Yep — it’s been silent around these here parts since the 2nd of this month. I don’t remember a time since the inception of ‘Okie’ that I’ve gone 10 days between posts. I know that no one depends on this ol’ wordsmith for breaking news, and certainly there are more knowledgeable squires out there for giving you analysis — which leaves me good for commenting only — and I haven’t had much to say. Why? Now, there a question for ya.

Ever since November’s election I’ve been filled with a need to wait-and-see what our Pres-elect is going to do. Many — no, make that most — of the big sites were compelled to immediately attack Obama, like that is going to do anything constructive. Now, don’t get the ol’ Okie wrong, I’m extremely disappointed that our side didn’t win. But folks, we got ourselves an ol’ fashion’d ass-whuppin’ at the polls and there’s repercussions from things like that. Besides, after examining the Pres-elect’s picks so far, can you pick that apart much more that you would have a Pres-elect McCain’s attempts to “reach across the isle” and create a bi-partisan government — which he most surely would have done, look at his record. Sarah Palin would have squawked and been sent on a Siberian-delegation tour until summer.

My blog buddy Laer is keeping the “Obama Drama” record at this site, and so far the elected-One is drama-queen-in-chief. Still, like current VEEP Cheney said over the weekend:

“I have the same feeling that I think many Americans have, that it’s really remarkable that — what we’re going to do here in a few days is swear in the first African American president of the United States. When I came to town in 1968, we’d had the Martin Luther King assassination, Bobby Kennedy assassination, riots in the cities, major, major disturbances, a lot of it racially motivated around the country.

“And in fact, things have changed so dramatically that we’re now about to swear in Barack Obama as president of the United States. That’s really a remarkable story and I think a record of tremendous success and progress for the United States.”

Of course, being the first African-American President won’t keep him from steppin’ on his Johnson if he doesn’t govern wisely. In his This Week interview yesterday, Stephanopoulos asked Pres-elect Obama the following and got answered:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me press you on this, at the end of the day, are you really talking about over the course of your presidency some kind of a grand bargain? That you have tax reform, health care reform, entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good?

OBAMA: Yes.

Anytime folks in power start throwing out the phrase greater good I start looking for a hidey hole, oh ya betcha, ’cause those folks either don’t know what they’re sayin’, or they really know what they’re sayin’ — know what I’m sayin’?

Meanwhile, while I don’t usually spend my free time reading Pravda, Drudge links to one of their articles this week that does a bang up job on exploding the myth of consensus concerning Global Warming man-caused Climate Change:

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.

I’m not running out to buy future tundra locations in Florida, most likely we’ll see a return to a cycle similar to the Little Ice Age that decimated Europe, especially Ireland, in the period 1650AD — 1850AD. Oh, and what about the rising CO2 levels that Big Al Gore and the Global Warming hysterics constantly bleat about? The Pravda piece elaborates:

Because the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earth’s temperature, we should expect to see global CO2 levels continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earth’s current Interglacial warm period. We should already be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the world’s oceans.

The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels which they are at today.

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The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.

In light of this kind of information, what is the incoming administration gonna do? Why appoint a climate czar with socialist ties and goals for “global governance” of course:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group’s congress in Greece was still available.

Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.

The group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization’s action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Obama, who has said action on climate change would be a priority in his administration, tapped Mrs. Browner last month to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. The appointment does not need Senate confirmation.

Uhhhh, that don’t sound so good!

Mrs. Browner ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton. Until she was tapped for the Obama administration, she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.

Her name has been removed from the Gore organization’s Web site list of directors, and the Audubon Society issued a press release about her departure from that organization.

Funny, not funny ha ha, is the way liberals, make that Progressives, like to use the “Memory Hole” tactic of website scrubbing. So, even though I’ve been willing to give our POTUS-elect the benefit of the doubt — the doubts keep stacking up big time, and fast, too.

BTW — long-time ‘Okie’ reader Glenn from Mustang, OK sent this to me. Looks like an organized assault on the 2nd Amendment is in the works. Not much of a mystery of where Obama will stand on this one . . . Remember, you can’t lock and load what you don’t got!

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