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Friday, December 26, 2008
Santa Claus The Palestinian Terrorist
Today's guaranteed not photoshopped (funny how the AP photographer JUST HAPPENED to be there, isn't it!?):
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A Palestinian dressed as Santa Claus hurling stones during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank village of Bil'in on Friday. (AP) |
The UAW Reneges
From Investors Business Daily:
THEN THEY CAN PAY THEMSELVES WHATEVER THEY WANT!
IF THEY THINK IT'S WORTH SAVING THESE THREE CORPORATIONS, THEN THEY SHOULD PUT UP OR STFU.
Last week's deal was supposed to hold both the managers' and unions' feet to the fire. In handing out the taxpayer money, the White House insisted the auto union cut worker pay roughly to the levels of their successful competitors, Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
For $17 billion in emergency bailout cash and possibly much more later, it was a reasonable request. As President Bush said, "The time to make the hard decisions to become viable is now — or the only option will be bankruptcy." He added that a deadline of March 31 for the industry to prove its "viability" and other limits "send a clear signal to everyone involved."
Well, if so, the United Auto Workers didn't get it.
Just days before Christmas, the UAW let it be known it'll fight any concessions on wages and benefits. "An undue tax on the workers" is how union boss Ron Gettelfinger described it as the UAW reneged on the deal almost before the ink was dry.
This will go down as one of the most cynical acts of political manipulation ever. The UAW agreed to one thing with President Bush, knowing full well President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats were big recipients of union largesse and would let them slide. They read the situation correctly.
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank this week called union concessions an "unfair assault on working men and women" — a not-accidental echo of Gettelfinger's comments.
But the only real assault on "working men and women" here is the enormous cost this bailout will entail — a cost that all working taxpayers will have to bear and which some analysts think will ultimately total $75 billion to $125 billion.
HERE'S THE REAL SOLUTION:
WHY DOESN'T THE UAW JUST BUY GM AND FORD AND CHRYSLER!?!?
THEY CAN TAKE THEIR ENORMOUS PENSION FUND AND USE IT TO BUY ALL THREE OF THE BIG THREE.WHY DOESN'T THE UAW JUST BUY GM AND FORD AND CHRYSLER!?!?
THEN THEY CAN PAY THEMSELVES WHATEVER THEY WANT!
IF THEY THINK IT'S WORTH SAVING THESE THREE CORPORATIONS, THEN THEY SHOULD PUT UP OR STFU.
YOU AND I FUND SENATOR'S OFFICIAL PORTRAITS
Unlike official Presidential portraits, largely funded by donations, we the taxpayers shell out the bucks so that politicians on Capitol Hill, as well as other bureaucrats, can burnish their perceived legacies.
From CNSNews.com:
From CNSNews.com:
Portraits of Senate leaders are almost always paid for with taxpayer money, at a cost of up to $70,000 each. By contrast, portraits of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush – unveiled on Friday [December 19] – were paid for with private donations.Government waste knows no bounds.
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In the Senate, portraits traditionally are commissioned for the majority and minority leaders, and former members who have been out of the Senate for 25 years who are chosen by a special commission of the Senate Rules Committee, said Donald Ritchie, the Senate historian.
The funds for those paintings come from a taxpayer-funded curator’s budget....
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...[T]he tradition of portraiture of U.S. government officials goes back more than 200 years and...many lawmakers think the tradition is a way to maintain continuity between offices.
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Many federal agencies also commission portraits for their top officials, a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget...
WITH HAMAS' NEW BILL PASSED, GAZA BECOMES ANOTHER HOUSE OF SAUD
Hamas has authorized hanging, goring and flogging (H/T: Smooth Stone):
Hamas has recently passed a radical Islamic bill authorizing whipping, dismembering and execution as standard punitive action in Gaza, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat reported Wednesday.Unsurprisingly, no outrage from Amnesty Intl. or Peace Now regarding Hamas' embracing of human rights violations.
The whip will be used on anyone “engaging in games of chance, offending religious beliefs, and defaming others’ character.”
Palin a racist?
Excerpt:
Leftist fakery in connection with hate speech has been proven time and time again so I would not be at all surprised if the comments objected to above were in fact put there by Leftists.
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"Evidence that Democrats consider Sarah Palin a potent political force for the future continues to mount. A Huffington Post blogger went rooting around the comments at the Team Sarah website over the weekend and emerged to announce that he had discovered "something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days -- a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama."
This accusation of "mean-spirited bigotry" was based on a relative handful of comments, far less dramatic than the huffy HuffPoster's hyperbolic introduction suggested. The Christian ladies who run Team Sarah -- Marjorie Dannenfelser, Jane Abraham and Emily Buchanan of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List -- responded immediately with sanctions against commenters who cross the lines of political decorum. (Of course, decorum is not even an afterthought at Huffington Post, DailyKos or any number of liberal blogs where the comment fields routinely boil with vitriol, but conservatives have long since become accustomed to this sort of double standard.)
Source
Leftist fakery in connection with hate speech has been proven time and time again so I would not be at all surprised if the comments objected to above were in fact put there by Leftists.
