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The BBC reports on Global Cooling?!?

shout@angryconservative.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:14:00 GMT

I was pretty surprised when I read this article, and not because of it's contents, but because of it's source:

BBC Article: What Happened to Global Warming?

The article highlights a lot of what many scientists are starting to say:

"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998."

It's an interesting read indeed, and says we're in for some cooler times over the next 20 or so years.

32 Reasons to scrap Obama's "stimulus" = $19 BILLION OF WASTE!!!

shout@angryconservative.com — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:21:00 GMT

There's a reason the GOP is against Obama's so called stimulus package: IT DOESN'T STIMULATE THE ECONOMY!!!

32 Wasteful Things in Obama's Stimulus Plan

CNN reports that there are at least 32 items that Republicans are fighting over, totaling over 19 billion dollars of excess waste. Here's just a couple of the more ridiculous ones:

$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
$6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
$160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

I mean, PAID volunteers?!? I would have thought even the Dems would see how silly that is...

Dangers of Global Warming: Two Child Limits

shout@angryconservative.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:44:00 GMT

Here is why talk about "Global Warming" and "Climate Change" irks me, a LOT!

Two children should be limit, says green guru

This is where it becomes DANGEROUS to listen to Global Warming Fanatics, especially if you're in government. Setting policies that will control people's lives needs major consideration. Leave it to these fanatics and they'll take away all our freedoms. Fortunately, Jonathon Porritt, the bloke who is pushing this agenda forward, is in the British government, but if something like this passes there, it won't be long before it's pushed in America either...

Mitt Romney on Economy

shout@angryconservative.com — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:00 GMT

Mitt just gave an address at the House Republican Conference Retreat.

Governor Romney's Remarks to the House Republican Conference Retreat

He spoke a lot of how the economy is hurting and the best way to treat it. Not surprisingly he's against Obama's proposed "stimulus" package, since it will do little to actually stimulate the economy and instead grow government at an unprecedented rate. He proposes tax cuts and restraint as the best way to get government going. But this paragraph jumped out at me:

Last year, with the economy already faltering, I proposed a stimulus of 233 billion dollars. The Washington Post said, and I quote: “Romney’s plan is way too big.” So what critique do they have for the size of the Democrat’s package? I’m afraid they’ve caught a bad case of liberal laryngitis. It’s everywhere these days.

Yes, you read right, the Drive By Media felt Romney's $233 billion dollars plan was "way too big." Do you hear anyone complaining about Obama's $800+ billion dollar plan?!? *sigh*

Matt Damon (actor) vs. Bill Kristol (editor of The Weekly Standard)?

shout@angryconservative.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:41:00 GMT

What? Who? Can this be? A debate between Matt Damon and Bill Kristol?

Big Hollywood's Debate, will it happen?

This I have to see! We all remember how silly Matt sounded about his "concerns" with Sarah Palin, especially considering that the same arguments could be made about Obama (we know nothing about him, he's inexperienced, at least Palin was a mayor). For those who missed it, check it out, if you can:

So, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, a very good magazine, may publicly debate Matt Damon? *IF* Matt agrees, that is. Which of course means it won't happen. Liberals are always big talk, little action...

Will 34,000 scientists convince you that the media is wrong on Global Warming?

shout@angryconservative.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:26:00 GMT

Still believe in Global Warming? Think us "skeptics" are loner conspiracy theroists that no scientist would ever agree with? Think again!

The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

The Heartland Institute is holding a conference in March, the 2nd annual, that will show new research that says Global Warming is all hype and no susbstance! I've had some people claim that they might give some credence to us skeptics IF there were some real scientists who would speak against the "consensus". Well, how about this?!?

"More than 34,00 scientists have signed a petition syaing global warming probably is natural and not a crisis. See the complete list at www.oism.org/ppetition"

Does that help?

Wow, MSNBC can see through the Obama fluff?

shout@angryconservative.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:59:00 GMT

K, this article impressed me.

How Long Will The Obama Honeymoon Last?

"Just how much patience does the country have for turning the ship of state around, no matter how much it likes its new president?" MSNBC was able to see through the euphoria that Obama supporters are experiencing right now and recognize that "fame is a fickle thing." Very soon America is going to lose its love affair with the new President, just like it did with Clinton, and will demand that he make good on his impossible campaign promises.

Will be very interesting to see how quickly this devolves...

Why did McCain lose?

shout@angryconservative.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:59:00 GMT

A lot of people are Monday Morning Quarterbacking as to why McCain lost, so I figured I'll throw my worthless opinion into the matter. Ultimately, he was the accidental candidate. He was never able to excite Republicans and more importantly conservatives, and so fewer actually showed up at the polls. Don't believe me? See what the American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate says about voter turnout (man that's a mouthful to say):

"Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3%"

The two big (and arguably best) Republican candidates were Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. I'm not sure what happened to Juliani's campaign, it sorta fell apart, but Romney was swimming in money. He was running a great campaign, when suddenly Mike Huckabee entered the race and split the conservative vote and so the moderate or "Maverick" McCain won. This really disheartened the base, meaning that most conservatives were not only discourage but some didn't even go out and vote. Even with Sarah Palin's pick as VP, we still were ultimately discouraged. McCain was definately not the conservative candidate.

Which really makes me wonder, how well a Giuliani or a Romney would have done against Obama. Guess we'll find out in 4 years...

