I am guessing no one asked the little polar bear cub if it particularly minded being human raised in captivity.

Jerks.  What hypocrites.  To protect it, it must die?  This is how we protect animals?

The abandoned cub who faces death sentence

A fluffy polar bear cub called Knut, who has become a media celebrity, should be given a lethal injection according to German zoologists, who say he has become too dependent on humans.

Their controversial claims have provoked a public outcry and a debate about the treatment of zoo animals.

The male cub is the first baby polar bear to survive in Berlin zoo for 30 years. After he was born on December 5 last year, his mother, Tosca, a grumpy 20-year-old former East German circus bear, put Knut and his brother out to die on a rock in the bear pit. Keepers scooped the cubs out of the compound with a fishing net and placed them in an incubator.

I wanna beat the crap outa this guy:

“Hand-feeding is not appropriate to the species and is a grave violation of the animal protection laws,” said Frank Albrecht, an animal rights campaigner. “Legally speaking, the zoo should kill the baby bear. Otherwise it is condemning the bear to a dysfunctional life and that too is a breach of the law.”

Behold the face of evil:

And here is video of the horrible beast which even animal rights activist insist is too cute to be safe.

Clearly it must die.  People all over the world will be safer with this horrible threat gone.

Idiots…

Hat tip Sister Toldjah, BCB and Hot Air

For some reason when they did their research they failed to fully account for the Pharoh’s SUVs.

NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records

Scientists have traditionally relied upon indirect data gathering methods to study climate in the Earth’s past, such as drilling ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica. Such samples of accumulated snow and ice drilled from deep within ice sheets or glaciers contain trapped air bubbles whose composition can provide a picture of past climate conditions. Now, however, a group of NASA and university scientists has found a convincing link between long-term solar and climate variability in a unique and unexpected source: directly measured ancient water level records of the Nile, Earth’s longest river.

Alexander Ruzmaikin and Joan Feynman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., together with Dr. Yuk Yung of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., have analyzed Egyptian records of annual Nile water levels collected between 622 and 1470 A.D. at Rawdah Island in Cairo. These records were then compared to another well-documented human record from the same time period: observations of the number of auroras reported per decade in the Northern Hemisphere. Auroras are bright glows in the night sky that happen when mass is rapidly ejected from the sun’s corona, or following solar flares. They are an excellent means of tracking variations in the sun’s activity.

“Since the time of the pharaohs, the water levels of the Nile were accurately measured, since they were critically important for agriculture and the preservation of temples in Egypt,” she said. “These records are highly accurate and were obtained directly, making them a rare and unique resource for climatologists to peer back in time.”

A similarly accurate record exists for auroral activity during the same time period in northern Europe and the Far East. People there routinely and carefully observed and recorded auroral activity, because auroras were believed to portend future disasters, such as droughts and the deaths of kings.

The 4 years mark was of course marked with the usual moonbat protests.

What is ironic is how the Socialists are hijacking the anti war movement to move us closer to Socialism.  They contend that if we stop funding for the war we can build school, get socialized medicine, create jobs, build gulags….

Drop in at Little Green Footballs, Hot Air or Michelle Malkin for enough pictures and stories to make your blood boil.  And Sister Toldjah has some great links as well.

LGF includes the mandatory flag burning and the moonbats even burn a US soldier in effigy. 

See how the Liberals support the troops?  The F*** the Troops sign says it all.

Maybe I will catalog that tomorrow.

But behind it all, the question remains about what we are doing and its worth.

Bryan Suits tonight asserted that he could not envision a world today where we did not end up taking out Saddam.  I agree.  It may not have happened 4 years ago, but it would have happened. 

So does Christopher Hitchens.

Here are some excerpts form his must read Slate column.

So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren’t You Wrong About Iraq?

Four years after the first coalition soldiers crossed the Iraqi border, one can attract pitying looks (at best) if one does not take the view that the whole engagement could have been and should have been avoided. Those who were opposed to the operation from the beginning now claim vindication, and many of those who supported it say that if they had known then what they know now, they would have spoken or voted differently.

What exactly does it mean to take the latter position? At what point, in other words, ought the putative supporter to have stepped off the train? The question isn’t as easy to answer as some people would have you believe. Suppose we run through the actual timeline: