with 32 percent.

So far Gore has given no clear indication that he’s leaning toward a run, although he has not ruled that out when given the opportunity.

But Roy Gayhart, an organizer of the California group, told Newsweek, “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize . . . then he can’t not run for president.”

Fear or FIght? - O

In the event of a deliberate, man-made catastrophic event in your neighborhood, would you be fear or fight inspired? We hear everyday that in the event of an earthquake, flood, tornado, hurricane or other natural disaster, we need to be prepared with water, radio, flashlights, candles, food and first aid supplies to survive for a minimum of 3-4 days.

In the event of a deliberate, man-made catastrophic event in your neighborhood, would you be fear or fight inspired? How would you survive if your neighborhood was taken over by radical killers? If those killers had weapons they intended to use on you or anyone else who might get in the way of their plan would you be fully equipped to defend yourself and your loved ones?

In the event of a deliberate, man-made catastrophic event in your neighborhood, would you be fear or fight inspired? Congress has placed enormous pressure on the President to withdraw our troops from Iraq. With such a withdrawal the US would prove its resolve for surrender. We would be recast as the weakest nation on earth. We would be more vulnerable than anytime in previous history. Sleeper Cells would advance with their plans to disrupt and terrorize our neighborhoods creating chaos and confusion.

In the event of a deliberate, man-made catastrophic event in your neighborhood, would you be fear or fight inspired? Are your guns loaded? Do you remember how to load, aim and shoot them? Do you have guns? Or a gun? It is your right to do so. It is your right to protect yourself and your property.

In the event of a deliberate, man-made catastrophic event in your neighborhood, would you be fear or fight inspired? What is your plan? I have mine.

The Real GREEN Reason for Gore's Global Gobble-De-Gook - ARTICLE REPOST!

Eco-millionaires see boom times ahead

By Chris Wills

LONDON (Reuters) - Mankind's response to climate change will shift how the world gets its energy and is already making "green barons" out of early investors in renewable energy, clean technologies and carbon trading.

Reuters spoke to four entrepreneurs who are cashing in on the energy revolution and who say there is more money to be made.

BRUCE KHOURI, co-founder of Solar Integrated Technologies, based in Los Angeles, has at the age of 48 made $5 million by cashing in shares in the company.

He still has a $11 million stake in the company, which makes lightweight solar panels for commercial roofs. He saw the opportunity while running his own industrial roofing firm.

Q: How did you get rich?

A: "It hasn't been easy but we transformed an old-world roofing material into a renewable energy technology. It's a miracle Solar Integrated is still here but a pioneer charging across the prairie is bound to get hit by a few arrows."

As long ago as the early 1990s Khouri saw a market for flexible solar panels which could be laminated on to large roofs, such as warehouses. He did not found Solar Integrated until 2001 once tax and subsidy incentives made the market more attractive.

Q: Is 'the business of green' a bubble?

A: "No. For political reasons the United States has been behind others on green issues, but once it catches up it will be a domino effect. In 20 years they won't talk about regular roofing because it just won't exist ... there is so much rooftop real estate that is completely under-utilized.

"And 50 years from now every bit of a building that is struck by the sun will be generating power in some way."

PEDRO MOURA COSTA, co-founder of Oxford-based EcoSecurities, 44, made 4.8 million pounds ($10 million) when he sold some shares in the firm which helps convert emission cuts into tradable carbon credits. His remaining shares are worth about 37 million pounds ($73 million).

Q: How did you get rich?

A: "I saw the carbon market could be big business and the Kyoto Protocol confirmed my views. But I didn't expect it to take 10 years to come into force."

Moura Costa was working as a forester in Malaysia when he saw the potential for an international carbon credit market.

He spent the early 1990s advising on a project to plant trees in Borneo to compensate for extra carbon pollution from new power plants in the Netherlands.

Q: Is 'the business of green' a bubble?

A: "No. It's become quite obvious we do something now or it will be an irreversible trend with catastrophic consequences.

"The only chance of it being a bubble is if we lack the political commitment to drive emission reductions worldwide -- and if we do that we might as well forget about any environmental effort whatsoever because climate change is hitting us hard and the trend is likely to accelerate. I think it's very unlikely political support will go away."

