Angelina jolie Joins Team America
Gateway Pundit links to the this WaPo option piece by none other than Angelina Jolie.
After a visit to Iraq, Jolie announces that America has
an obligation to win.
My visit left me even more deeply convinced that we not only have a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious, long-term, national security interest in ending this crisis.
For the many Americans who live and die by the advice of Hollywood celebrities, this story could turn the tide of public opinion–if it gets more play in the MSM.
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Obama Prefers Al Qaeda in America
Demonstrating a remarkable daftness for thinking on his feet, Barack Obama magnified the folly of a debate gaffe, today, in a clumsy rejoinder to John McCain’s response.
In a debate, Obama said he would deploy troops back into Iraq, after a pullout, if al Qaeda established bases. (Do I really need to point out the lack of intelligence, understanding, and strategy his comment portrays?)
McCain responded by saying, "I have news for Senator Obama, al Qaeda is in Iraq, and that’s why we’re fighting in Iraq."
Obama’s response [via CNN]
But I have some news for John McCain, and that is that there was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.
Actually, Senator, before we invaded Iraq, al Qaeda was in Manhattan killing your Democrat opponent’s constituents.
Such details escape the junior Senator from Illinois, though. Messiahs don’t sweat the small stuff.
The best shot in this debate came from W himself:
I believe Senator Obama better stay focused on his campaign with Senator Clinton, neither of whom has secured their party’s nomination yet.
Touche
Gateway Pundit has more
The Giants of My Youth are Nearly Gone
My favorite cat’s name was Buckley. The cat was nothing like my hero, but he crawled into my heart, settling there as snuggly and permanently as my hero did into my mind and soul.
Reagan, Thatcher, and William F. Buckley Jr. That my children were privy to such greatness.
A woman called Rush Limbaugh today as I left work to grab a hotdog and soda for lunch at the near-by QuikTrip.
"Rush," she said, "I went out to my mailbox to get my issue of National Review–it was there–then I heard your opening monologue . . ."
My God, I thought. William F. Buckley died. Some things you must hear; others you intuit.
I thought it would never happen. Buckley dying, I mean.
When I came home on my first leave from the Navy, my sister, Sue, told a story to a small group who’d gathered to welcome me home. Sue told us she had been talking to our mom about a great new television show called "Family Ties."
"I told Mom that this kid reminds me of Bill," Sue said. "His dad told his mom, ‘I’m worried about Alex–he sleeps with a poster of William F. Buckley over his bed.’"
"Mom said, ‘Sue, come here.’ She took me upstairs to Bill’s room, and there was a picture of Buckley right above his bed!"
Buckley is, was, and always will be the human being I’d most like to become. I started watching ‘Firing Line’ in 1978 when I was in 8th grade. I received a subscription to National Review for my matriculation into high school. I encourage my boys to look first to the Church, then to Buckley, when deciding the best way to think, to act, to pray, to write, to vote, to praise, to attack, to live.
Eternal rest grant unto him, o Lord, and may Your perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Now, please read the rest of the blogosphere. I dare to say that every blog linked from this one reflects the copious love we on the right hold for our dearly departed founder. He left us well. May we advance his great cause with the dignity, certainty, and success by which he launched us.
John McCain writing on NationalReview.com:
With Bill’s passing, freedom has lost one of its greatest defenders. Bill was a great American who helped change the course of history. When conservatism was a lonely cause, he bravely raised the standard of liberty and led the charge to renew the principles and values that are the foundation of our great country.
And from Mark Steyn, same source:
it’s still hard to believe there’ll be no more Buckley columns on this week’s news, and next week’s and next month’s, and hard not to feel cheated that we were denied a nonagenarian Buckley sailing on in vigorous health toward his next century. I liked the way Rich put it at the 50th anniversary gala, after the announcement of some highly technical-bureaucratic change in Bill’s title or responsibilities: "This is still Bill Buckley’s National Review, and it will always be Bill Buckley’s National Review." Just so.
Hell, just go read them all on NRO.
Then view this video [click].
A Hard Blow for Global Warming
When some people suggested that sun influences earth’s climate, the wack0 pseudo-scientists scoffed. "How could man possibly influence the sun?" they asked.
Now, two prominent climate scientists, Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona, conclude that wind has a larger influence on Arctic ice than man. (h/t Gateway Pundit).
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. [source]
Coincidentally, North American snow and ice cover this winter is greater than any year since 1966, a full 0.3 degrees F below the 20th century average. More coincidentally, Arctic ice is as thick as ever (in recent times, anyway). (Watts Up With That is one of the best climate blogs on the warming cooling planet.)
So what about the sun, Hennessy? You must be wrong.
Slow down. Solar activity is at a modern low, and that just happened over the past year.
Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.
The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased. [source]
I blogged about this reality over a month ago, and received a snotty , "you’re not scientist" lecture from a global warming nut . . . who’s not a scientist, either. (At least I’m a software designer–much closer to science than this wack.)
So bundle up and enjoy the miseries of non-nuclear winter. Here in St. Louis, we’re waiting for today’s rain to turn into our 3rd snow and ice event in a week. (The school year’s already been extended.)
UPDATE: Reading this entry from Accuweather and the associated comments will make you want to strike a global warming nut.
How to Influence the President
"Do that face, George; they love that face. C’mon, George . . . yeah, yeah, that’s the one, you’re killin’ ‘em. It’s just like the cartoons."
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