Michelle Malkin on Arlen Specter

Just because he debates like a girl doesn’t mean we have to…

Michelle Malkin » Arlen Specter should work for the Huffington Post

Comments: Yes, it is difficult to maintain your "big bully" image while being slapped about by a 90 pound woman.

If you missed the Specter meltdown here it is.

Syriana

Syriana What business does any self respecting conservative have watching Syriana. It was available on Netflix instant stream and I was curious. The movie was well done, good acting, moved along well, and so on. I would not call the politics anti-American as some have said. Pro-Islamic may not describe it either. The movie does not paint the evil caricature of Islam we so often see. It tries to "present" possible reasons for terrorism if you are inclined to buy it. Are they selling it? Knowing the leanings of some behind the movie, I suspect they are selling but I don't see it as over selling (maybe that would be too obvious). Can American politics and corporate interests synchronize their agendas and perpetrate atrocious deeds together? I think so. Has America and corporate interests adversely affected other nations at times? It would be naive to think otherwise. Syriana does not lay all of the blame for lack of Arab social progress (what is progress) on any one party. But in the end, Conservatives are big on personal responsibility so I can understand their objection to laying any of the blame at the feet of another. Picturing America as never doing wrong would be a distortion and many Conservatives insist upon it.

The movie is worth watching but try to fit the US government blowing up some progressive sheik and letting Osama bin Laden slide in the same sentence and keep a straight face. Maybe there is a conspiracy that needs bin Laden for a convenient enemy. Yes, this is a belief by some creative personas. It may be more anti corporation/capitalism than anything and that is always popular. And how exactly does Loony Clooney end up finding said sheik in the middle of the desert so quickly? Keep your disbelief suspender handy.

It's Been A Tough Winter

via iowntheworld

UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning - Times Online

The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.

UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning - Times Online

Comments: But the discussion is over. The "science" is in.

"It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999. That scientist, Syed Hasnain, has now told The Times that he never made such a specific forecast in his interview with the New Scientist magazine."

Maitreya Interviewed On USA TV

Comments: Of course we can't say who he appeared as. That would be too easy. But we must share our resources (can you say Cap & Trade?).
via L.A. Marzulli

Finally, We Can Cut Doctors Pay ... How Very Collective of us!

Oh beautiful for regulated skies.
More amber waves of pain.
The purple mountain of paper work
Will drive us fruity plain.
by: A BigHugePoet

Are We Quaking More and Liking It Less?

Let's look at 2010 so far.
Using USGS statistics, they show the annual average of Richter 6.0 and greater quakes is 152. We've already racked up 10 events in the first two weeks this year. If this trend continued, we would see 260 significant shakes – 71% increase over the norm – and the seismic events plotted below would literally be off the chart.
For Mag. 7 quakes, we're off to a ripper start with TWO events in the first 12 days of 2010. On average, only 17 Richter 7's strike annually. First the Solomon Islands were hit with a 7.1 on Jan. 4. Then just eights days later a 7.0 devastated Haiti.

Millennium Ark: Hot News

Comments: Stan Deyo is an earthquake guy. He tracks, talks, studies and predicts earthquakes. He sees an increase.