DAVID SCAYSBROOK, founder of Novera Energy, a 43-year old Australian, made 3 million pounds ($6 million) when he cashed in some of his shares in the wind power and landfill gas firm he founded in 1998. He has about 3 million pounds ($6 million) worth of shares invested in Novera and carbon cutter Camco International, which he advises.

Q: How did you get rich?

A: Three things had pushed up share valuations in the wind power industry, he said.

First, people were more worried about energy security and producing energy themselves. Second, the cost of traditional energy sources such as oil and gas had gone up. Third, tax breaks, subsidies and emissions caps had prompted even more conservative investors "to finally move off their perch".

Q: Is 'the business of green' a bubble?

A: "The scale of investment to date is nothing compared to what is coming.

"The bubble aspect is ill-informed investors chasing pipe-dream technology. For example, there are hundreds of firms competing for the next generation of technology in solar panels but it won't necessarily be the best technology that wins."

NEIL ECKERT, chief executive of Climate Exchange, which runs the main European exchange for carbon trading, has shares worth about 18 million pounds ($36 million). He is also non-executive chairman of Trading Emissions and Econergy, both involved in emission-cutting projects and generating revenue from carbon credits.

Q: How did you get rich?

A: Despite the high paper value of his holdings in Climate Exchange, Eckert has yet to cash in. He already made millions selling his shares in Brit Insurance, which he set up and ran for 10 years until 2005.

Q: Is 'the business of green' a bubble?

A: "No. We have the biggest opportunity to replace fossil fuel, which has a market capitalization of hundreds of billions of pounds, but it's vital we listen to the scientific consensus and create a financial solution.

"I believe we have a chance to meet the stated mitigation targets much quicker than people think ... but it depends on whether people believe money can be made."

(Additional reporting by Gerard Wynn)

© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.

Excuse Me, Who is Charlie Rangel? - INFORMATION REPOST

On Friday, April 14, 1972, Patrolman Philip Cardillo and Vito Navarra responded to a "10-13" call at 102 East 116th Street, Harlem, NY, which was a Nation of Islam mosque where Malcolm X used to preach. Upon arriving inside, they were ambushed by 15 to 20 men, one of whom, according to the ballistics report, shot Cardillo at point blank range. Most of the police were forced out of the mosque and locked out, leaving a dying Cardillo and officers Victor Padilla and Ivan Negron locked from within.

Police eventually managed to break down the door and witnessed a man named Louis 17X Dupree standing over Cardillo with a gun in hand. Before Dupree could be taken into custody, however, Louis Farrakhan and Charles Rangel arrived at the scene, threatening a riot if Dupree was not released. Just as the police forensics unit was about to seal off the crime scene, they were ordered out of the mosque by the police brass. Outside a mob had overrun the street and overturned a police cruiser, shouting, "I hope you die you pigs. I hope you drop dead."

One of the officials who hampered the ballistics investigation was Benjamin Ward who later became police commissioner under Mayor Ed Koch. Ward had ordered all white police officers away from the scene, aquiescing to the demands of Farrakhan and Rangel.

At the hospital where Cardillo lay dying, Lindsay and his commissioner Patrick V. Murphy met up with police officials. When a member of the NYPD brass termed the event a riot, Lindsay exclaimed, "Riot? What do you mean a riot? There can't be a riot...How can you say such a thing?" When the deputy commissioner of the NYPD wanted to send out a press release explaining the department's view of what happened, he was overruled by Ward, who convinced Lindsay of the need to keep Harlem from rioting again. Farrakhan and Rangel demanded an apology from the mayor. Farrakhan said that Cardillo and Navarra had "charged into our temple like criminals and they were treated like criminals." Lindsay and Murphy apologized to Farrakhan, dropped the charges against all Nation of Islam members arrested that night, and removed every white police officer from Harlem, leaving an all-black force in the area, hoping to neutralize racial tensions.

Neither Lindsay nor Murphy attended Philip Cardillo's funeral. Five years later, Dupree was found not guilty of the murder of Cardillo.

