Today your author came across a news item that only proves his theory on former Vice President and failed 2000 Democrat Party Presidential nominee Albert Gore’s attempt to influence public opinion. As we all know Gore produced his version of the environmental theory known as global warming in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The movie’s theme was as much to do about instilling fear as it was about documenting facts.

During the past 100 years the Earth’s temperature has increased but only by 1 degree Celsius. Science also agrees that an ice age existed some 2.7-2.3 billion years ago but much of the surface melted. Now compounding 1 degree Celsius over several billion years the reader can deduct that yes the Earth is warming but very little we can do will alter such a climatic trend. In fact this collective responsibility enforced by Gore and his ilk reeks of typical self professed liberal theory. This meaning that somehow you and your neighbor are responsible or can change the course of nature by your actions and if you disagree then you are without care, void of conscience and callous.

It isn’t that your author doesn’t support environmental laws. No quite the opposite. However the American Left has been gravitating towards environmental causes in hopes of ramming their moral code down the reader’s throat for over 20 years. Al Gore just so happens to be their current poster boy. It hasn’t been for his own altruism. Mr. Gore’s film garnered plenty of awards, including an Academy Award for best documentary and grossed over $46 million worldwide. Additionally Gore chairs Generation Investment Management, a London based hedge fund that seeks out and invests in companies that believe in many of Gore’s environmental theories such as global warming and stand to profit if favorable legislation is enacted. In other words Gore intends to profit from combating global warming.

Gore has face numerous critics, particularly those in the science field who are far more qualified than a former US Vice President on such issues and more recently UK television producer Martin Durkin’s The Great Warming Swindle. While Gore’s movie was heralded as a landmark, his supporters have dubbed Durkin’s work as ‘controversial’, which is an often misused word used by the American Left when faced with a rebuttal. The only thing controversial about Gore and global warming is his investment portfolio as it shows his true intentions.

Gore’s frenzy portrayal of doomsday if global warming is not addressed is just a long list of tactics used by the American Left who have embraced radical environmentalism. The first Earth Day in 1970 was led by US Senator Gaylord Nelson. One of the concerns expressed that day was prediction that America would run out of food. Also starting the 1970s US retail stores began to feel pressure to change from brown paper bags to ones made from plastic. The idea behind this change was due to the trees being used to produce paper. Just last month the city of San Francisco, a bastion of liberalism, banned plastic shopping bags because of a litany of environmental reasons all based around the ‘do this or we all perish’ mentality. In the 1980s American cities and towns embraced mandatory recycling with their blue trash boxes denoting glass, plastic and newspapers. Also in the 1980s CO2 and greenhouse gases were the environmental talk. We were told of the deadly air conditioners and hair spray canisters that emitted such deadly gases into the atmosphere. As a result these were cut back significantly. And now we are being told that all of this, a rolling ball of changing attitudes towards environmentalism, has not been enough. We are told, forced to hear, that we are collectively responsible for the earth’s temperature increasing by one degree Celsius!

And now former US Vice President and failed 2000 Democrat Party Presidential Nominee Al Gore is taking his medicine show on the road. According to the USA Today Gore is filtering ‘thousands’ of applications from individuals who either will profit from global warming legislation or have bought the words of doom and gloom. These Americans will be paid to go on the road and spread the good word of Al Gore. Following training at Gore’s Tennessee farm, the flock of faithful will go forth and speak at public schools, Rotary International and nursing homes across America. Your author had to chuckle when he saw public schools, Rotary meetings and nursing homes as planned stops for Gore’s legion of eco-warriors. Teachers and pupils will gladly welcome a break in class, the Rotary is always opened to any speaker and nursing home patients your author imagines regularly experience days of monotony so a visit from anyone would be appreciated.

Reader your author implores you to download the link provided in this entry and see the other side presenting their case on global warming. They stand not to profit by changing public opinion. Al Gore cannot say this about himself.

AmericanYank.com

Today your author sat in shock as the media updated the customer with the violent shootings that took place at Virginia Tech. The final count is 33 dead, including the shooter and many more injured. Your author extends a sincere prayer for those who lost their lives and the grieving families.

Your author recalls the 1999 Columbine High School shootings that took place in Littleton, CO. The killing spree facilitated by teenage students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. In their violent wake 12 were left dead and twice that many were wounded with Harris and Klebold taking their own lives. The media machine is already comparing this to the violence at Virginia Tech.

