We should all know, at least those of us with half a brain, that global warming is a hoax designed to create a perceived need for government. The agenda of global warming alarmists has never been about Mother Earth but rather how to take from those of us who produce and redistribute to life's losers. The following is just more proof that Al Gore and the rest of his liberal kook aid drinking kooks are full of it. The following is from http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ Tropical cyclone (TC) activity worldwide has completely and utterly collapsed during the past 2 to 3 years with TC energy levels sinking to levels not seen since the late 1970s. This should not be a surprise to scientists since the natural variability in climate dominates any detectable or perceived global warming impact when it comes to measuring yearly integrated tropical cyclone activity. With the continuation (persistence) of colder Pacific tropical sea-surface temperatures associated with the effects of La Nina, the upcoming 2009 Atlantic hurricane season should be above average, as we saw in 2008. Nevertheless, since the Atlantic only makes up 10-15% of overall global TC activity each year (climatological average during the past 30 years), continued Northern Hemispheric and global TC inactivity as a whole likely will continue. As previously reported here and here at Climate Audit, and chronicled at my Florida State Global Hurricane Update page, both Northern Hemisphere and overall Global hurricane activity has continued to sink to levels not seen since the 1970s. Even more astounding, when the Southern Hemisphere hurricane data is analyzed to create a global value, we see that Global Hurricane Energy has sunk to 30-year lows, at the least. Since hurricane intensity and detection data is problematic as one goes back in time, when reporting and observing practices were different than today, it is possible that we underestimated global hurricane energy during the 1970s. See notes at bottom to avoid terminology discombobulation. Using a well-accepted metric called the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index or ACE for short (Bell and Chelliah 2006), which has been used by Klotzbach (2006) and Emanuel (2005) (PDI is analogous to ACE), and most recently by myself in Maue (2009), simple analysis shows that 24-month running sums of global ACE or hurricane energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 years. Why use 24-month running sums instead of simply yearly values? Since a primary driver of the Earth's climate from year to year is the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) acts on time scales on the order of 2-7 years, and the fact that the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere hurricane season occurs from October - March, a reasonable interpretation of global hurricane activity requires a better metric than simply calendar year totals. The 24-month running sums is analogous to the idea of "what have you done for me lately". During the past 6 months, extending back to October of 2008 when the Southern Hemisphere tropical season was gearing up, global ACE had crashed due to two consecutive years of well-below average Northern Hemisphere hurricane activity. To avoid confusion, I am not specifically addressing the North Atlantic, which was above normal in 2008 (in terms of ACE), but the hemisphere (and or globe) as a whole. The North Atlantic only represents a 1/10 to 1/8 of global hurricane energy output on average but deservedly so demands disproportionate media attention due to the devastating societal impacts of recent major hurricane landfalls. Why the record low ACE? During the past 2 years +, the Earth's climate has cooled under the effects of a dramatic La Nina episode. The Pacific Ocean basin typically sees much weaker hurricanes that indeed have shorter lifecycles and therefore -- less ACE . Conversely, due to well-researched upper-atmospheric flow (e.g. vertical shear) configurations favorable to Atlantic hurricane development and intensification, La Nina falls tend to favor very active seasons in the Atlantic (word of warning for 2009). This offsetting relationship, high in the Atlantic and low in the Pacific, is a topic of discussion in my GRL paper, which will be a separate topic in a future posting. Thus, the Western North Pacific (typhoons) tropical activity was well below normal in 2007 and 2008 (see table). Same for the Eastern North Pacific. The Southern Hemisphere, which includes the southern Indian Ocean from the coast of Mozambique across Madagascar to the coast of Australia, into the South Pacific and Coral Sea, saw below normal activity as well in 2008. Through March 12, 2009, the Southern Hemisphere ACE is about half of what's expected in a normal year, with a multitude of very weak, short-lived hurricanes. All of these numbers tell a very simple story: just as there are active periods of hurricane activity around the globe, there are inactive periods, and we are currently experiencing one of the most impressive inactive periods, now for almost 3 years. Bottom Line Under global warming scenarios, hurricane intensity is expected to increase (on the order of a few percent), but MANY questions remain as to how much, where, and when. This science is very far from settled. Indeed, Al Gore has dropped the related slide in his PowerPoint (btw, is he addicted to the Teleprompter as well?) Many papers have suggested that these changes are already occurring especially in the strongest of hurricanes, e.g. this and that and here, due to warming sea-surface temperatures (the methodology and data issues with each of these papers has been discussed here at CA, and will be even more in the coming months). The notion that the overall global hurricane energy or ACE has collapsed does not contradict the above papers but provides an additional, perhaps less publicized piece of the puzzle. Indeed, the very strong interannual variability of global hurricane ACE (energy) highly correlated to ENSO, suggests that the role of tropical cyclones in climate is modulated very strongly by the big movers and shakers in large-scale, global climate. The perceptible (and perhaps measurable) impact of global warming on hurricanes in today's climate is arguably a pittance compared to the reorganization and modulation of hurricane formation locations and preferred tracks/intensification corridors dominated by ENSO (and other natural climate factors). Moreover, our understanding of the complicated role of hurricanes with and role in climate is nebulous to be charitable. We must increase our understanding of the current climate's hurricane activity. Background: During the summer and fall of 2007, as the Atlantic hurricane season failed to live up to the hyperbolic prognostications of the seasonal hurricane forecasters, I noticed that the rest of the Northern Hemisphere hurricane basins, which include the Western/Central/Eastern Pacific and Northern Indian Oceans, was on pace to produce the lowest Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE since 1977. ACE is the convolution or combination of a storm's intensity and longevity. Put simply, a long-lived very powerful Category 3 hurricane may have more than 100 times the ACE of a weaker tropical storm that lasts for less than a day. Over a season or calendar year, all individual storm ACE is added up to produce the overall seasonal or yearly ACE. Detailed tables of previous monthly and yearly ACE are described below. The table does not include the Northern Indian Ocean, which can be deduced as the portion of the Northern Hemisphere total not included in the three major basins. Nevertheless, 2007 saw the lowest ACE since 1977. 