The Mathematics of Global Warming

The Mathematics of Global Warming

This just gets better and better. Aside from the fact that we now know that the climatologists have cooked the books to obtain results that they wanted to use, we find this interesting paper on the pure impossibility of predicting the weather with computers.

This paper on the mathematics of global warming should not have had to be written because it is an exercise in pure hubris for human beings to believe they possess such insight into the gargantuan dataset that is the global weather system, that they can actually make realistic and accurate predictions of the climate.

What is worse, the globalists have converted millions of disciples to this "faith", who are not about to be dissuaded by pure evidence of deceit. Some are calling for massive globall wealth redistribution (read: higher taxes on US citizens), regardless of the facts about the global warming hoax. Like many believers in a false religion, it takes more than facts to daunt them. Of course, the prospect of getting your hand into Uncle Sam's trouser pockets to steal some cash might have something to do with their continued insistance that this Copenhagen treaty is really all about equity and fairness for the dowtrodden poor of the world. Hey! if facts won't work, maybe a sob story will.

It is also clear that the Globalists are attempting to ignore the email firestorm - acting like it didn't happen, and planning on going ahead with the Copenhagen meetings - talking like there is still a consensus on Global warming when it is melting like an icecube on a summer sidewalk.

These people are like the emporer refusing to believe that everyone is still willing to act like he has clothes on - when instead everyone is laughing at him to his face.

Now we also are finding out that much of the data on which global warming computer models was based has been thrown out. That cat is not going back into the bag without an enormous fight. Whoever tries to capture him and stuff him back in the bag will suffer mightily for their efforts. We demand truth, not cooked-up political junk science spooned out to the masses through compliant media lapdogs who have forgotten how to bark.

Economic Prosperity - A Step of Faith.

Economic Prosperity - a Step of Faith

An interesting observation about Muslim states which are economically stagnant - versus the results in countries which have robust religious liberties.

Actually, as a Biblically-literate Christian, my reaction is "DUH!!" Of course there is a very strong correlation! I thought it was obvious.

What is even more telling, in this US of A we are busily dismantling religious liberty in the wildly perverse notion that Socialist Political Correctness can improve on it.

Limited Utility - What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities?

One of my favorite themes - what happens when the people who manage utilities for the masses get it wrong for the wrong reasons. See my blog entry "When OPE meets NIMBY" for a similar theme.

Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required

Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required

My Friend George Blumel posted this via an email. I am reproducing his comments also.

If you’ve read any of the www.PosterChildrenForTermLimits.com profiles you’ll note that the “worst of a bad lot” in Congress have never worked at a real job in the free market. Most are trained as lawyers who have spent their whole lives in politics, not helping people solve problems or providing them with products of services. Historian Paul Johnson has called professional politicians the “scourge of the twentieth century.” And now in the 21st century that scourge has reached its nadir. We need to vote them out and start over –or, our children will be so indebted and so restricted by FedGov they’ll never know the freedom and prosperity that we have in previous generations.


Here is an indication that we are at a new low with this Obama administration filled with those same types who only know government with all its hubris, arrogance, inefficiencies and incompetence and POWER. –Geo.

Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole'

Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole'

Here is a Worldnetdaily article by Bob Unruh, that is one of the clearest examples of forced indoctrination of students - and even screening of applicants to Universities that I have seen. These are not private schools, but public-funded Universities. Not only should such programs themselves be stopped, but the perpetrators and admistrators who sponsored them must be publicly fired and tracked to see where they turn up next. (Reminds me of the "wack a mole" game._

Who knows? We might find them popping up as one of Obama's new Czars. Frankly, it would be part of the same pattern we have seen with him for years, going back to his Acorn agitation days.

Be still My Soul

A meditation:

Monday, November 30, 2009, the healthcare debacle will be "debated" again by uninformed career politicians who have no real care for the hapless sheep they think they rule (and herd and push around) and from whom they plan to harvest more fleece and meat. Those who do care are out-voted, ignored or shouted down, and are in the minority, seemingly powerless.

It is hard to discern where all this is going to go. Perhaps it will be stopped; perhaps they will pull it off. Either way, I am set for the defense of the Gospel, come what may. For that pure motive, I am partially beholden to the prevaricator in chief - Obama, who has galvanized me among so many others to think through the issues to their logical and spiritual conclusion.

That was no small task, considering the sad spiritual state of the church in America. Who would have thought that a sleeping nation might be awakened in its final hours?

Today, I awoke with a strange determination in my breast that whichever way it goes, I am not giving up, even though the mountains be carried into the midst of the seas, and all the waves and billows may seem to be overflowing me. Our God reigneth, and He laughs in the heavens at the efforts of those who hate Him. The Lord shall have them in derision and vex them in His sore displeasure.

The Lyrics of this song have long been my heart's favorite, especially when I consider our times.

"Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below."

Every generation has its challenge; we are in the very midst of ours. The reach of the God-haters toward world domination and the destruction of the people of God is proceeding apace; yet none of this has escaped the notice or control of He that sitteth in the Heavens. The waves of the sea - the heathen - may churn and boil, but they still know the voice of Him who ruled them while He dwelt below. Precious! One little word shall fell them.

I have great hope: the stand of only a few, even one man who refuses to bow to the world's golden image may still prove to change the king’s word. It may take "yielding our bodies." The result may well be stupendous in the eyes of a watching world. Either way, bring it on!

I pray this would be the result: Dan 3:28 “Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.“

Let's do our part, giving the glory to God; and let God do His work, His strange work; His strange Act, in the hearts of Men. To Him be the Glory.

George Washington's First Thanksgiving Proclamation

Well, it is the day after Thanksgiving, 2009, and this proclamation is SO politically-incorrect that I just had to post it. It shows how far the God-hating revisionists have gone in perverting our present culture and in distorting and just plain lying about our Christian past.

