Hot Enough for Ya?

Hot Enough for Ya?

Everyone talks about the hellish hot weather but only liberals know what ‘s causing it: climate change, aka global warming, of course!




The 3,215 record daily high temps set in the month of June and 4,500 new heat records during the last 30 days must incontrovertibly prove Planet Earth is roasting almost to the boiling point.



And, maybe not.



The fact is, those record highs were all set in the U.S. while the rest of the northern hemisphere is just experiencing summertime. It would seem Mother Nature has it in for America since she is wreaking heat havoc only on us.



In almost unprecedented numbers, Mom Nature has caused wildfires, droughts, tornados, and floods, everything but hordes of locusts in the United States–and she has yet to unleash the brunt of her hurricane season!



As Jonathan Overpeck gloated, “This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level.”



That professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona breathlessly elaborated, ”The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about” and the head honcho of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, Kevin Trenberth, dutifully chimed in by claiming he had predicted the same disasters. (http://tinyurl.com/7by6z7c)



So there, you climate-change-naysaying nitwits!



The chief problem with Overpeck’s, Trenberth’s and all the other “expert” observations that Earthlings are doomed to being toasted, fried, and fricaseed is that they are as wrong in their doomsaying assessments as their fellow phonies who believed a mere few decades ago that we would soon be encased in blocks of ice when global cooling and a new Ice Age enveloped the planet.



Science magazine, Science Digest and a host of other seemingly-reputable publications and scientists were then warning of ”extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation,” shorter growing seasons, cooling oceans and similar catastrophic events.



It never happened, anymore than polar bears starving and stop making baby polar bears, anymore than melting glaciers will end the Alaskan tourist trade, anymore than rising seas will flood our front yards, etc. will come to pass in the near future.



Those apocalyptic visions could be realized down the road as the Earth and our sun do what they’ve been doing for eons but they won’t be the fault of mankind’s activities–unless we assume cave people built filthy, carbon dioxide-spewing, coal-fired power plants we don’t know about and accept the hypothesis that dinosaur farts polluted the atmosphere.



Times, and weather, have changed radically as they always do and ultra-resilient climatologists have shown they can switch sides faster than Chief Justice John Roberts.



Fast forward to the eighties and beyond. Now, due to historically-normal, cyclical climate changes, the fear-mongerers have amazingly converted their baseless freezing scam into a preposterous warming hoax.



Gone are the days when Hollywood cashed in on the orchestrated freezing panic and politicians were elected based on pledges to save their constituents from wearing overcoats in August.



Those days have been supplanted by Tinseltown producing ridiculous movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow” which senselessly theorized that global warming will result in global freezing and Democrat pols warning that North American women had better vote for Obama or be prepared to wear bikinis in January. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26520.)

Politically Prostituting NASA

Politically Prostituting NASA

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is a graduate of the Naval Academy, a retired, highly decorated Marine major general, and a former astronaut. Bolden is also a dutiful politician.

NASA’s website cites the agency’s aim to “pioneer the future in space exploration and aeronautic research” and outlines its “vision”: “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.”

There is no mention anywhere on the NASA site of getting involved international politics, such as improving relations with Islam, or promoting the global warming scam but both are on its agenda.

Bolden demonstrated that NASA’s mission had radically changed a year after he was named administrator when he said during an interview with Al Jazeera, the Arabic language news network. Under Bolden, NASA’s is being politicized and its “foremost” mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world, and not space exploration or aeronautic research.

He told Al Jazeera that he was “ordered” to effectively forget NASA’s historic mission of space pioneering, etc. and to adopt a totally new and markedly different goal. As Bolden admitted to the voice of Islam, “Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science. . . and math and engineering.”

At the behest of his boss, Bolden was abandoning NASA’s position as the world’s pre-eminent scientific body in order to serve “foremost” as cheerleaders for ancient Muslim achievements, that is, to fulfill Barack Hussein Obama’s political ambition to suck up to Islam and help Muslims “feel good” about themselves.

That extreme departure contradicted the president’s own words spoken in March, 2009.

