The Market Fundamentalist

We need to return to a people who have a healthy disrespect for the
state, and also for a large standing Military..

To this end, conservative William S Lind and libertarian Democrat Gary
Hart have spent years working on military reform. To little avail so
far, because after 9-11 the military has been seen as our Great
Protector, never mind that we are facing a non convential war in two
countries that a conventional military is ill equiped to win. Even their
headquarters, the Pentagon in Washington, was hit by the air pirates.

The Washoe Co. Republican Party Platform calls for a fully equipped
“modern” military. However, as Ron Paul will point out at the Nevada
State Convention, a fully equipped MODERN army needs to be smaller, not
larger.

William S Lind recommends scrapping all Destroyer and some Aircraft
Carriers, making the submarine the backbone of the Navy. Reduce the Air
Force to a Nuclear Strike Force, period.Air strikes create insurgencies,
they do not stop them. Reduce the Military, but leave some Army and
Marine Divisions as Special Ops Units, trained in swift interdiction,
not Nation Building.

Nation Building is now an official part of the US Army Manual. As Padme
said in Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith: “So this is how a Republic dies.
With applause.”

Brendan

The Apogee of Global Warming was 1998, with a very large EL NINO
creating unusually warm Pacific Ocean Currents that caused the
disruption to the wildlife in Eastern Siberia and Western Canada and
Alaska. Robins in Juneau. Melting Ice. Caribou stressed. Etc. Ever
wonder why the Polar Bears are doing just fine around Hudson Bay, but
stressed in the Yukon? Blame it on El Nino.

If you take 1998 as the apogee of global warming, then the last ten
years have been slightly cooler by some measurements. The important
thing is they have not been significantly warmer, despite all that
carbon dioxide from new industrial Giants India and China. If carbon
dioxide is the real cause of global warming, why this ten year cool off?

Either carbon dioxide is NOT the major factor in global warming, or
there is a built in natural mechanism to mitigate excess warming. Both
theories are ready to take over the debate. The sun, not carbon dioxide,
will soon be seen as the main engine of climate change. And, the earth
compensates for excessive temperature change. Cirrius clouds do not stay
still and reflect heat back to Earth. They give way, and excessive heat
is vented, not stored.

There is no tipping point, no great moment when the crisis looms and if
we don’t all go back to the Stone Age technologically, we will all die.
There, there, it’s all right, Jack.

A lot of politicians will have egg on their faces. A lot of scientists
will need to rework their grant proposals. The ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT will
have to find another crusade to create itself with.

And extreme environmentalism will once more be seen as faith based, not
science based.

/”Pessimism is intellectually delicious, even thrilling, but the matter
before us is too serious for mere self-pleasuring. It would be
self-defeating if the environmental movement degenerated into a religion
of gloomy faith. (Faith, ungrounded certainty, is no virtue.)”