2008 continued the dramatic downturn in hurricane energy or ACE. The following stacked bar chart demonstrates the highly variable, from year-to-year behavior of Northern Hemisphere (NH) ACE. The smaller inset line graph plots the raw data and trend (or lack thereof). Thus, during the past 60 years, with the data at hand, Northern Hemisphere ACE undergoes significant interannual variability but exhibits no significant statistical trend. So what to expect in 2009? Well, the last Northern Hemisphere storm was Typhoon Dolphin in middle December of 2008, and no ACE has been recorded so far. The Southern Hemisphere is below normal by just about any definition of storm activity (unless you have access to the Elias sports bureau statistic creativity department), and the season is quickly running out. With La Nina-like conditions in the Pacific, a persistence forecast of below average global cyclone activity seems like a very good bet. Now if only the Dow Jones index didn't correlate so well with the Global ACE lately... Notes: Hurricane is the term for Tropical Cyclone specific to the North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii eastward to the Mexican coast. Other names around the world include Typhoon, Cyclone, and Willy-Willy (Oz) but hurricane is used generically to avoid confusion. Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE: is easily calculated from best-track hurricane datasets, with the one-minute maximum sustained wind squared and summed during the tropical lifecycle of a tropical storm or hurricane. Global Infrared Satellite: Tropical Sectors Global Tropical Cyclone ACE through Mar 17, 2009 00z BASIN 2009 ACE CLIMO YEARLY ACE* NORMAL TO DATE % of NORMAL Northern Hemisphere 0 557 4 - North Atlantic 0 104 0 - Western Pacific0 280 3 - Eastern Pacific0 156 0 - Southern Hemisphere 79.33 229 142+ 56% * Climatological Values based upon 1982-2008 calendar year activity except for Southern Hemisphere. + Normal to date for Southern Hemisphere, 1981-2008 October-Februrary. Includes Southern Indian and Southern Pacific basins. V max is maximum sustained 1-minute wind (knots) throughout the tropical lifecycle of each TC Previous Basin Activity BASIN 2005 ACE 2006 ACE 2007 ACE 2008 ACE 1982-2008 AVERAGE Northern Hemisphere 655 576 383 408 557 North Atlantic 243 83 72 142 104 Western Pacific301 274 212 167 280 Eastern Pacific97 204 55 83 156 Southern Hemisphere* 285 182 191 164 229 * Southern Hemisphere peak TC activity occurs between October and April. Thus, 2008 values represent the period October 2007 - April 2008. Note: 1981-2008 March and April Southern Hemisphere ACE has averaged 84 with a standard deviation of 27, with a minimum of 47 in 1987 and maximum of 154 in 1992. Current Global TC Graphics Northern Hemisphere Hurricane Days & Global Major H Days -- 24 month running sum Excel Data File Global and NH TC Accumulated Cyclone ACE -- 24 month running sum Analysis shown in the figure depicts tropical cyclone energy continuously summed over 24-month periods from 1973 through 28, February 2009. The top green time series shows the evolution of global Accumluated Cyclone Energy (ACE). Global ACE is at historical low levels -- the lowest in 30-years. The Earth is experiencing a prolonged period of severely depressed cyclone activity. The Northern Hemisphere is responsible for 70% of global tropical cyclone ACE on average since 1973. Thus, it is no surprise that Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone activity is also at 30-year lows. MONTH/YEAR NH ACE SH ACE NH HDAYS [INTENSE *] SH HDAYS [INTENSE *] GLOBAL 24-MONTH RUNNING ACE NH 24-MONTH RUNNING ACE JAN06 5.45 20.75 0 3 1863.0 1408.1 FEB06 15.41 42.91 0 9.25 [2] 1851.3 1407.9 MAR06 0.58 61.63 0 13.25 [4.75] 1840.8 1407.1 APR06 10.33 36.14 2.25 [1.25] 5.5 [3.25] 1850.4 1381.1 MAY06 25.27 0 6.75 [2.75] 0 1836.1 1369.2 JUN06 4.17 0 0 0 1763.6 1296.7 JUL06 101.15 0 22.25 [8] 0 1820.8 1353.9 AUG06 150.91 0 28 [13] 0 1796.5 1329.6 SEP06 166.45 0 44.75 [14.25] 0 1702.8 1237.9 OCT06 47.27 10.71 11.75 [1.25] 2.75 [1] 1688.8 1214.1 NOV06 39.71 4.89 8.75 [3.5] 1 1677.5 1227.2 DEC06 25.20 27.29 8.5 6.75 [3.25] 1690.7 1231.2 JAN07 0 17.6 0 3.25 1669.9 1225.8 FEB07 0 71.4 0 16.75 [4.75] 1655.4 1225.8 MAR07 0.13 46.3 0 10 [2.75] 1617.9 1222.2 APR07 8.0 12.7 2.25 2.5 [1.25] 1590.2 1217.5 MAY07 18.8 0.37 4 [2] 0 1606.2 1233.1 JUN07 21.7 0 3.5 [2] 0 1591.9 1218.8 JUL07 32.0 0 7 [2.25] 0 1522.0 1148.9 AUG07 108.3 0 21.75 [11.75] 0 1501.9 1128.8 SEP07 85.5 0 19.25 [4.75] 0 1363.2 990.1 OCT07 53.9 0 8.75 [4.25] 0 1317.1 944.6 NOV07 57.2 8.4 13.5 [3.25] 0.25 1344.1 982.5 DEC07 1.0275 15.6 0 2.5 [1] 1339.5 962.9 JAN08 0.3675 35.5 0 6.75 [1.75] 1349.2 957.8 FEB08 0 67.7 0 15 [5.25] 1374.0 957.8 MAR08 0 33.1 0 7.75 [2.5] 1344.9 957.3 APR08 15.59 3.33 5.5 0 1317.4 962.5 MAY08 45.6 0 10 [4.5] 0 1337.7 982.8 JUN08 20.1 0 5.25 0 1353.6 998.7 JUL08 81.14 0 20.75 [0.5] 0 1333.6 978.8 AUG08 49.5 0 10 [2.25] 0 1232.3 877.4 SEP08 130.45 0 26.75 [10.75] 0 1196.3 841.4 OCT08 42.085 4.645 9 [2.25] 0 1185.0 836.2 NOV08 16.0475 0.565 2.5 [1.25] 0 1157.0 812.5 DEC08 9.0825 16.25 2 3 [1.25] 1129.9 796.4 JAN09 0 10.1725 0 1.75 [0.25] 1122.4 796.4 FEB09 0 24.2925 0 4.5 [2] 1075.4 796.4 MAR09 0 23.405 0 4.75 [2.5] 1052.36 796.3 1979-2008 CLIMO - - - - 1570.4 1108.3 HDAYS are hurricane days [64 kts +]; Intense [96 kts+] or Category 3 and higher on the Saffir Simpson Scale 2009 Southern Hemisphere Operational Tracks Used in Table --> SH09_tracks 2008 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Year in Review Upon examination of all tropical cyclone activity in the basins throughout the Northern Hemisphere for the past 2 years, a remarkable downward trend in cyclone energy has continued and reached historic levels of inactivity. USA Today Article on Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Inactivity 2007 Record Hemispheric Tropical Cyclone Inactivity Links 2008 Tropical Conference Powerpoint 2008 AMS New Orleans TC Reanalysis Trends and Sizes PPT 2008 AMS New Orleans Powerpoint [Extra] My friends at the Higher Ground Ministries Climate Donkey Climate Audit Watts Up With That Blog ICECAP Northwest Pacific Floater MeteoSat Full Disk (Europe) Indian Ocean Full Disk (INDOEX) GOES Full Disk East West RAMMB/CIRA NOAA TCs Navy NRL TC Digital Typhoon Database National Hurricane Center Joint Typhoon Warning Center NOAA Geostationary Satellite Global Storm Tracks Global Weather Maps HWRF and GFDL Hurricane Model Maps Earth Moisture Animation Wikipedia 2007 Hurricane Season Wikipedia 2008 Hurricane Season This, my friends, is why liberals hate facts. Learn the truth at www.goldenpansy.com

