"The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
"The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.
"The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.
"The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history — it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
"But the Medieval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own time — the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an unprecedented and dangerous warm period. As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined. As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a Medieval Warm Period 'dilutes the message rather significantly.'"
Saturday, December 19, 2009
JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS OP-ED: King Of The Blacks
"Conventional wisdom says that black parents are less actively involved in their children’s education; that there exists an anti-intellectualism in the black community such that academic achievement is seen as acting white; that Black students do not read or write as well as their white and Asian [c]ounterparts and that the middle class achievement gap is due to racism as opposed to a gap in work habits. In addition, convention says Black boys are angry, prone to violence and better athletes than they are academics. And sometimes we black folk do things that play into the mythology. My son told us about a Korean girl in his class whose opinions command influence among the other Asian girls in the school, or at least she thinks they do. According to him the students refer to her as the 'queen of the Asians.' She is a straight A student. My sons’ little brother asked if there was a 'Queen of the Blacks' at the school. 'Well,' my son replied, 'there is a king of the blacks.' 'Who is that?' his little brother asked. My son responded, 'He is this boy that got held back last year.' I cringed. My wife cringed. No doubt there is more to the story but on its face it is damning. How is it that the 'queen of the Asians' is a straight “A” student while the 'king of the Blacks' is the kid that flunked 8th grade?"
Obama Forced To Address Climate Skepticism In Bad Tempered Tantrum
"A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama was forced to address climate skepticism during his ill-tempered tantrum today in Copenhagen, desperately claiming that man-made climate change was 'not fiction,' a view not shared by the majority of Americans he has failed to represent as he attempts to ram through a huge transfer of wealth to the new world order."
Study: 'Stimulus' package helps Democrats, not the economy
"A new study has confirmed that Obama's 'stimulus' spending is disproportionately targeting Democratic districts and being used for partisan constituent payoffs.
"The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, found that the porkulus funds have gone to Democrat districts almost twice as often as Republican districts."
"The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, found that the porkulus funds have gone to Democrat districts almost twice as often as Republican districts."
Grape Juice Can Reverse Memory Loss
"The participants were given memory tests, such as memorizing lists and placing items in a specific order, at regular intervals during the three months. 'While there were no significant differences between the groups at baseline, following treatment, those drinking Concord grape juice demonstrated significant improvement in list learning,' Krikorian said in a statement. 'In addition, trends suggested improved short-term retention and spatial (nonverbal) memory.'"
Tom Burghardt : Obama Channels Bush on Bioweapons
"The Obama administration’s recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our 'change' president’s duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster."
The One-Drop Rule Debunked
"It's an antiquated notion rooted in racist traditions. So why do white liberals and blacks support it? Find out by watching this video."
Liberal Caller: I Can't Stand To See Obama's Mug!
"Just one year ago, this libtalk caller was a diehard Obama supporter, but now, the self-described union carpenter 'can't stand to see his mug'. So why have Dems pushed forward with an ObamaCare plan that virtually no one wants."
It must be Bush's fault!
Wall Street Journal: George W. Bush Is Out of the Picture
"Now that the former president is gone, reviewers no longer suggest that every mildly dark movie is a commentary on his policies."
Obama supporter claims betrayal on Obama's own website!
"The ways that President Obama has disappointed this community in Pasadena regarding healthcare reform."
Chris Yogerst: EVERYTHING is Bush’s Fault According to the Left, even Bad Movies
“You can blame Hollywood’s doom and gloom on the Oscars, but I’m not going to. Instead, I think it’s George W. Bush’s fault. Most liberal directors felt restless under his presidency, and they pushed the envelope with over-the-top, operatic tragedies.”
Dan Gainor: Class Warfare: Government vs. Everybody Else
"The media and the administration are doing their best to spread that lack of wealth throughout top jobs around the nation. And they’re doing nothing to rein in the huge pay hikes in government service."
