It’s the day after Thanksgiving and one thing that honest big-C Conservatives should have expressed thanks for yesterday is Sarah Palin. Palin was a breath of fresh air in last year’s election campaign — she also breathed a big bunch o’ life into John McCain’s efforts, who found himself paired up against a Titanic-sized wave of destiny and looked pretty weak and used up in comparison. Palin was the pit bull, the rabid badger gnawing her way through all the tough issues like abortion, birthing Downs’ babies, the 2nd Amendment and so forth.

The Left is scared absolutely shitless of Sarah Palin. I always thought that it was because of her beliefs and her ability to express them without remorse. But after reading Robin of Berkeley’s piece at American Thinker, I see that it runs much deeper than that. A former hard-core big-L Liberal from whose eyes the scales have fallen, Robin explains what the Left is doing: They are “Wilding” her — just as they “Wild” anyone that doesn’t kowtow to liberal dogma. Here’s a taste of Robin’s thoughts, but you really owe it to yourself to go and read ALL of this one!

Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it’s far worse: many are perpetuators.

The Left’s behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.

They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.

The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.

A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she’ll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn’t need or want anything from liberals — not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.

Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.

And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.

Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.

They turn her into a piece of ass.

Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like “slutty flight attendant” and “Trailer Park Barbie,” and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.

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The extreme Left still consider themselves warriors, righteous soldiers for their Marxist cause. With Palin, they use sexual violence as part of their military arsenal.

Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin’s violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.

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It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I’ve discovered that everything I believed was wrong.

But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it’s a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.

In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than sheild the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.

President Obama has surrounded himself with radical Leftists and his administration is rife with their philosophy of misogyny, their stated goal to change everything, especially the very fabric of our nation, their determination to destroy what’s pure and good about the United States of America!

Sarah Palin is a giant speed bump in the highway of their statist objectives. She’s not just another woman politician — Sarah Palin is the real deal.

Move over Obamessiah — “It’s gonna take a woman to clean up this YOUR mess!”

Hope all y’all have a great day of personal gratitude and wonderful food — and football, of course. My pies were made last night (10-1/2 inchers!) and I’m starting rolls in a bit. Hey, had to make sure that ol’ punkin’ pie is gonna be edible! The “big stuff”, or should we say the “big stuffed” will go on in the early afternoon. Gonna have to walk the little legs off the Schnoodle the next few days to burn off all those upcoming calories — Oh, ya betcha!

If you’re in a mind for some food-for-thought to go along with all that upcoming turkey, go over to American Thinker where Joyce Capron has a few thoughts about our Imperious Leader’s announcement that he will be going to the opening of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where he will promise the world that the U.S. will reduce our carbon “emmisions” in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Gee, that ought to really make the economy hum along . . . like a broken-winged moth or somethin’.

President Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate talks in December, despite the fact that global warming has recently been shown to be a fraud.

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Apparently, “White House officials” don’t read much. The news that global warming is a fraud based on falsified data may not have penetrated the truth-resistant noggins at CNN and other mainstream obamulators, but more credible sources worldwide have it on the front page.

Clearly, Climategate is a story no sensible person dare ignore. Moreover, it’s growing, as links between and among data-faking scientists, the United Nations, and complicit government officials in many countries are exposed. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) yesterday called for an investigation by the Senate Environment and Public Affairs Committee.

Climategate is gaining force, a tsunami of truth poised to strike.

So, the big question: As Climategate gains force, will our Fearless Leader ever get a clue?

I guess if all he reads is the NY Times, he’ll never know. We all remember when the NYT and LAT went out of their way to leak the Bush administration’s clandestine spying efforts via tracking International banking of the terrorists groups, but publish the Climategate emails? NFW!

This is the position of the New York Times when given the chance to publish sensitive information that might hinder the liberal agenda. Of course, when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs vital to national security, that information is published without hesitation by the nation’s paper of record. But in this case — the documents were “never intended for the public eye,” so the New York Times will take a pass. I guess that policy wasn’t in place when Neil Sheehan was working at the paper.

At Power Line, John Hinderacker has been lawyering up the emails, finding lots o’ good stuff to chew on, and states:

Climate science is in its infancy, and every proposition is controversial. What climate scientists like those at East Anglia don’t know dwarfs what they do know. They can produce a model for every occasion, but are the models any good? If so, which one? One thing we know for sure is that they don’t generate reliable predictions. In every scientific field other than global warming, a scientific hypothesis that generates false predictions is considered disproved. When it comes to global warming, however, there is no such thing as falsification. Which is the ultimate evidence that the alarmist scientists are engaged in a political enterprise, not a scientific one.

At Pajamas Media, Steve Milloy says that Climategate is Global Warming’s Perry Mason moment — still, that might not stop good ol’ Al Gore and the Holy Order of Anthropogenic Climate Change from bringing about the planned destruction of modern society by the environuts:

Were the framing of CO2 as climate-culprit a TV drama, at this point Perry Mason would be cruising off into the sunset with Della Street in his gas-guzzling black 1957 Cadillac El Dorado convertible. But the magnitude of the global warming fraud is immense and widespread — too many politician/celebrity egos, corporate fortunes, and activist political dreams have too much invested in the scam to simply say “nevermind.”

They have no shame, and they will not go away. So our struggle against them will continue.

