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Reuters: What happened to Global Warming?

Published on May 16, 2008 in Climate, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Environment, Global Warming, Media, Media Bias and News. 0 Comments

Gerard Wynn, over at asks “What happened to ?”

It’s not just that it’s disappeared from headlines this year - shoved off by the credit crunch and natural disasters, for example. It can’t be ignored that 2007 came and went as another very warm year - the 7th hottest on record since 1850 according to the World Meteorological Organization.

But it wasn’t a record. In fact that was 1998, a full 10 years ago - the year of an exceptional El Nino, a Pacific weather pattern which heats the whole globe. So is not living up to the hype?

Two weeks ago Leibniz Institute’s Noel Keenlyside stirred an academic hornet’s
nest by saying that we may have to wait longer - a decade or more - for another
peak year, because a natural weakening in ocean currents may be cooling sea
temperatures.

Many scientists flatly rejected the idea, saying Keenlyside had over-estimated the effect. But some pointed out that a recent switch in a weather pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation could indeed cool temperatures globally.

Along with the gratuitous photograph of floating ice, this author actually covered a little of the other side. Well one paragraph anyway.

Meanwhile one or two doubters are already saying the present lull in warming
casts doubt on just how far manmade are influencing the . MIT’s Richard Lindzen reckoned that if it was as bad as all that temperatures would be rising faster.

What do you think?

Well, what do you think? You could always comment here, there, or both.

Same old change

Published on May 16, 2008 in 2008, Media and Parody. 24 Comments

Election 2008 is proving to be mildly entertaining and mostly painful. One can’t pass a without the showing some politician talking about change.

Well at least videos like this come around every so often to mask the pain with a little entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEaS-K3j3M8

Democrats Fight To Keep America’s Borders Unprotected

Published on April 9, 2008 in Current Events, Immigration, Media, Mexico, News, Television and Video of the Day. 21 Comments

Each year, an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 illegal immigrants try to make the 15 to 30 mile hike through the wilderness to reach cities in the United States. “That works out to a city the size of Baton Rouge, La., living in the park without a sewage system, without garbage collection, without a grid of dedicated roads or sidewalks. They move where they want in four-wheel-drive cars, ATVs, motorcycles, bicycles and their own feet.”[1]

In March of 2006 the Pew Hispanic Center (PHC) estimated the undocumented population in the U.S. ranged from 11.5 to 12 million individuals[2], a number supported by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)[3]. Using data from March of 2004, PHC estimated that 57% originate from .[4]

Most illegal immigrants live in families where the adults are undocumented, but the children are U.S.-born. An estimated 13.9 million people - including 4.7 million children - live in families in which the head of household or the spouse is an illegal immigrant.[5]

Illegal immigrants continue to out pace the number of legal immigrants - a trend that’s held steady since the 1990s. While the undocumented continue to concentrate in places with existing large communities of Hispanics, they are also increasingly settling throughout the rest of the country.[5]

Today’s from AmericanResolve explains how politicians are once again fighting to keep our borders open and unprotected. In this case the politicians are , although that’s not always the case. Protecting the is the excuse used in this round. Continue reading ‘Democrats Fight To Keep America’s Borders Unprotected’

Fitna the Movie - Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran

Published on March 30, 2008 in Censorship, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Islam, Media, Terrorism, Theology and Video. 1577 Comments

I’ve decided to join the crowd of those that have a copy of Fitna posted. I’ll wait to see if I too get some persuasion from the “ of Peace” to remove it.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the as an “offensively anti-Islamic film”, “hate speech” and “incitement to violence.”

Following is the text of the statement by UN SG Ban Ki-moon on the film :

I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of ’ offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I acknowledge the efforts of the Government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of this film, and appeal for calm to those understandably offended by it. Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility.

The United Nations is the centre of the world’s efforts to advance mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists on different sides with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict.

It baffles the mind to think that pointing out that has violent roots in the is considered an “incitement to violence”. If it’s untrue then how is it inciting violence from such a “peaceful” ?

