Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation.

Forget the lunacy of people claiming to tell us the precise temperature of planet Earth in 1918 based on tree rings. Or the fact that in the '70s liberals were issuing similarly dire warnings about "global cooling."

Simply consider what noted climatologists Al Gore and Melissa Etheridge are demanding that we do to combat their nutty conjectures about "global warming." They want us to starve the productive sector of fossil fuel and allow the world's factories to grind to a halt. This means an end to material growth and a cataclysmic reduction in wealth.

There are more reputable scientists defending astrology than defending "global warming," but liberals simply announce that the debate has been resolved in their favor and demand that we shut down all production.

They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton -- with no Trentons or Detroits. It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those "eco-friendly" mansions, and someone has to truck it all to their beachfront properties, and someone else has to transport all the workers there to build it. (And then someone has to drive the fleets of trucks delivering the pachysandra and bottled water every day.)

Liberals are already comfortably ensconced in their beachfront estates, which they expect to be unaffected by their negative growth prescriptions for the rest of us.

There was more energy consumed in the manufacture, construction and maintenance of Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu home than is needed to light the entire city of Albuquerque, where there are surely several men who can actually act. But he has solar panels to warm his house six degrees on chilly Malibu nights.

Liberals haven't the foggiest idea how the industrial world works. They act as if America could reduce its vast energy consumption by using fluorescent bulbs and driving hybrid cars rather than SUVs. They have no idea how light miraculously appears when they flick a switch or what allows them to go to the bathroom indoors in winter -- luxuries Americans are not likely to abandon because Leo DiCaprio had solar panels trucked into his Malibu estate.

Our lives depend on fossil fuel. Steel plants, chemical plants, rubber plants, pharmaceutical plants, glass plants, paper plants -- those run on energy. There are no Mother Earth nursery designs in stylish organic cotton without gas-belching factories, ships and trucks, and temperature-controlled, well-lighted stores. Windmills can't even produce enough energy to manufacture a windmill.

Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?

"Global warming" is the left's pagan rage against mankind. If we can't produce industrial waste, then we can't produce. Some of us -- not the ones with mansions in Malibu and Nashville is my guess -- are going to have to die. To say we need to reduce our energy consumption is like saying we need to reduce our oxygen consumption.

Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukranians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans.

But global warming is the most insane, psychotic idea liberals have ever concocted to kill off "useless eaters." If we have to live in a pure "natural" environment like the Indians, then our entire transcontinental nation can only support about 1 million human beings. Sorry, fellas -- 299 million of you are going to have to go.
Proving that the "global warming" campaign is nothing but hatred of humanity, these are the exact same people who destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country 30 years ago.

If we accept for purposes of argument their claim that the only way the human race can survive is with clean energy that doesn't emit carbon dioxide, environmentalists waited until they had safely destroyed the nuclear power industry to tell us that. This proves they never intended for us to survive.

"Global warming" is the liberal's stalking horse for their ultimate fantasy: The whole U.S. will look like Amagansett, with no one living in it except their even-tempered maids (for "diversity"), themselves and their coterie (all, presumably, living in solar-heated mansions, except the maids who will do without electricity altogether). The entire fuel-guzzling, tacky, beer-drinking, NASCAR-watching middle class with their over-large families will simply have to die.

It seems not to have occurred to the jet set that when California is as poor as Mexico, they might have trouble finding a maid. Without trucking, packaging, manufacturing, shipping and refrigeration in their Bel-Air fantasy world, they'll be chasing the rear-end of an animal every time their stomachs growl and killing small animals for pelts to keep their genitals warm

Video of one of the worst streets in Baghdad and the turnaround there since the surge began.

Happy Valentine's Day R-Man.

Well, everyone's favorite colonials on the run from jihading robots certainly are giving fresh new meanings to the phrase space opera, aren't they? I mean, my gods: Civilization's been destroyed, everyone's presumably traumatized out the wazoo over seeing pretty much everything and everyone they're ever known and loved nuked into radioactive slag, but Starbuck and Apollo allow themselves the luxury of indulging in high histrionics over agony! heartbreak! What is this, As the Battlestar Turns? Get over yourselves, you two, and get a room already. If ever there was a moment in which the rules that used to apply -- like those pertaining to, say, protecting the dignity of a spouse you married on a whim out of sheer frustration and loneliness, not out of love -- could be bypassed, then it is when you are among the last ragtag dregs of humanity limping toward a mythical planet that is your last hope for survival and an army of superintelligent, metaphysical androids is on your heels hoping to either kill you or convert you to the worship of their god.

I'm just sayin', is all. But no! Oh, nobility! Oh, sacrifice! Are Apollo and Starbuck fooling anyone with their laughing too loud at the bar with the spouses they're sticking righteously by and their making big, sad, puppy eyes at each other when they think no one else is looking? Apollo in particular is turning into Whiny Weepy Boy really quickly, and it's not that attractive on him. And what hell was up with the Jerry Maguire speech? He almost told not-Starbuck that she completes him, and I swear that if not-Starbuck told Apollo he had her at hello I was gonna throw something at the screen.

If Adama and Stands With a Fist really wanna torture Gaius, they should put him in a room with Apollo and Starbuck and their Damned Civility. Sheesh.

'Nuff said. Ron, it is past time to sink the Lee/Radar O'Dualla Ship and have Kobe find a girl that actually likes him.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale -- Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother -- died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

So sad, another b-list celebrity lost to their addictions. Oh, we can be comforted in the knowledge that she'll live on in her dead vote.

SEN. EDWARDS: For the same reason a lot of people were wrong. You know, we—the intelligence information that we got was wrong. I mean, tragically wrong. On top of that I’d—beyond that, I went back to former Clinton administration officials who gave me sort of independent information about what they believed about what was happening with Saddam’s weapon—weapons programs. They were also wrong. And, based on that, I made the wrong judgment ...

No, I do not believe this is all a nefarious government plot to gain unauthorized access to my DNA. My concerns regarding this study are grounded in reality, not based on vague fears and paranoia.

I discovered a glaring discrepancy in the method of collecting the buccal cells for DNA analysis. The DVD has the PI - Dr. Spencer Wells - demonstrating the collection procedure. He instructs the participants to scrape the inside of their cheek for 60 seconds. The writen instructions included with the kit direct participants to scrape the inside of their cheek 'for about 30 seconds'. This is a huge no-no! Inconsistent collection leads to inconsistent results. This study already has participants collecting the sample on their own, virtually a built-in inconsistency; adding to this a discrepancy with the instructions adds another layer to the variation of collection. The structure of this study is a good example of GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out.

The informational booklet supplied with the kit states "If the project is to be truly global, it must sample the genetic inheritance of us all - and this provides an opportunity for broad public participation as well."

The design of this study contradicts this lofty goal when you take into account the following features of this study:

Cost: $100 plus tax and shipping. I don't care if the test were $1, this is a financial impediment that stratifies the pool of available participants by socio-economic levels. This is not a good way to capture a broad range human DNA samples.

Results are only available to the participant online. This is technological impediment. How many people around the world have easy access to the internet? Adding to this, one must order the kit online. The financial and technical obstacles in this study narrow the pool of likely participants in this study hampering the ability of the researchers to make any determination about our 'deep ancestry'.

I suspect this study was designed not to gather DNA for evil government purposes, but to finance grants for Dr. Wells globe-tripping research.