Kent State Prof is Mohammedan Jihadist

Julio César Pino - Missed May 4, 1970 at Kent State

This Jihadist idiot gets paid by American taxpayers to teach History at Kent State University, but instead, on company time, he foments Jihad with his terrorist loving blog, Global War. Read Mike Adams' full exposure at TownHall.com. Hat Tip: Jawa Report.
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Updated: Lame denial from Kent State, defending Julio the Jihadist.
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More: Commenter CT from DungTongue notes that Pino's web site has been hacked and currently the link redirects to DefendAmerica (dot mil). Very funny. I wonder how long it will last.

One-Worlders Love Global Warming

One World, Under Global Warming Laws...

If there is any one group that has embraced global warming with open arms it is the "One World Government" crowd. I like to call them Bolsheviks, but they prefer names like "United Nations". What better excuse to pass 'one-size-fits-all' laws and impose 'share the wealth/pain' taxes globally?

These power grabbers need a big threat to justify their existence. First it was the threat of world war, then the threat of world overpopulation and hunger, followed closely by world poverty. Since none of these threats have come to pass, and almost everyone on earth has a TV set and worries about getting too fat, something new was needed.

As the on worlders see it, global warming fills the bill. Among their fellow travelers, they count the illustrious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and their newest report calls for global laws and taxes to be imposed by the UN to fight global warming. Here is part of what the alarmist communist stooge panel's leader, John Holdren of Harvard University has to say about it, via VOA:

"Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly,"
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"We don't think ultimately society will get it right in terms of the full range and scope of activities needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until there is an additional incentive in the form of a price on greenhouse gas emissions, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade approach,"

The panel's report actually calls for passing a global law setting an "acceptable ceiling for temperature rise". I don't know how the UN or any other outfit can enforce a law that regulates the weather. As for the tax on emissions and the cap on your CO2 output, the blue helmeted UN troops will be coming to your town soon. If the one-world gang gets its way.
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This story has is cross-posted at a new blog the old feeder has been working on, Love Global Warming - the blog. Check it out, if you have a minute.

What the Farmer Should Know About Biological Warfare

Poisoned Cattle

Ag writer Stewart Truelsen always seems to have his head screwed on straight when he writes about current events. This article, Agriculture on Alert, published in the American Farm Bureau's Voice of Agriculture, is no exception. While it is mostly an update on the revived BioWatch program, now run by the Department of Homeland Security, it also reviews some interesting history of agricultural and food supply terrorism.

American farmers are vulnerable to biological warfare attacks by enemy agents or airplanes carrying disease-laden mists and destructive chemicals. This may sound like a message from the Department of Homeland Security, but the warning is more than 50 years old. It came from the Civil Defense Administration in 1954.

“What the Farmer Should Know About Biological Warfare” was the name of a civil defense booklet distributed by Farm Bureau and other organizations. The agency reminded farmers to be alert and report any signs of unusual crop or animal diseases.

Fast forward to today. The enemy has changed but the warning is still valid. Large U.S. cities have an early-warning system known as BioWatch – a program of the Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I tried to find an on-line copy of the government pamphlet he mentions, but to no avail. The old feeder is fascinated by cold war history, especially if it is Civil Defense related. Perhaps I'll just have to break down and buy it.

For a short review of biowarfare down through the ages, visit this PBS Nova page. Did you know that Robert's Dairy built a cow fallout shelter in Elkhorn, Nebraska in 1963? It is still there, and served as an "underground bar" for many years.

Easter Cancelled

Archaeologist finds Jesus' body! Via Drudge at Time Magazine/CNN The Middle East Blog. Hey, wait a minute...
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Cop a laugh on the topic of James Cameron tomb raiding at The Conservative Cat.

Kool-Aid drinking started in Nebraska

1950's Kool-Aid Advertisement

The Beatrice Fiddler has a nice Nebraska interest story: Koolaid was invented in Hastings in 1927. The article isn't really about Kool-Aid history so much as it is about how a young man on a road trip views our state. Check out the Fiddler's links; it is an interesting story, and has nothing to do with the unhappy Kool-Aid metaphor that arose from the Jonestown, Guyana People's Temple cult deaths.

I knew there was a reason I live here.

Pentagon Papers Revisited

Henry Kissinger with President Nixon

Do you remember the Pentagon Papers mess? If you would learn more about how the anti-war gang in the US brought the Viet-Nam war to an ignoble end, you should read this fine article by John T. Correll in the Air Force Magazine. No wonder the New York Times thinks it gets a pass on publishing government secrets, no matter who gets hurt.
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Hank thought he was pretty darn hot in his day. Click the pic to see why.
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Aside: Morton Halperin, who plays a weasel in the Pentagon Papers debacle, now works for George Soros.

