Polar Bears, Aristocrats. Oceans of Oil, Dogs & Cats

Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving!!!

In 2009 this humble writer has very, very much to be thankful for.

Thanks for Dogs and Cats!

Brilliant blue fall days, filled with crisp air and punctuated by a riot of yellow, gold, orange and crimson parachutes falling from the sky. The smell of leaves illegally burning. The Saturday sounds of college football.

Thanks Because It’s Getting Colder!

Yes, dear old Mother Earth has been cooling for a decade now, ever since 1998.

Reality, like the Moon, is a harsh mistress. Our weather is putting “paid” to the myth of anthropogenic global warming, the tattered straw man of the current power elite. The gliterati of western society wave the failed screed of Death by CO2 like a martial banner, calling forth their myrmidons to apply for yet more tax-funded grant money, passing ever more onerous anti-market legislation in a bid to secure even tighter control over an increasingly skeptical population.

Ain’t workin’. People are finally waking up to the fact that:
A. We are carbon-based life forms.
B. It’s cold outside.

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
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US Weather Bureau: 1922.

You can’t legislate 2+2=4. Despite five planeloads of political poobahs headed for Copenhagen next month* (Hello, eco-freaks: we have a thing called video conferencing now if you are really interested in limiting CO2 emissions) you cannot legislate facts. 2 + 2 still = 4. It’s the sun, stupids!

Thanks For All The Polar Bears

There are more polar bears now than there ever were in modern times. In Churchill, Manitoba they are pests. Nice big, cuddly polar bears. There’s your inconvenient fact right there!

Most polar bear tours occur from early October through to mid-November aboard the world famous Tundra Vehicles, sometimes called Tundra Buggies. The two main tundra vehicle companies are Great White Bear Tours (primarily booked by Natural Habitat and Churchill Nature Tours) and Tundra Buggy Adventure/Frontiers North, contact them for more information and availability of dates. The vast majority of tours during this time period are group tours although some ‘day trips’ are still available for independent travellers. It is best to book these tours early, up to a year in advance.

Thanks Because We Are Awash In Oil

Even though our venal, corrupt administration won’t let us drill for it, there have been massive new oil finds in places like North Dakota, and off the coast of Brazil. Here’s another find: new methods of tertiary recovery mean we can revisit all those old oil fields now dormant in the good ol’ US of A, fields which still retain near on half their original petroleum. Using newly developed tertiary recovery technologies we can now extract a large portion of the remaining oil.

A series of technical reports was released by the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy in February that highlighted the significant potential for enhanced oil recovery technologies.

The reports showed that enhanced oil recovery will significantly contribute to the development of the large volume of remaining undeveloped domestic oil resources in the United States.

Ten basin-oriented assessments estimated that 89 billion barrels of additional oil from currently stranded oil resources in ten U.S. regions could be technically recoverable by applying the gas-injection enhanced oil recovery technique using carbon dioxide.

Experts claim that they can increase this potential with further advances in the technology. Some are even claiming that next generation CO2 technology advances have the potential to increase domestic oil recovery efficiency from about one-third to over 60 percent.

Thank God!!! Somebody finally had the cojones to shoot a fucking pirate.

The United States Navy Central Command said four suspected pirates in a skiff came within 300 yards of the Maersk Alabama at 6.30 a.m. Wednesday [Nov 18] about 600 miles off the northeast coast of Somalia as it headed for the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
But a security team on board the Maersk Alabama responded with small-arms fire, long-range acoustical devices painful to the human ear and evasive maneuvers to thwart the attack, the Navy said in a statement.
“Due to Maersk Alabama following maritime industry’s best practices such as embarking security teams, the ship was able to prevent being successfully attacked by pirates,” said Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, the commander of the Central Command. “This is a great example of how merchant mariners can take pro-active action to prevent being attacked.”
No injuries or damage were reported, the Navy said.
Pirates in Xarardheere, one of their strongholds in Somalia, said Wednesday that some of their colleagues had been killed Tuesday night.

Despite all the political correctness being dumped on our heads by the still-stoned children of the sixties, mouth-breathing innocents who continue to believe you can legislate human behavior, who take it as gospel that a simple stroke of the pen will reverse the earth’s rotation; I am thankful. I can still listen to jazz on my iPod, completely ignoring Adam Lambert, lil’ Wayne and that singing zombie: Michael Jackson.

My TV still has an “OFF” switch which I use with great relish, thereby avoiding encounters with George Steponpoopalous, Ellen Degenerate and Katy Couric. No one has yet passed a law outlawing frozen corn dogs or ice cold beer. AND I still have my guns. (And I’m keeping them. Try me.)

And finally thanks for my new old truck, all 6.000 pounds of it. All glorious 13 MPG, CO2 belching, Flowmaster-thrumping, stone cold reliable 2 kazillion foot-pounds of torque of it. Now I can ride my new old dog around!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!
the kenverine

*The Obama travel resplendence
Les Kinsolving
World Net Daily
Posted: April 07, 2009

Nine hundred and forty-three years ago, William the Conqueror of France landed in – and conquered – Britain.
Has there ever, since that time, been such a spectacular (if peaceful) landing in Great Britain than the glorious (but officially non-royal) expedition of President Barack Obama?
In the midst of our worst financial recession since the Great Depression, His Excellency Barack evoked rave reviews (actually critiques) from Britain’s Observer and Washington’s Times. They noted the following manifestations of Obama traveling resplendence:

• an entourage of 500 staff members; 

• an armor-plated $300,000 limousine; 

• a fleet of decoy helicopters; 

• a team from the White House kitchen; 

• a gymnasium onboard Air Force One; 

• six physicians, nurses and other medical personnel; 

• eight staffers for first lady Michelle Obama.

QUESTION: How many of the Air Force One fleet does all this require and at what total cost of our nation, which has so many millions unemployed?
It needs to be remembered that all members of this Obama travelcade not only need seats on those Air Force Ones, they must also be housed and fed each day in European hotels – which, if attractive enough for the Barack expedition, are by no means inexpensive.

So, I ask a second multi-part question:
Would it have been possible, for the sake of desperately needed U.S. government economy, for President Obama to have economized as follows:
• reducing that traveling staff from 500 to 50, or less; 

• ordering the immediate and permanent closing of that obscenely wasteful luxury of a gymnasium aboard Air Force One; 

• reducing the first lady’s traveling staff from eight to two; 

• reducing the number of traveling physicians from six to one or two; 

• determining that the commander and chief of the Air Force shall eat Air Force food while aboard Air Force One – instead of the luxury of transporting a team from the White House kitchen.

Les Kinsolving hosts a daily talk show for WCBM in Baltimore. His radio commentaries are syndicated nationally. He is White House correspondent for WorldNetDaily. His show can be heard on the Internet 9-11 p.m. Eastern each weekday. Before going into broadcasting, Kinsolving was a newspaper reporter and columnist – twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his commentary.