Only because of my prognosticative abilities am I able to see that in the year 2011 that I will have an interview with former VP Al Gore. The month will be June. The temperature outside will be 46 degrees for a high in Chicago. This will be in the fourth full year of below average temperatures on Earth. Scientists of all kinds finally admit they were wrong about man causing global warming. Not having learned their lessons, scientists are now again claiming we are about to enter an ice age. Just like they did in the 70's. Al Gore comes into the interview with a polar bear fur coat and alpaca hat. This is the entire transcript of the future interview.

Me: Welcome, Mr. Gore. Whoa! That's some get up!

Gore: Well, yeah. It's cold outside! The ice age is coming, you know?

Me: Ahh, yeah. Ice age. Anyway, thanks for coming to do this interview.

Gore: The honor is all mine, Mr. Norman. I'm a huge fan even though I disagree with everything you say. (okay, I'm paraphrasing there)

Me: Speaking of ice age. You are one of the last of the global warming hysteria's refugees. What made you finally give up this foolish notion?

Gore: Well, I have to admit I'm pretty hard-headed. I just got back from vacation in Hawaii. Took a private jet. Damn I love those. It was the beginning of June and it snowed. Then I started thinking "hey, this global warming stuff is a fraud." Hey, who knew right?

Me: Actually I did. A lot of us did and yet you called us "flat-Earthers" who should not be given any airtime with our idiotic opinions.

Gore: Let's not talk about things that divide us. Let's talk about things that bring us together.

I've been a critic of this global warming hysteria for a long time now. I've had debates with family and friends for years. Until very recently, most of the scientific evidence pointed towards man causing this warming trend. I never denied there was warming, but I was rational in thinking that this was just part of some natural cycle. With recent weather trends and scientific evidence, it seems my contention has conclusively been proven correct.

I stated that thirty years ago scientists were swearing up and down that we were in or entering an ice age. This is a fact. The ice age hysteria was the consensus among scientists. This had some people fearing what to do in the event of an ice age. This was also stated in my arguments to those I debated about man causing global warming. Obviously we weren't in or didn't enter an ice age. I remember former Chicago meteorologist John Coleman for NBC Channel 5 trying to prove on tv that the consensus among scientists was wrong and that we weren't in or about to enter an ice age. He was proven correct. Two years ago he came out of retirement and stated this global warming hysteria is also a myth. Scientists and the media dismissed him saying "who's John Coleman?" I can tell you he was the last accurate weathercaster, and he came out years ago taking on these same scientists and was proven correct. He also founded the Weather Channel. That's who John Coleman is.

What happened to us being on the road to Meltsville? This isn't an isolated incident. You can't keep on screaming about man causing global warming and then have the coldest winter on record for much of the world. It doesn't add up. So why is it cooling? Why were we warming? Why were we cooling before we were warming? Sorry if that made your head spin. I've said in prior posts that the only thing that can cause us to go from the talk of "ice age" to "we're melting" is the Sun. It's the only LOGICAL explanation. Man can't cause such a drastic change within a decade. It's impossible. In 1979 they were still talking of an ice age. In 1988, the UN came out first saying we were having global warming. That's ten years. That little tidbit doesn't do their delusion any good. And because the scientists and media are so hysterical about this because it gets them in the news, anything to the contrary won't get much attention. That's why it was barely reported that NASA discovered Mars was warming even more than Earth in the same period of time a couple of years ago. Gee, can man cause warming on Mars too? How does man, the United States by proxy, get the blame for warming Mars? How does Mars warm even more than Earth? The same reason why I predicted last winter we would have a cold winter this year. The same reason why I'm predicting next year will have a cold winter too. Lack of sunspot activity. Some scientists are now starting to realize that this is going to cause a cooling trend. This was also the explanation of why we had a cooling trend in the 60s and 70s. So if there was a lack of sunspot activity in the 60s and 70s and we had cooler weather, and there is a lack of sunspot activity now causing the cold this year, couldn't any idiot conclude that an increase of sunspot activity caused the damn warming the last twenty years? MAN! That's just too damn easy!

