How much play will this get on national media? lemme think….ummm none. Show me what I’ve won! I’m glad to hear of great political success following our great military successes of late. I’m proud that we will get the job done over there and *then* leave. Chalk one up for freedom…put Iraq on the board!

A report in the BBC, which has about as many conservative leanings as Sean Penn, says that, “global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.” Some? If climate is directly tied to co2 emissions as Al Gore would have you believe then this makes no sense at all, because our co2 emissions have not decreased. How does this not cause everyone to question? Oh that’s right, I forgot the liberal prophet Al Gore said the debate was over. So I guess it doesn’t matter how many facts contradict Al, the only “fact” that matters is the left is done looking at science and focused completely on the evil human race and how we(conservatives) must change.

UPDATE: BBC reporter changes story after complaints by a single global warming activist. Unbelievable.

South Africa has some interesting days ahead. Jacob Zuma is the new leader of the African National Congress. The next president will be appointed by the ANC and Zuma looks to be in the on deck circle. Now you’re thinking, “wow Kyle really is up to speed on African politics, this is an interesting blog piece, I wonder what his thoughts are on economic progress throughout developing countries.” I’m not as shallow as you think, but this is where this post makes U-turn at the deep end, puts the floaties on and heads back to safer waters.

Jacob Zuma likes his women, even if they don’t like him or just don’t know they like him yet. He has at least 4 wives and 20 children, but he’s not quite your stereotypical polygamist family man. At least not the stereotype I’ve developed from watching Big Love. He also likes to rape women. He’s been charged with corruption and rape. His response to the rape charges are priceless. Here are some particularly charming quotes:

Confronted with the rape charge, Zuma took the old “short skirt” excuse, claiming it was his duty as a Zulu warrior to have sex with a woman if she wore a short kanga (an African wrap) and that he could not leave her “unfulfilled.”

Am I the only one who didn’t know the “short skirt” excuse was old? Maybe it’s like insanity defense in the US.

Zuma told the court that he knew the woman was “clearly aroused” by the fact that her kanga was “quite short” — meaning knee-length.

“In the Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready,” he explained in court.

According to Zuma’s defense, Zulu men have sexual primacy over women. Therefore, he could not be guilty.

“To deny her sex, that would have been tantamount to rape,” he claimed.

I’m guessing the woman he raped has a different interpretation of “ready” and “aroused”. No means yes, her slapping him and fighting back was just role playing apparently. The woman was HIV positive at the time of the incident and Zuma doesn’t seemed too concerned.See Mr. Zuma has extensive medical training and here’s why he knows he’s safe despite not wearing a condom:

“I had a shower afterwards”

I kid you not. And there’s also the matter of Zuma facing 12 counts of fraud, one count of money laundering, two counts of corruption and one charge of racketeering. I was having a hard time choosing between our current presidential nominees, but now I have some real perspective.

A moving story out of Iraq that isn’t getting much press. Iraqi soldiers collected donations for victims of the CA wildfires and gave the US military a check for $1,000. The Iraqi colonel who gave the check said,

 “I’m honored to participate by sending you a simple fund of $1,000 to the American people in San Diego city to lowering their suffering from the wildfire,” the Iraqi colonel told them. “That’s for the feeling of being brothers and friends and for the great connections together.”

The fact that they settled only on 11 points is most surprising to me. You can read the full story at NewsBusters, but here are the courts bullet points on what’s inaccurate:

• The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.

• The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.

• The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.

• The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.

• The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.

• The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.

• The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.

• The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.

• The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.

• The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.

• The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.