Our Hero

Starry-eyed and fuzzy-brained leftists have extolled Edward Snowden’s patriotism in his leaking of information about the extent of the NSA surveillance program.  What they have conveniently ignored is that snow-job Snowden compromised enormous amounts of non-NSA secrets that has sent U.S. intelligence agencies into a deep funk … and given Russia and China a huge leg-up in international hegemony. 

Yesterday the House Armed Services Committee was given a briefing about the length and breadth of Snowden's perfidy … and they were shocked and angered as a result … see: PJ Media Piece. These Representatives would and could not give the specifics of what they learned in this briefing, but it was clearly devastating.

 I have in the past written about the fallacy of not understanding that Snowden could be both a hero and a traitor at the same time … see: Excluded Middle Commentary.  So to establish a modicum of justice in this international kerfuffle, may I make the following suggestion?  Right after Snowden receives his Nobel Peace Prize (a good bet), I suggest that he be led, to the beat of a muffled drummer, to a thick brick wall to receive his reward from the U.S. security agencies … about one pound of hot lead into his being … possibly with all his third-column accomplices being forced in shackles to witness same.

Snow Job

I take the occasion of a once in three lifetime’s snow in Cairo to comment again on the lunacy emanating out of the Church of Al Gore and the Latter-Day Kooks.  As most now know the whole notion of “global warming” has morphed into “climate change” because this is harder to dispute.  Yes, the world’s climate does change … it has for eons … but how carbon dioxide which is said to cause atmospheric heat retention can make the planet colder requires a little mind bending.  But the polar-bear-huggers, having been backed into a climate corner, do try to pull off this silly shenanigan.

Most of the signposts … that were used to panic some people into turning down their thermostats and sitting through boring propaganda movies … have now disappeared.  A flotilla of boats is now silently being crushed in the “northwest passage” by ice that wasn’t supposed to be there.  Historic low temperatures have been recorded in Antarctica.  And, as best as can be determined, the world’s temperature has been flat for the last fifteen years … despite the continued outpouring of that evil gas, CO2, by the industrialization of the developing world.

The planet doesn’t "have a fever,” it is those scientists and politicos who have sucked billions of pelf out of naive governments who are feeling a bit of ague.