At that time, he said, “Let’s be clear: promoting science isn’t just about providing resources–it is also about protecting free and open inquiry. It is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, . . . It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda–and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”

Except when those decisions and facts conflict with Obama’s ideology.

NASA has again departed from its mission on another Obama pet issue–the lie of anthropogenic global warming. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21481.)

Global Warming Cooled--Again!

Global Warming Cooled--Again!

It’s been going on for years now, too many years, the greatest scam since Eve convinced Adam that apples were tasty and thus condemned mankind to lives of pain and suffering, and to mortality.

The saddest irony is that the global warming charade has been perpetrated by the most influential international body on Earth and perpetuated by the most powerful nation in the world. And, for very explicable geopolitical reasons, the U.N. and the U.S. consistently get away with it.

There was no censure after warming-scammers were outed as United Nations’ shills in 2009. There was no position re-assessment following a petition signed by 31,487 global warming-refuting scientists. There was no condemnation of character assassination of highly reputable climatologists who disagreed with the conventional, politically correct climate wisdom.

(See “Global Climate Frauds,” http://bit.ly/yZgqhs.)

Now the massive warming sham has been de-bunked once again, which is not to suggest the new revelations will make a difference any more than previous evidence and multiple scandals changed official mindsets.

When there are literally trillions of dollars at stake, reputations to defend, sinecures and individual wallets to be protected, facts and truth take back seats to propaganda.

The fact that cyclical global warming ended in 1997 and the truth that allegations of man-made global warming are a travesty were revealed last week by the British. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12366.)

Unleashed! Duke of Edinburgh Disses Wind!!

Unleashed! Duke of Edinburgh Disses Wind!

In spite of rumors to the contrary, the 90 year old Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Consort to Queen Elizabeth II, really does have a mind of his own, at least insofar as wind farms are concerned.

The rarely-seen Philip outside the company of Queen Liz on state occasions and who even more rarely says anything of consequence, thinks wind farms are bloody tommyrot, in Brit slang.

Of course, royalty doesn’t use slang but he was equally-emphatic on the functionality of those blots on the landscape and seascape which generate far more profits for developers than they produce reliable electricity. As Phil said, they are “absolutely useless,” a position shared by his son, the less than bonnie prince Charlie who has put the kibosh on any thoughts of building windmills on his Duchy of Cornwall lands.

That very politically incorrect opinion of the House of Windsor might be seconded by the House of Kennedy clan which opposed the construction of windmills but primarily because they would obstruct their Hyannis Port view of Nantucket Sound: To hell with being eco-friendly, not in our front yard!

To hell with the Kennedys, said the Obama administration when it gave the okay to mar the Kennedy vista and ignore one of early-supporter Uncle Teddy’s final wishes last year,

Prince Philip has little worry that wind farms will be erected anywhere near Buckingham Palace or in proximity to any of his other and his bride’s royal pads. Unlike the Kennedys, however, he takes issue with the whole concept of wind-gerated energy on practical, not self-serving grounds.

He calls the idea “a disgrace,” contends it will “never work,” and accuses those who buy into the scam of believing in a “fairy tale" . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=6176.)

Global Climate Fraud

Global Climate Fraud

When 31,487 American environmental and climate scientists, 9,029 of whom hold PhDs, agree that ”limits on greenhouse gasses would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology and damage the health and welfare of mankind,” can they all be wrong?

If they are, that would mean the cockamamie claims of Al Gore, the IPCC, and the whole horde of “greenies” who have been claiming for years that CO2 emissions are hazardous to the planet are a crock.

When those scientists subscribe to the view that, “there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth,” it would mean that Gore and Company should be branded as criminals for knowingly advocating a plot which would deprive mankind of those benefits.

(See the petition which includes the identities and qualifications of the signers at http://www.petitionproject.org/.)

In point of fact, the global warmists/coolists/changeists–they and their ilk have pushed all of those senseless panics over the past three decades but will be referred to here as simply the warmists and their cause as global warming–are responsible for perpetrating a scam so massive that Bernie Madoff would blush for not thinking of it first.

The immediate occasion for citing The Petition Project, which began with some 17,000 signatories in the late nineties and which has, of course, been dismissed by the warmist lobby as fraudulent despite the identification of every signatory, is the recent brouhaha over what scientist said what and what did he mean about global warming.

