The things that you get from an Engineer! AS YOU READ THROUGH THIS VERSION OF THE FAMOUS CHRISTMAS TALE, I THINK YOU'LL COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION I HAVE. IT MUST HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THE CONGRESSMEN WHO WROTE THAT 2000 PAGE HEALTH CARE BILL. ROA > Technical Night Before Christmas > > 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' as written by a technical > writer for a firm that does Gov't contracting... > > 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding > the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of > residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the > possessors of this potential, including that species of > domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was > meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood > burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory > pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric > philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the > honorific title of St. Nicholas. > > The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their > respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing > subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit > confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My > conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head > coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the > hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion > of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance > that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place > of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source > thereof. > > Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers > sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar > brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a > recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival > that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my > incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature > airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive > specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, > aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became > instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated > caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at what > may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than > patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled > breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed > each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen - "Now > Dasher, now Dancer..." et al. - guiding them to the > uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which > structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of > each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities. > > As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and > was performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished > visitant achieved - with utmost celerity and via a downward > leap - entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad > entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from > oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on > the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I > attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings > which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle. > > His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while > his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of > engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions > and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which > suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating > the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of > the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and > supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop > knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared > like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water. > > Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece > whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his > occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of > holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he > waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region > undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a > hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more nor > less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical > perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite > every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering > and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly > to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was > groundless. > > Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling > the aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the > aforementioned articles of merchandise extracted from his > aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth > receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an > abrupt about- face, placed a single manual digit in lateral > juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium > forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected > his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. > He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his > conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his > contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of > burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto > observable chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a > common weed. But I overheard his parting exclamation, > audible immediately prior to his vehiculation beyond the > limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary > constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest > wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly > pleasurable period between sunset and dawn."
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Technical Night Before Christmas
December 19, 2009Asshats and MP3’s
December 19, 2009What to do when you just can’t seem to figure out how to handle a difficult problem? Why,find an application on your smart phone!
Ain’t technology wonderful?
“The Time Has Come”
December 18, 2009Mark Alexander really let loose with yesterdays column. When will all eyes be opened as they are at the Patriot Post. (See sidebar)
Alexander’s Essay – December 17, 2009
The Time Has Come
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. … Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not?” –Patrick Henry
The 2008 presidential election was much more than a referendum on the two candidates; it was a referendum on the ability of a majority of Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not.
A year ago, a majority of our countrymen were hoodwinked into electing a charlatan with dubious credentials to the highest constitutional office in the land. Since then, millions of Americans who had become complacent about the Leftist threat to our liberty have begun to realize that our Constitution is now suffering an unprecedented assault.
There were those of us who realized in 2004 — back when Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry let him take center stage at the Democrat National Convention — that Barack Hussein Obama was a Marxist. Nonetheless, too many of our countrymen were lulled into believing that no leftist politico with such abhorrent extra-constitutional views on the role of government could rise to be president of the United States.
The awakening that has occurred since November of ’08 is like nothing I have witnessed since the first election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980. After the economic and foreign policy disasters created by the Carter administration, Americans were stirred to action. Yes, the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 resulted in a conservative takeover of the House two years later, but Clinton was far more moderate than Obama, and his election didn’t inspire millions of Americans to arm themselves for the first time.
That Obama’s election inspired a wave of conservative activism is good news.
The great news is that since last November, millions of Americans have joined our ranks.
And the momentum continues unabated.
I knew we were turning a corner a few months back, when an establishment Republican, typical of most such Republicans, told me that Obama’s health care proposal “amounts to socialism.” This same fellow told me a year earlier that calling Obama a Socialist was just too severe. When I reminded him of his earlier admonishment, he said simply, “My eyes are now open.”
If Barack Obama has given us one thing of value, it is the opportunity to clearly discern between Left and Right, between rule of men and Rule of Law. He is the quintessential socialist, and his domestic and foreign policies present a contrast between tyranny and liberty that has rarely been so apparent. Many who have been hitherto reluctant to rise on behalf of liberty or have been too comfortable to be concerned by such conflict, are now making an ever-louder stand.
