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Future-oriented industries, such as those manufacturing solar panels, are being held back by shortages because of China's control of essential metals.

Why even teach journalism any more, they're just making it up all the time now. Only through the magic of a mainstream media that has built up an immunity to embarrassing itself can George W. Bush be portrayed as eternally stupid and a more gaffe prone guy who got worse grades in college be thought a genius. One has to wonder: if we drug tested at the polls would any Democrats be allowed to vote? Al Gore steps onto the portico of his century-old white colonial, its stately columns framing him and the black Lab mix, Bojangles, that he and...

Finding Critics for Science Allie Winegar Duzett, November 4, 2009 There are many fields with rigorous critics; many writers make a living critiquing music, dance, art, and literature. At Accuracy in Media and other media watchdog groups, employees critique the claims of major news organizations. But one crucial field regularly goes without any public criticism: the field of science, and scientific discovery. “Science lacks for critics,” David Berlinski claimed at a recent Heritage Foundation Bloggers’ Briefing. “It is really remarkable that in the sense in which literature or dance or music has always entered public consciousness with a very rich...

Behind Global Warming Alarms Allie Winegar Duzett, November 4, 2009 As the danger of global warming fades, the influence of those who would use it to expand government regulation grows. Neil Maghami of the Capital Research Center investigates those behind today’s climate of environmental alarmism in his October 2009 article, “The Triumph of Environmental Alarmism: Science ‘Czar’ John Holdren and the Woods Hole Research Center.” In the article, Maghami describes who John Holdren is and why he is significant. Holdren is today President Obama’s science “czar,” and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP...

What is shocking is that anyone is surprised by the news that Al Gore's Silver Spring Networks company is benefiting from some $560 million in grants given by the energy department. Did anyone actually think that Al Gore was going to turn a profit by selling cow fart catalytic converters or solar ovens to people on the street? The fact is, the average person doesn't buy Al Gore's load of crap so he has to depend on like-minded wackos in the government who will make sure that his investments were not made in vain.

Regular readers of these pages know my little "pet name" for the leadership of the global warming hoaxers is "The Holy Church of Global Warming Moonbats" There is a Judge in the UK who believes just as I do, except he is serious. In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

Diane Sawyer didn't pull any punches with ex-Veep Algore, even using a Glenn Beck clip to challenge his global warming rhetoric.

Al Gore decided to celebrate halloween a couple days later then everyone else. Instead of a haunted house he went on Morning Joe and started telling us the world is about to end. The sky is falling. The earth has a fever. And we are all going to drown from rising sea levels. Here's the link for the video. Transcript below. "Al Gore: Well, the book is titled “Our Choice” because it focuses on the key factor. If we choose to switch to renewable energy. Sustainable agriculture and forestry. Make our economy more efficient. Then we don’t have to depended...

She's in labor right now. Epidural caused baby and mother's heart to stop. (she has high blood pressure and gestational diabetes)

Rethinking relativity: Is time out of joint? EVER since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse, evidence for Einstein’s theory of general relativity has only become stronger. Could it now be that starlight from distant galaxies is illuminating cracks in the theory’s foundation? .... Yet it is still not clear how well general relativity holds up over cosmic scales, at distances much larger than the span of single galaxies. Now the first, tentative hint of a deviation from general relativity has been found. While the evidence...

But Mr. Gore we do know you, we also know that you are founder and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection. The group acts as a venture capital company for "green start-ups." Venure capitalists never take a salary, gore will make his money when he sells the interest in start-up. Not that Gore isn't making any money on the his green effort. The Alliance pays all-expenses for his worldwide trips on his private carbon burning airplane, taking to speaking events where he makes $175,000 on average. He has to be making the cash somewhere, reports are that his net...

Sarah Palin Posted This Video On Her Facebook Page: Quit Making Things Up DNC

To paraphrase Marx, Liberalism is the religion of the asses. Liberalism in the United States has become virtually indistinguishable from socialism and/or statism. Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” Since Obama has taken over the White House, we’ve seen the government take over General Motors, Citibank, and dozens of other companies. The #1 push of the administration now is to nationalize health care. Can the “public option” be described as anything other than government ownership of the production...