Following the killing spree at Columbine, President Bill Clinton used the moment to pitch the idea of gun control bill to close a loophole that impacted gun sales conducted at gun shows (House Bill 1243). Klebold and Harris had obtained their firearms through a straw purchase performed by 18 year old Columbine student Robyn Harris. Just with every firearm they used, there were several, they too were purchased by someone of age for the two students. Then the big media machine focused their attention to high school bullying, spinning a story that Klebold and Harris were picked on and ostracized by other students. This was proven to be false. What is known about the two is that they shared a love for violent video games, both had been convicted of breaking into a motor vehicle, both shared an interest in Nazism, Adolph Hitler, Social Darwinism and genocide. When it came to musical taste they both enjoyed listening to house and industrial music. Journals kept by both of them described how they hoped to surpass the violence and death caused by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Additionally neither of the boys’ parents have spoken publicly about the incident.

The American Left will use these events, as bad as they are, to cite the need for tougher gun laws. While your author agrees that background checks and responsible gun ownership is a must; how would tougher laws better serve society? What the media machine won’t say in blunt terms is that the shootings at Virginia Tech, the massacre at Columbine or any other spree killing are perpetrated by mentally and emotionally deranged individuals. If they could not have obtained a gun another means of destruction would have been used. However it is the arrogance of the Left that always believes they can dictate social behavior to a finite formula through taxpayer funded legislation and full compliance will create a nirvana. They are delusional.

The American Left will cite the following:

35,000 gun deaths in America

Source: Center for Disease Control

However what the Left won’t tell you in their anti-gun pitch is that 54% of these deaths are attributed to suicide. This eliminates 17,500 of these deaths. From the remaining amount roughly 1,000 are ruled unintentional and accidental. Remember the Left is spinning the data to suggest that eliminating or impeding access to guns would reduce crime and death. It is in your moral good they will say, dictating the reader’s own value system, that stiffer gun control laws are in your best interest. Now this leaves a net number of 16,500 gun deaths linked to crime. This is a far cry from what the American Left will quote.

Often times the American Left will use other countries in the Western Hemisphere as an appropriate role model for the States to follow. This in itself tells the reader who does not support tougher gun laws then you are some ignorant buffoon living in a country where the majority is just as foolish! One country cited by the Left is Canada where they have a Gun Registry. In short, beginning in the 1990s and under the tenure of Liberal Party Prime Minister Paul Martin, Canadian gun owners had to register their arms. A novel idea that in ten years became an example of government mismanagement and the failures of liberalism. Originally budgeted at a cost of $119 million, the figure is estimated to be north of $2 billion. Furthermore it was found that a trend suggested the following, that 86% of gun related homicides were with an unregistered gun and that 80% of the murderers were unlicensed gun owners. Both sides of the political aisle have agreed the Registry has not lowered violent crimes.

While the Left is probably salivating to drum up support for stiffer gun control laws, a detestable testament of their willingness to exploit the murders at Virginia Tech, their underlying message is not really to reduce violent crime. They may say this but what they ultimately would achieve is the removal of personal accountability. Another way to say it, you aren’t responsible enough to own a firearm because of the actions of a demented few. Should we allow these misfits and sick individuals to chip away at our Constitutional right?

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Reader, due to the language in rapper Timbaland's songs, the clean folks at Town Hall prevented me from posting the entry. You may view it at the following American Yank entry. By the way Timbaland is a fundraiser for Senator Hillary Clinton.

 

Today the American Left and self professed liberals have once again proven to your author that like mother tarantulas they will eat their own. As everyone has heard that crotchety windbag who plays a disc jockey, Don Imus, made the following comment regarding the Rutgers University Girls Basketball team on his Imus In The Morning radio show.

Imus: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and . . .

McGuirk: Some hardcore hos.

Imus: That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that now (laughing). Man, that's some ... whoo ...

 

Note: McGuirk is Bernard McGuirk, the radio show’s producer.

Since Imus uttered those words the big media machine has been thrown into overdrive. What your author finds hilarious is that the multi million dollar hip hop performers, the vast majority being black, use similar slang regularly with their songs and they are immune to the Left’s evil eye. The American Left has come out in droves in condemning Imus. What about Freedom of Speech? Well once again as long as the speech is coated in political correctness, which assists in hindering the truth, the American Left will protect it or if they agree with such then it is worthy of their seal of approval.

