Keep your friends close......

..... and your enemies closer. In the same way that The Chosen One chose his primary Democratic rival for the presidency, Hilary Clinton, to be his Secretary of State, he has decided to remove yet another obstacle from his re-election bid in 2012 by naming Utah governor John Huntsman to be the new ambassador to China. However, unlike other political appointments, Gov. Huntsman is very qualified to be the ambassador, having served in Taiwan as a LDS missionary and speaking the language, having already served as the ambassador to Singapore and also having performed trade missions in China. Still, after hearing rumors of how much The Chosen One feared running against a "moderate" as Gov. Huntsman for president in 2012, it seems rather "convienent" that he would more or less remove Gov. Huntsman from the playing field in 2012. Can we expect that he will tap Gov. Romney to clean up the auto industry in the near future?

How to fellate a president

Although the election is over, the MSM are still falling over themselves to see who can fellate The Chosen One the best. Our latest example is this puff-piece masquerating as serious journalism.

As the article goes on to say, now that the evil BusHitler has been banished to Texas, we should all be singing "Hallelujah" that The Chosen One is here to bless us with this wisdom, since he has soooooo much experience as a constitutional scholar. If that is the case, why will he pick someone who believes that they have a good=given right to become a legislator-for-life? I guess the "constitutional scholar" in him is like everything else about The Chosen One, unknown and inexperienced.

Beating the Church with Torture Memos

The SL Tribune's resident Mormon basher, Rebecca Walsh, is at it again. Not one to let any chance to bash the LDS Church go to waste, she is now going after the church because one of it's members was part of President Bush's legal team that authorized "torture". Of course, to make the story really work, she had to bring in a member of the LDS Church who didn't go along with "torturing" Iraqi prisoners. The member in questions decided to commit suicide instead of following the Evil BusHilter down the path of "torture".

To all this, the Great El-ahrairah says"Poppycock!". First of all, a very low-level interogator in Iraq wouldn't have been required or even asked to do anything remotely resembling what the lefties are screaming about as "torture". If she commited suicide, then is was for some other reason and to bring her up her name as someone who valiantly opposed the Evil BusHitler is ridiculous. As for the other member of the church who wrote the legal justification for "torture", I say we should give him a medal. He did what any true-blooded American would have done to defend his country, as opposed to all those anti-war, anti-American war protestors.

As for the Great El-ahrairah, I'll just paraphrase a saying from the Old West; "The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist." Whatever President Bush did to defend the United States against terrorists is fine by me. I'm all for the wanton killing and "torture" of any and all terrorists. If the loony left thinks that we are "torturing" terrorists, then we should run Gitmo like a gulag and take all the Korans and prayer rugs away from the inmates, force them to listen to speed metal music and make them all eat pork.

I think that some filmmaker should make a film of just Predator surveillance video showing terrorists being blown apart in Hellfire missle strikes. It might now win any awards, but it would make liberal heads explode 'cuz remember boys and girls, whenever a terrorists dies, Baby Jesus smiles and another angel gets his wings.

I left when an adult was president......

....and I returned with a teenager in charge. To all those readers of the Warren out there, I just got back from an all-expense paid vacation for one to President Obama's favorite War on Terror (can we still say 'war'?) country. I left the US just before his inauguration (and an adult was still president) and now I'm back. Here are my observations of President Hope for a Change's first 90+ days.

1. He is inexperienced. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize this, but enough of the US population didn't take this into account. The liberals say that we should cut him some slack, but I'm sure that all the enemies of the US are getting ready to "bend him over" so that they can have their way.

2. He is basically a liar. The Chosen One made lots and lots of promises to get elected, but now that reality has set in, he is either letting his promises expire or he is forgetting that he made them all together. I remember that during the primary season, a well-known liberal film director ( I don't remember his name right now) said that he was supporting Obama due to the Clinton's propensity to lie ("All politicians lie but the Clinton's do it so easily" or something to that effect). Well, it looks like Obama has decided to make the Clinton's look like Honest Abe.

3. He is a socialist. Like all socialists, he believes that if you can spend your way to prosperity. If this was true, Communist Russia would have been the world's biggest economic power.

There are many other things that I can post, but they essentially come back to these three observations. If things keep going the way they are now, the elections of 2012 will be very interesting indeed.

Captain Holly's Hiking Blog, 2009 Edition: Angel's Landing, Zion National Park

I did this hike on March 27, 2009.

It's time for another fun-filled summer of hiking in the great outdoors of Utah. This year I have several good hikes on tap, starting with getting to the top of Box Elder Peak and then conquering the highest mountain in Utah, Kings Peak.

