Thanks to thousands of pages of “Warmergate” e-mails that were leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit’s (CRU) computers in England, we understand why it’s 18 degrees as we sit in the northeast and hammer out another essay (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens--Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html). The wind is roaring and it feels like four degrees and it isn’t even officially winter. Global warming? Hardly.

Despite the mainstream media’s lack of coverage and the Obama administration’s denial, there’s strong evidence that we’ve been lied to for years about human-caused climate change. Rush Limbaugh asserts that the “left has already corrupted science,” and that “it’s one of the four corners of deceit in the world” (The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 11, 2009). He’s right.

Warmergate, Climategate, Junk Science – call it what you will – shows that there is no integrity to the scientists and individuals, especially Al Gore, who have promoted the idea that planet Earth’s temperatures are the highest they’ve been in 1,300 years with their “hockey stick” chart. There’s strong evidence that these so-called scientists have fudged data and that “recent warming may not be unnatural or predominately caused by man at all” (Steven F. Hayward. “What Climategate Really Tells Us,” New York Post, December 12, 2009). This concocted crisis is good in one respect: it’s exposing to many the harm that’s been done to our economy, energy production, businesses and farms, thanks to the left’s promotion of and cover-up of a pseudoscience.

What’s there left to say to the instigators of Climategate but THANK YOU?  Yet even before the scandal that’s giving Al Gorites horrible nightmares hit, you didn’t have to be a scientist to scoff at the notion that humans and cows are breathing and farting the world into everlasting hellfire.  Study the cool temps we’ve experienced throughout the nation all year and you know that the global warming alarmists are just that – alarmists.

But don’t take our words for it.  There are enough scientists who don’t buy the global warming mythos (or Gore's horror movie) and are seeking the truth.  At least 30 thousand of them are suing Gore for perpetrating the Big Bad Warming Lie.

The e-mails in question reveal duplicity and worse on the part of some corrupt scientists.  Science is about shredding all other possibilities until a hypothesis stands alone and must be accepted as fact.  That’s not what has happened in this case.  Climate models have been distorted by data and code manipulation, which is certainly unscientific.

And don’t believe Al Gore’s claim that the series of e-mails in question were exchanged 10 years ago.  The shenanigans were in full swing as recently as last month.

While you’re at it, you’re better off dismissing anything and everything Al Gore tells you.  Remember, this is the guy who told us that just two kilometers below its surface, the earth is hotter than the sun.  He’s the same Gore who while touring Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello, came upon statues of George Washington and Ben Franklin and asked, “Who are these people?”  (Don’t buy it?  See the C-SPAN video for yourself here: http://www.mediaresearch.org/videobias/gore/welcome.asp .) Gore also once claimed that he invented the Internet.

Even as Obama planned his appearance at the Copenhagen energy conference to pledge America’s drastic reduction of energy consumption and emissions within the next few years, a few honest folk are still fighting for us.  Credit Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) for standing up to Obama.  The senior Republican on the House Select Committee for Energy and Global Warming went to Copenhagen to counter any Obama pledges.  Sensenbrenner wants “scientific fascism” to end now (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/09/sensenbrenner-climate-fascism/).  Many of us do.

Senate Republicans are also rallying to counter the nonsense.  28 senators want the United Nations to conduct its own investigation of the e-mails and hire an independent sleuth to get to the truth (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/10/gop-senators-urge-appoint-independent-investigator-climate-gate/).

We can save everyone a lot of money by simply using our heads.  (We are, as the frigid wind continues its wail outside and we continue to write.)  The earth’s moods, like the seasons, are cyclical.  Our planet cools and warms. Some suggest “that the ‘medieval warm period’ was considerably warmer than even 1998. Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD - yet the Earth still warmed” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens--Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html).

Human beings may affect these cycles to some degree, but do we have the power to breathe and fart ourselves to death?  It makes for a wild science fiction story but let’s emphasize the second part of the term.

In the end, science fiction may also explain Al Gore:  besides being a closet poet dying for an open mic night, he may also be a frustrated scribe of the fantastic.  Give the man another book contract if you must, publishers, but strive for honesty next go-round and slap the word SCI-FI on the spine of Gore’s next tome.

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos

OK would like to send out a big thank you to our troops serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout the world.  We’re thankful for these men and women who fight for our freedom.  We hoped that Obama would also express his gratitude, but he used his Thanksgiving Eve speech to send out a Haijj message to Muslims around the world.

In fact, in spite – and in some cases, because – of Barack Obama’s bad- and non-decision-making, there are at least eleven other reasons to be thankful on this holiday.  With that in mind, here’s our list of Top Reasons to Be Thankful on Thanksgiving 2009:

12. We still have private health insurance if we buy it – and aren’t yet thrown into jail if we elect not to buy it.

11. Illegal immigrants are still illegal and haven’t been given an umbrella pass into the fold without procedure.

10. As a result of the Ft. Hood massacre, we’re more aware of the extent to which political correctness has run amok and hamstrung our military and other law enforcement agencies.