Two of the most well known tools of the American Left Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, described by the big media machine as civil rights leader, have drop the hammer on Imus. Today the radio show host apologized to infinitum on Sharpton’s Keeping It Real radio show. This was a big day for Sharpton because your author feels comfortable in assuring the reader that this interview and apology session probably garnered the most listeners in his radio career.

Unfortunately Imus’s on air lapse of judgement and the aftermath involving Jackson and Sharpton says more about the latter two than Imus himself. Both Jackson and Sharpton are incapable or unsympathetic to significant issues facing black Americans. The first being the obvious lack of attention big media machine devoted to a growing black middle class and the significant increase in black owned business, both facts ignored by Jackson, Sharpton and others. The second being that the other side of black America, the one that still garners big media machine’s attention, is the one living in ghettos with a 70% out of wedlock birthrate and living in on the borderline of poverty. Jackson, Sharpton and others dubbed by the press as civil rights leader only focus on this group. Your author has stated this before and that being if every black American gravitated towards the middle and upper class of socioeconomic advancement; Jackson, Sharpton and others of their race hustling ilk would not have a job. In other words it is Jackson and Company’s best interest to have a certain group in our society remain poor. This only proving that they are of no use for our society’s advancement.

Now Don Imus is Caucasian and has earned millions from his radio career. In the past ten years he and his wife have focused their attention in help cancer stricken children. How would Imus know of the slang ‘ho’, which is a derogatory phrase? Well one possible source would be rap or hip-hop music. Where has Jackson and Company been on this issue? Silent.

Freedom of speech is a precious right that too many in our country take for granted. Others tout ignorance and balderdash while hiding behind the concept of this freedom. However when perverted by the far left practitioners of political correctness with a pick and choose mentality mixed with poor taste, the right becomes exploited and experiences a depreciating osmosis. This has resulted in the Imus incident becoming an issue out of a non issue and the refusal to address the demeaning lyrics often associated with some types of popular music. Sadly such tenants as personal responsibility and the appreciation of this right are forgotten.

AmericanYank.com

 

Reader an item that has come to your author’s attention cannot be ignored and it is pertinent that you give it some scant attention. Trust your author, this is far more important than who will win American Idol.

There is an alarming trend in Congress that for whatever reason the big media machine are unable or refuse to take note. Some publications considered ‘right wing’ by conventional thinking self described liberal groups are taking note. Why every American isn’t outraged over this trend or at least clued in is beyond your author’s understanding.

Senator Dianne Feinstein Democrat from California and former Mayor of San Francisco has suddenly stepped down from her post on the Military Appropriation Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON). The subcommittee oversees the construction projects for military base and other entities. Here is a list of recent contracts awarded by MILCON with other relevant details.

Boston Scientific: $17.8 million awarded for medical supplies, 85% of the contracts awarded without a competitive bidding process.

Kinetic Concepts, Inc: $12 million awarded for medical supplies, 28% of the contracts awarded without a competitive bidding process.

CB Richard Ellis: Owner and property manager for commercial property that rents to the Department of Veteran Affairs. *

Feinstein’s husband is the ultra rich Richard Blum. Through a series of investment partnership he and Feinstein own an estimated $1billion of the outstanding stock for these three companies. In the case of *CB Richard Ellis Blum is considered a major shareholder owning 7.5 million of the company's 227 million outstanding shares. These astute investments have allowed Feinstein to claim the title the fifth most wealthiest Senator.

Also note the absence of the non-bid factor in some of these contracts. Where is the American Left with their cries of such nuggets? These were the same ones that cried foul when Haliburton and the Iraq War were mentioned in the same sentence

To date not a single major publication has picked up on this story. It wasn’t until MetroActive News, a regional news web page focused on California’s Silicon Valley, reported on this obvious conflict of interest. Despite the LA Times willingness to publish this Feinstein penned rant against the President defending his Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez..

