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Those Global Warming folks have their eyes directed completely inwards, from the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface and have been ignoring all the far more massive influences that affect Earth and Earth’s climate from within and without.

Let’s start with the Earth’s Magnetic Core

Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth’s liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet’s surface, a new study says.

“What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.

The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said.

The swirling flow of molten iron and nickel around Earth’s solid center triggers an electrical current, which generates the planet’s magnetic field.

Yes, in the raucous blowback from the McCain-Bush Comprehensive Immigration Reform a.k.a. Amnesty for Si se puede! Illegals, McCain first told Americans to just calm down. Then, after getting an earful at each Townhall meeting he attended, he told us he gotten the message.

Apparently not.

McCain, Obama court Hispanic voters

“It will be my top priority yesterday, today and tomorrow,” McCain said. “We have to secure our borders ... but we also must proceed with a temporary worker program that is verifiable and truly temporary. We must also understand that 12 million people are here, and they are here illegally, and they are God’s children.” He promised to address the issue in “a humane and compassionate fashion.”

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that the corpse of Amnesty for Illegals will be revived by a President McCain and there won’t be a damn thing the rest of America has to say about it… because ... don’t ya know… he’s Republican.

These emotional outbursts ... are just what male chauvinists say about woman’s incapacity to coolly assess a situation.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Presidential campaigns use all sorts of sophisticated operations against their opponents, but Barack Obama is also relying on some good, old-fashioned lucky charms.

The presumptive Democratic nominee said Monday that he carries around a few trinkets supporters have handed him at campaign appearances along the way _ including a “lucky poker chip” and a Native American eagle.

“They’ll hand it to you and they’ll say, ‘I want you to be well, but I want you to fight for me,’” Obama said at a campaign stop here, where he pulled some of the items from a pocket. “And they’ll talk about not having health care for their family, or they’ll talk about being laid off.”

He said those are the moments when he knows the exhaustive campaign is worth it.

“If you’ve been talking to somebody like that, then you want to work harder if you’re asking them to vote for you,” he said.

CounterPunch Diary
“Hero" John McCain as Phony and Collaborator: What Really Happened When He Was a POW?

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Sen. McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he moved forward to the witness table and warmly embraced Bui Tin as if he was a long, lost brother.

“Was that hug for Bui Tin, a Vietnamese official responsible for the torture of some American prisoners of war, a message ‘please don’t give them my records?’” one activist questioned at the time.

In any case, many of McCain’s fellow Vietnam War POWs were aghast, not to mention former POWs of World War II and Korea, who could, only in some instances after decades, forgive but never forget the inhumanity of their captors--certainly not to the point of embracing them.

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

John McCain’s been getting kid-glove treatment from the press for years, ever since he wriggled free of the Keating scandal and his profitable association – another collaboration, you might say—with the nation’s top bank swindler in the 1980s. But nothing equals the astounding tact with which his claque on the press bus avoids the topic of McCain’s collaborating with his Vietnamese captors after he’d been shot down.

How McCain behaved when he was a prisoner is key. McCain is probably the most unstable man ever to have got this close to the White House. He’s one election away from it. Republican senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

What if a private memory of years of collaboration in his prison camp gnaws at McCain, and bursts out in his paroxysms of uncontrollable fury, his rantings about “gooks” and his terrifying commitment to a hundred years of war in Iraq. What if “the hero” knows he’s a phony?
Doug Valentine has written the definitive history of the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. He knows about the POW experience. His dad, an Army man, was captured by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp in the Philippines for forced labor. Many of his mates died. Doug wrote a marvelous book about it, The Hotel Tacloban.

Now Valentine has picked up the unexploded bomb lying on McCain’s campaign trail this year. As he points out, he’s not the first. Rumors and charges have long swirled around McCain’s conduct as a prisoner. Fellow prisoners have given the lie to McCain’s claims. But Valentine has assembled the dossier. It’s devastating. We’re running it in our current CounterPunch newsletter and we strongly urge you to subscribe.

