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Monday, November 23, 2009

The KDE on Windows Project
   Computers piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (11/23/09)

KDE is available for Windows!  It is NOT finished but interesting to play with.

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate
   Global Warming piece by Alan Caruba (11/23/09)

For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?“ The truth about some of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived.

Tuition tax credit saves at least twice what it costs state
   EdukShun piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Matthew Ladner (11/23/09)

Baylor University economist Dr. Charles North developed an estimate of the savings to state taxpayers due to the individual tax credit, and shared his findings with the Arizona Legislature last week. You can find Dr. North’s analysis here and view his testimony to the Ad Hoc Committee on Private School Tax Credit Review here.

Please, Mr. Custer, We Don’t Want To Go!
   War piece by Robert R. Owens (11/23/09)

When the neo-cons,  a group of liberal democrats realized Margret Thatcher was right in saying, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” they decided liberalism is as Michael Savage contends a mental disorder.  In the 1970s and 80s they abandoned the Good Ship Democrat proclaiming themselves Born-Again Republicans.  Generally they still carry the baggage of their former psychosis when it comes to social issues but when it comes to foreign affairs and military matters they sound like Errol Flynn playing George Custer in They Died With Their Boots On, “Don’t wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up everybody and ride to the sound of the guns.“

Nancy’s Christmas wish
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (11/23/09)

Nancy Pelosi offering Americans her health-care bill as our Christmas gift excites me about as much as a slave being promised a new set of chains from the slave master. Her idea that taking freedom from millions of Americans is a gift is grotesquely warped. Please take me off your list, Nancy.

The global warming fraud exposed
   Junk Science piece by Offsite (11/23/09)

I have an old T-shirt that I used to wear from time to time during my techno days with Psykosonik. Eric Bloodaxe of the Legion of Doom created it in honor of the “Hacking for Jesus” tour, complete with a listing of ISP addresses that were supposedly hacked during the LOD’s Internet World Tour of 1991. But last week, an anonymous hacker achieved a feat that will long be lionized by computer pirates, libertarians and genuine scientists alike, as he broke into the Climate Research Unit’s computers, copied 172 megs of data, and then released it into the digital wild.

The great ‘global warming’ hoax
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (11/23/09)

While all eyes focus on the unfolding drama of the “health-care reform–health-insurance reform–jobs bill,“ another critical part of the “Change America” plan just took a torpedo midships.

Giving Thanks
   Society piece by Jeff Lukens (11/23/09)

Thanksgiving is a chance to gather with loved ones and share in a time-honored American tradition. For some, it is an excuse to stuff themselves with turkey and football. For others, it is a special time of “giving thanks” for blessings in their lives.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Bing Remains Mediocre
   Internet piece by Editor (11/22/09)

It actually works most of the time which is a good sign for a Microsoft offering.

The Alarmists Do “Science”: A Case Study
   Climate Change piece by Offsite (11/22/09)

A fascinating, hot-off-the-presses story emerges from the emails that were hacked yesterday from the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre. It is one of many exchanges that shed light on the priority that the global warming alarmists give to politics and career advancement over science.

Socialism Loving Students Stage Protests Of Socialism!
   EdukShun piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (11/22/09)

The Socialist Colleges and Universities casually hiked tuition rates to fund their outrageous salaries and the students complain?

‘America’s proud heritage: ‘uneducated, illiterate, barefooted, gun-toting hayseeds’?‘
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (11/22/09)

The government schools are a vast social engineering project designed to dumb students down, alienate them from their families, teach them that books are boring, shorten their attention spans, get them to shout out their memorized government-propaganda sound bites with increasing scorn, derision, and anger at anyone who disagrees, and finally to respond with arrogant hostility, sarcasm and ad hominem attacks on anyone who tries to point all this out to them.

Hadley Hack-in Reveals Hidden Truths
   Global Warming piece by Guest: Dennis T. Avery (11/22/09)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - Copenhagen has predictably brought out a new round of claims that humanity is frying the planet. Mother Nature, however, has told us to expect only about 0.5 degree of further warming over the next several centuries. Which is right, Mother Nature or the computerized global climate models championed by Al Gore?

Abuse Shelter Watchdogs: See No Evil, Speak No Evil
   Femi-Nazis piece by Carey Roberts (11/22/09)

Domestic violence shelters are rife with mismanagement and fraud. They push a radical gender ideology on the unsuspecting, discriminate against male victims, and employ woefully unqualified staff. And they ridicule traditional religion as “oppressive” to women - all to the tune of $100 million in federal taxpayer money each year.

‘2009 first year of global governance’
   NewWorldOrder piece by Offsite (11/22/09)

In accepting his appointment as the first president of the European Union, Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy announced that “global governance” is only way to address the crises that beset the planet.

