One would have to have had one’s head literally in the sand to have not read or heard about the massive media push this past week to convince the world that global warming is indeed here and that Man is solely responsible. Like the recent global warming in Chicago.

I’ll write up front: global warming may perhaps be occurring; I am not completely convinced. Weather patterns have been changing, yes. But the most important question has not been satisfactorily answered, as far as I am concerned, and that is this:

Is the possibility of “global warming” conclusively Man-Made, or is it a cycle that the earth experiences despite the presence of homo sapiens?

The recent issue with domestic weather reports clearly demonstrates an agenda that is motivated by “political correctness” and, more importantly, by money via the Global Warming Pimps. See my post here on this.

Furthermore, when the push for global warming oddly enough happens to correspond with perceived dissatisfactions of the United States by a number of nations with obvious agendas on any number of topics, then I am even more leery of this massive push for sanctions against the United States.

It should come as no shock that many nations overtly dislike President Bush. He is a man of faith, from Texas, simply spoken, who wears cowboy boots, has the love and support of his military. He is not a member of the Elite Left, has not historically excoriated the military, did not protest the Vietnam war, and has no problem with making a decision no matter the thoughts of those around him or other nations.

The Left, nations above and below the US, those of Europe and our clear enemies have looked and are looking for any hook, any crack, any flaw, in order to bring us down.

I have not yet even addressed the issue of Islam, a religion primarily consisting of those who would adore seeing the absolute dismantling of civilization, modernity and, more importantly, all of Western Civilization. Sharia Law? Yes. Convert or die? Absolutely. We are Islam, we are Borg. You shall be assimilated or killed. The mindlessness of Islamists.

With this in mind, the Kyoto Protocol was signed and ratified by 166 nations, and signed but not ratified by the United States or Australia.

One glaring omission is the mandate to make huge developing countries such as China, India and Brazil come into compliance with Kyoto. They are conspicuously exempt. Imagine that.

And though they have signed, both Canada and Japan have no idea how they’ll be able to comply with the mandate that greenhouse gases and emissions be reduced by 5.2% by the year 2012.

When some scientists lay the blame for the greatest threat of emissions squarely on methane gases from cow belches and farts, each cow allegedly emitting 200 to 400 quarts of methane per day, well, your veracity runs from 100 to 0 with me in nothing flat.

Allow me to make what I call the Logical Extension with regard to America and the Kyoto Protocol:

The Left, much of Europe and certainly our enemies are all about Socialism at best and the redistribution of wealth. Make no mistake: our wealth, as a nation. Your wealth. My wealth. And trust me: I am not a yearly 6-figure guy. But I know, beyond the faintest shadow of any doubt, who best has the proper idea on how to spend the money I make: ME. And no one else.

The Kyoto Protocol is one clear way to ensure the United States “gets its come-uppance.” I’ll dissolve it even further: Losers hate Winners. And the United States is a Winner by most all possible measures — engendering a global host of enemies for that fact alone — not to mention the self-loathing aspect of those nations whose most intimate butts have been saved by the United States.

France, are you getting this?

Apparently not, for the wondrous Jack Chirac has threatened the United States with a carbon tax on American products via the European Union:

But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”

Trade lawyers have been divided over the legality of a carbon tax, with some saying it would run counter to international trade rules. But Mr. Chirac said other European countries would back it. “I believe we will have all of the European Union,” he said.

Trust me when I write that this is all about the destruction of the United States as a World Power. US companies already have to compete with Third and Fourth World nations with regard to bare bones labor costs; couple this with the billions and billions of dollars required to comply with Kyoto and the entire changing of the American lifestyle — you’d best get used to embracing your Schwinn.

More than at any other time in my life, the United States is under fire from every angle, from most every nation.

And yet we spend-spend-spend your tax dollars on those nations who seek our complete and utter annihilation.

How much more can we take? How much longer can we continue to pay nations to take us down? How much longer can we continue to hit ourselves on the head with a large hammer?

Not much longer, I think.

And, oh yes, the Giveaway Party is now in power. Goody.

Wow. I haven’t done this in quite some time. But last post, when Jenn of the Jungle commented, I visited her blog. I read a few posts on “Screw Politically Correct BS” and, within approximately 35.2 seconds, determined that I needed to add her to the BZ “Usual Suspects” list at right.

Jenn, from California (my home state, though I spell it Fornicalia for reasons I find clear and compelling), writes in her disclaimer:

This blog contains my own personal opinions. You can agree with them or not. I don’t care. Death threats will result in your being banned for all eternity. Period. Other than that, go to town. This blog is not endorsed by anyone, just my fish, Hardy. And he is thinking of running for president in 2008.

Gosh. I like that. A lot.

Further, in her profile, Jenn lists two great movies in her “favorites:” Patton and Red Dawn. My attention had thus been completely acquired. Eclectic musical tastes similar to mine included Rage Against The Machine, Eagles, Tool and Metallica. Zowie! I conclusively knew she had to be added to the blogroll when, under “interests,” she listed “pissing off liberals.” I fairly swooned.

I think her blog masthead, which I have included here, says it all.

Ladles and Gentle Ben, I would highly recommend giving Jenn’s blog Screw Politically Correct B.S. an immediate and continuing view.

Jenn: welcome aboard!

William Arkin, in his column Early Warning, “On National And Homeland Security,” has written two posts for the Washington Post which have, shall we say, ahem, indicated his clear dim-wittedness, disrespect and incapability to understand the basic freedoms bestowed upon every citizen of these United States.