Some excerpts from Valentine’s indictment.

“War is one thing, collaborating with the enemy is another; it is a legitimate campaign issue that strikes at the heart of McCain’s character. . .or lack thereof. In occupied countries like Iraq, or France in World War II, collaboration to that extent spells an automatic death sentence.. . .The question is: What kind of collaborator was John McCain, the admitted war criminal who will hate the Vietnamese for the rest of his life?

“Put it another way: how psychologically twisted is McCain? And what actually happened to him in his POW camp that twisted him? Was it abuse, as he claims, or was it the fact that he collaborated and has to cover up? Covering-up can take a lot of energy. The truth is lurking there in his subconscious, waiting to explode. ”

“McCain had a unique POW experience. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. By McCain’s own account, after three or four days he cracked. He promised his Vietnamese captors, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital ...

“His Vietnamese captors soon realized their POW, John Sidney McCain III, came from a well-bred line in the American military elite. . .The Vietnamese realized, this poor stooge has propaganda value. The admiral’s boy was used to special treatment, and his captors knew that. They were working him.”

“. . .two weeks into his stay at the Vietnamese hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him. It was not ‘name rank and serial number, or kill me’. as specified by the military code of conduct. McCain divulged specific military information: he gave the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, the number of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight formation, as well as information about the location of rescue ships.”

“…McCain was held for five and half years. The first two weeks’ behavior might have been pragmatism, but McCain soon became North Vietnam’s go-to collaborator…..McCain cooperated with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. His situation isn’t as innocuous as that of the French barber who cuts the hair of the German occupier. McCain was repaying his captors for their kindness and mercy.

“This is the lesson of McCain’s experience as a POW: a true politician, a hollow man, his only allegiance is to power. The Vietnamese, like McCain’s campaign contributors today, protected and promoted him, and, in return, he danced to their tune. . .”

Author Peter Schweizer wanted to know if there could be a link between a person’s political leanings and illegal drug use. His eye-opening finding: Liberals are five times more likely than conservatives to use marijuana and cocaine.

Schweizer, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, writes in his new book “Makers and Takers”:

“Academic studies have found that those on the political left are five times more likely to use marijuana and cocaine … Another survey found that Democrats were five times more likely to use marijuana than Republicans…

“A study published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse found that among heavy drug users, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans was more than 8 to 1.”

Yet another survey found a “direct and linear relationship” between liberalism and the use of any illicit drug.

Naturally, I am shocked—shocked to read of such a wide disparity.

Then again, it would go far to explain the brain-dead policies of the Left and their being stuck on stupid so very often.

Didn’t your Daddy ever tell you never to argue with someone who was drunk or just plain stupid?

But one question remains: were they Liberal / Stupid before taking the drugs, or after?

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According to the blog entry below, this is the company’s explanation:

An Ohio blog, Plunderbund, was the first up with this and in this post, you can see the response from the creator of the item:

Dear Joseph,

Thank you for your email and your forthright feedback. No, this is not a joke, and our intention is not to offend.

Our objective is three fold:

1} Provide a cuddly toy for the millions of Obama fans to take a little piece of their favorite candidate home with them.

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After test marketing our product, we found a majority of our customer base finds our plush toy fun and loveable.

By virtue of our plush toy now temporarily out of stock, we’ve had to expedite a new order of inventory to meet the needs of our customers who want TheSockObama.

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It’s going to be a long, dirty fight to November, and regardless of how it turns out, Americans are sooooooo screwed.

