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Via RCP, I wanted to give you a longer clip but the audio’s shoddy on the only one I can find. Too bad. It was, says Politico, a Woodstock moment. If Copenhagen is the enviros’ Woodstock, then Gore is The Who, the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival as a one-man band. The former vice president drew such a big crowd that security had to shut down access, with hundreds of unhappy activists left outside…Moeller also quoted the 19th century conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, saying that “to be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to...

Dr. William Gray, a renowned long range hurricane forecaster and Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University wrote an op-ed for ClimateDepot.com on Tuesday. Dr. William Gray. Image courtesy of the Colorado State University. Gray states that the last century's global warming of about 1 degree F is not a consequence of human activities. This warming is primarily the result of a multi-century changes in the globe's deep ocean circulation. The recent 'ClimateGate' revelations coming out of the UK University of East Anglia are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well organized international climate warming...

Now with Feinstein telling us what is right and wrong, despot Pelosi lines up to tell us that if we don’t line up with her input on health care, we could go to jail.

A Yale freshman who called himself the Dauphin is believed to have terrorized his peers with death threats, ritualistic vandalism, and a hit and run accident. Among his rumored loot: Secret society video footage, which has since surfaced on YouTube. The video, uploaded by new YouTube user Dauphinish and caught first by IvyGate, looks like it could belong the vaunted secret society that counts three generations of Bushes as its members. Unfortunately, vaunted secret societies don't really have publicists, so it's hard to confirm. (Yalies, take a stab in comments?) There are gothic

Obama has brought us thus far to such a cave in on disbanding democracy for socialism, Christian heritage for atheism, and what we have known as “America” for Islam World Rule.

CHILTON, Wis. (AP) -- Two Wisconsin women accused of seeking revenge on a cheating lover by gluing his penis to his stomach have reached plea deals. Forty-eight-year-old Therese Ziemann, of Menasha, was accused of doing the actual gluing.

If our new Nobel winner isn't a game-changer, summit fails, global wars by 2030 ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Obama the game-changer saves Copenhagen? Uses his new Nobel "Just War" doctrine, takes command, unifies world in a "Just War" on climate change, the biggest economic issue facing the world in the 21st century?Maybe, maybe not. But if he doesn't, Copenhagen fails. America is the game-fixer in the do-nothing scenario. Worse: Population growth will eventually outstrip depleting resources. Without a long-term economic strategy and a leader, we may not survive into the next century. Yes, if Obama's "Just War" doctrine becomes...

Earlier this month, The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) released a sobering, detailed series of reports--compiled over nine months of research--on the problem of campus rape. The report, Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice, included detailed accounts of individual experiences on campuses around the country, as well as statistics and analysis aggregating broader trends. All three parts of the study, culled from interviews with 48 experts on the disciplinary process, 33 women who reported being raped on campus, surveys of over 150 crisis centers, and 10 years of claims filed against universities, are well worth a serious...

The facts are that this "theology" is not black in the sense of skin color. It is black in that its source is hell's caverns. It is not liberating. It is binding and imprisoning. It is not theology in the legitimate definition. It is cultic writ for poor, duped disciples who don't know the Bible well enough to counter the hoax.

If Obama's Whacko Health Blanket smothers America, the US will not have enough doctors.

Sometimes when I use spell check, every word is highlighted as being incorrect. It just happened again, so I looked at the properties of the page, but I don't know what any of it means. Are there any technical people who could tell me what it says? Also, does this happen to any of you? Are you having any other strange problems?

Obamangst continues to twist and turn citizens’ heads so that they hardly know what to expect the next month let alone the next week.

COPENHAGEN -- George Soros arrived on the scene here yesterday to once again save us from ourselves. The guy has tons of money and has no doubt whatsoever that global warming is cooking the planet and that it's all the fault of human industry and innovation. But, as usual, he wants you and me paying for this boondoggle. Not surprising from a guy like Soros, who has never created anything. It's almost like "Revenge of the Nerds." Only now, when all the rules of nature are suspended to accommodate quack science, can all the losers finally sink their loser teeth...