We should refuse to participate in political correctness, and armed with facts, push the liars out of their positions of influence and replace them with well, maybe YOU. Run for office, even if it is for local school board. Recapturing our culture begins at the grass roots - not the "astro-turf" that so accurately characterizes the lying Liberal public staged events. We need the real thing again. This Liberal crap is turning my stomach.

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation by President George Washington

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.

President George Washington

Global Warming = Hoax

Well stated in less than a minute. True too. So what is Obama going to Copenhagen for? To sign on to Global taxation at a level that is totally out of reach of us peons who thought that government was supposed to be responsive to us, and not the other way around. Any way you slice this turkey, it comes out tasting like Tyranny.

Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Well worth reading, if only for the politically-incorrect tone of it. It gives the lie to Liberal and God-hater's notions of the US as being founded as an entrirely secular nation. They would have us believe that the Founders were a bunch of hyporcitical deists - barely even believing in God, much less the ignorant notions of Biblical Christianity.

These latter day revisionists of American History actually read back into our history their own corrupt heart's attitudes. They are the ones who are rotten, not the Founders. Here is what is wrong with the modern day politically-correct critics: "Tit 1:15-16 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work."

This proclamation was issued in the mid-1850's, and the Christian bloom was far from being off the rose of Americal Christian public testimony at that time. It's tone is unmistakable and sincere. That did not totally fade from public view until the late 1980's.

May our faith see a resurgence again; that Jesus Christ may be publicly praised in every place in this nation founded upon a dedication to Him.

An Appropriate Thanksgiving

Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power,
and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:
for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine;
thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all;
and in thine hand is power and might;
and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

1Ch 29:13-13

Thanks and no Thanks

Just scripture, and some contrasts between thankfulness and unthankfulness.

Happy Thanksgiving, 2009.

Those Global Warming emails

Here is a raucious interview on FoxNews concerning Global Warming and the recent unearthing of a treasure trove of emails between the "peers" of the Global Warming scientific establishment. Mr. Begley, who is being interviewed, goes ape when challenged about the emails. His reaction is that of a religious cultist whose pet belief has been debunked before his very eyes.

Begley's insistence on "peer review" is an attempt to keep the "scholars union" in charge of the debate. Like the Catholic Church during the time of the Inquisition, only "approved facts" are allowed to be doled out to the masses by those who are the anointed gatekeepers of information.

Read this story which contains one email that pretty well lets the cat out of the bag.

If you watched the video with Begley insisting on "peer review" as the basic standard of truth, you cannot help but notice that in the link cite above, the email sender explicitly states that he will "change the peer review" to eliminate a critic. In case you missed it, here is the quote:

"From Phil Jones To: Michael Mann (Pennsylvania State University). July 8, 2004
“I can’t see either of these [global warming-denying] papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

What we really find from the leaked emails is that the "peers" are just a bunch of scammers with a globalist political agenda who are not going to let anyone - or any facts - get in their way of promoting their pet myth of global warming. Perhaps they are trying to maintain cushy jobs, spending someone else's money in bogus research. Hey, it's all for the faith, isn't it? Their methods of keeping the lid on are plain to see from their emails. Just remember: "No lie is of the Truth."

Their computer models predict just what they want them to predict – global warming. And when they don't predict what they want to prove, then they suppress the data - or manufacture data and jettison the real data - and persecute those who want an open debate about the meaning of the facts. Unfortunately for them, the Earth’s climate does not cooperate.

Beware of any calls for “peer review.” In the best of times it helps to debunk bad thinking and poor methodology in scientific inquiry, but in these "politically correct" times climate change has fallen under the control of political cranks and just plain Liberal Ideologues. The Truth has been dumped in a trash can in the back alley. Only PC allowed here, sir!

Don’t hand your conscience or good sense over to some stuffed shirt with a PhD who claims to “know all.” Submit their pompous claims to the “sniff test.” If it stinks of totalitarianism, it fails. If it calls for big government – over which you will no longer have any control at all – a big government to come into your life and start ordering you around, or taxing your choices of food, drink, cars, jobs – health care – then be rightly suspicious of their motives. Nothing is more addictive to a Liberal with a guilty conscience than giving him power over other people to tell them how to live.

And that is what this is all about – power.

In an attempt to deflect the uproar over the hacked emails, the author Aaron Weiner published a summary of the horror stories supposedly happening under our noses. "The Best Reason to Ignore ‘Climategate’: The Climate Really Is Changing."  I perceive that his "data" is essentially a rehash of Global Warming conventional wisdom, presented to promote hysteria. Whatever might be happening to the ice caps, the seal level, etc. has been reversed in the past few years with a re-cooling of the earth; that is, what is happening is not global warming, rather it is global cooling. How's that for a really good computer model? Shouldn't we be a few feet under water by now?

Dr. Larry Vardiman, of the Creation Research Institute, an organization I know and trust, published several fascinating articles which point to some evidences of a climate change, but one that is not driven by carbon dioxide, but by fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field. There are two articles: Does Carbon Dioxide Drive Global Warming? and "A New Theory of Climate Change."

A more recent article on the proposed "cap and trade" legislation helps to put the whole carbon-myth into perspecive. Energy Bill Won't Solve Global Warming, by Brian Thomas, M.S.

Clearly, it is not carbon dioxide that is the culprit - in fact rather than leading it, the CO2 curve lags behind the fluctuations in cosmic ray influx. Therefore CO2 is not the driving element. So much for having a justification to forcibly control all CO2 emissions of mankind. So much for Cap and Trade. So much for Copenhagen. So much for the "need" for Global Governance. So much for the hysteria that is driving the whole agenda of the Globalists.

Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.

Christian Leaders issue Declaration of Principles

This Declaration is arguably the most important stand taken for the faith since Luther issued his "95 Theses" in 1519.

From the close:

"Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's. "

We ought to nail this Declaration on the doors of the Hall of Congress.

A Time to Do Exploits

The jaws are closing on a trap. Even while I write this, the Senate is "debating" the Reid Healthcare bill. I am going to pray about it, but it is very obvious that the leaders of the Senate are not listening and really don't care about the majority will of the people.

