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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Stop. Breathe. Do Over
   Global Warming piece by Guest: Donald Holtzinger (12/6/09)

Watching the panel discussion about Climategate on Fox News Sunday today I was dismayed by how the debate was framed. It was also apparent to me that those present were either willfully ignorant of known facts or were misinformed. These are reasonably intelligent people so if they are unclear about the significance of the entire “global warming” agenda, then certainly others are as well. So let’s recap and breakdown the subject into its component parts.

Global Cooperation, Not Global Responsibility
   Foreign Policy piece by James T. Moore (12/6/09)

There is something very terrible going on in our country today, and we, as concerned Americans, have the power and the duty to stop it as quickly as possible.

Muslim student accused of stabbing Jewish prof
   Crime piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

Saudi national entered office, attacked Mideast scholar - A Muslim anthropology graduate student is being charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Jewish professor at Binghamton University in Vestal, New York.

Essential Acts of Piracy
   ClimateGate piece by J.J. Jackson (12/6/09)

A lot of once revered members of Al Gore’s Cult of Man Made Global Warmingology are reeling.  After years of stonewalling and claiming privilege to protect their so-called “data” supposedly proving how real Global Warming caused by evil Homo sapiens is and shouting from the mountain tops that they were right, could prove it and all such nonsense, the world is finding out that lowly dissenters like myself were oh so very right about this wacko group all along.  Yes, after years which saw them call us every name in the book even as we produced actual data to show that there was no “global” warming trend caused by man, their reputation is, or at least should be, so tarnished that not even ACORN will associate with them.

Work-force training is vital
   Employment/Jobs piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

Of the $787 billion recovery act package, about $4 billion is being used by the Labor Department to help Americans who are out of work find and keep jobs and to support them while they’re unemployed. Of this, $3 billion is designated for work-force investment in local areas throughout the United States.

Justice thwarts Black Panther subpoenas
   Law piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

Could it be that President Obama’s legal team is imploding due to a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party? So many new developments regarding the Black Panther case occurred in the latter half of last week that it is hard keeping up with them all. But none of them look good for the Obama administration or for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.‘s Justice Department.

Bring Back the ‘Off’ Switch
   Common Sense piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

The millisecond-scale operation of an analog on-off switch is an eternity to a computer. Does that tremulous signal mean a finger meant to push the button once or twice? Is the computer being misled by microvoltages created by electronic interference? Did a user really push the button at all?

Bloggers Mugged by Regulators
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

The FTC wants to police book reviews on Twitter - Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission issued its “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising,“ last updated in 1980. These rules historically regulated what celebrity endorsers can say and how advertisers can use research claims.

Public Option Campus Revolt
   Socialism piece by Offsite (12/6/09)

There’s encouraging news on that other Washington effort to force Americans into a government-run system. The White House plan to drive private lenders out of the market for student loans is igniting a backlash on campus and Capitol Hill.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

CYA And Denial At The New York Times (Knee Jerk Times?)
   ClimateGate piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (12/5/09)

Read it and decide for yourself… Have a barf bag handy….

ClimateGate: Lettuce Get Real
   ClimateGate piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (12/5/09)

The “climate change” hoax/scam has finally been exposed.  What many have noted and revealed for months(if not years) has been finally debunked by the arrogance and stupidity of the perpetrators.

Democrats: “ClimateGate” Leak A Non-Scandal
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

If you’re a U.S. politician calling for expensive new laws relating to global warming, you know you’re in trouble when Jon Stewart lampoons the scientists whose embarrassing e-mail messages were disclosed in what’s being called “ClimateGate.“

Gordon Brown: climate-change sceptics are ‘flat-earthers’
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

People who doubt that human activity contributes to global warming are “flat-earthers” and “anti-science”, Gordon Brown has said. - The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political consensus on the environment.

‘Is Climate Gate just the beginning?‘
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

I should have spent some more time in this piece [on Fox News] and at least mentioned the third most relied on data in the IPCC report

‘What Are Global Warming Supporters Trying to Hide?‘
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

This is the age of computers and Web sites. If the institutions have the data sets available on their computers, they can easily be put up on a Web site for the world to see.

Think ‘Climate-Gate’ Is Nonevent? Think Again
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

The big question is whether universities have too much at stake, both ideologically and financially, to impartially investigate what has happened with Climate-gate - President Obama’s climate czar, Carol M. Browner, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs might think that Climate-gate is a nonevent, but on Monday Pennsylvania State University announced that it was launching an investigation into the academic conduct of Michael Mann, the school’s Director of the Earth System Science Center.

A Day to Remember by Richard Todd OBE - 1919 - 2009 - RIP
   History piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

Mr Richard Todd has[d] very kindly sent me some material for this website and has[d] given me permission to quote from an article that was printed in the Grantham Journal.

U.N. Panel to Probe Climategate
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

(AFP) - A top U.N. panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change skeptics’ views, its head said ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit.

Climategate Raises Hard Questions
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

As the fallout from the Climategate scandal continues to explode, the scientific community is putting itself under a microscope and beginning to ask some tough questions.

UK Climate Code May Be Scrapped
   ClimateGate piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

One of the first victims of the Climategate scandal may by the very computer code that is supposed to track global temperature records.

Climategate: A Willful Ignorance
   ClimateGate piece by Alan Caruba (12/5/09)

“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.“—MIT Professor Richard Lindzen, PhD, Atmospheric Science - “On such (climate) models we are supposed to wager trillions of dollars - and substantially diminished freedom.”—George F. Will, syndicated columnist, Washington Post

Analyst See RV Industry in Fast Lane to Growth
   Investments piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

(AP) - Shares of Winnebago Industries Inc. and Thor Industries Inc. rose Friday as an analyst said improving sales trends for the two recreational vehicle companies will continue through next year.

U.S. to Shine Light on Mysterious Dark Pools
   Investments piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

(Reuters) -Officials at two bank-run dark pools - the anonymous stock-trading venues that face sweeping rule changes - expect U.S. regulators to modify a proposal that would make it immediately clear where trading takes place.

The Copenhagen Hypocrite Conference
   GreeenIsm piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

The Copenhagen summit will bring together 16,500 people from 192 countries. People that say they are concerned about global warming caused by human activity.

Lawmakers Rally to Sailors’ Aid in Court Martial
   Political Correctness piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

WASHINGTON -(AP)- Lawmakers are seeking a reprieve for three Navy SEALs facing court martial because one allegedly punched a suspect in an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.

Giuliani Named Security Chief for 2016 Rio Olympic Games
   Politics piece by Jim Kouri (12/5/09)

While pundits, news analysts, and reporters attempt to predict former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s political future—including talk of a run for the US Senate—the latest news coming from his security firm appears to quash those predictions.

Obama’s surge speech offers two messages: one to placate the right, one to assuage the left
   War piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills - for 18 months. Then we start packing for home.

‘Will Baltimore succumb to culture of death?‘
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not “provide or make referrals for abortion or birth-control services.“ Now it awaits the mayor’s signature.

Confusion of the Copenhagen faithful
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

More than 14,000 people have pre-registered to attend the shindig in Copenhagen next week, none of whom are delegates. The facility, which accommodates only 15,000 people, will be overrun by special-interest groups, all clamoring for attention and a piece of the $94 billion pie that is divided annually among the global-warming congregation.

The Church of Global Warming
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (12/5/09)

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the scandal coming out of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, in which some bozos cooked the raw data on temperatures from around the world when those data didn’t reflect their global-warming agenda.