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Some more pesky climate findings
Excerpt:
Here's a Christmas present for all greenhouse skeptics . three scientists from the meteorology program at Northern Illinois University collected data on the 241 largest snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the United States over the period 1950-2000. As seen in Figure 2, there is considerable variability in the number of large storms, but no trend whatsoever. Changnon et al. describe their results:
Granddad and grandmom may not believe it, but there is absolutely no trend whatsoever in the data. Apparently global warming causes neither a decrease nor an increase in big snowstorms in the U.S.
Many might argue that the United States is only 1.54% of the planet, and since Changnon et al. examined the eastern two-thirds of the country, they were studying only one percent of the Earth. If we really want to talk snow and ice on a grand scale, we need to look to Antarctica. If we do a web search on "Global Warming and Antarctica," we are treated to 1.5 million sites, with many arguing that the snowpack and sea ice are melting away (despite the fact that the UN IPCC says the ice is thickening).
An article entitled "Antarctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979-2006" appeared recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research, and one sentence in the abstract caught our eye stating "The total Antarctic sea ice extent trend increased slightly, from 0.96 ~ 0.61% decade-1 to 1.0 ~ 0.4% decade-1, from the 20- to 28-year period, reflecting contrasting changes in the sector trends." It seems from the outset of this article that sea ice around Antarctica is expanding and the expansion has increased in the most recent eight years . our kind of results at World Climate Report.
The work was conducted by two scientists with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and financial support for the research was provided by NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program and by NASA's Earth Observing System. Cavalieri and Parkinson begin by correctly noting that "A great deal of attention has been paid recently to the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover as observed by satellites over the past several decades. In contrast to the Arctic, the total Antarctic sea ice cover has been gradually increasing from the mid-1970s through 2002." We would add that while a great deal of attention has been paid recently to the Arctic (where the trend seems to broadly fit the global warming script), very little attention has been paid to the Antarctic where the trend in sea ice seems at odds with expectations for a warming world. We are sure there is no media bias here, just a convenient oversight on journalists around the world. The scientists use passive microwave data to accurately map the extent of sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere, and their results are shown below (Figure 3). They explain:
Sure enough, the sea ice is expanding, the expansion is increasing in the most recent period, and the trends are statistically significant.
While the greenhouse crusade is all too quick to blame the retreat of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere on global warming, blaming this statistically significant expansion of sea ice on global warming would be a stretch, to say the least-but don't think folks aren't working on it! Cavalieri and Parkinson conclude that in Antarctica "the question of what is driving the observed changes remains unanswered, and the physical mechanisms explaining these changes remain to be determined."
Enjoy the holiday season, with or without snow-but just don't blame global warming for whatever you get!
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Here's a Christmas present for all greenhouse skeptics . three scientists from the meteorology program at Northern Illinois University collected data on the 241 largest snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the United States over the period 1950-2000. As seen in Figure 2, there is considerable variability in the number of large storms, but no trend whatsoever. Changnon et al. describe their results:
The average was 4.8; however, there was great year-to-year variability (i.e., standard deviation of 2.2) with the numbers ranging from 1 large snowstorm per winter (1973/74, 1980/81, and 1991/92) to 10 storms (1993/94). The winter values did not exhibit any long-term up or down trend during the 50-yr period. A 5-yr running mean also had no trend. The winter counts for each decade showed that the frequency peaked in the 1950s with a minimum occurring in the 1970s and 1980s. None of these decadal mean values were significantly different than the average for the rest of the period when using the Student's t test.
Granddad and grandmom may not believe it, but there is absolutely no trend whatsoever in the data. Apparently global warming causes neither a decrease nor an increase in big snowstorms in the U.S.
Figure 2. The number of large snowstorms occurring east of the U.S. Rockies each winter, 1950/51-1999/2000. Five-year running mean value is shown by the line (from Changnon et al., 2008).
Many might argue that the United States is only 1.54% of the planet, and since Changnon et al. examined the eastern two-thirds of the country, they were studying only one percent of the Earth. If we really want to talk snow and ice on a grand scale, we need to look to Antarctica. If we do a web search on "Global Warming and Antarctica," we are treated to 1.5 million sites, with many arguing that the snowpack and sea ice are melting away (despite the fact that the UN IPCC says the ice is thickening).
An article entitled "Antarctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979-2006" appeared recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research, and one sentence in the abstract caught our eye stating "The total Antarctic sea ice extent trend increased slightly, from 0.96 ~ 0.61% decade-1 to 1.0 ~ 0.4% decade-1, from the 20- to 28-year period, reflecting contrasting changes in the sector trends." It seems from the outset of this article that sea ice around Antarctica is expanding and the expansion has increased in the most recent eight years . our kind of results at World Climate Report.