 

Dear President Obama,

It’s been a week and everything is still the same. Where is all the change that you promised? Perhaps it was a campaign slogan or perhaps you just can’t deliver. Whatever it is, I think that perhaps there is a better solution.

As a conservative, otherwise known as a patriot, I had high hopes that perhaps you weren’t the Marxist that some claimed.   As an American, I prayed that perhaps you could bring our nation’s political divide to an end. To the contrary, we are now more polarized than ever.  

I know that we thought we could work it out, but it just hasn’t happened that way.   Our two ideological sides of America cannot, and will not ever agree on what is right, so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences, and go our separate ways.

We begin by equitably dividing up the country.   Certainly we can sit down and come to an agreement on what is fair. Obviously we start by giving you Michigan and Illinois because your fellow liberals have been the model of efficiency in each of those states.  Don't worry about the cold, I'm sure your global warming will take care of that. We will take the south since you never really liked us anyway. 

After we divvy up the land, the rest should be simple since liberals and conservatives have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them) …

We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, gangbangers, homeboys, hippies, welfare moms, single moms, transvestites and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s, and rednecks. We’ll keep the bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.  We’ve got dibs on family values, since you never really cared for them anyway. You can have gay marriage and the pedophiles at NAMBLA. 

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and destroy any place that threatens our way of life. You can have the peaceniks, and war protesters.  Since you don't like Guantanamo Bay, we'll take the property and turn it into a resort.  You can have the occupants and maybe give them free room and board in the Lincoln Bedroom.  But remember, when they start blowing things up, don't come crying to us because all we'll say is "I told you so".   Well also go ahead and keep Israel as an ally and you can start a dialogue with your pals in North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values and In God We Trust on our currency. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, Jane Fonda and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.  You can give everyone healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya, or We Are the World.

We’ll keep English as our official language and you can have Ebonics or whatever it is you’re teaching the younger generation these days.   We’ll practice trickle down economics, and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot.  Since it often so offends you we’ll keep our history, our name, our Constitution and our flag.

In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you ANWR and 100 offshore oil rigs which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

 

On the First Day, the messiah flubs the oath of office while the Wall Street referendum results in a 322 point, record setting drop.   On Day Two, we come to find out that jobless claims are the highest in 26 years. Day Three results in new construction being at the lowest point since 1959. I'm just going out on a limb, but my guess is Day Four won't result in the creation of the sun and moon, aligning the stars and seasons in perfect harmony.  So much for parting the skies and walking on water; this is more like the coming of Satan.

After all, would anyone but Satan himself risk the lives of Americans by closing the Guantanamo Bay Country Club?  What kind of message does this send to our enemy who are celebrating this decision in caves from Kabul to Karachi.  I'm sure they have already had their share of laughts as we doled out prayer rugs, Korans, cable television or burqua clad prostitutes to their incarcerated jihadist brethren who have no regard for freedom or our way of life.  But, this is justice in the eyes of liberals whose only true regret is that there was not more carnage by these goons on 9/11. 

