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Saturday, July 19, 2008
OBAMA IS METEORIC...
OBAMA HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS METEORIC BY MANY.
148,000 HITS AT GOOGLE FOR "OBAMA + METEORIC".
WELL... IS THE ANALOGY IS ACCURATE?
OBAMA IS METEORIC IN SOME WAYS...
HE APPEARED SUDDENLY AND IS THE CENTER OF ATTENTION
LIKE A FLASH ACROSS THE NIGHTTIME SKY......
148,000 HITS AT GOOGLE FOR "OBAMA + METEORIC".
WELL... IS THE ANALOGY IS ACCURATE?
OBAMA IS METEORIC IN SOME WAYS...
HE APPEARED SUDDENLY AND IS THE CENTER OF ATTENTION
LIKE A FLASH ACROSS THE NIGHTTIME SKY......
... LIKE OBAMA, METEORS SUDDENLY APPEAR
AND MAKE A HUGE FLASH ACROSS THE SKY...
BEFORE BURNING OUT...
AND EITHER TURNING TO ASHES...
OR CRASHING.
YEAH: I GUESS THE ANALOGY IS OKAY... FOR NOW.
OBAMA IS METEORIC, SO FAR....
I JUST HOPE HE'S NOT A BIG AS PEOPLE SAY,
AND THAT HE EITHER BURNS UP IN MID AIR,
OR MISSES.
CUZ AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY... THAT WOULD LEAVE A BAD MARK.
AND MAKE A HUGE FLASH ACROSS THE SKY...
BEFORE BURNING OUT...
AND EITHER TURNING TO ASHES...
OR CRASHING.YEAH: I GUESS THE ANALOGY IS OKAY... FOR NOW.
OBAMA IS METEORIC, SO FAR....
I JUST HOPE HE'S NOT A BIG AS PEOPLE SAY,
AND THAT HE EITHER BURNS UP IN MID AIR,
OR MISSES.
CUZ AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY... THAT WOULD LEAVE A BAD MARK.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
GUARANTEED PHOTOSHOPPED
THIS PHOTO IS FAKE BUT ACCURATE.
(MOVE ALONG: THAT WOMAN IS WEARING A HAT, NOT A HEADSCARF.)
(MOVE ALONG: THAT WOMAN IS WEARING A HAT, NOT A HEADSCARF.)
TEXAS - THE HOME OF BUSHITLER MCHALLIBURTON - LEADS THE NATION IN WIND-POWER
THIS GOES ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT DUBYA'S HOME IS MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT THAN AL GORES:
Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Project
Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project, providing a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state.
The planned web of transmission lines will carry electricity from remote western parts of the state to major population centers like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. The lines can handle 18,500 megawatts of power, enough for 3.7 million homes on a hot day when air-conditioners are running.
The project will ease a bottleneck that has become a major obstacle to development of the wind-rich Texas Panhandle and other areas suitable for wind generation.Texas is already the largest producer of wind power, with 5,300 installed megawatts — more than double the installed capacity of California, the next closest state. And Texas is fast expanding its capacity.
- THE LEFTIES THINK THAT TEXAS OILMEN LIKE BUSHILTER AND CHENEY MC HALLIBURTON SUCK OIL OUT OF THE MOTHER EARTH LIKE VAMPIRES ON VIRGINS.
- BUT REALITY IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE LEFTIES VERSION OF IT.
- MEANWHILE, THE UTOPIANISTIC SOCIALISTS RUNNING IRAN WANT TO ENRICH URANIUM TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR ENERGY NEEDS.
- THEY DON'T NEED TO: THE INT'L COMMUNITY WILL GIVE THEM ALL THE URANIUM THEY CAN USE --- FOR POWER GENERATION.
- AND IF THEY WANTED TO, THEY COULD INVEST IN WIND-POWER, LIKE THE EVIL TEXANS.
THAT'S SAYS EVERYTHING.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
AL GORE IS AN EFFIN MORON WRONG ABOUT AGW AND IRAQ AND THE STAUS QUO
POLITICO: Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq
In a surprise appearance at Netroots Nation — which apparently was the worst-kept secret in Austin, Texas — former Vice President Al Gore followed up a speech by Nancy Pelosi by laying out a narrative on climate change and the energy crisis that seems ready-made for the Obama campaign to download.UN-BE-FREAKIN-LIEVABLE!
“If you look at the seriousness of the climate crisis, you see how it ties to the economic crisis and the national security threat that we face,” he said. “200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.”
“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.
“The defenders of the status quo are the ones who have dug us into this hole,” he said, commenting that Americans have been “so often fooled into finding a remedy for a problem" that has nothing to do with the problem at hand — pointing to the invasion of Iraq when America was attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan as an example.
- THE DEMS ARE DEFENDING THE ANTI-DOMESTIC DRILLING/ANTI-OFF-SHORE DRILLING STATUS QUO.
- THE GOP IS FOR CHANGE.
- THE DEMS WANT TO REPEAL THE LAW OF SUPPLY&DEMAND.
- THE DEMS ARE IN AGW FANTASYLAND: THERE'S BEEN NO GLOBAL WARMING SINCE 1998, AND IT WHAT LITTLE THERE HAS BEEN THE LAST CENTURY WASN'T CAUSED BY MAN-MADE CO2.
- THE DEMS WANTED TO SURRENDER IRAQ.
- THE DEMS: FREAKIN MORONS.
MORE HERE.
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BOTH-WAYS BARACK: CAKE-EATER/HAVER
EITHER YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CAKE OR YOU CAN EAT IT; YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS - UNLESS YOU'RE THE OBAMAMESSIAH!BOTH WAYS BARACK:
(VIA HOT AIR)
People are saying that Senator Obama’s recent changes of position have made him a flip-flopper. He’s not! Flip-floppers only hold one position at a time. Senator Obama is different: he holds two positions at the same time. Both ways on banning handguns. Both ways on public campaign financing. And now, both ways on withdrawing from Iraq. He’s ‘Both Ways Barack.’ Worse than a flip-flopper!CLICK FOR VIDEO.
OBAMA, HAGEL AND OLBERMANN ON IRAQ: WRONG, WRONG, WRONG
I'M POSTING THIS BECAUSE HAGEL IS WITH OBAMA NOW - IN AFGHANISTAN.
TAKE AN ANTI-NAUSEA PILL AND WATCH IT.
- IT'S AMAZING HOW WRONG AND BOMBASTIC THESE TWO ASSHOLES ARE.
- THIS WAS IN MARCH - ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO, AND THEY WERE STILL WHINING ABOUT HOW WE WERE LOSING.
- SHEESH.
- HAGEL WOULD BE A GREAT VEEP FOR OBAMA: ANOTHER APPEASING ASSHOLE WHO DOESN'T KNOW JACK-SH*T.
- AND YA GOTTA LAUGH AT THE BREATHLESSLY BOMBASTIC "REPORTAGE/ANALYSIS" FROM OLBERMANN. WHATAFREAKIN' MORON.
- HE'D MAKE THE PERFECT PRESS SECRETARY FOR OBAMA!
HERE'S MCCAIN LAST YEAR!
- IF YOU WANT A PERSON WHO WAS DEAD-WRONG ON THE SURGE TO BECOME COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, THEN BY ALL MEANS VOTE FOR OBAMA.
- IF YOU WANT A PERSON WHO CAN PROPERLY MAKE THE TOUGH DECISIONS IN WAR, THEN YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CHOICE: MCCAIN.
REED, OBAMA AND HAGEL: THREE BLIND MICE.
IT'S TIME TO ATTACK IRAN - NOW
NYTIMES:
IF THEY SAY THERE'S NO POINT IN TALKING, THEN THERE'S NO POINT IN TALKING.
HOW MANY TIMES DO THEY HAVE TO SAY IT!?!?!
START ATTACKING, NOW.
IT'S THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE NON-PROLIFERATION.
NOW, IT'S THE ONLY WAY.