Omaha's hostile annexation of Elkhorn

Click here to read the latest Plains Feeder post
about Elkhorn annexation.
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Notorious "Annexation" Schemers

The unwelcome and ill-advised annexation of Elkhorn, a bucolic Nebraska burg, by its ugly neighbor, Omaha, gets smellier even as the voiceless victims of the takeover take their case to the US Supreme Court. I don't have a dog in this fight, but, as a Nebraskan who shops and otherwise hangs out in Elkhorn, I'm aghast. This can't be what the legislature had in mind when they drafted the laws that Omaha Mayor Fahey relies upon to trample the rights of the good folks of Elkhorn. Shame on him.
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Selected Elkhorn annexation posts in the Plains Feeder:
3/10/2005 - Elkhorn Annexation
3/15/2005 - Elkhorn Annexation Update
3/18/2005 - Elkhorn Annexation duel is a draw for now
3/22/2005 - Elkhorn looks at Keystone lawsuit
6/08/2005 - Omaha Tax Grab, Part 2: the schools
8/10/2005 - One Omaha
11/01/2005 - Mackiel and Fahey: The Empire
11/18/2005 - Fahey to 'Mediate' OPS take-over
1/18/2007 - Elkhorn Annexation

I've included some posts about the intervening attempt by Omaha Public Schools to implement a One City - One School District scheme. The two issues are clearly related: both are part of Mayor Fahey's agenda. If you have read this far, you already know the school grab has led to nothing but trouble.
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Read Stan Sipple's astute observations at HuskerBlawgs concerning the very different ways our State Supreme Court has handled Omaha and Gretna annexation efforts. Same statues, same court, two different results. Go figure.

Next for NYC: Let Illegal Aliens Vote?

From the New York Post: "Immigrant-rights activists yesterday renewed their push to allow legal noncitizens to vote in the Big Apple." The end is near, and it ain't global warming, but global stupidity.

Don't get upset. I'm not taking your picture.

Cell Phone Firearm

I'm not surprised that a gun has been invented that looks like a cell phone. What's curious is that it seems to have gotten its start in Europe rather than the gun loving US of A. How did we let that happen? Watch the little "4-banger" in action.
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Nice post, DadGum. PTG here. The story reminds me of one of my many inventions: the Bic 45. Picture a plastic device about twice the size of a Bic disposable lighter. Inside are two short carbon-carbon barrels, each loaded with a tough polycarbonate .45 caliber slug in front of a moderate charge of powder. The firing mechanism is piezoelectric; no springs, only very thin wires. In fact, the little rascal is all but metal detector and x-ray proof. The outside surface is heavily checkered, both for a good grip and to obscure fingerprints.

All the openings in the Bic 45 are sealed watertight. The barrel is capped with very thin plastic, the projectile will break through on firing. The reason this little plastic demon is sealed has to do with marketing. Besides having Bic 45 blister packs hanging at all supermarket check-outs and in convenience stores, I planned to package these guns inside a bottle of cheap whiskey.

You get pissed off, you get a bottle of Mad Rat Whiskey with a gun in it. You have to break the bottle to get the gun, so you drink the whiskey first. Now you have an attitude, a deadly weapon and Dutch courage. Breaking the bottle just serves to break the ice of your inhibitions. Take your best two shots and throw it away.

Bic, a French company, didn't like the idea.

Still Fomenting

Priorities

As you may have noticed, the old feeder has been away from the feedlot more than usual these last weeks. Between bouts with the gastrointestinal virus du jour, the frozen water pipes and my icy, snow packed lane, I haven't been at the console. I have been staying at my old lady's apartment in town, where the old wuss I have become could have hot running water, among other things.

Now, the pipes are thawed. The same cat as froze 'em did the job, and didn't charge me anything. I'm back at the feedlot where I can get some real peace and quiet along with my hot running water. As soon as I finish washing every dish I own and finish this mountain of laundry, I'll be back on track. I think.

I might have been away from the console, but I have been busy. Scheming and dreaming up yet another way to mess up the internets. It has come to my attention that the old feeder hasn't been able to balance the most ominous features of today's world: Islamic madness and Marxist thought, with the my interest in the smelly red herring that is global warming. Poking fun at caviling climate kooks is irresistible.

To provide a place to indulge my twisted obsession with the global warming debacle, I'm about to move said activity to a New Web Site and a New Blog. They aren't ready for linkage, but if you are interested, click the Scheme-Dream picture here:

Iowa's Big Apples

Eventually I'm going to do a post that will disgust PT to the point of retaking his blog and getting it done right. This might be the one.

Last night former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno plugging his candidacy for - you guessed it - president. When asked how he expected to compete with the "rock star" images of Hillary and Obama, Vilsack, without missing a beat said, "I'm not a rock star. I'm rock solid." I'm not a fan of Vilsack's politics but he's made of sterner stuff than you might think.

But the big news, which just finished airing on the Martha Stewart show, was Okoboji, Iowa, barber Michael Felton demonstrating The Art of Shaving. You guys think you know how to shave? Do you use a pre-shave lotion, and do you have a Fusion Razor? No? I'll bet you don't even use a moisturizer on your skin afterwards.

My barber cuts my hair in his garage. You sit on an old bar stool, rest your feet on a 2 foot stepladder, and get cleaned off with a Shop Vac. He tells good stories and is still carrying around shrapnel from Korea. My kinda guy. Anyhow, I use throwaway razors.