Benjamin Franklin aptly noted, “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Indeed.
Obama is the personification of Leftist philosophy and dogma, and in a turn of irony, for the clarity he has provided to that end we owe him a debt of gratitude.
Despite the fact that the Leftists in media and academia have had a stranglehold on public opinion, seating one of their own as president, which they believe is a great prize, may well be their undoing.
The once noble Democrat Party is now led by those who have turned the wisdom of their iconic leaders upside down.
Then: “My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” –John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
Now: “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”
Then: “I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” –Martin Luther King, Address from the Lincoln Memorial, 1963
Now: “I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.”
Today, Democrat Party Leftists deride the notion of individual rights. Instead, they advocate the supplanting of individual liberty with statism.
They promote the notion of a living constitution rather than the authentic Constitution our Founders established.
They despise free enterprise and advocate socialist redistribution of wealth, the ultimate goal of which is to render all people equally poor and dependent upon the state.
They loathe our military and our national sovereignty, and they propose to replace it with treaties that establish supranational governmental legal and policing authorities.
They detest traditional American values, and they support all manner of behavior resulting in social entropy.
Being debated right now is whether an additional 17 percent of the U.S. economy is going to be nationalized under ObamaCare, and whether the rest of the economy is going to be shackled by cap-and-trade taxes in addition to a plethora of other job-eliminating taxes on private sector employers.
Would it surprise you to know that, while Democrat impositions on lending practices are largely responsible for the fact that millions of Americans are now out of work, the number of government “workers” making over $100,000 per year has increased 30 percent since the beginning of the current recession? There are more than 10,000 bureaucrats earning more than $150,000 annually, and the average federal salary is $71,206, not including generous government benefits, while the average private sector salary is $40,331.
Obama and his Democrat Congress have endowed future generations, unless soon reversed, not with liberty but with historically unprecedented levels of debt, which will enslave them to hyperinflation.
Conservatives and liberals can argue various policy points ad nauseam, but the question Americans are asking in greater numbers is this: Are we a nation governed by Rule of Law or the contemporaneous opinions of men?
History provides us with repeated evidence that the terminus of nations that are governed by men rather than laws is tyranny. In the last century alone, hundreds of millions have been enslaved under statist dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Mao, Kruschev, Pol Pot, Ho Chi, Idi Amin, Castro, Hussein, Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Chavez, Hu Jintao and others. Who might be next?
Surely not us?
Obama has clearly delineated the difference between individual rights and statism, between free enterprise and socialism.
Alexander Hamilton said, “In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.”
Today, more and more Americans are returning to the core principles upon which our nation was founded, which made it the freest and most productive in history. There is a renewed commitment to support and defend Essential Liberty.
John Adams wrote: “Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions are the ‘latent spark’ … If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”
I believe that a supermajority of us are fully capable of understanding the truth, if given the right information and opportunity.
As Thomas Paine noted, “Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
Of course, Barack Obama and his liberal lawmaking brethren have done us great harm this past year, and it may take several election cycles, or a revolution, to turn that around. But, the fields are being plowed and seeds sown.
Ronald Reagan delivered an enduring challenge to conservatives entitled “A Time for Choosing“: “You and I are told we must choose between a left or right,” Reagan said, “but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.”
Patriots, the time has come to choose.
Reagan also outlined a plan for “The New Republican Party,” stating, “The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and that we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations — found through the often bitter testing of pain, or sacrifice and sorrow.”
If Republicans want to regain majority status, the RNC must purge those who have forsaken the first principles of conservatism for power. In their stead they must lift up those who are devoted to the Rule of Law and Essential Liberty, those who incorporate Reagan’s charge, and that of generations of Patriots before him. They must back real conservatives instead of arrogant pretenders (see Toomey v. Specter). Short of bold new leadership, what remains of the Republican Party will end up on the trash heap of political irrelevance.
