Santa Baby!

The cutest kid in the world, along with some guy in a funny suit.

We have never seen such freezing heat!

If you believe all this nonsense about "Global Warming," read this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml&posted=true&_requestid=64500

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

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So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s.

Another of his close allies is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who recently startled a university audience in Australia by claiming that global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever, in front of a graph showing them rising sharply in the past decade. In fact, as many of his audience were aware, they have not been rising in recent years and since 2007 have dropped.

Dr Pachauri, a former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science, may believe what Dr Hansen tells him. But whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world's governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.

President Bob the Builder

The other day, Janae was watching Bob the Builder. As any parent of a 4 year old knows, the constant theme through the video's is this mantra of "yes we can!"

As the video played, I thought, "Wow, that sounds familiar."

I probed the deep recesses of my pea brain, and sure enough, I now know why that sounded strangely familiar.

"Yes we can" was the mantra chanted at so many Obama campaign stops. Even at his big bash in Chicago election night. "Yes we can!"

So, we elected Bob the Builder for President. A cartoon character.

"Yes we can('t)!"

My, how far we've come...

GVB Reunion Clip!

Oh yeah!

The Best Movie One Liner Ever!

Was Bob Hope a Republican?

God bless his memory.

Hat tip, AB. Thanks.

Bill Ayers Calls Obama a "family friend"

65 Americans were duped when Barack Obama said that Ayers was "just some guy that lives in my neighborhood." Really?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-bill-ayers-barack-obama-book,0,1806710.story
For you that voted for the man, how does it feel to be duped?

I have to admit that this makes me very angry. Where in the world was the media during the election? Why weren't they doing their job? Why only release this now????

For you that voted for this man, God help you.

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3620833,00.html

Read this and weep.

Our soon to be new President sent his surrogates to meet with known terrorists during the run up to November 4th. At least, according to the terrorists.

If this is true, we are sunk.

God help us!

Websites I view every day

There are several sites I visit everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. Some of you may not be aware of these sites, so I thought I would try to help every one be informed.

1. Drudge Report.
I am sure all of you are aware of this one, but it is the best. Period.

2. www.powerlineblog.com
Power Line is a blog of three conservative men who have a very keen grasp on what is going on in the world today. Well worth your time.

3. Lucianne.com
A web portal that has links to HUNDREDS of news stories you will not find anywhere else. A must see.

4. Patriot Posts.
This is actually an e-mail update I get three times a week. Google "patriotposts" and sign up. Every patriotic citizen needs to read this.

5. Politico.com
Now, this one is not a conservative site. No where near. But, I believe that it is important to keep up on what the left is espousing, and this is the place to do that.

I hope this helps you keep informed. We are going to need to be informed. All of us.

Some thoughts...

Since the election did not turn out the way I'd hoped, here are some random thoughts:

For me personally, I am not one that is "running for the hills." I was given a peace about this election 2 weeks before it happened. That peace came with a pretty good idea that Obama would be elected. I was hoping against all hope that he would be defeated, but did not believe it to be so.

The emotions that I have felt have been ones of disgust with my fellow Americans that they would be so easily duped. Good grief.

Also, I lost a little bit of my faith in my country. That is not a feeling that I am comfortable with. Now, by this I am talking about my belief that most of my fellow countrymen are reasonable, thinking humans. Not some herd that votes for an empty suit. That idea took a huge hit in this election.

Yes, God is still in control. He has a plan. I was just hoping that this was not the time for that plan.

I do not plan to set back and be silent. I do not plan to let the left destroy our country if I can do anything about it. With that in mind, you will possibly be hearing more about what I hope to be involved in within the coming months. All I will say at this point is, just wait for 2010! (No, I do not plan to run for public office!)

Correction

In one of my posts, I tried to take Rush Limabugh to task over Operation Chaos.

Wow, do I know how to get things screwed up or what?

I had that thing totally backwards. At my age, the memory is starting to slip, and I remembered that one all wrong.

Forgive me? Please?

Hat tip to AB for pointing this out to me.

I'm confused...

A friend of mine posted this in the comments section two posts down:

I do believe Jesus will return. I just don't believe in the Rapture, the Tribulation, or the Antichrist. I'm an amillenial preterist, which, incidentally, has a long history in the church. It's just that virtually everyone in the modern church believes some version of premillenial dispensationalism so I look like a weirdo. :)

I still believe Jesus' return could be at any minute though. Maybe moreso than dispensationalists, since they believe the tribulation has to happen first.

Nivil, if Jesus returns, and you don't call it the Rapture, what do you call it?

Does not the Bible teach that there will be an Antichrist? Or a Tribulation?

Scriptures please. I am baffled.

My, How Far We've Come...

First, I would like to be the first to say thanks to Rush Limbaugh. Yes, Rush, your plan backfired. Instead of the known entity of Hillary, as undesirable as that would be, we now have the unknown quantity of Obama. Operation Chaos will go down as a failure. Glad I did not participate.

Second, I will remind everyone that voted for "Change" that you will not like the change that is coming. It is going to stink.

Third, in the how far we've come department, the state of MN is very close to electing Al Stinking Franken as a senator. God help us. I cannot imagine having Obama in the White House and Al Stinking Franken as a senator. Run for the hills, people.

Last, our reformation is complete. The citizenry has found a way to vote for themselves large amounts of $$$$ from the treasury, and from this a person can never be weaned. Give a man a fish, and he will want another fish, and more fish, and then all of the fish. He will never work for the fish.

The fall of the empire is well on it's way to completion.

May God have mercy on us.

God Help Us All

We're going to need it.

I cannot believe what I am seeing. God help us.

America, God will judge you. He is doing that now.

This man who you call "The One" will one day bow his knee to the ONLY ONE to whom that title belongs.

America, your days are numbered. We will now no longer be a friend of Israel. We WILL be attacked. A large city will likely be taken out. One of the cities that voted for this man. No, I do not want that to happen, but I am afraid it will.

Jesus is coming. Be ready.