Colony Collapse Disorder

You've likely heard of this by now. Bees and beehives are disappearing at a rate that has my fearful attention. How long could this country survive without the pollinating efforts of the amazing honeybee? Five years? And why is it only happening in North America?
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Updated 4/15/07: Maybe cell phone tower radiation is killing off the hives?

Gratuitous Photoshop of Al Gore

Gore-ball Warming

Perhaps tomorrow I'll feel more like blogging. Happy Valentine's Day.

They don't look like Marines, but who cares?

Anything for the Kids

Every now and then I have to come up with a blog to help keep the Plains Feeder rolling along. I could blog about my local Iowa school board trying to shove an "instructional support levy" down our throats. Brand new $10m middle school and now they find they don't have money for things like books. But the election is today and I already know it can't be stopped.

Instead I'll offer this USMC patriotic photo.

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Update:
The levy passed with 51.8% of the vote; 51% was required. Sounds like a heartbreaker for those of us who were against it, but it's not. They would have kept running it through until it did pass, as they did with the $10m school bond. Our only option is to resist but once it passes it's a done deal. The school people then pat themselves on the back and set their sights on another goal to be financed, of course, by taxpayers.

Connect the dots?

California Aqueduct - Terror Target

A common thread in the blame casting after the terrorists caught us off guard on 9/11 was the failure of those responsible to connect the dots. These two recent news stories from the AP look a bit like dots to me.

Dot #1: Pipe Bombs Found in Calif. Aqueduct
Dot #2: Divers Inspecting Calif. Aqueduct Die

What do you think? Do terrorists have plans involving Southern California's fragile water supply?

Loose Ends

W54 - A Real Small Nuke

What could be worse than being laid low with the growling shits? I'll tell you what. Having the shits and having your water pipes freeze. Really cramps your style. Details withheld to protect the queasy.
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I need to work on the Plains Feeder blogroll. Some of the links are old, and some point nowhere. I did just add The Beatrice Fiddler, a very nice new blog. The writer, whose e-mail moniker is binnie bix, said nice things about the Feeder right out of the gate. Makes me feel all warm and bubbly. Unless it is just the stomach cramps.
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I only read one cat blog regularly. Ferdy at the Conservative Cat blog is amazingly smart for a cat. Mostly I evaluate cats in terms of whether they have what it takes to kill mice and rats. Sometimes, they are good for a laugh. If you would be offended by seeing a curious cat get painfully tricked, don't click here.
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I put up the picture of the Davy Crockett jeep-launched atomic bomb for those interested in the tiny tactical nuke scenario being played out in this season's 24. Little, bitty implosion bombs are old hat. I've always wanted a Davy Crockett nuke to mount on a nice, big Hummer. Get me some respect!

We give the directions around here

You seem confused. You must see Doktor.

The future is euthanasia and assisted suicide for the Euro-wingnut regional socialists in Switzerland. Now they are considering conning troublesome cats they determine to be mentally ill to take a prescription for suicide pills. All it takes is that you have some kind of mental problem "making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term."

I ask, to whom must one's life appear to be unbearable to trigger this cleverly disguised euthanasia law. The local authorities? Some busybody bureaucrat with a clipboard? A magistrate of some sort? Some kind of guardian ad suicidum? Maybe my neighbors could get up a petition to have me put to sleep. Why would anyone ask me? I'm mentally ill, remember.

Be careful if you take your vacation in Europe. Try not to appear upset, unhappy or confused at any time. Never ask the cops for directions.
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Note that I refer to the Swiss as regional socialists. This is to distinguish them from the international socialists, like Bolsheviks and Maoists, and from the national socialists, like the Nazis and Phalangists. Other examples of regional socialists are Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales. I like the moniker; we could call regional socialists Reggies for short.

Real Winter

Before Global Warming

I confess. I am so old that I can clearly remember when the last ice age ended. I even have pictures. This one shows how the snow came up to the roof of the summer kitchen behind my two story farm house. I believe the year was 1975 or '76, and the temperatures regularly fell below -30F in N.W. Iowa that winter. We heated that house with wood, lump coal and corn cobs. Same-same cook. Water came from a hand pump in the front yard. Life was good.
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I see on the 10:00 News that the temperature is below zero and will get down to maybe 10 below tonight. The local weathermongers at KMTV's Action 3 News have put their Threat Level "all the way into the orange." Wussies.

Political Science?

Al Gore: America's Trofim Lysenko

Stalin era agricultural science was infected with political correctness, much like our sciences of meteorology and climatology are becoming infected today. The politically correct science in the Lysenko affair turned out to be junk science, concocted to fit the ideological dogma of Marxism. The price the Russkies paid because their government embraced PC science was appalling. Scads of them starved. Real scientists were scourged, even sent to the Gulag. Will you wait until they come for your weatherman?
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Even the junk science crowd is trying to co-opt the Lysenko disaster. These sinverguenzas will twist and re-write history to suit their needs. Now they want to re-write science to further their political ends. It is a sad day for real scientists and students of scientific methodology.