But for starters I decided to do the toughest hike in Zion National Park: Angel's Landing.


The "peak" is actually just a large slab of Entrada sandstone stuck right in the middle of Zion's Canyon. Because of its location, it provides incredible views of the entire canyon. These views come at a price, though: It's extremely steep and not for the faint of heart.


The trail is well-maintained and is quite easy for the first half-mile or so. Then as you start your way up it is paved with concrete or asphalt in order to accommodate the huge volume of hikers who climb it every year.


After about a mile, you get to what's called "Walter's Wiggles", a set of switchbacks built into the side of the mountain, leading to a flat area where there are pit toilets and places to relax and have lunch.

After that, the "easy part" is done. Now comes the white-knuckle climbing portion.


The trail from here is steep slickrock scrambling. The Park Service installed a chain because without it many people wouldn't be able to make it to the top.


Once you get on top, the view is worth it.


But be advised it's a long way down, especially on the north side.

A wonderful hike, it only took me about 3 hours to get to the top and back. But it is very strenuous, so be advised.

Next he will say that he won't heal the oceans

The Obamamessiah, now that he isn't campaigning for the presidency, has started to backpedal from his earlier statements and is starting to tell the truth. The latest example of his cooling of expectations is about the economy. Instead of healing the economy and putting Americans back to work the minute he takes office, he now says that it will get worse before it gets better. As I recall, during the election, I don't remember him ever saying this. I only remember him saying how he was going to heal the oceans and the economy at the same time.

If you are wondering why he is doing this, it's to prepare everyone for the real world realities of being president. He must suddenly realize that the people who voted for him did so because of all the promises he made during the campaign, but like we all know, all his promises come with expiration dates. Welcome to the real world, Obama supporters. Your man isn't who you thought he was.

Another Oops! Report from Science

Yet another Oops! report from the scientific community: two researchers now say that maybe the massive melting of glaciers in Greenland isn't all that catastrophic afterall. Don't you wish all the scientists would get on the same page when it comes to global warming scaremongering. Anyway, after having spilt the beans about not getting all excited about the melting glaciers in Greenland, they give the standard disclamier that the findings are focused on only one glacier, and that sea levels could still rise higher than projection. They also drop the tidbit that other Greenland glaciers behave differently, and the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet are still poorly understood and nor should the new study be taken out of context to suggest that climate change is not a serious threat, because, like you know, it is. Ergo, lest any of you global warming skeptics think that this is proof that there is no global warming, well, you can't judge what happens over the whole earth just by what happens on one glacier (like what global warming scaremonger extrodinaire, Al Gore, does).

I have always said that global warming is a natural cycle of the earth and man doesn't have anything to do with it.

Welcome to the real world, Obama

Soon-to-be President Obama is suddenly finding out the difference between the world the presidential campaign and the world where we all live. Case in point, he is now starting to backpedal on his promise to shudown Gitmo within the first 100 days in office. Although he still says that closing the base in 100 days is his goal, he is now saying that "our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do", which is "politicalspeak" for "Hey, I know I said 100 days, but now, reality is setting in and maybe I was a bit too quick to open my mouth". Welcome to the real world, Obama. If it had easy to shutdown the place, don't you think President Bush would have done it a long time ago?

The law of unintended consequences

Yet another example of the law of unintended consequences, applications for concealed weapons permits in the state of Utah have quadrupled from four years ago and going along with that, gun sales in the state of Utah have gone up from just over 125,000 in 2007 to almost 140,000 in 2008. For those of you who are gun control advocates (otherwise know as "gun-fearing whoosies" on other blogs) and cannot fathom why this is happening, I only have two words for you: President Obama. Thanks to Obama, gun dealers in Utah are having a very good year.

Although he didn't really say much about gun control during the election, we all know that any statement and/or promise he may have made comes with an expiration date, ergo, it's best to "git yer gunz" now before Obama throws the 2nd Amendment under the bus and outlaws anything to do with the right to bear arms, 'cuz he's a liberal and that's what liberals do, pass laws against law-abiding citizens and kiss-up to criminals.

Maybe there is a Santa Claus afterall......

While surfing Al Gore's invention, I ran across this article in the WSJ. Although the article states that Brother Harry Reid is in an uphill re-election bid, it really doesn't give any specifics other than he has a low approval rating and a high disapproval rating. Still, it would be really nice if the people of Nevada gave him his walking papers so that he could be called as a LDS Church mission president. I'm sure the country would be better off without him in office.