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In this issue:

1. Carbon
2. Walrus
3. Soros
4. Polygamist
5. Richardson
6. Indictments

1. Carbon. A few words in defense of carbon dioxide are in order – and perhaps with them a way to use the old Marxist technique of maximizing the contradictions upon the greens. The newly successful technique of the greens, listing every animal in the Arctic as endangered and then using that listing as a vehicle to shut down development nationwide is now clear. Perhaps we can use that same vehicle against them. The global warming scaremongering is driven exclusively by supposed damage to animal populations, in an attempt to keep the current global temperatures at their current levels – which are much colder than the planetary average over the last half billion years. The problem is that when it gets colder, you decrease habitat and growth opportunities for plant species. Additionally, plants require carbon dioxide for respiration, as photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide, water, heat and light into long carbon-based molecules and oxygen. The more carbon dioxide you have in the atmosphere, the better the plants do. We wouldn’t get quite as clear cut of a case with global temperatures, although in the current geologic era of ice ages, we are running about 10 degrees C below the norm for the last half billion years. I say it is time for a series of lawsuits against regulation and elimination of carbon dioxide as harmful to plant life all over the planet. We ought not to be speciesists – interested in only the health and welfare of only the animal kingdom. Few animals are green. But most plants certainly are. Start filing lawsuits against the feds and the greens. Select areas where cooler temperatures have killed trees, grasses, fruits and vegetables. Maximize their contradictions and tie the entire mess up in the courts for the next century. Once we save the plants, it is on to the molds, algae and fungus.

2. Walrus. Not content with their successful listing of polar bears as threatened species, greens have pushed the feds to list walrus and three species of seals – all polar bear food – as endangered. The excuse being used is that their numbers are decreasing because of the lack of sea ice due to the ravages of global warming. Interestingly enough, given that we have almost tripled the total number of polar bears over the last 50 years, and these animals are essentially polar bear food, wouldn’t it be logical to assume that the larger numbers of polar bears are eating larger numbers of walrus and seals up here? You can’t significantly increase the number of predators without decreasing the numbers of their prey. Once the prey numbers crash – and they will – the predators will start eating each other or starve until their numbers also crash. It is an endless cycle of boom and bust. We see it up here all the time with lynx and rabbits. When there a lot of rabbits, we get a lot of lynx. When the rabbit population crashes, we lose a lot of lynx. Perhaps the solution to the listing of walrus and seals as threatened is a polar bear hunt. I hear they make great rugs and wall hangings.

3. Soros. Bloggers have discovered a link between George Soros and the Scott McClellan book trashing the Bus administration. A LGF reader traced the editor who works for Public Affairs Books back to its holding company, the Perseus Book Group. Perseus ends up being a wholly owned and operated series of Soros front corporations. With the McClellan book, Soros’ assault on the Bush administration continues. The second Soros-related story comes in response to a long-time question from Limbaugh about Senator Barack Obama. Given that Obama is a political naïf, prone to gaffes, and seemingly completely green and inexperienced. Limbaugh has been asking who is behind his meteoric rise to political prominence. Who benefits when he is elected? Who is pulling his strings? The answer once again seems to be George Soros via Obama’s long-time association with yet another Soros organization, ACORN. I realize this wanders perilously close to black helicopter land, not unlike the left’s assault on Richard Melon Scaife during the Reagan years, but Soros is active. He is out there. He has invested tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in a war on this administration and governance over the last decade. He makes money on chaos, and does a good job sowing it. He was behind McCain-Feingold and was instantly ready to fund the 527s that grew out of that congressional and presidential act of malfeasance. He has a long and active track record that we would be well advised to consider. Is Obama Soros’ sock puppet? Maybe. I think he is someone’s sock puppet, as anyone else would be publicly shredded after making as many mistakes on the campaign trail as he has made over the last six months. It could be Soros. It could be the democrat bosses in congress.

4. Polygamist. Two court rulings out of Texas blew the state Child Protection Services case against the polygamist sect out of the water. The initial court decision over a week ago found that the warrant used to raid the community had insufficient standing. That ruling was upheld by the State Supreme Court Thursday. The case bounced back to the presiding judge in San Angelo who took the opening as an opportunity to levy additional requirements and restrictions upon the parents who had their children illegally removed from their custody by the State of Texas. Expect the children to start leaving foster homes and returning to the families early this week. This entire case has been a travesty of justice – reprising the hysterical claims of previous state cases against their targets. The McMartin preschool case comes to mind. Something is broken real badly here, and it will be up to the Texas Legislature to fix it and hold the unaccountable bureaucracy accountable for their contemptible action.

5. Richardson. When a conservative does something illegal, immoral or fattening during an election year, we get months of national headlines about their character, or lack thereof. When a leftist does something, you never hear about it. One such example is Representative Laura Richardson (D, CA), who has defaulted on three home loans while managing to give her political campaign over $77,000. She walked away from a $535,000 mortgage on the first home, and failed to pay utility and property tax bills, but was able to take out a $100,000 home equity loan (that will likely never get paid) on the home before she walked. The bank and its investors now hold the note. Richardson was elected in 2007, and was a former staffer for California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, so she is quite well connected with the leftist Hispanic California political community. Malkin, Tues.

6. Indictments. Democrat candidate for US Senate, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich had Senator John Tester (D, MT) in town late last week for a fundraiser. Tester was narrowly elected in Montana in 2006 following an overly-hyped investigation into his Republican opponent Conrad Burns. Burns was not particularly conservative, so he did not have the base fired up. But he wasn’t corrupt either – despite what the local leftist media said in Montana during the campaign. Within weeks after his election loss, the investigation was stopped with nothing found. Tester ran as a conservative and pumped up ethics as a campaign issue and as expected, instantly turned into John Kerry once he hit the Beltway. He was up here in support of Begich, in opposition to drilling in ANWR, and instructing his supporters in the fine art of how to steal a seat in the US Senate under allegations of corruption. Interestingly enough, early last week, perhaps in anticipation of Tester’s appearance at the Begich fundraiser the local McClatch fishwrapper in Anchorage, the Anchorage Daily News, also known as the Incredibly Shrinking Newspaper, ran a story headlined: “Could Stevens and Young be Indicted so Close to Elections?” Sounds like the local media, completely in the Begich camp, is calling for indictments against both Stevens and Young in September when it will be too late to replace them on the ballot. Perhaps the Clinton holdovers in the Justice Department will oblige them. It is interesting to note that Begich is running on integrity. Yet what sort of integrity is it to use your supporters in the criminal justice system to take out your opponent?

More later — AG

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- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

Note: Interesting Items can be found also at the following locations: MatSu Valley News and the home page. Rod Martin’s The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column. Alex Gimarc is a long-time member of the Town Hall Conservative group.