TALKING WILL NOT STOP IT.
DO YOU THINK IT'S TOO SOON TO ATTACK IRAN?
DO YOU THINK WE NEED TO TALK MORE, TO TALK UNTIL WE'RE 100% SURE OF WHAT THEY'RE UP TO?
There's only one way for us to be 100% sure that the time for talking is over: that's when they announce they have nukes and then it's too late.
a senior Iranian diplomat at the Geneva talks said: "Of course we will not discuss the freeze-for-freeze topic in the next meeting with Solana. First we would like to discuss the common points and if an agreement is reached then we can discuss our differences."THAT'S IT.
"The freeze-for-freeze issue cannot be accepted because this (enrichment) is our right and we will never abandon our nuclear right," he added.
IF THEY SAY THERE'S NO POINT IN TALKING, THEN THERE'S NO POINT IN TALKING.
HOW MANY TIMES DO THEY HAVE TO SAY IT!?!?!
START ATTACKING, NOW.
IT'S THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE NON-PROLIFERATION.
NOW, IT'S THE ONLY WAY.
TALKING WILL NOT STOP IT.
DO YOU THINK IT'S TOO SOON TO ATTACK IRAN?
DO YOU THINK WE NEED TO TALK MORE, TO TALK UNTIL WE'RE 100% SURE OF WHAT THEY'RE UP TO?
There's only one way for us to be 100% sure that the time for talking is over: that's when they announce they have nukes and then it's too late.
MSM SPINNING VICTORY IN IRAQ AS IF IT VINDICATES OBAMA AND THE ANTI-SURGE DOVES
GATEWAY:
BOTTOM-LIME: THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MSM IS FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES A PART OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN MACHINE.
OBAMA THE DEMS AND THE MSM DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO HELP AL QAEDA AN IRAN WIN IN IRAQ.
THEY FAILED IN THAT EFFORT; THEY WILL FAIL TO ELECT OBAMA, TOO.
If Barack Obama would have had his way Iraq would be lost to Al-Qaeda and Iran and the Middle East would be in complete turmoil. As Peter Wehner put it:RTWT."Obama, was not only wrong about the surge; he was spectacularly wrong.Instead, the War in Iraq is won and the US surge troops are returning home in victory.
So, what is the media supposed to do with their favorite son who shrugged at genocide in Iraq?
They're going to play it off like Obama was right...
Reuters today announced that PM Maliki backs Obama troop exit plan.
BOTTOM-LIME: THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MSM IS FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES A PART OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN MACHINE.
OBAMA THE DEMS AND THE MSM DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO HELP AL QAEDA AN IRAN WIN IN IRAQ.
THEY FAILED IN THAT EFFORT; THEY WILL FAIL TO ELECT OBAMA, TOO.
WHAT'S OBAMA HIDING? MEDICAL RECORDS
SWEET: Obama releases medical information: "excellent health."
Likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is in "excellent health," according to a summary of Obama medical records released on Thursday.
The 276-word summary was written by Dr. David L. Scheiner, the Chicago doctor who has been Obama's personal physician since March, 1987. Obama has not had a check-up in more than a year. Scheiner described Obama as "lean and muscular with no excess body fat." Obama is still using Nicorette gum to stay off cigarettes--he has quit smoking several times, his doctor notes.
Highlights:
*Triglycerides of 44(normal under 150), cholesterol 173 (normal under 200), HDL 68 (normal over 40), and LDL 96 (normal under 130). Chem 24, urinalysis and CBC were normal, PSA was 0.6, very good. An EKG was normal.
The Obama campaign decided to release this summary of Obama's health status at this time to contrast with the long medical history of GOP presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Az.).
The McCain campaign last week allowed a select group of reporters to study McCain's more complex medical history, complicated because of his skin cancer and injuries suffered while serving in the military and as a prisoner of war in Viet Nam.
- MCCAIN HAS RELEASED EVERYTHING.
- OBAMA HASN'T.
- WHAT'S HE HIDING, S.T.D. TREATMENTS?
- UNTIL OBAMA RELEASES IT ALL, ANY SPECULATION IS FAIR.
British regulators uphold accuracy of "Swindle" film
On Monday Ofcom is expected to publish a long-awaited report that upholds claims by some of the scientists who appeared in the programme last year that they were misrepresented. The Great Global Warming Swindle, which aired in March last year, has been accused of downplaying the threat in the public mind. It sparked an outcry among environmentalists and many campaigners argue that the programme has contributed to people believing that the threat is not real.
It is understood that complaints by Carl Wunsch, a climate expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be upheld. The regulator is expected to say that Channel 4 should have told Dr Wunsch that the programme was going to be a polemic. The regulator will also uphold complaints made by the government’s former chief scientist, Sir David King, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But the broadcaster will not be censured over a second complaint about accuracy, which contained 131 specific points and ran to 270 pages, with Ofcom finding that it did not mislead the public.
Debate has raged since the programme was shown, with many scientists claiming that it misrepresented evidence about the threat of global warming and that it rehashed discredited arguments and skewed data and charts to make its arguments stand up. In the closing moments of the program a voiceover from the climate change sceptic Fred Singer claimed that the Chief Scientist of the UK had said that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the planet would be in the Antarctic and that “humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who moved to the Antarctic”. Sir David has never made such a statement. It is thought that Mr Singer confused the comments with those made by the scientist James Lovelock, who infuriated many colleagues in the science community when he publicly questioned global warming.
Ofcom is expected to find that the programme made significant allegations against the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, questioning its credibility and failed to offer it timely and appropriate opportunity to respond. Channel 4 argues that the organisation refused to cooperate with the programme-makers.
After the broadcast, Dr Wunsch said that the programme was as close to pure propaganda as anything since the Second World War and that he was duped into appearing on it. Martin Durkin, the director of the programme, has defended it vigorously. He wrote in a newspaper: “The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”
The producers have sold the programme to 21 other countries and a global DVD release went ahead despite protests from scientists. Channel 4 claimed that the public response to the programme, in the form of phone calls it received, was six to one in favour of it. The broadcaster said that the documentary was a useful contribution to a timely debate, arguing that it had a tradition for iconoclastic programming and that it had also aired programmes supporting the case for man-made climate change.
More here
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
It is understood that complaints by Carl Wunsch, a climate expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be upheld. The regulator is expected to say that Channel 4 should have told Dr Wunsch that the programme was going to be a polemic. The regulator will also uphold complaints made by the government’s former chief scientist, Sir David King, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But the broadcaster will not be censured over a second complaint about accuracy, which contained 131 specific points and ran to 270 pages, with Ofcom finding that it did not mislead the public.
Debate has raged since the programme was shown, with many scientists claiming that it misrepresented evidence about the threat of global warming and that it rehashed discredited arguments and skewed data and charts to make its arguments stand up. In the closing moments of the program a voiceover from the climate change sceptic Fred Singer claimed that the Chief Scientist of the UK had said that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the planet would be in the Antarctic and that “humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who moved to the Antarctic”. Sir David has never made such a statement. It is thought that Mr Singer confused the comments with those made by the scientist James Lovelock, who infuriated many colleagues in the science community when he publicly questioned global warming.
Ofcom is expected to find that the programme made significant allegations against the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, questioning its credibility and failed to offer it timely and appropriate opportunity to respond. Channel 4 argues that the organisation refused to cooperate with the programme-makers.
After the broadcast, Dr Wunsch said that the programme was as close to pure propaganda as anything since the Second World War and that he was duped into appearing on it. Martin Durkin, the director of the programme, has defended it vigorously. He wrote in a newspaper: “The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”
The producers have sold the programme to 21 other countries and a global DVD release went ahead despite protests from scientists. Channel 4 claimed that the public response to the programme, in the form of phone calls it received, was six to one in favour of it. The broadcaster said that the documentary was a useful contribution to a timely debate, arguing that it had a tradition for iconoclastic programming and that it had also aired programmes supporting the case for man-made climate change.