UC Berkeley Professor Richard Muller, member of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project (BEST) team, alleged last week that he and his team had concluded Mother Earth was indeed warming and temperatures had increased by almost one degree centigrade over the course of 60 years.

As the warmists exulted over that announcement, made just in the nick of time for the gathering of the U.N.’s climate summit in Durban, S.A., a BEST colleague of Prof. Muller’s took issue with his opinion. A day later, Britain’s DailyMail.com also rained on Muller’s warmist parade by pointing out that his fellow climatologist had basically called Muller’s claim bunk.

Professor Judith Curry, chairperson of the highly-prestigious University of Georgia’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said Muller had made “a huge mistake,” prof-speak for, Muller, you’re a ninny and/or a shill for the warmists. Curry also corrected Muller’s conclusions by adding factual analysis that there has been no global warming for at least ten years . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5918.)

Global Warming: Scamming the Planet

Global Warming: Scamming the Planet

Merriam-Websters’s definition of a scam as “a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation” fails to do justice to the decades-long hoax, the swindle, of the American people known alternatively as global cooling, then global warming, then climate change.

The subject of that massive, international hustle has frequently been addressed in this space, most recently in “Another Climate Lie Bites the Dust,” which outlined the efforts of the climate clique to slander two distinguished American climatologists for telling the truth.

Professors Roy Spencer and William Braswell dared to expose the fallacies of alleged anthropogenic causes of changes in Earth’s weather and were summarily if indirectly dismissed as incompetents by their colleagues because of their impertinence in outing the climate-scammers.

Eminent, ethical scientists that Spencer and Braswell are, they didn’t and wouldn’t say their fellows were liars and frauds. Another warming-naysayer, Dr. Ivar Giaever, also refused to hurl those pejoratives, but I will.

Undismayed by exposure as sloppy flimflamers in the 2009 "climate-gate" scandal when email hackers of the United Nations-funded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change facilities at Britain’s East Anglia University revealed gross misrepresentations, the IPCC has braved on.

There’s far too much money at stake for the IPCC–-or its ridiculous co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore–-to do otherwise. Science-challenged, climate profiteer Gore continues to mindlessly beat the warming drum to stuff his pockets and is so wildly strident he is actually scaring believers with his “Climate Reality” unrealities.

Dr. Giaever, co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for physics, RPI professor emeritus and president of Applied Biophysics, forcefully contradicted the "warmers."

Giaever effectively denounced the American Physical Society for its contention that “the evidence [of global warming] is incontrovertible” and resigned his APA membership in disgust. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5460.)

Another Climate Lie Bites the Dust

Another Climate Lie Bites the Dust

The opening sentence in a BBC News article titled, “Journal Editor Resigns over ‘Problematic’ Climate Paper” reads, ”The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published.” (http://bbc.in/oQKKiW)

The title is absolutely correct, the opening sentence is absolutely deceptive.

American climatological scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell reported in the journal Remote Sensing that climate computer models exaggerated global warming projections of temperature increase.

In other words, just as with the 2009-2010 International Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, scandals when massive fudging was discovered at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the warmist clan rigged their computers to make it seem the planet was cooking. And, just as with the IPCC scandals, certain climatologists are closing ranks to preserve their reputations–and wallets.

See ”Climategate,” http://bit.ly/qeQFUp.

Not surprisingly, the report was applauded and endorsed by so-called “global warming deniers” who had found kindred spirits in Spencer and Braswell’s reinforcement of the truth.

Equally unsurprising, so-called “mainstream” scientists whose bread is buttered with the climate change sham attacked the report as if they had, once again, been exposed as liars–which they had been. They couldn’t very well tolerate having their sham, once again, disproven by their fellow scientists and the very science they claim as their own, now could they?

Remote Sensing editor Wolfgang Wagner submitted his resignation letter as a consequence of the whole brouhaha . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5344.)

Unintended Consequences in the Military and at NASA

Unintended Consequences in the Military and at NASA

When any governmental entity is involved, the line between intended and unintended consequences can be extremely fine, indeed.

