Look's like Obama's found himself a new preacher!

Headline: Bishop says climate-change deniers are as bad as sex dungeon father Josef Fritzl.

'twas Evil Capitalist Pigs that killed the beast...

The Lieberman-Warner "Let's Kill Capitalism Once and for All Act of 2008" will be debated soon in the Senate. Some background can be found here. However, it looks like the bill may meet the fate of last year's immigration bill. But, thank goodness, this year the media can ignore the grassroots effort to kill the cap-in-trade bill. Why? This year we have a convenient scapegoat...the Fortune 500 company:

An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor.

[...]

Without widespread corporate support, passage of the bill - already a long shot at best - becomes even more unlikely this year. President Bush remains opposed. House Democrats have been slow to act.

Besides that, a backdrop of rising gasoline prices and the sluggish economy makes it difficult to win votes for a regulatory scheme that will raise the prices of electricity and gasoline. In fact, a key purpose of the bill is to put a price on the emissions of greenhouse gases, as a way to speed the transition to a clean-energy economy and slow down global warming.

See, the People want carbon taxes. It's those corporations that are impeding progress. Who is John Galt?

But don't worry, there is plenty of time to pass the legislation next year. In fact, the environmental lobby didn't even bring their A-game this time around (emphasis mine):

[E]ven supporters concede that the debate will set the scene for action in 2009.

"This will put us in a position to have action next year," says David Doniger, director of the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a supporter of the bill. "We expect in the Senate that the 60-vote rule will be applied. That's a hard one to get over."

As currently written, Lieberman-Warner might fall short of a 50-vote majority in the Senate, let alone the 60 votes required to close debate, insiders say. Presidential candidates (and Senators) Clinton, McCain and Obama all support climate-change legislation.

Thanks, New Hampshire!

UPDATE:Heh. Looks like one of the environmental groups pushing Lieberman-Warner is violating McCain-Feingold. I wonder if Sen. McCain will go after them the way he went after Wisconsin Right to Life.

McClellan book publisher donates exclusively to Dems. Update: Soros-owned?

Not a huge surprise, really, but it does make some of the things former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said in his book a little more suspect:

Peter Osnos, a former vice president of Random House's Adult Trade Books and former publisher of Times Books, will become publisher and chief executive of a new nonfiction publishing company, Public Affairs, it was announced yesterday. The new house will specialize in books by public figures, journalists, historians and social critics.

The announcement was made by Mr. Osnos and Frank H. Pearl, chairman of Perseus Capital, an investment company with interests in media companies, which is to finance the new venture.

His donation history shows contributions to both Sens. Clinton and Obama, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. Mark Warner's Senatorial campaign, the DSCC, and Rep. Jim Moran. He also made donations to the DNC, Sen. John Kerry, and Gen. Wesley Clark in the 2004 presidential race.

(h/t Mark Levin)

UPDATE: It appears that the publishing company is also owned by George Soros. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

As long as we're rejecting endorsements of people who say ridiculous things...

When's the Obamessiah going to reject MoveOn.org's endorsement? Memorial Day would be a good time to reject at least some of their hate.

With 0% of precincts reporting, it's already clear that Kentucky's Democrats are racist

That post title started out as a tongue-in-cheek, but hey, it works. The Politico says there are five things to watch in Kentucky today, including the role of race:

And though Kentucky voters may also factor race into their votes, they also might be more reluctant to admit it to exit pollsters, said Laurie Rhodebeck, an associate political science professor at the University of Louisville.

“Voters get a little prickly here if you say race” drove their choice, she said. “They’ll say, ‘It’s more that we’re concerned about his church ties or his lack of military experience or that he seems so young and untested.’ Those may be socially acceptable ways of saying they’re uncomfortable with a black candidate.”

Meaning, if you don't vote for the Obamessiah you're either a racist or just using other excuses to cover up the fact that you're racist. Good to know.

I love Kentucky: The "Look what they made Hillary do" edition

The best part of this story is that I'm about 95% certain the minister is the father of one of my good friends in high school:

When things couldn't be looking worse for Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency in 2008, as her rival Barack Obama closes in on gaining enough delegates to secure the nomination, the former first lady attended a church service in Bowling Green, Ky., Sunday featuring a sermon about lust and adultery.

The hour-long sermon focused on the sin of committing adultery -– as outlined in Mathew 5:27-32.

[...]

Paul Fryman of the State Street United Methodist Church asked the congregation, "How is your commitment level in your marriage this morning?’

He spoke about lust and the sin of cheating on your partner. Clinton looked straight ahead as the man spoke about the theme of the sermon, which was: "Come Up Higher When the Devil Whispers Over Your Shoulder."

Ha.

Meet the new standard-bearer of the Republican Party...

According to the media, it's Rep. Tom Davis. Why? Because he's a maverick, of course, which means that we all need to listen to him:

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) thinks that President Bush is "absolutely radioactive" and that any Republicans close to the him will suffer electoral consequences.

[...]