He wrote two posts; please see both and in this order: post one, and then post two.

Hugh Hewitt took Mr. Arkin to task and wrote “The Washington Post’s William Arkin has penned two poisonous columns revealing his contempt for the American military,” and “The Post now faces a business decision: Does it continue to employ as its ‘national security and homeland security’ expert a military-hater with zero credibility, or does it give him the boot?”

Know what? I’ll clip some excerpts here and you can decide. But please; don’t simply take my word for it — read both posts and draw your own conclusions.

From the first column:

The Troops Also Need to Support the American People
I’ve been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq last Friday in which a number of soldiers expressed frustration with opposition to war in the United States.

I’m all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn’t for them to disapprove of the American people.

These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President’s handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.

Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.

It only gets more insulting and degrading:

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

But it is the United States, and the recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary – oops sorry, volunteer – force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.

Allow me a moment here if you will, whilst I try to come down from 210/190. I really will make a concerted attempt to minimize the poo-poo-nasty words but I fear some may ultimately slip and snake their way through to sunlight.

First, because they are soldiers, Mr. Arkin would apparently have us believe they have become and should forever be mute; that is to say, shut the fuck up, take the bullets and IEDs for us and keep their damned opinions to themselves. In essence Arkin says: “I’m all for everyone expressing their opinion except when it conflicts with my beliefs — then it’s incumbent upon commanders to discipline their troops for disagreeing with a segment of the American People” — and clearly not all the American People.

First Big Question: would Arkin have even wasted his time with this article in terms of j’accuse had the soldiers expressed opinions congruent with his own? Huh — I suspect not.

First Answer From BZ: you hypocrite.

Also, if soldiers are so well paid, so well cared-for, why are some families below the American poverty level? “Vast social support systems?” Ever been to a VA hospital? Good luck. Belonging to the American Military is not an assumed “walk in the park” by any stretch of the imagination.

And “ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them”? What in the fuck do you mean by this, Mr. Arkin? That we shouldn’t take care of our own troops? That we might ship iPods and books and candies and PDAs and clean underwear and letters from strangers to the men and women that fight for us is a bad thing?

Check out the photo to the right, Mr. Arkin. My, that’s an appealing way to sleep, don’t you think? Ah, so comfy! And so easy to let your mind relax from another dull day of dodging RPGs, 7.62 rounds, Semtex, AK-47s and the like. Ah, so simple to be the average American soldier in Iraq. Stress? What stress?

Stress is apparently, for Mr. Arkin, having to decide when to drive to his market for a new bottle of wine for his dinner guests. Red? White? Merlot? I am so perplexed; I can’t take it! Where’s my Paxil, dammit?!

And best yet, Mr. Arkin has just labeled all our good soldiers as nothing more than mercenaries.

Mercenaries.

The next column he writes (see this link again, post two) consists of his attempting to ameliorate and make light of the fact he called our soldiers “mercenaries.”

And then, because it’s a blog, here’s a comment from some inarticulate shitstick belittling not only our freedoms, but this nation’s soldiers having died for his ability to write:

Sieg Heil To The Glorious Military For They Brought Us Forth Our Freedoms. BFD!
Posted by: Sieg Heil February 1, 2007 10:31 PM

Ah yes, there’s a good American.

And Mr. Arkin, you too are a good American, just like Sieg Heil above.

Apparently the GOP is actually beginning to consider The Pledge, and may actually be listening to some of our 32,000 thoughts.

For those unfamilar with The Pledge, it states:

I have one further admonition: no money to the RNC, as well.

Hugh Hewitt notes that Roll Call, “the newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955” writes:

NRSC Feels Heat on War
Conservative Radio Host Leads Campaign to Block Donations
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
January 30, 2007
As differences over the Iraq War continue to bedevil President Bush and Congressional Republicans, the debate threatens to fracture the relationship between conservative activists and Republican Senators headed for tough re-election battles in 2008.

Further:

The Web site — www.thenrscpledge.com — boasted around 30,000 signers as of Monday, and that’s a cause of concern for Senate Republicans.

NRSC spokeswoman Rebecca Fisher said Monday the committee is taking Hewitt’s effort seriously, indicating the NRSC is concerned about the practical implications it might have on fundraising and grass-roots support for GOP Senate candidates.

“Of course we worry about the effect something like this has on online fundraising,” Fisher said. “As we explore different methods of fundraising, we have to be sure that we can effectively take advantage of every available avenue. And with a response like this blog has received, we take notice.”

Folks, only by hitting people in their WALLETS will attention be paid. And as Conservatives, we want to be HEARD.

SIGN THE PLEDGE.

Some of these photos say it all. Does this photograph not bespeak volumes?

Then, Al Franken has decided that he is leaving Air America. And Air America is being sold. Do you then wonder why the Democrats are pushing for a return of the Fairness Doctrine? The Left and the Democrats can’t make it in the Free Market with free market forces, so they have to take other measures in order to force their views. Note to Democrats: if you’re so fabulous, if your ideas are so wondrous, if you are lovingly-embraced by the masses — then where’s your darned ratings? Why aren’t your minions putting their ears and cash where their politics are located? Hmmm? Perhaps something to do with “after all, content is king?”

“We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.”

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone — not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes. (This one is my pet peeve…get an education and go to work….don’t expect everyone else to take care of you!)

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we’re just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don’t be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don’t be surprisedif the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won’t have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don’t care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!(Finally) Article:XIThis country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution.

Go about your day folks, God bless and be safe!