My attempt at a campaign advertisement

Jupiter is warming

“Jupiter's recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.”

-NASA APOD May 23, 2008

Jupiter is “global warming.” Is global warming a verb now applicable to other “globes”? While this evidence is anecdotal to be sure, one must understand the limited scientific ability of the Homo sapiens and the circumstantial evidence they use. We don’t know the exact temperature variations of many of the planets in our own solar system. Many of the scientists that dispute anthropogenic global warming admit that planet Earth is warming, but they oppose the fact that human beings are the sole cause of it. They don’t quarrel with the fact that greenhouse gases increase a planet’s temperature, but they submit that the Sun is more dominant in controlling system temperatures. The Sun is raising temperatures on Jupiter as well as Earth, and if we had better scientific understanding, we might be able to realize that the Sun is in what one might call the summer; the same kind of summer that brought planet Earth out of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago.

Since the Sun is but one sun in a myriad of suns rotating around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Milky Way Galaxy is just one galaxy that is expanding noticeably throughout the Universe, who can say that the Sun does not go through seasons?

I’ve said this before; I want to save the environment. I want to save the alpine forests of the Rocky Mountains so I can take my kids up there and show them the beauty of North America. I want to take my kids to Central America so they can hear the howler monkeys howling at night. I want to take them to South East Asia and show them Cat Tien National Park and the thick jungle of Vietnam.

But there are better ways to save the environment than focusing solely on anthropogenic global warming. Especially since some of the proposed solutions like bio fuels are actually causing more harm than good. We don’t need to shut our economy down in a mad hysteria about carbon. If some of the alarmists get there way, I won’t be able to take a jet plane to any of the places I want to go to enjoy nature.

I propose we focus on deforestation, since that has increased to between 20 and 30 million acres a year.

The Ireland Movie

watch me agree with Hollywood liberals

"US actor and director Sean Penn lit up and led a minor revolt at the Cannes film festival against France's draconian new anti-smoking laws."

-AFP May 14, 2008

Draconian is the best word I have seen yet to describe anti-smoking laws. I probably do not agree with Sean Penn on much, but I have to agree with him on this issue.

What is that cliche? Politics makes strange bed fellows?

Sunday Morning Talk Shows

“I have never challenged other people’s patriotism. I will not stand by and allow somebody else to challenge mine,” Mr. Obama said. “The fact that I’m running for president right now is an indication how much I love this country.”

Does Obama mean to say that he believes every American is patriotic, or does he mean to say that he doesn’t care if they are patriotic or not because he would never challenge it? Either way it is not a good thing to say. He won’t allow people to challenge his patriotism because he has never challenged anyone else’s, yet he offers an irrational justification for his patriotism. Just running for the president does not make you patriotic, Mr. Obama. Certainly someone could run for the presidency without loving the country.

This nonsensical statement about patriotism can only mean that he doesn’t understand American patriotism. If someone understands American patriotism they understand it can be challenged at times, and indeed should be. If someone understands American patriotism they understand that running for President doesn’t automatically qualify you.

That being said, I just read an article by one of my favorite authors Thomas Friedman. He went on and on about how America needs to make changes if we want to remain the number one in the world. America will never be as far ahead of everyone else as we were at the end of World War II, but we will remain a major player in international relations, so I'm not really that worried. But what struck me was his comment about how he wasn't sure if Obama is the right person to lead America into the future, but it is not insignificant that he has inspired so many people to get involved, especially young people. There is something to learned from this man, Barack Obama.