More here
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
OBAMA ON HIS FIRST TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN
"Obama's first visit to Afghanistan..."THAT SAYS IT ALL FOLKS.
- OBAMA'S BEEN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT FOR TWO YEARS AND IS GOING THERE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
- AND HE SAYS THIS IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE CENTRAL FRONT IN THE GWOT.
- IF HE REALLY BELIEVED IT, THEN WHY DIDN'T HE GO BEFORE!?
- BECAUSE HE'S A PHONY AND A LIAR.
VIDEO:
DIG THIS QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO: OBAMA: "I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN A STRONG SENSE OF IS OUR LONG-TERM STRATEGY."
SO WHAT DOES HE DO ON THE TRIP: PLAY HOOPS WITH SOME TROOPS.
SHEESH. WAY TO GATHER FACTS BARACK BABY!
SHEESH.
AT LEAST HE ADMITS HIS IGNORANCE!
COMPLETE ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.
MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: IT'S MID-JULY AND THERE'S STILL BEEN NO ARCTIC ICE MELT
PICTURES HERE.
Is there anything the Left is right about!?
Nope.
Let's make a list of the main issues of the Left:
Which means, that the core - the very heart and soul of leftism is false, based on faulty descriptions of reality and faulty analysis.
And their prescriptions wouldn't work even if the problems they describe were real.
Truly leftism is an intellectually and morally bankrupt ideology.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
Is there anything the Left is right about!?
Nope.
Let's make a list of the main issues of the Left:
AGW; Iraq is lost; 45 million American have no health insurance; nations with socialized/nationalized healthcare have better care than the USA; the rich aren't taxed enough; the world is running out of oil; Bush is Hitleresque, (but FDR - who actually interned US citizens - is a demi-god); Iraq was better off under Saddam; Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were gulags where innocent people were deliberately tortured as a matter of policy; water-boarding is torture; Europe hates us; border security is racist; profiling is racist; Republicans are racist; affirmative action is NOT racist; maintaining and expanding preeminent US military strength is threatening and destabilizing; off-shore drilling pollutes coasts - or risks it; the UN has greater moral authority than the USA; jihad is not a global threat; free trade hurts workers and reduces employment rates - AND SO ON.Every single one of the items on that list is false.
Which means, that the core - the very heart and soul of leftism is false, based on faulty descriptions of reality and faulty analysis.
And their prescriptions wouldn't work even if the problems they describe were real.
Truly leftism is an intellectually and morally bankrupt ideology.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
AGW: AN EXCUSE FOR LEFT-WING "SOCIAL-ENGINEERING"
WSJ:
AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: THEY WANT TO RUN YOUR LIVES:
IF OBAMA IS ELECTED THEN THE USA WILL TRAVEL WAY ON DOWN THIS ROAD TO SERFDOM: EVERYONE WILL HAVE LESS LIBERTY AND LESS PROSPERITY.
AND LESS SECURITY, TOO.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
In the 1960s, California Gov. Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown laid the foundation for building modern, suburban California with massive new highway projects and one of the most significant public water projects in history. The resulting infrastructure gave us broad, low-density developments with room for millions of Californians to have a home with a backyard and two cars in the driveway.YEAH: MOONBEAM JERRY BROWN.
Those were the good old days. Today, Pat Brown's son Jerry is waging war on the very communities his father helped make possible. Why? Global warming.
... Brown is not above using coercion to create the demographic patterns he wants. In recent months, he has threatened to file suit against municipalities that shun high-density housing in favor of building new suburban singe-family homes, on the grounds that they will pollute the environment.
He is also backing controversial legislation -- Senate bill 375 -- moving through the state legislature that would restrict state highway funds to communities that refuse to adopt "smart growth" development plans.
"We have to get the people from the suburbs to start coming back" to the cities, Mr. Brown told planning experts in March.
- SOUNDS A LOT LIKE POL POT'S UTOPIAN PLAN, ONLY IN REVERSE.
- LEFTISTS ARE UTOPIANISTS WHO WANNA SPEND YOUR MONEY AND RUN YOUR LIVES.
- OBAMA IS ONE OF THEM.
AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: THEY WANT TO RUN YOUR LIVES:
In a huge document released last Friday, the EPA lays out the thousands of carbon controls with which they'd like to shackle the whole economy.WE MUST STOP THE MADNESS!
Central planning is too artful a term for the EPA's nanomanagement.
Thankfully none of it has the force of law -- yet. However, the Bush Administration has done a public service by opening this window on new-wave green thinking like Mr. Gore's, and previewing what Democrats have in mind for next year.
The mess began in 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Mass. v. EPA that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" under current environmental laws, despite the fact that the laws were written decades before the climate-change panic. The EPA was ordered to regulate if it decides that carbon emissions are a danger to the public. The 588-page "advance notice of proposed rulemaking" lays out how the EPA would like it to work in practice.
IF OBAMA IS ELECTED THEN THE USA WILL TRAVEL WAY ON DOWN THIS ROAD TO SERFDOM: EVERYONE WILL HAVE LESS LIBERTY AND LESS PROSPERITY.
AND LESS SECURITY, TOO.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
CLIMATE DOWN UNDER: TEMPERATURES WAY DOWN
CCC - (7/15) : Cold Weather grips Southern Australia
After a mild June, southern Australia is in the middle of an extreme cold spell, with snow falling in parts of Victoria and New South Wales while high temperatures have been well below normal across much of the southern portion of the country.AGW = BS.
BREAKING: BAD NEWS FOR THE DEMOCRATS: SUNNIS REJOIN IRAQI CABINET
BBC:
THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT IRAN, AL QAEDA AND OBAMA.
The main Sunni Muslim bloc in Iraq has rejoined the Shia-led government, in a significant lift for Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
The return of six ministers from the Accordance Front to the cabinet was approved by lawmakers.
The Sunni bloc withdrew almost a year ago following a row over power-sharing.
A spokesman for the Accordance Front said its return was a significant step forward for political reform in the predominantly Shia country.
Friday, July 18, 2008
MORE "BRILLIANT" JUDGMENT FROM OBAMA: OBAMA TO HOLD RALLY AT A PRUSSIAN MEMORIAL TO MILITARISM
INSANE:
AND OBAMA HAS BAD JUDGMENT.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS INCOMPETENT.'Lightworker' Candidate To Speak Before Angelic Column
Campaign Spot reader Tim tells me Berliner Morgenpost is reporting that the Obama campaign and Berlin city authorities have agreed on the location for his speech next week, the Great Star (Grosser Stern), where seven streets intersect. It lies in the middle of the big park in the center of Berlin, the Tiergarten. It is a totally non-descript place except for one thing.
The Victory Column (Siegessaeule) is there and Sen. Obama will speak directly in front of it.
The Victory Column is a tower over 700 feet high and is a monument to Prussia's victories in wars against Denmark, Austria and France in the 19th century
... Sen. Obama will certainly get his cheering crowd and will most likely appear "Presidential" on TV news. I don't think, though, that he will help himself much with other European countries by appearing in front of what they regard with justification as a monument to Prussian militarism (which also cost American lives).
This will likely be something long remembered negatively throughout Europe.
I suppose that Sen. Obama will next choose to speak at the Yasukuni shrine when he goes to Japan.
AND OBAMA HAS BAD JUDGMENT.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
NEARLY 25% OF HUMAN BIRD FLU CASES IN INDONESIA ARE H2H
THIS IS REALLY BAD NEWS:
THIS MAY BECOME THE BIGGEST ISSUE NEXT YEAR - AFTER IRAN...
Frequent Human H5N1 Transmission in IndonesiaWE ARE WAY CLOSER TO THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC THAN THE MSM IS REPORTING.
Recombinomics Commentary 00:30
July 18, 2008
The MOH report also says that 24% of the 116 cases "occurred in 10 clusters of blood-related family members."