9. The global warming hoax is being exposed for what it is: a hoax.

8. The liberal media continues to out itself as a hypocritical dying entity.  (The latest over-the-top examples: Chris Mathews stressing that it’s not a crime to E-mail al-Qaeda; The New York Times suddenly going sanctimonious and declaring it would not publish the hacked global warming E-mails because the newspaper doesn’t publish content that wasn’t meant for the public eye.  Is The Gray Lady suffering sudden memory loss?  What about the E-mails in Sarah Palin’s hacked mailbox, posts to which they provided a link?  What about The Pentagon Papers?)

7. We still have the freedom of speech.

6. We still have the right to bear arms.

5. We still have the right to practice the religion of our choice.

4. We’re Natural Born Citizens of this great country – and can prove it if called upon to do so.

3. We have a great circle of friends and fellow conservatives with whom we touch base at OK, We’re Right and Free Republic.

2. Our law enforcement officers and firefighters, who work hard to keep us safe each day.

1. Our troops, fighting for America’s freedom, short in number, thanks to Obama's ongoing procrastinations, but long in resolve, love of country and spiritual strength.

It’s been over two months since General McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, put out the call for more troops.  President Barack Hussein Obama continues to hem and haw and hold endless meetings to discuss the issue.  Maybe he’s too busy having parties with J-Lo and friends, compiling his enemies list, pushing healthcare, playing B ball and campaigning for fellow Dems to worry about such trivialities as warfare.  Meanwhile, things get worse abroad and more of our soldiers are paying the highest of price for an indecisive commander-in-chief.

Obama’s stalling is a perfect example of his methodology: vacillate and ignore a problem or fixate on discussion rather than action.  It’s inertia vs. movement.

President George W. Bush was all about action and movement.  People denigrated his cowboy diplomacy but he acted in the best interests of his country and those at risk.

Obama is standing still. He’s acting as if he were posing for an oil painting while America suffers.  He seems more interested in his celebrity status than the people he was elected to govern and protect.

When we do see Obama move, it’s to advance his personal legacy.  Consider that he still claims to have put an end to torture in the context of military interrogations when we never advocated it.  Consider that he continues to work to close Gitmo and bring terrorists to American soil.  (The Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens are under attack on a daily basis with Obama and his Marxist and Mao-loving camp, even as known terrorists will be given constitutional rights and tried in American courts.  OK imagines that so much of the information that could convict the terrorists will need to be omitted during their trials due to national security.  In other words, it's hard to feel confident that justice will be served.)

And Obama promises to make Cap and Trade a reality.  This on the heels of growing evidence that Al Gore's global warming is a hoax (and a profitable one that’s made the ex-vice president rich in spite of thousands of scientists who counter the issue and want to debate Gore on the issue; he refuses. He even had a reporter’s microphone cut when the questions concerning discrepancies in An Inconvenient Truth grew too warm and inconvenient).

Moreover, Obama promises to make national healthcare come to pass.  This is yet another power grab designed to dismantle the greatest healthcare system in the world.

In other words, when it comes to radically changing our country – for the worse – Obama hops to the task with a lilt in his step.  But when it comes to directing necessary attention to foreign policy and winning a war, he checks out.

How’s this for cowboy diplomacy:  “the strategic nuclear power of the United States has been so greatly modernized and expanded in the last 1,000 days, by the rapid production and deployment of the most modern missile systems, that any and all potential aggressors are clearly confronted now with the impossibility of strategic victory – and the certainty of total destruction – if by reckless attack they should ever force upon us the necessity of a strategic reply.”

Who spoke those words?  No one, actually – but President John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have, if he had lived long enough to make it to the Dallas Trade Mart the afternoon he was assassinated.  The differences between John Kennedy and Barack Obama – between being a Democrat in the Kennedy era and being a Democrat in the 21^st century – are profound.  JFK spoke often of peace in the world, but he understood the price that had to be paid in order to attain it.  His administration engaged in numerous clandestine activities designed to ensure America’s freedom and safety.  Obama’s vision of a pacifist world, on the other hand, is pure fantasy - a utopian dream.  Ultimately, it’s about ignoring a problem and hoping it goes away, rather than acting to fix it.

Obama’s M.O. also involves using the lamestream media to set up smokescreens and divert attention from a lack of decision on Afghanistan and our country’s most pressing issues.  We hear more about balloon boy hoaxes than about energy bills that will kill our already depleted bank accounts. We hear about Obama’s vow to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the military while our soldiers are imperiled abroad.  We hear about how baaaaaaaad FOX News is, how Obama will not grant it any interviews until at least 2010 and how it isn’t a true news facility.  The latter from Obama advisor David Axelrod, who also told ABC that FOX is undeserving of being treated as a true news organization: “the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we're not going to treat them that way” (Ann Sanner, “White House Continues Attack on Fox News,” October 19, 2009, http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/october/1019_wh_fox.shtml).