Patriots take heart: Do not wither during these difficult times. For as George Washington advised, “We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”
Indeed, the next several years will be a vital test for Patriots and our countrymen. Let us choose to persevere, to make our cause that of all men, to make no peace with oppression.
In 1776, Peter Muhlenberg delivered a sermon, concluding, “There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” He removed his clerical robes and set out to command the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.
Patriots, we have great opportunity before us, and once again the time has come to fight for it.
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.US
Civil War: Democrat meltdown
December 18, 2009It sure is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl at the DNC. From obamacare to gun control “progressives” appear to be backed into a corner of their own making, and like cornered and packed in rats? They are going after each other with a vengeance.
Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, was suffering brain death and heart failure. My, how quickly things — ahem — change.
Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, the GOP leadership, Sarah Palin’s heartland supporters, conservative think-tank intellectuals, D.C. and Manhattan conservatives, Big Business and small-business conservatives, Joe the Plumber conservatives, and every stripe and flavor of conservative in between are all united against the Democrats’ proposed government takeover of health care. All.
It’s the left, not the right, cracking up. It’s the party donkey, not the elephant, now in a rabies-crazed frenzy. Funny, though, how internecine rancor on the right always puts conservatism in its last, final, permanent death throes (again and again), but internecine warfare on the left is merely a matter of healthy, principled disagreement.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean went on the “YEARRGGH!”-path again — dressed in Tea Party-esque drag — and exhorted the majority to “Kill the Bill” and start over with a public option. White House senior adviser David Axelrod — echoing criticism of Dean more commonly heard on the right — promptly pronounced the Vermont liberal’s rantings “insane.” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed Dean as irrational. And this was just the left-wing Punch and Judy show preview.
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GOA and GOF File Brief in Chicago Handgun Ban Case
December 18, 2009Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
On Monday, November 23, 2009, Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of four Chicago residents seeking to invalidate a city ordinance prohibiting them from owning or possessing a handgun in their own home.
Just one year and ninth months previously, GOA and GOF filed a similar brief in support of a Washington, D.C. resident who was seeking relief from an almost identical city ordinance.
On June 26, 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the D.C. ordinance was unconstitutional because an absolute ban on handgun ownership and possession “infringed” on the D.C. citizen’s right to keep and bear arms as secured by the Second Amendment.
“The question now before the Court is whether an American citizen who resides in Chicago, Illinois has the same right to keep or bear arms as the American citizen who resides in the District of Columbia,” said GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt.
“Since both residents are American citizens, it seems logical that both ought to have the same rights,” Pratt said.
According to Heller, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms belongs to “all Americans.” The current GOA brief, which is supported by seven other like-minded organizations, contends that this right extends to every American citizen without regard to state of residence.
That argument is based on the Fourteenth Amendment’s straightforward prohibition against any state that makes or enforces any law that “abridge[s] the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”
By relying expressly on this “privileges and immunities” clause, the GOA brief urges the Court not to use a gun rights case to extend the power of the federal judiciary to impose its predilections upon the states in unrelated areas, such as business regulation and moral license.
Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation usually take the side that is against the federal government because it has become too big for its britches. And the Chicago case is no exception from that policy and principle.
Thus, it bears repeating that the Supreme Court found in Heller that the very purpose of the unalienable right to keep and bear arms is to prevent “tyrants” from “taking away the people’s arms, enabling a select militia or standing army to suppress political opponents.” To the Court’s credit, it saw that the D.C. ban on handguns was just the kind of regulation prohibited by the Second Amendment. Thus, the Court ruled that the keeping of handguns for self-defense was a “central component of the right itself.”
Another successful outcome of GOA’s Heller brief was in countering the Bush Administration, which had asked the Court to use the D.C. case as a justification for all sorts of gun control. GOA was pleased that the Justices heeded our admonition to limit the Court’s holding to the case before it, thus shooting down both the D.C. government and the Bush Administration in their quest to validate other firearms restrictions.
A brief like the one we are filing regarding the Chicago case is very expensive. We constantly hear from gun owners that we need to be challenging gun bans in court, to counter the efforts of the Brady Bunch, the ACLU and other leftist organizations.