A major medical paper on primary heart disease prevention admitted that cardiovascular disease risk factors have proven useless for predicting heart disease among our population and that reducing risks factors doesn’t translate into reduced clinical disease or fewer premature deaths. But the solutions to this conundrum were the most unbelievable examples of ad-hoc reasoning.

Do you believe significant man-made global warming is proven scientifically? Yes, No or Who Cares?

Do you believe significant man-made global warming is proven scientifically? Yes, No or Who Cares?

Regulate all the carbon dioxide you want, greenies, it's your future burgers that are really doing the damage. Methane’s impact on global temperatures is about a third higher than generally thought because previous estimates have not accounted for its interaction with airborne particles called aerosols, Nasa scientists found. When this indirect effect of the potent greenhouse gas is included one tonne of methane has about 33 times as much effect on the climate over 100 years as a tonne of carbon dioxide, rather than 25 times as in standard estimates. Thirty-three times more damage than CO2. Obviously, breaking the back...

Does it ever occur to anybody (religious) out there that maybe, just maybe, their “Holy Book” is a crock? Maybe it’s just a 2,000 (+/-) year old urban legend gone horribly righteous and viral?

For years, pet "owners" suspected, but were unable to prove the absolute fact that dogs who live with liberals tend to be more liberal than dogs who live with conservatives. Now, for the first time ever, this was confirmed in the Indian science journal Jonwar Chodu. Pulling from an absolutely staggering sample size, they were able to scientifically conclude that not only are there general political similarities between humans and their dogs, but in fact these dogs became MORE politicized than their human companions. For example, if the human were to lean to the left a little on social issues...

In a much publicized rant that sent chills up the legs of millions of liberals, oops, progressives, Janeane Garofalo emphatically exercised her opinion of the millions of 'tea-party' protestors: "This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism, straight up. Its is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks." Anyone who has read Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals, knows that Garofalo's statement is either demonstrably false, or just plain racist. Sowell, a fellow at The Hoover Institution and a prolific author (who happens to be black himself) actually documents the origins and evolution...

riddles are fun!

The following is by Dr. David N. Menton, Ph.D. It is copyrighted 1994 by Missouri Association for Creation -- The human brain consists of approximately 12 billion cells, forming 120 trillion interconnections. The light sensitive retina of the eye (which is really part of the brain) contains over 10 million photoreceptor cells. These cells capture the light pattern formed by the lens and convert it into complex electrical signals, which are then sent to a special area of the brain where they are transformed into the sensation we call vision. In an article in "Byte" magazine (April 1985), John Stevens...

Brent Rooney: Superfreakenomics Co-Author Should Leave Medical Matters Alone Steven D. Levitt's LAUGH-IN / Freakonomics Fried by Brent Rooney (MSc) * On Oct. 2009, Univ. of Chicago Prof. Steven D. Levitt debuted Superfreakonomics as a sequel to his best-selling book Freakonomics 2005). Perhaps Levitt is correct about Global Cooling, in his 2009 book, but nothing Levitt writes about medical matters can be believed. If a young Milton Friedman (PhD, Nobel Prize winner) had opined that “strong increased consumer demand for IPODs or Ivory Soap leads to DECREASED prices”, the loud guffaws would have shattered ears and the business press would...

Denying Global Warming Allie Winegar Duzett, October 29, 2009 CNN and ABC would have you believe the debate on global warming is over; Dr. Richard S. Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agrees. However, while the mainstream media shouts from the rooftop that global warming is manmade, Dr. Lindzen takes the opposite point of view: the debate is over, he says, but anthropogenic global warming (AGW) alarmists lost the argument. The science is here and it shows that humans do not affect climate in any meaningful way. When Dr. Lindzen is asked if he is a global warming skeptic,...

It is not a secret to any of us that the United Nations Charter is simply the Communist Manifesto which had be modified and adapted for the vindictive expedience of transferring the wealth from the people living who are living world leaders such as the United States to the Socialist elites. We’ve all seen the faces and the bare-naked bodies of impoverished children who had been exploited for this kind of extortion. These organizations are always operated and promoted by the elites such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, but the impoverished people who are shown on their posters and...

