but a real hero with a rifle….I’ve seen some of these junior week-end Rambos, justifying their killing in the name of “conservation”. One wonders just how heroic they’d be if the cats could shoot back…..

‘None of the Republican presidential candidates got anything like the response Sarah Palin earned from the CPAC crowd.  Not even close.  I lost count of the standing ovations.
Is it easier to get the whole crowd surging to its feet when you’re not a candidate, and nobody in the audience has an axe to grind?  Maybe, but no other speaker at CPAC rocked the house like Palin did, either…’

This woman would electrify America, stand tall for those values which made the place great and show up the grey-suited corrupt deal makers for what they are–little men, mired in sleazy deals and compromises. She couldn’t possibly do any worse and my feeling is she would do much, much better.
A Palin/West ticket would show up the commie Boy King and his gibbering idiot VP for what they are, restore faith and pride and that “can do” ethos to America and break once and for all the RNC’s unholy alliance with the forces of the left–an alliance which will destroy America.
Conservatives have been suckered into discussing the relative virtues and failings of the four losers on offer, as though that’s all the choice available to them. It’s time to take back the process itself and demand to be represented by real Americans and find a way to draft Palin and West into the service of a country which desperately needs them.
Update: FWP weighs in, and elegantly.

Short answer..No. So I took the post down.

‘Will the world respond to Syria’s humanitarian disaster?’
A better question might be: Why the hell should we care? These people are no friends of ours.

Thanks to Ol’ Remus for permission to use this.

James Delingpole
Read it, and find out how a Danish scientist has the entire global warming industry in a state of panic and denial. At this rate, the bastards are going to have to rediscover that now uncommon commodity: Integrity. (That’s if the media fails to cover up the latest blow to the Great Scam….)
Update: ‘The great jellyfish scare goes bung, too’

‘..The former one-term governor of Massachusetts has acted consistently as if he regards the presidency as his by right, and therefore that no tactic by which he might get closer to it is inadmissible. Speak not to your Curmudgeon of Romney’s supposedly stainless character or his unblemished fidelity to his wife; say rather why his slurs and slanders against his competitors should not be held against him. He clearly has no respect for Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment. Add that to his record in power, his unwillingness to admit that Romneycare was a terrible mistake, and his complete lack of any hard and fast principle he’s willing to defend a outrance, and he appears to your Curmudgeon to be the worst possible Republican nominee. Yet many commentators continue to style him “inevitable,” though their reasons are scattered and open to serious dispute…’                 source

and to kick off:
‘Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol…’
Eff off. All this means is that somebody wants a scapegoat. We support Israel and detest anti-Semitism and I for one refuse to believe that a bunch of Marines would knowingly use an SS symbol. Stupid, yes. Malicious, no. The  “Jewish leaders” demanding action need to take a good hard look at whose agenda they’re serving here. Maybe they’d have more credibility if the majority of them didn’t support Obama and his gang…

‘a radical new global green economy
…    •    a means to “reorient public and private decision-making” to make the world’s poorest people the new economy’s “main beneficiaries,”;
•    a method of also reorienting national decision-making in countries around the world to put the new agenda “at the heart of national ministries,”
The whole thing reads like your worst nightmare.

Perhaps..but then again, maybe not. But this is an absolutely fascinating article about how parasitic organisms modify the host’s behaviour:
‘….Consider Polysphincta gutfreundi, a parasitic wasp that grabs hold of an orb spider and attaches a tiny egg to its belly. A wormlike larva emerges from the egg, and then releases chemicals that prompt the spider to abandon weaving its familiar spiral web and instead spin its silk thread into a special pattern that will hold the cocoon in which the larva matures. The “possessed” spider even crochets a specific geometric design in the net, camouflaging the cocoon from the wasp’s predators…’
the rest of it