Happy New Year from RSC (Plus '09 Pep Talk)

Happy New Year!

Well, 2008 was quite a year. Not a good year for political conservatives and business. But despite the so typical gloom-and-doom of being spewed by liberals who need to paint as dark a picture as they possibly can, this is not the end of the world nor is it the end of the United States.

Rest assured 2009 will not be the Year of Obama but instead, it will be the Year of Blaming Bush. Everything the Dems have screwed up over the past two years will be blamed on our soon-to-be former president. Obama will fall back on the 1992 Clinton excuse of "things are worse than the Republicans told me."

The good news is, January 20, 2009, is the beginning of victory in 2012 for conservatives. We must begin preparing now, taking notes, jotting down names, and getting ready to expose stupidity.

About the economy, the media is twisting the truth to support their own agenda (big surprise, huh?). Many of the companies that are hurting or failing are doing so due to poor management. Yes, the economy has slowed but those who are strong and are managed properly will remain through this. A bowel movement is needed every now and then to get rid of the waste. So get your reading material and be patient.

Most of all, don't let the doomsayers get you down. If our founding fathers had listened to them we would still be under English rule.

Merry Christmas From RSC

Christmas is, without a doubt, the most wonderful time of the year. For those of you who may not celebrate Christmas I hope that you have other times during the year when you can spend time with your family and reflect on all of the things you have to be thankful for.

I am truly thankful for my wife and children who I love more than anything on this Earth. I am thankful that my family is financially sound and that we never want for any necessity. I am thankful for a wonderful extended family. Most of all, I am thankful for a God who loved me enough to give His own life so that I might have the opportunity to escape the future that I truly deserve. I fail to live up to what I should be every day but He is full of mercy and grace.

I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Always remember that Christmas is not about gifts, Santa, or even family. It is about Jesus Christ who was born into this world so that we might have life.

Merry Christmas.

My Crusade Against Global Warming

There are a lot of important, legitimate issues that Americans are facing. Besides the hundreds of issues we face on a personal level, there are social and political issues we face on a national level. National security, foreign policy, abortion, unemployment, taxes, regulation, pollution, trade, and a host of other issues that would take too much time and space to list here.

Almost everyone has a "pet" issue they have taken up and mine is global warming. While I did not pursue a science degree I have always loved it. As a senior in high school I received the award for Best Chemistry Student and I worked as a chemistry lab assistant in college.

Doomsayers have existed throughout history and the global warming freaks are no different. I won't bore you with an unabridged list of hysterical predictions about imminent disasters but I must name a few. The first few that have a date of 1970 were related to the first Earth Day.

• By 1985, air pollution was predicted to block out 1/2 of sunlight. - Life magazine, 1970
  
• An ice age was predicted due to "dust, cloud cover, and water vapor." - Newsweek magazine, 1970
  
• Temperatures were expected to drop by 11 degrees from 1970 to 2000 which would be twice the amount needed to cause an ice age. - Ecologist Kenneth Watt, 1970
  
• "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." - Harvard Biologist George Wald, 1970
  
• By the year 2000...the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine." - Professor Peter Gunter, 1970
• The comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann was predicted to strike Earth on May 25, 2006, and cause widespread devastation. - Eric Julien
• Other predicted causes of Earth's demise which have not happened are solar flares, asteroid strike, worldwide drought, overpopulation, flooding, leaving orbit of the sun, a virus, deforestation, and many more.
  

So we have people like Al Gore making "documentaries" and gullible Hollywood liberals making idiotic movies like Wall-e, The Happening and The Day The Earth Stood Still.

The models used for global warming are full of bad science. Even if it was good science, you cannot predict a long-term cycle like global warming using limited, short-term data. Here's an mathematical analogy.

Let's talk about distance and angles. If I point a laser light at a 6" by 6" target that is 12" away, I can easily hit the target. I can even pivot the light several degrees in any direction and still hit the target. Now I move the target away from me to a distance of 20 feet. What happens if I pivot the light the same amount as before? At times it will be off the target. If I move the target to 100 feet away even minimal movement puts the light off the target. Imagine the target was one million miles away (assuming I could see that far). What would happen if I pivoted the light by just 1 degree? The light would be 17,455 miles from the target.

