right.. isnt this a perfect example of the “freedom” we were supposed to be giving iraqis?

> The Brits have been gone for months.

So what exactly is it that you think they should have done differently to keep the choas from breaking out?

> It has nothing to do with Republicans there.

Sorry, you’re wrong there. Dick Cheney, always trying to put lipstick on a pig, cited basra as an example of the british “leaving when their job was done”…. So either Cheney was lying, or his estimation of when “the job was done” was grossly in error. Which do you think it is..

I fail to understand your logic. Check this out: its happening now, and that’s after the “surge is working” meme. If the warmongering Repubs can’t stop this, why in hell should we stay for more? Get out. Let them solve their own problems. Hasn’t Bush wanted al Maliki to get in charge? Now he is trying to act like he is in charge. Remember all the “democratically elected” garbage? You can’t have it both ways.

‘In the interlude between presentations by the ceos of Dow Chemical and Duke Energy,’

‘nuf said.

On national radio in Australia, Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, dropped a bombshell on those who support global warming: While carbon dioxide levels have risen for the last 10 years, the Earth has cooled, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change knows it. Marohasy said,

The head of the ipcc (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it [that the Earth has cooled since 1998]. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognizes that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued. … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up.

According to Marohasy, the head of the ipcc has suggested natural factors, such as solar activity, are countering global warming. These are the same factors that global warming proponents deride when skeptics suggest that they may be the deciding factors in global warming rather than carbon dioxide. The new discussion is a result of data gathered from nasa’s Aqua satellite launched in 2002:

What all the climate models suggest is that, when you’ve got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapor, so you’re going to get a positive feedback. That’s what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the nasa Aqua satellite … (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they’re actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you’re getting a negative rather than a positive feedback.

Marohasy thinks the entire global warming paradigm will collapse as a result of this bombshell. But we wouldn’t count on it. Science has worked against the global warming community for years now without result. Here is one example of why: In “Junk Science: The Global Warming Bubble,” Steven Milloy writes about a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal and largely comprised of global warming advocates.

In the interlude between presentations by the ceos of Dow Chemical and Duke Energy, for example, the audience was shown a slide … of the diverging relationship between atmospheric co² levels and average global temperature since 1998.

That slide should have caused jaws to drop and audience members to ponder why anyone is considering regulating co² emissions in hopes of taming global climate. Instead, it was as if the audience did a collective blink and missed the slide entirely. When I tried to draw attention to the slide during my presentation, it was as if I were speaking in a foreign dialect.

The only conclusion I could come to was that the audience is so steeped in anticipation of climate profiteering that there is no fact that will cause them to reconsider whether or not manmade global warming is a reality.

He also observed a poll at the conference where attendees were asked to select society’s most pressing problem from a list of five including infectious disease, terrorism and global warming. Infectious disease, which kills millions and infects billions every year, received 3 percent of the vote. Global warming won out with a solid 31 percent.

It doesn’t look like the bubble will burst any time soon. To learn more about the depth of the global warming sham, read “A Really Inconvenient Truth.” •

I’m asking you if you support Hillary, and if so, read the links I provided. I didn’t think it was that difficult.

Oh HELL no! I thought that might be what you were getting at but I suffered total rejection of the thought, leaving me bewildered.

I am in a quandry as to whether I would support McCain or Obama. As a Troll, my instinct is to go with the conservative; I think his policy positions are more in alignment with my own. On the other hand, Obama represents a radical departure from all that has gone before in American history on a variety of levels – a vote for him is almost like voting for a 3rd Party. But it is risky, too. I am in many ways the quintessential undecided independent. I will avidly watch the debates.

But Hillary? No way, no how, no, no, no. Of all the candidates from both parties, she came in dead last on the acceptability index with me. I’d have voted for Bible Thumpin Huckabee or Pocketmaster Kucinich first. She makes my skin crawl.