But the report offers no opinion on how many cases of person-to-person transmission occurred. As reported previously, person-to-person transmission was considered likely in a widely publicized cluster of eight cases (seven confirmed, one probable) in Sumatra in May 2006.
WHO reports on the Indonesian cases so far this year show only one family case cluster, involving a 38-year-old woman from West Jakarta, who fell ill in late January, and her 15-year-old daughter, who got sick in early February.
THIS MAY BECOME THE BIGGEST ISSUE NEXT YEAR - AFTER IRAN...
BUSH VERSUS OBAMA: BUSHITLER VERSUS BULLSHITTER
OBAMA AND HIS ACOLYTES ARE FOND OF CHALLENGING THE ELECTORATE BY ASKING IF WE WANT ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF BUSH.
THIS IS UNFAIR TO MCCAIN, BUT ILLUMINATING, NONETHELESS.
THE BUSH-OBAMA OPPOSITION IS VERY ILLUMINATING.
- DUBYA COULDN'T TALK PRETTY, BUT HE TOLD THE TRUTH AND WASN'T AFRAID OF DOING THE RIGHT THING EVEN IF IT WAS UNPOPULAR.
- OBAMA TALKS PRETTY AND LIES CONSTANTLY.
BOTH CONCEPTIONS ARE WAY OFF.
THIS IS TYPICAL OF LEFTISTS. THEY GET NOTHING RIGHT:
- AGW;
- DEFEAT IN IRAQ;
- THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS/45 MILLION UNINSURED;
- ABU GRAIB/GITMO = GULAGS -
- ALL OF THESE ANALYSES & ANALOGIES WAY OFF THE MARK, BUT THEY ARE ANALYSES & ANALOGIES LEFTISTS NEVERTHELESS ASCRIBE ONTOLOGICAL VERACITY IN, WHAT I CALL THE "AS/IS" CONFLATION".
- THIS CONFLATION IS A LOGICAL FALLACY - ENOUGH TO TURN OFF A SANE PERSON.
- WHAT'S WORSE IS THAT THE ANALOGIES ARE SO WACKY.
- THE LOONY LEFT IS WAY WACKIER NOW THAN IN 1972 WHEN THEY NOMINATED MCGOVERN.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
GREENHOUSE AUSTRALIA
Now that Australia's new centre-Left Prime Minister is has pushed climate policy to the top of the national agenda as a convenient mask for his lack of any new ideas, the debate over "Greenhouse" is very lively in Australia. And, thanks to the Murdoch press, skeptical viewpoints are occasionally getting a good airing. The two articles on the subject reproduced below are particularly powerful
Top Australian Greenhouse expert now a skeptic
By David Evans
I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.
But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:
1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever. If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot. Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you'd believe anything.
2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.
3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.
4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.
None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance. The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician's assertion.
Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming. So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions. In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved. If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don't you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?
The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory.
What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.
The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.
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Evidence doesn't bear out alarmist claims of global warming
Andrew Bolt tells Kevin Rudd stuff the Ruddy one does not want to hear. No Leftist wants to have their current best toy taken away from them
THESE are the seven graphs that should make the Rudd Government feel sick. These are the seven graphs that should make you ask: What? Has global warming now stopped? Look for yourself. They show that the world hasn't warmed for a decade, and has even cooled for several years.
Sea ice now isn't melting, but spreading. The seas have not just stopped rising, but started to fall. Nor is the weather getting wilder. Cyclones, as well as tornadoes and hurricanes, aren't increasing and the rain in Australia hasn't stopped falling. What's more, the slight warming we saw over the century until 1998 still makes the world no hotter today than it was 1000 years ago. In fact, it's even a bit cooler. So, dude, where's my global warming?
These graphs should in fact be good news for the Government and all the other warming preachers who warned we were doomed by our gases, which were heating the world to hell. Now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can at last stop sweating about the warming terrors he told us were coming - the horrific droughts, the dengue fever, the malaria, the devastation to our land and economy. And he can announce that, hey, emergency over for now. His emissions trading scheme will go into deep freeze while he checks this good news.
As for his promise this week to make your power bills go up $200 a year to stop global warming? His promise to make even food more expensive? To put gassy companies out of business, and their workers out of a job? Cancel all that. As you were, soldier. Good news has come from the front.
But now you can see why these graphs terrify Rudd, who has never admitted to a single fact they contain. You think he dares admit he panicked you for no good reason? Wasted countless millions of dollars?
Yet the facts are stark: The world simply isn't warming as he and his pet scientists said. That's why 31,000 other scientists, including world figures such as physicist Prof Freeman Dyson, atmospheric physicist Prof Richard Lindzen and climate scientist Prof Fred Singer, issued a joint letter last month warning governments not to jump on board the global warming bandwagon. "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate."
That's why Ivar Glaever, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics, this month declared "I am a sceptic", because "we don't really know what the actual effect on the climate is". And it's why the American Physical Society this month said "there is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."
So let me go through my seven graphs that help to explain why even Nobel Prize winners question what Rudd keeps claiming -- that man is warming the world, and dangerously. The main graph is from the Hadley Centre of Britain's Meteorological Office and one of the four bodies measuring world temperature. As you see, since 1998 -- an unusually warm year thanks to the "El Nino" pool of warmer water in the Pacific -- the world's temperature dropped back to a steady plateau, followed by a few years of cooling.
The second graph confirms both the halt in warming, and then cooling. It's from another of those four bodies, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which monitors the troposphere -- from the ground to 12km altitude. Only one of the four, in fact, claims temperatures are still rising. That's NASA, whose program is run by Dr James Hanson, Al Gore's global warming adviser and a controversial catastrophist whose team's reworking of data has been heavily criticised for exaggerating any heating.
But before I go on, a caveat: This recent cooling doesn't disprove the theory that man is warming the world. Ten years is too short to be sure of a trend. Natural factors may for now be countering the effect of our gases. Then again, the theory that man has warmed the world is based on a rise in temperature over a period that's not much longer -- from just 1975 to 1998. And the computer climate models that scientists use to predict catastrophic warming a century from now somehow never predicted a cooling that's happening right now. And these are the models Rudd is betting on with our jobs and cash.
The third graph shows another surprise those models never predicted: the seas have stopped rising. The waters have crept up for at least 150 years, since the world started to thaw from the Little Ice Age, and well before any likely man-made warming. But the climate models predicted that a big rise in emissions from all those cars, power plants and factories since World War II would cause an equally big rise in the seas, swelling them as much as 59cm by 2100. This wasn't scary enough for alarmists like Al Gore, though, who claimed whole cities could in fact be drowned under 6m of ocean.
But the satellites that have checked sea levels since 1992 find the seas have instead fallen over the past two years. Again, this could be a blip. But it isn't what the models predicted.
The fourth graph seems to confirm a cooling. Forget media scares about a melting North Pole; sea ice has grown so fast in the southern hemisphere there is now more ice in the world than is usual, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Graph five punctures another scare. No, global warming hasn't given us more cyclones - or more tornadoes or hurricanes anywhere. Nor is their proof that cyclones are getting worse, says the American Meteorological Society. And warming hasn't stopped our rain, either, despite media hype about a "one-in-a-100 year drought". See the Bureau of Meteorology records in graph six. It's just bad luck that the fickle rain now tends to fall where it's not needed most.
And, please, can we drop that old fiction that the world was never warmer? It's a false claim made popular by a 2001 report of the IPCC, the United Nations' climate group, which ran a graph, shaped like a hockey stick, claiming there was no warming for millennia until humans last century gassed up their world. In fact, that "hockey stick" is now discredited, and last year Dr Craig Loehle, of the US National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, argued that using tree rings to work out past temperatures was clearly unreliable. He instead produced a graph - No. 7 - of past temperatures using all other accepted proxies.
You see his results (which for statistical reasons stop at 1935): they show humans lived through a medieval period that was warmer than even today. This was a period that historical accounts confirm was so warm that Greenland farmers grew crops on land now under snow, and British ones grew grapes.