The work was conducted by two scientists with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and financial support for the research was provided by NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program and by NASA's Earth Observing System. Cavalieri and Parkinson begin by correctly noting that "A great deal of attention has been paid recently to the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover as observed by satellites over the past several decades. In contrast to the Arctic, the total Antarctic sea ice cover has been gradually increasing from the mid-1970s through 2002." We would add that while a great deal of attention has been paid recently to the Arctic (where the trend seems to broadly fit the global warming script), very little attention has been paid to the Antarctic where the trend in sea ice seems at odds with expectations for a warming world. We are sure there is no media bias here, just a convenient oversight on journalists around the world. The scientists use passive microwave data to accurately map the extent of sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere, and their results are shown below (Figure 3). They explain:
The yearly and seasonally averaged extents all show positive trends. The yearly trend in sea ice extents is 11,500 ~ 4,600 km2 a-1 [per year]. This trend is somewhat greater than the value 11,000 ~ 7,000 km2 a-1 reported previously for the 20-year period 1978-1998 and is statistically significant at the 95% level. On a seasonal basis autumn shows the largest positive km2 a-1 trend followed by the winter trend. The spring and summer trends are about half those for autumn.
Sure enough, the sea ice is expanding, the expansion is increasing in the most recent period, and the trends are statistically significant.
Figure 3. Time series of (a) monthly averages of sea ice extent for the Southern Hemisphere from November 1978 through December 2006. The inset shows the annual cycle computed from the 28 years of data, (b) monthly deviations of sea ice extent fitted with a linear least squares best fit trend line, (c) yearly and seasonal averages of sea ice extents with linear least squares best fit trend line. Summer averages (Su) are for January-March, autumn averages (A) are for April-June, winter averages (W) are for July-September, and spring averages (Sp) are for October-December (from Cavalieri and Parkinson, 2008).
While the greenhouse crusade is all too quick to blame the retreat of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere on global warming, blaming this statistically significant expansion of sea ice on global warming would be a stretch, to say the least-but don't think folks aren't working on it! Cavalieri and Parkinson conclude that in Antarctica "the question of what is driving the observed changes remains unanswered, and the physical mechanisms explaining these changes remain to be determined."
Enjoy the holiday season, with or without snow-but just don't blame global warming for whatever you get!
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Thursday, December 25, 2008
MUSLIM-STYLE DIVORCE IN LONDON: MUSLIM MODEL DIES IN "PLUNGE" FROM SOON-TO-BE EX-HUSBAND'S APARTMENT
DAILY MAIL: Vigil of tears for death-plunge Muslim model beauty
THIS SMACKS OF ISLAMO-MISOGYNY TO ME.
MORE HERE.
PERHAPS SHE SHOULD HAVE MURDERED HIM FIRST - LIKE THIS MUSLIM BRIDE IN LONDON.
STAY TUNED...
SHE WAS HOT.Sahar Daftary should have been celebrating her 24th birthday.
But instead of sharing the model's happiness, her family spent Christmas Day keeping a vigil at the spot where she plunged to her death.
More than two dozen relatives travelled from their homes in London to the block of flats in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, where they laid flowers and cards and lit 24 candles, one for each year of her life.
Miss Daftary, who was crowned Miss Face of Asia last year, fell from the balcony of businessman Rashid Jamil's 12th-floor flat last Saturday.
Sahar's mother lays flowers at the spot where the model fell to her death
She had married 33-year-old Mr Jamil in a lavish Muslim ceremony 12 months ago but the relationship ended when she discovered he was already married with three children.
In fact the former restaurant owner had been married three times, and was still living with his third wife.
Miss Daftary's family, who are originally from Afghanistan, remain convinced she would not have taken her own life.
Her cousin, Aarozo Tach, 30, said: 'She would never have done that over this man. She was over him and was looking forward to the future.'
Miss Daftary, from Brentford, west London, went to Manchester to take part in a fashion show.
Friends say she agreed to go to Mr Jamil's apartment to finalise their divorce. Mr Jamil was arrested on suspicion of murder but was later freed on bail. Earlier, it was revealed Miss Daftary had lodged a complaint of sexual assault with police. A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: 'Police received a report of sexual assault in May 2008. An investigation was launched but the victim refused to co-operate further.'
Sahar Daftary and Rashid Jamil on their 'wedding day' last year. She died after falling from his 12th floor luxury apartment. Her life fell apart after she discovered he had allegedly been married three times before
A close friend of Miss Daftary, who asked not to be named, said: 'Sahar went to the police about six months ago after she split with Rashid. She thought she was being followed and walked into a police station near the apartment in Salford Quays to lodge a complaint.
'He was very possessive of her and she said that he told her that he had people watching her.'
Miss Daftary had been in Mr Jamil's home city of Manchester for work but was persuaded to go to his flat after he offered her an Islamic divorce. Her sister Mariya Massumi, 34, said Miss Daftary had previously tried to get Mr Jamil to sign divorce papers but he had not agreed.
Ms Massumi said: 'On the way up to Manchester, Sahar was arguing with Rashid on the phone but then he acted nicely and promised to sign the divorce papers.'
The family, having released pictures of Miss Daftary's marriage to Mr Jamil at the Holiday Inn in Brentford last December, now claim the union was never registered.