So what will the president of the ignorant portion of the electorate do with these enemies? Does he intend to bring them to the United States and give them access to our courts?   Are they going to be the beneficiaries of our tax dollars? Isn’t there something truly sick and twisted about our paying to defend those who seek to annihilate us? Then again this should come as no surprise as liberals have long slept with the enemy. 

Here’s another example of how Obama could gain praise and respect.   Rather than coddling our enemy, kill them.   How about we strike a compromise; you get to close Club Gitmo and we get to kill the terrorists. In fact, let’s make it a pay per view event with all proceeds going to those who lost loved ones on 9/11. But alas, killing criminals wouldn’t be morally right because in the eyes of liberals the only ones worthy of a death sentence are innocent little children. 

This charade under the guise of hope and change will continue until America wakes up, but they won’t. They are too busy watching American Idiot and getting their news from ET, Oprah and The View.   They actually think that Obama is here to solve their problems. I guess this is understandable when we have a president who mistakenly believes that government is the solution to all when in fact government is the root cause of all that troubles us today.  

 

Well, I’m waiting…I still have a mortgage and an empty gas tank.   You promised to take care of me from cradle to grave. I heard the campaign rhetoric and the best you can come up with is a taxman who refuses to pay his taxes. Oh, that’s right, he said he was sorry. Yes, it was a goof. In fact it wasn’t even his fault, it was Turbo Tax! Of course, silly me, go ahead and confirm the guy so we can all use him as precedent if we conveniently forget to pay our taxes. Then again, if we do it, we go to jail becase we are not members of the political elite.

Seriously folks, what’s the messiah done already? Wall Street tanked on Day One. He attended an overpriced orgy of fellow liberal elitists who flew in on their leer jets at our expense.   I heard he called a few foreign leaders….what dinner in Tehran? 

All the while the media gushes with pride and joy that their self serving man was put into office by the folks over at ACORN.   Usually I’d be willing to give the new president a chance, which I did. He promised that his election would bring about a change to politics as usual; yet we have a cabinet filled with Clinton retreads. The media promised an end to the racial divide; yet we had to listen to the race baiting drivel of Reverend Lowery. No more corruption in Washington; yet we sit through confirmation hearings on the queen of corruption herself.   Honesty and integrity inside the beltway; is that how Timothy Geithner spells his name? 

The liberal template has been laid out before us, so I guess wanting Obama to fail is where I stand. Certainly if he were proposing the Fair Tax, English only mandates, an end to illegal immigration, defeat of Islamic fascism and school choice I would want him to succeed, but that’s not where he stands. He stands for socialism and an undermining of our rights of economic freedom and individual liberty, so why on earth would anyone who loves America want to see that agenda succeed?

I don’t know how long the honeymoon will last but it can’t possibly be forever. Will it take saddling out kids with a few more trillion? Perhaps. Will it take a terrorist attack on our homeland? That may do it.   Will it take free healthcare, education and welfare for gate crashing criminals? Well, that’s already going on and people could care less.

My guess is once the nanny state stupor wears off, the anger will escalate. I think it may come down to increased taxes. Obama and his fellow liberals seem to be of the belief that they can just tax the superwealthy but the last time I checked they were in relatively short supply.   What happens when they are tapped out, or just get fed up and move elsewhere? 

Each trillion dollar check costs every American somewhere in the neighborhood of $6700 dollars.   We are talking multiple trillions for a population that doesn’t have fifty bucks in the bank.   The debt we are creating will be the demise of our country. If you don’t believe me, just wait until China decides to stop underwriting our foolishness. 

As any historian of the Great Depression will tell you, the market crash of 1929 would have resulted in mere recession of twenty four to thirty six months had the government not intervened.   They did and it took World War II and a half million American lives a decade later to fix what the government created.   If Obama and the liberal Congress institute what they have planned it will take an equally catastrophic event to get our nation back on course. Is that really what we want for our kids? Maybe you should ask those who are hoping his socialist agenda works.  

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

With 2008 officially marking the death of investigative journalism in America, we are now forced to get our news from overseas.   According the Pravda, a paper once more in the tank for Marxism than the New York Times, the world is on the brink of entering another Ice Age.   Hold the phone; ice age. What the heck are you talking about? Don’t you mean global warming, the greatest science fiction hoax since Orwell penned 1984. Oh wait, 1984 is coming to fruition as our government seizes our property and usurps our rights.

As it turns out, there is no such thing as global warming. There never has been and never will be. Sure the earth goes in cycles, as does every other planet in our galaxy and probably in the universe for that matter.   We see temperatures go up, we see them go down. We see increased hurricane activity and different levels of arctic ice.   What we don’t see is any correlation between man and planet other than what the liberals and their Spielbergesque writers in the mainstream media can conjure up. 

We all know that liberals hate facts because the truth so often gets in the way of their wild imagination.   We know that throughout history the world has seen periods of time when ice covered masses such as Greenland were arable farmland.   We have seen other times when the sub tropics were covered in ice as wooly mammoths had their way with the liberal elite. 

According to a growing group of scientists the world is set to enter another Ice Age.   Didn’t Newsweek call this in 1979? That was before their pipedream of global warming; sort of like Obama being accepting of public funds before he was against it.   Ah yes, the wonderful world of liberalism where hypocrisy is a badge of honor.

Long term data indicates that the tilt of the earth, the shape of the orbit and the Precession of the Equinoxes have come into an alignment that gives rise to valid, not Al Gore like, concerns that earth is poised to plunge into an interglacial era, or ice age. 