Will scientists give up on the man causing global warming hysteria? Nope. They have too much invested into it. They were proven to be idiots in the 70s and 80s. They can't afford to be proven to be idiots again. Who would listen to them again? I'll tell you who... Al Gore and Bill Maher and people like them. The same people who accuse Christians of being lemmings to their church are lemmings to the scientific community. It doesn't matter what these scientists say, these people will claim it to be the law of the land. And if you don't agree with them, then you're a stupid person who's just not as educated as they are. That's what Bill Maher says all of the time. You have to be stupid to not believe that man is causing global warming. I guess I'm stupid then. I'm also right. If I'm stupid, then what does that make Bill Maher? Uberstupid I guess. Al Gore said that people who didn't think man was causing global warming shouldn't even be heard with their views. Pathetic. He even called us "flat-earthers" on 60 Minutes. Well, this is two cold winters in a row Mr. Gore.

With a lack of sunspot activity probably continuing for the time being, you can bet your bottom dollar that if the scientists again said we were in an ice age that people like Bill Maher and Al Gore would believe them. And if you don't, they'll again call you stupid. It doesn't matter to them if you're proven right or not. Your supposed "lack of education" in their eyes keeps them from giving you credit for having the same sized brain as they have. What egos! If there indeed is a continued cooling trend, scientists will have to give up on this man causing warming hysteria at some point. They won't go down without a fight though. They will continue to say these are isolated incidents no matter how diverse the findings are. Actually last winter a NASA scientist said to forget about global warming, beware of an ice age looming. They just can't help themselves. He was the first to jump off that bandwagon and onto the next one. Others will follow when it becomes clear to them that we are no longer melting.

I guess since we're flat-Earthers, Gore must be Christopher Columbus. I want Christopher Columbus interviewed three years from now when this cooler weather continues. Sunspot activity doesn't just shut off and on, so it will be here a while. Probably a couple of decades just like the last time. I want this jerk interviewed telling me that I'm still a "flat-Earther" after we've had a few years of cold weather. I want him to explain why the drop in temperature. Please don't die Mr. Gore. I want you to stick around and explain to me why you insulted me but yet I was proven right. Please eat healthy. Take care of yourself. You're getting a bit chunky there again, Al. Your weight is fluctuating like Oprah. Go on that NutriSystem diet. You can eat man food like pizza, burgers, and pot roast with the help of their glycemic index technology. Buckle up. Drive a Volvo, the safest automobile on Earth. Jog regularly. Take your vitamins and say your prayers. I want you here to eat crow in a few years. Tell everyone why you were wrong and that flat-Earther people like me were right. Eat that heaping helping of humble pie. I will be proven right, Mr. Columbus.

Even though people widely accept that Jesus, our Saviour was born on or close to December 25th, this is not really the case. When Jesus was born, it is written there were shepherds tending to their flocks at night. This would have only been done during the Harvest Moon. That would be right around late September. What the significance of December 25th is that it may have been the date Jesus was conceived by God. It would have been right around that time in order for him to be born right at the time of the Harvest Moon, so there is some significance of this date. This is the real miracle, right? Not the virgin birth, but the conception of a virgin. If a virgin is pregnant, she’s going to give birth. The miracle may have happened on December 25th, but Jesus was not born anywhere around that date.  Just one of those things Christians should know.

Many intellectuals claim that Christians stole Christmas from the pagans and took the tradition of decorating the tree from them also. That is only partly correct. The pagans did decorate their winter holiday trees, but they also worshipped them. Christians do not worship the trees they set up and decorate. Christians also give gifts to loved ones traditionally to honor what the three wise men did when they brought the baby Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Maybe many of them have lost the idea of that, but that’s how the tradition started.

Just thought it would be a good idea to set a couple of things straight as the anniversary of the conception of Christ comes. Merry Christmas everyone, and have a happy New Year. God bless.

