Sea Ice and Obama and the UN

Cousin Brown Bear and I have been terribly worried over Cousin Polar Bear drowning because the sea ice is melting due to the UN's mandated global warming.... some of you have asked why the UN doesn't mandate an end to hunger. To that I say, there are important things and less important things. Now I ask you, which is the most important, ending hunger or increasing the power of the UN?

But good news is at hand!


Sea ice is actually at 1979 levels! That, of course, was back in the days when we were being told that we were all going to die because of global cooling.

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.

The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions.

Do you think Hussein's new science advisor is on the phone with the good news?

X Rated Comment re Gays

I don't remember who sent this over, and although it is on the X side, it is also funny....and true.

Happy Birthday Fidel's Cuba

Under the "Nothing else needs to be said" heading we have this from William Katz at UrgentAgenda.

DIDN'T THEY INVITE CYNTHIA McKINNEY? - AT 7:48 A.M. ET: From AFP: Communist Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of its Revolution Thursday faced with an uncertain future, its iconic, ailing leader Fidel Castro withdrawn from power and the economy in dire straits.

COMMENT: If you want some laughs today, just read the tributes from every wacky leftist in the world. This is their day - 50 years of oppression and poverty. What could be better?

And AP added thus.

During his decades in power, Fidel Castro expropriated foreign companies, jailed political enemies and drove well over a million Cubans into exile.

But he also introduced historic reforms, including major education and health care access advances

And Hitler loved his dog. The depth of AP's comments have come to equal that of the Platte River which is often said to be, "Too thick to drink and too thin to plow.

Rodney King, Hamas and Gaza

Rodney King became famous in the Left's world by saying, "Can't we all just get along??"

The fact that he had the hell beat out of him because he wouldn't go along and stay down... his companion did and had not a scratch on him.... didn't matter to the people who rioted and burned a great deal of LA and other places...because a jury had cut the police lose who had thumped him for his not "just getting along."

I flew into LAX that night and when we went into our final approach the pilot explained we were going to do a short field approach because of "visibility." I knew that he was bsing us because in my experience a short field approach is used to avoid ground fire. And seeing as how we would be coming over Inglewood that made sense.... I was in First Class and half to two thirds zapped because we had sat on the ground in Seattle for almost three hours and the standard way of calming the restless in FC was booze...

I was in a window seat on the right, so when we turned to the left to go out to Downey and turn final to land I had a good look at LA. It looked as if someone had been bombing the place... But I digress...

The pilot explained this was perfectly safe and that we should expect a sensation of going down rapidly....very rapidly.

Anyway, we were at about 10,000 feet about two miles east of the Fabulous Forum when he dropped the flaps, the wheels, extended the leading edge slats and pulled the power back. The 737 became an elevator. The aircraft became completely quiet and then the power came back and we landed without taking any ack-ack to the airframe.

I made it to the Marriott in time to hear Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters explain how none of this was the fault of the rioters.

I got to thinking about this after listening to the "world" whine that people living in the Gaza strip are getting the hell bombed out of them. Look. They are getting bombed because Hamas is launching rockets into Israel.

Now I don't care who is right or who is wrong. The facts are that they are launching rockets and getting bombed in return. If they stop Israel will stop.

And if they want to claim that Israel has stolen their land and attack Israel for it, so be it. But don't whine when Israel says no, and bombs the hell out of them.

Their are lots of parallels here. The blacks hated the Koreans and the Hispanics and Whitey wasn't wanted around. So they burned down their part of LA, put a lot of their people out of work and in turn the white contractors made a lot of money rebuilding it. That was really a lose lose situation.

So is what's happening now on the Gaza Strip.

And no Rodney, we can't all just get along.

Happy Something ... New Year? Fox News watching?

The year ends.

I'm not much on the "big story" baloney. Most would have said that the stock market crash of 1929 was the story, yet the real story was the "Talkies." From that technological advance came a string of motion pictures that moved and shaped the world as nothing else before or since.

There were many stories in 1944, yet THE story was the reining in of Patton in favor of Monte's pipe dreams. The result being "The Battle of the Bulge" with 20,000 killed and the Soviet Union being allowed a full share of Germany. God only knows what misery that ultimately caused.

Later the stories were the defeat of the US in Vietnam by its own Congress but even there we find only a smidgen of truth. Goldwater may have midwifed conservatism and Reagan took it to the altar but it was the Left's antiwar actions that allowed the simmering hatred of them to take a political child and turn him into a man.

So pardon me if find the stories about the evil Bush and the glorious Hussein both juvenile and boring. Come back in a few years and we can talk. In the meantime, I find myself continually reminding my Leftie friends of some of the oldest saws in the world.

Success, dear chums, is getting what you want.

Happiness is wanting what you get.

Many people will soon understand the truth of that.

And while it is true that Bush has been all but destroyed by the hater's of the Left, especially those in the media. He, like Truman, will see his presidency ascend over time.

I myself find him flawed, as was Truman. He has been too loyal to those who weren't capable and he failed to fight back at the utter nonsense spewed by the Left over the war on terror. Failing to do this has allowed the Left's unpatriotic attacks give comfort to an enemy who became convinced that they could, like the communists in Vietnam, win a political battle given to them by the Left's hand maidens in Congress.

In the meantime only 20% approve of a Democratic Congress, less than the approval of Bush. That it is Democrats who control Congress is why you hear almost nothing about this.

But now the Democrats have it all and it is their right to govern. It is their war on terror. Their recession. Their housing crisis. Their failed energy policy. Their failing school systems. Their "homeless" sleeping under bridges. Their "everything."

There is no evil Repub in charge and no racist in the White House, although the new occupant was elected because of his race. All the claims of the Left, all the charges, all the social theories can now be tested.

In the meantime all we know for sure is we have a youth going to the White House that has never been tested. He is the first of the "no one loses, everybody wins" generation. As such his natural narcissism gives us a man who has never lost so he doesn't know how to win. He will be too gracious to our enemies and too harsh on his critics, He will confuse our allies and enemies alike. The results will most likely be death and destruction here in the US.

We truly suffer from the Chinese curse. We live in interesting times.

God help us all.

Farm kid in the Marine Corps

There's a real kernel of truth in this.

Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once.. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'9' and 170 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your son,

John

Hat tip to Mike L

Poker grumbles...

So here I was in this tournament and close to being in the money... I catch an AK off suit on the button with three others... I push in $4000 and the BB and LB fold. This guy with about $7000 calls. An A flops... I push in $4000 and the guy calls and shows an A3.... yes dear hearts a 3 came on the river... So I'm short stacked and dead in about 10 more hands...'

grumble grumble grumble...