From NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

“Average temperature across both the contiguous US, and the globe during climatological winter December ’07 to February 2008 was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA in Asheville, North Carolina. In terms of winter precipitation, Pacific storms bringing heavy precipitation to alarming parts of the west produced high snow pack that will provide welcome runoff this spring.”

It was the coolest winter since 2001. Now, all of you who went out there and watched that stupid movie, An Inconvenient Truth, watched it and you just sucked it up:

How in the world can we have just had the coolest winter since 2001 in the midst of global warming?

See, they stopped calling it “global warming” because it’s really not, so now they’re calling “climate change.” So when anything is abnormal, they can blame it on us and get us to pay more taxes and accept it.

I understand that, but we’re not buying it. That’s the point.

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How many Republicans have had to apologize, to atone, to beg forgiveness, for daring to speak at Bob Jones University? It’s quite a large number, folks.

You want to talk about double standards, here? You want to talk about this whole notion of guilt by association? The double standard here is that if Obama’s name were Romney, and if the pastor were preaching hate against blacks and associated with neo-Nazis rather than Khadafy, he would be disqualified for president. He would have been drummed out of this campaign long ago.

Romney made the point yesterday. He was victimized because he was a Mormon, victimized by liberal media. Not because his religion or his minister preached hate or segregation or so forth but just because his faith was different from the faith of most others. And this guy, Jeremiah Wright, is corrupting Christianity like I can’t believe.

What he’s preaching is not Christianity.

Found a story from Cybercast News Service, February 29th of 2000:

“Democrats pushed for a resolution Tuesday to condemn Bob Jones University, the Christian School in South Carolina that has been at the core of an uproar involving Republican candidate George W. Bush. The resolution introduced in both the House and the Senate likely to cause a partisan fight with Republicans, most of whom are backing Bush. Democrats insisted lawmakers have a duty to denounce Bob Jones University. Some complained that Bush’s apology didn’t go far enough because he didn’t address the school’s position on minorities. ‘I think it’s important for the Congress of the United States to have the last word,’ said Bob Torricelli, Democrat New Jersey. Added Harry Reid, ‘George W. Bush’s stop at Bob Jones University has turned over a rock under which has lived all sorts of bigoted practices.'”

I had forgotten this. The Democrats in the House and Senate offered a resolution to condemn Bob Jones University.

We have another presidential campaign going on here, and we’re being told, “It’s no big deal, why do we have to cover it, it’s just guilt by association. You can’t hold him accountable, what are you trying to do? Work everybody up into a tizzy? This just isn’t right. You just shouldn’t be doing this.”

These people on the left do politics in a very aggressive way, and they try to stay on offense as much as possible. I’m sick and tired of being on defense. I want to go on offense as well and play the game by the rules and the customs and the traditions that they establish.

So if they can come after religious institutions on the right, we can certainly ask these questions of Barack Obama.

Senator Obama, tell us one of the favorite things that you’ve heard Jeremiah Wright say. Of the sound bites that played, the past two days, tell us, Senator Obama, what are your favorite comments that he has made? What do you love the most that has been said by your pastor, your mentor, your spiritual advisor? Is it where he says the country is run by rich white people? Is it where he says the United States invented AIDS? What is your favorite thing, Senator Obama, uttered by your pastor?

Just trying to help clear these things up for the liberals, before the convention…

Anderson Cooper, host of Anderson Cooper “180” on CNN — just distressed as hell, terribly upset that this Jeremiah Wright story is even out there — had this exchange with Gloria Borger.

COOPER: It’s also frustrating just from a news standpoint because on the one hand people talking about it, it’s clearly an issue that’s bubbling up on the campaign trail so we end up covering it.

BORGER: Sure.

COOPER: At the same time it does feel just completely off track and — and there have been other issues in this campaign which have just felt completely off track from — from the real differences between these candidates, the real issues. It — it’s frustrating that yet again that we seem to be mired in this politics as usual.

BORGER: Right, but presidential candidates are —

COOPER: And — and — that’s why —

BORGER: They’re about character also.

COOPER: Right.

BORGER: They’re about issues, and they’re about who these people are, which is why sometimes they do tend to veer off.

Who tends to veer off? What was she saying? I don’t know what she was saying. All I know is that Anderson Cooper is just depressed to have to be talking about this, “Yeah, it’s bubbled up in the campaign. Why do we have to talk about this?” So it’s interesting to see what news judgment is up there in the Media. You know, if you were the New York Times or if you were CNN, you might hold this until three days before the election if it were about a Republican. That’s generally the way they play it.

I wonder, did Anderson Cooper complain about all of the last-minute stories on George W. Bush and the National Guard? When was the last news story CNN carried that Anderson Cooper was distressed having to discuss? How about 1992, CNN, when Gary Sick, Columbia professor comes out with the book on October Surprise; Bush 41 was involved with holding the hostages in Iran! The New York Times, the weekend before the election, we got the story about Bush and the DWI.

When’s the last time any of these people in the Media got all upset about the news they had to report?

We you upset about having to talking about Mark Foley? Were you upset about having to talk about Macaca all season long, Anderson?

Just asking the questions… maybe, someone should pass Anderson some Prozac.

This is the fallout from the Spitzer stuff.

Los Angeles Times today, columnist Patty Kelly: “Legalize Prostitution.” Yeah, now, wait. That’s just the headline.

— This is near the end of the piece…

“Saying that all sex workers are victims and all clients are demons is the easy way out. Perhaps it’s time to face this fact like adults (or at least like Mexico) — with a little less moralizing and a good deal more honesty. As for Spitzer, if he had walked into the Galactic Zone,” which is a whorehouse down in Mexico, “my questions would have been these: Was he respectful? Was he safe? Did he pay well? If the answer to all three was yes, then, well, I voted for him once, and I’d vote for him again.”

I tell you what, Perot was right. He was just years ahead of it, folks. The giant sucking sound you hear is Mexico. “Yes. If he paid well, if he was nice and respectful, I’d vote for him again.” Now, Patty Kelly, an anthropology professor at George Washington University, is the author of Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel, a book due out in April.

Legalize prostitution. You just knew it was going to happen.