The Anchoress

Fausta, from Fausta’s blog is now becoming a radio broadcaster! She has more courage than moi, and here she makes her maiden broadcast in the company of the mysterious Siggy of Sigmund Carl and Alfred.

Fausta very wisely steers Siggy toward discussing one of his best and most memorable posts from his blog - the poignant and moving School Daze. Siggy is quite affecting and eloquent. Give it a listen, and recall it’s Fausta’s first time. I marvel. I could never do it. She also generously mentions this blog. Which will never become a blog-radio thingy. I can’t even figure out how to attach things to my email.

The Game re Plame is going down in Flames. Kim and AJ Strata, Tom Maguire of Just One Minute and others are covering this whole sham story.

An interesting time to leak a story that North Korea may disarm

If the Globalwarmingists are going to start acting like a church, I think they and their beliefs should be treated like a church and respected (or disrespected) like a church and most importantly, they’re going to have to stay out of politics, just like the churches.

When I read this crap about Carbon Off-Setting I had precisely the same thought as Instapundit: this is like buying indulgences for sin (or actually to cut time in purgatory, but let’s not get into that just now). Global Warming is the greatest crisis the earth has ever seen! It’s going to kill us all! Everyone must change the way they live their lives, especially Americans!!!

But not the rich Americans. They can just, you know…plant some trees…send some low-wattage lightbulbs to other sinners to get them to mend their ways, and then they’re “carbon neutral!” They can continue to fly their private jets, air-condition their 9,000 square foot homes and six car garages, and so forth. It’s all about how much you care, you see.

Global Warming hysteria has all the earmarks of a religion. It has mythology. It has a savior (Al Gore!). It has sin, and it has easy and harsh penances (”plant trees” for the rich, renunciation and sacrifice for the rest of us). And it has an end-of-the-world scenario.

Wow. And in just a very short time - nothing like 2,000 years - The Church of Eco-Hysteria “Globalwarmingists” have even managed to become extreme and repressive toward unbelievers. Hmmmmm…JUST like they accuse the “Christianists” of being. They don’t want their orthodoxy challenged at all, but that’s the problem when you form a religion. Someone is always going to challenge it.

What was it St. Paul said, “all I hate, I am become…”

The eco-church of Global Warming is becoming everything it purports to hate! It’s a genuine religion, after all.

And perhaps in bloggers it will find its many Martin Luther(s).

So…the “super concerned” about global warming, who want to beat everyone else up with their new religion (or, if possible, at least get us lined up and goose-stepping, or fired from our jobs for not going along), have all sorts of concerns about leaving carbon footprints on poor Gaia (who is a much stronger babe than they give her credit for) and they want laws enacted and additional taxes, punishment for eco-sinning…but they don’t want to have to actually participate in all that conservation junk.

Hmmmm…seems to me if “carbon-offsetting” can effectively balance out one rich guy’s energy usage, then why can’t it be extrapolated into something larger, but still balanced? America uses lots of energy? America will plant trees and give other countries florescent lightbulbs! China pollutes the world with barely a regulation? Well, let’s regulate China and get her to plant some flowers.

Let’s EVERYONE plant stuff, so that Valentine’s Day does not destroy the earth! Because the ice caps are…well, actually, some are melting. Others are growing…. But…how can that be? Global warming is a fact, right? Ummmm, well, no, it’s only a theory.

Don Surber goes to town on this issue.

The NY Sun declares that Doug Feith is vindicated. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m not surprised. The press did not cover this MAJOR gaffe by the WaPo, and the correction ran on a Saturday when no one reads the paper. But Michelle Malkin has the rundown for you. Curt at Flopping Aces doesn’t really think this bogus story was “accidental.” And to be honest, neither do I.

Flopping Aces looks at when anonymous sources are not to be believed by the press. Apparently it’s whenever the source tells a story the press doesn’t want to hear. Gaius is pithy about it. And you know, Death to America doesn’t really mean Death to America…I guess it means something subtle like, “Death to America until George Bush is out of office and then she’ll simply lay down for us…” or something.

Another big story - Italy foils an attempt to get 500,000 AK 47’s for Iraq.

I like Rudy Giulinai is saying here and it needs saying. I think the fella is a breath of fresh air. He’s the only candidate who doesn’t sound like he’s walking on a ledge and taking very small steps. He is not one politician saying what they’re all saying, in varying tones. He’s one man saying what no other candidate is saying. He is his own man, a man in full. Don Surber has more.

Just for the record: Hillary used to see the connection between Osama and Saddam.