Take, for example, the consequences of the repeal of the military’s DADT, the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy which required homosexuals in the Armed Services not to advertise their sexual inclinations in return for the military’s not inquiring, inquiries which could have resulted in their expulsion.

After extensive study of the deleterious effects outed gays would have on our troops and despite widespread opposition from Marines and combat forces in general, military powers-that-be in the Pentagon–predominantly ambitious officers who wouldn’t want to be perceived as opposing political directives–are set to officially lift the gay ban next month.

If gay agitators get their way, acceptance of homosexuals, turning blind eyes to their proclivities, not “telling” on them will not only become politically passe’ but de rigueur in the services via active recruitment.

The intended consequences being strategized by the LGBT set probaby isn’t exactly what the military intended.

According to the Washington Times, ”An underground gay group in the military wants recruiters to reach out to the gay community in the same way they target blacks, Hispanics and women.” The group, Outserve, representing some 4,000 homosexuals currently serving, is planning what the Times calls a “coming out party” in October in Vegas and wants the military to be on hand.

As one still-closeted Air Force officer put it, “The DoD regularly attends public events to recruit, and we believe they should be at Pride events next year around the country to let the gay community know the opportunities to serve their nation.” As one conservative commentator sees the agitation, it’s all part and parcel of what gay activists do: Push the envelope to the breaking point.

Robert Knight keenly observed, “No one should be surprised at what will be an increasingly shrill set of demands to use the military as an endorsing agency for homosexual activism.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5148)

Ted Turner, Mouth of the Leftist South

Ted Turner, Mouth of the Leftist South

. . . It’s good to know Turner was being fair. Less good was his typically-liberal debasement and condescion toward the intelligence of Americans when he added, “It is really easy to understand how some people don’t get it, because it’s so complex and complicated.”

Ted Turner and Al Gore and Ted Danson and the rest of the PCS crew completely “get it,” can grasp “complex and complicated” matters because, well, because they’re liberal members of the Pompous Celeb Syndrome crew. We non-members, the great unwashed mass of Americans, are simply too doltish to understand. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4930)

UPDATES: Gays, Pervs, and Al Gore

UPDATES: Gays, Pervs, and Al Gore

. . . Gore would have been better off had he simply fabricated some facts to bolster his argument as he did with his “An Inconvenient Truth.” Other options to increase child survivability rates might be advising lesbians such as Elese Lebsack not to ride motorcycles in gay pride parades and suggesting to Professor David Epstein that having sexual relations with his daughter wasn’t a very good idea.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4922)

Handwritings on White House Walls?

Handwritings on White House Walls?

It may have foeshadowed 2012 when Obama-idolator Peter Fonda called President Barack Hussein Obama a “f*cking traitor.” It was probably said affectionately by the environmentalist/actor to get some attention from other beautiful people at the Cannes film festival for his enviro-creds but it was still exceptional.

Poor Peter, who hasn’t had a hit movie since “Easy Rider” 42 years ago, had to say something notable to grab some attention from his big sister, Hanoi Jane Fonda, and he only considers the president a “f*cking traitor” because Obama didn’t handle the Gulf oil spill very well. (http://yhoo.it/kW7NAd)

The fact that Obama hasn’t handled very much very well didn’t bother Peter but the fact that such a nasty, verbal attack by a leftist, Hollywood elitist–which is an admitted redundancy–would have been unheard of just a year ago bodes ill for the president.

Is the handwriting on the wall?

More damaging scribbling came from Obama’s mainstream media which, as per his bidding, has been remarkably quiescent for more than 3 years now when it came to vetting his background, interviewing him with other than softball questions, or citing and publicizing his frequent gaffes and misstatements.

The MSM long ago abandoned its moral and ethical responsibilities in that regard and the White House press corps–or, “corpse,” according to the president–has been most lax, according to senior members of that corps/corpse.

Those veterans, including Sander Vanocur, Sid Davis, and Haynes Johnson, believe White House correspondents are “too timid and deferential.” What’s most amazing, in addition to their being critical, is that it took them 26 months to notice.