So won’t you please join us in this monumental battle with a special year-end contribution to help pay our expenses for this important effort?
You can donate to this worthy cause at http://www.gunowners.com/mcdonald.htm
Milblogs Go Silent For CJ Photobucket
December 16, 2009Stolen from TexasFred!
Milblogs Go Silent For CJ
You may remember this post, where I posted about CJ from A Soldier’s Perspective and the grief he is getting from his children’s former school. What’s worse is that his command in Alabama did not back him up. Luckily, many prominent milblogs are, and a lot of them are going silent in solidarity with this highly decorated American hero:
On Wednesday 16 December, readers will have the chance to imagine a world without milblogs, and to do something about it. Those participating are urging their readers to contact their elected representatives in Congress, and to let their opinions be known to them and to other leaders in Washington.
Some milblogs will remain silent for several days; some just for the day. All have agreed to keep the post about the silence and C.J. at the top of their blogs until Friday 18 December.
The issues go beyond C.J., and deserve careful consideration and discussion. We hope that you will cover this event, and explore the issues that lie at the heart of the matter. Contact the milbloggers in your area or that you know, and hear the story that lies within.
A Partial List of Participating Blogs:
This Ain’t Hell
Boston Maggie
Blackfive
Miss Ladybug
Drunken Wisdom
Grim’s Hall
From My Position
CDR Salamander
BouhammerToday, you have the chance to imagine a world without milblogs, and to do something about it. Make your voice heard by writing your congressional representatives and others, and by making donations as you see fit. (H/T – Mr. Wolf from Blackfive)
Hopefully, this protest will raise awareness to CJ’s plight, and with any luck, the Army will start standing up for one of its own.
While I am not a milblogger, I am also participating in the day of silence in honor of CJ and every other milblogger out there. Thank you all for what you do.
Fred Notes: This post, Milblogs Go Silent For CJ, is taken, in it’s entirety, from my blog buddy Wyatt Earp at Support Your Local Gunfighter. I am a part time Milblogger, I blog about politics, police matters and military support, as well as a myriad of other topics, but I stand in full support of Wyatt Earp and Military Bloggers the world over!
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Federal gun regulator accused of damaging Metairie hotel room
December 15, 2009Hat Tip to Texas Fred for the heads up on this. Regular readers know that I support LEO’s to the hilt. But, there always has to be an exception to make the rule or so the saying goes.
That exception, is the BATFE. The only agency dedicated to the destruction of The Bill of Rights. During the Clinton years Explosives were added to the responsibilities of the notoriously rogue agency. One can only guess that Clinton did that in order to lend an air of legitimacy to the group of maniacs that brought you the Ruby Ridge travesty and the Waco Holocaust.
I am on record as having stated that any thing that is legitimate that they do, should, on a federal level be performed by the FBI. No, the FBI isn’t perfect, but compared to BATFE? The FBI wins hands down when it comes to acting ethically.
