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All Israeli ambassadors to meet in Jerusalem next week, ... Golf not on the agenda.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/hmm-israel-calls-all-ambassadors-home-for-special-meeting-in-jerusalem/

Help - for a week now, I have been trying to find 'news content' Internet radio stations for iPod Touch.

Audio with content/quality of a hotair, sda, drudge, instapundit, PJTV, ect.

So far, all I can find are typical MSM things - CBC, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Astral, NYT,

Sirius, iTunes seem to just contain the above in a package.

Is there no radio/audio out there that is acceptable as a headline news source !? (for those early morning, 'waking up' times)

Ron, I could be wrong but it was my understanding that widespread online radio apps for the iPhone and iPod were not allowed in Canada.

2010 Winter Olympics: Let the Scams Begin!

marc in calgary - very interesting link. Are the demonstrations in Iran real? The US - are they on the sidelines? The O will never tell. Maybe Israel is very interested in what's going on in that region . . . . . .

Here's a "physics" exam that I found online (published by a WUWT commenter). I'm not sure what grade level this applies to but we used to do simple stuff like this in elementary school. My high school physics involved things like equations of motion, thermodynamics, ballistics and in general had lots of math. I used to amuse myself by simulating the N-body problem and running simulations of heat transfer on the local university computer back then.

If this is the level of "physics" knowledge that graduating students have then we're really in trouble.
Exam may be found at:
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-PHY1AP-W-QP-MAR08.PDF

Loki - but Obama went to Harvard right? They keep the standards that they kept many years ago right?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/02/08/edtwof2.htm

Ivy league grade inflation bubble???

Vitruvius - I think I remember reading that Archangelo Corelli had red hair, and was a monk. I mention this because it seems that other people seem to have a life - it's a quiet night!

Toronto Star, Thursday. Op-ed by Stephen Scharper, professor, U of T.

He says that Copenhagen was about calling for "climate justice in dealing with climate change".

Justice is a concept that refers to the actions of human beings. The professor doesn't seem to have read about Climategate, which was mentioned in the same paper he's writing in. Perhaps the "justice" should be reserved for those who fudged the data, hijacked the peer review process and threatened to destroy data if faced with a Freedom of Information request, in order to push forward a dubious hypothesis of global warming.

He also talks about a desire for peace, which is understandable, but he refers to the "unconscionable and immoral Iraq invasion". That invasion removed a dictator who was extremely non-peaceful toward his own citizens. Who could possibly object? Other than extremists whose goal is to set up similarly murderous regimes of their own, while trying to avoid outside interference?

Scharper also mentions the Earth Charter, which he says was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong. It states that "we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of peace."

I think capitalism is consistent with all those things (insofar as they are not fuzzy cliches), but somehow I suspect the proponents don't ...

nv53, Severn Cullis-Suzuki was involved in the drafting of the Earth Charter. At the age of 17.

Hhhhhmmmmmm.

Ron: have you tried the wunderradio app?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6898945/Detroit-terror-attack-Yemen-is-the-true-home-of-Al-Qaeda.html

And isn't Yemen the spot where President Obama has already sent some of the Guantanamo detainees and plans to send almost 80 more? Coals to Newcastle?

Not a Readers Tip, but perhaps a note of encouragement for Conservatives...

My Brother-in-Law (a one-time local riding Liberal executive) announced to me during Christmas celebrations that he is now a card-carrying member of the Conservative Party. Disliked Martin, dislikes Ignatieff and dislikes Rae more that Martin and Ignatieff.

Another one bites the dust! (although, I suspect that he may only be a good-time-charlie...if and when the Liberal Party straightens up and starts to fly "right", I suspect he may very well switch allegances again...Liberals are like that, don't ya know).

While good to see the Liberals being abandoned and Conservative ranks swelling, it also means that the Conservative principles may be diluted with the "red menace".

Just as there is the Nicene Creed which "acts as a yardstick of correct belief" for Christians, perhaps we conservatives could create our own version for the benefit of the conservative/libertarian movement? Is there one already?

So you were wondering why the CBC didn't report on Climate Gate.

"Plans for Current TV, Al Gore's interactive television network, to enter Canada are on hold for now, according to the television service's vice-president.

The news organization recently laid off 80 people as part of the tough media environment in the U.S.

Plans for a public stock offering also were cancelled.

Senior vice-president Michael Streefland told CBC News Current Media is focusing on U.S. domestic operations, including "building out a new programming lineup in the later half of the year."

In June, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved plans to launch Current TV in Canada.

The television service, which concentrates on covering international and domestic stories missed by traditional news outlets, was to partner with CBC."