... They have also insisted she would not have killed herself and had 'everything to live for'. But they also claimed her marriage had been a sham and her husband was a womaniser. Meanwhile his second wife, a lawyer by whom he has an 11-year-old daughter, said she had left the former curry house boss because of his drinking and womanising. It is also unclear whether Mr Jamil's third marriage was ever legally recognised under English law.
THIS SMACKS OF ISLAMO-MISOGYNY TO ME.
MORE HERE.
PERHAPS SHE SHOULD HAVE MURDERED HIM FIRST - LIKE THIS MUSLIM BRIDE IN LONDON.
STAY TUNED...
Congrats! Dems sweep the 2008 Naughtiest Politician Awards!
A national CNN/Opinion Research poll reveals the top three Naughtiest Politicians of 2008. May I have the envelope please, Vanna?
Bronze: John Edwards (D-Sleazebag), who cheated with Rielle Hunter on his cancer-stricken wife and reportedly fathered a not-so-secret love child.
Silver: Love Client #9, former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer (D-Hypocrisy), who was ensnared in the rollup of a high-end prostitution ring.
Gold: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Batsh*t crazy), seemingly involved in so many pay-to-play schemes he probably had a dedicated IT staff to keep all of the grifts straight.
Honorable mentions weren't listed, but I'm betting they included Charlie Rangel (D-Tax Man), Allan Mollohan (D-Self-made Millionaire), John Murtha (D-Porkmeister), and William Jefferson (D-Freezer Burn).
RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: LET'S DUB THIS AWARD (WHICH HONORS SCANDALOUS POLITICIANS) "THE TEA POT AWARDS" - (AFTER THE INFAMOUS TEA POT DOME SCANDAL).
AND WE CAN GIVE THE GOLD TEA POT TOO...
Bronze: John Edwards (D-Sleazebag), who cheated with Rielle Hunter on his cancer-stricken wife and reportedly fathered a not-so-secret love child.Silver: Love Client #9, former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer (D-Hypocrisy), who was ensnared in the rollup of a high-end prostitution ring.
Gold: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Batsh*t crazy), seemingly involved in so many pay-to-play schemes he probably had a dedicated IT staff to keep all of the grifts straight.
Honorable mentions weren't listed, but I'm betting they included Charlie Rangel (D-Tax Man), Allan Mollohan (D-Self-made Millionaire), John Murtha (D-Porkmeister), and William Jefferson (D-Freezer Burn).
RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: LET'S DUB THIS AWARD (WHICH HONORS SCANDALOUS POLITICIANS) "THE TEA POT AWARDS" - (AFTER THE INFAMOUS TEA POT DOME SCANDAL).
AND WE CAN GIVE THE GOLD TEA POT TOO...
OBAMA'S PROPOSED NATIONAL STIMULUS IS REALLY NATIONAL SOCIALISM
- IT WILL PROBABLY BE MANAGED BY THE CHICAGO MACHINE TO BENEFIT THEM AND THEIR ALLIES - LIKE THE SEIU.
- WE MUST FIGHT IT TOOTH AND NAIL.
DOING THE MATH OTHER AMERICANS WON'T DO - AND PROVING OBAMA'S STIMULUS PACKAGE IS A WASTEFUL BOONDOGGLE
BAUM/BLOOMBERG - VIA GLENN:
The Obama administration’s goal of creating 3 million new jobs by January 2011 will run smack into “the natural demographic flow, which will add 3.2 million people to the workforce” in the same time period, O’Neill said. In effect, “we are going to spend $750 billion, the number of unemployed will rise and the (unemployment) rate will go down slightly.”
Shoveling to Prosperity
O’Neill did the math so you don’t have to. Each job “will cost $250,000, which doesn’t suggest much labor intensity for the dollars spent,” he said. “It makes me wonder if any of the planners or commentators are good at arithmetic.”
They’re not good at arithmetic. And one wonders about their facility with economics.
If putting people to work is the goal, we could get rid of all the heavy earth-moving equipment and go back to digging ditches with shovels.
Why stop there? If it takes one man two days to dig a trench three feet deep and 30 feet long with a shovel, how long would it take 100 men using spoons?
- IF IT'S OBVIOUSLY A RIDICULOUS WASTE, THEN WHY WOULD SMARTY-PANTS OBAMA AND HIS SMARTY-PANTS IVY LEAGUE CABINET SUPPORT IT!?
- COULD IT BE BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A LIBERAL BOONDOGGLE AND NOTHING MORE THAT A HUGE BENEFITS PROGRAM FOR THE CHICAGO MACHINE, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, AND THE SEIU AND AFSCME!?
- YES.
NO SIGN OF GLOBAL WARMING... ANYWHERE
DESPITE 150 YEARS OF MAN-MADE CO2, THIS WINTER IS ALREADY SHAPING UP TO BE ONE OF THE COLDEST EVER - ALL OVER THE GLOBE:
GREECE:
Oymyakon, Siberia
UPDATE: VIA DRUDGE: BEATING THE ODDS, FULLY ONE-HALF OF THE USA IS HAVING A WHITE CHRISTMAS:
GREECE:
Greece will celebrate one of its coldest Christmases recentlyTOLEDO:
23 December 2008 | 09:59 | FOCUS News Agency
Athens. Greece will celebrate one of its coldest Christmases recently, Greek weather forecast service announced, cited by the Eleftheros Typos daily.