That, my friends, is what the global warming alarmists are trying to hide. They want you to think they can take a few years worth of data and extrapolate it over the next 10, 20, or 50 years. Sorry, but the Earth has been here longer than a few years and we don't have data far enough back to extrapolate anything.

The only scientifically provable fact that is relevant is that the Earth cools and warms in cycles. It occurred before man was on this planet and it will continue as if we weren't even here. Just a few days ago a CNN meteorologist stated this on Lou Dobbs:

To think that we could affect weather all that much is, is, pretty arrogant. Mother Nature is so big. The world is so big. The oceans are so big...We have a hundred years worth of data, not millions of years that the world's been around.

Then another guest, Jay Lehr, Science Director for the Heartland Institute, says this:

If we go back to The Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We've been warming out of that cold spell from The Revolutionary War period and now we're back into a cooling cycle. The last 10 years have been quite cool and right now I think we're going into cooling rather than warming...All we can do it adapt. It is the sun that does it, not man.

31,072 scientists in the U.S. alone reject the theory of man-made global warming. This is far from a consensus.

Science 1, Environmentalists 0.

Why I'm Glad McCain Lost

No buildup. No prefaces. Let's get right to the point. John McCain's greatest strength is backstabbing. I don't know why we all didn't see it. He has always been very quick to imitate Norman Bates with the GOP. Then he reaches across the aisle to the Democrats. Maybe we were so anti-Obama that the spoonful of sugar (Sarah Palin) made the medicine (McCain) go down. H/T: Mary Poppins

It is a blessing in disguise that this man did not win the election. What would this country be like with the Democrats running Congress and a Democrat running the Republican party?

If we don't make some congressional changes in 2010 and nominate a conservative in 2012 the GOP will be in imminent danger of extinction. I'm not so sure that would be a bad thing.

American Idol vs Liberalism

I have always been a very tolerant and patient person. I tend to trust people until they give me a reason not to. Sort of like "innocent until proven guilty."

However, as I get older and more enlightened, I find myself being less tolerant and less patient when it comes to hate-filled, anti-American, liberal morons like Tim Graham at Newsweek. These holier-than-thou elites look down on anyone who isn't a "progressive thinker" like they are.

Graham spends his latest column criticizing President Bush, American Idol, and those of us in Red State territory. While I am sick and tired of hearing liberals Bush-bash, the most offensive comment was that American Idol is too American. Here is the comment:

Start with the title: in England, the show was called "Pop Idol"—but when it migrated here in 2002, it apparently needed an infusion of patriotism. So, much like freedom fries, "American Idol" was born. If that kind of rah-rah branding doesn't conjure thoughts of President Bush – go on, world, you know you idolize us – I don't know what does.

Then Graham goes on to insult the Red State population with his liberal elitist venom.

You'll find defenders and detractors all over the country, but this is primarily a red-state show. That's the reason that Southern contestants win just about every season. Are the people fans vote for (and vote for, and vote for) great singers? Does it matter? What's important is that they're our singers, and we love 'em because they're unthreatening, God-fearing, desexualized kids with stars in their eyes. Whenever those elitist critics on the coasts trash "Idol" as mediocre, middlebrow entertainment, we rally to the show's defense, whether it deserves it or not.

Look, I'm not defending Idol. Being a musician and songwriter I have watched it but I am not a big fan. Too much of it is scripted for the sake of ratings which is the real object of the show anyway. Better ratings, higher ad rates.

Finally, Graham takes a shot at "greedy" capitalism which he implies is part of what is wrong with America.

And no TV program shills as shamelessly as "Idol." The Ford ads, the Coke cups, the AT&T plugs – "Idol" is as cozy with big business as, well, as our president is.

Liberal vomit at its finest. How dare he grow up in this wonderful country where he had the freedom and opportunity to become what he wanted to be and to prosper in a capitalistic system, then use that position to criticize that same country. The personification of liberalism.

H/T: NB

First 2012 GOP Presidential Straw Poll Results

Here are the results of our first 2012 GOP Presidential Straw Poll.

