Greenhouse sceptics to congregate - National - theage.com.au

"'Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States,' Mr Evans says in the publication.

'It is a form of religious belief which fosters a sense of moral superiority in the believer, but which places no importance on telling the truth,' he says.

'The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the postwar period.'"

Group says Gore's home overuses electricity - USATODAY.com

"Utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.

The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press spanning the period from Feb. 3, 2006, to Jan. 5. That is far more than the typical Nashville household, which uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year."

Patriot Files, Links to Motivational Materials

From site (linked in title), a variation on the several guys go to a restaurant analogy:

Tax Cuts - As Explained By A Democrat

If you don't understand the Democrats' version of tax cuts (and you are not alone), maybe this will help explain it:

50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due.

The team was about to mail refunds when the Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that they send out refund amounts based on the Democrat National Committee's interpretation of fairness.

After all, if the refunds were made based on the price each person paid for the tickets, most of the money would go to the ticket holders of the most expensive tickets. That would be unfair and unconscionable.

People in the $10 seats will get back $15, because they have less money to spend. Call it an "Earned Income Ticket Credit." Persons "earn" it by demonstrating little ambition, few skills and poor work habits, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.

People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because that's only fair.

People in the $50 seats will get back $1, because they already make a lot of money and don't need a refund. After all, if they can afford a $50 ticket, then they must not be paying enough taxes.

People in the $75 luxury seats will have to pay another $50, because they have way too much to spend.

The people driving (or walking) by the stadium who couldn't afford to watch the game will get $10 each, even though they didn't pay anything in, because they need the most help (sometimes known as Affirmative Action!).

Now do you understand?

If not, contact Representative Nancy Pelosi, Senator Ted Kennedy or Senator Hillary Clinton for assistance.

Some quite powerful presentations on the War on Terrorism too.

Woodward, Novak Say Libby Wasn't Leak - WSJ.com

Mr. Woodward's testimony provided Libby's attorneys a victory in making that argument. They persuaded a judge to let them play a one-minute excerpt of Mr. Woodward's taped interview with Mr. Armitage. In it, Mr. Woodward asks about a CIA fact-finding mission that Mr. Wilson says helped him debunk prewar intelligence on Iraq.

"Why would they send him?" Mr. Woodward asked.

"Because his wife's a (expletive) analyst at the agency," Mr. Armitage replied.

"It's still weird," Mr. Woodward said.

"It's perfect. That's what she does. She is a WMD analyst," Mr. Armitage said.

(expletive) this whole sham process.

Penn and Teller: Bullsh*t! Recycling

Not new, but new to me. Handy resource for those tired of trying to get this message across to, those certain people in your lives.

(Of course they won't believe it anyway)...



Good news there about recycling aluminum at least.

Will Al Gore Melt?

"But if we are to follow Mr. Gore's suggestions of radically changing our way of life, the costs are not trivial. If we slowly change our greenhouse gas emissions over the coming century, the U.N. actually estimates that we will live in a warmer but immensely richer world. However, the U.N. Climate Panel suggests that if we follow Al Gore's path down toward an environmentally obsessed society, it will have big consequences for the world, not least its poor. In the year 2100, Mr. Gore will have left the average person 30% poorer, and thus less able to handle many of the problems we will face, climate change or no climate change."

Mark Steyn : What's so hot about fickle science?

"The question is whether what's happening now is just the natural give and take of the planet, as Erik the Red and my town's early settlers understood it. Or whether it's something so unprecedented that we need to divert vast resources to a transnational elite bureaucracy so that they can do their best to cripple the global economy and deny much of the developing world access to the healthier and longer lives that capitalism brings. To the eco-chondriacs that's a no-brainer."

See below.

Great Series from Canada.com on Global Warming Junk Science

"One place to start is with the American Meteorological Society, which has a committee on probability and statistics. 'I believe it is amazing for a committee whose focus is on statistics and probability that of the nine members only two are also members of the American Statistical Association, the premier statistical association in the United States, and one of those is a recent PhD with an assistant-professor appointment in a medical school.' As an example of the statistical barrenness of the climate-change world, Wegman cited the American Meteorological Association's 2006 Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, where only eight presenters out of 62 were members of the American Statistical Association.

While Wegman's advice -- to use trained statisticians in studies reliant on statistics -- may seem too obvious to need stating, the 'science is settled' camp resists it. Mann's hockey-stick graph may be wrong, many experts now acknowledge, but they assert that he nevertheless came to the right conclusion."