Coca-Cola spearheads 1-world climate tax
   NewWorldOrder piece by Offsite (11/22/09)

Coca-Cola is spearheading a coalition of more than 100 companies pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world’s wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed international “super-grid” for regulating and distributing electric power worldwide.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Global Carbon Footprint Scam
   GreeenIsm piece by Alan Caruba (11/21/09)

I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, and the current ledgers are sobering.“

Friday, November 20, 2009

We Don’t Like to Stock That, It Sells Too Well
   Socialism piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (11/20/09)

I imagine the Postmaster General grinds his teeth when he thinks about how much easier his life would be, if he had a monopoly like the “public” schools. If customers were forced to buy the equivalent postage before they were allowed to ship FEDEX or UPS his competition worries would be over.

D.C. sued for blocking vote on marriage
   Police State piece by Offsite (11/20/09)

A lawsuit has been filed in Washington, D.C., challenging a decision by the city’s Board of Elections and Ethics not to allow citizens to vote on the definition of marriage, as had been proposed by an initiative.

‘Hacked e-mails reveal global-warming fraud?‘
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (11/20/09)

Top climate scientists discuss hiding contrary data, marginalizing dissenters - Officials at a key global warming research center in the United Kingdom have authenticated a series of e-mails and other documents apparently taken from their computer system by a hacker, but they cannot explain what scientists in internal exchanges meant by references to a “trick” that would “hide the decline” of global temperatures nor by instructions to delete contrary data.

Civilian Trials Provide Soapboxes for Terrorists
   Terrorism piece by J. D. Longstreet (11/20/09)

So now we are going to try the terrorists in civilian federal trials in New York City, just blocks away from the site of the former World Trade Center Twin Towers, where 3,000 innocents were murdered. Can you possible see how this move by the Obama Regime makes the US appear weak, indecisive, and just plain DUMB to our enemies?

DDT: The Silent Killer…Only When It Was Gone
   Junk Science piece by Kevin Roeten (11/20/09)

Because mosquitoes were almost nonexistent with the use of DDT in places like Africa, elimination of DDT brought mosquitoes back - in force. The 1972 ban of DDT in the U.S. did not help matters at all. Now, many less effective and more costly methods are used - netting, other chemicals, you name it. But from the “Malaria Clock” listed in the following paragraphs, one gets an idea of exactly how many deaths have occured, especially from malaria.

Proposed Healthcare Reform Keeps Hospital Doors Closed
   Health Care piece by Thomas D. Segel (11/20/09)

Harlingen, Texas, November 18, 2009:  If we are to believe the nightly news reports, half of our population is eagerly awaiting the Obama Administration’s healthcare reform bill to bring about lower prices, faster service and medical care to everyone.  That mantra may be a soothing promise to some of those who are currently uninsured, but to the citizens of San Benito, Texas it means they still do not even have a hospital to provide current of future treatment.

Communist China, 1995—- the dawn of capitalism
   Economics piece by Guest: Steve Selengut (11/20/09)

The Hong Kong based guide talked about the free enterprise zones, building projects, golf courses, and roads with a chest full of pride and visible excitement. Capitalism was everywhere along the tour route, and judging from the advertisements on billboards and posters, the world was coming to China!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Conning the conservatives
   Shadow Government piece by Offsite (11/19/09)

Passes the plate for ACORN, other left groups - ...As this Sunday’s “second collection” approaches, most Catholics planning to donate to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development probably think their money will be used to help the poor by funding soup kitchens and homeless shelters. Well, the joke’s on them. CCHD has never provided direct relief to the poor. That’s not its purpose.

‘Where did the “Silent Majority” go???‘
   Politics piece by J. D. Longstreet (11/19/09)

During the decade of the seventies the “Silent Majority” was often spoken of in the press. Prominent politicians, including the President, openly sought their support.

Palin, Conservatism, And The Disconnected GOP
   Republicrats piece by Christopher Adamo (11/19/09)

For nearly two decades now, and particularly in the wake of the 2000 presidential election debacle, Democrats have been pursuing a diabolically simple political strategy. In short, they moved hard-left, knowing how reflexively the “mainstream” Republican response would be to follow them. But of course the GOP would pathetically claim that, by doing so to a lesser degree than the Democrats, it would somehow retain the mantle of “conservatism.“

Deer Issue Catches Liberalism In Headlights
   Progressivism piece by Frederick Meekins (11/19/09)

Early in American history, one was pretty much free to do as one saw fit on one’s property so long as it was moral especially if one lived in a rural area where one’s actions were not likely to encroach upon the sensibilities of one’s neighbors.  However, now it seems the landholdings of the United States in general and private property in specific are for everyone else to decide what to do with except the one to which it is titled.

Galileo silenced again
   Junk Science piece by Guest: Willie Soon, David R. Legates (11/19/09)

The American Geophysical Union is sending science back four hundred years - Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with religious orthodoxy risked being burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a fiery end.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

GOP’s Coburn Plans to ‘Read’ Healthcare Bill
   Senate piece by Offsite (11/17/09)

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., vowed Monday to read the entire Senate heathcare bill on the chamber floor - an act that will take days considering the bill’s 1,000-plus size.