Bobby Jindal - 29.4%
Sarah Palin - 26.5%
Mike Huckabee - 20.6%
Newt Gingrich - 8.8%
Mitt Romney - 8.8%
Tim Pawlenty - 5.9%

Over the next four years we will run more polls and see how things are changing. Thank you for participating.

Chicago Corruption: I've Heard It All Now

Former Congressman Dan "Rosty" Rostenkowski made the following statement regarding Chicago/Washington corruption:

During my career as a public official, I always tried to steer away from the minority of my colleagues who viewed public service as a potential commercial enterprise. They’ve always been there and can be found in state capitols and in Washington.

ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I hurt myself from laughing.

Welcome To Chicago "Thug" Politics

Democrats own Chicago. The last time there was a Republican mayor was in the early 1930's. In Chicago, politicians and political favors are for sale. Political prostitution at its finest. There is a long list of politicians, organized crime bosses, union leaders, and powerful business owners who have bought and sold Chicago for longer than most of us have been alive.

Daley, Capone, Marcy, Lorimer, LeFevour, Cooley, Mahoney, Giancana, Jones, Giannoulias, Rezko, and now Blagojevich. The list goes on and on.

Dare I say that environment plays a huge factor in the development of a person's character? This is the city where Barack Obama learned what politics is about and how it works. Some of the names above he is closely associated with.

It is unconscionable to believe that Obama grew up in this environment and did not learn the "tricks of the trade". Fundraising, strong arming, threatening, bribing, etc. We have brought Chicago politics to the White House with willing accomplices in Congress.

God help us all.

Outrageous, Unethical Media Collusion - UPDATED

This is nothing new but has recently been brought to the forefront again through several news stories, the most recent being the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Mainstream media outlets are ignoring Blagojevich's party affiliation just like they do every time a Democrat gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Blagojevich was caught by the FBI trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. As governor he has the sole responsibility to appoint the person who will replace Obama in the Senate.

However, when a Republican is even suspected of wrongdoing the party is plastered not just in articles but also in the headlines. This is a concerted effort to paint the Republican party as a corrupt party while Democrats are spotless and blameless. And it is working.

The media succeeded in duping the majority of the American people into believing Republicans were still in charge of Congress during this election.

They need to be held accountable. I am completely against government intervention or control of the media so it is up to us to do something about it.

UPDATE

Check out this story over at Newsbusters. Proof that I was right.

Media Arrogance And Condescension Once Again

Did you watch Barbara Walters' "interview" with Rush? It was quite different than most of the interviews she conducts. She was combative, arrogant, and condescending. What's with you Barbara? And that was much nicer than what happened on The View when the estrogen frenzy got going.

Rush was smooth, undaunted, and on message. Barbara Walters was also on message. However, in her case, the message is that rich people are mean-spirited, want poor people to get poorer, and that all conservatives need a thorough character assassination.

This bit about Hillary Clinton aging is being repeatedly taken out of context. It was clearly a criticism of Hollywood and it's obsession with looks. But stupid people like Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg will always be stupid.

You can watch the interview over at Newsbusters.

Chambliss Wins: Georgia Is Racist

I read a stupid comment the other day that Georgia's Democrats might not turn out to vote for Jim Martin because they are racist. I have to assume, since Jim Martin is white, that this somehow refers to Barack Obama.

I, for one, am beyond exhaustion from the left's constant cry of racism. If you didn't vote for Obama you are a racist. If you want to pay less taxes you are a racist. If you are a conservative you are a racist. If you homeschool your kids you are a racist. If you live below the Mason-Dixon line you are a racist. If you are white, you are a racist.

Listen. I AM NOT A RACIST!! I do not treat people differently because of the color of their skin. If I disagree with them it is not because of the color of their skin. It is because of the words they speak and their philosophies regarding freedom, government, and individual responsibility.

I do not feel guilty because some white people owned slaves 250 years ago. I wish it would not have happened but it did and I didn't have anything to do with it. I do not feel like I owe anyone anything for it.

So please keep your unfounded accusations to yourself.