Ken Blackwell: Power Player of the Week?
"Now, it seems, Moulitsas is back and the Daily Kos is mad. But not mad at George W. Bush. And not at Americans in Iraq. Markos Moulitsas is mad at the Democratic Party. He wants the latest version of Harry Reid’s health care bill to be voted down. He even taunts Sen. Reid, saying he was a great Minority leader.
"What has Moulitsas and the Daily Kos crowd so angry is the dropping of the so-called public option from the Senate health care bill while retaining the individual mandate. This, say the Kossacks, is like requiring people to buy tickets for Major League Baseball games but not letting them choose the Yankees. Instead, they will be forced to watch Kansas City Royals’ games.
"It’s certainly interesting to see the Left and Lefter crowd going through their gyrations. With only 40 Members, the Senate Republican caucus cannot really stop any bill that the Democratic majority truly wants to pass. It was supposedly cynical Bismarck who said if you like sausages and like the law, you should never see either one being made.
"Watching U.S. Senators verbally skewering each other is surely not as horrific as watching Americans’ bodies swinging from a bridge in Fallujah. We cannot affect to feel nothing for their plight. The fate of millions of Americans—born and unborn, liberal, moderate, and conservative--does truly hang on these deliberations."
"What has Moulitsas and the Daily Kos crowd so angry is the dropping of the so-called public option from the Senate health care bill while retaining the individual mandate. This, say the Kossacks, is like requiring people to buy tickets for Major League Baseball games but not letting them choose the Yankees. Instead, they will be forced to watch Kansas City Royals’ games.
"It’s certainly interesting to see the Left and Lefter crowd going through their gyrations. With only 40 Members, the Senate Republican caucus cannot really stop any bill that the Democratic majority truly wants to pass. It was supposedly cynical Bismarck who said if you like sausages and like the law, you should never see either one being made.
"Watching U.S. Senators verbally skewering each other is surely not as horrific as watching Americans’ bodies swinging from a bridge in Fallujah. We cannot affect to feel nothing for their plight. The fate of millions of Americans—born and unborn, liberal, moderate, and conservative--does truly hang on these deliberations."
John Redwood: Copenhagen rows
"International pow wows can make things worse. Within two hours of the President of the USA arriving in Copenhagen, he had picked a major verbal fight with the communist Prime Minister of China. This is a President who himself loves the socialist remedies of more spending, more borrowing and more regulation. The Nobel Peace winner, fresh from intensifying the war in Afghanistan and making it his own conflict, now decided to humiliate the Chinese leader in a very public way, implying that China could not be trusted to police her promises of a slower rate of growth in her carbon dioxide emissions. The talks were plunged into further confusion and recrimination."
Richard Pollock: The Health Care Bill No One Can See
"Harry Reid has yet to present a final health care reform product to his colleagues. Not that anybody would understand what's in it anyway."
Roger L Simon: Welcome Back to the Middle Ages
"A high tech Middle Ages, of course, but still the Middle Ages. Forget the Renaissance, forget the Enlightenment, forget Spinoza, Locke, Galileo and everybody else, we had returned to our roots as gullible and idiotic human beings, as willing to believe in the primacy of anthropogenic global warming as we would in the sighting of the Madonna at a river crossing twelve kilometers south of Sienna in 1340.
"And this even after the revelation of the Climategate emails and documents, not to mention the further revelations about the manipulation of Russian climate data with NOAA and NASA themselves complicit. No, the show must go on. The UN Pope had convened the College of Cardinals in Copenhagen. Everyone must attend, including the Princes of Macedonia and the President of Tuvalu."
"And this even after the revelation of the Climategate emails and documents, not to mention the further revelations about the manipulation of Russian climate data with NOAA and NASA themselves complicit. No, the show must go on. The UN Pope had convened the College of Cardinals in Copenhagen. Everyone must attend, including the Princes of Macedonia and the President of Tuvalu."
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