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RIP Tony Snow
America lost a strong conservative voice this weekend when former Fox News personality and President Bush’s third press secretary, Tony Snow, died at the age of 53, following a long battle with cancer. Snow had long been a best buy among news anchors and commentators, and was a long-standing host of Fox News Sunday prior to joining the Bush Administration.
I can certainly empathize with the Snow family, as my own mother is fighting a losing battle with cancer right now and we know that at best, she only has months left. It’s an incredibly painful reality and WonderfulPessimist.com extends our deepest and most sincere sympathies to all his family and friends.
Cancer recurrs on both sides of the aisle
If there’s one thing in this world that’s nonpartisan, it’s cancer.
In the past week, prominent figures from both parties have received bad cancer news. About a week ago, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic Senator and current presidential contender John Edwards, found out that her cancer was back.
The prominent breast cancer survivor received the worst possible news; not only has her cancer recurred, but it’s moved into her bones, is inoperable and incurable. For Mrs. Edwards, it’s now a matter of when, not if. The deepest sympathies of Wonderful Pessimist go out to her.
Over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow found out similar bad news. Snow beat colon cancer two years ago, but it’s back again, this time hitting his liver. Snow, it turns out, has a chance to beat back this second bout. His liver cancer has been determined to be potentially treatable, although his treatments will require him to step back from his White House duties for an undetermined period of time.
Again, the deepest sympathies of Wonderful Pessimist go out to him.
There is no political point to score with this post; I’m not even going to attempt to smoothly work in my reference to motorcycle sunglasses. Instead, it’s just a time out to say it’s been a crappy week for two political families and everyone who cares about them.
A moment of silence, please… use it as you will.
Bush considering new "global warming" policy?
The rumor mill is rife with the possibility – denied by White House press secretary Tony Snow – that President Bush may be set to reverse course and lay out a completely new “compassionate conservative” agenda for global warming. If this is the case, it’s probably because after January 2009, W. will be hanging up his address plaque somewhere other than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
Global warming is one of the biggest science scams to hit popular culture since Al Gore floated the idea that he personally invented the Internet. Strangely enough, the former Vice President is behind a lot of the global warming myth as well.
Even by the most conservative estimates, Earth is 6,000 years old and most scientists believe it’s millions and millions and millions of years old. Weather patterns that take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to go through are not only possible, but likely. In fact, a recent Harvard study – the most comprehensive of its kind – indicates this is the case and even supports the idea that we’re coming out of a period of global cooling, as well as the idea that as recently as the 1600s or so, global temps were far above what they are now and the world didn’t exactly end.
But don’t let facts stand in the way of panic merchants and scientists striving to protect their federally-funded research. Far be it from anyone to admit that there’s not a crisis, when only crisis-fueled research pulls in the grant money that employs all these panic-pushers… and Al Gore, who any day now should be announcing that he’s the one who created the Earth in seven days, not that glory-hound, God.
Stay the course, W! Global warming is a myth, even if the honest scientists to have the proof are repeatedly muzzled by the vested-interest global warming researchers who want to keep their jobs and their federal grant money flowing in unabated.