Frosts, high winds and snow on high grounds are expected around Christmas.
Article published Monday, December 22, 2008CHICAGO:
-25 wind chill predicted for Monday; temperatures in Toledo coldest in 22 months Sunday night at -2
Toledo's temperature dipped to below zero for the first time in 22 months last night, and it felt that cold for most of the day.
Brrrr! Coldest Bears home game on recordHERTFORDSHIRE:
December 23, 2008
The NHL's Winter Classic is nine days away, and it could be downright balmy by then.
It was 2 degrees when the Bears-Packers game kicked off with a wind-chill factor of minus-13, making it the coldest Bears home game since they began keeping such records in 1963.
Hertfordshire gritters tackling coldest winter for 30 yearsSIBERIA SHOWS NO SIGNS OF GLOBAL WARMING EITHER: Welcome to the Coldest Town on Earth
06:59 - 20 December 2008
BY this time last year, Hertfordshire Highways had sent out its gritters on just three occasions.
But this year, after one of the coldest winters for 30 years, the machines have already been deployed 25 times.
Oymyakon, Siberia
As winter sets in, the 800 hearty denizens of the coldest town on earth are bracing for one of the most frigid blasts yet, as forecasters predict that temperatures in Oymyakon, Siberia, could plunge to the coldest ever recorded in an inhabited location. There is no disputing that the mercury slides in Alaska and even in the Midwestern U.S. in the heart of winter. But if you want cold, visit Oymyakon, which this winter is expected to reach (or perhaps exceed) its record low temperature: a bone-chilling minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 68 degrees Celsius) reached on Feb. 6, 1933. It is a record matched only by nearby Verkhoyansk, Siberia, which endured minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Feb. 7, 1892.AS COLD OR COLDER NOW AS IN 1892. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
- THERE IS NO MORE GLOBAL WARMING; WHAT LITTLE THERE WAS ENDED A DECADE AGO, AND IT WAS ALL NATURAL!
- WE'RE IN A COOLING PHASE, PERHAPS ANOTHER MAUNDER MINIMUM.
- THEREFORE, ANY FEDERAL SPENDING OR TAXING TO PROMOTE A "GREEN ECONOMY" IS A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY, MERELY A BOONDOGGLE TO BENEFIT OBAMA AND HIS CHICAGO GANG.
UPDATE: VIA DRUDGE: BEATING THE ODDS, FULLY ONE-HALF OF THE USA IS HAVING A WHITE CHRISTMAS:
- HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, THERE WAS ONLY A 10% CHANCE OF THIS.
- AND IF GORE AND OBAMA AND THE ECO-NUTSIES WERE RIGHT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, THEN IT SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING AT ALL.
- OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE WRONG.
WE'RE ALL MACCABEES NOW...
HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS OF THE HAGIA SOFIA...
I WISH THAT ONE DAY SOON, THIS MUSEUM AND FORMER MOSQUE IS ONCE AGAIN A CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL... THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT.
HERE'S EVEN MORE PROOF IT CAN HAPPEN: CHRISTMAS IS NOW AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY IN IRAQ!
I WISH THAT ONE DAY SOON, THIS MUSEUM AND FORMER MOSQUE IS ONCE AGAIN A CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL... THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT.
- REMEMBER FOLKS: JERUSALEM WAS JEWISH AND CONSTANTINOPLE CHRISTIAN LONG BEFORE BEING INVADED BY MUSLIMS, AND SUBJUGATED BY MUSLIM TERROR.
- CONTRARY TO WHAT MUSLIMS AND POSTMODERNIST LEFTISTS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE, THE CRUSADES WERE A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE, NOT AN INVASION.
- THE MACCABEES - WHOSE VICTORY LED TO THE MIRACLE AND FESTIVAL OF HANUKKAH, AND THE JEWS WHO FOUGHT AND WON ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE BOTH PROVE THAT WE CAN TURN BACK THE FORCES OF DARKNESS.
- JERUSALEM IS ONCE AGAIN JEWISH - MAY IT EVER BE SO...
- SO TOO MAY CONSTANTINOPLE BE CHRISTIAN ONE DAY...
HERE'S EVEN MORE PROOF IT CAN HAPPEN: CHRISTMAS IS NOW AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY IN IRAQ!
- IT TOOK A FIGHT I IRAQ, AND IT WILL TAKE A FIGHT ELSEWHERE, TOO.
- IF WE DON'T FIGHT, THEN THERE'S A REAL RISK THAT THE FORCES OF DARKNESS WILL KEEP GROWING: LONDON AND PARIS AND OTHER CAPITALS OF EUROPE WILL CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH OF DHIMMITUDE AND ISLAMIFICATION AND CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE LIKE ISTANBUL IF WE DO NOT FIGHT BACK --- IF WE FAIL TO MOUNT AN EFFECTIVE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE.