It’s sad to see the LiveLeak pulled due to threats of violence along with a few others around the net. However, it’s encouraging to see the growing number of sites that have it posted in spite of (or perhaps due to) the threats and censorship elsewhere.

http://malagent.com/flavor/Fitna-Eng.flv

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Gore Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Flat Earth Believers

Published on March 28, 2008 in Al Gore, Climate, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Environment, Global Warming and Media. 0 Comments

Gore PresentationOn South Park frantically tries to convince people that “Man-Bear-Pig” is real and out to get them - in real life the self appointed Global Savior peddles Man Made & Catastrophe. However, unlike South Park, folks in the “real world” believe him. On Gore’s appearance in the upcoming edition of 60 Minutes he says that being skeptical is the same as believing the earth is flat.

those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,
…That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off,”

http://www.metrocad.us/malagent/flavor/gore60.flv

I can only hope that one day when humanity regains a little common sense that Gore will be ridiculed and mocked for centuries.

[H/T: Flopping Aces]

Robert Spencer Video - Islam The Worlds Most Intolerant Religion

Published on December 3, 2007 in Islam, Media, Middle East and Video Games. 4 Comments

discusses “ - The Worlds Most Intolerant Religions” in this .

Robert Spencer’s after-dinner speech at the Flemish Parliament during Counterjihad Brussels 2007.

Thanks to Gates of Vienna for the post…

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Egyptian Sociologist - Tyrannical Arab Regimes Using Israel As Pretext

Published on December 3, 2007 in Arab, Current Events, Islam, Media, Television, Terrorism and Video. 49 Comments

Todays is from the “I want to see more Arabs and like this” file.

Egyptian Sociologist Sa’d Al-Din Ibrahim: The Tyrannical Arab Regimes Are Using Israel As a Pretext. I Am Grateful to America for Promoting Reform in the

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian Sociologist Sa’d Al-Din Ibrahim, which was broadcast on Al-Arabiya TV on October 20, 2005

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Annihilation of America, Muslim Conquest of the World

Published on December 3, 2007 in Arab, Current Events, Iraq, Islam, Media, Television, Video and War. 1091 Comments

Iraqi Ayatollah Talks about the Annihilation of America, Conquest of the World, and Declares His Support of Bombs in the Hands of and Arab Countries

Following are excerpts from speeches and interviews with Iraqi Ayatollah Ahmad Husseini Al-Baghdadi, which aired on TV on May 5, 2006, on Syrian TV on May 3, 2006, and on ANB TV on April 14, 2006.

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Myth of Islamic Contribution to Human Civilization

Published on November 15, 2007 in Arab, Islam, Media, Television, Terrorism, Theology and Video. 872 Comments

mad-muslim-01.jpgAs is increasingly being portrayed as an obscurantist and violent which promotes cruelty, , human rights violation and a hindrance to progress & modernization, the apologists - who sometimes go by the label “moderate ” - are desperately trying to defend as a of peace, progress and modernity. In their desperation, apologists are often making extraordinary claims such as ’s contribution to human civilization as a measure of progressiveness.

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Debate on Islamism and Liberalism in the Arab World Deteriorates to an Exchange of Curses

Following are excerpts from a debate on secularism and Islamism in the with Syrian author Nidhal Na’isa and Egyptian cleric Sheik Ibrahim Al-Khouli, which aired on TV on October 30, 2007.

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The Iranian Time Bomb

Published on November 9, 2007 in Books, Education, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Media, Military, News, People, President Bush, Television, Terrorism, Video and elections. 0 Comments

“Israel must be wiped off the map,” president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it himself. He has denied the Holocaust, and his actions are motivated by a dangerous apocalyptic view of . Meanwhile, Islamic extremists are in hot pursuit of as they stand as gatekeepers to the oil flow. Closer to home, President Bush has stated that the greatest threat to America is .

So when do we stop with the appeasement and get this regime out of there? We don’t need to go to with them necessarily but the leaders of have got to go.