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With our political prospects in the next 4 years or so looking dim, whatever the outcome of the election, I thought I’d turn our thoughts to the past, when life was a little simpler and the concept of romantic love was sought after.  And the gal who gave us the soundtrack to love was none other than Edith Piaf, singing her wonderful ‘La vie en Rose’

Des yeux qui font baissers les miens.
Un rir’ qui se perd sur la bouch’,
Voilà ... Voilà…
Le portrait sans retouch’,
De l’homme auquel j’appartiens.
Il me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose

- Those eyes, which make me lower mine.
-That laugh, which vanishes on the lips.
- The unretouched portrait
- Of the man to whom I belong.
- When he takes me in his arms
- He murmurs to me
- I see life in pink.

Il me dit des mots d’amour
Des mots de tous les jours
Et ça m’fait quelque chose.
Il est entré dans mon coeur,
Une part de bonheur,
Dont je connais la cause.

C’est lui par moi, Moi par lui dans la vie
Il me l’a dit, l’a juré, pour la vie.
Et, dès que je l’aperçois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat.
Des nuits d’amour à en mourir
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place,
Les ennuies, les chagrins s’effacent,
Heureux, heureux pour mon plaisir.
Quand il me prend dans ses bras…
la vie..en rose.

- He speaks so lovingly.
- In everyday words .
- And that does things to me.
- He has opened my heart,
- To a share of happiness,
- Of which, I alone know the cause.
- He is for me, I am for him In this life.
- He tells me so, has sworn it, for life.
- And, as soon as I realise it
- Then inside myself. I feel..
- My heart beating.
- The nights of love to die for,

- A great happiness Which just happens.
- Erasing all sadness And tedium,
- Happy, happy at my own pleasure.
- When he takes me in his arms
- He speaks to me so softly...and I see,
- life in Pink

Hands down, Joe Arpaio is the toughest sheriff in America. And although he is most well-known for his tough treatment of prisoners, Arpaio has over 30 years experience with different federal drug enforcement agencies, and, as the former head of border and drug enforcement in Texas and Arizona, he is one of the country’s leading experts on how to shut down illegal immigration and cross-border drug trafficking.

[see Newsmax dot com]

His is a hard-core, no-frills approach to incarceration, with 10,000 Maricopa County, Ariz., prisoners held in old Army surplus tents, fed on bologna sandwiches, and clothed in black-and-white striped, old-style prison uniforms and pink underwear.

His prisoners have worked on chain gangs, and they are forbidden fancy gyms, cigarettes, entertaining television and even salt and pepper.

Although prisoners would not agree, Arpaio, 76, has become an American folk hero of penology.

His new book, “Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else That Threatens America,” co-authored with Len Sherman, presents a bold new approach to finally, once and for all, shutting down America’s borders to criminal Mexican people-smugglers, fence-jumpers and drug peddlers.

Despite his experience, neither politician nor president has ever asked Joe Arpaio what we should do to plug up America’s sieve-like borders. He recently revealed his plan to Newsmax in an exclusive interview.

McCain: Bloomberg VP a Possibility

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:47 AM

By: Jim Meyers

Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg during a visit to the Big Apple and hinted that Bloomberg could be considered as a possible running mate.

Bloomberg is leaving office next year due to term limits and has been rumored to be mulling a run for governor in New York. Asked about that speculation, McCain told the New York Post:

“Do I think he could serve the state of New York and the country well? Of course.”

When asked about the possibility of Bloomberg, an Independent, running as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, McCain refused to rule it out, saying: “We don’t talk about our vice- presidential possibilities. But he added: “I appreciate Mayor Bloomberg enormously and the great job he’s done as mayor.”

As Newsmax’s Insider Report disclosed last week, a source close to the mayor told an interviewer that after a recent breakfast meeting between McCain and Bloomberg, the mayor was on McCain’s “short list” for the vice presidential slot.

McCain also had praise for former GOP rival Rudy Giuliani, who endorsed McCain after dropping out as a presidential candidate, and told the Post he would have a role in a McCain administration.

McCain even had nice words to say about Hillary Clinton, noting that she has “reached across the aisle” and worked with McCain on several issues.

But he said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is promoting a “radical” and “partisan” agenda.

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