The American Standard Bearer

Rosie O’Donnell, who, in a moment of of Orwellian exuberance Newsweek dubbed “the Queen of Nice,” has once again proved that her mouth is several times larger than her brain. Last September, O’Donnell told the audience of “The View” that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state,” which leads to the question, how exactly are “radical” Christians threatening O’Donnell and the grossly paranoid left?

This week, just about every mainstream media outlet is reporting that a Manhattan art gallery is exhibiting a life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus by artist Cosimo Cavallaro who has reportedly invited the public to stop by and have a bite. Of course, the artist, the gallery and the attached hotel (Roger Smith Hotel) are smugly doing their best to offend Christians and the media outlets are gleefully following along hoping for a reaction.

Yet, just about the only reaction so far has been from the Catholic League, calling for a boycott of the hotel. No riots, no bombs, no destruction of property, no death threats.

When a Danish cartoonist dared depict the Prophet Mohammed last year, rioting and carnage broke out across the Middle East and Europe and the same media that won’t hesitate to “report” insults to Christianity preferred to show restraint in not showing cartoons offensive to Muslims.

From Little Green Footballs come these telling photos of a Portland, Oregon “peace” march on Sunday.

Protesters burned an upside-down American flag (a two-for-the-price-of-one insult) and lynched and set on fire an American soldier in efigy. There’s nothing “peaceful” about the message here.

The morons who burn American flags and effigies of American servicemen while wearing masks are involved in a very obvious act of aggression against the rest of us who don’t agree with them. While they espouse “No Masters,” their actions are reminiscent of Hitler’s Brown Shirts. If a charismatic leader emerges from the ranks of this bunch, watch out.

Fresh off his exhilirating coronation as King of the Left at this year’s Oscar ceremonies, Al Gore showed today that he’s as sharp as a tack when it comes to his Hollywood history. According to the Associated Press, at today’s congressional hearings on global warming, Gore brought “a stack of boxes… containing hundreds of thousands messages asking Congress to act on global warming,” emulating the famous scene from “Miracle on 34th Street” when the U.S. Postal Service delivers thousands of letters to Santa Claus in a New York courtroom.

As in the movie, Gore apparently believes his boxes of messages will serve as “proof” that man-made global warming is a fact. And once again playing the fool, Gore has failed to consider that “Miracle on 34th Street” was really nothing more than warm-hearted fantasy – no one that has ever seen that movie has walked away believing that the existence of Santa Claus was proved in the real world.

However, the idiots on the left, devoid of any ability to seperate fantasy from reality, will think that Gore’s props were a clever and irrefutable addition to his testimony today. Somewhere along the way, science stopped being science and has now become all ideology and political showmanship.

As the high priest of the Church of Global Warming, Al Gore has declared “the debate is over” on the “moral issue” of global warming.

Apparently, Lord Monckton, who was once an advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, hasn’t received that bit of news from his advisors. Monckton has sent a formal letter to Gore at his energy-sucking estate challenging him to debate his global warming claims one-on-one on live television. The letter reads:

“The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley presents his compliments to Vice- President Albert Gore and by these presents challenges the said former Vice-President to a head-to-head, internationally-televised debate upon the question, ‘That our effect on climate is not dangerous,’ to be held in the Library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at a date of the Vice-President’s choosing.

“Forasmuch as it is His Lordship who now flings down the gauntlet to the Vice-President, it shall be the Vice-President’s prerogative and right to choose his weapons by specifying the form of the Great Debate.  May the Truth win!  Magna est veritas, et praevalet. God Bless America! God Save the Queen!”

Gore can barely hold his own when reading from a script. Don’t expect him to accept the challenge and risk being dethroned.

The Democrat controlled Congress is making sure their message is heard at the start of Valerie Plame’s congressional hearings. Watching Plame’s opening testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this morning, what appeared to be a man dressed in a pink women’s outfit with a pink t-shirt that read, “IMPEACH BUSH NOW,” was carefully positioned in full view sharing the screen with Plame’s head.

Assuming that space is limited at a congressional hearing, that a fairly high level of security is maintained and that an equally high standard of decorum is expected, it seems almost incredible that such a sophmoric freak-show would be allowed. That is, until a couple of very important points are factored in.

First, the Pink Monster in Drag is not a freak-show to Democrats – he/she is what their party has become. The Democrat members of Congress who control this hearing are the ones who are disguised. In reality, many of them yearn to comport themselves as the Pink Monster does.

And second, Democrats are using the Pink Monster to telegraph what these hearings are really all about – an opening salvo in the official battle to impeach the President.

In case anybody has missed it, there are two Americas quickly emerging, just not the two Americas of the “Haves” and “Have Nots” as Presidential candidate John Edwards likes to suggest. The two Americas can be broadly described as those who believe in God and those who do not.

