Personally, I doubt I’ll waste my time reading clips from Ridge’s tome on the net, let alone wasting my money buying it from the discount bin in two months.

But in an interview with KDKA-TV’s Ken Rice in June of 2008 Ridge said exactly the opposite:

Rice: “Was there ever pressure to raise the alert level for some reason that had nothing to do with the actual threats out there?”

Ridge: “Never.”

Rice: “Never even a hint of that?”

Ridge: “Never. It’s a great question though.”

Moderate Republicans like Ridge would run over their own grandmothers if they thought they could turn a buck from it.

Ridge’s lie is not only sleazy, but it is stupid. Does he really think that anyone is interested in buying another trash-for-cash book put out to bash Bush?

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…I think from now on, I’m going to call him “Bat Boy.“

Why, then, pray tell, is the media all over what are true negative indicators, telling us we have just about to bottom out and everything will once again be as glorious as it was under the last donkey administration (not Bush’s, but the jackass Clinton’s)?

In every way, for the media up is down, black is white, slow is fast and Republicans are evil.

While Greenpeace et al may like to think and believe their ultimate goal is as altuistic as “saving mankind from itself,” their real program is to bring down capitalism and capital growth, and to rule the world in such a way that population growth is controlled and/or negative.

But don’t worry. They mean well so it’s all OK.

Which brings up the other question. It is noted in the article that the earth has survived and thrived with much worse warming periods. How did they “correct” those warming periods without man there to cause them or correct them?