They are going to cram this thing through no matter what. Even in the face of a Democrat rout in 2010 they are willing to vote it in.

That willingness to throw themselves on their swords is by itself an extremely suspicious fact. What could stiffen the resolve of career politicians like many of the Senate Democrats? A guaranteed "safety net" when they are kicked out of office. Do I hear "stimulus money"? Do I hear "bribery"?

Perhaps this generation of Senate Democrats is being "taken care of " despite the inevitable backlash, so that a future, and much more entrenched gang can be slid in there in four or six years, after the Democrats have solidified their stranglehold on the American electoral process via the Social Welfare State they are putting the finishing touches on right now.

Nothing about this gang of career criminals would suprise me.

This article is a suggestion to those of us who know their God, and is intended as an encouragement in the midst of a seeming disaster.

Suburban Denver billboard links Obama with jihadists -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Suburban Denver billboard links Obama with jihadists -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

We need more "free speech" like this. It brings an issue to our minds that most people don’t even want to think about because of the thunderous implications: the possible ineligibility of Obama to be president due to his being born in Kenya, not the US. The billboard cheers some and chills others. It is "offensive" and some want to have it removed, but what good is free speech if it can only be used to cheer on the "administration du jour"?

Of the many uses of free speech, the First Amendment was crafted first of all to protect political speech, which had been targeted by the British as they oppressed the American colonies. Newspapers were seized, editors imprisoned, and publications destroyed. The British were attempting to keep the lid on a boiling pot of public sentiment. It is the “same old, same old” today.

It is noteworthy that the Obama administration is stealthily tightening the noose of free speech by instituting new FCC rules for broadcast media, with the ostensible intention of making broadcast speech "more balanced" - forcing a version of the "fairness doctrine" onto stations. It is not intended to do that; it is planned to shut out the Rush Limbaughs of the world, to cut off the Hannitys, to force conservative talk radio and TV into oblivion. But the people want to hear them; otherwise they would have been starved out of existence by the lack of listenership. Liberal radio and TV operates at a loss all the time. Does that tell you anything? Liberal National Public Radio (NPR) would never survive if they had to compete on a level playing field with commercial broadcasting. They have to be subsidized so their Liberal point of view - shows like "Fresh Air" (what a misnomer!) - could be heard.

The rise of the Alternate Media - specifically Cable and Internet - has effectively broken the stranglehold that the Old Media (TV Networks and Major Newspapers) had on the promulgation and formation of people's opinions about events. It can be honestly said that we lost the Vietnam War because of the impact that the TV network reporting that turned the people against the War. It even influenced President Johnson. There was no counterbalancing opinion allowed on the air, so we only heard one side.

That Media has been increasingly eclipsed by the Alternates. In fact, the Alternates have been so successful that they have earned the undying enmity of the ruling elites who have observed their control being threatened by the free opinions and investigative reporting that incessantly exposes them. Witness the Acorn debacle that exploded when two individuals secretly filmed Acorn employees advising them how to break the law. This bold journalism exposed the bankruptcy and complicity of the Main Stream Media (MSM) for not only not following up on incessant charges that Acorn was not only engaging in illegal activity, but also using tax dollars to serve the exclusive interests of the Democrat Party, but for participating in a coverup themselves. The MSM and the ones they serve – the Elites - have not had to endure such scrutiny for almost seventy five years and they plan to strike back.

The alternative media, especially the Internet, are in for a shakeup. Google is now in bed with Obama (perhaps literally) after practicing with the Chinese in controlling the internet. They are honing their skills by practicing on politically-incorrect websites. Google and Microsoft and a host of other major players in the internet industry have enthusiastically endorsed the concept of "net neutrality" enforced by US government regulation.

I cannot imagine a more scurrilous concept than the US Government - with all the ill intentions in the world toward shutting down free speech - getting involved in "regulating" the net with the “help” of Google and Microsoft and other big players. Guess what will be "regulated" out of existence? You guessed it - free speech that threatens the Elites' agenda.

This Obama administration is built on lies, so they have every reason to prevent the free interchange of ideas. Are errors and foolish, even hurtful things published on the internet? Of course, but we cannot allow the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater.

Consider: one really good exposure has the possibility of bringing it all down in one swoop - if the truth can be gotten convincingly into enough people's hands. Pray God that he will "sweep away the refuge of lies." Is 28:17

That's why we need free speech, not censorship.

Conservative Christians issue declaration, warning (OneNewsNow.com)

Conservative Christians issue declaration, warning (OneNewsNow.com)

What's next? Civil disobedience?
Undoubtedly.

They don't have enough jails to hold everyone who refuses to let them get away with this.

Their only alternative might be to kill large numbers of people who refuse to cooperate.
that'll tear it.

Sabotage the system, if they think they can ram it down our throats.

The US Unemployment picture - A Time-Lapse Depiction.

The old addage, " a picture is worth a 1,000 words" should be changed to "an interactive depiction is worth a 1,000,000 words" !!!!


I wonder what such a depiction would look like for the rest of the world...

The Broken Bank - the US and China and the Debt

Colson says: "if the Chinese decide not to continue financing our debt, the dollar could drop through the floor. America could have a huge financial crisis."

Excuse me? We are already in a huge financial crisis. When the Chinese are calling the shots on what is arguably American Domestic policy - what's next? Our Iran policy? (Oh excuse me, they already torpedoed our attempt to rein in Iran's nuclear program. They get 20% of their oil from Iran. Sorry! I forgot!). How about Taiwan?

Recognizing the fact that, as the Bible says: "The borrower is a slave to the lender," that means our crisis is a lot more fundamental than just financial. We have practically sold ourselves to the Chinese and others (who don't love us, btw).

We have not even begun to pay the Chinese in the coin they will demand.

And the truly sad thing is that we are suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

Here are a few charts to show what is happening to the dollar, and how long it has been happening. This debt is not something that jumped up over night.