The attacks upon God and those who believe in Him are becoming more sharp and mainstream in recent years. What these so-called personal geniuses don’t realize is that they are fulfilling scripture by doing so. I hear these masters of the universe say the darnedest things with such fervor and authority about things they know nothing about. They always have to add that little shot to those who believe, especially Christians, saying that they are uneducated and believe in just an adult Santa Claus myth. Nothing like putting those down that disagree. I don’t mind taking shots or giving them much, but those I give the shots to have cast the first stone.

Atheists are prideful hypocrites who say they are for equal treatment and harmony among all of creation, when in fact they want to be recognized by everyone else as being the great thinkers of our time and never miss an opportunity to try to get under the skin of their Christian coinhabitants. They try as hard as they can to stick out from amongst the crowd with their middle-child syndrome. They especially use Christian holidays to make sure that they are heard. Anyone that says they are insulted or offended at God being referred to in our currency or a nativity scene displayed by a town or city during Christmas season is lying to you. One can’t look at a dollar bill and get irate. One can’t look at people praising someone they believe to be their Saviour and feel like they’ve had their faces spat upon. This is their way of letting you know they are smarter than you because they don’t believe in God. They believe in evolution.

The intellectuals and atheists are big believers in evolution. That is their reason for being. This is their god, whether they like to think of it this way or not. Evolution is their god. The supreme prophet of the Evolution god was Darwin. A prophet who didn’t even believe the theory he proposed himself. With this belief, it allows them to live their life without restriction. Why have restrictions when there is nothing to answer for after their lives are done? This is a benefit for their belief. Possibly even an excuse to not use their own willpower to do things their conscience tells them not to do. “If there’s no God, I don’t have to listen to my conscience. My conscience is just my mind playing tricks on me, mastered by the society of the feebleminded believers who think certain things are wrong. My conscience does not exist.”

The sad thing is that their belief in evolution has questions that they can’t answer themselves. I used to frustrate fifty year old adults when I was a teenager before I even read the Bible with my questions to them. I would ask them questions like “if evolution is real, then how come there are still cockroaches?” The best answer I got was “well some evolved and some didn’t.” I thought evolution was constant. Why would some of the species evolve but some not? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There should not be dogs, birds, fish, mosquitos, or bears. If evolution really exists, then there should be at the most only a few species below us on Earth right now. Evolution is evolved. Evolved is evolution. Another question I asked was “if the Earth is four billion years old, is that enough time for an amoeba to make it all the way to a human considering there are well over a million different types of insect alone?” Seeing years of things they perceived to be facts erode on their faces was pretty sad to see. They didn’t like me much, those intellectuals, but they knew I was no fool. I heard one say “well there are different classes of species and that’s how it happened”. Well, how did they divide into those classes? What decision making ability was there to say “I’m going to turn into this now”? If a species adapts to that climate or environment, how do they change themselves? What creature was the first that said “I need a digestive system so I can nourish myself and excrete waste”, and then do it? If the first species to have nourishment from eating ate, they would die without a way to excrete the waste. That would be the end of that new species. For those who claim they are supergeniuses to the Nth degree, these questions they have not asked themselves doesn’t speak well of their thinking ability. Maybe they do think of those questions, but since this is their belief and it’s not in God, they’d rather just let it rest there and not wonder about things they don’t have the answers to. Willingly blinding themselves from their own accusation upon those they disagree, that Christians cannot think for themselves. Evolution is proof they cannot think very well. The true intellectual is the true fool. Even Bill Maher, who never fails to insult Christians, believes in evolution but admits something must have happened to get life started. DUH! Albert Einstein is known as maybe the smartest man in the last century, and he believed in God. He even went as far as to say that if anyone can look into the dark reaches of space and the glorious nature on Earth, and not realize there was a God to create it all is blind.

A favorite attack of these atheists and intellectuals upon those that believe in God say that there have been more people killed in the name of religion than anything else combined. Hogwash. Religion is just an excuse. Racism is at the crux of the matter when it comes to killing by the masses. Racism is the true reason. Religion, no matter what religion it is, is always the excuse. Before there were Irish Catholics and Protestants fighting eachother, there were the red and black Irish fighting. Before there were Sunni and Shiite, there were Arabs and Persians fighting. Look up your history. I know, again this is too easy to come up with, which reiterates my point that the true intellectual is the true fool.