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/12/22/currenttv-canada.html?ref=rss

Erik Larsen @ 2:21 a.m., I don't know about Corelli, but I do know that Vivaldi was known as "The Red Priest" because of his red hair—and, yes, he was a priest as well as a violinist and composer.

The two were contemporaries: Vivaldi, 1678-1741; Corelli, 1653-1713. In fact, Corelli was Vivaldi’s teacher.

Some predictions for the New Year:

Obama is a malignant narcissist, a psychological state that, by now, is beyond amelioration. He was a sales strategy to gain governmental power of a Set of Radical Socialists of the Democratic Party. This Set, which I call the BackRoom Gang (BRG) has an agenda of radical statism for the US and globalization or the loss of national sovereignty for the world.

They are idealogues, living in a world of ideas and, entrapped in this virtual world, are indifferent to the deep harm they cause by their agenda. The destruction of the ability to progress in any area both intellectual and material, the destruction of wealth, the destruction of the middle class - they are indifferent because words, or the virtual realm, are their only reality.

What I think will happen in the US is an increasing separation of powers with Obama now being acknowledged as the visible public performer making staged appearances to screened audiences while all decisions will be made by the radical statist socialists, an unelected shadow Executive Office.

I’ll predict MORE terrorist attacks. These are due to Obama’s behavior of this past year. That is, both Obama and Al Qaeda can be analyzed within a psychological frame that shows they are remarkably similar.

Obama as a narcissist requires constant and increasing adulation. For Obama, if you are dissident and non-adoring, you are ‘unAmerican’ and effectively irrelevant. Al Qaeda requires exactly the same from its members; you are either under their control or expendable.

Obama’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of Al Qaeda as such a power, by his reduction of their unique identity to the ambiguous ‘man-caused disasters’, and his reduction of the war on terror to the equally irrelevant ‘overseas contingency operations’ has incited, yes, INCITED Al Qaeda to active aggression vs the USA. There will be MORE Al Qaeda attacks vs the USA…Bush pushed Al Qaeda back into the Islamic nations but Obama has incited them to again confront the US.

Their psychological need for power…up against Obama’s psychological need to ignore anyone who has a different adulation focus than Obama…is the cause of the Al Qaeda ‘we’ll show you’ new active agenda vs the US.

I also predict that the increasing split of the Executive into Show (carried out by Obama) and Decision-Making (carried out by the BackRoom Gang) will reach a critical point where Congress will feel threatened about losing control of decisions for the BRG will run things by backroom deals and threats and ignore Congress.

I don’t think Obama’s kowtowing to enemies and insults to allies will stop but both the BRG and the international world will see him more and more as irrelevant and the focus will be on the powers of the BRG…whose interest is in globalization. I doubt if the BRG is interested in regime change in Iran; in fact they might welcome Iran starting a war in the ME. It will be a diversion during the 2010 election year.

Will the BRG allow Obama to spend as much time travelling as he’s done – all of it so far both useless and harmful? How will they keep his narcissism fed? Will he, as is happening now, play more golf and have even His Voice coming from the BRG in the White House?

The BRG and Democrats will do something to try to stop the massive loss of electoral support before the 2010 elections; I’m not sure what – the current victim tactics of racialism, blame Bush, to-be-wealthy-is-a-sign-of-greed, are wearing thin. So I’m not sure what new tactic will be used. But, it will be some form of psychological attack against the average American, to incite guilt for not supporting Obama.

I don’t see these idealogues moving into any responsible mode of govenance. They'll search for more areas to tax as more people move their business and monies out of the US. I'll predict a surge in interest in Canada!

The questions are: how will these ideologues retain power in Congress? If they lose Congress how will they retain power? By denying Congress any power..as they have been doing this year..using bribes, rejecting debate, rejecting reading of the bills etc? Obama's Public Appeal is lessening, so, how will they deal with his narcissism?

And how will they deal with more terrorist attacks against the US? Blame Americans yet again?
Deny them as terrorist and reduce them to 'aberrant behaviour of lone radicalized individuals'...as they are now doing?

Wikipedia attempted to delete climategate page - screenshot
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1NlR71q69vA/SzgykC6yvuI/AAAAAAAAAIE/AQOvETFAqrs/s1600-h/delete.png

and they succeeded -
http://magicjava.blogspot.com/

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/28/president-john-f-kennedy-photograph-jfk-photo-boat-yatch-nude-naked-women-mediterranean-sea-jackie-kennedy-ted-kennedy-senator-george-smathers-election/

At the bottom:

"Had the photo surfaced when John F. Kennedy ran for President in 1960, it could have torpedoed his run, and changed world history."