The astronomical theory of ice age formation was first brought forth by mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842 and was adopted by Czech mathematician Milutin Milankovich to present his findings in the 20’s and 30’s. These facts, which run counter to liberal fiction, were published in  1976 by renowned scientist John Imbrie.

During this same period, junk science was brought forth by Carl Sagan to suggest that greenhouse gasses trapped in the earth’s atmosphere would not only prevent another ice age, but would lead to global warming.   Of course we know that there were some years with above average temperatures that have occurred since the 1970’s, but we also know that every year of the 21^st century has been colder than 1998, the baseline for the great global warming hoax. In fact, the snowpack in the northern hemisphere is the deepest since 1966 and the temperatures the coldest since 2001.

Of course the main flaw in the global warming theory is that it ignores temperature data from the previous million years while selectively utilizing data from a couple years in the 90’s that prove to be convenient.   In addition, the global warming lie conveniently forgets to interpret solar activity, which has a direct and proven correlation to temperature on Earth, as well as all of the other planets that, while lacking SUV’s, did have a similar spike in temperature a decade ago but are now plunging into an ice age. 

 

Wow, just two short weeks until the Messiah parts the skies with peace on earth and goodwill towards man. No more Hamas rocket attacks on innocent Isreali kids, no more gate crashing illegals killing innocent Americans, no more Islamic fascists turning airplanes into projectiles.   The peace and harmony will make me forever grateful to those who had the foresight to bow down to the chosen one. 

Of course we know that none of this will happen as the risk of violence continues to increase in direct correlation to our coddling of terrorists, who for those who attend government schools, are radical Muslims.   Yes, they look different and they dress different, just don’t let your local government academician or bureaucrat hear you saying that aloud. 

Along with this risk of violence abroad will be the increased risk at home, as our intelligence agencies are gutted in the dawn of the Obamanation.   Terrorists and illegals will be given free reign to do as they please to the American public and those who have been basking in the sun at Club Gitmo will now be entitled to their day in our kangaroo courts, where they will be released on their own recognizance to build bombs and slash throats to their hearts content.

If they are lucky, they can sidle up to the trough and maybe get their own terrorist bailout. I mean, we are only at one trillion dollars for this so called stimulus package. Why not give away a little more to our enemies to blow up bridges and roads that, according to liberals, are in great need of repair anyway. Surely we would save a lot on demolition costs and we wouldn’t even have to deal with union road crews who seemingly just stand around and do nothing.

One trillion dollars! Can you even fathom that amount? Did you know that it would take 31,500 years to count to a trillion one second at a time?   Did you know that one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh 310 million tons, which is about the combined weight of all the pregnant illegals between East LA and El Paso.   One trillion dollars in pennies would rise 98.6 million miles into the sky, more than the distance from the earth to the sun. One trillion dollars in pennies laid side by side would be more than 14,000 square miles which is larger than Delaware AND Hawaii, the purported birthplace of the messiah, combined. 

One trillion dollars will break the back of our nation and nobody seems to care, probably because the average government educated moron lacks the intellectual wherewithal to realize the damage that it will inflict. After all, it was these same morons that gave rise to Obama, as he spread his wings and soared amidst the columns of the ancient Greek temple.  

Keep in mind that this trillion dollars is on top of trillions of dollars in debt from the failed socialist security ponzi scheme. It is on top of medicare and Medicaid. It is on top of the inevitable trillions that will be tied up in the government takeover and ultimate destruction of our healthcare system.  

The kind of debt that gave rise to entire economic conundrum we are currently in will pale in comparison to the debt that the government is going to put on the backs of our children, their children and their children’s children. This is the kind of debt that no nation can possible survive.  

Thomas Paine once said that “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” To describe our government today as anything but intolerable would be an understatement of epic proportions.   We are witnessing, for the first time in our history, a government that is truly drunk with power and is using every means possible to silence the truth while passing a sentence of death on our nation.

Government schools are raping the minds of our youth while the media fills the airwaves with lies and distortions in lock step with their liberal allies in Washington who seek to undermine the foundation upon which our nation was founded.   Liberal special interests are working in unison with the courts towards the obsolescence of real marriage, American culture and private property. Liberals in congress have an agenda calling for the banning of free speech and limiting the right to bear arms to only criminals, illegal aliens and terrorists.  

The stage is set for some really bad things to happen to our nation unless people wake up from their nanny state entitlement stupor.   The party is over and it’s time for those of us with any intelligence to make a difference.  

Most certainly, for those of us over thirty, indifference would be the easy way out. Let our children deal with the inevitable pain where suffering and likely violence will arise out of the congressional negligence that is occurring today.   But, to quote Thomas Paine one more time, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my children may have peace.”

Our founding fathers lived by these words.   While they were forced to pick up guns, against the will of the ignorant and uninformed way back when, we are not there (yet). We have the ability to throw Congress out of office and it is something that must be done in 2010.   Sure, there will be damage done to the fiber of our nation in the interim by the careless, reckless and indifferent liberals who have turned our nation in a banana republic where Senate seats are for sale, judges are for hire and government contracts depend not on cost or benefit but rather who you know.   

If the GOP were smart, which they have proven not to be over the past eight years, they will seize this opportunity.   They will point out each and every aspect of the culture of corruption, hypocrisy and sedition that are the foundation of the modern day Democrats.  

 

Oh Boy, do I feel safe now. As Islamic fascists regroup to hatch a plan on what to blow up next, the Obamamessiah goes and picks Leon Panetta as head of the CIA. Seriously, he should have gone to Wal-Mart and picked a cashier who would likely have more experience in espionage than Panetta who served as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and whose biggest decision in life was where to hide the blue dress after Bill made a mess of it.