Atheists say “how can you believe in something you can’t see?” I believe in love, but I’ve never seen love. I see the evidence of love everywhere, just as I see the evidence of God everywhere. Love cannot be seen by anyone. I know many atheists say that the Judeo-Christian God is invisible, like it’s written that He is somewhere in the Bible. Actually Moses saw God, but only from behind as God walked into the sanctuary as Moses and the Israelites roamed through the wilderness. Moses was not allowed to see God’s face, but he saw Him. Nowhere does it say God is invisible.

If an atheist is truly enquiring, then it’s good to talk about things of God. If you know things pretty assuringly, then speak with some authority. If you’re a product of traditional teaching, then I don’t suggest doing this because I can ask questions about your belief you cannot answer as well. This world is NOT seven thousand years old. Dinosaurs truly existed many thousands of years ago. Don’t let any traditional teacher fool you in stating otherwise. If an atheist is there to just rile you up and get under your skin by belittling what you believe in, then don’t cast your pearls. If they cannot admit the existence of their own conscience which is at no distance away from them, they aren’t ready to hear of the Truth far above their heads. God bless.

Then there's hard metal. Bunch of guys with really tiny wienies who obviously aren't happy about it. Why else would they be so angry? They can get groupies who fall for their shtick. Their parents probably have a lot of money even if they don't. I'm not buying that "no one understands me" crap. I really think they suffer from Napoleon Syndrome below the belt. What's with the grunting too? I can't understand a damn thing they say, and don't tell me you can cause I know you'd be lying. Kerr bluh rar dun kruh rooooohhhk!!! Know what I just said translated from death metal? A thing of beauty is a joy forever. See I could have said anything there. I could have said "dad's shoes taste good". The head bobbing I really believe is their way of just seeing if their brain is still inside their skulls. The music is so mindless that they do this to make their brain rattle. Just the brain's way of saying "yep, I'm still here".

Then you have rap. It's no wonder why rap is one letter away from being CRAP. I'm tired of hearing about tek 9's, some hos you have, and especially how you have Bentleys. Even if you do, I know you'll be liquidating them all within two years. You're going to have a fire sale that would make the Florida Marlins jealous. Don't give me the "I'm just keepin' it real, you know what I'm sayin'? That's how it is in da hood" routine. I used to live in DA HOOD for fourteen years, and it's not like that at all. I've never seen a Bentley in Gary. I've never seen pimps backhanding their hos either. I've never even seen a cop abuse a black man in da hood. For those who don't know, Gary, Indiana is just a smaller Detroit. Probably worse. To give you a clue as to how bad it is in Gary, they threw a parade and all night bash when they regained the "most violent city per capita in the world" title. That's rough. Can rap talk about something else? Great, we know you have money, hos, a cell phone, a pager, Bentleys, and a mansion. We get it. Then some other rapper two years from now will buy what you have because you're played out and you have to pay for your bills and taxes. Wait! I sense another song there for you about how "the man" has brought another black man down. In a failed comeback attempt you can do it on your tours of fairs and store openings. I also can't stand that rappers start their song by saying "yeeya" 25 times. "Yeeya uh yeeya uh yeeya uh yeeya uh ............. yeeya uh". Great skill. And why do they always need someone with them? Can't you do it on your own? "Hey Jimi Hendrix, you do the fretboard while another guy strums the strings for you." Could you imagine? Jimi would shove his guitar up the backside of the moron who suggested such a thing. Always it's someone featuring someone. You can't do it on your own? It's like a kid who doesn't want to walk around the house in the dark without someone holding his hand to get a glass of water. Pathetic.