Senator Feinstein isn’t the only one with a conflict of interest issue. There is Democrat Congressman Allan B. Mollohan of West Virginia who watched his net worth ramp up after he appropriated funds to his home state where his business partners benefitted. There is also House Republican power figure Dennis Hastert from Illinois whose son Joshua lobbies on behalf of biotech giant Amgen and Lockheed Martin. There is also the favorite war hero for the American Left, Democrat Congressman Jack Murtha from Pennsylvania and Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Murtha’s brother is Robert "Kit" Murtha, an employee of KSA Consulting, which is a lobby group specializing in representing defense contractors among other industries. And finally there is Senator Hillary Clinton , Democrat Senator from New York and humiliated First Lady during the Clinton Administration. While she ripped the Bush Administration over the Dubai Ports incident because a company from the Arab Emirates would manage several US ports; it was uncovered that her husband and former President Bill Clinton was actually charging a fee to speak with the country’s officials and addressed the ports issue specifically, thereby allowing the Clintons to play both sides of the issue.

Many within the Congressional Democrats team have set about to destroy the Bush Administration. At every corner taken by the President, words such as ‘impeachment’ have been thrown around and acceptable sound bites for many in the big media machine. From Haliburton to the Patriot Act to Attorney General Gonzalez, they have been relentless in their attempt to cause what is nothing more than static or haze and in the end a complete waste of time. Maybe they wish to deflect the attention from their own questionable closets? Thus far it is working.

American Yank

 Recently your author was discussing with a colleague the death toll from the Iraq War. Your author noted a trend or at least what appears to be one, that for every Coalition Force member’s death the media appears to multiply it by ten to estimate the number of Iraqis who died at that very moment.

Your author began to ponder on the reliability and truthfulness of such figures. It is safe to assume that an accurate figure on the deaths of the Iraq citizens cannot be fully known but does the 600,000 figure quoted by the media close to reality? Just on his own analysis your author already has these questions to ponder.

How many of these who are reported dead are not Iraq citizens but rather visiting members of an insurgency?

How many of these have been reported twice? In other words a passerby states a certain number were killed and another witness states another figure. The gatherer of the information simply combines these two accounts.

Now the big media machine should not be spared. Remember reader their industry competes for profits and headlines help impact their bottom line. The higher the body count the more ‘gotcha’ effect they can use to snag the reader or viewer.

In the April 1^st issue of the UK’s The Independent your author found an article that discusses the topic of the Iraqi body count. Now we should all know by now that the big media machine is less than honest. As your author has pointed out in previous entries they have either refused, forgotten or deemed it not newsworthy to tell the reader/viewer on the rebirth of the Baghdad stock exchange, the demands on the country’s utilities because people are loading up electronic items for their households or the success in Kurdistan province. They won’t tell you that 3 of the 18 or roughly 90% of the country’s provinces are under control. So why would the big media machine be honest as it relates to the body count?

According to The Independent article scientists from John Hopkins University and the Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad have derived the Iraqi death count figure of 600,000. Although what it doesn’t say nor can your author find this snippet of fact is exactly how this number is calculated. However the article goes further and states these unnamed scientists cannot paint a clearer picture. From the article:

"The researchers, reflecting the inherent uncertainties in such extrapolations, said they were 95 per cent certain that the real number of deaths lay somewhere between 392,979 and 942,636".

What does this tell us? Well for starters the obvious is that the figure quoted by the media machine and the American Left isn’t accurate. At best the scientists who estimated the 600,000 are now stating between 392,979 and 942,636. This means a range that doubles and that is hardly an accurate estimation but rather a guess.

To add more doubt for the reader to ponder, in the hopes they will form a reasonable conclusion, recall Hurricane Katrina. This was the big storm that flooded New Orleans, arguably the most corrupt city in America and caused the American Left and the big media machine to go into a tailspin.

The original death estimates placed it above the number who lost their lives during the 9-11 attacks. Then the number took a life of its own with estimates of over 10,000! The final number was 1,836 with another 705 referred to as missing. In Louisiana specifically the number is about 1,464 and a far cry from the whackos who made comparisons to the September 2001 attacks.

Readers it is an unfortunate time we live in as it relates to traditional news coverage. Many of them appear to act as propaganda tools for both the right and left. Thankfully the internet is able to slice through this murky muck of balderdash and the reader can find the answers on their own. The reader is always advised not to buy what the media industry is spinning for them. The bottom line profits don’t reflect accuracy and truth only their ability to sell you their product.