Coming on the heels of two illegal Senators being installed by the corrupt Democrat machine, this could be an even bigger mess for the chosen one, who was supposed to part the skies and walk on water. 

Today marks the beginning of the Congressional session, as Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of their sedition brigade head to Washington to seize more of our money and usurp more of our rights. I guess the big question is whether or not they will be able to get an approval rating of more than single digits. 

The first item on the agenda is this so called stimulus package that will cost the taxpayers somewhere in the range of $1 trillion dollars.   Included in this stimulus package is a lot of pork, including snow making equipment for Minnesota. As if they needed more snow, but then again when the idiot portion of the electorate votes for Al Franken what do you expect.  My guess is there is even a bailout for the Somali pirates, who by way of a long and sordid family tree are probably distant cousins of B. Hussein Obama himself.

Did you hear that B. Hussein is going to take the oath of office and use his entire name. Yes, the name that Americans were banned from uttering is now going to be broadcast on prime time for his coronation as the latest winner of American Idiot.   I wonder how Ann Coulter feels about that. If you recall she was repudiated for emphasizing his middle name. Perhaps now the Obama voters will realize what damage they have inflicted upon our nation. Then again, most of them don’t even know that 9/11 occurred because it wasn’t reported on Inside Edition, their main source for current events.

Speaking of Ann Coulter, she has been banned from NBC. Yes, banned. Along with transfats, charcoal grilles and fireplaces, the liberal elitists now want to ban Coulter because of her new book, Guilty, which decries media bias. OK, so if the media isn’t biased why don’t they have Coulter on to discuss the media lies, distortions and treasonous agenda that they put forth.   It’s kind of like Obama’s continued refusal to make public his purported birth certificate that would put to rest whether or not he is really an American citizen.

All I can say is it is going to be a very interesting few years.   My suggestion; get as much money out of the country as you possibly can. Explore other places to live because the government has written a check that they can’t cash and when it comes time to pay the fiddler all hell is going to break loose in a way not seen in the history of our republic.   For that you can thank your local liberal. 

Christopher Van

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Without fail, the dawn of the new year brings about the inevitable bevy of new laws to hit the books across the fruited plain.   Effective January 1, 2009, it is now illegal to pee in New Hampshire and those who have the sudden, uncontrollable urge to do so will be faced with a $1000 dollar fine. Of course, the law goes on to say that the person urinating must know that they will be offending someone.   I guess this is a case where ignorance truly is bliss.

In California it is now illegal to text while driving. So let me get this straight, it’s perfectly fine to come across the border, live on the dole and get in state college tuition rates but it’s no longer acceptable to text my illegal alien cousin in Fresno while I drive my low rider through the barrios of East LA.

In Oregon, transfats are now banned.   Yes, another example of idiocy led by liberals who seek to control everything from bodily functions to waistlines. It’s a good thing that there aren’t any transfats in the pot that is legal there. 

In Illinois it is now illegal for contractors with more than $50,000 in state contracts to contribute to the office holder who oversees the deal. At least they excluded Senate seats from this punitive measure that is part and parcel to how business in the most corrupt state in the land is conducted. 

What this amounts to is more evidence that we have far too many unaccountable bureaucrats deciding how we can and can’t live our lives, caring nothing of the masses in their never ending quest for complete government control.

There is nothing wrong with new laws, if they are sensible. Laws that would deport illegal aliens and make illegal border crossings a felony punishable by death would make sense. Rather than banning transfats, wouldn’t it make more sense to sentence anyone driving slow in the fast lane to a month in jail? 

There are a number of things that our legislators could be doing, but are choosing not to.   We need laws to separate schools and state, ban teachers unions and preserve the right to free speech.  

How about some real sensible electioneering laws, like requiring that voters pass a test before they can cast their ballot.   It need not be overly difficult, but perhaps knowing the name of your Senators and Congressional Rep would be a start. Heck even having to know the sum of 1+1 would get rid of half the Obama constituency. 

So why is it when we have a need for real laws that would have a meaningful impact do we find legislators passing what can be described as complete idiocy? Banning transfats, seriously. What next, banning SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles? 

Take a look around at what liberals have in their crosshairs and this isn’t as far fetched as one may believe.   Liberals are already seeking to ban free speech with something called the Fairness Doctrine.   They are continuing their never ending assault to ban your right to defend your family from criminals, the only people they deem worthy of the right to bear arms.   Perhaps the most sensible law that we could ever pass would be a permanent ban on liberalism, a disease that afflicts nearly one half of our population who are either too dumb or too uninformed to know that there is a cure called common sense.  

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Welcome to 2009 and a call from liberals to raise the gas tax by 50%.   State and federal governments already receive as much as seventy cents on the gallon, compared to a paltry eight cent profit seen by Big Oil, perpetually in government’s cross hairs for their purported excess profits. 

The federal tax alone is eighteen cents, with the remainder of what can only be described as legalized thievery coming from the states.   Now the feds are seeking to impose another ten to twelve cent increase, with recommendations that states do the same.  

Leave it to some unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington to see taxation as the only solution to decreased revenues coming on the heels of decreased driving that began with gas approached five bucks a gallon this past summer, which was largely due to decreased supply as the result of failure liberal policies that limits domestic oil exploration and production. 

Rather than looking to steal more from Americans, already struggling in difficult economic times, caused by liberal abuses of power such as the Community Reinvestment Act and corruption at Fannie and Freddie, how about giving us some real solutions. 

If more money is needed for roads, then find it elsewhere. How much cash is being used to subsidize education, healthcare and welfare for illegal aliens? How much of the ill gotten gains of government is being used for bridges to nowhere or union bailouts? The waste of government is endless, yet rather than fix what they have created they seek to steal more from us? 

