Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

California Constitutional Clumsiness

Reports of the Governor of California entering into an international accord have brought forth criticism based on the constitutionality of such an accord. That’s not what bothers me though, it’s the insane topic of this accord.

Say it ain’t true, Mr. Governor . . .

From NRO:

Schwarzenegger and Blair versus the US Constitution [Iain Murray]

The sovereign nation of California has done a deal with the government of Her Britannic Majesty:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — in an apparent end run around a Bush administration that has stubbornly resisted addressing global warming — signed a partnership Monday to share technology and scientific research aimed at fighting the effects of worldwide climate change.

The nonbinding accord is the first between the United Kingdom and a U.S. state on global warming, establishing what officials said would be a continuing commitment to focus on the issue.

I wonder how they square this with the Compact Clause of the Constitution:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, …enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power

As I understand it, the Constitution was designed deliberately to remove the powers states had under the Articles of Confederation to deal with foreign powers. By initiating this process, Blair has just stuck two fingers up to the US Congress and the US Constitution. Funnily enough, I hold him to a higher standard than the Governor of California.

“Give me the old Greenbat head butt Mr. Prime Minister”, “Right-O, Arnie.”

(Picture me sadly shaking my head at this one . . .)

04 Aug 2006 by California Greenbats Whacko Politics

Yeah, What Jon Said . . .

Jon at GOP Bloggers seems to be as fed up with the United Nations as much as we are. I take it a step further and include regimes like Venezuela and North Korea in the mix along with Iran and Syria. All insane, all terrorists, all the time.

GOP Bloggers :: The UN Is Nothing More Than an Enabler of Violent Islamists, So America Must Withdraw

If the UN ever served a useful purpose, that role is now gone. Its peacekeepers are manifestly not effective at peacekeeping, whether as spectators for mass slaughter in Rwanda and Bosnia or observing a terrorist group’s massive arms build-up, but they are clearly adept at mass rape of children. So the “peacekeeping” function of the UN is no reason to keep it around and there is little else of value the organization does that cannot be handled through other multilateral arrangements.

Read the whole article — it’s a treasure trove of references to just why we should kick the whole lot of them out of Turtle Bay and do something good with our support.

03 Aug 2006 by Degenerates International United Nations Whacko Politics

2996 Tribute Blogger Support

I almost forgot!

I just added a link to the Never Forget Graphic (seen on hundreds of blogs) encouraging bloggers to sign up for 2996 tribute on September 11, 2006. When I got the email from DC Roe I was going to “get around to it,” but promptly forgot until I saw a reminder on MVRWC this morning.

Check out the 2996 link under the graphic.

Update: We signed up for our 9/11 victim today. Less than half of them have been spoken for, so c’mon bloggers and sign up (click the link under the graphic).

We will be posting about this victim on 9/11/2006:

Marc Scott Zeplin, age 33.

Place killed: World Trade Center. Resident of Harrison, N.Y. (USA).

Marc Scott Zeplin will be honored by Cap’n Bob & the Damsel. This was the 1205th blogger to sign up for the 2,996 Tribute project.

03 Aug 2006 by Blogosphere Never Forget Patriotism

A 58 Year Old Inconvenient Truth

A truth inconvenient to Al Gore perhaps. And a truth inconvenient to ozone-obsessed greenbats, as well. Gore, producer of the over-represented global warming hype documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” doesn’t take the time to evaluate actual scientific observations, but rather jumps to the politically inept conclusions found by scientific consensus.

Notice that the conclusion made in the article quoted below by a Swedish scientist in 1948 is still the most likely reason for climate change — to wit: Solar fluctuations.

I found this on NRO’s The Corner:

Global warming, 1948 style [Iain Murray]

A scientist friend discovered an article from 1948 entitled “The Present Climatic Fluctuation.” Written by Professor Hans Ahlmann of the University of Stockholm, it begins:

“The present climatic fluctuation has been discussed since the 1920’s almost exclusively in scientific circles, although it has recently become a subject of more than academic interest…Ordinary people are beginning to realize that something has happened and is happening which is of great interest to themselves. The last dry summer, which transformed large parts of Western Europe into a virtual steppe, increased this interest and also caused anxiety, though this drought cannot be said with any certainty to belong to the present climatic fluctuation.”

Sound familiar? All that is missing is a documentary by [then presidential losing candidate] Thomas E Dewey on the subject. Anyway, Ahlmann documents rapidly rising temperatures, glaciers melting like crazy, atmospheric circulation changes, species shifting, sea level rise, and so on from all around the world. But he concludes:

“If we find in the Antarctic similar evidence of the present climatic fluctuation as has been found in other parts of the world, we shall be justified in concluding that the present fluctuation is a world-wide phenomenon and probably the result of variations in solar activity which, slow as they may be to take effect, are actually resulting in an improvement in the climate of our world.”

How times change!

Stare into this yellow ball for a while and tell me that it has lesser effect than some paltry greenhouse gasses (which amount to less than 1 percent of the entire volume of the atmosphere):

Please read about solar activity and climate in these articles:

Solar X-Flares and Hurricanes
Global Warming – A Hot Topic
Ultimate Global Warming – SPF 2 Million Won’t Be Enough
Solar and Terrestrial Conveyor Belts
Sizzling Solar Snapshot
Scientific Consensus

03 Aug 2006 by Environment Global Warming Science Whacko Politics

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02 Aug 2006 by Congress

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