Global warming: Time insults Marines, intelligence

For the cover of Time magazine’s April 28 edition, the editors have Photoshopped the famous picture of Marines at Iwo Jima to replace the American flag with a redwood tree for their story called “How to Win the War on Global Warming.”

Veterans of Iwo Jima are understandably upset at such a crass use of the iconic image.

For generations, that photo has represented the triumph of freedom over the forces of tyranny, a fight that cost millions of lives.

Now along comes Time, not only daring to erase the flag those brave men planted, but actually replacing it with a tree to symbolize a “war” on the mythical global warming, which more and more people are realizing is just a scam by wealthy individuals and corporations to make money from carbon cap-and-trade schemes while the rest of the world suffers with higher energy costs and abusive regulation of personal freedoms.

It takes either unmitigated gall or unfathomable stupidity to use an image commemorating the defeat of evil and enlist it in promoting the global warming movement, whose proponents have a whole laundry list of tyrannies they want to install as law.

The editors no doubt realized the image would be controversial but went ahead with it in order to elicit a reaction. Well here’s a reaction for them: disgust.

Obama nation: Back through the wormhole

“Star Trek” fans will be familiar with the concept of wormholes, transdimensional portals in space that connect two places that are not even remotely close to each other.

Since Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the political equivalent of a wormhole has been on display in the Obamapologetic media as rank-and-file “unbiased” journalists have tried to transport us all back to that magical place where the whole story was about “change” and the Obamas were already picking new White House furniture.

The chorus of media types booing the barrage of hard questions tossed at Obama by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson is a sure sign that the debate moderators were doing their jobs.

The howling from the left is understandable, as the candidate who formerly was the press corps’ Second Coming received the equivalent of a public pantsing in front of millions of viewers of broadcast television. Then, as if to complete Obama’s transmutation from messiah to laughingstock, the candidate effectively gave himself an atomic wedgie with his lame answers to questions about taxation and Iran.

So, from the left’s perspective, there’s nothing for it but to attack ABC and the moderators for, gasp, asking questions.

Obama himself complained during the debate that the moderators weren’t asking about “issues,” but I think most Americans would consider a presidential candidate’s dalliances with a racist religious figure and an admitted unrepentant terrorist to be issues.

William Ayers, the terrorist himself, has even been chiming in on his own blog, complaining about his depiction as having no regrets about being involved in bombings in the 1970s by explaining that he DOES regret not being a more effective terrorist.

Back in this little place most of us call reality, Obama and his supporters have no one but Obama to blame for Wednesday’s pathetic performance.

Obama displayed gross ignorance about the effects of higher capital gains taxes on tax revenues. (Historical reality: Higher taxes depress business, resulting in lower revenues. On Planet Obama: “… depends on what’s happening on Wall Street and how business is going.” Sounds like the answer the kid in the back row gives when the teacher calls on him unexpectedly.)

He showed a Jimmy Carteresque waffling on Iran. (Question: “Should it be U.S. policy now to treat an Iranian attack on Israel as if it were an attack on the United States?” Obama’s limp-wristed answer: “I think it is very important that Iran understands that an attack on Israel is an attack on our strongest ally in the region, one that we — one whose security we consider paramount, and that — that would be an act of aggression that we — that I would — that I would consider an attack that is unacceptable, and the United States would take appropriate action.” Good to know he feels it’s “important” Iran know that we will not take inappropriate action. Put through the universal translator, Obama’s answer comes out as, “screw Israel.”)

After Wednesday, even the vast legions of followers from Planet Obama must be noticing the cracks forming in their fanciful worldview.