As Vanocur observed, ”You want to know what’s wrong with the press? The press is what’s wrong with the press.” Washington Post reporter Haynes Johnson chimed in with, ”It’s all very stale, very structured, very pale.” And Sid Davis, who has covered nine presidents, went further than criticizing by resorting to sarcasm in characterizing the press and their demeanor in the president’s presence by saying, ”It looks like they are watching a funeral service at [Washington funeral firm] Joseph Gawler’s and it shouldn’t be that way.” (http://bit.ly/kEFPrA)

No kidding, Messrs. Vanocur, Johnson, and Davis! Where have you been?

More telling than their comments, and more concerning for Obama, is not what those three said, which in itself was remarkable, but that they had the audacity to say it. Lapdogs aren’t supposed to growl and bite and neither they nor their fellow correspondents would have deigned or dared to say it in the past.

More handwriting?

What will undoubtedly be viewed as less a harbinger for Obama’s future as calculated and inconsequential backbiting by evil conservatives is opposition by conservative groups to Obama’s nomination of Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu to serve on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals despite his “well-qualified” rating from the American Bar Association.

Berkeley is well, Berkeley, and the Ninth Court is as notoriously liberal, and the ABA tends to consider any judicial candidate well-qualified as long as he or she swings politically leftward.

The Loyal Opposition was unable to block tax cheat Tmothy Geithner from taking over as Secretary of the Treasury or such administration luminaries as homosexual activist Harry Knox as a faith counsellor, radical Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar, America-hater John Holdren as Obama’s chief science maven, admitted child-abuser Kevin Jennings as his man to insure safe schools, and a scary host of other leftists from taking posts in the administration but considers Liu’s nomination to be even more “ridiculous.”

Obama floated a trial balloon for Jamie Gorelick as FBI Director, the same Jamie Gorelick, aka “The Mistress of Disaster.” who made certain the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies couldn’t share information before 9/11. However, if nothing else, Gorelick had some related experience. Liu, much like the president before his election, has virtually none nor does he have trial experience on which to evaluate him as qualified to pass down judgments, a requisite heretofore for ABA endorsement. (http://bit.ly/jy0IzU)

Republicans and conservatives drawing a line with Liu may not be equivalent to Peter Fonda’s “f*cking traitor” remark or to veteran White House correspondents outing the White House . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4503)

The Last of Earth Day, 2011

The Last of Earth Day, 2011

By the mercy of God, Earth Day, 2011 is over.

If we had listened to my old schoolmate, George Carlin, it would have been over years ago. The planet is billions of years old and nothing humans have done or can do to it will ever change anything. After surviving billions of years, Earth doesn’t give a damn what we do. It adapts.

As Carlin says, “Twenty-five species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. . . There’s nothing wrong with the planet. The people are f*cked!. . . And we have the conceit that we’re a threat . . . some plastic bags and aluminum cans are gonna make a difference? . . . The planet isn’t going anywhere! . . . Ask those people at Pompeii how the planet is doing? . . . It’s a self-correcting system . . . ”
(See the Carlin 7 minute video and read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4208)

Atlas Shrugs as Algore Speaks

Atlas Shrugs as Algore Speaks

Change may be the only constant but some things and people never change, are as predictable as the New York Yankees, as constant as the weather. Go figure.

Atlas, the mythological Titan who supported the heavens, shrugged in Ayn Rand’s classic novel and liberal movie critics did likewise in reviewing “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1.” Rand’s Atlas got tired of doing all the heavy lifting but movie critics never tire of panning any film that isn’t PC.

Remember 2004′s “The Passion of the Christ”? Critics went at the first installment of a promised trilogy adapting Atlas Shrugged from its sprawling thousand pages to the movie screen with a comparable passion, which must mean it’s a pretty good flick.

Ripping all but one of its cast, the reviews range from calling it “ordinary,” to “anticlimactic,” to “dull,” to “barely professional,” all of which just might be translatable as encomia coming as they do from the likes of Roger Ebert. See review excerpts here: http://on.wsj.com/hIfDON and clips here: http://bit.ly/fUklt3

Good luck in seeing “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” though. On Long Island with our 2 1/2 million residents, it’s only being shown at 3 venues and nationwide is getting little exposure. Even so, the preliminary estimated opening weekend gross is $1.677 million, or $5,590 per theater, not bad considering you may have to travel a few hundred miles to view it.

