Plan 'B'

Let's see, China burning four times the coal they do now to raise themselves to our western standards or radiation sickness from the unregulated emissions of their nuclear power plants. Tough call.

I go back and forth on this. The thing that sets me off is someone saying, "Global Warming will wipe out humanity." Okaaay, if that's true than anything that wipes out less than all humanity is ... better? Yes, it has to be. So a toxic, radioactive stew that limits human lifespan to 30 years IS technically better than "wiping out humanity."

There is another solution. I call it, "Plan B". Plan B will be the result of a long journey, of course how long depends on how short the plank is. But when we get there, we'll look around, slap our foreheads and say, "Of course! Why didn't we do this YEARS ago! It would be all over now and we could be drinking mojitos at the beach!"

But as I've been saying about the Iraq War, we can't win until the Left let's us win. As soon as the Left loses their lattes to jihadi curfews, the base history of socialism shows that it will do what it does best: Implement forced solutions with totalitarian authority. When that happens, we'll admit that the real problem is too many humans and use the blunt instruments we've been whistling past the graveyard for the last 60 years, resort to our basest animal instints, and kill off the rest of the world so that 'humanity', America, and socialism will survive. "It sucks to be you," will become a popular bumper sticker.

The biggest regret will be that we stewed ourselves for as long as we did before we turned up the heat.

Warming, cooling: Count the sunspots

From:
Read the Sunspots
R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, Financial Post
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

More grist for the mill. This ridiculous (koff) prediction says that based on diatom evidence found in western Canadian fjordic mud (say THAT three times real fast!) we're heading into an extreme low sunspot cycle and that, if history holds, global temperatures should plummet. (You didn't really say that three times real fast, did you?)

One other interesting note:

[T]wo-thirds of more than 530 climate scientists from 27 countries surveyed did not believe that "the current state of scientific knowledge is developed well enough to allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of greenhouse gases." About half of those polled stated that the science of climate change was not sufficiently settled to pass the issue over to policymakers at all.

Will the global warming advocates be persistent enough to build enough nuclear reactors during an Ice Age to bring us out the other side in balance with nature?

Ah, so many babies, so little bathwater....

Drilling Down to Iran

Just so you know there IS an English translation the MSM chooses to not use for some reason:

Al Qods = The Blessed
Al Qods al Sharif = The Blessed site of Our Fathers (which is the Muslim name for 'Jerusalem')

Therefore, the Iranian Al Qods Brigade is NEVER referred to as the "Jerusalem Brigade", because that would be illuminating and show bias....

Most of you have heard me refer you to Richard Fernandez who posts on his blog The Belmont Club. Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail is another good blogger with a military mind who is providing insight not found in the paper of record (that would be the New York Times, for those of you still playing catch up). One of his recent posts is on Targeting the Iranian "Secret Cells" operating in Iraq who are the ones using Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) against American troops. These are the next gen Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) used by the 'insurgents' operating in Baghdad.

(By the way, this has not been an easy war for the Mainstream Media (MSM) to choose sides on, linguistically speaking. If "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and the MSM's enemy is GWB, then HIS enemy in Iraq is the MSM "friend du jour". (GWB's enemy in America is the Democrats, so that shows you how they checked their math.) Their problem is that the US Coalition Forces originally referred to the Iraqi Sunni resistance as "insurgents" and the MSM picked it up without realizing what they had done. Now that "insurgent" is part of the vernacular, they can't quite figure out how to refer to the Iranian sponsored Shiite resistance in Iraq from the Mahdi and Badr Brigades. They lamely refer to these groups as "militias", while referring elsewhere to Hizbollah and Hamas interchangeably as "armies". And then when Hamas went and got itself elected head of Palestine, the inbreeding of the nomenclature collapsed and they pretty much ran out of euphemisms for "the enemy of my enemy". If you are truly cynical, you should expect the MSM to start referring to the Iranians as "Our friends" (using the imperial 'Our') and just cut to the chase. If you want to have fun when They do this, send a letter to your newspaper's ombudsman demanding They correct the use of 'our' to 'Our' and then sit back and watch Their little heads spin around.)

Back to Bill Roggio. He is detailing two Iranian cells: the Sheibani network and the Qazali network. The Qazali network was described as, "as a radical splinter Mahdi Army unit which operates under the aegis of the Sheibani network." Roggio further points out that General Petraeus stated the Qazali network received "substantial funding, training on Iranian soil, advanced explosive munitions and technologies as well as run of the mill arms and ammunition, in some cases advice and in some cases even a degree of direction."

I think it was Roggio's blog where I found out that satellite imagery had found a replica of a Mahdi Headquarters shrine (replica sites are used for practicing tactics by SOP forces) in Iran just prior to the snatching of five US Army soldiers last January who were part of a team occupying that shrine.

Soooo anyway, check this guy out from time to time as you hit the web. You'll learn more from him than from reading the NY Times, the (harumph) "paper of record" as they refer to themselves.