- THAT'S WHY WE MUST ALL REMAIN ON GUARD - BE MACCABEES!
ONE OF THE BEST CHRISTMAS STORIES ON THE WEB
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Warren also happens to be my blog adminstrator and graphics designer.
Our nation is filled with hard-working people like Warren - people who quietly "do the right thing" and ask for no recognition or bailout.
Need I say that Warren is a staunch conservative?
The left talks about showing compassion. The right shows compassion.
Warren also happens to be my blog adminstrator and graphics designer.
Our nation is filled with hard-working people like Warren - people who quietly "do the right thing" and ask for no recognition or bailout.
Need I say that Warren is a staunch conservative?
The left talks about showing compassion. The right shows compassion.
Hate speech from the Left against Pastor Warren
We read:
There is a video of Pastor Warren replying to his attackers at the link above. He is in many ways a centrist politically (which is why Obama chose him) but he is a traditional Christian. But a traditional Christian is not allowed to say a prayer at the Obama inauguration, apparently. That sounds pretty intolerant to me.
I am sure Obama has his eye on the great majority of Americans who feel repelled by homosexuality rather than on the small but shrill homosexual population.
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
"Rick Warren, the evangelical preacher chosen by Barack Obama to deliver the inaugural invocation, has posted a three-part video to his church's website responding to the furor that has erupted over his selection. In the video, Warren criticizes the media, and, in particular, bloggers, for fueling the controversy. And he says the criticism of him in the wake of his selection has been characterized by "a lot of hate speech" and by "Christophobia -- people who are afraid of any Christian.''
"Our nation is being destroyed by the demonization of differences,'' he says. "The fact that an evangelical pastor believes in keeping the historic definition of marriage -- that's not news. The fact that the gay community would disagree with me -- that's not news either. The real story is that a couple of different American leaders have chosen to model civility for the rest of the nation.''
"Free speech has to be free speech for everybody,'' he says. "Some people feel today if you disagree with them that's hate speech...I'm neither afraid of gays, nor do I hate gays. In fact, I love them, but I do disagree with some of their beliefs, and I have that constitutional right.''
Source
There is a video of Pastor Warren replying to his attackers at the link above. He is in many ways a centrist politically (which is why Obama chose him) but he is a traditional Christian. But a traditional Christian is not allowed to say a prayer at the Obama inauguration, apparently. That sounds pretty intolerant to me.
I am sure Obama has his eye on the great majority of Americans who feel repelled by homosexuality rather than on the small but shrill homosexual population.
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Maybe Obama really is a centrist
Excerpt:
CAN YOU HEAR the grumbling over in what Howard Dean used to call "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party?" The tolerance-and-diversity crowd is upset with Barack Obama; it seems the president-elect has been bringing people into his circle who don't agree with them on every single issue.
President-elect Barack Obama introduces his national security team on Dec. 1. Nominees L to R: Eric Holder (Attorney General), Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (Secretary of Homeland Security), US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who is to continue in his position, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), retired US Marine Gen. James Jones (National Security Adviser), and Susan Rice (ambassador to the UN).
The consternation on the left began with the naming of Obama's national security team -- Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Robert Gates to continue as secretary of defense, and retired four-star General James Jones as national security adviser. "Barack Obama's Kettle of Hawks," they were promptly dubbed in the Guardian by the left-wing journalist Jeremy Scahill, "with a proven track record of support for the Iraq war [and] militaristic interventionism." How could Obama possibly keep his campaign promise "to end the mindset that got us into war," asked The Nation, when none of his top foreign policy/national security picks had opposed the war?
There was even more distress in progressive precincts after Obama's economic team was announced. Lawrence Summers, who will chair the National Economic Council, "opposed regulating the newfangled financial instruments that greased the way to the subprime meltdown," wrote David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones magazine, in a column for the Washington Post. Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, New York Fed president Timothy Geithner, "helped oversee the financial system as it collapsed." Both of them, lamented Corn, are close to Robert Rubin, "a director of bailed-out Citigroup and a poster boy for . . . Big Finance." In the plaintive title of Corn's essay, "This Wasn't Quite the Change We Pictured."
Add to those the passel of former Clinton operatives who have returned to play key roles in the Obama transition, including Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, and Greg Craig, and Obama Girl herself could be forgiven for feeling disillusioned. Whatever happened to the fresh, progressive candidate who promised an escape from Clinton-era Democratic politics?
As if all that weren't enough to give a fervent liberal agita, Obama has asked the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor of Saddleback Church, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. From many on the left, where Warren's staunch opposition to same-sex marriage is reason enough to loathe him, responses have ranged from dismay to fury. Barney Frank labeled the pastor's views "very offensive" and pronounced himself "very disappointed" that Obama would invite him. The blog Liberal Rapture was more pungent: "Obama throws another middle finger to liberals." ...
Still, Obama is hardly in danger of turning into anything resembling a right-winger. With his trillion-dollar "stimulus" proposal, he is inviting comparisons to FDR. And with committed liberals like Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary, Carol Browner as energy czar, and Eric Holder as attorney general, the Obama administration is never going to be accused of harboring Republican tendencies.