But I repeat: the world may yet warm again, and soon, although scientists at Leibnitz Institute and Max Planck Institute last month predicted it won't for at least another decade. If at all, say solar experts worried by a lack of sun spots.
But even if none of my graphs disproves the theory that man is causing dangerous warming, they should at least make you pause. They should at least make you open to other theories of climate change, like that of Dr Henrik Svensmark, head of Denmark's Centre for Sun-Climate Research, who thinks changes in cosmic rays, which affect clouds, may explain much of the recent warming. And now the cooling, too.
But, above all, when that man with the sandwich board comes tugging at your sleeve again, shouting, "Quick, help me save the world - or die", hang on to your wallet, friend. Give that urger my seven graphs instead, and ask him how many more years of no warming will it take before he admits it really is too soon to panic.
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Top Australian Greenhouse expert now a skeptic
By David Evans
I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.
But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:
1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever. If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot. Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you'd believe anything.
2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.
3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.
4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.
None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance. The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician's assertion.
Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming. So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions. In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved. If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don't you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?
The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory.
What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.
The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.
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Evidence doesn't bear out alarmist claims of global warming
Andrew Bolt tells Kevin Rudd stuff the Ruddy one does not want to hear. No Leftist wants to have their current best toy taken away from them
THESE are the seven graphs that should make the Rudd Government feel sick. These are the seven graphs that should make you ask: What? Has global warming now stopped? Look for yourself. They show that the world hasn't warmed for a decade, and has even cooled for several years.Sea ice now isn't melting, but spreading. The seas have not just stopped rising, but started to fall. Nor is the weather getting wilder. Cyclones, as well as tornadoes and hurricanes, aren't increasing and the rain in Australia hasn't stopped falling. What's more, the slight warming we saw over the century until 1998 still makes the world no hotter today than it was 1000 years ago. In fact, it's even a bit cooler. So, dude, where's my global warming?
These graphs should in fact be good news for the Government and all the other warming preachers who warned we were doomed by our gases, which were heating the world to hell. Now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can at last stop sweating about the warming terrors he told us were coming - the horrific droughts, the dengue fever, the malaria, the devastation to our land and economy. And he can announce that, hey, emergency over for now. His emissions trading scheme will go into deep freeze while he checks this good news.
As for his promise this week to make your power bills go up $200 a year to stop global warming? His promise to make even food more expensive? To put gassy companies out of business, and their workers out of a job? Cancel all that. As you were, soldier. Good news has come from the front.
But now you can see why these graphs terrify Rudd, who has never admitted to a single fact they contain. You think he dares admit he panicked you for no good reason? Wasted countless millions of dollars?
Yet the facts are stark: The world simply isn't warming as he and his pet scientists said. That's why 31,000 other scientists, including world figures such as physicist Prof Freeman Dyson, atmospheric physicist Prof Richard Lindzen and climate scientist Prof Fred Singer, issued a joint letter last month warning governments not to jump on board the global warming bandwagon. "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate."
That's why Ivar Glaever, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics, this month declared "I am a sceptic", because "we don't really know what the actual effect on the climate is". And it's why the American Physical Society this month said "there is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."
So let me go through my seven graphs that help to explain why even Nobel Prize winners question what Rudd keeps claiming -- that man is warming the world, and dangerously. The main graph is from the Hadley Centre of Britain's Meteorological Office and one of the four bodies measuring world temperature. As you see, since 1998 -- an unusually warm year thanks to the "El Nino" pool of warmer water in the Pacific -- the world's temperature dropped back to a steady plateau, followed by a few years of cooling.
The second graph confirms both the halt in warming, and then cooling. It's from another of those four bodies, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which monitors the troposphere -- from the ground to 12km altitude. Only one of the four, in fact, claims temperatures are still rising. That's NASA, whose program is run by Dr James Hanson, Al Gore's global warming adviser and a controversial catastrophist whose team's reworking of data has been heavily criticised for exaggerating any heating.
But before I go on, a caveat: This recent cooling doesn't disprove the theory that man is warming the world. Ten years is too short to be sure of a trend. Natural factors may for now be countering the effect of our gases. Then again, the theory that man has warmed the world is based on a rise in temperature over a period that's not much longer -- from just 1975 to 1998. And the computer climate models that scientists use to predict catastrophic warming a century from now somehow never predicted a cooling that's happening right now. And these are the models Rudd is betting on with our jobs and cash.
The third graph shows another surprise those models never predicted: the seas have stopped rising. The waters have crept up for at least 150 years, since the world started to thaw from the Little Ice Age, and well before any likely man-made warming. But the climate models predicted that a big rise in emissions from all those cars, power plants and factories since World War II would cause an equally big rise in the seas, swelling them as much as 59cm by 2100. This wasn't scary enough for alarmists like Al Gore, though, who claimed whole cities could in fact be drowned under 6m of ocean.
But the satellites that have checked sea levels since 1992 find the seas have instead fallen over the past two years. Again, this could be a blip. But it isn't what the models predicted.
The fourth graph seems to confirm a cooling. Forget media scares about a melting North Pole; sea ice has grown so fast in the southern hemisphere there is now more ice in the world than is usual, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Graph five punctures another scare. No, global warming hasn't given us more cyclones - or more tornadoes or hurricanes anywhere. Nor is their proof that cyclones are getting worse, says the American Meteorological Society. And warming hasn't stopped our rain, either, despite media hype about a "one-in-a-100 year drought". See the Bureau of Meteorology records in graph six. It's just bad luck that the fickle rain now tends to fall where it's not needed most.
And, please, can we drop that old fiction that the world was never warmer? It's a false claim made popular by a 2001 report of the IPCC, the United Nations' climate group, which ran a graph, shaped like a hockey stick, claiming there was no warming for millennia until humans last century gassed up their world. In fact, that "hockey stick" is now discredited, and last year Dr Craig Loehle, of the US National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, argued that using tree rings to work out past temperatures was clearly unreliable. He instead produced a graph - No. 7 - of past temperatures using all other accepted proxies.
You see his results (which for statistical reasons stop at 1935): they show humans lived through a medieval period that was warmer than even today. This was a period that historical accounts confirm was so warm that Greenland farmers grew crops on land now under snow, and British ones grew grapes.
But I repeat: the world may yet warm again, and soon, although scientists at Leibnitz Institute and Max Planck Institute last month predicted it won't for at least another decade. If at all, say solar experts worried by a lack of sun spots.
But even if none of my graphs disproves the theory that man is causing dangerous warming, they should at least make you pause. They should at least make you open to other theories of climate change, like that of Dr Henrik Svensmark, head of Denmark's Centre for Sun-Climate Research, who thinks changes in cosmic rays, which affect clouds, may explain much of the recent warming. And now the cooling, too.
But, above all, when that man with the sandwich board comes tugging at your sleeve again, shouting, "Quick, help me save the world - or die", hang on to your wallet, friend. Give that urger my seven graphs instead, and ask him how many more years of no warming will it take before he admits it really is too soon to panic.
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Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
Study finds genetic link to violence, delinquency
The conclusions of the report below have much precedent but are of course unpopular. For some reason that escapes me, the idea of genetic influences on behaviour seems to threaten lots of people, despite the vast evidence for it. Leftists certainly seem to need to believe that only social influences can affect behaviour.
Somewhat to my surprise on the present occasion I note that a libertarian writer seems very hostile to the study too. But libertarians often do seem to have little role for genetics in their thinking. The main hole in this libertarian writer's thinking is that he seems unable to accept that genes and environment usually have to interact to produce a given result. That he has difficulty with what is a universally accepted idea among geneticists just suggests to my mind that his hostility has overcome his reason.
