Conservative Donnybrook

According to WND news, the Obama campaign plastered campaign posters all over the entrance to Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall.  This demonstrates the campaign’s lack of respect for religious sanctity.    Does Obama not understand the history and significance of this place?!  Obama reportedly placed a note in one of the Western Wall’s cracks.  My guess is it read “Oh magic wall, make me President.”

Show some respect to Judaism and history next time, will ya?

I figured someone on this site would have to post it:

The city of Thousand Oaks, California voted last month to ban smoking in most public places.  No one may smoke within 25 feet of a playground, in any public area or even on the patio of a restaurant!  This sort of nanny-state political scheme is hard for many in other, more freedom loving places to fathom.  Yet here, in the land of fruits and nuts where I reside, small town city councils like T.O. feel that they had better protect me from…me!  Anyway, the same council just voted to extend the ban to the “playing areas” of city owned golf courses.  You still can’t smoke at the club house or patio but you can now smoke on the tees, the water hazards and practice areas. 

This is nothing new for California, our elected elite have been graciously saving us from ourselves for years.  What is truly amazing about this story is that only one lone council member voted against the smoking ban on certain parts of the course.  His name is Tom Glancy and he is the only worth while member of the council.  Mr. Glancy had this to say, “I really believe strongly in the harmful effects of smoking,” [but] there’s a point at which we draw a line where we say we can’t keep legislating behavior.”

Precisely, Mr. Glancy. 

What’s next, a ban on what I can and can not eat?  To borrow a phrase, “D’Oh!”

Yes. I am referring to a Canadian paper about Canadian politicians, but that doesn’t automatically make everything it says full of crap. In fact, this story hits the nail on the head.

Both McCain and Obama favor the implementation of a cap-and-trade system similar to Europe’s. Yet, as our somehow-not-full-of-crap Canadian reporter notes:

It’s not just that carbon taxes and cap-and-trade don’t remove one molecule of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It’s that our politicians are ignoring evidence they’re ineffective, impractical, outdated and punitive.

Look at Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme, the world’s largest cap-and-trade carbon market.

Among its other fiascoes (windfall profits for energy companies and speculators, skyrocketing electricity prices for consumers) emissions are going up.

In other words, it’s not just Canadian politicians, they’re all guzzling the Kool-Aid about as fast as it can be mixed up and poured over ice. The worst part is that cap-and-trade will result in higher energy prices precisely when the energy market is shoving prices into the rude end of the spectrum. These proposals would put an even harsher pinch on American families than would doing nothing. And would accomplish nothing respect to climate change (assuming that it is caused by humans, and that carbon usage is the culprit, and that we can effect the climate by reducing carbon usage, etc.).

While I am on the topic of so-called global climate change, I happened upon a completely unrelated article that may call into question whether human activity can be blamed for climate change at all. These stories (here, here, and here) cast doubt on the assertion that anything humans are doing (or could refrain from doing) would have any effect on the climate. A key point to keep in mind while perusing those stories: there are no (and never have been) humans on Mars, no SUVs, no industry.