Obamas Won't Celebrate Christmas A survey of adult Americans finds that an overwhelming majority prefer the seasonal expression "Merry Christmas." More than seven out of ten, in fact. Twenty-two percent, according to Rasmussen Reports, go for "Happy Holidays." However, the Obamas, who won't spend their first December holidays in the White House, apparently don't like either one. The Obamas have just mailed thousands of greeting cards that say simply, "Season's Greetings." They're cream-colored, maroon-bordered cards showing a gold wreath wrapped around the presidential coat of arms. The Obamas' card, paid for by the Democratic National Committee, makes no religious reference...

Muslims don’t care about the boys and girls.

The United States has become a nation of "non-tinkerers," a new survey shows. In a poll of 1,000 U.S. adults, nearly six in 10 said they had never made or assembled a toy. Twenty-seven percent had not made or built even one item from a list of eight common projects, including furniture and a flower box. Sixty-percent avoided handling major household repairs, opting to hire someone to do the work for them, according to the survey from the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association. It's worrisome, according to the association, because the "hands off" policy around the house has led young people...

Dairyland Greyhound Track owners announced Friday night the details of a plan in which each kennel operator would be given $5,000 as a way of making sure every dog is safely removed after the track closes for good. The cash offer to each kennel operator - there are 12 kennels at the Kenosha track housing hundreds of dogs - was made after negotiations between track owners and state regulators. The dogs must be moved out by Feb. 5, 2010. The track is shutting down after races on Dec. 31.Earlier this week, concerns had been raised by representatives of greyhound adoption...

Today In Irony: Robert Henry Smith, Rainier Beach High School Drug Prevention Counselor, Indicted On Drug Charges By Vernal Coleman in Crime & Punishment Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 4:47PM   Staff Photo: Rainier Beach High School Robert Smith   If you're hiring a person to ward the kids off getting involved with drugs, you hire a guy who has previously been prosecuted on federal drug charges.   Of course, that logic falls apart when the person you've hired goes from preventing back to pushing. Enter Robert Henry Smith, the Rainier Beach High School drug and alcohol prevention counselor who...

The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFqg1rCZUq4 If this doesn't show that liberalism and nazism are the same thing, nothing will. GIVE KOSOVO BACK TO THE SERBS!

If the U.S. fulfills its pledge to shrink greenhouse gas emission, the carbon dioxide reductions are sure to force big cuts and higher prices and taxes in the travel and tourism industry. Are concerns about climate change making you rethink or change your 2010 vacation and travel plans?

The bottom line at the Copenhagen Climate Conference is the same bottom line found in every Obama proposal -- the redistribution of wealth from you to anybody else the government designates. "Redistribution of Wealth" has been the holy grail of one world levelers for over 150 years. At Copenhagen, the same folks who failed to impose a "New World Order" through international communism, and who have also failed (so far) to impose world government through the U.N., believe they have the right formula at last. The plan is simple. Hijack the science of climatology; hype evidence that the earth is...

Brit police inform nurseries to spy out terrorism indoctrination on 4 and 5-year-olds.

So ... I've just returned from Wal Mart and ....

Trotwood, OH (AHN) - The Wright-Patterson Bomb Squad was deployed to Trotwood Wednesday after a family stumbled upon explosives in a house. The family was cleaning out a house left behind by a relative who recently died when they found the explosives. The bomb squad removed what they described as military explosives from the home and took them to a nearby horse park, where it was virtually deserted. The team then detonated the devices. Officials said there were a lot of military explosives in the house, including smoke bombs. The bomb squad chose an area where winds would not blow...

In a little noticed interview last week, former Vice-President Dick Cheney accused Barack Hussein Obama of treason. Chris Matthews’ Harball news hour featured Cheney’s comments under the title: “Dick Cheney accuses Obama of treason.” But the actual comments were made by Cheney on Count Down with Keith Olbermann: Cheney’s actual words were in regard to Holder’s decision, at Obama’s request, to move the trial of the 9/11 conspirators to New York City. Cheney’s words were: “I think we are going to give aide and comfort to the enemy. “I think it will make Kalid Shek Mohammend something of a hero...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros outlined a way to unlock $100 billion to help slow global warming on Thursday as talks on a new U.N. climate deal slowed over tough demands by the Pacific island state of Tuvalu.

