Find someone else

Question: My boyfriend and I argue all the time. What should we do? Katy McGlynns, Alexandria, Va.

Answer: This may sound like a flippant response; but it is not. Find yourself someone else. Find a new boyfriend with whom you do not argue all the time. Life is way too short to spend it arguing. There are too many wonderful things you could be doing istead.

Media are democratic allies

Question: I have noticed that you do not speak favorably about the media of the United States. What are you referring to and do you think the media are not objective? Susan P., Napersville, Illinois.

Answer: There are several reasons, Susan, that I do not refer to America's media in a favorable light. The primary reason for this is that they have, in reality, given up any pretense of providing objective journalism. I am referring to the national media — network television and major daily newspapers. Without the support of America's national mass media, the democratic political party would not, I am convinced, have even a remote possibility of gaining any seats in Congress in the upcoming elections. Based upon pure facts, Susan, I think, on a national level, most Americans would agree that the republican political party supports concepts that are better for our nation that the ideas of the democrats. However, the media clouds the facts and bombards Americans with speculations that they present as news. The media are also excellent at ignoring facts.

Let me give you some examples. A few weeks after President Bush took office in 2001, there were numerous stories in the media about how the economy was entering a depression and it was all Bush's fault. The man had literally only been in office for a few weeks and obviously had nothing to do with the economy going sour. The media knew this. They also knew that the downward slope was a direct result of the previous administration's (Clinton's) policies. But rather than report the facts, for the next two years, the media repeatedly told Americans it was President Bush's fault. Now, after Bush's policies have been enacted and enough time has passed, the economy is booming. But the media cannot find it in themselves to give Bush credit. The market is at record highs, unemployment is way down and, in the last two years, over six and a half million new jobs have been created. This is all a direct result of Bush's tax cuts and economic policies. And if the democrats were to gain control of Congress, despite the fact that the tax cuts are working, they would repeal them. But you would never know that Bush's policies are working or that the democrats would repeal them from the media. They simply don't report it. They don't report that the democrats' plan for Iraq is surrender. But they do report that the democrats have a wonderful plan for Iraq. When gasoline prices were around $3.00 a gallon, it was all Bush's fault. It was all over the media. Now that gas prices have dropped to around $2.00 a gallon, there is no credit to Bush. It is usually not mentioned in the media. When there is a scandal involving a republican, it is all over the media for weeks and weeks. But when there is a scandal involving a democrat, it is barely mentioned.

The American media has literally become a supporter and an arm of the democratic political party. They have placed themselves in the same position as the democrats. When something bad happens to America, it is good for the democrats and the media. The media reports on the bad news extensively. When something good happens to America, it is bad for the democrats and the media. The media tends to ignore the good things and, if they do report it, it is a secondary story and only mentioned once.

I think it is clear that the media is extremely bias. They report things, global warming is a good example, that they support as though they were proven scientific facts when, in reality, they are not. The American mass media simply cannot be trusted to be either objective or accurate. I hope this explains, Susan, why I speak unfavorably about America's mass media.

Global Warming is BUNK!

Question:I have been reading your blog for a couple of months now. I have been trying to think of a really good question for you. I told a friend about you and he immediately said, "Ask him if global warming is real?" I thought, "great question." Is global warming a real thing or a political thing or both? Jeremy Jones, Lexington, Ky.

Answer: Global warming is primarily a "political thing." It is a ploy of the American democratic political party, with former Vice President Al Gore taking the podium, to create fear and guilt among non-thinking Americans. Most of the "science" that these people espouse is, to say the best about it, suspect.

One ironic thing about all this is that many of the "experts" who are now predicting a global warming trend were, in the early 1970s, predicting an ice age by the year 2000. The American democratic party was on that bandwagon also. Look back at magazines from the early 1970s and you will be shocked at all the articles of "doom and gloom" for the upcoming ice age. And, of course, it was primarily man's fault (mostly that of Americans) and there was nothing we could do to stop it. I thought it was all a bunch of baloney then as I am convinced that global warming is now.

Jeremy, there are literally dozens and dozens, if not hundreds and thousands, of real scientists who think extremely little of Al Gore's "science." Look at what some say. Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at Cook University, in Australia, said, "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. The man is an embarrassment to U.S. science. His propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science." This is not a republican politician speaking. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T., said, "Don't believe the hype. Al Gore is wrong. There is no consensus on global warming." On Friday, September 21 (a date I will mention later for another reason), at the United Nations, Gore stated that cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming." And he was serious. The man is an absolute joke. Professor Tim Patterson, a paleoclimatalogist at Carleton University, said, "Change in the brightness of the sun correlates with the Earth's temperatures. The sun has been brighter than normal lately." Professor Wibjorn Karlen, of the Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University, said, "The mass balance of Antartica is positive. More snow is accumulating than melting off." One of the major concepts of the global warming people is that ice is melting in Antartica. It is melting but it is being replaced at a faster rate than it is melting. There is a net positive gain. I could present dozens more examples of scientists who find no scientific support for the concept of global warming but I think the point has been made.

Briefly, Jeremy, let's look at the democrats' willing allies in this global warming "thing." The mass media has jumped on this and completely supports it and talks about it as though it were an established scientific fact. They hope to make it a fact through repetition rather than science.

The media, as the democrats' mouthpiece, present things to the public as though they were scientific fact when, in reality, they simply are not. For example, the media repeatedly presents the Kyoto Accords as a scientifically-based treaty. Only the "backward republicans" kept the United States from agreeing to this "wonderful forward-looking" treaty. The truth is that, in April 1998, over 17,000 scientists with academic degrees, signed a petition in opposition to the Kyoto Accords. But the global warming people and the American mass media do not want the general public to be aware of this fact.

Let me give you another simple example of media bias regarding global warming. During the summer of 2006, there were numerous reports in the media of record high temperatures. The summer of 2006 is now in the record books as having the second highest temperatures on record. (The highest summer temperatures on record are for the year 1934.) However, on September 21 (still officially summer), six states had record low temperatures (Arizona, Utah, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia). Did the media have big headlines telling about record low temperatures? Of course not.

Jeremy, changes in temperatures are a natural cycle of nature. There is plenty of scientific evidence that most glaciers, around the world, are growing in size, not decreasing as the global warming people and the media would have us think. In Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Ecuador, Russia, New Zealand, Argentina, Greenland and the U.S., glaciers are all growing in size. This is not a political opinion but a scientific fact.

Another interesting scientific fact that the global warming people and the mass media do not want the general public to know is that a single volcano can produce more toxic emissions into the atmosphere in one single week than all human activity combined produces in a year. When there are several volcanoes erupting around the globe, it is easy to see how insignificant the human contribution to atmospheric conditions actually is.

I could continue like this for a long time but I hope you get the point. I could have simply stated that the concept of man causing global warming to the Earth is bunk. But I wanted to give you some scientific facts and the thoughts of other scientists to support why I think it is bunk.