Now with country music. This soulless version of the blues is for people who think 'rhythm' and 'passion' are the Antichrist and False Prophet. I hate country music. Always have. I do have an ear for talent so I used to hear some talent in country music. Not anymore. Now I hear wuss after wuss literally crying their lyrics. Why oh why does every country song have to mention a city or state in the south? We get it, you're a hick. It must kill country musicians that Cheyenne is on the north side of the country. Tim McGraw is putrid. I've never heard a whining like that in all my life. Only thing I can compare his whining to is when a woman has showed up on Maury for the fourth time to see if she finally found the man that is the father of her baby, then finding out he isn't. "Waaah, there's only seven candidates left." What is with this effeminate way of posing that all country male musicians do? They all wear jeans, a cowboy hat, and then they stand with their hands at their belt with their heads right on top of their right shoulder. Every one of them does it. That's fruitier looking than The Wiggles. Why do they wear cowboy hats? I know most of them haven't been near a damn horse or cow. Some musicians are from Australia and Canada. Next, the French will start getting into country music. "Hey Gilles, lez go to ehhhmerica and be zi country musishiown. It's so ... how do they say ... easy."

I don't like hearing Buck Owens, but I hear the talent there. He was enormously talented. LL Cool J I don't like to hear, but I hear the talent. U2 I don't particularly like. Thirty years ago they'd be just an above-average band, but since music is so bad today, they sound like the greatest thing ever. I do hear the talent there though. I'm just making it clear that I don't think certain musicians suck because I don't like them. I say all the time "I don't like them, but they are talented". When I was growing up during the late 80s, there were the hair bands. I hated them too. Poison blew. Warrant was even worse. But them together killed the hairband movement. Thank you, Warrant. Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana changed all that. They had talent. They were waaaaay overrated, but they had talent. They brought in a new type of music. People that had no skill with their instruments, but played really loud. Damn you, Warrant! What music do I like to listen to? Since I was in high school I liked the older music. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, CCR, ACDC, ZZ Topp, Jimi Hendrix, and musicians like that. Go ahead and argue with that talent. Tell me that Fallout Boy is better than Led Zeppelin. If you do, then you're IQ is on the negative side. Please people, demand better music. I know record sales are at an all time low, so that's a good sign. Keep it up. Demand more talent. Bankrupt these record companies until they realize "ok, they realize all of this sucks. We've been had. What's Jimmy Page doing? Can we dig Hendrix up?"

For those of you confused at the title of my blog, let me esssplain. Baseball is America's most historic pastime. Terrorism in the Arab World seems to be theirs. Do I need to explain everything? : ) Baseball has Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson and many more iconic figures that are part of Americana. The Arab World has Osama Bin Laden, Sheik Abdul Rahman (the blind Arab dude with the Santa Claus hat), Mohammad Atah, Yasser Arafat, and Ahmad Yassin are the icons of the Arab World.

When there is nothing to do, you hate. We have baseball. We also have other things to do. We're too busy to hate for the most part. Plus, we outgrew our western Europe and Viking history. Thanks to the Greek and Roman cultures I must say. While the Greeks were inventing democracy, western Europe was never bathing. While the Greeks were thinking, western Europe was busy scratching their butts with axes. While the Greeks were building society, western Europe was barely saying "orf". I think orf meant "food". God bless them Greeks! They showed us the way. Our melting pot has made us advance swiftly. Adventurous people from all over the world came here, and so became our adventurous spirit. We like to have fun too. Baseball is fun. That's why it took off to such great heights. No sport has the iconic heroes like baseball does in America. These guys were real heroes to Americans. Joe DiMaggio was a hero to every Italian and Yankee fan. The Yankees have a slew of icons in their history. They are the Al Qaeda of American baseball teams. The big boys.

In the Arab World it seems they live to hate. From what I see on television, I don't buy the "it's not most Arabs" cliche. In the Palestinian areas of Israel there were celebrations in the streets when 9/11 happened. They were joyously celebrating while knowing thousands of people have just died. Arafat had his police threaten to kill members of the media who shot these celebrations on video. They didn't keep all of the cameramen from shooting, however. With that though, there were more than two-thirds of Arabs in a poll saying 9/11 was morally unjustifiable. One third is way too high still, but that's nothing like what we see. When they show Arabs on tv, they always show them with guns, swords, or burning things in effigy. There is a huge disconnect here from this poll and what I see on tv. Usually they show Arabs protesting over something either so small or totally inconsequential to their lives. "The Pope called us violent people?! It's time to kill someone!" Which they did. It seems most of them sees terrorism as their sport, and they play it well. The poll tells a completely different story.

