George Rebane
Veterans/Armistice Day. This morning I rushed down to the Grass Valley Veterans Building to partake of the scheduled ceremonies that annually observe our debt to the armed forces of America. Given the involvement of our armed forces and current events, the observance was not well attended – many seats on the floor were empty, and the bleachers were sparsely occupied. Our Congressman Tom McClintock gave a quick speech before having to rush off to another engagement – these are busy times for politicians. His good and proper remarks were entirely backward looking – there was no mention of the current global battle with Islam, no outrage at Ft Hood, no rallying of our citizens to resist and preserve. The rear view mirror contains such clear and comforting reflections.
The Ft Hood massacre by one of our homegrown Islamic terrorists was similarly observed at a massive memorial service yesterday. The murdered GIs were remembered as if they had died in a bus accident on the way to catch a plane to their mid-east deployments. The President’s reference to the murderer’s “twisted logic” was a brief sop to the fact that this had not been a bus accident. But then he totally misinformed his audience on the peaceful nature of all religions. Army Chief of Staff, General Casey, got up and recited the next verse of his longstanding ode ‘Let’s Not Irritate the Muslims’. Islam is a mighty belief system that informs and motivates the lives of over 1.6 billion or about a fourth of the world’s people and many of its cultures. Yet somehow it is still difficult for us to get past the notion that our war is only about shooting some ragheads flitting among the rocks in Afghanistan. This is the leadership under which our troops must fight and sacrifice.
EPA is still trying to gag Dr. Alan Carlin, one of its own scientists whose March 2009 report (5.12MB pdf) “questioned whether EPA should simply defer to United Nations’ assertions that carbon dioxide emissions are causing a global warming crisis that threatens human health and the environment.” The good doctor is finally starting to speak out about his censorship and the so-called science that has now been swallowed worldwide. In his words, “The business of science is being skeptical, and if you’re not skeptical, you’re probably not doing science. … It’s my view that the EPA needs to go through the scientific arguments themselves and not rely on what others outside the EPA have said.”
[12nov09 update] Here is another recent report on scientists whose arguments contradicting man-made global warming are being ignored and/or attacked by the one-worlders.
Finally, the Tea Party Patriots and related organizations are forming up to launch the “Citizen Power Campaign” to gather 1.1 million California signatures for a November 2010 initiative to stop public sector unions in their onslaught on the democratic process. I guess the important thing to note from the gitgo is that it is not a y’all come ‘people power’ campaign. This highly discriminatory enterprise attempts to distinguish between the interests of American citizens and those who got here through a hole in the fence. Over the next twelve months, pay particular attention to the groups rising in opposition. More here.
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