The difference now is that we are no longer The Skeptics. We are The Vindicated.

Also at PM, Charlie Martin is now looking at some of the other 95% of the Climategate info — the data itself, and finding veeeeeeery interesting stuff — very interesting indeed:

1. They didn’t want to release their data or code, and they particularly weren’t interested in releasing any intermediate steps that would help someone else

2. They clearly have some history of massaging the data — hell, practically water-boarding the data — to get it to fit their other results. Results they can no longer even replicate on their own systems.

3. They had successfully managed to restrict peer review to what we might call the “RealClimate clique” — the small group of true believers they knew could be trusted to say the right things.

Follow that up with the three things we should all know about Climategate but the liberal media will never tell us:

First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results.
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Secondly, scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication.
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Finally, the scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.

Hey, just a little light-reading-dessert for after your Turkey-Day engorgeorama! Enjoy!

Yeah, here’s hopin’ they have to do a LOT of time . . . Heh!

Wow! A bit raw in spots, but . . .

Wow!

Not quite “stick a fork in him” yet, but I’d say some o’ that bloom is finally comin’ off the ol’ rose.

Heh!

Yesterday the Senate’s cloture vote on its massive 2,000+ page Health Care Bill passed on a 60/39 straight party-line vote. Not one Republican supported this freedom-killing boondoggle. Michelle Malkin is keeping a list of how much bribe money is in the bill to keep a few potential DemWit stragglers onboard, calling it a Demcare bribe list. Michelle also notes that Sen. Olympia Snowe (RINO-Maine) has been pow wowing with the Dems on the final resolution of her vote.

Could someone please save us from all these folks that proclaim that they’re trying to save us? Of course, they really don’t give a flyin’ you-know-what about our health care — all they really want is for the government to take over 1/6th of the nation’s economy — to have a vast increase in Federal power and control over our lives. In his cartoon for today, Chris Muir deftly sums up that concept, showing what Obamacare will mean to all of us.

Chris Muir’s Day by Day Cartoon

As the Chosen One has been jetting around Asia mouthing platitudes about open information, transparency in government, and freedom, his party’s leaders and their minions have been beavering away to ensure that soon, we’ll all be greeting each other thus:

“Achtung comrade — welcome to the collective!”

Elections have consequences — election night 2010 is only 11-1/2 months away . . . if we can survive for that long!

[Welcome Rifters readers! Just so's ya know, we keep our knuckles clean shaven and our women and chillin's all protected and stuff around here, so play nice. Geez, if I was as scared shitless as all you Global-Warming-Is-Real guys I'd be changin' my tidy whitties every hour on the hour! Enjoy -- 'Okie']

Last Friday it was announced that the servers of University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had been hacked and over a thousand emails and several dozen documents had been released to the Internet. These emails and documents present Anthropogenic Climate Change as an ongoing, scientists-protected hoax of massive proportions. As James Delingpole’s Telegraph.co.uk’s article asks: Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Manipulation of evidence:

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Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

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Suppression of evidence:

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Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

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Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

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How best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process.

Be sure and visit that link for all the goodies inside those ellipses! Some of the damning emails can be read over at whatsupwiththat.com; here’s a couple to whet your appetite for Global Warming Hysterical Fabrications and other nonsense — like instructions on how to “salvage” the discredited hockey stick graph presentation using Mike’s Nature Trick and this Phil Jones fella’s cheeriness at the death of a fellow scientists that happened to be a warming skeptic:

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK

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From: Phil Jones
To: mann@vxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Fwd: John L. Daly dead
Date: Thu Jan 29 14:17:01 2004

From: Timo H‰meranta
To:
Subject: John L. Daly dead
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:04:28 +0200
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510
Importance: Normal

Mike,
In an odd way this is cheering news ! One other thing about the CC paper – just found
another email – is that McKittrick says it is standard practice in Econometrics journals
to give all the data and codes !! According to legal advice IPR overrides this.

Cheers
Phil

“It is with deep sadness that the Daly Family have to announce the sudden death of John
Daly.Condolences may be sent to John’s email account (daly@john-daly.com)
“
Reported with great sadness

Timo H‰meranta

Did you see this on your nightly network news? I wouldn’t know as I don’t watch those propaganda outlets anymore. Fox News covered it and notes that:

In an exclusive interview in Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition, Phil Jones, the head of the Hadley CRU, confirmed that the leaked data is real.

I guess MSNBC couldn’t afford to ignore it. CBS News, ABC News and the Washington Post run the AP piece calling the email leaks appalling. The New York Times does cover the hacking but IMO tries to mitigate the damage a bit:

The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument. However, the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air comments:

Do scientists use data to test theories, or do they use theories to test data? Scientists will claim the former, but here we have scientists who cling to the theory so tightly that they reject the data. That’s not science; it’s religious belief.

For me, The Anchoress has the perfect wrapup:

So, we can’t trust science to give us data uncorrupted by agendas. We can’t trust the press to give us news uncorrupted by agendas. We can’t trust the government to do much of anything, purely out of service to America. We can’t trust the schools to actually teach our children the basics. Who can we trust?

Perhaps it is down to trusting ourselves as much as we dare, and trusting God even more, in the end.

With our lives and futures in the hands of the likes of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid one has to plead, “Oh Mighty God — please help us!”