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Another anti-war nut gets violent

From Gateway Pundit:

“He pulled the rifle from the trunk of his Mercedes, removed the Bush & Cheney pictures from the office, and promised to be back if Bush vetoed the emergency war spending bill!” -Nevada Republican Party Executive Director Zachary Moyle.
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A large cache of weapons were discovered inside of his vehicle — including three swords, a flare gun with .12-gauge shotgun shells and a .12 gauge shotgun. Las Vegas police did not reveal the particular bill that outraged Kramer, but said he told his victim he would kill everyone at the Republican offices when he returned… He originally asked an official there how he could join the party.
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Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31, did not resist officers who arrested him on a warrant issued after the April 3 confrontation at state Republican Party offices in Las Vegas.

Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kramer invited him to look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if President Bush vetoed an emergency war spending bill being considered by Congress.

…Kramer also removed photos of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from the wall of the office and threatened to harm staff members, Moyle said. Kramer left his cell phone number with office staff before leaving, police said.

He is charged with criminal syndicalism, assault with a deadly weapon and aiming a firearm at a person, police Officer Martin Wright said.

Criminal syndicalism makes it a crime to advocate sabotage, violence or terrorism to accomplish industrial or political reform, said Ron Bloxham, a Clark County prosecutor. It carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

Man, someone please protect us normal Americans from the “peace” nuts! They’re so freakin’ violent!

According to these moonbats, confronting terrorists while brandishing weapons is horrible, but confronting Republicans while brandishing weapons is cool. Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

April 26, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, moonbats | Leave a Comment

Sen. Inhofe: "Recall Reid!"

From NewsMax:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should be recalled by voters over his “un-American” remarks about the Iraq war, Sen. James Inhofe declared.

Speaking with NewsMax pundit Steve Malzberg on “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America” radio program Wednesday morning, Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, expressed outrage over Reid’s criticism of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, his call for a timetable for withdrawal and his assertion that the Iraq war is “lost.”

Asked if the Nevada Democrat should resign from his leadership position because of his comments, Inhofe said: “I think it’s more serious than that. I think there should be a recall . . . for saying something as un-American as that.”

He also said: “But it would have to emanate from the people who elected him.

“I can’t imagine that something isn’t going to happen.”

I can. Reid was just re-elected in ’04, in a state that Bush carried the same night. The senile old coot may be an embarrassment, but the good people of Nevada keep sending him back.

April 26, 2007 Posted by | Reid | Leave a Comment

Spellin’ iz tuff

At least, it’s tough if you’re Tim Russert. From Media Bistro:

Russert Spells “I-R-A-K”
Wednesday on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams and Tim Russert were discussing the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, specifically the very bad right track/wrong track (22/66) numbers, when Williams asked: “And Tim, among the issues that would drive a number like that, that severe, what’s the leading candidate?”

Watch what Russert said:
(Video clip here)

Memo to Dan Quayle: If you have not yet done so, you may now officially get over the “potatoe” gaffe. At least Quayle’s word was more than four letters long.

April 26, 2007 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

About that "consensus" thing…

Next time you hear some leftard or the MSM (pardon the redundancy) spout the trying-to-shout-down-the-opposition argument-ending “scientific consensus” crap about global “warming”, ask yourself this simple question:

With 17,100 scientists (and growing) rejecting the Chicken Little man-made global “warming” junk science, doesn’t that, by definition, destroy the “scientific consensus” nonsense?

April 26, 2007 Posted by | global warming | Leave a Comment

Carbon "offsets" shell game

Those of us who don’t buy into the junk science of global “warming” and the indulgences-like “feel-good hype” scheme known as carbon “offsets” don’t find thing like this all that surprising:

Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.

A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.

Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway.

The growing political salience of environmental politics has sparked a “green gold rush”, which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go “carbon neutral”, offsetting their own energy use by buying carbon credits that cancel out their contribution to global warming.
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The FT investigation found:

■ Widespread instances of people and organisations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.

■ Industrial companies profiting from doing very little – or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.

■ Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.

■ A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.

■ Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European Union carbon permits that have plummeted in value because they do not result in emissions cuts.

Francis Sullivan, environment adviser at HSBC, the UK’s biggest bank that went carbon-neutral in 2005, said he found “serious credibility concerns” in the offsetting market after evaluating it for several months.

“The police, the fraud squad and trading standards need to be looking into this. Otherwise people will lose faith in it,” he said.

You can’t lose faith in something in which you never had faith to begin with, sir. Carbon offsets are a fraud, pure and simple, no other way around it.

By the way, ask yourself this: if Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, or Big (insert bogeyman industry here) were doing any of the bulletpoints above, do you think the MSM would be as quiet about it as they are about the greenie fraudsters? Me neither.

Nice work by Citizens Journal on the Photoshop

April 26, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, global warming | 1 Comment

   

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