Do you see where most of the money is going? Not one cent of that largest category is being spent according to the US Constitution. A good deal of the "Other" category would probably not stand the constitutional light of day either. Just think what our country would look like after the unconstitutional "air" were to be let out of this balloon.

What could you do with all the money left in your pocket? (Assuming you are one of those actually earning a living, versus those who are on the "dole", taking what is not theirs? Those folks better plan on working for a living again.)

Oh, by the way, our tax receipts fall short of funding this huge ball of spending. Look at the chart below to see where that deficit spenging is taking us.

Do you notice anything unsettling about this curve? It seems to be getting higher and higher, faster and faster. Does that maybe hint that it is going bust sometime soon? Any signs of letup, or is it getting worse?
Our crisis is moral. And only a moral renewal will fix our situation.

Jeffrey LaPorte on the Birther Issue - video.

I am pleased to post this video by Jeffrey LaPorte. He evidently has been creating a lot of videos and commentary on conservative, constitutional issues. Forthright, cogent, well-spoken - and best of all - young and conservative, this young man deserves some more attention.

Support Jeffrey on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/q29qru
Follow me on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/lrxrnk
http://www.JeffreyLaPorte.com .
Free Use Song Provided By: http://www.danosongs.com The Time isnt Right . ...

U.S. troops battle both Taliban and their own rules - Washington Times

U.S. troops battle both Taliban and their own rules - Washington Times

Without sufficient troops to engage the Taliban up close and personal - and without a relaxation of these stupid rules, our efforts are doomed. Obama and his communist gang will have won the withdrawal of our troops by refusing to give them what they need to win. We won in Iraq because we were able to create places where life could return to normal. In Afghanistan, that cannot happen because we have too few resources. This is deliberate.

Instead of calling for our troops to come home, let's impeach Obama and put someone in charge who is an American and identifies with us.

When OPE meets NIMBY

This article is a bit late to publication, but it is timely nevertheless.

It describes an almost iconic real-world event that perfectly illustrates what happens when government slips out of the reach of the people and so rigidizes even the construction of essential public utilities that major dislocations in public services begin to appear everywhere, wreaking havoc and huge costs.

With the steam engine of forced Socialization of our society getting ready to run over us all - not just "healthcare" mind you, but a crushing regulatory burden to make captives of us all - perhaps we could use a reminder from 2003 when the largest electric power outage in history occurred in California, for what proved to be totally avoidable reasons. The problems that led up to the outage were clear to everyone for years before it happened, but nobody seemed to be able to do anything to prevent the inevitable. It's a kind of "Titanic"story, without the love interest. Here was a "ship" that everyone knew was doomed, but nobody could or would do anything to stop it.

That is where we are headed now, unless we can derail this train.

The "Birther" Issue from my perspective

On the birther issue - none of the claims of the Obamites to have produced a valid birth certificate are true. There is an easy way to resolve the issue, but the opponents of disclosure (of which there are many in the media) seem unable to grapple with the real issue, and instead resort to mockery or dismissive jibes. What are they afraid of? Why not just get together and demand that he release the original birth certificate? What is so hard about that?

The behavior of the opponents of disclosure fits the pattern of those who are guilty of what they are accused of. The solution is so simple, and yet they will not even address the question of releasing the original document. The "Birthers" are subjected to lies, misdirection, stonewalling, scorn and mockery, legal obfuscation, threats, even fines - anything, but a straightforward response to the request for disclosure. 

Recall that Lou Dobbs got in serious trouble with his network for daring to even suggest that the Birther's have a point. Clearly, the Obama administration is extremely touchy about the issue, employing an expensive law firm to deflect the legal challenges. The bill to the taxpayers exceeds $1.5 million, and is still rising.

The most accurate information available to the interested party is to be found at http://www.wnd.com/
Appeals to the Liberal http://www.snopes.com/ are useless because they merely regurgitate the "company line" without having really answered the objections of the Birther's to the misleading information that has been put forth by the Obamites as "proof" that he was born in Hawaii. It is true that there is a kind of paper trail concerning the baby Obama in Hawaii. What is missing is the original long-form birth certificate. What has been made public is not that document.

"Birthers" would have to colossally stupid and obstinate to continue to object - if the document that has been released by Hawaii answers basic questions concerning where he was born, the attending physician, hospital, date and time, etc. Would not an official document - the original or certified copy thereof be acceptable as proof of where he was born? Don't we normally find such information on a birth certificate? Wouldn't that info, if supplied on the published document, have stopped the mouths of the objectors? One would think so! But no such information exists on that published document. It fails to answer questions that anyone wanting to verify citizenship and place of birth would require to be satisfied.

Any fair minded person who reviews the arguments and evidences put forth by both sides, and thoughtfully considers the points and counter points would have to conclude that the Birther's have good cause to be calling for the original birth certificate to be released.

So much of the integrity our constitutional system rides on the question of whether we have a deliberate usurper in the White House, and commanding our Armed Forces. What if he is not legitimately the President? Does that not matter? I have to believe that it strikes at the heart of our system of government. Can he order the troops into battle? Can he sign bills passed by Congress? Does he have authority to issue executive orders? Does he have the right to speak to the world as the chief executive officer and representative of our government? I think the answers to these questions are very important. And that is why it is important to clear up the questions about his eligibiity to serve as president.

It has been said that "even a child is know by his doings." By that measure, we may identify certain behaviors in this man that cause us to doubt that he is honestly portraying himself as a natural born citizen of the United States. For instance. If he loved this country and respected the office, would he continue to obfuscate through his legal team over a question that could very easily be put to rest by a simple release of the original document? Would not someone in his position want people to know the details?

But consider the lengths that the Obamites have gone to deflect this issue. For a matter that could be put to rest so easily, the amount of smoke and mirrors operating in the Obama camp to shut this down is highly suggestive that they really have something momentus to hide.

If you were Obama, and really were a usurper, what would you do if you were determined to hang onto power? Exactly what he is doing now.

