The Last Ice at the North Pole

One of Al Gore's inventions unfortunately bit him in the caboose yesterday. The former Vice President announced at the Copenhagen climate summit yesterday that there is a high probability that all arctic ice could be gone within 5-7 years. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_sc/climate_gore Within hours, though, Al's earlier invention - the Net - was abuzz with a statement from the scientist that Mr. Gore purportedly relied on that disavowed Gore's sweeping pronouncement:

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

I for one am glad that Al invented something that can correct the record so quickly when ex-politicians try to foist baloney on an unsuspecting public!

I Knew It!!

Beer prevents cancer. This Bud's for you!

thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk/Beer-could-be-the-new.5894530.jp

Copenhagen, Schmopenhagen

In honor of the opening of the Copenhagen conference today on global warming, I have posted a John Hawkins' column that poses four questions for global warmists to answer. Nowhere have I seen answers to these questions and before we spend trillions of dollars and kill our economy at their behest to "save the planet", is it asking too much to have them answered beyond a reasonable doubt?

townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/12/08/four_colossal_holes_in_the_theory_of_man-made_global_warming

Remember

December 7, 1941 - a day that will live in infamy. Japan struck the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii without warning, plunging the United States into a desperate battle for the next 4 years. Millions of young Americans went to war including my father and mother and two of my uncles. Admiral Yamamoto who engineered the attack had studied at Harvard and knew the American character. He had advised against the attack saying that it would awaken a sleeping giant. He was right. Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945. Japan followed three months later on August 15, 1945. Remember the brave Americans who fought for this country. Remember so that we will never be caught unprepared again. Remember.

V for Victory! (The Way It Wasn't)

President Obama's recent address to the country about Afghanistan was perplexing, to put it mildly. Basically, we are adding 30,000 troops to the fight but will begin withdrawing them in July, 2011. Let's go back to the day after Pearl Harbor and see how President Roosevelt handled things:

"Washington, D.C., December 8, 1941. President Roosevelt announced today that the United States will do whatever is necessary to totally defeat the Axis powers after the duplicitous Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. "They have roused a sleeping giant and we will accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis!" said Roosevelt after his address to a joint session of Congress. The President set July, 1944 as the date for withdrawing American troops from both the European and Pacific theaters and said he hoped the Axis would cooperate."

Well, maybe it didn't happen quite that way. Ronald Reagan said it well, "Here's my strategy on the Cold War, we win; they lose." If you are not going to seek victory, then get out before a lot of good men and women get killed for nothing.

Arlington at Christmas

A reminder of those who have made the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion more than an abstract idea.

Rethinkingchristmas.com

We've all said it at one time or another, "Let's simplify our Christmas this year." This is usually delivered in a somewhat plaintive tone with a look of hopeful dejection. Well, there's help.

Mark Earley writes in today's Breakpoint about a new book, Advent Conspiracy, that talks about five churches' efforts to move away from unlimited consumerism and massive debt at Christmas to a celebration more focused on the true meaning of the season. www.breakpoint.org/bp-home More helpfully, he cites a new website that is full of practical ideas of how to actually downshift our spending and ramp up our worship of God during the Christmas season. rethinkingchristmas.com/ Take a look and see if you can't take some small steps this year to put Christ back in Christmas.