Thursday, May 15, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Dems' in general, and hard-core leftists in particular, must be going bonkers today. Because there couldn’t be much worse happening than Conservative radio commentator, Rush Limbaugh, winning the "Author of the Year Award" at the Children's Choice Book Awards for his book Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans. But that’s precisely what he did.
 
Making things even more enraging for liberals, although the book’s never been a critical favorite,  one reviewer even accusing it of "disdain for even the most rudimentary standards of storytelling," it’s been an enormous commercial success.
 
And what’s most horrendous for his opposition, the four finalists for the award were chosen because of their places on bestseller lists, with the winner was chosen by children's votes. Which means it was the kids themselves that put El Rushbo over the top.
 
In accepting the honor, Limbaugh said, "I love America. I wish everybody did. I hope everybody will. It's one of the most fascinating stories in human history...and it's a delight and it's an opportunity to try to share that story with young people so they can grow and learn to love and appreciate the country in which they're growing up and will someday run and lead and inherit.”
 
Reading that last comment reminded me of Rush’s frequent reference to kids as having “little skulls full of mush,” meaning that their minds aren’t really fully formed yet. However, it seems like he’s succeeding significantly in getting young one's on the “right” track.

On another favorite subject, Ben Webster of London’s The Times reports that, “A leading climate scientist has resigned from the advisory board of a think-tank after being subjected to what he described as “McCarthy”-style pressure from fellow academics.
 
Professor Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading, said the pressure was so intense that he would be unable to continue working and feared for his health and safety unless he stepped down from the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s academic advisory council.”
 
Supporting the professor, “Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former chancellor of the exchequer who founded the think-tank because of his belief that the risk from global warming has been exaggerated, condemned the treatment of Professor Bengtsson.

In a letter to him yesterday, Lord Lawson wrote: “I fully understand your reason; but it is an appalling state of affairs, and your reference to McCarthyism is fully warranted.”

The most important point in the article, though, was Professor Bengtsson telling The Times that the strongest opposition had come from the U.S. “It was the climate science community in the US which took this very negatively. I think the reason is the very loaded atmosphere in the US… they would like to do something very substantial about climate change.”
 
Which leads right into the next item, from Chris Stirewalt’s Fox News Column:
 
“Billionaire Tom Steyer's environmental group is using its social media prowess to hit Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on his recent climate change comments. NextGen Climate, which Steyer founded in 2013, released a Web video on Wednesday chiding Rubio for getting caught ‘on the wrong side of the numbers’… The video challenges all potential 2016 presidential hopefuls, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) and others to answer where they stand on climate change. ‘If you are thinking about running for president, answer this: Do you stand with the facts, or do you stand with Sen. Rubio? The pressure's on,’ the video states.”
 
This one’s astounding in its assumption that the public are dunces, and is incredibly insulting to anyone with an IQ having more than one digit. Because what the “facts” show is that while the climate hasn’t changed at all in the past seventeen years, currently temperatures are lowering because polar shifts are now taking place as they have throughout history. 
 
So, I have two suggestions for billionaire Steyer. First, take a course in remedial reading. And two: Look up, read and assimilate the facts before spouting distortions in order to promote your self-interests     
 
And lastly, a new Fox News poll shows what might be good news for both the incumbent, and also Bill Clinton’s wife.
 
The results show that: “Fifty-four percent of voters think the Obama administration has been deceitful about the events surrounding the Benghazi attacks. Half say the same about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton (50 percent).”
 
The reason that those numbers indicate hopefulness is because the poll was conducted by Fox, which is an audience I’d expect to have 75, 80% or more, finding both parties deceitful to the core. Therefore, perhaps things aren’t really so bad for them after all, because if the numbers are a true indication, only half the population mistrusts them, not three quarters.  
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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