“J’accuse! A statistician may prove anything with his nefarious methods. He may even say a negative number is positive! You cannot trust anything he says.” Sigh. Unfortunately, this oft-hurled charge is all too true. I and my fellow statisticians must bear its sad burden, knowing it is caused by our more zealous brethren (and sisthren). But, you know, it really isn’t their fault, for they are victims of loving not wisely but too well their own creations. First, a fact. It is true that, based on the observed satellite data, average global temperatures since about 1998 have not continued the...

...But last week’s episode marked a dramatic departure from the familiar, biased trope. After detective Bernard makes a few forceful pro-life points in an impromptu squad car debate with his partner, ADA Cutter jumps into the fray. He professes his pro-life views and refutes a condescending response from his pro-choice colleague (Rubirosa) by citing the “turning tide” of public opinion and mentioning that most Americans now consider themselves pro-life. Apparently Mr. Cutter’s been checking the latest Gallup stats. Rubirosa replies by pointedly referring to those who share Cutter’s views as “anti-choice,” at which point the reliably liberal District Attorney, Jack...

'Warming had a natural origin...CO2 is 'not guilty' Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Reprint of new scientific paper: (Full pdf paper available here.) THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE (Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory, Head of the Russian/Ukrainian joint project Astrometria - (translated from Russian by Lucy Hancock) Dr. Abdussamatov is featured on page 140 of the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists Over Man-Made Global Warming.) Key Excerpts: Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon...

Inconvenient Truths Allie Winegar Duzett, October 27, 2009 Ann McElhinney was not always a conservative; in fact, she was once quite liberal. She told the story of her conversion at Accuracy in Media’s 40th Anniversary Conference on October 23, 2009. McElhinney was a journalist called to cover a story about a Canadian mining company in Romania. “What was really bizarre about this,” McElhinney said, “was that the BBC, CNN, the New York Times covered this story of this evil mining company; evil Canadians were going to destroy Transylvania and bring nothing but bad things, and two heroic, wonderful women—two environmentalists…were...

What do you think -- legitimate concern or is someone blowing smoke? Your opinion is important, your comments will be posted and all this information will likely be used on my radio show and in a future column. Vote now at www.daveweinbaum.com.

Lord Monckton is certainly the new poster boy for people who do not buy into the power grab that is global warming. I just came across this video of Lord Monckton speaking at Accuracy In Media's 40th anniversary on Oct. 23rd. Among other things he says that it would take the entire planet 200 years of a stone age economy with NO fires in our caves to make a tiny diff' to global warming. He goes on to talk about the Copenhagen treaty. Here is the video Lord Monckton speaking at A.I.M.I'll try and get a transcript up later.

Striping away the nuance of public discourse and gazing at the underlying foundation of competing belief systems seems to reveal two general camps into which people fall. There are those who believe, for whatever reason and to varying degrees, that human beings have evolved from lower animal or social forms and are continuing to evolve toward some future perfection or apotheosis. Conversely, there are those who believe man is inherently flawed, limited, and in a very literal way retarded. I believe the latter self-evident, and wish to ask those who believe the former to present me with an answer to...

Results of last week's poll: 97 percent of respondents believed Rush Limbaugh SHOULD have been allowed to invest in an NFL team. Readers voiced lots of interesting opinions that have been posted on the site. THIS WEEK: Do you believe significant man-made global warming has been proven scientifically? Click on the site to cast your vote.

Perhaps critical events of the third century may offer a few answers. Secular historical data, backed by biblical writings suggests that up to this point every religious institution honored the Seventh Day Sabbath – except Roman and Hellenistic Pagans. During the mid to latter part of the third century the Christian movement was spreading rapidly across the Roman Empire and Christians began to out number Pagans forcing certain pagan rituals, temples, and synagogues to become obsolete putting them in jeopardy of being destroyed. It was at this critical juncture that The Roman Emperor Constantine The Great, converted from Paganism to...

On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. Get a link to the clip here: www.daveweinbaum.com

“Do not go quiet into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” D. Thomas Dear Fellow Reagan Orphans, On October 18, 2009, White House Senior Advisor, David Axelrod clarified, for George Stephanopoulos, the statement made by the White House Communications Director, that Fox News is not “a real news agency.” “the only argument Anita (Dunn) was making is that they’re (Fox News) not really a news station, if you watch — even — it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming, it’s really not news. It’s pushing a point of view, a...

