Today's Nuze: August 22, 2006

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

EXCUSE ME ... BUT I BELIEVE I CALLED THIS ONE

Sometime last week I made the following prediction:

As soon as John Mark Karr arrives safely back in The United States his former wife will come up with a photograph taken on Christmas Day of 1996, the day JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in Boulder, Colorado, which will show that John Mark Karr was in either Alabama or Atlanta on that day.

Well ... guess what?

John Mark Karr is now safely back in the United States, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is now reporting that family members have found a photograph taken Christmas Day of 1996 showing not Karr, but his three children in Atlanta, Georgia. True, John Mark Karr isn't in the photo, but family members say that Karr never missed being with his kids on Christmas day, and that no family member can remember a Christmas when the children were this age that Karr wasn't there.

This whole thing is unraveling faster than Clinton's "I didn't have sex with that woman" story.

GOTTA LOVE THE UNITED NATIONS!

It seems that Hezbollah had a bit of help in killing Israeli soldiers during their five-week war. The help came in the form of nifty little night vision goggles found by the IDF. How many? Try 250 sets found in a Hezbollah stronghold.

Now this may come as a bit of a surprise to you, but Hezbollah doesn't exactly have a manufacturing process cranking out these night vision goggles. The were made in England.

How, you ask, did they come to be in the possession of Hezbollah? It seems that these goggles were shipped from Great Britain to Iran in 2003 under a United Nations program to combat rampant drug smuggling in Iran.

So ... here's your chain of possession. From Great Britain to the United Nations. From the UN to Iran. From Iran to Hezbollah.

Any questions?

SOME BAD NEWS FOR THE GLOBAL WARMING FANATICS

What bad news?

The hurricane season. Things aren't quite going the way the global warming crowd predicted. There have only been three tropical storms thus far. This is about average for the short term, but if you average it out over multiple years this would be below average.

Hurricanes? Thanks for asking, but there hasn't been one as of yet. None. Nada. Zip. Nunca. Averaging between 19044 and 2005 we would have seen about 1.5 hurricanes thus far. Again ... we've seen none.

According to weatherstreet.com the National Weather Service predicted 12 to 15 named storms by December of this year. There were 27 last year. Now it looks like the 12 to 15 prediction may be a bit high.

OK ... so the global warming nuts were wrong. They predicted a horrible hurricane season. It isn't happening. So ... what's different? What happened? Here's where you global warmistas need to sit down. Surface temperatures on the world's oceans are getting ...... cooler. According to a paper to be published next month in Geophysical Research Letters, between 2003 and 2005 globally averaged temperatures in the upper levels of the ocean have cooled. They've cooled not just a little ... but dramatically. Sea surface temperatures in the western Atlantic .. where hurricanes are fueled ... are now slightly below normal.

Oh well. Whatchagonna do!

There's always the glaciers you can go to in order to prove your global warming scenario.

More news. A soon-to-be released study by a Danish university says that Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for most the past 100 years. The study of 247 of the 350 glaciers on Disko island shows that 70% of these glaciers have been retreating at a rate of about 8 meters a year since the end of the 1880s. There was apparently a real surge in glacier melting caused by a warming of the earth's atmosphere during the 1920s.

Damned SUVs. The 1920 General Motors Yukon is being cited as a significant cause.

OK you global warmistas. Back to the drawing boards. Surely you'll find something new to use in your efforts to slow down the economy of the United States.

THE YEAR AFTER KATRINA

In one week, we will be at the one year mark since Hurricane Katrina. Brace yourself for the media coverage...it will be non-stop. You can bet all of the networks will send anchors down to New Orleans to broadcast from the Ninth Ward. Expect to be bombarded with the following:

Despite a year and billions of dollars going by, New Orleans is still a mess. The implication is that the American taxpayer is supposed to reconstruct New Orleans into a condition better than it ever was. It's time to face the facts: the only thing that is going to bring back New Orleans is private investment.
The levies still aren't fully reconstructed and ready for another Katrina-style hurricane. Who knows if those levies ever really were good enough to withstand a huge hurricane? Doesn't matter ... the state of the levies will be laid on the Bush administration in some manner.
There will be no negative words about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Well, maybe a few ... but remember .....
It's all still George W. Bush's fault. Remember, according to the media and the Democrats, any injustice being committed anywhere in the world is the fault of George W. Bush somehow.

