Archive for February, 2007

"Par for the course" for liberals?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

On a day when an attack intended to kill Dick Cheney fails and several liberals are disappointed that the attack failed another liberal poster out there made a comment on the PTS site saying he hopes my baby dies.

Criticism is nothing new to me, of which this commenter has a lot to dish out on numerous topics.  As can be expected I have a few criticisms of my own as well.  That’s all fine and good.  I ignore his criticism because he has no reading comprehension.  I am sure he, a long with other people who ignore my criticisms are of a similar opinion of me.

What I don’t do is play games with people’s families.  As you may have read earlier my wife, pregnant at the time, died this past October.  This human refuse has the gall to use that as an attack against me.  It made me sick when I read it.

I am aware this mental deficient may not have known of my wife’s pregnancy or even of her death.  He knows now and all I ask for is an apology.

To strike at the larger issue, what is it with liberals and death fantasies of people they disagree with?  Even then what is the reasoning behind saying you wish someone’s baby were dead when it really happened?  My child died and this trash hopes for it.

How does it feel clint, to know your hopes are fulfilled?

Posted in Local, Unhinged Liberals | 9 Comments »

Discussion: Iraq Campaign of WoT

Friday, February 16th, 2007

This page will be for discussions on the war in Iraq .  Should the discussiont  devolve into another area those comments will be stricken from this discussion and will be asked to carried on in another discussion area.  Things that should be discussed here the events leading to the war and the handling of the war.  The following are the assertions I make about the war in Iraq that I hold to be true:

  • The war in Iraq is a part of the larger War on Terrorism
  • Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and the Bush Administration never made any allegations as such
  • Iraq violated multiple UN security council resolutions and violating those resolution is a case for war in itself. Not only were they violated since the ’90s, but also up into the war when multiple missiles were fired from Iraq that violated the UN’s distance requirements for Iraq’s weapons (I know because one of them landed on the camp I was in).
  • President Bush did mislead the nation about Iraq’s possession of WMDs, but he did not lie.  There is a difference.
  • The Bush Administration did not pressure intelligence officials to over-hype the evidence, as proved by the Robb-Silbermann report.
  • Iraq did at one time possess WMDs but when we liberated the people the weapons had either been destroyed or moved.
  • As per the Duelfer report Saddam Hussein did intend to reconstitute is nuclear and biological weapons programs once UN sanctions were lifted
  • Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government had extensive ties with terrorist organizations including Al-Qaeda, although that specific relationship is debated
  • The handling of the war has been terrible, but that is no reason to cut and run, de-fund the military, or make any  motion that would empower our enemies and demoralize our forces.
  • I contend that we must create permanent bases in Iraq given the volatile nature of the Middle East region.
  • We must do our very best to stabilize the nation and give democracy a chance.  However, I also believe our strategy must change to destroy our enemies and end the violence in Iraq.

Those are my assertions and feel free to agree or disagree. If you disagree and decide to post a response please be polite. If you would like a source please ask.

Posted in Discussions, My Opinion, War | 22 Comments »

Discussions

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

In an effort to bring about friendly debate I am going to be creating special permanent pages for discussion on certain issues.  In these discussion I will post my assertions and anyone is welcome to post their thoughts for all to be seen.  Stay tuned.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Surge!

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I have been reading a lot about the “Surge” resolutions that failed in the Senate and is currently being debated in the House.

As I have said before, if that is what the people want, that is what the people get.  Though I disagree with the basis for the resolution I think the Democrats should be allowed to do as they please with the Republican’s voicing opposition.  I don’t believe in obstructionism. (For the record the Senate Republicans didn’t obstruct Warner/Levin.  The Republicans wanted fair debate on their amendments and the Dems wouldn’t allow it)

That being said I think it is really funny how critics of the ware like to say that the Bush Administration should have listened to General Shinseki when he said that “hundreds of thousands” of troops would be needed to handle Iraq.  Now critics of the war aren’t listening to General Petraeus when he says more troops and the surge are crucial to the success in Iraq.  This is evidence by the support of the anti-surge resolutions in congress.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

Another funny thing I found is the list of Democrats for the surge before they were against it.  As soon as Bush was for the surge they changed their positions.

