Arkady's Thoughts

Let's take a moment away from the hustle and bustle of life and celebrate this festive holiday.   Despite all the hardships of life there remains much to be thankful for and hopefully you have an opportunity to celebrate with your family and friends.   While politics will invariably be a topic of choice during many thanksgiving dinners across the country I would urge most people to put the hot issues of the day aside.   In today's America partisanship and bitter strong feelings permeate our every fiber and we should, for our sanity's sake, reserve one day for peace and quiet.  However we still have several hours before cooking begins and here are just some things we can all be thankful for.  54 percent of our fellow Americans disapprove of the job Barry is doing.  Only 38 percent of our fellow Americans approve of ObamaCare. This pretty much leaves the core liberal base and "should" effectively kill the bill! SNL, the liberal voice...

Prescient question, no?  Have you ever actually wondered what the worth of our money really is?  At one point, not so long ago (about 200 years) a dollar used to be worth it's weight in gold - literally - about 17g of gold or between 371 and 416 grains of silver.   We of course don't use dollars, we use Federal Reserve Notes and if you don't believe me then pull out a "dollar" from your pocket and examine the text on top.  Yes, it also mentions the world dollar, but only because the Federal Reserve deemed it so - and the once equivalent 17g of gold is long gone.   Although it is no longer backed by precious metal it is backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government, a hefty promise indeed.  In more simple terms, it simply means that the Federal Reserve Notes are backed by you and other American's ability to produce and pay taxes.   The problem arises when the full faith and credit of an institution is in question an...

Below is an interview with Senator Inhofe a leading political figure on the issue of global warming "science" once calling Global Warming a hoax.  For those that still believe that the stolen emails represent nothing (ahem - NYT) or somehow demonstrate the desperation of the "right", I suggest your get with the program and stop slurping the Kool-Aid.  While the method by which they were obtained is deplorable ignoring them despite the constant errors coming out of the global warming camps is equally idiotic.  Senator Inhofe plans to launch a full investigation and rightfully so because we are talking about millions of dollars squandered on this research with no results and for no damn reason.  We should absolutely strive to have the most innovative and advanced technology in the world, we should ween ourselves from foreign oil and we should certainly develop methodologies that could assist us in preserving the sanctity of our planet - but because we want to...

While SNL has made fun of Obama before, this is probably the most accurate and brutal mockery we have seen so far!  Not only is it actually funny (for the first time), but it tends to capture much of what some of us have been trying to explain to those believing that Obama actually knows what he is doing.  Truth is, Obama's agenda is not what we are battling against, but rather that of Pelosi and Reid with Obama rallying the liberal base in the background.  More importantly the monetary policy that has lead this country down a one way path to destruction is not necessarily Obama's fault, nor Bush's and not even Clinton's.  Yet we must admit that if not for Obama, then things like the 787 Stimulus package, (Obama/Pelosi/Reid)Care would probably not be the current topic of discussion. Seems like SNL has finally come to it's senses and beginning to understand the very dangerous path we have embarked.  Now, when will the rest of the rational liberal base wake up...

While combing through several emails, I have stumbled upon what appears to be a very important email that should speak for itself.  The following email written by Kevin E. Trenberth  is head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change (see IPCC Fourth Assessment Report) and serves on the Scientific Steering Group for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program.  Note:  Kevin has written material suggesting that cooling can occur during larger global warming periods. My emphasis in bold. Hi all Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The l...

Our magnificent politicians pulled another weekend shocker , this time in the Senate by passing a 'motion to proceed' 60-39 with all Democrats voting yes (including Lieberman & Sanders) and all Republicans voting no with Voinovich not voting.  This allows the debate to be officially opened and is a massive blow for the opposition.  On the heels of a landmark Fed audit amendment bill and global warming email hack discovery , this is a bitter pill to swallow.   Currently, majority leader Harry Reid does not appear to have enough votes to end the debate and according to rather harsh words from Blanche Lincoln the public option appears to be the major hindrance.  The problem of course for those Democrats and people like Lieberman is that by passing the motion to proceed with debate we have entered a very dangerous and precarious situation.  We have seen just last week that politics is a very dirty business and the leaders of both House and Senate are pre...

In a most stunning and abrupt discovery we learn that several days ago hackers invaded Hadley University of East Anglia and made off with a handful of documents and emails.  The director of the Climate Research Unit confirms that the emails are indeed genuine and now the search has begun.  Files have been dispersed like wildfire through the Internet and are at the mercy of every skeptic who has fought against the hoax known to us as Global Warming.  I am currently examining the emails myself and some of the information appears to be tremendously incriminating and could be the final nail in the coffin.  While I do not personally endorse the hackers nor do I find their methods admirable nor do we appreciate the invasion of Green fascists into our homes and lives.  Cap and Trade was poised to devastate our economy despite the already mounting piles of evidence suggesting that global warming is a fraud just like the people pushing it.  Hopefully this discovery ...