"Republicans, I think, have time to turn it around to some extent," Davis tells the network.

"But, if they don't, we're cruising for a bruising."

Davis has been mentioned as a possible replacement for current NRCC chair Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) following three straight special election defeats for the GOP. The Virginia Republican is not seeking reelection.

Yes, replacing Rep. Cole with someone who had an ACU rating of 60 last year is exactly the move that would energize the base. What? Was Rep. Chris Shays unavailable?

I'm just going to write off 2008 right now. As Sean Hannity would say, "conservatism in exile".

UPDATE: I spoke too soon, the GOP now has two standard-bearers:

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican Party when he warned years ago that the GOP was in danger of "dying at the box office" by failing to make the sale to a wide swath of voters.

And with the presidential election looming, the Republican governor of the nation's most populous state - a decidedly blue state - has now found a chorus of agreement. The Republican "brand" - thanks to an unpopular president, a war, gas prices, foreclosures and deficit - has become such damaged goods that GOP Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia groused last week that "if we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."

The answer for GOP presidential candidate John McCain: take a page out of the Schwarzenegger playbook and sell a product that is "counter" to the current GOP brand on issues like global warming, spending and even immigration reform.

[...]

"The Republican idea is a great idea, but we can't go and get stuck with just the right wing," Schwarzenegger said. "Let's let the party come all the way to the center. Let those people be heard as much as the right. Let it be the big tent we've talked about."

Yes, let's abandon the party to the center. You know, the voters who don't donate, don't volunteer, don't canvas. The ones who just show up and vote. Ya know. If they feel like it.

It's election season, time for another military deserter "profile in courage" from the media...

On July 15, the United States needs to toss this cowardly traitor in jail and lock up the key (emphasis mine):

Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.

"I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told AFP.

"I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old, he added.

Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant.

He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq.

On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war.

"I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq," Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.

I won't waste any more space on this blog to discuss this man's crime, other than to say that I hope he realizes that as soon as the anti-war left s done using his sorry ass he'll be just another poor, Southern, white man.

I like the spin here from the Agence France-Presse. Before this, I assumed that military recruiters sought out people who felt the call to serve their country, whether they be rich, poor, or middle class. And, even if they did seek him out, where is the problem with that? The military could have given this man opportunities that he might have never gotten without them. Experience. An education. Self-respect. Also, if the man didn't want to join, why did he sign?

They must be going for the Ted Rall Award of Comic Excellence in the Field of 9/11 Humor....

Normally I like the web comic Married to the Sea, but this cartoon posted last month is ridiculously offensive. But I guess all that means is that I'm a conservative without a sense of humor, right?

C'mon you bitter rubes, Hitler wasn't that bad...

Sayeth the editor of the Seattle Times:

What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany’s eastern and western borders had been redrawn 19 years before—and not to its benefit. In the democracies there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World War I. Certainly there was a memory of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have entirely forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of “The Good War” it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of Czechoslovakia, they were following their historical wisdom: avoid war. War produces results far more horrible than you expected. War is a bad investment. It is not glorious. Don’t give anyone an excuse to start one.

I dunno. I know about 6 million people who might disagree.

Thanks to the Moron-in-Chief who notes that "it's only mid-May. Wait 'till they've built up a head of steam."

The biggest problem with John McCain's 2013 speech...

The biggest problem with McCain's 2013 speech is that I can already see, in my head, the Democrat's 2012 campaign election ads when McCain inevitably doesn't come through on his promises (especially since so many of those promises are dependent upon Democrats being bipartisan).

(Nevermind the fact that every Democratic electoral success requires them to either run as conservatives or promise things they can't deliver.)

My governor's only been in office 4 months...

...and he's already an embarrassment:

Gov. Steve Beshear, who has remained neutral during the presidential primary and who will serve as a Kentucky superdelegate at the national convention in August, avoided talking about the Democratic candidates by criticizing President Bush.

"When I mention that Democrats are problem solvers, I can think of only one Republican who can be a problem solver -- that is Vice President Dick Cheney if he would just take George on a hunting trip," Beshear said. Cheney accidentally shot fellow quail hunter Harry Whittington in Texas in 2006.

Sheesh. November 2011 can't come soon enough for Kentucky.

More links over at Gateway Pundit.

Just when you thought the Dems couldn't get more corrupt...

A superdelegate from California, DNC member Steven Ybarra, is having trouble deciding between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He is waiting to hear back their positions on a very important matter. Read and be amazed, my friends:

The Democratic National Committee member doesn't parse his words when it comes to what he wants from Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton - an ironclad promise to spend that heady amount to register Mexican-American voters and get them to the polls in November.

In a telephone interview Wednesday, he said he plans to remain undecided in the tight contest until "someone shows me the money."

When will he settle on a candidate?

"Nobody showed me any money yet," he said.

Tough. Strong. Retarded.

Ybarra is, of course, just trying to figure out if he hates black men or white women more.

