Nader hates that term. But the truth is the truth.

Ralph Nader has (ho-hum) thrown his hat into the Presidential Ring for, what, the fourth time? Fifth time? Who knows? Who much cares?

Here’s the only factor involved:

He won’t steal votes from the GOP; that’s a given.

I say he won’t steal votes from Obama.

I say Hillary has the greatest number of votes to lose from Nader’s inclusion.

The Canadian National Post writes:

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”

Of course, the global cooling will be attributed to global warming. That’s what’s so great about the religion of Global Warming: if it’s actually warm on a given day? Global Warming! If it’s cool on a given day? Global Warming again, causing the global cooling!

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

Article author Lorne Gunter is going straight to Liberal Hell for daring to write:

OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.

But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter’s weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.

And it’s not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.

According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona — two prominent climate modellers — the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.

“We missed what was right in front of our eyes,” says Prof. Russell. It’s not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind’s effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.

Oh crap! Facts! RUNNNNNNN! RUN AWAAAAAY!!

The two Demorat presidential contenders, Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Hillary RODHAM Clinton continue, much to my public glee, delight and perpetual entertainment, to slash, hack, stab, parry and thrust knives into their opponent’s soft white (hey, Barack isn’t 100% “street cred,” say a percentile of blacks) underbelly:

Here, the Clinton Camp emphasizes the HUSSEIN aspect of Obama.

Here, the Obama Camp fires back, accusing the CC of “”shameful offensive fear-mongering” by circulating the photo as a clear attempt to point out Obama’s Muslim background (as an aside, anyone have any doubt that Obama will be sworn in on a family Koran?).

Some think that Hillary is running a series of last-ditch efforts to somehow connect or re-connect with a Demorat electorate that seems to be favoring Obama.

Bob Novak seems to think that, for the Good Of The Order, Hillary needs to go — but who will tell her?

Even before Sen. Barack Obama won his ninth straight contest against Sen. Hillary Clinton, in Wisconsin last Tuesday, wise old heads in the Democratic Party were asking this question: Who will tell her that it’s over, that she cannot win the presidential nomination and that the sooner she leaves the race, the more it will improve the party’s chances of defeating Sen. John McCain in November?

ABC News says Hillary has eight days to pull the rug out from under Obama, or face annihilation.

After shoving the photo of Obama about, The New York Times seems to think Clinton has left her Angry Place for her new Sarcastic Place.

The latest NBC News delegate hard count:

DEMOCRATS

Obama 1,192

Clinton 1,036

There are 16 delegates unallocated, including 10 in Colorado, 2 in Maryland and one each in Hawaii, Abroad, New York, Tennessee.

Superdelegate Count

Clinton 257

Obama 194

(Obama has gained 24 publicly declared superdelegates since Super Tuesday, Feb. 5. Clinton has lost a net of three.)

GRAND TOTAL

Obama 1,386

Clinton 1,293

REPUBLICANS

McCain 930

(AP allocates 102 more for McCain to bring total to 1,032 — just 159 short of nomination)Romney 293

Huckabee 246

There are 35 unallocated, including 20 in Louisiana, 5 from WA caucus, 5 from WA primary, 3 from WI, 2 from TN.

Romney, though “out,” is still ahead of Huckabee who is “in.”

Me?

I think Clinton made one of her final missteps by releasing the new Obama photo. This plays well with me and my ilk, of course, in an entertaining vein (as opposed to, say, her slit vein) but won’t play well with any number of Demorats. The Daily Kos wrote:

So this picture of Obama in Somali (or Kenyan) garb has everyone in a tizzy right now. Me, I think it’s kind of cool to see Obama in tribal clothing.

Meaning: the photo isn’t Playing In Poughkeepsie — or anywhere else for that matter. Naturally, in a standard style, Kos cozys back up to the Clintonistas by saying, hey, they didn’t really mean it and, after all, how can anyone keep track of 700 staffers?

Hillary The Unbeatable, Hillary The Dues-Payer, Hillary The Anointed, may just have her ass handed to her in the next month or so. It’s not a pretty picture — on any number of levels. She and/or her Campaignistas do not understand the tenets of Political Marketing 101: