http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/ Observations of a Reformed Liberal]]> en-us 2008-05-16T08:45:34-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/16/tom_leatherwood_at_the_tfa.php I have posted my rather extensive notes from Tom Leatherwood's talk to the Shelby County chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association over on TennWatch. Leatherwood is challenging incumbent Marsha Blackburn for Tennessee's 7th congressional district.... Tennessee AlphaPatriot 2008-05-16T08:45:34-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/16/still_a_fred_head.php Fred Dalton Thompson is back dispensing his wisdom and sharing his opinion, blogging on Townhall.com. A portion of his first article: First, conservatism is alive and well in America; don’t let anyone tell you differently. And by conservatism, I don’t mean the warmed-over “raise your hand if you believe …” kind of conservatism we see blooming every election cycle. No, I’m speaking of the conservatism grounded in principles based upon enduring truths: an understanding of the importance of human nature in the affairs of individuals and nations. Respect for the lessons of history, the importance of faith and tradition. The understanding that while man is prone to err, he is capable of great things when not subjugated by a too-powerful government. These are the principles that inspired our Founding Fathers, and resulted in a Constitution that delineated the powers of the central government, established checks and balances among the branches of government and further diffused governmental power by a system of Federalism. I missed ya, Fred. Glad to have you back. Technorati Tags: Fred Dalton Thompson... Thompson, Fred AlphaPatriot 2008-05-16T08:40:49-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/14/obama_bites_hillary_on_rosenmontag.php Clinton, Hillary AlphaPatriot 2008-05-14T22:45:34-06:00 Received via email from non-blogging Advised by Wolves (click on image for full size, printable JPEG): Will McCain be less damaging than the naive, inexperienced, hug-a-terrorist, Carter clone? Sadly, yes. Technorati Tags: Barack Obama the Jimmy Carter Clone,Races of 2008,Jimmy Carter and Other Damaging Historical Figures... Obama, Barack AlphaPatriot 2008-05-13T15:54:30-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/11/there_is_no_recession.php Economics AlphaPatriot 2008-05-11T01:08:32-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/10/obamas_57_state_goof_isnt_the_real_story.php Obama, Barack AlphaPatriot 2008-05-10T23:32:41-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/08/great_tits_cope_well_with_warming.php Global Warming AlphaPatriot 2008-05-08T14:53:09-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/05/black_liberation_theology.php Obama, Barack AlphaPatriot 2008-05-05T19:12:40-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/04/nytimes_wants_mccains_medical_records.php Media Spin AlphaPatriot 2008-05-04T12:47:52-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/04/i_just_lit_my_fireplace.php . . . in May. MAY! Fifty degrees outside at 9 am on a Sunday morning. Global warming my ass. Pray that the next sunspot cycle kicks into gear because if it doesn't, you'd better get ready for the next ice age.... Global Warming AlphaPatriot 2008-05-04T09:17:27-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/05/01/ny_suit_against_gun_makers_fails.php Second Amendment AlphaPatriot 2008-05-01T17:29:32-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/04/30/you_might_be_a_taliban_if_.php Humor AlphaPatriot 2008-04-30T09:46:01-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/04/25/fdt_says_not_interested_in_being_vp.php Thompson, Fred AlphaPatriot 2008-04-25T16:20:47-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/04/23/scientist_ice_age_coming.php Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who became the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. He pens a comprehensive article in today's Australian about the danger of the coming ice age: All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over. Chapman admits that one year of cooling does not a trend make, but then he turns to sunspot activity. According to SOHO, the latest cycle of sunspots (No. 24) failed to begin on schedule (sometime shortly after March of last year). The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon. The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790. Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots. Again, Chapman admits that there may not be a causal connection between last year's precipitous temperature drop and No. 24's late start. But given the grim consequences of another mini-ice age, he warns us to start planning now. Lack of action could prove fatal: The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue. We also know that glaciation can occur quickly: the required decline in global temperature is about 12C and it can happen in 20 years. The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027. By then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a catastrophe beyond imagining. Australia may escape total annihilation but would surely be overrun by millions of refugees. Once the glaciation starts, it will last 1000 centuries, an incomprehensible stretch of time. Global warming we could deal with. In fact, it would open up more farm land and expand the habitable area on the Earth. But an ice age is another thing altogether. So please, for the future of humanity, everyone go out and buy a huge (non-hybrid) SUV and fire up the smudge pots. In the meantime, I think I'll invest in some acreage on the equator. Hmm, I wonder what a small plantation in the Brazilian rain forest goes for these days. Technorati Tags: Global Warming and Other Myths,Global Cooling,The Coming Ice Age,Environment,Earth First (we'll mine the other planets later)... Environment AlphaPatriot 2008-04-23T08:06:20-06:00 http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/archives/2008/04/22/vader_vs_clinton.php Who would you rather have in the White House? That is the question asked by a cute poll over at Swarm, in which you can vote by clicking here. Now that's funny, I don't care who y'are. The thing is, for a lot of people it's actually true. Which is why RINO McCain will be our next president. Technorati Tags: Races of 2008,Returning Integrity to American Government,John McCain the Anti-conservative,Hillary Clinton and Other Socialists... 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