Nonetheless there are real criticisms that could be made of the study. Looking at Table 2 in the original research report, it would appear that there were only 11 boys in the MAOA2R group and it was only that group which had strikingly high rates of delinquency. That is a pretty slender sample size upon which to base any generalizations. Taken in conjunction with previous research (which the authors cite) the conclusions of the study are, however, reasonable. It is rare for a single study to be decisive by itself
My conclusion? Among whites, the percentage of people who are criminal enough to go to prison is quite small. Figures between 2% and 5% are usually quoted. So a genetic feature which predisposes to criminality might also be expected to be relatively rare -- as the MAOA2R combination is. Nobody is however saying that criminality is all due to one gene or set of genes or due to one cause or set of causes. Low average IQ is another striking feature of criminals and that alone is known to be polygenetic in origin.
Posted by John Ray.
New blog: AUSTRALIAN CARTOONS by "Zeg".
Somewhat to my surprise on the present occasion I note that a libertarian writer seems very hostile to the study too. But libertarians often do seem to have little role for genetics in their thinking. The main hole in this libertarian writer's thinking is that he seems unable to accept that genes and environment usually have to interact to produce a given result. That he has difficulty with what is a universally accepted idea among geneticists just suggests to my mind that his hostility has overcome his reason.
Nonetheless there are real criticisms that could be made of the study. Looking at Table 2 in the original research report, it would appear that there were only 11 boys in the MAOA2R group and it was only that group which had strikingly high rates of delinquency. That is a pretty slender sample size upon which to base any generalizations. Taken in conjunction with previous research (which the authors cite) the conclusions of the study are, however, reasonable. It is rare for a single study to be decisive by itself
Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. One gene called MAOA that played an especially strong role has been shown in other studies to affect antisocial behavior -- and it was disturbingly common, the team at the University of North Carolina reported.
People with a particular variation of the MAOA gene called 2R were very prone to criminal and delinquent behavior, said sociology professor Guang Guo, who led the study. "I don't want to say it is a crime gene, but 1 percent of people have it and scored very high in violence and delinquency," Guo said in a telephone interview.
His team, which studied only boys, used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a U.S. nationally representative sample of about 20,000 adolescents in grades 7 to 12. The young men in the study are interviewed in person regularly, and some give blood samples.
Guo's team constructed a "serious delinquency scale" based on some of the questions the youngsters answered. "Nonviolent delinquency includes stealing amounts larger or smaller than $50, breaking and entering, and selling drugs," they wrote in the August issue of the American Sociological Review. "Violent delinquency includes serious physical fighting that resulted in injuries needing medical treatment, use of weapons to get something from someone, involvement in physical fighting between groups, shooting or stabbing someone, deliberately damaging property, and pulling a knife or gun on someone."
GENES PLUS ENVIRONMENT
They found specific variations in three genes -- the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene, the dopamine transporter 1 (DAT1) gene and the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene -- were associated with bad behavior, but only when the boys suffered some other stress, such as family issues, low popularity and failing school.
MAOA regulates several message-carrying chemicals called neurotransmitters that are important in aggression, emotion and cognition such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.
The links were very specific. The effect of repeating a grade depended on whether a boy had a certain mutation in MAOA called a 2 repeat, they found. And a certain mutation in DRD2 seemed to set off a young man if he did not have regular meals with his family. "But if people with the same gene have a parent who has regular meals with them, then the risk is gone," Guo said. "Having a family meal is probably a proxy for parental involvement," he added. "It suggests that parenting is very important." He said vulnerable children might benefit from having surrogates of some sort if their parents are unavailable.
"These results, which are among the first that link molecular genetic variants to delinquency, significantly expand our understanding of delinquent and violent behavior, and they highlight the need to simultaneously consider their social and genetic origins," the researchers said.
Guo said it was far too early to explore whether drugs might be developed to protect a young man. He also was unsure if criminals might use a "genetic defense" in court. "In some courts (the judge might) think they maybe will commit the same crime again and again, and this would make the court less willing to let them out," he said.
Source. Another account of the study here
Reference: Guo, G.; Roettger, M.E.; & Cai, T. (2008) "The Integration of Genetic Propensities into Social-Control Models of Delinquency and Violence among Male Youths" American Sociological Review, Vol. 73, No. 4. (August), pp. 543-568.
My conclusion? Among whites, the percentage of people who are criminal enough to go to prison is quite small. Figures between 2% and 5% are usually quoted. So a genetic feature which predisposes to criminality might also be expected to be relatively rare -- as the MAOA2R combination is. Nobody is however saying that criminality is all due to one gene or set of genes or due to one cause or set of causes. Low average IQ is another striking feature of criminals and that alone is known to be polygenetic in origin.
Posted by John Ray.
New blog: AUSTRALIAN CARTOONS by "Zeg".
JEWISH MOTHER MARRIED TO MUSLIM RESCUED FROM MUSLIM QUARTER OF OLD CITY
Yep, you read that right. Even in a place like the Old City, it appears there may be a few cases like that, of Jewish women who've made the mistake of marrying Islamists, and one was very fortunate to be rescued from that hellhole:
(IsraelNN.com) After a 17-year captivity to an abusive Muslim husband, a Jewish mother and her eight children were rescued Sunday from the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Yad L'Achim, an organization dedicated to solving problems of this type, freed Naama [not her real name] from imprisonment in her own home and almost two decades of fear, shame and violence. Seizing a window of opportunity – her husband was in prison and his brother under house arrest – her liberators wove through the narrow alleyways of the Muslim Quarter to deliver her to safety.Go read the rest of the article, because the exact way this woman went down the wrong path to begin with is really startling. But it should serve as an important lesson: whatever way you wish to lead your life, don't do it by "crossing over" into another religion/culture as bad as Islam.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
EURO-JIHADISTS TRYING TO GET INTO USA
AP:
"The terrorists are deliberately focusing on people who have legitimate Western European passports, who don't appear to have records as terrorists," Chertoff told lawmakers. "I have a good degree of confidence we can catch people coming in. But I have to tell you ... there's no guarantee. And they are working very hard to slip by us."THAT WOULD BE BAD. I HOPE WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PREVENT IT.
Chertoff and other intelligence officials have delivered similar warnings before, and he offered no new information about specific threats or an imminent attack.
Chertoff reiterated his concern that terrorists could sneak radiological material into the country on small boats or private aircraft. This material could be used to create an explosive device known as a "dirty bomb."
- IF OBAMA AN THE DEMS HAVE THEIR WAY (AND LIMIT OUR SPYING AND OUR INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES), THEN WE WILL BE MORE VULNERABLE.
- AND AN ATTACK BECOMES MORE LIKELY.
- PLUS, BY APPEASING THE BAD-GUYS WE'D ONLY ENCOURAGE THEM.
GATEWAY: "To the Gore's sacrifice is only intended for the little people."
ABSO-EFFIN-LUTLEY MUST SEE TV --- VIA GATEWAY:
HYPOCRISY, THY NAME IS GORE.
AS GLENN SAYS (PARAPHRASING), "WHEN THOSE WARNING ABOUT THE IMPENDING AGW CATASTROPHE START BEHAVING LIKE IT'S TRUE, THEN I WILL BELIEVE THEM."
HYPOCRISY, THY NAME IS GORE.
AS GLENN SAYS (PARAPHRASING), "WHEN THOSE WARNING ABOUT THE IMPENDING AGW CATASTROPHE START BEHAVING LIKE IT'S TRUE, THEN I WILL BELIEVE THEM."
OBAMA CARTOON RAGE
FIRST THE MUSLIMS RIOT OVER THOSE MOHAMMED CARTOONS.
NOW THE DEMOCRATS VIRTUALLY DO THE SAME WITH THE OBAMA CARTOON.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
THIS CARTOON SAYS IT ALL.
VIA SYBILACUS.
THE TERRORIST WATCH LIST
Both left and some on the right criticize the terrorist watch list and tell us how the list interferes with our freedoms and the convenience which we enjoyed before 9/11. In today's Washington Post, Leonard Boyle tells us otherwise:
Inconvenience today will prevent another 9/11, or worse, tomorrow.