Moving BATFE from the IRS to DHS hasn’t changed much…
Read about this HERE
More on Climategate
December 15, 2009“The hacked emails from the global warming center of the universe — the Climate Research Unit at Britain’s East Anglia University — could be the climatology equivalent of discovering the bones of Jesus. If the veracity of the emails is confirmed and if they contain evidence of data ‘trickery,’ as some global warming skeptics have suggested, their content could perhaps point to a vast cover-up of scientific evidence that some believe will disprove the ‘doctrine’ of man-made climate change. So who are the real flat-earthers? Are they the ones who won’t listen to any evidence except that which supports their cult-like faith, or are they the growing number who say the science is anything but settled and needs more study? Leonard Weinstein has scientific credentials no reasonable person can deny. Dr. Weinstein is a former senior research scientist who worked more than 30 years at the NASA Langley Research Center. He is now senior research fellow at the National Institute of Aerospace. Last April, he wrote an essay ‘Disproving the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Problem’…. Dr. Weinstein wrote: ‘In order to support a theory, specific predictions need to be made that are based on the claims of the theory, and the predictions then need to happen.’ He lists six theories on which the AGW model is based and then proceeds to dismantle each of them. … Dr. Weinstein concludes: ‘The final question that arises is what prediction has the AGW made that has been demonstrated, and that strongly supports the theory. It appears that there is NO real supporting evidence and much disagreeing evidence for the AGW theory as proposed. That is not to say there is no effect from Human activity. Clearly human pollution (not greenhouse gases) is a problem. There is also almost surely some contribution to the present temperature from the increase in CO2 and CH4, but it seems to be small and not a driver of future climate. Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!'” –columnist Cal Thomas
And related to the above:
“On the day Copenhagen opened, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed jurisdiction over the regulation of carbon emissions by declaring them an ‘endangerment’ to human health. Since we operate an overwhelmingly carbon-based economy, the EPA will be regulating practically everything. No institution that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 a year will fall outside EPA control. This means over a million building complexes, hospitals, plants, schools, businesses and similar enterprises. … Not since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service has a federal agency been given more intrusive power over every aspect of economic life. … Forget for a moment the economic effects of severe carbon chastity. There’s the matter of constitutional decency. If you want to revolutionize society — as will drastic carbon regulation and taxation in an energy economy that is 85 percent carbon-based — you do it through Congress reflecting popular will. Not by administrative fiat of EPA bureaucrats. Congress should not just resist this executive overreaching, but trump it: Amend existing clean air laws and restore their original intent by excluding CO2 from EPA control and reserving that power for Congress and future legislation. Do it now. Do it soon. Because Big Brother isn’t lurking in CIA cloak. He’s knocking on your door, smiling under an EPA cap.” –columnist Charles Krauthammer
Bill of Rights Day
December 15, 2009The Bill of Rights was inspired by three remarkable documents: John Locke’s 1689 thesis, Two Treatises of Government, regarding the protection of “property” (in the Latin context, proprius, or one’s own “life, liberty and estate”); in part from the Virginia Declaration of Rights authored by George Mason in 1776 as part of that state’s Constitution; and, of course, in part from our Declaration of Independence authored by Thomas Jefferson.
Read in context, the Bill of Rights is both an affirmation of innate individual rights and a clear delineation on constraints upon the central government. As oft trampled and abused as the Bill of Rights is, Patriots should remain vigilant in the fight for our rights.
Climate Gate: As the world turns..? This is some soap opera!
December 13, 2009The faux science called man made Global Warming is being blown apart as scandal after scandal, as well as lie after lie becomes exposed to the light of day. Anthony, over at The Liberty Sphere assembled a rather astonishing array of evidence, much of it from another WordPress Blog, Watts Up With That.
After nearly a month and counting since the story broke on the biggest scandal in scientific history, a major daily newspaper has finally undertaken a thorough examination of the evidence in the Climategate scandal.
(AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Granted, the newspaper in question is not in the United States but the U.K. And still, even after a month the television news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC continue to ignore the story.
The London Daily Mail published their findings of a special investigation into Climategate. And, the news isn’t good for the scientific community, the United Nations, or anyone else who attempts to peddle the hoax of ‘global warming’ or its snake-oil cures.
Perhaps the most damning of the findings of the Daily Mail’s investigation is the following admission by Professor Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado’s environmental studies:
‘These emails open up the possibility that big scientific questions we’ve regarded as settled may need another look.
‘They reveal that some of these scientists saw themselves not as neutral investigators but as warriors engaged in battle with the so-called sceptics.
‘They have lost a lot of credibility and as far as their being leading spokespeople on this issue of huge public importance, there is no going back.’
Just as damning as the admission that the scientists on the front lines of the ‘global warming’ propaganda have lost all credibility is the data showing that temperatures during the era known as ‘the Medieval warm period,’ which lasted roughly from 1000 to 1300 B.C., were much warmer than global temperatures today–a full 400-700 years before humans began pumping out those ‘deadly greenhouse gases.’
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Please follow the links, and comment as you would. The shear economic impact upon the entire world should these maniac’s agenda come about should be enough to wake up anyone, anywhere.
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