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Michael Ramirez on Al Gore – The Gross Alarmist
USA Today: Top hurricane forecaster calls Al Gore a “gross alarmist”
A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
“He’s one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he’s doing a great disservice and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” William Gray said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech.
Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University, has long railed against the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.
Now, Michael, you are not writing that Al Gore is trying to resurrect his political career by being a global warming alarmist are you?
Oh! You are……
Indeed.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Rudy is Selling Competence, Not Ideology
Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani hands back an autographed campaign poster to the crowd after a rally at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, April 3, 2007.
Politico: Rudy Giuliani Is Delighted To Oblige
Rudy Giuliani will hold your baby, hug your dog, autograph your T-shirt and blow you a kiss. All in the space of 15 minutes.
I watch him do these things as he makes his way down Market Street in Charleston’s famed Historic District, which on this bright and warm spring day is packed with tourists.They call his name — “Rudy! Rudy! Over here, Rudy!” — and take his picture and, though often lacking both paper and pen (he will provide both), they ask for his autograph.
He is glad to oblige. He is delighted to oblige. Thus far in the 2008 presidential race, Giuliani has opened up a clear enthusiasm gap. He actually seems to enjoy campaigning. (Even if he is faking it, most of the other candidates aren’t even bothering to do that.)
Roger Simon is absolutely correct.
Flap has covered and videoed Rudy twice in California public campaign events and his enthusiasm is contagious. He WANTS to be the PEOPLE”S PRESIDENT.
Flap has seen many campaigns and politicians. He has seen the phoneys, the plastic candidates who are out for themselves. This is NOT Rudy.
Look at these videos taken in Iowa by Flap’s friend Kavon Nikrad over at race42008.com
And finally:
Would you say that Rudy knows how to press the flesh and campaign among the people? Would you say these Iowa folks are enthusiastic for his candidacy?
Yes, on both.
Giuliani is selling competence, not ideology. He ran America’s largest city for eight years, and now he is ready to run America. That is his message.
Indeed he is.
Giuliani drops to one knee on the sidewalk and hugs a mixed collie named Maya as her owner snaps a picture of the two of them.
Then a young woman comes up to Giuliani and asks him to autograph the T-shirt she is wearing. Giuliani turns her around and signs the back of it. (He is no fool.)
Larry Khert, 36, of Suffolk County, Long Island; his wife, Marsha; and their three children, Larry III, Jake and Paige, stand on Market Street and watch Giuliani pass by.
“He is great,” says Khert, a registered Republican. “I don’t think the Democrats have anybody to run against him. He is really good in a crisis, and we are kind of in a crisis, aren’t we?”
But do you think he is a real conservative? I ask him.
“I don’t think we are looking for a real conservative Republican president,” Khert says. “We got one now. And how is that working out?”
Stay tuned for the Giuliani campaign to come to your state. But, arrive early – there will be a crowd.
Republican Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani visits with a group of third graders form Ware Shoals Primary outside the Statehouse after holding a news conference, Thursday, April 5, 2007, in Columbia, S.C.
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Iran Watch: British Military Bans Personnel From Selling Stories
Iran Releases Video of Sailors Playing Chess & Ping-Pong
Captured Sailor Faye Turney alone is likely to make at least £100,000MoD bans military from selling stories
The ban on military personnel selling their stories was hurriedly reinstated last night as the Government admitted its handling of the Iran hostages crisis had spectacularly backfired.
Faced with a mounting tide of criticism, Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted the outcome of his decision to let the 15 captured sailors cash in on their ordeals had not been ‘satisfactory’.
You think?
Wasn’t Britain humiliated enough by their Sailors/Marines and now they profit from their ordeal?
Some folks in Britain are not happy – as they shouldn’t be:
Downing Street confirmed that Tony Blair was informed that the soldiers would be allowed to sell their stories but a spokesman insisted it was a decision that had already been taken and he was not involved in making it. Opposition MPs are nevertheless likely to seize on the revelation and ask why the Prime Minister did not prevent the move.
Mr Browne said lessons must be learned after Faye Turney and Arthur Batchelor hawked accounts of their 13-day imprisonment for huge sums, and ordered an urgent review of the rules.