More here
Whichever way you look at it, Obama sure is a champion con-man. Amusing that it seems to be mainly the Leftist big-shots that he has conned, however. Like other psychopaths -- such as Bill Clinton -- Obama believes in nothing other than what will benefit him personally. And he rightly perceives that if he wants a second term, he has to be a centrist. There is an article here which argues that centrism is the rule of politics. I can remember only as far back as Ike but as far as I can see, with one exception, all American presidents have been centrists -- the exception being, of course, Ronald Reagan. But as Nancy once said: "When they made Ronnie, they broke the mould". Ronnie actually moved the centre for a while but it has drifted back
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
CAN YOU HEAR the grumbling over in what Howard Dean used to call "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party?" The tolerance-and-diversity crowd is upset with Barack Obama; it seems the president-elect has been bringing people into his circle who don't agree with them on every single issue.
President-elect Barack Obama introduces his national security team on Dec. 1. Nominees L to R: Eric Holder (Attorney General), Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (Secretary of Homeland Security), US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who is to continue in his position, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), retired US Marine Gen. James Jones (National Security Adviser), and Susan Rice (ambassador to the UN).
The consternation on the left began with the naming of Obama's national security team -- Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Robert Gates to continue as secretary of defense, and retired four-star General James Jones as national security adviser. "Barack Obama's Kettle of Hawks," they were promptly dubbed in the Guardian by the left-wing journalist Jeremy Scahill, "with a proven track record of support for the Iraq war [and] militaristic interventionism." How could Obama possibly keep his campaign promise "to end the mindset that got us into war," asked The Nation, when none of his top foreign policy/national security picks had opposed the war?
There was even more distress in progressive precincts after Obama's economic team was announced. Lawrence Summers, who will chair the National Economic Council, "opposed regulating the newfangled financial instruments that greased the way to the subprime meltdown," wrote David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones magazine, in a column for the Washington Post. Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, New York Fed president Timothy Geithner, "helped oversee the financial system as it collapsed." Both of them, lamented Corn, are close to Robert Rubin, "a director of bailed-out Citigroup and a poster boy for . . . Big Finance." In the plaintive title of Corn's essay, "This Wasn't Quite the Change We Pictured."
Add to those the passel of former Clinton operatives who have returned to play key roles in the Obama transition, including Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, and Greg Craig, and Obama Girl herself could be forgiven for feeling disillusioned. Whatever happened to the fresh, progressive candidate who promised an escape from Clinton-era Democratic politics?
As if all that weren't enough to give a fervent liberal agita, Obama has asked the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor of Saddleback Church, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. From many on the left, where Warren's staunch opposition to same-sex marriage is reason enough to loathe him, responses have ranged from dismay to fury. Barney Frank labeled the pastor's views "very offensive" and pronounced himself "very disappointed" that Obama would invite him. The blog Liberal Rapture was more pungent: "Obama throws another middle finger to liberals." ...
Still, Obama is hardly in danger of turning into anything resembling a right-winger. With his trillion-dollar "stimulus" proposal, he is inviting comparisons to FDR. And with committed liberals like Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary, Carol Browner as energy czar, and Eric Holder as attorney general, the Obama administration is never going to be accused of harboring Republican tendencies.
More here
Whichever way you look at it, Obama sure is a champion con-man. Amusing that it seems to be mainly the Leftist big-shots that he has conned, however. Like other psychopaths -- such as Bill Clinton -- Obama believes in nothing other than what will benefit him personally. And he rightly perceives that if he wants a second term, he has to be a centrist. There is an article here which argues that centrism is the rule of politics. I can remember only as far back as Ike but as far as I can see, with one exception, all American presidents have been centrists -- the exception being, of course, Ronald Reagan. But as Nancy once said: "When they made Ronnie, they broke the mould". Ronnie actually moved the centre for a while but it has drifted back
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
2008 CARNIVAL OF CHRISTMAS
For TAB readers who celebrate Christmas, you might be interested in visiting this site for some celebrate-the-season reading.
For those who celebrate Christmas, may yours be a blessed one, filled with wonderful memories.
RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: WE SCOOPED INSTAPUNDIT WITH THIS! MERRY CHRISTMAS, GLENN!
For those who celebrate Christmas, may yours be a blessed one, filled with wonderful memories.
RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: WE SCOOPED INSTAPUNDIT WITH THIS! MERRY CHRISTMAS, GLENN!
Is this a new low point for Greenie stupidity?
Seattle is known as a place where the rain never stops, but lately it's been snowing, and the roads have been icy. On Friday the result, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, was a near-disaster:
Fortunately, the buses did not fall onto the highway below. They "came to rest with their front ends hanging over I-5."
It turns out there's a reason Seattle's roads are so icy. Today's Seattle Times reports:
Puget Sound is a saltwater estuary. That's right--Seattle officials are making their roads more dangerous because they're trying to keep salt out of the ocean.
Source (See the original for links)
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Two Northwestern Trailways buses slid down the snow-covered cobblestones of East Thomas on Capitol Hill and smashed into each other, careening through a guardrail on Melrose Avenue East, 20 to 30 feet above Interstate 5.