An Environmentalist I can agree with!

shout@angryconservative.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:16:00 GMT

A lot of my friends don't believe me when I say there are known, respected scientists and climatologists that don't believe in Global Warming. Check out this story:

Naturalist David Bellamy shunned because he doesn't toe the Global Warming line

David Bellamy is venting that the BBC has pulled him off the air because he doesn't believe in Global Warming. Unfortunately, the article lists his feelings more than any actual facts, however, the botanist has written 35 books and presented over 400 programmes over the years. He's a pretty respected fellow.

Here's a couple highlights:

According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that?

and

I’ve seen evidence, which I believe, that says there has not been a rise in global temperature since 1998, despite the increase in carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. This makes me think the global warmers are telling lies – carbon dioxide is not the driver.

(I really want to see the evidence he's talking about)
But ultimately, here's the *real* point he makes, that I've been making for years now:

The thing that annoys me most is that there are genuine environmental problems that desperately require attention. I’m still an environmentalist, I’m still a Green and I’m still campaigning to stop the destruction of the biodiversity of the world. But money will be wasted on trying to solve this global warming “problem” that I would much rather was used for looking after the people of the world.
(emphasis added)

As I see it, there are two big problems with Global Warming/Climate Change/Modern Hysteria: A) it's diverting attention, energy, resources, money from the real problems to a "guess" problem. And more importantly B) any fix we try to implement will probably make matters worse! Whenever man tries to muck around with nature, we just screw it up big time. If you haven't yet, read the late Michael Crichton's speech on Complexity Theory and Environmental Management. It explains how man tried to "manage" Yellowstone, and truly made a huge mess of things. Now take that and multiply it on a global scale, and you'll see why Global Warming is dangerous...

Our condolences, Michael Crichton

shout@angryconservative.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:49:00 GMT

One of my personal favorite authors died today, Michael Crichton.

Michael Crichton died at the age of 66 fighting cancer.

I remember when I read Jurrasic Park for the first time, and was really impressed with the different points of view from all the different characters. I really enjoyed the book. Then he wrote State of Fear, and I was hooked. I loved how he was able to systematically call into question the "common" knowledge of Global Warming into fiction, and then back it up with an intense bibliography, showing the facts behind the matter.

If you haven't read it yet, pick up State Of Fear, a really good book (though the ending was kind of a let down):

In addition to his fiction, he wrote a few good essays on Global Warming and many other things. Check them out at http://www.michaelcrichton.net/essays.html. They're a really good take on why Conservatives are at least leery of Global Warming.

A new trend: Journalist recognizing the bias in their own media

shout@angryconservative.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:32:00 GMT

As I commented a few days ago, Orsen Scott Card who is himself a Democrat and a Columnist was amazed and ashamed at the blatent bias in the current media covered for Democrats and against Republicans. Another article has surfaced today from Micheal Malone, expressing similar regrets:

ABCNews' own Micheal Malone is ashamed to be a journalist

Here's a quick snippets:

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

Tell me you haven't felt that way before?

Orsen Scott Card chimes in on Economic crunch

shout@angryconservative.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:57:00 GMT

Writer, Democrat, and Columnist Orsen Scott Card has something to say about the current economic crunch, and particularly how it's being reported:

Card's "Would the Last Honest reporter Please Turn On The Lights?"

In brief, Card is amazed at the double standard in the media over the reporting in the housing crisis, all because it stems back to a Democratic Administration (Clinton's) and a law created by Democrats (Dodd and Frank) and doing so might hurt the election of a Democrat into the White House.

Here's a snippet:

I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."

Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.

As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com] ): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."

Yes, and people wonder why the media is accused of being in favor of the Democrats?

McCain gets more negative news coverage than Obama

shout@angryconservative.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:10:00 GMT

And you wonder why conservatives feel the main stream media is liberally biased?

Washington Post: More Negative Ads for McCain than Obama

Here's the news coverage breakdown:

- McCain : 57% Negative, 14% Positive
- Obama: 29% Negative, 36% Positive

Almost DOUBLE the negative news coverage on McCain than Obama! And you wonder why he's slipped in the polls? The drive-by media is Obama's free propaganda machine. That, and the fact that Obama has paid for almost the most attack ads in history.

Why a line needs to be drawn with Same Sex Marriage

shout@angryconservative.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:09:00 GMT

Some of my friends don't understand why Conservatives are so against same sex marriage. Well, NPR recently had a great article why:

NPR: When Gay Rights and Religious Liberties Clash

Besides the general erosion of morality, redefining the traditional definition of marriage affects what religious institutions can and can't do. Whether homosexuals intend this to happen or not is besides the point, the fact of the matter is many relgious institutions are no longer able to perform the services they have provided in the past because they are not allowed to follow their beliefs. Whether their beliefs are "right" or not doesn't matter. Good services are now being denied our society because of the redefinition of marriage.

The worst part of all of this is that there is *nothing* gained from homosexuals being able to marry that they don't already have. Through wills, power of attourney, and "common law", a gay couple has the exact same rights as a straight couple, married or not. All that is gained by redefining marriage to include same sex marriages is a psychological one, but much is lost.

What is a Zombie?

shout@angryconservative.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:20:00 GMT

Bob Hope understands Zombies better than anyone...

Transcript:
Bob: You live here?
Guy: Yes.
Bob: Well maybe you know what a zombie is.
Guy: When a person dies and is buried, it seems a certain voodoo priest who, who has the power to bring him back to life.
Girl: How horrible.
Guy: It's worse than horrible, because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
Bob: You mean like Democrats?