THE NATION OF ISLAM - INDEED! WAKE UP AMERICA! THE SEEDS WERE SEWN DECADES AGO. THE BAD FRUIT IS FOR SALE IN THE US CONGRESS.

Sheehan Stripped After Being Branded Witch By Pelosi

Monday 23rd of July 2007 Cindy Sheehan was stripped and brutally beaten with hot iron rods after she announced that she would run against and beat Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Sheehan organized a large rally at which she openly shouted, "If Pelosi refuses to bring articles of impeachment against President Bush to the floor of the House, I not only will challenge the Speaker in the next election but also will beat her."

Sheehan seized the anti-war spotlight during her extended protest outside the president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas in 2005, after her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq.

Speaking at a demonstration at Arlington National Cemetery prior to the beating, Sheehan argued that it is Pelosi’s constitutional obligation to impeach the president.

Pelosi declared that Sheehan was using black magic against her and the Democratic Congress and that Sheehan needed to be beaten before she could beat anyone. Pelosi complained to Hillary Clinton who confirmed that Sheehan needed to be stripped and beaten with hot rods and sickles.

After the beating Sheehan openly displayed her naked and bruised body for the press. Most agreed that it was not a pretty sight, but in the interest of liberal media exploitation, agreed to publish the photo.

Witch-hunt cases are rampant in Wash. D.C. More than 600 people, mostly women, have been killed in last 10 years after they were charged with practicing black magic or servicing prominent political figures at private executive massage and sexual fantasy parties.

Duck, Duck, Goose!

REDS then and reds now ........................

No! Duck, Duck. Communism is flying our way.

Demoncrat Barack Obama joined other communist sympathizers promising union activists he would walk a picket line as president if organized labor helps elect him in 2008.

Obama proudly said,

"We are facing a Washington that has thrown open its doors to the most anti-union, anti-worker forces we've seen in generations. What we need to make real today is the idea that in this country we value the labor of every American."

"I stood on the picket line and marched with workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago last week," Obama said. "I had marched with them four years earlier and I told them when I left that if they were still fighting four years from now, I'd be back on that picket line as president of the United States."

Obama, oh, so, "REDS" …………… Based on the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.

Abortion for Pro-choice Candidates!

Democrats pledge support for wide access to abortion

By Mike Dorning
Washington Bureau
Published July 18, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband's health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.................................

continued............... Obama, who earlier gained the endorsement of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, offered the group a vision of equal opportunity for women, tying a call for improved access to contraceptives for low-income women with a call for an "updated social contract" that includes paid maternity leave and expanded school hours.

Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover "reproductive-health services." Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.

IF ONLY THEIR OWN MOTHERS HAD BEEN SO COMPLETELY PRO-ABORTION.

Links ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIq3mr6oIYE

http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM

http://www.electric-escape.net/node/1561

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/shifthappens

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en

http://www.natureofsuccessmovie.com

Veiled Threat

Who said that suicide bombers were blonde, blue-eyed, tall girls?

Raise Your Hand If You Are Gay!

Liberal candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to LGBT issues.

The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on LOGO and through live streaming video at LOGOonline.com.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have eagerly confirmed their participation.

The first to raise his hand confirming his gayness was former Swift Boat candidate Presidential running mate a.k.a.Two Americas Haircut Advocate, John Edwards.

Holding true to his religious beliefs, Mr. Hussein Obama was unable to look directly at Ms Clinton, who immediately objected to Edwards being the first to declare.

When Mayor's Make Mistakes

The Mayor of Los Angeles took military and Hollywood Detectives and investigators to one of his favorite spots on Hollywood’s star studded walk of fame. He told the men, “I may not be very smart, and I do make mistakes, but when it comes to my biggest passion I know just where to point that one inch miracle.”

The Mayor proudly pointed out the spot where he nailed the mother of his second illegitimate child.

The Mayor went on to confirm that he finds nothing wrong with exploiting the undocumented females who clean toilets in City Hall or their sisters at Telemundo. He said, “It’s a dirty job, but white Americans (women) don't want to do it.”