I’m asking you if you support Hillary, and if so, read the links I provided. I didn’t think it was that difficult.

That’s just plain retarded, Keltoi. I thought you were smarter than that.

Basra is completely under Iraqi control. The Brits have been gone for months. It has nothing to do with Republicans there. If we leave, that is what will happen in Bagdad, Mosul, Ramadi… TP should be cheering this crackdown, it is what will happen countrywide if Obama wins. Some would say it is inevitable that it happen no matter when we leave.

When I hit “submit”, I’m redirected to this page everytime:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/24/

Wassupwitdat?

On the day that the new prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, was sworn in, Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte and the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, Richard A. Boucher, also met with the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, whom they had embraced as their partner in the campaign against terrorism over the past seven years but whose power is quickly ebbing.

The leader of the second biggest party in the new Parliament, Nawaz Sharif, said after meeting the two American diplomats that it was unacceptable that Pakistan had become a “killing field.”

The timing of the American visit was harshly criticized in the Pakistan media for creating the appearance that the United States was trying to dictate policy to a government not even hours old. The two American diplomats met Mr. Sharif as Mr. Musharraf administered the oath of office to Mr. Gillani.

“I don’t think it is a good idea for them to be here on this particular day,” said Zaffar Abbas, the editor of the English-language newspaper Dawn. “Here are the Americans, right here in Islamabad, meeting with senior politicians in the new government, trying to dictate terms.”

Please pray for peace.

Frankly, as I see them, they’re all three only yet another patch to the very imperfect patchwork of the private insurance in the USA. CEOs are very fond of micromanagement, because makes it seem that they are doing a profitable job, but said micromanagement or patchwork fabric only increases the amount of money spent in administrative work, and the fact that the healthcare corporations form a cartel to make it virtually impossible to have a decent healthcare for a reasonable cost, and without all that “preexisting condition” artificial loophole.

Public Universal Healthcare (very different of “free healthcare”, or “socialized healthcare”, trolls!) is the only common sense answer.

As usual, miss(hussein)molly, I feel much smarter by simply reading your posts. Your assessments are brilliant.

(TP, please pay a retention bonus to Miss Molly, no more and no less as your blog fellows!)

So you support a flagrant liar? That’s very interesting.

Not sure what you are getting at, Zoe.

keltoi is desperate as his party is disintegrating before his eyes. Their method seems to be that if they can make democrats feel worse about their party than republcans feel about the republican party that they might have a chance….just a chance.

I don’t think anyone except keltoi and a handful of other die hards even admit they are conservative anymore. I live in a red state and my wife and I have noticed a dramatic change in what people are saying in public lately. In restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. many are publicly denouncing the bush administration……it is a new and welcome development.

Read it for YOU.

And yes, the infighting between Obama and Hillary is killing me. I hate it, and I’m *very* angry at Bill & Hill for pulling this Republican-style “throw-shit-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks” crap – I’ve told them so, for whatever it’s worth.

Huh? Say that again…?

That’s just plain retarded, Keltoi. I thought you were smarter than that.

How about we don’t? I love you, Annie, but as Shakespeare said, “he who is dizzy thinks the world goes ’round”. You guys just cannot or will not see what this bloodletting by the Dems is doing. You are so convinced they can’t blow this election. They can. They are doing it before your very eyes.

Are you still thinking this senile pandering whore will be elected in November…?

Yeah. I am thinking that. Unbelievable, but that is what Hillary has decided must happen so that she has at least a shot in 2012 – McCain would be much easier to run against than President Obama.

BTW – have you read Naomi Wolfe’s book yet…?

Yeah, I got it in the mail Monday and I’m on page 30 or so…for reasons I cannot understand I am highlighting and writing notes in the margin. I am doing it for you, I guess.

I am in a rotten mood….I ask in advance for everyone’s forgiveness if my Trollness seems especially unvarnished today. Vicious hangovers and domestic squabbling have that effect on me.