On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

A shout out to and a big thanks to Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Steve Doocy, Michael Steele and the rest of those that made The Huffington Joke’s list. Without their hard work and persistence we would not only be praying to the “global warming” gods but have a 30% increase in all energy cost and most likely have 30% unemployment or higher (with 17% today this is not unrealistic). I also finding interesting that The Huffington Joke dedicates more of their site to Governor Palin than Obama or any other individual. They must love her or fear her?

What is Mole Day? Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day was created as a way to foster interest in chemistry. Schools throughout the United States and around the world celebrate Mole Day with various activities related to chemistry and/or moles. For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams) whose number is equal to the atomic mass of the molecule. For example, the water molecule has an atomic mass of 18, therefore one mole...

Signs are showing that November will be turning warmer than normal, at least for the first half of so of the month for the Eastern U.S. with the opposite being true for the West. However,

Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, the word must be getting out that the facts are beginning to pile up against the global warming hoax. * At the UN's World Climate Change Conference in Geneva one of the worlds top climate change scientists, predicted that we are facing 10-20 years of global cooling. The Scientist, named Mojib Latif said the cooling would be the result of changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Latif also said that the NAO may be partly the cause of warming during...

Globe Cools to Warming Allie Winegar Duzett, October 22, 2009 Ever since it came out in 2006, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been something of a cult classic. Despite its numerous scientific mistakes and exaggerations, the movie has risen to must-see status, even being required viewing in many public schools. Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney teamed up earlier this year to create a rebuttal film, Not Evil, Just Wrong to discuss the scientific inaccuracies and the hidden agendas of Al Gore’s smash hit. Not Evil, Just Wrong points out some of the grossest scientific problems with An Inconvenient Truth;...

GGL just mentioned Lord Moncton would be up next in case you care to hear the interview.

If we allow ourselves to be controlled by computers, or even begin to act like computers ourselves, we should not be surprised when we are sent to the recycle bin and permanently deleted.

Who is Roy Masters? In 1960 Roy Masters started America's first conservative talk radio show on KTYM in Los Angeles, California. Roy Masters and his 'Advice Line' radio program continue today as an institution on radio. Advice Line is currently broadcast nationwide on a 130 radio stations and available via the internet. For more about Roy see: http://www.fhu.com/aboutroy.htmlhttp://roymasters.blogspot.comhttp://fhumeditation.blogspot.comTheRoyMastersChannel

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. -- Governor Sarah Palin A couple weeks ago in Madison Wisconsin, Al Gore, noted global warming alarmist, was making a presentation at The Society of Environmental Journalists at a venue in Madison, Wisconsin. During his presentation, he was faced with something he goes out of his way to avoid: a reporter who dares to ask, shall we say, an inconvenient question about the unsubstantiated musings in his film, An Inconvenient Truth:

Too confused and too nuanced to be effective Phelim McAleer’s and Ann McElhinney’s Not Evil, Just Wrong targets the hypocrisy, self-righteousness and scare-mongering of Al Gore and the doomsayers of the environmental movement. The movie primarily focuses on the inappropriate and unjustified use of scare tactics by those who want to do good but end up doing harm because they fail to sufficiently value human life and ordinary human aspirations. McAleer and McElhinney argue that Gore and leaders of the environmental movement divert attention away from current and real human tragedies, like the millions of children who die each year...

Who is Roy Masters? In 1960 Roy Masters started America's first conservative talk radio show on KTYM in Los Angeles, California. Roy Masters and his 'Advice Line' radio program continue today as an institution on radio. Advice Line is currently broadcast nationwide on a 130 radio stations and available via the internet. For more about Roy see: http://www.fhu.com/aboutroy.htmlhttp://roymasters.blogspot.comhttp://fhumeditation.blogspot.comTheRoyMastersChannel

This week Earth will be passing through a debris field left behind by Halley’s Comet, the Orionids. Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office says, “Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour. Since 2006, Orionids have been one of the showers of the year, with counts of 60 or more meteors per hour.”

We humans love a good scare, don’t we? Remember Y2K? All the computers in the world were supposed to do horrible things, banks were going to topple, governments who depended on PCs for their defense systems would vaporize, and The Osmands threatened to come back to prime time TV... Fast forward to now. We’re on the precipice of the end of days: December 21, 2012. That’s when the cognoscenti are saying that the world, as we know it, will end. Right?