Al Gore In Kansas

All Gore at the Kansas Global Warming Concert.

“You see that Dorothy? Before Global Warming the rainbow had primary colors with lots and lots of green and strong right angles. Now it’s just a simple arch dusted with some pastel hues.

Dorothy gasps!

“You and your little dog’s brains could fry right here in this Kansas Maryjane field. You saw what happened to my son, Al Gore III, right? Global Warming fried the boy’s brains. Now he is lost forever, just a speed driving, drug junkie who nearly exposed the entire fraud behind my campaign. Ah, I mean, foundation for my awareness campaign for saving our planet.

Dorothy throws her sobbing self at Al. She nestles into his man breasts.

Al replies, “Just keep your eye on the sky Dorothy, soon, the planet savior, yours truly, will return. I promise. Right after my gastric bypass surgery and skin lift.”

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Congress began investigating the carbon offset industry this week. The inquiry could produce some “inconvenient truths” for Al Gore and the nascent offset industry.

Carbon offsets ostensibly allow buyers to expunge their consciences of the new eco-sin of using energy derived from fossil fuels. Worried about the 8 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted each year by your SUV? Similar to the indulgences offered by Pope Leo X in the 16th century, you can absolve yourself of sin by purchasing $96 worth of CO2 offsets – typically offered at $12 per ton of CO2 emitted – from offset brokers who, in turn, supposedly use your cash to pay someone else to produce electricity with low or no CO2 emissions.

Last year, offsets representing 23.7 million tons of CO2 were sold to businesses and consumers. Sounds like a lot of CO2 emissions were avoided, except when you consider that annual natural emissions of CO2 amount to hundreds of billions of tons.

The physical world aside, the CO2 offset marketplace itself is questionable – hence this week’s congressional hearing entitled, “Voluntary Carbon Offsets: Getting What You Pay For.” The hearing is particularly notable since it was called by a Democrat-run Congress, concerned that global warming alarmism is being jeopardized by dubious marketing and consumer rip-offs involving offsets.

A prime example of dubious offset marketing involves Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

The movie's producers, Paramount Classics and Participant Productions, announced that they purchased offsets from broker NativeEnergy to compensate for 100 percent of the CO2 emissions from the air and ground transportation, hotel use, and production and promotional activities associated with the movie.

So how many offsets supposedly compensated for the CO2 sins of Al Gore and the dozens of individuals credited with producing a movie shot in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Beijing? According to a Web site release from NativeEnergy – which has since been removed – it only cost 40 tons of offsets (worth about $480) to make “An Inconvenient Truth” carbon neutral.

It’s an absurdly low figure given that the making of a 30-second television commercial can easily produce 50 tons and the movie “Syriana” – another NativeEnergy project – was supposedly offset with 2,040 tons worth of offsets.

When I called NativeEnergy to inquire about the 40-ton figure and the Web page that mysteriously disappeared, I was rebuffed and told that the company “does not share information about its clients without their consent.” This immediately made me wonder why the producers of “An Inconvenient Truth” either withheld or revoked their consent since so many of NativeEnergy’s other clients’ offset purchases are so prominently touted on the company’s web site.

NativeEnergy told me I would have to go through Paramount's legal department to obtain the necessary consent. Despite repeated attempts, Paramount never returned my calls – quite odd given the Oscar-winning producers’ mission and audacious self-acclaim of pioneer status as the world’s first carbon-neutral documentary.

NativeEnergy still boasts on its web site about offsetting “100 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution” associated with “An Inconvenient Truth” – but there’s still no mention – let alone any “carbon accounting” – of what that “100 percent” actually represents.

There is reason to explore this issue further than just the spotlighting of more Al Gore-related hypocrisy – the climate alarmist community is even concerned about the offset racket.

As recently reported on the left-wing web site Grist.org (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/6/19/123649/857), it’s worthwhile asking whether carbon offsets are offsetting anything at all.

According to the Grist article, NativeEnergy is selling offsets that are supposed to be helping to pay for wind-generated electricity supplied by the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC) to 52 Alaskan villages.