The federal government's consolidated terrorist watch list has become a central issue in the debate about how we can best secure our homeland. Unfortunately, myths about the watch list continue to grow in just about every report and retelling.Read the entire essay here.
How many times have you heard: There are a million terrorists on the consolidated watch list! Thousands of Americans get detained and inconvenienced daily because of watch-list errors!
There aren't. They don't.
[...]
...There are slightly more than 1 million records on the watch list, which correspond to approximately 400,000 individuals. The vast majority of those individuals aren't in the United States right now -- and the watch list was created to keep it that way....
Inconvenience today will prevent another 9/11, or worse, tomorrow.
MICHELLE OBAMA IS A LEGITIMATE TARGET
- NOT-VERY-PROUD AMERICAN MICHELLE OBAMA IS A LEGITIMATE TARGET.
- WHY!?
- BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN DOING A LOT MORE THAN JUST STANDING BESIDE HER MAN.
- SHE'S BEEN A VERY VERY ACTIVE SURROGATE FOR HER HUBBY.
- MR. AND MRS. OBAMA SEEM TO THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH HAVING THEIR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO.
- THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME.
OIL BUBBLE BURSTING
BREITBART:
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
Wall Street surged Thursday, extending its rally into a second session as tumbling energy prices bolstered an already upbeat mood that followed stronger-than-expected quarterly reports from big names like JPMorgan Chase and United Technologies. The Dow Jones industrial average rose nearly 150 points.THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT DEMOCRATS - WHOSE ENTIRE PLATFORM SEEMS ALWAYS TO DEPEND ON BAD NEWS.
Investors got a double dose of good news after weeks of angst about the economy. Light, sweet crude fell $5.31 to settle at $129.29 a barrel after dropping more than $10 in the previous two sessions. Three components of the Dow industrials—JPMorgan Chase & Co., United Technologies Corp. and Coca-Cola Co.—issued comments that generally indicated that their businesses are holding up despite sometimes difficult economic conditions.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
THE AGW MYTH HAS BEEN BUSTED!
SOURCE.The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."
- THIS COMES ON THE DAY AL GORE CALLED ON THE USA TO CONVERT ALL OUR ELECTRICITY -GENERATING TO NON-CO2 PRODUCING MEANS.
- WHAT AN ASS.
- HE'S CALLING FOR A NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE AND EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE BOONDOGGLE WHICH IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.
- WHAT AN ASS. EVEN A DICKHEAD LIKE VOINOVICH KNOWS IT.
AGW = LEFT-WING B$.
Round up here.
NEW MCCAIN VIDEO: INNUMERABLE OBAMA FLIP-FLOPS ON IRAQ
DEVASTATING. SIX MINUTES.
BOTTOM LINE: ON THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE DAY, OBAMA WAS EITHER WRONG OR LYING.
THEY NEED TO CHOP THIS DOWN TO 60 SECONDS AND DROP THE MUSIC.
AND THEN RUN THE CRAP OUT OF IT ON BROADCAST TV.
BOTTOM LINE: ON THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE DAY, OBAMA WAS EITHER WRONG OR LYING.
THEY NEED TO CHOP THIS DOWN TO 60 SECONDS AND DROP THE MUSIC.
AND THEN RUN THE CRAP OUT OF IT ON BROADCAST TV.
Richard Milhaus Obama's Coverup
Jim Geraghty (via LGF):
From the Chicago Sun-Times article on grants distributed by then-state-legislator Barack Obama.(Records from 1997 to 2000 weren’t available.)
There’s a shock.His state legislative office records may have been thrown out, he told us.
He’s never released a specific list of law clients, instead giving a list of all of his firm’s clients, numbering several hundred each year. His campaign will only confirm representation when the media comes to them with a specific case.
He won’t release his application to the state bar. He’s never released any legal or billing records to verify that he only did a few hours of work for a nonprofit tied to Tony Rezko.
He’s never released any medical records, just a one-page letter from his doctor.
Barack Obama seems to have a lot more in common with Richard Nixon than simply running to the center during the general campaign.
QUESTION: WHAT'S BARACK OBAMA HIDING? ANSWER: A LOT!
- OBAMA ISN'T JUST A PANDERING FLIP-FLOPPER - WHO HAS FLIP-FLOPPED ON DOZENS OF POSITIONS (SCROLL DOWN - 33 FLIP-FLOPS AND COUNTING!).
- HE'S ALSO BEEN AMAZINGLY SECRETIVE ABOUT THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT A POLTICIAN BEFORE WE VOTE FOR HIM.
OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS FULL MEDICAL RECORDS.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS FULL ACADEMIC RECORDS, AND APPLICATIONS.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS TAX RETURNS.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS LAW FIRM RECORDS, HIS LAW FIRM BILLING RECORDS.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS STATE SENATOR RECORDS.
- OBAMA HASN'T RELEASED HIS TRAVEL RECORDS - SO WE CAN CHECK AND SEE WHICH WRIGHT SERNONS HE ATTENDEDM AND WHICH HE MISSED.
- OBAMA HASN'T EXPLAINED WHY HE WENT TO PAKISTAN AS A YOUNG MAN.
- OBAMA HASN'T COME CLEAN ON AYERS.
- OBAMA HASN'T COME CLEAN ON THE SETTLEMENT HE MADE WITH HIS FIRST LITERARY AGENT JANE DYSTEL FOR BREAKING HIS CONTRACT WITH HER.
- WHY IS HE HIDING SO MUCH?
- THERE IS ONLY ONE POSSIBLE EXPLANATION:
- HE THINKS THE TRUTH WILL HURT HIS CHANCES.
- LIKE THE FACT THAT HE'S ALWAYS BEEN CORRUPT POLITICIAN.
No nonsense about Muslim taxicab drivers in the Australian State of Queensland
Company fires them if they object to dogs -- unlike the constipated proceedings in the USA
Some Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind and disabled passengers with guide dogs - because their religion tells them the animals are "unclean". Brisbane's Yellow Cab Company has been forced to sack drivers over their conduct towards passengers with assistance dogs. Bill Parker, general manager of the firm, said the behaviour would not be tolerated and penalties will be imposed if drivers disobeyed. The company has produced a booklet informing drivers of their duty towards blind and disabled customers with dogs.
Islamic Council of Queensland president Suliman Sabdia said dogs were considered a health risk for Muslims but "to use religion as a reason to refuse blind and disabled passengers is unjustified".
Source
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
Some Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind and disabled passengers with guide dogs - because their religion tells them the animals are "unclean". Brisbane's Yellow Cab Company has been forced to sack drivers over their conduct towards passengers with assistance dogs. Bill Parker, general manager of the firm, said the behaviour would not be tolerated and penalties will be imposed if drivers disobeyed. The company has produced a booklet informing drivers of their duty towards blind and disabled customers with dogs.
Islamic Council of Queensland president Suliman Sabdia said dogs were considered a health risk for Muslims but "to use religion as a reason to refuse blind and disabled passengers is unjustified".
Source
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
Climate-related decrease in the snappability of snapping turtles in the United States
By Tom H. Brikowski and Alfred Gore
Author Affiliations:
Geosciences Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080-3021; and
Department of Erectile Dysfunction, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75390
Abstract
An unanticipated result of global warming is the likely decrease of snappability in snapping turtles in a northward expansion of the present-day southeastern U.S. snapping turtle "belt." The fraction of the U.S. population of snapping turtles living in high-risk zones for snapper losses will grow from 40% in 2000 to 56% by 2050, and to 70% by 2095. Predictions based on a climate model of intermediate severity warming (SRESa1b) indicate a climate-related increase of 1.6-2.2 million lifetime cases of snapper defect by 2050, representing up to a 30% increase in some climate divisions. Nationwide, the cost increase associated with this rise in desnappability would be $0.9-1.3 billion annually (year-2000 dollars), representing a 25% increase over current expenditures. The impact of these changes will be geographically concentrated, depending on the precise relationship between temperature and snapping risk. Snapping-loss risk may abruptly increase at a threshold temperature (nonlinear model) or increase steadily with temperature change (linear model) or some combination thereof. The linear model predicts increases by 2050 that are concentrated in California, Texas, Florida, and the Eastern Seaboard; the nonlinear model predicts concentration in a geographic band stretching from Kansas to Kentucky and Bangladesh, immediately south of the threshold isotherm.
