Mother Nature, Ticked Off

Over the past few days we've seen:

A) a catastrophic cyclone hit Burma, with a staggering death toll expected to reach over 100,000.

B) a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit central China, with a current death toll of 12,000, which is also expected to climb.

C) a major volcanic eruption in Chile, displacing hundreds of people, and Mount Etna in Sicily seems poised to erupt again.

Are these natural disasters a sign of:

A) Global Warming

B) The End of the World

C) A Total Coincidence?

Right after the cyclone hit, Al Gore said he thought it was a result of global climate change. He's been silent, however, on what may have caused the earthquake and the newly active volcanoes. Could his deafening silence be because their activity is NOT caused by global warming? I don't know if the Almighty is planning the End of the World, but I do know that Gore isn't the Almighty. There IS a lot of shakin' and bakin' going on in the world, but let's not forget our common sense: sometimes they happen one at a time, and sometimes they happen in clusters. The rhythm of the world is under the direction of a higher force, a force much more powerful and profound than man. And we can see our vulnerability to that force in the photos coming from Burma and China.

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What Positive Campaign?

For all of Barack Obama's talk about running a positive campaign based on "hope" and "change" and "bringing people together," he's as much a political assassin as his opponents.

Yesterday he suggested that John McCain was "losing his bearings" because McCain had the gall to point out that Obama is the choice of the terrorist group Hamas. McCain's statement was fully factual (a Hamas spokesman said several weeks ago that they would like to see Obama become president--for obvious reasons.) And yet the liberal word police--including Jon Stewart-- jumped all over McCain for talking about it. You aren't supposed to point out that America's enemies prefer the deer-in-the-headlights defeatist to the bona-fide war-hero.

Obama's full quote: "For him to toss out comments like that, I think, is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination."

A). McCain aleady has the Republican nomination.

And B). "losing his bearings" suggests advancing age, a personal slam of the kind Obama said he was going to avoid in this campaign.

Sure he is.

He's no dummy. And he didn't get to this point by playing nice. He knows strictly positive campaigns lose elections. And he has no intention of losing.

Steel up, McCain. The Hope Guy has his weapon at the ready. And its got a silencer.

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