Some seem to have a hard time getting a feel for this issue, so I created a kind of word-picture.

As an illustration: If you suddenly showed up at my door and pushed your way into my house and started to move your stuff in, claiming you owned the house - I would demand you produce a legal title to my house. Of course you could not. But you might hand me some typed up document that purports to be a title, or resort to name-calling, and even insisting that since you were already in the house, "possession is nine-tenths of the law" and other cutie phrases.

I call the cops, but when they show up, they note who you are, and suddenly wash their hands of it, saying that I will need to get a legal writ to have you put out. They ask for a lease or some evidence that you have a right to be there, and you show them the fake Title. They seem more than willing to accept that even though it is not a certified original and it does not have all the proper information indicating when you bought it, how much was paid, and where the original document can be found in the Court records. Mostly though they just don't want to get involved. They act kind of scared of going against you.

Then you press them, and one of them threatens to have me arrested for disturbing the peace because I got a little loud over this usurpation of my property. You gloatingly smile and tell the police that you have been trying to get me to move out, but I am very stubborn and refuse to "face facts." Later that day I get a summons to appear before a magistrate for attempting a "false arrest", and am fined $25,000. I am outraged, but more determined than ever to get you out of my house and to clear my name.

If and when we get to court you will have to produce the certified Title from the courthouse. Of course I know you will not be able to do that. So perhaps it would be understandable that you would hire lawyers to try to avoid the court date, throwing up all kinds of manufactured legal objections to my demand for you to produce the Title.

I discover that somehow you have gotten into my bank account and are able to take my money to fight me with. That is working well for you now.

Yet I persist, and finally, once pinned down in court, you are shown to be a very bold and audacious liar and con man. I find out later that you have been mentored by some of the most virulent criminals in the world, the Chicago Radical Crime Syndicate. Thier mantra: "If you are going to tell a lie, tell a whopper."

I then press charges against you for your actions against me and recover damages. They are huge. You spend the rest of your life in prison, with no hope of parole.

Again I repeat: Where is the Birth Certificate? No valid birth certificate has been released. The supervisor of public records in Hawaii has sealed the document – sealed it to the public. That is a certifiable fact. If the real document, as some of deluded people have asserted, has already been released, then what document remains that is sealed? Interestingly, the Supervisor, contrary to the rules for disclosure, at one point publicly indicated that she has "seen and handled" the document, and that "it shows that Obama was born in Hawaii." This is enough for some people, but wait a minute. The document still has not been produced. Should we believe her? Suppose she is part of the Obama cover up? Why should we take her word, especially when the laws of Hawaii don't permit such disclosures? Would you take the word of the Clerk of the Court that Obama has a good title to your house? Wouldn't you insist on seeing it produced and verified as an actual, certified title? Any reasonable person would. This all smacks of cover-up. "Give them anything, but don't give them the original long-form birth certificate."

This guy was born in Kenya. The Kenyans celebrate that fact, and are expecting lots of money from their countryman who has managed to get into the US presidency. At least some people are willing to acknowledge - even to celebrate his Kenyan birth. See the post on this blog.

You would think the American Media would be interested in truth, but they have run away from this story. Even O'Reilly, who bills himself a "no-spin" artist, openly mocked the "birthers" as nut-jobs. I have to believe that an enormous amount of pressure has been weilded behind the scenes to dissuade people from pursuing the  matter.

I am not a nut-job; not by a long stretch of the imagination; nor am I a fool. There is way too much evidence circulating about this guy for none of it to be true. Why wasn't he vetted? Why are there two certified copies of his certificate of Nomination to run for the Democratic condidate for president - one certifying that he "meets all the constitutional requirements for President" and the other merely affirming that he is the "Democratic Party candidate for the presidency in 2009". Both are signed by Nancy Pelosi, but the first one was withdrawn and the second one posted. Why? Did Nancy Pelosi not want to put her neck further in a noose by swearing to something she knew, or at least suspected, was not true about Obama?

We'll see.

Archived articles surface, refer to Obama's Kenyan Origins

"Archived articles surface, refer to "Kenyan-born Obama"" - Patriot Update

Why would Obama refuse to let us see his original birth certificate?  Because it will prove that he is born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and that is in ineligible to be president of the US because he is not "a natural - born" citizen.

This just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

Representative Paul Ryan in HealthCare Debate

Rep Paul Ryan is a dynamic speaker, a Republican from Wisconsin, and a supporter of some free-market ideas for reform of our national health care system. Unfortunately, he buys into continued Socialist concepts, such as the government paying for "insurance" for certain classes of the population. His plan is a mix of some free market ideas and socialism dressed up in compassionate garb. I am researching his positions for more detail, and I don’t want to unfairly or dishonestly characterize his stands, but at the present time, I am not going to support what he wants to do.

My position is that I feel that we need to pull back the throttles on our federal government Socialism - not crashing the plane with a too-sudden change in flight plan, but putting us on a glide-slope to a landing with the goal that the Federal Government has no part to play in medical care (or any redistributionist plan) for ANY citizen. That might take a decade, but it has to be the goal. Otherwise, we just perpetuate unconstitutional activities and never address the underlying moral issue: government redistribution of wealth for such reasons is fundamentally wrong and at variance with our principles at a people.

If anyone has any specific thoughts to add to this, post them on this blog. I am operating on a first look at his simplified health care proposal and have not delved into the details. Perhaps he has a "glide slope" concept built in. I would hate to set my self against a friend.

To A Broken God - music video

A lovely, meditative song for those of us who are hurt or broken. What a comfort He is, for he endured the indignity of pain and suffering in this world the same as we.

"I never dreamed You could feel this way."

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. No one ever cared for me like Jesus.

