a guttermorality news round-up

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since documenting the details of the day-to-day march of western civilization towards the abyss has become just too exhaustingly painful for yours truly to rail about on a regular basis, i've decided to do it in big batches at random periodic intervals [i.e., like tonight].


from the guttermorality health-and-science desk:













global warming climate change.

the most inconvenient truth i've come across in awhile was a quote in a recent short-but-sweet article by BBC climate correspondent paul hudson, as follows:

For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though manmade carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

[emphasis mine]

heretic? of course he is, and he has been roundly condemned as such by the faithful.

because, make no mistake about it: the global-warming cult is every bit as much a religion--with all its high priests, dogma and trappings--as any of the more traditional religions at which most of its secular adherents would sneer.

and i'm talking not only in its dubious basis in fact, but in its desire for world domination.

be dubious, my children--be very dubious.


from the guttermorality national-affairs desk:















the fort hood shooting.

wow, just look at how far america's come.

back at the outbreak of world war II [i.e., the last war we won], the civil rights of thousands of loyal japanese-american citizens were, without much thought or debate, thrown out the window for what almost nobody at the time even questioned was a more important ideal; i.e., the security of the united states of america.

today, a scant 67 years later? hell, we'll happily lay back, spread our legs, compromise our military and our borders and sacrifice the lives of at least 13 of our soldiers, because god knows a minor abstraction like national security is far less important than the all-important goal of not offending our enemies.

has the pendulum swung from one dangerous extreme to the other? what the fuck [assuming you have a rational, functioning brain] do you think?


from the guttermorality world-affairs desk:












the obama bow.

watching this guy veer wildly between snotty aloofness and kiss-ass obsequiousness when he meets with world leaders is kinda like watching oprah back during that period when she was alternately fat and thin--you just never know which one you're gonna get when you flip on the tv.


from the guttermorality political desk:









2012.

the next presidential election will be the republicans' to lose, and it'll probably be the last time they'll ever have a real shot at the white house.

with this in mind, is the gop rallying behind the traditional conservative values of fiscal responsibility, limited government and secularity in order to seek the kind of candidate that will unite and inspire the core of america for what will probably be the most important presidential election of my lifetime?

oh, hell no--they're pandering to the same fools-for-jesus constituency whose collective ignorant, know-nothing ass they've been kissing ever since said crowd proved to be such useful idiots in the reagan years.

so it looks like my choice in 2012 is shaping up to be (a) more of the same; or (b) some unholy combination of palin/pawlenty/jindal/bachmann/huckabee.

i may well opt for (3) costa rica [and don't think i'm kidding].


from the guttermorality financial desk:











hey, even a broken drunk's right twice a day--i can only hope at least a couple of you paid attention to me way back when.