You don’t have to travel nearly as far to see the Goreacle who would make Atlas wince. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4158)

Serious Conundra on Nukes and Murder

Serious Conundra on Nukes and Murder

You just never know about nukes and murder and the issues they are capable of causing.

National Geographic reported recently on a real conundrum for Al Gore and his global warming set: Global warming could be easily alleviated with just a little nuclear war. The planet wouldn’t even have to endure a nuclear winter resulting in massive starvation and disease, just a relatively non-catastrophic explosion of, say, 15 million tons of tnt-equivalent bombs.

There would, though, be significant negatives associated with those mini-nukes namely that, “Even a regional nuclear war could spark ‘unprecedented’ global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models. Widespread famine and disease would likely follow, experts speculate:” http://tiny.cc/pswsr

The title of the National Geographic piece, “Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years,” almost suggests Al and his cohorts would relish that scenario, since reversal of global warming is their goal, no? However, such an eventuality would also put them out of business, thereby creating that conundrum. The Warmists would have to weigh the global benefits of nuclear detonations against the detriments to their wallets.

Then, again, they’re a flexible bunch. They can even twist cold winters into proofs of a warming planet, They would probably establish a start-up dedicated to reaping profits from the nuclear devastation.

What WILL Al and his jolly warmists do?

And what will the country do if President Barack Hussein Obama were ever shot?

That bodacious query . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3760)

Our United Nations, Our World, Our Folly

Our United Nations, Our World, Our Folly

We should all treasure the United Nations. As its website proclaims, “It’s your world!” According to that website, “The U.N. has 4 main purposes

To keep peace throughout the world;
To develop friendly relations among nations;
To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms;
To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.”

What rational being, what American, what Zambizean or Moldavian or Kazakhstanian could take issue with that lofty dedication to peace, friendliness, respect, and harmony among nations, none of which the U.N. has come even close to realizing?

Forget the origins of the U.N., the sleazey ngotiations that led to its founding, the able assistance in that endeavor of convicted Soviet spy and perjurer, Alger Hiss. Forget its repetitive, abject failures in the 66 years of its existence, the presence of China, Cuba, and Libya on its “Human Rights Council,” its consistently anti-Americanism over the years. The U.N. is “our world.”

The United Nations began with 51 nations after World War II and has now blossomed into a bloated membership of 192 countries, most of which have, if not outright contempt for its chief benefactor, the United States, a studied, diplomatic disregard for our interests.

Despite all the negatives, the U.N. has evolved into the international organization par excellence, the organization that has been impotent in ending the unending wars since WWII, the last best hope for mankind. Oh, it also dispatches kids on Halloween to beg for UNICEF money.

The U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of South Korea, just announced an exciting new initiative.

For some historical perspective, Mr. Ban succeeded Ghanian Kofi Annan. Annan had followed Egypt’s D.r. Boutros Boutros-Ghali and personally presided over the genocide in Rwanda. He was rewarded for that disservice with the office of Secretary General. Wearing his new hat, he oversaw a U.N. sex harrassment scandal, the Oil-for-Food Scandal, and his son, Kojo Annan raking off millions in that mess.

Kofi was again rewarded, with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Anyway, in recognition of the United Nations’ “World Day of Social Justice,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3751)

UPDATES: Assange, Gore, Multiculturalism

UPDATES: Assange, Gore, Multiculturalism

It’s humbling to be correct all the time, but truth is truth. Some recent developments that reinforce and support recent articles on this website:

JULIAN ASSANGE’S OTHER LEAKS:

Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks has been wreaking havoc within the U.S. State Department and with international relations by publicizing tens of thousands of secret American documents for some months now. Assange has repeatedly proven himself to be a disreputable and irresponsible America-hater who gets off by embarrassing and undermining this country.

Now facing British charges for rape and sexual molestation, he apparently gets off in sundry other ways as well with his imitation of Johnny Appleseed by dropping his seed hither, thither, and yon around Australia. The products of his sexual dalliances with at least four women range in age from six months to 20 years of age.

