Unfriggin believable!

'When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.

In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama’s lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform.

“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.'


Given that the incoming President has already stated that he intends to cede America's military supremacy in nuclear and spaced base weaponry, America's warriors are right to view the incoming administration with trepidation.

Obama fancies himself as the second coming of FDR, while many of us on the right fear he will be more like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. Let's hope for the sake of our armed forces that he is more like the former and not the latter.

 1   North Carolina (11-0)
 2   Pittsburgh (11-0)
 3   West Virginia (10-2)
 4   Clemson (12-0)
 5   Duke (10-1)
 6   Oklahoma (12-0)
 7   Illinois (12-1)
 8   Connecticut (10-0)
 9   UCLA (10-2)
10   Purdue (11-2)
11   Georgetown (9-1)
12   Syracuse (11-1)
13   California (11-2)
14   Brigham Young (10-1)
15   Florida (10-2)
16   Texas (10-2)
17   Missouri (9-2)
18   Arizona St. (10-1)
19   Wake Forest (11-0)
20   Kentucky (10-3)
21   Louisville (8-2)
22   Stanford (9-0)
23   Gonzaga (7-3)
24   Creighton (11-2)
25   Butler (9-1)

Full details (including Davidson's ranking) are here.

Rankings by Conference (ACC is #1, of course), are here.

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Rick: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.

Victor Laszlo: You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.

Rick: Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.

Victor Laszlo: You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.

"Iraq's Christians, a scant minority in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, quietly celebrated Christmas on Thursday with a present from the government, which declared it an official holiday for the first time.

In his homily on Thursday, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly praised the establishment of Christmas as an official holiday as a step toward easing tensions.

"I thank the government for giving chances to all to serve each other for the general benefit, and I thank it too for making this day an official holiday where we pray to God to make us trust each other as brothers," he said at the Christmas Mass before several dozen worshippers in the small chapel of a Baghdad monastery.

A senior Shiite cleric, Ammar al-Hakim, attended the Mass flanked by bodyguards in a gesture of cooperation with Christians.

"I thank the visitors here and ask them to share happiness and love with their brothers on Christmas; by this they will build a glorious Iraq," the cardinal said."

I don't care who you are, this is a pretty impressive development anywhere in the Middle East, let alone Iraq.

Christmas in Iraq wasn't entirely peaceful, as a bomb targeting police officers exploded in Sadr City. Unlike past Christmases, however, Iraq's small Christian minority wasn't the target of the blast, so that, too, is something of a miracle.

A second CNN Meteorologist doubts anthropogenic global warming along with more and more of former global warming believers. Notice that so far he hasn't had to retract his statements in Stalin-era fashion like the other guy. That indicates the cult-like hysteria is waning. The Global Warming Hoax no longer serves the purpose of defeating Bush. The recession makes economy-crippling caps and taxes unviable. "Cooler" heads may actually prevail.
If Obama wants a second term, he will need to put the economy ahead of idiotic anti-capitalist treaties, taxes and caps. The seas will have to recede without his help, as of course they have for millions of years.

Here's Lehr now -
“The last 10 years have been quite cool,” Lehr continued. “And right now, I think we’re going into cooling rather than warming and that should be a much greater concern for humankind. But, all we can do is adapt. It is the sun that does it, not man.”

Here's Marciano, October, 2007
Marciano also said that, “global warming does not conclusively cause stronger hurricanes like we’ve seen,” pointing out that “by the end of this century we might get about a 5 percent increase.”

We will realize how scary this was someday-
His comments drew a strong response and he recanted the next day saying “the globe is getting warmer and humans are the likely the main cause of it.”