Posted in Unhinged Liberals, War | 1 Comment »

Reflections on November

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

While working on the site the other day I re-read a great deal of material I and other had written.  I realized that I had not commented on the Republican defeat this past November.  I was dealing with a personal tragedy at that time, and steal dealing with it.  The election was the least of my worries.

Now I feel the desire to comment.  For a long time I didn’t feel the need.  The election is over, the GOP lost, and being that hindsight is 20/20 my comments really mean nothing.  I am bored though and that trumps everything.

The question was posed, “How does it feel when it all crumbles down around you?” to which I reply LOL!  As to the context of that query it was in reference to the incoming Democrat majority over the GOP.  I might feel down had my attitude towards all politics be in support of all things GOP and nothing else.  That is not my attitude, though.  My attitude towards politics is to all things American.  I accept the Democrat majority and that the American people put them there.  I don’t view this past November as a step back for the GOP; I view it as a step forward for our nation.

No, that doesn’t mean I support the Democrats.  There will always be losses. There will always be previous majorities becoming the minorities.  Same with the presidency.  We will have Democrats and we will have Republicans.

The difference between the GOP and the DNC is that on the GOP side there aren’t many people who this past November ha to seek help for Post Election Stress Trauma Syndrome (PESTS).  We don’t cry and say we’re moving to Canada.  We don’t have nightmares or think democracy is coming to an end.

No, I am not afraid of what the Democrats may bring.  Our majority will return one day with some work we can undo the damage done, if any.  So far the Democrats have done nothing.

My attitude is down when people advocate socialism such as national healthcare or state run media, when people say, “Yah it ok if they get a warrant later.”, or when the mounting problem of illegal immigration is a hot potato no one wants to touch.

Posted in My Opinion, National | 3 Comments »

Upgrade!

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 and added a new theme that is easier on the eyes and add Ajax functionality.  I think its really cool but there are still a few minor adjustments I want to make.

I decided to fill you in on some of the details of the new upgrade.

 

The buttons in the red box below do just as they say, or are supposed to anyways, add blocks and reset layout are useless atm.  Collaple all will shrink all of the posts to just show titles.  Scroll down will take you to the bottom of the page, this is where you will login at.

 

This Icon will collapse a single post.  If you don’t want to look at that picture below just click this icon on the post and it will hide the contents of that post.  Click the button again to reveal the contents of that post.

 

 Clicking this button will scroll the page down to the next post.

 Clicking this button will scroll the page up to the previous post.

 

The search feature is very sleek.  As you type it will search the blog and display results. It does display it over they text field but you can backspace and keep typing if needed.  The results look like this:

If  you click on “Go to resultspage” listed will be all of the results displayed in the box in their expanded form.

The comments have their own RSS feeds.  If there happens to be a long discussion going on that you would like to keep up with you can subscribe your favoirite RSS aggregator to a specifict topic on ivorydome and recieve updates to the topic as they are posted.

There is lots of other little stuff and there are bugs as well.  Let me know what bugs you find.

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Global Warming, Dogma and Heresy – Part II

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Last month, I wrote about the phenomenon among some in the scientific community to strip anthropogenic global warming heretics of their professional titles (see http://www.ivorydome.us/2007/01/20/global-warming-dogma-and-heresy/).  Now there’s a similar move to divest Oregon’s State Climatologist of his honorific for similar acts of heresy:

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_020607_news_taylor_title.59f5d04a.html

This is happening at the same time that Dr. Timothy Ball, Canadian climiatologist, is joining the voices of scientists who are seriously questioning the “inconvenient truth” espoused by Oscar nominee Al Gore:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

Another interesting explanation of global warming is the book, “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years” by Dennis T. Avery and S. Fred Singer:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0742551172/ref=cm_rev_next/105-7979967-5086817?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155&s=books&customer-reviews.start=11

Dr. Singer has been excoriated by the Kyoto supporters for having been on the payroll of “big oil” (Is there such a thing as “small oil”?) and the tobacco industry.  But what about the others (James Spann, George Taylor, Timothy Ball, et al.)?  According to Al Gore, they’re being bought off by the Bush Administration:

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/02/gore-says-bush-administration-paying.html

Any evidence for this, Mr. Gore?

Those who believe that global warming is caused primarily by natural (rather than human) activity are providing historical and scientific evidence to support their case.  Those who continue to believe that the problem is anthropogenic are attacking the messengers, not the evidence.

Posted in Global Warming | 12 Comments »