Toronto, Canada (AHN) - A Toronto woman is currently in jail for being a witch. The charge of practicing witchcraft goes back to 1892 in Canada's Criminal Code. The charges were filed against Vishwantee Persaud, 36, in November, according to reports. On top of that she also faces fraud charges. Persaud allegedly gained the confidence of a criminal lawyer who said he gave her almost $150,000 to be his legal assistant. Noel Daley said he paid the woman a salary to help him with business ventures which never came to fruition, help with legal preparation and cancer treatments. She also...

Operation Enduring Freedom, on Oct. 7 will begin its ninth year. At $4 billion per month, a National Priorities Project has determined that the total cost of military operations in Afghanistan by the end of the year will be almost $200 billion. Thoughtful American taxpayers may ask why the Obama administration has not only embraced the Central Asian ground war that it inherited from Bush, but is seeking to expand not only the U.S. military footprint, but subject its NATO allies to contribute more troops and funding as well. Shorn of post 9/11 patriotic and fervor against the perpetrators of...

From Tiger Wood's personal website: Hey, Tiger, I was just wondering if you and your wife ever go out on dates? I mean, I never see you out in People magazine, and I know the paparazzi are everywhere! I think Elin and I have avoided a lot of media attention because we're kind of boring. When we do go out, we like to go to the movies. When we go for dinner, it's usually at the same few restaurants. Mostly, people are very nice and just want to say hi. There are a lot of evenings we'll just rent a...

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(New climate-friendly cremation method uses water and lye to transform human remains into 200 gallons of liquid fertilizer.) There are an awful lot of people on the planet, and modern methods for disposing of human remains aren’t exactly earth-friendly. A new alternative to cremation and burial could change that — and even increase food production for those still living — if we can get past the ‘ick factor’ of liquefying our dead relatives. "Resomation" is the process of disposing of human corpses through alkaline hydrolysis, which occurs when the body is sealed inside a vault-like tube filled with water and...

Forget zero-energy homes, which produce their own power and are carbon-neutral. The Germans are taking green building to the next step with so-called “triple-zero” homes, which both create enough energy to power themselves and have enough energy left over to send back to the grid. German architect and engineer Werner Sobek’s triple-zero homes are entirely energy self-sufficient, produce zero emissions and are made entirely of recyclable materials like glass, according to a recent article in Scientific American. So far, Werner Sobek’s firm of engineers and architects has built six of these homes, all in Germany, with a seventh planned for...

(New review on carnivorous flora suggests that a number of plants previously thought innocent may actually be murderous...) That's according to a new review on carnivorous plants which suggests that a number of commonplace, garden-variety plants like petunias and potatoes deserve to be classified as meat-eaters just like the Venus flytrap and pitcher plants. The review looked at all the research so far on carnivorous plants and found that what constitutes carnivory in plants has historically been vague and loosely defined. While only a handful of flora directly digest the bugs they catch, a wide variety of other plants possess...

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<p>WASHINGTON -- After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.</p>

The political commentator also shared some choice words about opposition to President Obama, including the “birther” movement, which questions the legitimacy of the President Obama’s U.S. birth certificate. Matthews said that there was “a lot of white tribalism in the birther stuff” and labeled some of the rabble-rousing associated with such movements as “nativist.”

Foxy Knoxy: The Troubling Doubts Over Amanda Knox's Role in Meredith Kercher's Murder By TOM RAWSTORNE 09th December 2009 The small hours of Saturday morning and a cell door slams shut on Amanda Knox, the American sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher. But in terms of closure, that is pretty much as far as it goes. Despite the verdict of the Italian jury last week, there remain more questions than answers as to how the 21-year-old Briton met her gruesome death while studying in Perugia. In the days that have followed Knox's conviction, an...

The recent appearance of a racist image of the First Lady Michelle Obama during a search on Google's search engine raises an interesting question: Should search engines have a conscience? Obviously, search engines, like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, that rely on highly complex algorithms to determine search results, have no intentional bias or inclinations that influence their searches. To suggest otherwise would be to anthropomorphize what is simply an immense and complicated set of computer code. But that code is a creation of its individual developers and team of developers, each of whom has a conscience. And it is also...

Today's Daily Flotus quiz question (this is the first of what may be an occasional feature) is: Which artist sat next to First Lady Michelle Obama at the 32nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremony on Sunday night? Your choices are limited to the honorees at the splashy star-studded show, a major yearly intersection of Hollywood, Broadway, all forms of music and Washington. The answer in a few paragraphs. But first, what to wear for the major salute to the arts? Sitting in the Kennedy Center Opera House presidential box, Mrs. Obama was in a strapless purple gown (Time Magazine said...

