The American Standard Bearer

Another MIT scientist has come forward to dispute the wildly ominous predictions of modern-day prophet Al Gore and his legions of devoted followers. Writing in Newsweek, Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, concludes that not only is there is no evidence for predictions of planetary doom, implementation of Gore’s remedies will likely cost us dearly.

Lindzen writes, “The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman’s forecast for next week.”

And publisher, lawyer and college history professor Theodore P. Savas puts it this way, “As I have been explaining to my law and history students for the past 16 years, humans have a natural tendency to use their own short life spans as a yardstick for measuring what is “normal.” Therefore, …the natural conclusion of the uninformed and non-thinking among us is that what is happening today is “abnormal”—and thus something to fear.”

Will Gore’s sycophants listen to these voices of sanity? Don’t bet on it. As William F Buckley said in a column last week, “The whole business is eerily religious in feel.” And that is exactly what it is, a religion, complete with a canon, priests and prophets and quick to publicly denounce heretics.

Although what was once the world’s greatest military has already been largely dismantled by British Euro-leftists, this latest Iran-hostage episode makes it official – Great Britain is now too weak to fight off the Islamization of it’s society.

The left in America and Great Britain are weeping tears of gratitude for the safe return of the Marines kidnapped by Iran in international waters two weeks ago and are elevating both the Marines and Iran’s Napoleon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to hero status, legitimizing Iran’s dangerous actions.

According to the International Herald Tribune, in explaining why the Brits chose to surrender when attacked, Royal Marines Captain Chris Air said he “judged that if his crew tried to resist they would both lose the fight and cause a major international incident.” Only in the twisted logic of the left could the fact that this already is an international incident be completely lost and instead be viewed as a magnanimous gesture on the part of Iran.

This is already a week old, but I decided to include it because it’s well worth the listen – that is, if you have 45 minutes to spare. Evan Sayet isn’t exactly a household name, but having worked closely with some of today’s most repulsive leftist celebrities including the epitome of smug leftism, Bill Maher, his analysis is not only credible, but holds up when applied to almost any example of wacked-out leftism.

If you don’t have the time, the short synopsis is this: For the past several decades, the dominant (leftist) culture has asserted an agenda of indiscrimination into every facet of American life possible. From an early age, children are taught not to make value judgements, that winning is bad, etc. Hence, concepts such as “America is good,” or “the Bible is the word of God” are anathema since they require judgement (or as Sayet puts it, “discrimination”) to arrive at those conclusions.

According to Sayet, that’s why the left will reflexively choose evil (Islamic terrorism) over good (the American ideal of liberty) every time.

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A great example of Sayet’s concept of how the left will embrace evil while they pillory good is Rosie O’Donnell’s current rant. O’Donnell, along with Charlie Sheen and millions of other leftists are claiming that the 9/11 atacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were “False Flag” operations carried out by the U.S. Government, presumably to turn the American people against the Islamic World.

O’Donnell, who’s lack of intelligence and education is embarrasing, is not interested in the facts when she makes utterly false and laughably stupid remarks such as, “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.” Plenty of eminently qualified scientists have weighed in on the subject including Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who prepared a good analysis of the collapse of the Twin Towers.

The facts will never matter to O’Donnell and like-minded leftists.