When the Grist reporter first interviewed an AVEC official, the money received from NativeEnergy was described as a “bonus” – a potential problem given that the agreement between AVEC and NativeEnergy requires that the offsets are “a significant contributor to economic viability and the seller’s efforts to build additional wind capacity.” AVEC and NativeEnergy have since backed off the “bonus” characterization, according to the Grist article.

While acknowledging the possibility of a slip of the tongue on the part of the AVEC official, the Grist reporter raised the salient point – presumably because of the black box-nature of CO2 offsets – that we will never actually know whether the offsets purchased through NativeEnergy were used to produce any wind power or reduce any CO2 emissions.

NativeEnergy sells offsets to the public at a cost of $12/ton. But how much of that price goes to reduce CO2 emissions versus NativeEnergy’s pockets? A recent CNNMoney article reported that NativeEnergy raised $250,000 to pay for 50,000 tons of CO2 reductions on South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux tribe reservation – that is, as little as $5/ton may go toward emissions reduction.

A gross profit margin of $7/ton for NativeEnergy is not bad, especially since there appears to be little follow-up and verification as to whether the consumer’s goal of reducing CO2 emissions are actually accomplished.

Finally, taxpayers provide additional support for projects in which NativeEnergy is involved – the Department of Energy contributed more than $448,000 to the Rosebud Sioux project. The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave AVEC $2.5 million for wind turbines. A Capitol Hill staffer told me that the congressional inquiry would look into the possibility of “double-dipping” in the offset industry.

There’s an awful lot of consumer and taxpayer money flying around offset-related projects with little, if any, accountability. On one hand, it’s good that Congress, in the name of consumer protection, has commenced an investigation of “the efficacy and accounting of these unregulated commodities.” On the other hand, only time will tell if a Congress controlled by the global warming lobby will conduct a bona fide investigation that risks discrediting one of its major themes.

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Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk science expert, an advocate of free enterprise and an adjunct scholar at theCompetitive Enterprise Institute.

Fred Has A Pretty Wife

Fred Thompson may face criticism because his wife is young and beautiful. Well, howdy Arkansas! At least America can have a high degree of assurance that Fred won’t need to diddle young interns with contraband cigars because his wife is an ugly, flaming, closet lesbian.

But seriously, the Democratic candidates traditionally have the butt ugliest wives, or in this 2008 election cycle we add husband. This is why the Democrats have to drag the illiterate undereducated Hollywood pretty people into the spotlight. They need America to think that they are cool enough to attract pretty.

Not Fred, he is walking, living, breathing proof positive that he attracts pretty. No question about it at all; his wife is a stunner.

Will the ugliest people say and write the ugliest things about her? Absolutely, it is an age old problem, insecure people have to attack what they are most intimidated by. Pretty women have to work harder to be taken seriously; therefore, they usually become more sensitive, educated and patient.

What about the age difference between the Thompsons? Hummm, can we say Demi Moore? No let’s not travel down that road. Let’s just keep it honest and real. Anyone in their right mind would love to have a smokin’ partner, either gender, if circumstances permitted. I am first to confirm that I would. So don’t lie!

If America voted for their President based on the what the future first lady (man) looked like, the photo campaign would look something like the photos included here. Yikes, is it really hard to make the call????

Beauty and brains or portly, stiff, confused global warmers (you know what I am talking about). I vote for the brains in a beautiful package and the man who was smart enough to understand the value of that combination in his life partner and the mother of his children.

Who Is Fred Thompson????

I wanted to post information to gauge your thoughts on Fred Thompson for President in 2008. He is a candidate that America can trust and believe in.

When it comes to the candidates in elections it always seems that the choice comes down to
"the lesser of two evils." Until now many people have yet to view a candidate they can wholeheartedly believe is the BEST choice for the Country. I am also looking for a candidate who has a very strong chance at winning. I see that in Fred Thompson. I would love to hear your thoughts.

You may be supporting another candidate at this time, but I encourage you to explore information on his background and accomplishments so that you can compare Fred to other candidates as an informed voter.

If you would like to find out more about how you can help put Fred Thompson in the White House, or how you can donate to help fund promotions and campaign items and help Take Back AMERICA!

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