In a deliciously ironic twist, that news was leaked by British police and substantiated in a tell-all book by a disenchanted former WikiLeak spokesperson Daniel Domsheit-Bergas and by other WikiLeakers. For good measure, Domsheit-Berg also references Assange’s “lack of personal hygiene and table manners [which] suggest he was ‘brought up by wolves’ and reveals his erstwhile good buddy’s “main criteria for a woman:” young and ”aware of her role as a woman,” whatever that means: http://tiny.cc/jrqpk

THE CONTINUING DEFLATION OF THE GOREACLE:

Former VP Albert Arnold Gore was a bust as vice president and in his marriage but scored big time in his crusade to spread the tainted word of global warming and earned a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his efforts. He has also earned untold riches preaching the evils of greenhouse gasses and the merits of carbon credits even as he toured and polluted the planet in his Lear jet.

Not a guy to be easily dismayed by reality, Gore never misses a climate step. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3617)

Algorean Warming, Cooling, Changing, Whatevering

Algorean Warming, Cooling, Changing, Whatevering

Rational people should feel a deep sense of pity for Albert Arnold ”Al” Gore Jr.

Not that he minds but not only is he Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. but on top of that burden the poor soul has been so humiliated for being so wrong, so reduced to a caricature, so humiliated by reality, so devolved into what he is as opposed to what he once thought he was or may have thought he may have been, that he is now a laughing stock to those rational people.

The poor thing is so self-besotted that he must think that his borderline obscene embrace and liplock with Tipper at the DNC national convention in 2000, his alleged inability to control his sexual urges with massage therapists in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and his wife of 40+ years jettisoning his sorry ass in 2010 all somehow endear him to the public or, more likely, he doesn’t give a damn what the public thinks.

He has his resume’ to keep him all warm and fuzzy.

The guy was an Ivy Leaguer, as is Elena Kagan, he served in Vietnam, as a protected species, he won a Nobel Peace Prize, as did Yassir Arafat, and an Oscar, as did Michael Moore. Why not cut him some slack?

Poor AlGore is to be pitied mainly but not exclusively for his championing and rapacious enrichment beyond his wildest imagining from the pathetic, long-running, long-disproven joke and insidious charade known popularly as global warming, global cooling, climate changing, and now by the all-encompassing creation of John Holdren, global climate disruption.

That last covers just about any and everything that can happen climatologically from record rains to the driest droughts, from blizzards to heat waves, probably even the size and shapes of snow flakes, to the incidents of bedbugs in New York City which, we all know, is caused by the little buggers looking for safe havens from the heat, or the cold, or that general disruption.

Nevertheless, Algore keeps plugging along like those postmen of old whose rounds continued through snow, rain, heat, and gloom of night even if the last postman to deliver mail during the gloom of night actually doubled as a cat burglar. Undismayed by the mutiple changes in climatological nomenclature or by Climategate or by the coldest winter in a century, Big Al still likes ye olde global warming, avid advocacy for which has made him famous and rich.

Gore surely endorses the latest deception borne of the minds of fellow Democrat warmists in Washington, the warmists’ version of death panels decreed by regulatory fiat, greenhouse gas regulations. The obvious federal rationale for both is the theory that, if they can’t get a law to do it, bypassing Congress and the Constitution with some administrative regulations will.

Gore would be very much in favor. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3273)

The United Nations Gets Religion! (Mayan)

The United Nations Gets Religion! (Mayan)

Oh, great Ixchel, aged Mayan jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine who set the universe in motion, Lady of the Rainbow, water goddess, consort to Votan, goddess of the moon, of reason, creativity and weaving! May you shed reason and shine your light upon the dim bulbs of the United Nations!

That blessing should be granted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change if Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the gathering, gets her wish.

Figueres invoked Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates, waxing semi-poetic as she pleaded for enlightenment from the ancient goddess: ”May she inspire you–because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools:” http://tiny.cc/wj7q2

The depth and sincerity of the Costa Rican executive secretary’s prayer truly take one’s breath away, unless you consider that there was more to Ixchel than your average Mayan goddess.