The Establishment Clause and Homosexuality

Some have asserted that laws defining marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman violate the establisment clause of the Constitution; more specifically, the First Amendment, which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of Religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Recent (late twentieth century) judicial opinions have skewed the meaning of the word "religion" to refer to any mention or acknowledgment of God, as if the Founders really wanted to exclude God from government. The buzz-phrase often used to characterize this interpretation is the oft-repeated mantra "Separation of Church and State," which is ripped without context from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. They had expressed concerns that the Federal Government would use the first amendment to persecute churches. He replied, intending to fully assure them that the Federal Government is prevented from doing so because the Consititution has erected a "wall of separation" between church and state. Since then his words have been taken wildly out of context, being used to promulgate the very opposite of what he meant. His letter actually affirms that the Federal Government cannot set up a National Church, nor can it oppress any of the sectarian churches. Taken out of context, and endlessly repeated, that phrase has been mis-used to ram all kinds of anti-religious bias down the throats of the American people. It has been used to ban God from public life, and now such attitudes are creeping into even the private domain. Are you familiar with "Christmas wars," or "creche wars" every Christmas Season? (There! I said it!)

If we want to be correct in our interpretation of the Constitution, we ought to let those who debated and voted for the Bill of Rights inform us of what they meant when they used the word "religion." The true meaning of the term comes out of that time, not today's.

Today's revisionist interpretation would banish God and all mention of Him from public life because the mention of "God" implies "religion" to some people today. Then it is but a short step to infer that the Founders meant to ban God.

But that is not at all what the founders meant by "religion" in the first Amendment. They were referring to a national established sectarian church, like England had. State church establishments were clearly OK with them, for even after the ratification of the Constitution, a number of state sectarian churches persisted for many years. Nobody questioned that or tried to overturn it as "unconstitutional" or as a violation of the "establishment clause." The reason? Because no one tried to set up a national church based on one of the Christian Sects. If you want to understand the word “religion” as they meant is, insert the word “Christian Sect” in place of it and you get the idea.

Today's interpretation is radically revisionist. It turns the establishment clause upside down and uses it as a bludgeon against present-day believers who are of the same mind and mold of those who founded this country. It tries, in effect, to banish us and our religious convictions into outer darkness, or to be confined within our heads but nowhere else.

People like us founded this country, and we will not let anyone playing a "shell game" with rhetoric or revisionism deprive us of a government set up to secure our religious liberty.

This country was founded by and for Christians who were fleeing religious oppression in England, and later Europe. Now, the oppressors are with us again, but this time they grew up in our midst, and are attempting to carry out the same oppression the earliest settlers came here to escape. The difference is that the latter-day oppressors are Humanist, not Deist. The result is the same.

The Founders made it clear in their writings that this government was not set up - or adequate - for an immoral and licentious people. Therefore, by any fair historical measure, Homosexuality and "gay" marriage are not included in the Bill of Rights.

Having said that, we recognize that such sins have been with us from very early in human history. Gen 9:24 may be the first record of a homosexual event in the scripture. Even then, the act brought about a huge judgment. One can only wonder what massive judgment awaits this country if we so flagrantly flout God's laws as come vocal minorities are attempting to do now.

None of us propose to jail or persecute such sins, since they are personal and usually private. We deplore them, but generally will leave it up to an individual’s choice. But we won’t countenance the attempt to change the rules so that what is immoral gets enthroned as "moral", and what we recognize to be moral to be made immoral or irrelevant. We will fight to the death to prevent a complete inversion of the moral landscape in our culture.

On the Right to Throw off Tyranny

Do we have a right to throw off oppressive government? First read the Declaration of Independence to rehearse the arguments and logic put forth by the Founders for their break with the British Crown.

I have included a fairly long sermon delivered by Samuel West, a congregationalist minister, to the Massachusetts Council and House of Representatives in Boston, 1776. Familiar sounding year? Yes, the Declaration of Independence year. The sermon is well worth the effort to slog through it, since it refutes many serious theological interpretations of those who claim that we have an absolute duty to obey all rulers regardless of their governance. He establishes a right understanding of the scriptures on that point, and demolishes the incorrect interpretations that lead to more tyranny.

Genuine government is ordained By GOD for the purpose of rewarding those who do well and punishing those who do evil. Rom 13:3 “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good."

Unfortunately under this present government, it is increasingly true that if you do well you get screwed by the government, and all the fruit of your hard work is plundered to "transfer" it to someone else who is "more worthy" of your property and wealth than you are.

When rulers become a terror to good works they are no longer serving in their role as God's ministers and have become illegitimate. We have an obligation to tolerate even bad rulers, but not when they demonstrate a determination to subjugate us totally to themselves in total disregard to their ordained functions. When they act that way they then have forfeited any right of authority over us. That was the argument made in the Declaration of Independence. I regard it as theologically sound.

Our government is breaking into our lives in many of the same ways the British Crown was doing in the mid to late 1700's. It is convicting to read the list of particulars enumerated in the Declaration and to see how similar some of them are to the afronts to our Liberties. We appear to have come full circle, except this time it is not a foreign government that is oppressing us, but our own national government, which was supposed to be reined in by the Constitution.

Increasingly, the Constitution, where it comes up at all in the Halls of Congress, is used by our self-styled "rulers" as a bludgeon over the heads of the cititzens who try to exercise their Liberty, and totally ignored when some Liberal/Progressive "cause du jour" is in their sights.

We must change this government since it has become a denier of basic rights. Change must occur. Peacefully if possible, but change must come, no matter what. We are presently being oppressed by a tyranny, and it promises to get much worse.

By the way, "basic rights" do not include the right to housing, food, a job, someone else's paycheck, or free lifetime medical care, or to redefine marriage - or the right "not to be offended". Just read the UN Declaration of Human Rights if you want to see a prescription for tyranny. Who pays for all that stuff? You guessed it! Those who "do well."

The Urge to Eden - Practical Faith in an Age of "Reform"

"A spring will cease to flow if its source be dried up; a tree will wither if its roots be destroyed. In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause. "
- From 'The Inspiration of the Declaration Speech at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Calvin Coolidge, July 5, 1926

We persist in falling into the error that the solution to our current problems lies in economic reforms, or adding more "fairness" to government, or even to more "democracy." But if we are basically a people who are rebellious and dismissive of the God who gave us our Liberties, then no matter how good our plans might be - whether Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal or Libertarian - they will fail. Our liberty, as the Declaration so eloquently puts it, is an endowment given to us by our Creator. But endowments can be squandered and polluted, and ultimately lose their benefit.