In fact, it's already started. On CNN today we see New Orleans Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin complaining that the Feds haven't sent enough money. And there you have it, that's the mindset. Sitting and waiting for the check to come from the government. Instead of getting out there and hustling in the private sector, there Nagin sits....waiting for more of your money. Nice going, Mr. Mayor.

So brace yourself...the Katrina pity party is about to get into full swing. And don't forget the new Spike Lee movie about the levies, which we all know were intentionally blown by Dick Cheney to drown all of the black people in New Orleans.

WHILE WE'RE SHEDDING TEARS FOR NEW ORLEANS ...

.... How about a few tears for cities like Houston, Texas where tens of thousands of so-called Katrina "victims" were sent. Houstonians are paying for their generosity big-time in the form of increased social welfare costs for victims who insist on remaining victims, and a Katrina refugee crime wave that shows no signs of abating.

THE ISLAMIC DAY OF RECKONING

Today is August 22nd. Just another day? Well, not really. According to the Muslim calendar, this is a special day. It marks the return of the 12th imam. We could go on and on about the particulars...but the bottom line is it's a significant day. So what does this matter?

Well, there has been a lot of rumor that some sort of terrorist attack might happen on this day. Where did that come from? Do the research. There is no shortage of radical Muslim literature stating the significance of this particular day. Why, none other than your friend and mine, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested that today might be a day of significance for the Islamo-fascist movement. Today is also the day that Iran is supposed to present a response to the U.N.'s plan to diffuse the international tensions over their nuclear program.

Iran's reply is expected to be handed over today to diplomats from China, France, Russia, Britain, Germany and so on. Since we don't have diplomatic relations with Iran, Switzerland will be our representative. I hate to be the one to ruin all of the suspense, but here is what you can expect Iran's response to be: they will tell the world to go screw themselves.

And why not? What is the world going to do against Iran? Pass another U.N. resolution? Tehran knows there's no way Russia and China are going to impose economic sanctions. They know the United States isn't going to move against them militarily. The Iranians have the upper hand, as they clearly showed in Lebanon...where their support of Hezbollah led to that terrorist group's victory over Israel.

As for the significance of the date...who knows. We face the eminent threat of another Islamic terrorist threat every day. By appeasing Iran, we are ensuring that one day in the not-too-distant future, a nuclear device will fall in the hands of an Islamic terrorist. Then we really will have problems.

PRESIDENT BUSH STAYS THE COURSE

Yesterday George W. Bush gave a press conference and talked about the situation in Iraq. He correctly pointed out that cutting and running from Iraq would be a disaster. He is right. Just pulling up and leaving would be like handing a nice, big present to Osama Bin Laden. Talk about encouraging the Islamic terrorists ... that ought to just about take care of it!

He also acknowledged the fact that Iraq has come a bit of a mess, saying it was "straining the psyche of our country." That would be an understatement. In poll after poll, it's the biggest source of dissatisfaction among voters there is...after maybe gas prices. So what do we do now?

The only way we can leave is for the Iraqis to take over. It's a tough pill to swallow, because all of this might not be happening had we kept order after the invasion and not disbanded the Iraqi Army. But what's done is done. It's time to light a fire under the Iraqis and make them realize they have to start taking over. It's time to share the pain.

And what about the Democrats? They don't have a plan. Their plan is to say George Bush's plan doesn't work, which is no plan at all.

WHY THE "HATE" WORD?

Time magazine is getting a lot of attention for its 10th Hillary Clinton cover. This edition has a cover story on "The Presidential Ambitions of Hillary Clinton." At the lower left corner of the cover you have two boxes. You are asked to check the box beside "Love her" or "Hate her."

Now I've heard a lot of comments about this cover, but not one about the language chosen for the check-boxes. Why didn't Time put check-boxes for "Love her" and "Fear her"? Why not "Good for America" and "Bad for America"?

Well .. now that I've asked the question, I'll give you the answer.

Time Magazine is solidly behind Hillary's candidacy. Come on folks, she's been on the cover 10 times! So the editors at Time wanted to come up with wording for the cover poll that would paint those who would support Hillary as being full of love, while those who would not support her are just brimming over with hate.

This is a favorite and somewhat new tactic of liberals. Whenever someone expresses dissatisfaction with a liberal politician or idea the left will be quick to brand that person's opposition as based on "hate." Once you have branded your ideological opponent as being full of "hate" you no longer feel compelled to address the issues that have been brought to the table by that person. It's as if the left is saying "I don't need to respond to your questions, ideas or objections because you are full of hate. I don't deal with hateful people."

Now I'm certainly not saying that I don't actually hate people. I do. I know it's not nice ... but there are people out there I truly loathe and would love to send to their eternal celestial dirt nap. At the top of the list would be child-killers, like that man who killed Polly Klass and the Florida whack-job who kept that little girl imprisoned in his closet for a day or so before he killed her. Having said that, I can not bring myself to hate people who have a different view of life and politics than do I.

I believe that America is a great country because of the dynamic of freedom ... people living and interacting with each other under a system of law based on individual rights, responsibilities and liberty. Hillary Clinton believes that America is great because of it's government. is that a reason to hate her? Certainly not. It is, though, a reason to fear her and to pray that she never fulfills her dream of the presidency.

For Time magazine, however, the choice is simple. Either you love Hillary Clinton and you can't wait to see her sworn in, or you just simply hate her. There's no room left for appreciating her as a human being, but opposing any designs she may have on political power.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

When you have a true emergency, you get the message out any way you can. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A new book says Osama Bin Laden has a crush on Whitney Houston and told somebody she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Well, now we know Osama doesn't get the National Enquirer.

Proving once again just how tolerant they are, some Democrats are calling for Joe Lieberman to be expelled from the party. If the Democrats were smart, they'd realize they have a winner....Lieberman currently leads the polls in Connecticut by 12 points.

The Hildabeast looks like she doesn't have anything to worry about when it comes to winning re-election to the New York Senate this fall. Yet another one of her challengers has suspended their campaign, this time for personal reasons. I guess New Yorkers are satisfied with their Senate seat being rented for 2 years.

Pat Buchanan is on the warpath, promoting his book and warning that illegal aliens from third world countries are going to take over the United States. His book is already sitting at #2 on Amazon.com...can you believe it?

With Joe Lieberman running ahead in Connecticut with a lot of Republican support, columnist Kevin Rennie says Joe is actually going to help Republicans in the upcoming midterm election. And no one can help the Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut.

The threat that nuclear weapons pose in the hands of North Korea and Iran is the biggest threat looming over the United States today, says Thomas Sowell. So why aren't we doing anything about it? Good question.

Pat Buchanan reacts to a recent column in the Weekly Standard praising Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He says there aren't many reasons why a conservative should be praising the World War II-era leaders. He also says the piece points out just how lost conservatism is these days.

Economic wizard Larry Kudlow says George W. Bush has one thing very right. It's his policy of low taxes and the media is ignoring the successes that come from it. The fact is we're experiencing a very strong economy right now.

Democrats by and large oppose the war in Iraq, but David Limbaugh says they only have one problem....what is their plan? He says a simple flow chart could be constructed to represent their arguments.

Bill Murchison has some advice for people who are none too pleased with the current crop of Republicans running things: don't vote for the Democrats. The alternative to what we have now is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. If that doesn't make your hair stand up, nothing will.

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