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A Palestinian doctor working in Sweden refused to treat an American woman for strep throat because of her nationality. He cited America’s foreign policy in Palestine as his reason for denying service.

This clown should have his medical license reviewed for pulling such a stunt. Can you imagine the outrage if a doctor had refused service to a homosexual or a black man? Doctors have no place in deciding which patients they want to treat and not treat based on ethnicity or nationality or sex, etc. If I was running his clinic, he’d be fired immediately.

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Not the greatest video quality, but who cares.

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London’s notoriously far-left mayor, Ken Livingstone, is planning a $4 million bash in 2009 to celebrate 50 years of Castro. And of course Mr. Livingstone will be bankrolling the event with taxpayer money. The festivities will include street parties, sporting events dedicated to Mr. Castro, and the closure of Trafalgar Square.

Here’s an idea Ken — send all the money to the people of Cuba who risk their lives everyday attempting to flee Castro’s death-trap island.

Ken Livingstone (along with MP George Galloway) are two of the most stark-raving lunatic moonbats Britain has to offer. Only someone living in a socialist fantasy-land could be so deluded as to throw a party in honor of this dictator.

This is the same Ken Livingstone who lambasted George W. Bush as being “corrupt” in front of school children. The irony of his comment is so glaringly obvious, but it must be completely lost on him. Not surprisingly, Ken Livingstone has also expressed warm regards for Hugo Chavez, the South America populist dictator/thug.

I can’t even begin to express my disgust with this Ken Livingstone. I’m dumbfounded that anyone could openly coddle folks like Chavez and Castro. What the hell is wrong with this guy? Castro killed many, many Cubans during his “revolution” with Che. Since then, he has hoarded what little wealth Cuba has while his people starve.

Why the celebration? God, sometimes I feel glad that I’ll probably be dead in 50 years. We spend 600 years building up some sort of self-respecting civilization, only to breed this self-loathing ideology which preaches nothing short of an upside-down world where bad is good, and good is bad.

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Apparently, John Kerry was shunned by our soldiers on his latest visit to Iraq. For some reason they didn’t appreciate his comments about being stuck in Iraq because they were stupid.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s what the soldier who took the photo wrote:

This is a true story…..Check out this photo from our mess hall at the US Embassy yesterday
morning. Sen. Kerry found himself all alone while he was over here. He
cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone
in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an
autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same time), and
he found himself eating breakfast with only a couple of folks who are
obviously not troops.

What is amazing is Bill O’Reilly came to visit with us and the troops at
the CSH the same day and the line for autographs extended through the
palace and people waited for two hours to shake his hand. You decide who
is more respected and loved by us servicemen and women!

And this guy was almost the president?

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I can’t believe how long I’ve gone without blogging.

Anyways, as I sit here on the day after Christmas, just relaxing, I come across an article that reports that a small island in the Bay of Bengal has been submerged by rising seas. The article attributes the disappearing of the island to global warming, and asserts that 70,000 people will soon be made homeless by global warming. The hysterical “world is falling” parade marches on…

Whenever I read a news article about rising temperatures or stronger hurricanes, it is not uncommon to see predictions of our impending doom. I have yet to see a major news organization include perspective about the ice age our planet went through only 17,000 years ago. Where is the reminder that falling temperatures killed off the Vikings in Greenland in a matter of a hundred years or so? Drastic temperature shifts in relatively short periods of time are well-precedented during the Earth’s lifetime. But you won’t hear about that when reading the news.

My own frustration continues to mount in the face of more questions that go unanswered: Why aren’t the possible benefits of global warming being analyzed? I know, that is enough to get me crucified in liberal circles, but doesn’t it stand to reason that if the Earth is warming, some previously uninhabitable locations will become suitable for farming and homesteads? When one door closes, another opens, and why are we only focusing on the closed door?

Another question that is usually met with silence is: If man is causing global warming, can we reverse it without destroying our own way of life? It’s one thing to combat man-made global warming by recycling instead of just using the trash; it’s another altogether to claim that global warming can only be stymied by reverting to pre-industrial revolution levels of CO2 emission. Where are the studies that show how much CO2 reduction is enough? As far as I can tell, the Kyoto treaty, costing its participants billions of dollars, will not even make a measurable effect by the year 2050. So just how far will we have to go to reverse the damage we have allegedly done? Will someone please step forward with a straight answer?

Finally, the pinnacle of frustrations for me is over-importance attributed to global warming and its effects. The same people who would spend billions and billions (of our tax dollars) to fight rising temperatures that endanger few (if any) lives are opposed to fighting an easily preventable disease that claims millions of lives every year. Malaria kills 3 million people annually (mostly poor Africans) and is easily preventable by the usage of DDT to kill the mosquitoes which transmit the disease. Where is the concern for the loss of human life when it is caused by malaria and not by evil CO2 gases?

Global warming is the trendiest of all pet causes. But under the surface, it is a mere minor threat of unknown causes vastly overshadowed by real global problems such as AIDS, Islamic terrorism, famine, and communicable diseases like Malaria. The hype and hoopla created by Al Gore is really only a smokescreen obscuring the real agenda: environmentalists put the Earth first ahead of people. When they claim people are dying or will die because of global warming — that cry rings hollow because these are the same people who balk at far greater problems claiming millions of lives a year.

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