Maher’s Moronity

Media, The Zeitgeist

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” told Joe Scarborough he wants Bush impeached, but not for anything meaningful, such as, say, prosecuting an illegal and unjust war. Oh no, after all, Maher was down with the mob on that one—he wasn’t exactly unwavering in his opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Instead, the HBO host thinks impeachment proceedings ought to be initiated on the grounds that, on 9/11, after he had been told by Andrew Card that America had been attacked, Bush sat put for seven minutes at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School. The president was there “to read to a class and talk about education.”

Maher’s notion of an impeachment is as frivolous as the one initiated against Clinton.

Climate Chicken Littles

Pseudoscience

In the 1970s, climate Chicken Littles clucked about global cooling; now they claim the sky is falling because of global warming.

Republican Sen. James Inhofe outlined the historical arc of their hysteria:

“[F]or more than 100 years journalists have quoted scientists predicting the destruction of civilization by, in alternation, either runaway heat or a new Ice Age…”

Theirs is, ultimately, an “argument” against human development”—something climate kooks refer to euphemistically as “sustainable development.”

This is the crux of their “scientific” method:

Evidence that contradicts their global warming theory, these Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

They’ve created a “theory” that can’t be falsified.

(Related: Mutant Marxists in the ‘Heart of Darkness’)

Democracy à la Dubya

America, Bush, Democracy, Iraq, Middle East

For someone who is willing to kill for the false idol of democracy, Dubya sure flouts the will of the people.

Polls indicate most Americans want to see troops withdrawn from Iraq; Bush refuses to listen or obey his bosses.

A majority of Americans wants the bleeding on the Southwestern border stopped and immigration levels vastly reduced; Bush doesn’t and won’t hear of abiding by the people’s wishes.