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For a number of years now, the Grammy award for “Best Spoken Word Album” has been the most political. It has nothing to do with recording or performance quality and has degenerated down to the “political statement we most admire.”

A politician seeking a Grammy for his shelf, need do nothing more than read parts of his book in front of a microphone. Barack Obama (2008 & 2005), Jimmy Carter (2007), Bill Clinton (2004), Al Franken (2003 & 1996), and Hillary Clinton (Non Musical 1996), have all taken the award in the past.

This year, the award was taken by Al Gore for another version of “An “Inconvenient Truth”; a never-ending documentary, which has actually outlasted the warming. For those of you who are unaware (I was), there was an audio book version of the book version of the film version of his PowerPoint presentation. It was read by Beau Bridges, Blair Underwood, and Cynthia Nixon. (Apparently, it took three actors to get through the whole thing without falling asleep.)

Why are awards dominated by Leftists? While on the Right, achievement is ranked by material gain, for the Left, it’s awards and honorary degrees. What is in the leftist mentality that enjoys golden statues so much? Is there something in the mind of collectivists that makes a nodding approval from the group necessary for self-fulfillment?

On the left, awards are very important. Al Gore might be spouting gibberish disguised as science, (and his enormous carbon footprint is testament to how little he actually believes what he says) but the fact that he has a Nobel, an Emmy, an Oscar, and now a Grammy, is enough to label him a genius.

Scotland: Coldest night in 23 years for city

Warning of more snow to come after chaos
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ABERDEEN had its coldest February night in 23 years as icy conditions continued to freeze the region.

Temperatures dropped to as low as -15C (5F) overnight and barely reached 3C (37F) over the weekend.

Feb 3 - Tennessee - Mt. LeConte Lodge records coldest temp in more than 20 years

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The temperature at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Mt. LeConte Lodge dropped to 22 degrees below zero Tuesday night, and park officials say that's the coldest temperature recorded there since 1986.

Bob Miller with the park service says it was also the fourth coldest day since officials started keeping records in 1978.

"Besides being 22 below, the Park's closest weather station with wind measuring equipment - Cove Mtn in Sevier Couty, Tenn. - reported gusts up to 45 mph (Tuesday) night," Miller says. "That works out to a wind chill of -60 degrees. At 60 below exposed flesh will be frostbitten in four minutes."