It's been about a week since I last posted; I'm home on leave and enjoying my vacation. It's been difficult to blog while busily running around, and I am enjoying my time to relax a bit. I may post updates this week, but I will be back to my daily blogging routine in another week.
Commentary magazine's John Steele Gordon asks, "What's more important, the Environment or the Environmentalists?" Being a lower-case environmentalist myself, I tend to go with the Environment. If the Environmentalists were serious about clean energy, they wouldn't oppose the construction of nuclear power plants, arguably the cleanest source of energy out there. Japan and France have been building them over the years, but we haven't had a new one since the 70's I think (somebody fact check me on this, I'm pulling it out of memory). Part of the reason this gulf spill is so bad is because we're drilling thousands of feet under water, making the operation and oversight of the drilling much more difficult to manage. Why are we drilling in such deep water? Because "Environmentalists" blocked the much safer, more reliable drilling in the Pacific ocean and in Alaska. We are not going to ween ourselves off oil overnight; it'd be prudent to be realistic about things instead of positioning ourselves so that our only drilling option is a Deepwater Horizon type scenario. Read the article though, what I just wrote is largely unrelated to the content of the article, which basically details how federal bureaucracy and counter-produtive regulatory measures are hindering clean-up efforts in the gulf. It's pretty short, definitely worth the minute of your time.
Justice! Lying mother jailed after making up nightclub rape claim. False rape claims ruin the lives and careers of the men affected by them. The men are often presumed guilty until proven innocent, and as in the Duke lacrosse rape case, their lives are tainted forever (still waiting for the faculty who came out against those guys to apologize). In the military you hear all sorts of horror stories about false rape claims ruining careers, which is why I'm very careful not to rape anybody who knows my name, voice, or what I look like with a ski mask on. Also, pre-coitus I require a signed letter of consent with a copy of the woman's driver's license (or passport if she's a forner) detailing exactly what is ok to do. Thanks, Dave Chappelle for the great idea.
On the subject of justice, here's a look at the Obama Department of Justice, written by an employee of the DoJ voting rights section. The New Black Panthers voter fraud story might be new to a lot of you, but it's been around for over a year now and this guy has some real insight behind the motivations and ideology of some of the lawyers in our DoJ. What's going on is a sad mockery of our civil rights laws, and quite frankly this is something that should concern us.
As an unrepentant carnivore, this video my dad sent me made me lose my shit. I completely agree with British Al Gore, but I think the video would be even funnier if there wasn't an annoying laugh track.
Shocker: The Mainstream Media doesn't understand conservatives. At least they admit it, sort of.
If you don't agree with left-wing politics, you can't be a real black person hispanic homosexual poor person crab-people feminist. I hate to beat a dead horse, but here's a "feminist" literally proclaiming that sentiment. It's not news to me that they think this way, but I just like to remind people every once and a while.
Saving the best for last, a sad but excellent article about anti-semitism in world opinion and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's about more than just a conflict though, and I urge you all to read it because its content applies not only to Jews, but also affects the entirety of the Western World. Once upon a time (and not that long ago) there was a lot of Jews in places like Iraq, Iran (all the Persian Jews moved to Great Neck, Long Island), Morocco, Afghanistan and the list goes on.
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