I believe America is and has been in deep trouble because we, as Coolidge so aptly put it in the quote above, have "neglected and abandoned the cause." We don't have money problems; we have moral problems.

True reform and restoration of prosperity will not occur if we fail to recognize and return to first principles. Reliance on plans, programs, and parties - seeking to build a righteous society by our own works - will fail.

I am a conservative Christian. Frequently, I dust it up with Liberals, whose proposed solutions are almost diametrically opposite to those I espouse. The dialog sometimes devolves into diatribe. But that is not right to do that. Liberals and Conservatives are all people who, at heart, desire a world of fairness and love. We all desire to be regarded as persons of value. Our methodology is vastly different, but in one way or another, we are all striving for Eden. Karl Marx, while emphatically rejecting the God of the Bible (he was a Jew remember), tried to define a utopian society based upon the notion that economics drives human beings before all other considerations. While I strongly reject his thesis, I also recognize the urge to Eden in his writings. The same analysis can discover much the same goal in all reform movements, whether in government or religion. We have a heart-yearning for something that is missing in ourselves and in the world of men.

Remember the term "Compassionate Conservatism?" Why was it coined? Because those who adhered to principles of property rights, limited government, personal freedom - all good and proper things - were subject to the charge that they did not care about those in society who needed help. Conservatives were characterized as "heartless" and "cruel" because they did not sign on to the huge government welfare programs the Liberals were sponsoring to "help" the poor. Aside from the fact that the Liberals got it even more wrong in their proposed solution than the Conservatives, I think it is fair that we Conservatives may be most guilty in that we have forgotten that our "neighbor" is also our "brother."

We owe a debt of love to every man. We are not put on earth to just serve ourselves. We have obligations to one another. And the self-aggrandizing spirit that has grown out of the prosperity that has been afforded us in this blessed land has led many - many who ought to know better - to live primarily for one’s self and one's family, and thunderously neglect those around us - in whatever form that neglect might take. We have not loved our brothers. That failure has been laid at the feet of those of us who claim a Divine mission, but have so miserably failed to live up to its implications. Genuine Christianity ought to transform our Society as it transforms our hearts toward one another. It starts in the heart.

The story of the Good Samaritan told by Jesus is in answer to the question "Who is my neighbor." His reply is very convicting. Liberals have a point in charging people of faith with being hypocrites. Unfortunately, their own solutions, being bereft of even a hint of the wisdom of God, have results that are far, far worse than mere neglect. They invoke the "law of unintended consequences" in their "solutions" to the problems of inequity in this world. Socialism is the bringer of tyrrany.

It has been said that there are no perfect people, only perfect intentions. There is more than a little truth in that. But there is actual Truth and it is God's Truth alone. If we don't pursue that first, there is no hope for any solution that does more good than harm.

But, as the Apostle Paul says in Romans 10 "... I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." He puts his finger right on the problem: They are "going about to establish their own righteousness"; that is, what they think is best. But they are doing it in ignorance or outright defiance of what God has ordained. No good can come of that.

We live in a God-created world and there is nothing we can do about it, nor should we seek to escape from the implications of it. God is good, and we ought to submit to Him. But we have an in-born tendency to go our own way. Ps 2 describes the efforts of men who know God is there but furiously reject Him so that they might set themselves up as gods. He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh.

It all comes back to what Coolidge called the Unseen World. It may be unseen by the eye of man, but the God of the unseen world "ruleth over all." We need to start with rebuilding our personal and national relationship with the God of Creation who is also the God of Redemption of broken people. That's all of us. We cannot have a political revival if we don't first have a Moral - or more correctly, a Spiritual revival.

.

Lessons from the Great Depression - Lawrence Reed

If you want some real insight into the insidious effects of the controls that Obama and his Dems are all about, listen to this very informative speech. One of the products of the Great Depression was an increasing group of dependants on the Welfare state - call them loyal Democrat voters - and a "conventional wisdom" that government intervention helped "save" the country. The fact is, the depression was longer and much more severe precisely due to the government's influence and attempts to "fix" things. The false "lesson" of that period has been perpetuated in the public mind and, not suprisingly, the Democrat Party learned a huge lesson from it too. If they can keep people believing that government is the savior, then when hard times come more and more voters become clients of the Democrat party.

Unions, Lenin, and the American Way

The People's Cube - Unions, Lenin, and the American Way

Posted using ShareThis

This is a comprehensive look at how Communists (like Obama) use the union movement to take over a country and suppress dissent.

Nationalized HealthCare: The Ultimate Political Weed

Discussing the Democrat's passion for passing HealthCare "reform" on several FB links, it has become obvious, to me at least, that they are not really suicidal. They are more like the "little engine that could", chugging away up a steep incline. All they have to do is get over the top, and it is a clear run without effort down the other side.

I think I know the reason why the Democrats are so single-minded and determined to get this "healthcare reform" bill rammed through.

Their zeal has little or nothing to do with "healthcare" per se: It has to do with installing a monolithic nationalized system that will make constituents out of a larger and larger group of citizens so they can be controlled by the Democrats or their Socialist successors. This is a power grab of monumental proportions that is intended to be one-way.

Where this has been done in other countries, it is virtually impossible to root it out. It is the ultimate political weed.

Daniel Hannon, MP from the south of England, has made numerous speeches in the US warning us of the perils of going down this path. He describes it as one-way also. It becomes "necessary" and therefore "unthinkable" to vote out because it employs such a huge percentage of the workforce. They simply won't vote themselves out of a job.

Note also the card-check legislation which is worming its way through Congress at this time. That is a tool to force the unionization of virtually all of American employment. That, plus the medical union which is sure to follow, will hand our entire economy and our personal lives over to union thugs who can reward or punish supporters or opposition as they see fit.

