Last year I wrote a post about how California was on fire. Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same because once again the great state of California is burning. It’s a year later and people still haven’t learned.
Since I don’t really have anything new to add to this topic, I’ll let the fine folks from The Onion do it for me.
Californians Gather To Celebrate Annual Wildfire Tradition
Over the past few days, there have been an uncanny amount of stories in the news regarding pirates. No, not the kind that download music from file-sharing sites. Real pirates. The kind with wooden legs and parrots that poop on their shoulders. As far as I can tell though, these particular pirates aren’t drinking rum and hooking up with wenches in the Caribbean, they’re hanging out in the waters off of Africa taking people hostage and demanding large ransoms.
For those who haven’t been following the news, let me catch you up to speed. Basically some Somali pirates took over a Saudi supertanker. Another band of pirates have hijacked a Thai fishing boat. And a yet different band of hook-handed thugs had their ship sunk by India’s navy in the Gulf of Aden. (I blame their failure on the fact that hooks don’t come with opposable thumbs.)
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Current Events | Jeremiah, November 19, 2008 9:33 am | 
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of our economy. I must say, I’m not very optimistic. I’m very angry with the politicians in Washington right now. Given the economic circumstances that our country is facing, spending money to save failing companies that then turn around and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on retreats is just complete stupidity in my opinion.
In his Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx proposed 10 measures that were to be implemented after the proletariat gained power. The purpose of this was to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Measure number five was to bring about the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.” Let’s all give communism a great big welcome to the United States!
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Current Events, Politics | Jeremiah, October 9, 2008 10:34 am | Comments (4)
It’s been seven years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. I still remember watching the events unravel before my eyes as I was watching televison while ironing a shirt before work.
Today, as we remember those who lost their lives, let’s renew our resolve to never let something like this happen again.
I have to admit that I’m a huge Sarah Palin fan. Ever since I heard that she was going to sue over the decision to list the polar bear as endangered, I’ve been a fan.
When I heard that John McCain had decided to pick Governor Palin as his running mate, I was elated. Then I heard her acceptance speech. What’s more than elated? Whatever it is, that’s what I was. And then she spoke at the Republican National Convention last night.
I don’t know if it’s possible for me to be more impressed with this woman. She appears to be a true conservative that doesn’t like big government. She also says that we need to start domestic drilling which shows me that she has a grasp on the impending energy crisis that the country is facing. Add to all of that, she’s not from Washington. In fact, she’s about as far from outside of the beltway as I can imagine. I like that.
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Current Events, Politics | Jeremiah, September 4, 2008 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
Today as I was eating my breakfast, I was visiting my usual morning websites when I came across one of the most amazing articles on global warming I’ve read in a long time. It was written by the founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman. It’s a long article but it’s well worth the read.
You can go here to check it out but, for your convenience, I’ve included it below.
Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
by John Coleman
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing fraud; what a scam.
Nothing gets me madder quicker than hearing a politician tell me that the planet is going to spontaneously explode in a huge ball of flame due to somebody driving a big SUV. Especially when said politician flies all over the world in private jets.
I’ve gone over the fallacy of global warming before so I won’t do it again. However, I have recently come across some information that proves to me that global warming is a load of crap being perpetuated by cultists that are striving for a one world government.
The main thing that recently got my attention was a scientist on a national radio show saying that the average global temperature has not increased for nine years. I wanted to find a reliable source to back this up and came across this article from 2006. Basically it says that global warming stopped in 1998. For the global warming crowd, this is bad news. Since there’s scientific evidence that the Earth is not warming, man-made global warming can’t be happening.
My mom sent me a link to an article from The Aspen Times. As I read it, I discovered that it almost perfectly describes me. In fact, it was so good that I thought that I’d post it here.
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
