TO all of you I had met before: It was nice seeing you again….I met even MORE interesting people (that is….a larger number of interesting people and others whom I did not meet last blogmeet, not people who were more interesting than the people I met last time) at this latest blogmeet. It was fun and interesting….

If you can make a blogmeet in Indy, I strongly urge you to do so..

More tomorrow, I am tired after pushing Strike-Hold on people all weekend at the Indy 1500.

Again, It was nice meeting you all….

Via Insty I bring you THIS…..I am sure you have seen it already, but just in case…… I want to make sure everyone sees it.

Seems that the liberal folks at MSNBC really can’t tell one black guy from another….I mean, “they all look the same to me”….right?

And the look on the Rev. Jackson’s face is priceless.

I mean, while I really don’t like either one of them, I can tell them apart. And I am a white guy…..But Sharpton and Jackson are as unalike as the Rev. and myself. Suppose she isn’t sure what Sharpton looks like?

Up next: Don King Al Sharpton Eddie Murphy

I will be at the Indy 1500 Gun Show….Stop by the 3 PartSupply.com table and introduce yourself. I’ll be the taller guy with a pony tail.

Via Bore Patch…..

“Something very strange is happening in the Scientific community right now – something healthy. We see a rejection of Received Wisdom, and in particular of Received Wisdom imparted by a closed circle of the anointed few. We see demands to see the data behind the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (the assertion that mankind’s burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering a runaway temperature increase)……”

As the man says…Read the whole thing.

It’s what I have been saying for years. Real science can withstand being held up to the light, and can withstand having its data reviewed.

If the models are so good, then why can’t we plug in data from the ’50’s, ’60’s, ’70’s ’80’s and 90’s and get something resembling today’s climate (check it out, you don’t get anything like this years temperatures). So the models MUST be flawed.

But that doesn’t seem to convince those who have drunk from the Kool-Aid glass of the ALGORE Church….Which I would not normally mind except that they are screwing with our economy and inconveniencing me greatly with no real proof that their messiah is correct. How many MILLIONS of dollar, (or Euro equivalent) have been spent on pseudoscientific research and half baked ideas to slow the (probably) nonexistent global warming?

Make no mistake, I run a diesel truck on used fryer oil, and my other car is a Prius….I hate waste, and I am cheap thrifty enough to recycle (that means re-use, not just throw in a container for someone else to deal with) nearly everything but toilet paper and toothpaste.

But I really don’t think that the effort, capitol, and energy we waste on pursuing the global warming rabbit is productive, unless you think that keeping AL Gore’s days busy with speaking engagements and a bunch of half assed “scientists” busy doing pseudoscience and pursuing government grant money as productive.

But hey, I am a skeptic

WTF?

Subsidies for GOLF CARTS? YaGottaBeKiddinMeHere

“We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama’s stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.”

“The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle….”

Will wonders never cease…Another WTF? moment from the government….

And these people are the type that will be handling health care….Wasting our money.

Stuck here for the weekend.

Another gun show.

People in this state are…..different.

But at least it ain’t Illinois.

And more propaganda.

Promoted by the White House, distributed by the major TV media outlets.

I suppose that the networks have no choice, as the feds own the airwaves, but still this is a bit over the top.

“We control what you see and hear”….Remember the opening of the show “outer limits”?

Watch for the media blitz next week. It will be sickening. And it might well work on those who were stupid enough to vote for Mr. Obama, as they can be easily swayed by a week of emotional appeals. The rest of us (who probably already serve our community in some manner already, despite having jobs and lives), will not be easily swayed by a week long blitz, just angered.

Personally, I think that this will lead to a backlash….

Politicians from lampposts and all that.

More info on the whole thing HERE.

So why is health care the big thing? If they want to be socialist (first of all, then get the hell out of my country….But, I digress) then why start with health care?

Why not use schools as the first big equalizer? Make each and every person attend public schools. You’d get better indoctrination there, and that would indeed be a great equalizer. No more special schools or better funded schools for white suburbanite kids and poorly funded schools that are poorly administered for the inner city youths. One size fits all…No special privileges for anyone.

The Obama Administration made noises about public service by school aged kids, but those seem to have faded away soon after inauguration day. If not schools and not public service to “equalize ” all of us socially, then what is the plan?

So why health care? Is it about control? Or is there another agenda after this…..Not to get too tinfoil hat wearing stuff here, but why the big push by the Democrats? They know that the majority of citizens are against the reform, and that the majorities in both houses are in jeopardy because of this (and the stimulus package), which leads to danger for holding the White House in 2012 too…

Anyone who can add can see that the plans proposed are bankrupt from the start. They will damage the country’s 260+/- million people with decent health care, all at risk for the 25 million who don’t have great health care…Everyone gets emergency medical care, just not for free…..And this plan won’t give anyone free health care either….

So why? Win this fight over health care, and they lose voters and seats in the houses….Lose the fight over health care, and they lose prestige and votes and again, the majority in both houses….

Is it just that the socialist dream seems possible for these socialists now that they have the majority in both houses AND a president who sill sign any socialist bill they present to him? Are they willing to chance it all just so they can push forward the socialist agenda a big notch forward?

If not that, then what?

Or am I missing something?

Today, 9 years ago, some 17 sailors were killed and 39 or so injured.

Yep, I am talking about the USS Cole.

Another day when the Islamic Radicals were willing to blow themselves up just so they could damage or kill American servicemen and women, and express their hatred against the US. (which, incidentally, has done more to help the Muslims than nearly all of the rest of the countries in the world combined, INCLUDING the Muslim oil producing states….But I digress.

This day, 9 years ago, the US learned just how loved the US was by the country of Yemen. (see here for details of how the investigators were treated).

But I bring this up for a reason……It was the rules of engagement that were in place which allowed the bombing boat (which held a 1000+ lb shaped charge bomb) to even get close enough. Rather than have rules of engagement in place to provide for the safety of our servicemen, we had in place politically correct ROE which required that the captain or other command level officer approve even the loading of weapons, much less firing to defend the ship.

It is bullshit thinking, the deliberate hobbling of our sailors, that got 17 men and women killed and 39 others injured, some for life.

You can’t be at war halfway…..Either you are in the fight with all you have and can bring to bear, or you aren’t in it at all, but are merely striving hard to lose. War, like a bar fight, is won by those who fight hardest, give it all they have, and work to win.

These facts seem to be lost on the diplomatic folks (many of whom, I am sure, have never seen a fight of any kind). I learned these rules of fighting on the playground at an early age, but some folks seem to have forgotten them, if they ever learned them at all.

But these folks who are making decisions, not only killed sailors 9 years ago, but are making the same decisions today, and are getting our soldiers killed, in far away, dusty places like Iraq and especially Afghanistan.

Either let those men and women fight, and support them with all the weapons and materials that they need, or bring them home so not another dies uselessly, hobbled by some poorly thought out ROE which places them in harms way without the ability to fight hard to win, in order to prevent the possibility of harm to civilians who allow the enemy to live among them.

If our politicians, especially Mr. Obama fail to do one or the other, then the blood of those who die in the next days, weeks or months shall be on their hands.