It’s utterly amazing that they are doing exactly what we would go to jail for.   If we were to demand money from another under the threat of a loss of life or liberty, we would be held accountable.   Yet government remains immune, having a pass to seize as much of OUR money as they see fit from OUR pocketbooks and if we object, they will punish us with a loss of freedom and liberty.

Way back when some folks got a little upset about this type of abuse, which was far less egregious than what we are witnessing today.   Tea was dumped in the Boston Harbor, muskets were procured and a few folks like Adams, Washington, Jefferson and Franklin brought about change. Not the kind of change being promised by the chosen one, which really is just proving to be more of the same, but real change that we could count on. Well, at least we could count on it until liberals got into power.  Maybe a more sensible approach to getting more funds into the government coffers would be to sell liberals, instead of arms, to our enemies abroad. Now there’s some change I could live with.

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Happy Kwanzaa, whatever the heck that is.  To give you a little history lesson, this supposed holiday was invented by Ron Karenga in 1966, when it was branded as a black alternative to Christmas.   Karenga, a convicted felon and former professor of black studies at Cal State Long Beach,  postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week, which begins today.

Along with this racist holiday, Karenga devised a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination." Yes, I am most certain Karenga and Jeremiah Wright were cut from the same cloth.

What all Americans must realize is that there is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent. The term comes from matunda yakwanza, a Swahili term for first fruit.   The last time I checked, Swahili was an East African tongue which has little relevance for black Americans who are descendents of slaves that were generally taken from west Africa. The cultural gap between west and east Africa is as dramatic as comparing Indiana to Indonesia. 

While Kwanzaa purports to celebrate a harvesting ritual, it is somewhat suspect that this would occur in December, a time when harvesting just does not occur.   Kwanzaa supposedly stands for human dignity but how does this reconcile with the common practices in Africa of female circumcision, stoning and polygamy? Kwanzaa celebrates corn, a crop that is indigenous to Mexico, not Africa.   Maybe Karenga, or the followers of this made up holiday could explain the celebration of an Ur-African culture that doesn't even exist in a continent where rival tribes slaughter each other for game.   

The truth is that Kwanzaa is just another excuse by its inventor to promote Marxism.   It has been embraced by liberals, who share a similar ideology and promote this fiction in an attempt to garner support for their nanny state multicultural agenda.

Bill Clinton went so far as to take a hiatus from messing up blue dresses to sign the Kwanzaa proclamation claiming that "The symbols and ceremony of Kwanzaa, evoking the rich history and heritage of African Americans, remind us that our nation draws much of its strength from our diversity."

The truth is that Kwanzaa is a sham. It is a made up holiday with no historical significance. It is a celebration by racists and black seperatists who seek to divide our nation using using fancy terms and outlandish costumes to promote redistribution of wealth. It is a call for blacks to celebrate Marxist concepts that have resulted in failure the world over, just as they are proving to do in our very own nation.  

 

As snow falls from Malibu to Houston one would think that the cries from the global warming alarmists would be silenced with the fact based reality that their silly notions rivaled only by the claims of the flat earth society. 

But as is usually the case with liberals, they will make excuses and use the courts to get their way, even when their way defies all semblance of common sense.   Similar to the Franken Coleman election in Minnesota where actual Election Day results don’t matter when fabricated ballots and activist judges can be used to set those aside in the name of advancing liberalism.  Just as liberals are using every means possible, legal or illegal, to certify Franken the winner, they will do the same to brainwash the American sheep of the plight of the planet. 

While evidence continues to mount that global warming is nothing more than a hoax brought about by anti-capitalist environazis, there are those on the left who still fail to see the forest through the trees. One of the factually challenged zealots would be none other than the messiah himself, who won election on the promise that he would bring about falling sea levels and global harmony.

In showing his true colors of economic and environmental illiteracy, B. Hussein Obama has named John Holdren as his Science Advisor.  Aside from the fact that this guy is a radical left wing zealot let me pose a simple question; why should the American taxpayers be paying for yet another unaccountable, incompetent bureaucrat?

Even the extreme left wing BBC announced this year that 2008 is the coldest year of the 21^st century and validated the fact that average mean temperatures have steadily declined since 1998.   Since these facts seemingly contradict Al Gore’s science fiction film, the liberal enviro wackos decided that they would rename the cyclical nature of weather as climate change. That’s great, now they have all their bases covered.   Snow in San Diego, climate change.   An 80 degree January day in Minneapolis, climate change.   This is perfect for liberals who are measured solely on intent as opposed to results.   What better way to achieve their redistributionist wealth agenda than to create a myth that nobody can debunk.

Unfortunately for hard working Americans with common sense, this will hit us in the pocket book.   The entire global warming/climate change ponzi scheme was created to simply give the government unfettered access to seize more of our earnings. 

For those of you who actually think that global warming exists, I have a bridge to sell you.   For those who think that climate change is some type of manmade phenomenon, look at the facts which are that history provided five distinctly warmer periods than we are witnessing today, including the 12^th century when much of Greenland was arable.   For those who like to blame SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles what’s your excuse for Pluto and Mars, where climate change is also occurring.   Once again, facts trump fiction which is precisely why liberals are going to use their new found power to enact the unFairness Doctrine which is designed to silence those of us who dare to tell the truth.