Here’s another line from John Kennedy’s undelivered speech:  “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”

Thankfully, more and more Americans – including many Obama supporters – are getting tired of the endless wordplay. They’re growing exasperated with the stalling and smoke and mirrors.  They comprehend that Obama is more about inaction than action.  The president’s approval rating has hit a new low. Obama's loyalties or lack thereof are drawing attention. Fewer are laughing when the birthers cry out that being a Natural Born Citizen is an important issue for U.S. presidents.  More Americans are questioning why Obama didn't embrace his Muslim root system until after he was elected.

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos

Self-righteous and self-anointed environmental activist Al Gore has helped to make global warming a household phrase. As with President Barack Hussein Obama, the liberal media would have us believe that Gore is supremely gifted. We’ll give them this similarity: Gore, like Obama is arrogant and projects a detached interest in serving the needs of others when in truth, he’s looking out for himself and his legacy.

Gore’s schtick is effective and lucrative. It snagged him a film contract (An Inconvenient Truth, 2006) and the Nobel Peace Prize (2007). The former Vice President continues to fly around the world in his jet, raking in big bucks for his speaking gigs, which usually amount to delivering the same global warming horror lecture. (OK’s advice: if you really feel compelled to hear Gore deliver, just rent the DVD of his film. You’ll get the same thing, minus a slide or two, and save big bucks.)

Earlier this month, Hartland Institute organized a New York City conference for scientists to dispute Gore’s contention that human beings are causing a catastrophic warming to our Earth. 500 people attended. The Hartland Institute website asserts, “The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say – over and over again, in every newspaper in the country practically every day and in countless news reports and documentary films. But they have lost the debate” (Corsi, “Scientists meet in NYC to challenge Gore, U.N.: Hundreds of experts assert 'alarmists' in climate debate 'have had their say'.” 3/4/09, World Net Daily News, www.wnd.com). S. Fred Singer, and Environmental scientist, kicked off the conference by releasing a report entitled, "Nature, Not Human Activity Rules the Climate," summarizing a three-year international scientific research project conducted by the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), which Singer headed (Corsi). Singer’s findings challenge Gore’s theory. "Al Gore and the U.N. have a fixation with the argument that we cause global warming," Singer said. "Besides that, look at the billions of tax dollars going into various schemes like subsidizing biofuels. We're being charged twice by the global warming alarmists – once in new taxes the U.N. is planning to impose on us and then again as consumers who will ultimately have to bear the cost of these new global taxes" (Corsi).

Singer and the Hartland Institute are not the only ones putting heat on Gore’s contention of man causing Global Warming. Last May, 31,000 scientists signed a petition rejecting Gore’s agenda. Bob Unruh reported that no informed experts endorse Gore’s movie. “More than 31,000 scientists across the U.S. – including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties – have signed a petition rejecting ‘global warming,’ the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate” (“Heat of the Moment: 31,000 scientists reject 'global warming' agenda: 'Mr. Gore's movie has claims no informed expert endorses,’” 5/19/09, www.wnd.com).

Skepticism also exists in the UN as the international scientific community disputes the UN’s media-hyped IPCC report. In fact, the U.S. Senate Minority Report cites over 700 international scientists who are skeptical of Gore’s contention (12/11/08).

Curiously – tellingly – Gore will not debate or address questions regarding his theory – despite reports that we had the coldest winter in 15 years and broke snowfall records in the southern United States.

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) rejected An Inconvenient Truth producers’ offer to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the film for free in Fall 2006 (The Conscious Earth, 11/27/06, consciousearth.blogspot.com). However, the younger audience is one that Gore continues to target with his junk science. In fact, we’re guessing that Gore knows that elementary and middle school-aged children will be receptive, won’t ask the tough questions and that they’re ripe for indoctrination. On January 19, 2009, Gore told a group of 12-year-old school children that they should believe in global warming even if their parents don’t (see Glenn Beck’s video on Fox News). During his speech, Gore told students, “New knowledge, new understandings are much more widely available sometimes to young people who are in school who aren't weighed down with the old flawed assumptions of the past.” Let’s hope his desire to transfer obedience from parents to his cult authority fails.

Al Gore’s call for thwarting global warming is a message for kids and adults and anyone but Al Gore. Millions of dollars are allocated for Green interests in the Stimulus Bill. Americans will soon be charged huge taxes in the cap and trade efforts to reduce our “carbon footprint.” If Gore is as passionately concerned about global warming as he would have us believe, why didn’t he turn off his lights and participate in Earth Hour on Saturday night, March 28?

Some reports show that despite Gore’s taking steps to make his mansion (and other homes) more environmentally friendly, he’s well above the average American household in energy consumption. It appears that in the final analysis, the former Vee Pee is another sanctimonious hypocrite who – like a sizable portion of the current administration in Washington – follows the edict, “Do as I say, not as I do.”