I don't know if they work, come home, treat their wives respectfully, kiss their children, or anything we do and take for granted. I do know they wanted to kill a woman for allowing her students to call a teddy bear "Mohammad" though. I do know they have a fixation with beheading people. I know they love to treat women as poorly as possible too. How can these fathers look at their young daughters, knowing what's ahead of them, and not do everything in their power to see they are not lashed for being raped in the future? I don't know. One woman I know of in Iran was executed because she had sex with an older, unmarried man. Her name was Atefeh Rajabi and she was only sixteen years old. She claims she was sexually assaulted. They hung her in front of a crowd by a crane. While she fought for her life, with her last breaths she kept repeating "repentance". The law there states that when someone says "repentance" that they are given at least another appeal. People who are so hellbent on upholding Islamic Law broke the law. This was a young, beautiful woman who died after possibly being sexually assaulted by an older man. Sickening and intolerable.

I even see kids out there with AK-47's protesting with their fathers, wanting blood. They have no idea what they're doing. They are kids. Our kids here are playing video games, basketball, football, soccer, and yes, baseball. Theirs shout to kill people right along with their fathers. Chips off the old block. I guess soccer is big in the Arab World, but maybe it's only the moderates who are out there playing soccer. Maybe that's why their voices aren't heard. They know their idiotic neighbors are chanting for someone's death, but they'd rather play soccer. They'd rather have fun than rally against the haters. The ones who are out there protesting all of the time though have no heroes like DiMaggio, Ruth, Williams, Mays, Koufax, Ripken, Griffey, Jeter, Mantle, Robinson, or Aaron. They have no heroes. They have martyrs.

In Switzerland, they came up with a "plant's bill of rights". Let me repeat that. In Switzerland, they came up with a "plant's bill of rights". If you're reading that and thinking it's either a joke (which I've been known to make) or something besides a nightmarish scenario, then you're wrong. You see, attorneys representing dandelions are suing on their behalf. Evidently, dandelions are PO'd that children keep pulling them out of the ground and doing that "Mary had a baby and its head popped off" game. Okay, that's a joke. Seriously though, government officials there are angered that humans are doing to plants what they like. People eat them. People kill weeds. People mow grass. In Switzerland now, this may be unacceptable to them.

The panel that was commissioned unanimously (yes unanimously) said that to kill plants arbitrarily is morally wrong because just like human beings, they are alive. I've been wondering when we were going to come to this and now we have. This is another strike from the nutty left fringe to make human life expendable in order to save Mother Earth. First it was "meat is murder". Second it was "man is going to melt the Earth". Now it's "salad is murder". Next it will be "man must be rendered extinct for the good of our planet". Watch.

The Swiss, who took the high moral ground in WWII by being "neutral" but helped the Nazis rob the Jews, now think if you go to a salad bar that you are a rabid anti-plantite. An anti-plantite is someone who hates plants. Okay, I made that up but I think I just might submit that one to Merriam-Webster's site. Too late. I just did it. If you go to a salad bar and use ham or chicken chunks, you should be ashamed of yourself. You're murdering just about all of life on Earth. Murderer!

I know it says "arbitrarily killing", but who are the arbitrators? What will be the factors in their judgment? What conditions of eating plants will they find acceptable? Will these people accept you growing a garden and eating what you grow? I grow a garden every summer and eat from it. Damn good stuff. Could you imagine some government official saying "sir, the way you cut that pepper is cruel and inhumane. You're under arrest." Just think of it. If PETA had its way, that's exactly the kind of law they would have for those who eat meat. Meat is murder, afterall. PETP will say "salad is murder". PETP just isn't as catchy is it? Sounds like a burp. "PETP... oh excuse me."