Almost all politicians either avoid the subject whenever possible or simply lie about their beliefs. Not to pick on John Edwards, but along with Howard Dean & Bill Clinton, he’s a great example of a politician who finds it easy to feign belief in God. Clinton carried a Bible while cheating on his wife every chance he got, Dean quoted verses from the Bible while campaigning but later viciously attacked Christians, and Edwards tells us what Jesus would think of us, conveniently forgetting that he has made millions raping the health care industry with bogus lawsuits.

Now, Congressman Pete Stark, D-California, has come out of the closet, admitting his Atheism and throwing in a slap at believers. Stark told the Associated Press that he “does not believe in a supreme being.” He further added “I look forward to working with the Secular Coalition (of America) to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in science, marriage contracts, the military and the provision of social services.”

Of course, folks who believe in God think that leaving God out of the mix narrows one’s understanding of subjects such as science, marriage, the military and social services. But leaving the political double-talk of Congressman Stark aside, what will the so-called broad views of Atheism ultimately lead us to?

When a God who stands in judgement is eliminated, as the left is trying to do, acceptable behavior is defined by whatever society can be bullied into accepting. By attacking and demonizing not just the believers but the belief itself, the left is slowly but surely eroding our ability to object to aberrant behaviors on moral grounds.

Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, like Paul Revere two centuries ago, is sounding the alarm, and a rather noisy alarm at that, to save the world from environmental catastrophe. The only problem is, he’s rattling off the same ridiculous hyper-exaggerations that enviro-mental Al Gore makes with absolutely nothing to substantiate them.

Says Wolff, “As temperatures around the globe increase, oceans are warming, fields are drying up, snow is melting, more rain is falling, and sea levels are rising.” Oh yeah Alex? Where is all this happening? Where are sea levels rising? Tuvalu? Not true – check for yourself.

Says Wolff, “Because of the melting of glaciers and polar ice, and because water expands as it warms, oceans are rising… In the last year and a half, scientists have noticed that once indestructible ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica have begun to creep toward the sea.” No, actually Alex, scientists, some of them who are firmly in the global warming camp, are finding that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are growing, not receding.

And this total load of crap oozing from Wolff’s feverish imagination, “If we continue to spew greenhouse gases as we are, the Earth could become five degrees warmer this century. The last time Earth was that warm, three million years ago, sea level stood 80 feet higher than it does now.” There’s so much wrong with that statement, it’s hard to know where to begin.

But let’s try this. The last time the earth, or at least, the part of the earth we inhabit, was five degrees warmer was as recent as about 700 years ago. Estimates are that Europe was 5 to 7 degrees farenheit warmer than today. In fact, the warm weather, which lasted for several hundred years, fueled the growth of European society from bands of nomadic barbarians to peaceful farmers to the solid foundation of the civilization we enjoy today. It was so warm, that Vikings were populating Greenland and farming where today, there is only ice.

The alarmism that Wolff is parroting conveniently ignores the facts in favor of a hysterical rallying cry. Unfortuneately for us who are optimistic about the world’s future, at the bidding of self-obsessed opportunists like Al Gore, useful idiots like Wolff are lending voice to that rallying cry which is calling for an end to human progress.

The Associated Press published these and other photos today, depicting demonstrators burning and kicking various home made American flags in Bogota, Colombia. The demonstrators are burning representations of American flags with skulls in the place of stars to protest President Bush’s upcoming tour of South America.

My guess is, most of the people you see here will be in the United States in a month or two, getting jobs at Tyson’s Chicken, enrolling their kids in school, and joining a Latino gang. Of course, they’ll still hate America, but now they’ll be doing it up-close and personal.

According to WorldNetDaily.com today, comedienne Sarah Siverman had sex with God on her Comedy Central show, “the Sarah Silverman Program,” in the final episode last night. God was played by Tucker Smallwood, a character actor, television director and Vietnam vet.

These people must be very certain, deep down, that God does not exist. There are a whole lot of us, on the other hand, who are very certain that God does exist. I feel sorry that the Sarah Sivermans of the world have gambled their eternal futures on the premise that there is no God to anger with their unfunny, cynical “comedy.”

The left, completely obsessed with race (as opposed to racism), is in the throes of a quest to come to terms with Barack Obama’s mixed racial heritage. In a Baltimore Sun story today, writers David Nitkin and Harry Merritt tell us that “one of Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.”

So what? If it was customary to judge a person based on the sins of ancestors, every one of us would be doomed. I’m not a fan of Obama’s because of his leftist views, but he should, and will, be judged based on who he is, what he says, and what he does. The leftist media should dispense with their self-conscious examination of Obama’s “intriguing family history” and tell us more about Obama himself.