Can you imagine writing articles about the abuses of a socialized medical establishment, only to find out that your cancer operation is unaccountably postponed for the third time since it was discovered twelve months ago? Now, since there are no free-market medical facilities available anywhere else on the American continents (North and South), you are coming to resign yourself to the realization that you should have kept your mouth shut. You are in a trap and there is no escape.

Even though the looming mid-term elections seem to portend a disaster for the Democrats - they are determinedly pressing ahead anyway. Perhaps it is because a "Fix" is already in.

The Obama power brokers may have by now installed enough Socialist thugs as Czars, and upper and mid-level bureaucratic functionaries in our government, that they feel relatively impervious to future efforts to dislodge them by efforts of elected officials of whatever stripe. It would make good sense for them to deliberately over reach in the first year of Obama's administration so that even when there is a pushback, they will have won a huge step forward that cannot be undone. Bureaucrats, once installed, have a long influence. Never underestimate the staying power of the Bureaucracy. That was a major negative influence that acted as a "sheet anchor" against Ronald Reagan's reforms.

The answer, just in case it plays out this way, is to defund them at the Federal and State levels once we retake the government reins. Just radically defund all the unconstitutional agencies at once. The resulting confusion will be enormous, but by the end of a year or two, the rebound from stifling regulation and wealth confiscation will lead to the biggest, healthiest peacetime economic boom that this country has ever seen.

And, for good measure, vigorously pursue the trail of trillions of dollars that have passed through the hands of the Obamites. I predict that they have already siphoned off hundreds of billions into their pet projects, or just stashed it for future use.This gang of criminals must be held accountable.

The ultimate political weed cannot be allowed to contiue to grow in our political system or to spread catstrophically as it has begun to do. We need to encourage the ultimate political weed-killer - Liberty - to take root again. It once grew all over this great nation. May it do so again.

Polls and Pollsters

We had an interesting FB exchange today on the subject of Frank Lunz, pollster, and questions about his motives and honesty.

Someone had posted a video clip featuring Frank Lunz, framed as if he were being interviewed by FoxNews, which, it turns out, is only partially true. Careful editing makes the clip into a lie, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Frank Lunz is a pollster who is often featured on Fox News. The video clip embedded above in ---'s comment is a profane attack on all polling - especially Lunz, portraying him as an uber-liar. Actually they portray Lunz making the true statement that polling can be skewed to achieve the results that you want. He is not advocating doing that, but the way the video is assembled it seems to be catching Lunz in a candid admission that he is a criminal. Get Real! That is not what the interview was all about in the first place! He was explaining the intricacies of polling, and some enemy edited it to make it seem that he was "telling all" and admitting to some dark secret of poll manipulation. A candid viewing of the video turns up a number of clues that Lunz was not admitting to doctoring his polls.

It takes special skill to avoid getting the result that you simply "want" to portray, and instead to get to what the people polled really think about a particular subject. It is the difference between a scientific poll and propaganda; between honesty and a lie.

Don’t believe the lie that there is no such a thing as accurate polling. We just need to understand that it is a tough job to come up with accurate results. Lunz is a good guy. So is Rasmussen. I trust them. I don't trust the propagandizers who published the video. The point of the video clip is to "prove" that Lunz is in the tank for dollars or worse. I do not believe that is true.

The author of the clip is not Fox news (something that might fool you as you begin to watch it), but someone who hates conservatism in general. Draw your own conclusions.

I have not read Lunz’ book, but he is not the demon that the video clip portrays. He is trying to use polling to indentify general trends using scientific methods. I think we owe him a “vote” of thanks, not vilification for his efforts.

They'll Do it Every Time

I just got word on Sunday night that Scozzafava in the NT-23 race, a liberal abortion-supporting, gay-marriage Republican in Name Only (RINO) not only dropped out of the race yesterday as the Republican candidate, but today has come out in support of the Democratic candidate against Hoffman, the Conservative candidate who blew her out of the race.

Something sounds eerily familiar about this. Didn't Arlen Specter stab the Republican Party in the back when he switched parties to bolster the Demorcat's Senate lead in 2008? Wasn't he a thorn in the side of the Republicans for years, voting with the Democrats more often than not? With "republicans" like him, who needs enemies?

I am glad he is gone, and I am glad she is too.

I think Scuzzi did us a favor. She "outed" herself as the kind of political figure that we knew her to be anyway - a Liberal Democrat. She was just hiding in the Republican apparatus like a mole. Had the sleeping voters given her the position, she would have given them a major case of heartburn.

To their deep shame, the witless Republicans of that district did not flush her out, or reject her: they supported her and endorsed her run for the Republican seat in Congress. They are the problem. Not only do we have the voters of that district to thank for supporting the conservative Hoffman, but we have a task for them - oust the local leadership and replace it with solid conservatives. I am sure there are quite a number lurking around the Tea Parties.

Politico today opined that the Republican party in NY is in total disarray, dissolving daily. True enough. But the champaign corks should be retired for the time being. While the Republicans might be stumbling, the Conservative party is alive and well, and I suspect is receiving the lively support of a lot of former Republicans who are busily abandonding a party that has become a Democrat also-ran. Who wants a wannabe Liberal posing as a Republican when you can have the real thing in a Democrat?

What Scozzi's endorsement of the Democrat candidate really signals is the deep ideological decay of the Republicans - a decay in the leadership down even to precinct levels, that has obviously disgusted and dismayed the rank and file. Clearly, there are a lot of registered Republicans who are not being represented by their party. And they are voting with their feet.

Perhaps the long-awaited split and realignment in the national parties is beginning. The conservative voters have been looking for a home, whether they have borne the Democrat or Republican or Independant label. Perhaps this season they will find it. It might not have a mature party apparatus, but it will have that most essential of all qualities - a gathering point around the essentials of a genuine conservative platform. The rest will follow.