Jim Peden borrowed the model of the kidney-stone man to produce the skit above. He comments:
It seems Brikowski down in Texas has a "model" into which he can plug just about anything and get yet another hysterical global warming prediction. I'm now trying to predict what his next "scientific paper" will cover - the above was the result of borrowing his model and simply changing the inputs. It's his model, so I have to give him the credit, of course. I assume Al Gore was a co-researcher. I find his recent papers to be consistent with the previously discussed relationship between lower I.Q.s in the southern states as compared to northern states. You might like to try your hand with a variety of subjects, such as tooth decay in Alligators or toe fungus in Water Moccasins. This is a clear solution to the "publish or perish" challenge... with a model like this, you can complete a half dozen research projects before lunch every day.
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
Author Affiliations:
Geosciences Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080-3021; and
Department of Erectile Dysfunction, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75390
Abstract
An unanticipated result of global warming is the likely decrease of snappability in snapping turtles in a northward expansion of the present-day southeastern U.S. snapping turtle "belt." The fraction of the U.S. population of snapping turtles living in high-risk zones for snapper losses will grow from 40% in 2000 to 56% by 2050, and to 70% by 2095. Predictions based on a climate model of intermediate severity warming (SRESa1b) indicate a climate-related increase of 1.6-2.2 million lifetime cases of snapper defect by 2050, representing up to a 30% increase in some climate divisions. Nationwide, the cost increase associated with this rise in desnappability would be $0.9-1.3 billion annually (year-2000 dollars), representing a 25% increase over current expenditures. The impact of these changes will be geographically concentrated, depending on the precise relationship between temperature and snapping risk. Snapping-loss risk may abruptly increase at a threshold temperature (nonlinear model) or increase steadily with temperature change (linear model) or some combination thereof. The linear model predicts increases by 2050 that are concentrated in California, Texas, Florida, and the Eastern Seaboard; the nonlinear model predicts concentration in a geographic band stretching from Kansas to Kentucky and Bangladesh, immediately south of the threshold isotherm.
Jim Peden borrowed the model of the kidney-stone man to produce the skit above. He comments:
It seems Brikowski down in Texas has a "model" into which he can plug just about anything and get yet another hysterical global warming prediction. I'm now trying to predict what his next "scientific paper" will cover - the above was the result of borrowing his model and simply changing the inputs. It's his model, so I have to give him the credit, of course. I assume Al Gore was a co-researcher. I find his recent papers to be consistent with the previously discussed relationship between lower I.Q.s in the southern states as compared to northern states. You might like to try your hand with a variety of subjects, such as tooth decay in Alligators or toe fungus in Water Moccasins. This is a clear solution to the "publish or perish" challenge... with a model like this, you can complete a half dozen research projects before lunch every day.
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH
TONIGHT ON KFNX TALK-RADIO: VOICES OF FREEDOM
Beginning tonight, July 17, at 8:00 P.M. Phoenix time, a team of us anti-jihadists and lovers of Western civilization will host "Voices of Freedom," a one-hour weekly show on KFNX 1100. See this time-zone chart (Refresh the page!) if you are in a different time zone than Phoenix, Arizona; click directly on the word "PHOENIX" to get a world map of time zones.Team members: Cassandra USA, Pamela Geller, Pastorius, WC, and yours truly, Always On Watch.
Tune in if you can! In addition to AM air time at the scheduled hour, KFNX offers live streaming at the station's web site.
VOICES OF FREEDOM: THE SHOW THAT MAKES JIHADISTS CRY.
Additional information HERE.
INNER-DIRECTED MCCAIN VERSUS OUTER-DIRECTED OBAMA
ONLY ONE OF THESE TWO MEN
HAS THE INTEGRITY, TEMPERAMENT, AND COURAGE
TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN
AND LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
HAS THE INTEGRITY, TEMPERAMENT, AND COURAGE
TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN
AND LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
ONE MAN DID THIS FOR FIVE YEARS...
THE OTHER DID THIS FOR TWENTY...
ONLY ONE OF THESE TWO MENHAS THE INTEGRITY, TEMPERAMENT, AND COURAGE
TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN
AND LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
CLICK PIC FOR MORE.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
THE UN, MUGABE, RUSSIA AND CHINA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS TOM FRIEDMAN BY FIVE DAYS
- (WITH A HEADS UP TWO DAYS BEFORE THAT, AND A FOLLOW UP POST A DAY LATER.)
- REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
- SPREAD THE WORD.
- BLOGROLL US.
THE LATEST BIG LIE FROM THE MSM: "BIGGEST RISE IN INFLATION IN 26 YEARS!"
GOOGLE Results 1 - 10 of about 7,788 for "26 year inflation."8000 stories for a lie, er um.. a "mistake".
HERE'S THE TRUTH: INFLATION RATE THE HIGHEST SINCE 2005 NOT 1982!
SO... HOW MUCH COVERAGE DID THE CORRECTION GET?
19. NINETEEN:
GOOGLE Results 1 - 10 of about 19 for "September 2005 inflation" correction.And I'm sure that despite the correction this lie will be repeated by the MSM and Democrats ad nauseum - just as they have repeated the Maliki-timetable lie.
This is an old trick of the Left. As Churchill said:
- A LIE TRAVELS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH GETS ITS PANTS ON.
SARKOZY SUGGESTS IRISH HOLD A DO-OVER VOTE ON LISBON TREATY
BBC:
Irish ministers have reacted robustly to the French president's remark that the Republic of Ireland should hold a new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
European Affairs Minister Dick Roche said "it is far, far too early to be talking about a referendum or about some specific policy to go forward".
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said Ireland would not be bullied.
Mr Sarkozy will visit Dublin on Monday, seeking a way ahead after Irish voters rejected the EU treaty on 12 June.
France currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency and is keen to resolve the Lisbon Treaty stumbling block before its presidency ends.
Mr Sarkozy was quoted as saying "the Irish will have to vote again". He was speaking to deputies from his conservative UMP party in Paris on Tuesday.
- WHY NOT JUST KEEP VOTING UNTIL YOU GET THE RESULT YOU WANT.
- HOW MUGABESQUE.
- HOW REPULSIVE.
- THE PRO-EUSSR CROWD HAS NO SHAME.
ABBAS - THE SO-CALLED "PARTNER FOR PEACE" IS REALLY TERROR-SUPPORTING SCUM
Abbas sent child-killing terrorist Kuntar's family a note congratulating them on this "hero's " return.
SOME PARTNER FOR PEACE! EXCERPT:
And Abbas is as bad as the worst of them. The SO-CALLED "peace process" is a delusion - one which kills innocent people and rewards and therefore perpetuates terror.
SOME PARTNER FOR PEACE! EXCERPT:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday congratulated the family of notorious Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar , who was freed on Wednesday with four Hezbollah guerillas as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel.These animals - THOUSANDS CHEERED THIS MURDERER WHEN HE RETURNBED TO LEBANON - don't deserve a country --- THEY CERTAINLY DON'T DESERVE A VETO OVER THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT. (Gateway has links to pic's and video of the Lebanese cheering this murderer. MORE HERE.)
Abbas welcomed the swap between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group, and in a statement congratulated the families of the "liberated prisoners," issued during a visit to Malta.
... People celebrated in the streets of the Hamas-controlled coastal territory, and handed out sweets in support of Hezbollah.
"Today is a great victory for the resistance movements and to Hezbollah, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "It shows that the only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers."
And Abbas is as bad as the worst of them. The SO-CALLED "peace process" is a delusion - one which kills innocent people and rewards and therefore perpetuates terror.