Subject: Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies yahoo-spy.pdf Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cox-spy.pdf Cox Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-ameritech- spy.pdf SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-lea-spy. pdf SBC Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 At 02:30 PM 12/7/09, W.G.E.N. wrote: Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price Posted: 2009/12/05 From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba. net/news/ ?x=622292 (Mathaba) Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to "law enforcement" and spy agencies has leaked onto the web. After earlier...

Mouse toy in ‘paedo’ song ban Published: 07 Dec 2009 A TOY mouse supposed to sing "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells" has been recalled amid claims it warbles "paedophile, paedophile". The 4ins festive novelty, with Santa hat and a cheesy grin, has left parents stunned. Toy ... mix-up One mum said: "When I squeezed its tummy I couldn't believe my ears. I recognised the tune, but the words were certainly not traditional. Luckily my children are too young to understand." The £2.99 Chinese-made novelty is sold in smaller shops and on market stalls. Distributors Humatt, of Ferndown, Dorset, said the man...

Any caddie can give yardages. When Steve Williams launched his career 33 years ago, he wanted more. He wanted to reinvent what a caddie does. "My goal has always been to positively affect the outcome for my player, to make a real difference and raise his game," he says. Read more: http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1881268,00.html#ixzz0Z7pcSzMG

So what, in Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s judgment, would make a “three-alarm story”?  In his evaluation of the New York Times’ coverage of the Climategate scandal, he offers this example (via Jazz Shaw): Why didn’t The Times put the e-mail on its Web site? And, most important, is The Times being cavalier about a story that could change our understanding of global warming? Or, as The Times’s John Broder, who covers environmental issues in Washington, put it, “When does a story rise to three-alarm coverage?” …The biggest question is what the messages amount to — an embarrassing revelation that scientists...

As multinational military forces have left Iraq, international petroleum companies have eagerly descended -- seduced by the long-term potential of vast oil reserves off-limits to foreigners for decades. Yet lingering violence, legal questions and political uncertainty make doing business in this country a gamble. In the first international oil auction held last June, widely seen as a failure, the Iraqi government awarded a firm contract to only a consortium of British Petroleum and the China National Petroleum Co. to further develop the Rumaila field over 20 years. Iraq recently forged an initial agreement with a group comprising Exxon Mobil and...

History was made about ten days ago in Vienna at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency when China and Russia voted along with the United States to sanction the Islamic Republic of Iran over its continued pursuit of nuclear energy. Iran, it is believed, intends to develop the technology to produce weapons of mass destruction. So say Western nations. Iran, of course denies all such accusations, claiming its nuclear program is intended solely for peaceful purposes. What is “historic” in this context is the fact that both Russia and China saw eye to eye with the United States...

Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled by Greg Kumparak on December 7, 2009 As the old mantra goes, “Cheaters never prosper”. In this digital age, it may be time to revise that saying. Granted a veil of anonymity by the Internet, cheaters surely prosper from their cheating; it’s just that when they get caught, they go down hard. Alas, “Cheaters may temporarily prosper – but if they get caught, they’re totally boned” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Such was the case earlier today, when the development company behind over 1,000 iPhone applications was busted scamming the...

Tiger Woods' other New York girl spent the day holed up in her plush Chelsea pad Sunday after she was outed by the Daily News. Cori Rist is now one of at least six women linked to the golf world's top swordsman. The 31-year-old leggy and busty blond spent Sunday calling friends, saying, "My involvement with Tiger Woods has just surfaced," according to a pal. Rist also had to explain the sudden media attention to her 7-year-old son, who has idolized Woods since his mother got him an autographed golf club from the Grand Slam-winning legend. The alleged mistress' ex-husband,...

. Obama wanted “non-religious Christmas”? 7 December 2009 28784 President Obama and the First Family were planning a “non-religious Christmas,” according to Social Secretary Desiree Rogers. Ms. Rogers reportedly told a gathering of former social secretaries that the Obamas did not intend on putting the Nativity scene on display – a longtime East Room tradition. The account was reported in the Fashion and Style section of The New York Times. The White House confirmed to the Times that there had been internal discussions about making Christmas more inclusive – but in the end – tradition won out – and the...