Throughout the pages of history, censorship and intimidation have been used to silence those who fought freedom.   Be it Stalin, Hitler or Mao, understand that what liberals are doing today is no different.   Sure, they may not want to kill you but that doesn’t mean they don’t seek to take away your economic and individual liberties.  Ask yourself, is it better to live on your knees or die on your feet?   I think our founding fathers provided that answer, which sadly is no longer discussed in our government schools where the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have taken a back seat to nanny state entitlementalism and political correctness. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Bennett based his comments on this years ACT scores in which half of the cities 64 schools placed in the bottom 1% nationwide.   Of course the Democrat controlled school board claimed that it was because of the districts large minority enrollment, most of whom come from low income families and have a limited proficiency of the English language.  

Perhaps if the schools were teaching instead of making excuses their results would be a little better.  Both Cleveland and Milwaukee schools face the same challenges of poverty, broken homes and limited language proficiency, yet their students perform infinitely better because they have instituted school voucher programs where parents, not unaccountable government bureaucrats, select the schools that best meet the needs of their children.   

It appears that as we dig deeper into the Obama cabinet, we are starting to see his true colors show.   Even the messiah himself recognizes not only the failure of government schools, but the institutional racism that is so prevent, as he is sending his children to the elitist Sidwell Friends private school.   This type of liberal hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me. Imagine what would happen if our elected officials were required to send their children to government schools. Do you think we’d see condoms in the lunch line? Hell no, we’d see Bibles in the classroom and teachers spanking kids who misbehave.  

Once again we are seeing proof that liberalism always fails.   The reason for this failure is because liberals are measured only on intentions, not on productivity or results. Liberals have an inherent aversion to producing anything, other than rules, regulations and bureaucracy that inhibits results. 

The good news is that liberalism has always failed and will always fail; the bad news is that things will get worse before they get better as the general public, brainwashed by the mainstream media, continues to wallow in their nanny state stupor.  One day soon they will wake up and realize that their headaches are nothing more than a Democrat induced economic hangover brought about by the Community Reinvestment Act that busted the financial industry and corrupt unions that have brought the Big 3 to their knees.    

There is no question we can get through this, but to do so we must get back to our conservative roots of hard work, family values, rugged individualism and self discipline that made our country great.   We must all spread the word, be it the word of the Lord or the word of the Constitution, as both are equally important in the salvation of our nation. 

The media is spending an inordinate amount of time telling America that the Republican party is dead, but what they overlook is the fact that conservatism is alive and well and moving away from that message is what has hurt the GOP.   For anyone who doubts me, catch the Sarah Palin tour next time she is in town. She and other true conservatives such as Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence and Tom Coburn are the future of America.   

Truly great leaders bring people to them; they don’t waver on their own positions.   As the Republican Party has moved to the center, they have allowed the Democrats to move further left, which is precisely why the GOP has failed. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, two of the greatest leaders of the conservative movement, didn’t waffle at the behest of the media. Rather, they conveyed their message in a way that we all understood and, Democrat or Republican, couldn’t get behind fast enough.  

Gay schools and tasty condoms aren’t the direction that America needs or wants.   Coddling illegal aliens and outlawing Christmas doesn’t go over well in small town U.S.A. Undermining our Constitution, banning free speech and the right to defend our loved ones will not be tolerated, yet it is the goal of liberals.  Since the mainstream media won’t convey the message, it is up to you and I and our failure to execute in this mission would be tantamount to our forefather’s laying down their arms and surrendering to the British more than two hundred years ago. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Perhaps a story that is bigger than the Big 3 lining up at the trough is the State of California, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Democrat controlled assembly and Governor Schwarzenegger are pushing for tax increases which are currently being blocked by a small, but vocal Republican minority.   California is days away from having their credit rating cut and is resorting to paying bills in warrants instead of cash.  

I’m not sure why nobody in Sacramento gets this, but why not just cut out the insidious funding of education, healthcare and welfare for illegals? If California would immediately cut off all of the aforementioned wasteful benefits there would be no budget issue. If they would make their land so inhospitable to criminal aliens they would most certainly see their deficit turn into a surplus as achieving residents and businesses may actually return to the Golden State instead of packing their bags and moving to Nevada. 

Why is it so hard for elected officials, across the fruited plain, to see the simple solutions that could fix our economy in time for Christmas? Could it be that the economic illiteracy of liberals and their blind quest for power are standing in the way of saving America? I certainly don’t have a PhD in economics, I am not a Wharton grad and certainly can’t part the waters like the Messiah, but if I can figure it out why can’t they?    

If we were to do the following ten things, the economy would recover instantaneously:

1)      Repeal the Federal Personal and Corporate Income Tax and all withholding.

2)      Replace these taxes with the Fair Tax.

3)      Demand that Congress leave their leer jets at home and opt out of their retirement and medical plans and use the same plans they are created for the rest of us.  

4)      Demand that Iraq repay us a debt of gratitude with $100 billion dollars worth of oil and oil futures.   If the Somali pirates can do it, so can our pirates inside the beltway. 

5)      Eliminate all earmarks forever more.   No more buying votes with ridiculous pet projects.   Anyone violating this will immediately be impeached from office. 

6)      Privatize social security and let people invest their own money. Even with today’s terrible performance on Wall Street we would see better results than the pathetic returns provided by our unaccountable federal bureaucrats. 

7)      Demand that the Big 3 file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganize as non union shops. 

8)      Implement tort reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits and have loser pay laws requiring the lawyer to pay judgments on behalf of client’s who bring such actions. 

9)      Bar anyone from casting ballots federal, state or local elections if they don’t have an IQ of at least 80, have a photo ID and pay taxes. 

10) Stop all funding for the education, healthcare and welfare of illegal aliens.

Like I said, it’s simple.   I get it, you get it and so does every American with an ounce of common sense. But for some reasons the American hating left doesn’t get it. Instead they would rather lecture us on what is and is not best for us. If they don’t know what is best for our nation then they certainly don’t know what is best for us.