I know people on the right are made fun of all of the time by celebrities and intellectuals, but this is as whacky as it gets. Of course intellectuals in the coming years will actually try to make you believe that what the Swiss did made sense and will hope the rest of the world adopts their insanity. Maybe they'll allow you to pull that tomato off the vine as long as you inject the tomato and the plant with some sort of anesthetic before you do. To pull the grapes off the vine without anesthetic is cruelty they just cannot sit idly by and take. Neither will they let you just pull a head of lettuce out of the ground without anything to numb its pain. Don't you hear it screaming in agony? Salad is murder!

The recent invasion of sovereign, freedom-loving Georgia, a former Soviet republic, really shows that Russia will be what it always was. A power hungry and egomaniacal country. Russia's President might be Dmitry Medvedev, but he's just a puppet. It's Vladimir Putin who's running the show. That's the same Vladimir Putin who our President said he looked into the heart of and saw that he was a good man. He was WAAAAY off!

People are speculating why Russia took this audacious stance and many have speculated that it's about the oil pipeline that goes through Georgia into Turkey. That is a strategic point, but for that reason alone Putin wouldn't be going this far. Many are also speculating that it was about Georgia and other former Soviet republics possibly joining NATO. That's definitely part of it. That's not the whole story though. The real reason why Putin is doing this is to reacquire the former Soviet republics and get back to being the Soviet Union. With Putin, that was always his ambition. He said things our dumb President wanted to hear, all the while he's killing journalists and political dissidents including Alexander Litvinenko while he was in exile in England. Other people in England were contaminated by the radioactive substance (polonium-210) Litvinenko was given, as well as other critics of Putin. That didn't raise much of an eyebrow with the White House for some reason though.

Putin is very popular in Russia. His poll numbers reciprocate our President's poll numbers. Even though it's clear Putin is killing those with opposing voices, the Russian people love him because he's trying to restore their standing in the world. I'm quite sure poll numbers in Russia won't dip when it comes to Putin with the invasion of Georgia.

Georgia I'm afraid is just the first of other skirmishes as Moscow reestablishes it's might. The Ukraine and Baltic nations might be next. Who knows? Maybe even Poland might be on that list. All the while Putin is daring the US to do anything by giving the ultimatum "choose us or Georgia". Think you better look into Putin's eyes again, Mr. President. I'm quite confident that this is just the beginning. This could be Putin sending a message to other former republic nations to not join NATO, but I think this goes deeper than that. Russia could have sent that message and abided by the ceasefire they made easily. It was their own ceasefire proposal and without cause they broke it. As a matter of fact, it was never enacted. They never abided by it. It was just a ploy to make the world take more time in reacting to this while thinking it was over. It's obviously not over. As Russia gave the ceasefire, their tanks kept moving inside towards Georgia's city of Gori. This isn't a message at least to the other former Soviet republics. If anything, it's a message to the world. Mother Russia is reforming and there's nothing we can do about it unless NATO accepts Georgia into it immediately. With that though, that might mean full scale war with Russia. With Europe getting much of its energy from Russian pipelines, they will probably once again show their impotence. Germany might actually join Russia as screwed up as they are. This also shouts for us to become energy independent and drill off our own shores. Something that the dems won't even allow a vote on.

Politically speaking with our election, dem hopeful Barack Obama again showed his lack of strength by at first stating that both Russia AND Georgia should show some restraint. Georgia? What did Georgia do? Oy! McCain from the beginning said Russia should withdraw from Georgia immediately. Again Obama didn't take a clear stance. McCain again did. McCain went as far as to say Russia's presence in the G8 should be up for debate. The dems attacked McCain for taking such a strong stance against Russia saying it might just inflame tensions. Inflame tensions? They just invaded a sovereign nation and ally without just cause. McCain was right to take a strong stance as he has for years against Russia and specifically Putin. Just like when our President was seeing a good man in the eyes of Putin, John McCain saw something different. "I look into Putin's eyes and I see three letters, a K, a G, and a B." Well said, Mr. McCain. Watch out world. Here comes Mother Russia once again.