Britain needs to evaluate their military protocols for this entire COCK-UP. And the Labour government of Tony Blair needs to take responsibility.
America does not need WEAK allies like this.
Stay tuned…….and Flap will post the video of tonight’s TV interview when it becomes available.
Update:Did Flap mention Mark Steyn’s excellent piece: Iran’s bluff humbles Britain?
Update #2
Fraters Libertas has an accompanying photoshop graphic: H/T Hugh Hewitt
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: The Public Financing of Abortion FLAP – Part Two
Hotline: YouTube Wars: Context Is Key
Remember the Flap which started a few weeks ago?
Well, now it turns out that a key sentence was omitted in the video of a Giuliani speech, November 3, 1989.
The original quote:
“There must be public funding for abortions for poor women. We cannot deny any woman the right to make her own decision about abortion because she lacks resources. I have also stated that I disagree with President Bush’s veto last week of public funding for abortion.”
But, the clip omitted the following sentence:
“That I disagree with President Bush’s veto last week of public funding for abortions for rape or incest victims.”
This changes the context of Rudy’s support of public funding for abortion.
Here is the revised clip:
What is Rudy’s position?
This video above is probably not the best explanation and can be plainly viewed as a FUMBLE.
But, here is an explanation that is consistent and credible:
His campaign issued this statement today:
“As I have indicated before I will not seek to change current law as described in the Hyde Amendment.†— Rudy Giuliani
And his campaign points me to this Chicago interview from March 12, 2007:
REPORTER: There is a video clip around the internet today out today from your Mayor’s race where you came out in favor you support taxpayer funded abortion for poor women. Is that still your position today and what do make of this early attempt to discredit you with conservative voters?
GIULIANI: Well, everybody has a right to do that. I think that basically my position on abortion is that I oppose it, it’s wrong, everything should be done to discourage it, and I would discourage it personally, but ultimately however I think that the law has to permit people to make that choice, we can’t make that choice for them, and as far as the state of the law as it presently exists, I don’t have any real agenda to change that. That has to be decided on a state by state basis so far as issues beyond that, and then you know, the Supreme Court is going to decide issues like parental notification which I think is appropriate to have judicial bypass, and they’re going to decide about late-term abortion, (INAUDIBLE), and as long as there is exceptions for the life of the mother, I think that banning partial-birth abortion is the appropriate thing. So, you know, I’ve explained this many many times and I think people have to kind of evaluate what my position is and I do ultimately support a woman’s right to choose, and if there are some people who just feel they can’t vote for me because of that, well then they have to make that decision for themselves, and if there are other things that are more important to them, or they understand that my position is a balanced one, well maybe they will be. (Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Press Availability, Chicago, IL, 3/12/07)
********Now, let’s bring on the debates and see how Mitt Romney, the FLIPPER between Pro-Life and Pro-choice views and John McCain, presumably Pro-Life explain why they would deny a rape or incest victim an abortion because she could NOT afford it.
Want to bet they won’t?
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Giuliani Notes: New York Moves Presidential Primary to February 5, 2008
Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, right, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Benjamin Baer, chairman of the U.S Parole Commission, pose in undercover clothes in this July 9, 1986 file photo, after D’Amato bought what he later told a news conference were vials of crack on a New York City street. D’Amato, dressed in a fatigue cap and Eisenhower jacket, made the buy with an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Long before he became mayor of New York or the Republican front-runner for the presidency, Giuliani made a name for himself as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Manhattan. During a nearly seven-year stretch ending in 1989, Giuliani steered dozens of high-profile cases to completion, garnering more than 4,000 convictions.
AP: New York moves its primary up to Feb. 5
Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed a bill Monday moving New York’s presidential primary to Feb. 5 — a change that could benefit the Democratic and Republican front-runners, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, both New Yorkers.
Nearly a dozen other states, including California and New Jersey, have already moved their primaries or caucuses to Feb. 5 or are about to do so. About a dozen more are considering such moves, setting the stage for what is quickly becoming known as “Super-Duper Tuesday” just 22 days after the leadoff Iowa caucuses.
“Moving the primary date to February, we will help secure New York’s large and diverse population an influential voice in selecting the 2008 presidential nominees,” said Spitzer.