She is closely associated with Chac Chel, the Mayan Young Moon Goddess who “is often depicted with a rabbit, . . . She is said to be of a merry and somewhat loose character, and rabbits are also famed for their reproductive abilities. She (as Ix Chel) had a great shrine on the island of Cozumel, one of the places to which hurricane Wilma recently caused great destruction:” http://tiny.cc/eh4t9

Secretary Figueres may or may not have had any intent of associating the delegates with rabbit-like, loose moral character but she certainly wasn’t inviting “great destruction” on Cancun nor upon this latest attempt to foist the farce of global warming, now known as climate change, upon the world.

There’s no need to pray for the destruction or failure of the Cancun U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, this year’s version of last year’s failure at Copenhagen. Figueres should know that it is perfectly capable of failing, imploding, self-destructing on its own, the fate of most U.N. initiatives.

(See “Arrogance on the East River,” http://bit.ly/eL1CBZ, for a review of 2009′s “Climate-gate” and the ensuing debacle in Denmark.) . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2932)

Observations: China and Face, Climate and Truth

Observations: China and Face, Climate and Truth

China Loses Face: We’ve all heard the old saw that booze is a truth serum meaning that if you really want to know what someone is thinking, get him drunk and he’ll tell you probably more than you want to know.

Top Chinese United Nations diplomat Sha Zukang got pie-eyed, tanked, snookered, drunk as a skunk while retreating with other U.N. big shots at their retreat at Alpbach, an Austrian ski resort, this week and spilled his guts.

Whether it was during some après-ski or pre-ski or non-ski festivities, Zukang let his hair down and brought to mind another old saw or maxim, to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Even as the Chinese continue to ramp up their military, (purely for self-defense, mind you, with nary a thought of war), and fill Walmart shelves with their cheap, semi-slave-labor-produced consumer goodies that Americans lap up, they smile at us in their enigmatic way that makes you wonder what they’re really smiling at.

Sha Zukang, U.N. Under-secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, however, probably wasn’t smiling when he let loose a 15-minute tirade against his boss, Ban Ki-moon, and the United States. And this was during a toast, not a roast!

Sha wasn’t being very social or diplomatic when he said to the Secretary-General, “You’ve been trying to get rid of me. You can fire me anytime, you can fire me today,” turning later to an American present and adding, “I really don’t like him: he’s an American and I really don’t like Americans.”

Hmmm, vedy interesting.

It wasn’t the first time the loose-lipped Sha had spilled on Americans: “In a BBC interview in 2006 he was goaded into a furious, shrieking attack on American criticisms of China’s rapidly growing defence budget.”
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1892)

Updates: The Mosque and the Glaciers

Update: The Mosque and the Glaciers

Trying to keep up with the news nowadays is like liberals/leftists/”progressives” trying to make sense of their lives and trying to fit themselves into their advertised profile of caring, generous, sensitive lovers of humanity and all things that live on God’s green Earth.

It’s nigh near impossible.

Of course, we should strike the word “God” from that last phrase since most libs/lefts/”progs” either don’t adhere to a belief in the Almighty or don’t believe that He was in any way a participant in making the United States of America the exceptional nation that it still is despite their efforts to alter that.

We should also qualify that concern for “all things living” since pre-born babies don’t count.

Nevertheless, let’s give a shot at keeping abreast of things going on in the world on two fronts, mosques and glaciers:

The Monster Mosque and Its Monstrous Supporters:

The extraordinarily contentious issue of whether Muslims should build a mosque 2 1/2 blocks from Ground Zero where almost nine years ago other Muslims destroyed the World Trade Center and, by downing those two iconic towers, destroyed 2,996 innocent lives, was brought to a head last week when those who oppose and those who support the mosque gathered to demonstrate their opposition or support.

Islam’s constitutional right to erect such an edifice has never disputed. Islam’s discretion and sensitivity toward the feelings of 9/11 survivors and loved ones and its sensitivities toward every New Yorker or American who died a little that day are the chief issues of contention.

At those Ground Zero rallies on August 22nd, 2010, the two opposing forces met, head to head, virtually mano-a-mano. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1871)