Free the Fitzgerald One! by Ann Coulter - HUMAN EVENTS

"The exact same people who are now demanding prison for Libby for not remembering who told him about Plame are the ones who told us it was perfectly plausible for Bill Clinton to forget that Monica Lewinsky repeatedly performed oral sex on him in the Oval Office. Even if chubby Jewish brunettes aren't your type, be honest: Which of the two events would stand out more in your memory? "

Duke Case: The Larger Tragedy

"Moreover, a virtually identical pattern of self-destructive attitudes and behavior has been found among British lower-class whites, where none of this can be blamed on racism or a legacy of slavery. (See 'Life at the Bottom' by Theodore Dalrymple.)

What the two self-destructive communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic have in common is hearing a steady diet of propaganda blaming all their problems on others, and depicting 'society' as determined to keep them down, regardless of anything they might do to try to lift themselves up."

Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building

"'While there were minor instances of spray painting of pavement by a splinter group of Anarchists who were seeking a confrontation with the police, their attempts to breach into secure areas and rush the doors of the Capitol were thwarted,' Morse said. 'The graffiti was easily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area.'"

(Run-together words corrected by your editor... Seems like professionals would have learned by now that when you cut and paste from MS Word to a web based application you get words run together at the end of every line. They are still figuring out this fancy new Internet thing over at MS you know.)

Now as to my comment: I'm so glad I live a safe distance from DC these days. I wouldn't want the DC police to have to risk a confrontation with criminals on my behalf. Would you?

reviewjournal.com -- Opinion - EDITORIAL: Democrats kill pork-buster

"President Bush came back last year to propose a weaker, modified version. Instead of being empowered to unilaterally strike items from bills, he would have been authorized to send one or more line items back to Congress for up-or-down votes. A simple majority vote would then have been sufficient to retain the spending, as opposed to the two-thirds supermajority required under the earlier plan.

But, ah, the members would be on the record, you see. Constituents could then ask the senator from Delaware why the heck he was spending their hard-earned tax money studying how to use the byproducts of a Washington state salmon cannery, or on some Alaskan 'bridge to nowhere.'"

Report: NYC May Lose Top Financial Spot

According to the study, by the consulting group McKinsey & Company, New York and other U.S. cities are falling behind in financial services while cities including London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Tokyo are surging ahead.

It concludes that the U.S. is losing its advantage because of three main factors:

_The American regulatory framework, particularly Sarbanes-Oxley, is "a thicket of complicated rules, rather than a streamlined set of commonly understood principles, as is the case in the United Kingdom and elsewhere."

_While New York offers a promising talent pool for its financial services work force, "we are at risk of falling behind in attracting qualified American and foreign workers."

_The legal environments in other nations "far more effectively discourage frivolous litigation."

YouTube - "Chris Matthews" vs. "Hillary"

Hard to believe the NBC PC censors didn't zap this:

Losing Strategy

Publication Note

http://blog.paperworth.com

now resolves to this address. Old address will continue to work as well.

Sandy Berger: What Did He Take and Why Did He Take It?

What could have been important enough for Berger to take the risks he did? What could have been important enough for a lawyer of his distinction to risk disgrace, disbarment, and prison?

To paraphrase the questions asked of Richard Nixon by members of his own Party, what did he take and why did he take it?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/america/web.0115americanism.php?page=1

Taken as a whole, the chapters in the book suggest it is not too late to undo some of the damage that has been done to America's global reputation. Gauging the strength of anti-American sentiment around the world, in all its varieties -- and understanding its roots -- is a crucial first step toward reversing it. Dialogue with those who express radical anti-American sentiment and would take up arms against us may not be possible or desirable. With everyone else, it is imperative.

That is, as long as dialog does not equate to capitulation. Popular among the loopy-left these days seems to be the assumption that if we disagree with any external entity on any issue, we must by definition be wrong. Can't have it every-which-way after all, but if you are one of the new-age hippies you can certainly hallucinate such things. While our "core values" have withered substantially we still have at least a vestige of what made this country great. Will that short attention span induced by "Twenty Four Hours" hypnotics (or Youtube for that matter) further erode who we are?

Probably.

Hang 'em!

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." - Abraham Lincoln

Real Estate Fairy visits pols who believe

The Real Estate Fairy and Obama bought adjoining property. The Real Estate Fairy paid the asking price for his parcel; Obama paid less than the list for his and, presto, Obama had a home in Kenwood and a nice vacant lot next door.

Obama said that if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't, since it didn't look right, perhaps because all of political Illinois knew that Rezko was by then toxic, infected with federal grandjuryitis.