If only our the Democrats had a way to chose a nominee that didn't involve this superdelegates. Perhaps they could use some system of private ballots. This would let average Democrats (and independents, depending on the state) could vote for the nominee and elect the delegates themselves.

Nah...that'd never work.

A non-original thought on the Democratic primary...

I can't help but think that it would have been settled months ago if Democrats chose their candidates based on issues rather than identity politics.

[Of course, it would be easier for Democrats to chose their candidate based on the issues if the Democrats allowed any ideological diversity in their party. (see: Lieberman, Joe)]

Heartache: Celebrities aren't as eco-friendly as they want the plebians to be.

The Daily Mail gives us a tour of eco-hypocritical celebrities. For example:



The most shocking thing about this, to me at least, is that people still listen to Coldplay at all. Come one people, 2003 was a nice year, but it was a long time ago.

Fund drive for "Rev." Parrish

Yesterday Gateway Pundit reported that "Rev." Marty Parrish's church has disowned him, stating that not only is he not a minister there, hes not even an active member. Not only that, but Parrish was using his web site to try to make money off of the stunt.

Well, after all hell broke lose in his unmoderated (hint, hint) comments section, Parrish has deleted all the text of the original post, and responded in the comments:

You guys are all CORRECT!

Now I am going to visit each one of you at your home while you are in bed at night asleep under the blankets just after Mother kisses you good night and...


I AM GOING TO WEAR THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ALL OF YOU.

Bastards.

I am.

Marty Tarrel Parrish

PS. Kiss your ass goodbye cause God just gave it to me.

Hmmm...he must have gone to a very interesting seminary. Maybe he's angling for that associate pastor position at Trinity United. If only he weren't the White Devil...

You might just be a Nazi if...

...you use plastic bags, according to Baltimore City Councilman James Craft.

Heh. I guess the Baltimore City Council has finally solved all big problems.

Actual Headline: "Global warming set to fan HIV"

You read that right. In addition to causing heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, and snow storms, global warming is now set to help spread AIDS:

"It was clear soon after the emergence of the HIV epidemic that discrimination, gender inequality and lack of access to essential services have made some populations more vulnerable than others,'' said Prof Tarantola, of the University of NSW.

Those problems had not gone away, he said, and today extra threats were lurking on the horizon "as the global economic situation deteriorates, food scarcity worsens and climate change begins to affect those who were already dependent on survival economies''.

"Climate change will trigger a chain of events which is likely to increase the stress on society and result in higher vulnerability to diseases including HIV,'' said Prof Tarantola, due to address an HIV forum in Sydney tonight.

[...]

"Climate change will lead to food scarcity and poorer nutrition, putting people with perilous immune systems at more risk of dying of HIV, as well as contracting and transmitting new and unusual infections,'' Prof Cooper said.

Life sure is different over there in the reality-based community. Maybe this is party of Whitey's grand plan to spread some of that good ol' government-engineered HIV. Wright is a prophet.

The most telling Wright quote yet...

From the Hate-monger's appearance at the National Press Club this morning:

On the Government created AIDS: Have you read "Medical Apartheid"? I read different things.. Cites the Tuskeegee Experiments. "I believe our government is capable of doing anything."

Emphasis mine.

I believe that this one sentence says more about Wright, Sen. Obama, and liberalism in general than any number of Wright's sermons or Obama's "distractions". The government is capable of "doing anything" in modern liberalism.

It is capable of injecting AIDS and crack into the black community. It is capable of creating the 9/11 attacks. It is capable of fabricating wars just to kill "dark people". It is capable of any imaginable evil.

But wait, there's more! It is also capable of providing for all your hopes and dreams! It is capable of fully funding all health care in America. It is capable of taking care of your child's college education for you. It is capable of equitably redistributing wealth from the have's to the have-not's. It is capable of giving everyone high speed internet. It is capable of ending all conflicts just by talking. It is able to completely eliminate poverty in the United States and across the globe.

It is capable of getting 300,000,000+ individuals to unify to agree that all these things are a good idea.

Yes, the government is capable of anything.

(Make sure to go to the link. There are plenty of quotes from Wright there.)

Another round of Guess! That! Party!

Let's head down to Birmingham, where the Mayor has found an interesting way to fight crime:

Struggling to confront a worsening homicide rate, the mayor asked pastors and citizens Friday to don burlap sacks and ashes Friday in an Old Testament-style sign of biblical repentance.

Mayor Larry Langford said his "sackcloth and ashes" rally at Boutwell Auditorium was inspired by the Book of Jonah, where residents of the ancient city of Ninevah wore rough fabric and ashes as a sign of turning away from sin.

[...]

Since he took office last year, Langford has held three prayer rallies as a way of addressing crime and violence. Bibles were handed out at one of the events.

"This city needs to humble itself," said Langford, a professing Christian.

Conveniently, the mayor has chosen a "solution" that doesn't involve getting tough on criminals or personal responsibility.

I don't know about you, but I'm starting to smell that creeping theocracy we've all been warned about...