Fortunately, the buses did not fall onto the highway below. They "came to rest with their front ends hanging over I-5."
It turns out there's a reason Seattle's roads are so icy. Today's Seattle Times reports:
There's snow and ice left on major arterials by design. "We're trying to create a hard-packed surface," said Alex Wiggins, chief of staff for the Seattle Department of Transportation. "It doesn't look like anything you'd find in Chicago or New York." . . .
The icy streets are the result of Seattle's refusal to use salt, an effective ice-buster used by the state Department of Transportation and cities accustomed to dealing with heavy winter snows. "If we were using salt, you'd see patches of bare road because salt is very effective," Wiggins said. "We decided not to utilize salt because it's not a healthy addition to Puget Sound."
Puget Sound is a saltwater estuary. That's right--Seattle officials are making their roads more dangerous because they're trying to keep salt out of the ocean.
Source (See the original for links)
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Mormon hatred
Another gusher of Leftist hate below. He attacks Mormons, a tiny minority in California, for their support of a California constitutional amendment that blocks homosexual marriage. Most analysts say that blacks and Hispanics were the real muscle behind the "Anti" vote so I guess that some of us have wondered why the Mormons were singled out by lots of Leftists on this occasion.
As you read below however, you see that he has always despised Mormons ("money-soaked", "smug self-containment" etc.). Leftists are just full of hatred for anybody who is happily getting on with their lives and any excuse will do to let some of the hatred out:
"Sin of their dogma"? I thought that there was no such thing as right and wrong to a Leftist? I wonder where he gets his notion of sin from? Romans chapter 1 tells us that homosexuality is a sin. I guess he just pulls his notion of sin out of his butt.
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
As you read below however, you see that he has always despised Mormons ("money-soaked", "smug self-containment" etc.). Leftists are just full of hatred for anybody who is happily getting on with their lives and any excuse will do to let some of the hatred out:
"It has to do with the passage of Proposition 8, that California trash that befouled an otherwise heavenly election. Specifically, it has to do with the Mormon Church, which swung its considerable clout to the travesty of denying gays the respectability and dignity that Mormons have spent well over a century trying to get for themselves. And which now, they themselves should be denied.
That's right, you heard me. The Mormon Church has become a hateful bully and should be treated as such. Other people voted for Proposition 8, true, and much has been made of how black voters probably ensured its passage. But black voters aren't a money-soaked, monolithic, corporatized, sanctimonious monstrosity that poured $20 million into the effort, are they?
It's frustrating that there's not much we can do. We could refuse to spend our money in Mormon-owned businesses. We could refuse to vote for Mormon politicians. We could challenge their religious tax exemptions and I would love it if someone asked some serious questions as to why there's always a damn Mormon seminary within a stone's throw of nearly every high school from here to Salt Lake City.
But frankly, those of us who grew up around the smug self-containment of our Mormon neighbors will realize none of that would work and, in fact, would probably only make them more smugly self-contained. The Mormon Church has always luxuriated in their history of being picked on.
Yet after this orchestrated disdain for the happiness and emotional well-being of their fellow citizens, my fear of saying what I really think of them (that variety of cowardice I spoke of earlier) is a thing of the past. I am now free to be as unaccepting of them as they are of gays. There is an old tradition among rigid religions-I believe the Mormons still practice it on occasion-called "shunning." Now that they have placed themselves on the wrong side of both morality and freedom, I shun them. Better yet, I excommunicate them. They don't exist to me. Their marriages don't matter. Their happiness and emotional well-being don't matter. Let us move on, around them, as though they weren't there. Let us excise them from our thoughts and our hearts.
But listen, we would never want to be quite as intolerant as them, would we? And in that spirit, should they ever renounce the evil in their hierarchy and escape the sin of their dogma, we must let them know they are always welcome back, here in the fold of America.
Source
"Sin of their dogma"? I thought that there was no such thing as right and wrong to a Leftist? I wonder where he gets his notion of sin from? Romans chapter 1 tells us that homosexuality is a sin. I guess he just pulls his notion of sin out of his butt.
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 daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
DESPITE 150 YEARS OF EVER-INCREASING MAN-MADE CO2, THE ODDS OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS IN THE USA HAVEN'T CHANGED A BIT
PROBABILITIES BY STATE AND REGION HERE.
BETTING ODDS HERE. (YES, YOU CAN BET ON IT!)
HISTORY HERE - FROM NOAA.
HERE'S 30 YEAR PROBABILITY MAP:
CURRENT MAP:
IOW: AGW = BS.
I HOPE YOU HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS - WHITE OR OTHERWISE.
BETTING ODDS HERE. (YES, YOU CAN BET ON IT!)
HISTORY HERE - FROM NOAA.
HERE'S 30 YEAR PROBABILITY MAP:
CURRENT MAP:
NO CHANGE. UNLESS IT'S EVEN GONNA BE SNOWIER!
IOW: AGW = BS.
I HOPE YOU HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS - WHITE OR OTHERWISE.
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