Democrat Spitzer’s move is expected to mean a big early haul of national convention delegates for Clinton, a New York senator, and for Giuliani, a former New York City mayor. The two New Yorkers, respectively, lead national polls for the Democratic and Republican nominations.
New York had been scheduled to hold its primary on March 4 until Giuliani allies began pressing for the earlier date. The Clinton camp quickly gave its blessing to the move which won overwhelming approval from New York’s Republican-led state Senate and Democratic-controlled Assembly last month.
“It’s certainly good for both candidates from New York,” said former state GOP Chairman William Powers, a co-chairman of Giuliani’s New York campaign.
And good for Californians who are weary of being the funding machine for Presidential primary campaigns decided in small states like New Hampshire and Iowa.
Now, the money raised in California will stay in California with candidates ACTUALLY campaigning here.
Political advantage: Giuliani
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Announces Industrial Expansion of Uranium Enrichment on Iran’s National Day of the Nuclear Technology
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, Monday April, 9, 2007. Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel ‘on an industrial scale.’ Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, ‘Yes.’ He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so.
AP: Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment
Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, defiantly expanding a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel “on an industrial scale.”
Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, “Yes.” He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so. Until now, Iran was only known to have 328 centrifuges operating.
Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material for a nuclear warhead. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of intending to produce weapons, a charge the country denies.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz
An Iranian flag is seen outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of Bushehr, 03 April 2007.
So, while the feckless United Nations Security Council and the European Union have been talking and “negotiating with Iran, the Iranians have been growing their nuclear program.
Let’s see, Iran has ignored three United Nations resolutions calling upon them to halt uranium enrichment:
But, Iran doesn’t care – THE MULLAHS COVET NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Iranian clerics greet each other after attending in a ceremony at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
Notably, the United Nations sanctions have been tested by Iran and they simply are USELESS. Russia and China are complicit in Iran’s uranium enrichment program and must be held accountable – unless the West bows down to the GREAT IRAN and allows them to have a nuclear weapon.
Iranian state television reported Monday that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who is under travel restrictions urged by the sanctions has visited Russia without any difficulty.
Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, who is also deputy interior minister for security affairs, was quoted on the state TV Web site as saying that his six-day journey to Moscow, which ended Monday, showed “the ineffectiveness of the resolution.”
The resolution urges all governments to ban visits by the 15 individuals and says that should such visits occur – presumably for exceptional circumstances – the countries should notify a U.N. committee.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov confirmed that Zolqadr visited Russia. He told The Associated Press that the resolution does not prohibit visits by the listed individuals, but calls for heightened vigilance “directed first of all at people who are directly related to nuclear programs” – suggesting that Zolqadr was not.
ABC News has reported that Iran will possess a nuclear bomb by 2009. There is no reason to believe this will not be the case. Iran has stalled for years. Now the United States and Israel either must take action or acquiesce to the idea that Iran will become a nuclear power – like Jacques Chirac let slip.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” HAS BEEN REACHED
World powers won’t thwart Iran nuclear drive: Ahmadinejad
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed that world powers would not be able to stop Iran’s nuclear drive and that the Islamic republic would defend its atomic programme “to the end.”
“The great Iranian nation, which for past centuries has been a pioneer of science, will not allow some bullying powers to put obstacles in its path of progress by influencing the international community,” he said in a speech.
“We will go on to reach the summits,” he added in a keynote address at Iran’s ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.
And like the British humiliation of last week, the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad will rub the West’s nose in it.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, answers questions from media at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
With today’s announcement the hatred of the Great Satan was on display:
Iranian students burn mock US and British flags outside Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, 09 April 2007.
Iranian female students stand on a representation of a U.S flag and a representation of a British Union flag during a gathering to show their support to their country’s nuclear activities, marking “National Day of the Nuclear Technology”, in front of the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 9, 2007.
An Iranian student steps on a paper hat designed with an image of a U.S. flag as she stands in front of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran during a rally to mark the country’s national day of nuclear technology.
How will the United States and Israel respond?
Will it be back to the United Nations for more sanctions?
Will they militarily take out the facilities?
Will they surrender?
As Flap said yesterday – TIME TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT.
Stay tuned……
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 9, 2007