The irony is that if this did indeed happen, Kennedy probably wouldn't have been assassinated. This "smut" photo would've saved his life.

lookout - you're right I'm wrong!

The latest news is that Janet Napolitano has changed her tune from the ideologue perspective that 'the system worked' to the equally ideologic perspective of Blame Americans. She's now saying that security was at fault.

Notice, that there's not a word about the existence of Evil. No word about the reality of Al Qaeda and its agenda of obliteration of the West.
I'm saying this is due to Obama who adamantly refuses to recognize Al Qaeda and terrorism but instead focuses on American Evil/Guilt..just as he's focused on White Guilt/racism.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the actual reality of Al Qaeda has incited them to prove to him that they exist. There'll be more such attacks, due to and only to Obama's insistence on living in a virtual world where the only cause of any problem is America and Americans.

Bush recognized the actuality of evil, he publicly recognized it, he drove Al Qaeda back into the Islamic countries where their radicalism can fight against their moderates.

Obama on the other hand, in his virtual ideologic world, is inciting the 'real world' to attack, just to prove that it exists.

Equally, Obama's refusal to acknowledge the Iranian dissidents fighting for democracy - because he's not interested in any people's focus on something other than Him - is going to lead to a Middle East War.

Erik Larsen, you were certainly on the right track! When I did some fact checking, I was interested to learn that there are many similarities between Corelli and Vivaldi. I also learned that Vivaldi was a pupil of Corelli's, which I didn't know before.

So, your idea ended up spurring me on to know more—a good thing. Thanks!

Obama promised green jobs, but still.

That's a lot of solar, wind, hydro, biofuels and nuclear

The world used 14 trillion watts (14 terawatts) of power in 2006. Assuming minimal population growth (to 9 billion people), slow economic growth (1.6 percent a year, practically recession level) and—this is key—unprecedented energy efficiency (improvements of 500 percent relative to current U.S. levels, worldwide), it will use 28 terawatts in 2050. (In a business-as-usual scenario, we would need 45 terawatts.) Simple physics shows that in order to keep CO2 to 450 ppm, 26.5 of those terawatts must be zero-carbon. That's a lot of solar, wind, hydro, biofuels and nuclear, especially since renewables kicked in a measly 0.2 terawatts in 2006 and nuclear provided 0.9 terawatts. Are you a fan of nuclear? To get 10 terawatts, less than half of what we'll need in 2050, Lewis calculates, we'd have to build 10,000 reactors, or one every other day starting now. Do you like wind? If you use every single breeze that blows on land, you'll get 10 or 15 terawatts. Since it's impossible to capture all the wind, a more realistic number is 3 terawatts, or 1 million state-of-the art turbines, and even that requires storing the energy—something we don't know how to do—for when the wind doesn't blow. Solar? To get 10 terawatts by 2050, Lewis calculates, we'd need to cover 1 million roofs with panels every day from now until then. "It would take an army," he says. Obama promised green jobs, but still.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189293

Just how many pies does the UN's IPCC climate guru have his fingers into? And just how much has he made out of it?

Enquiring minds and the Telegraph (UK) want to know.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6890839/The-questions-Dr-Pachauri-still-has-to-answer.html

Cross-posted by accident @ 9:55 a.m. this morning at yesterday's Reader Tips:

On a transatlantic flight I took a few months back, I did everything the airline required, down to putting my shampoo and other liquid toiletries in 100ml, see-through plastic containers, which I then put in a see-through plastic bag right down to the required measurement: a real pain in the neck. Security didn't even check them. I was P-O-ed.

How do they know what I was carrying in them?

I'm with someone else on this thread who says for G*d's sake, for common sense's sake, search the persons and baggage of those in the group who are known to use terrorist tactics in airplanes -- which would be Muslim males. They're offended? SO WHAT? Get them to put some pressure on their co-religionists to stop being terrorists if they object to being searched.

We in the West need to cut the crap about not allowing racial profiling on the grounds that it's not politically correct. What a crock. If "racial profiling" -- i.e. common-sense pre-boarding procedures to ensure the safety of all passengers -- is going to make our travel safer, then we need to do it, rather than treat every passenger as a potential terrorist.

What about my rights as a non-terrorist? Shouldn't they count for something?

Christopher Hitchens exactly makes my point in this article at Slate:

Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?

http://www.slate.com/id/2239935/

"Ambulance called to Obama Hawaii compound
KFI AM radio | 12/28/09 | KFI

Posted on Monday, December 28, 2009 5:03:30 PM by Yaelle

Just heard: ambulance called to Obama compound, Obama has left his golf game."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416538/posts

"I don’t know why I feel this way, but somehow I get the feeling the presidency was downgraded this year."

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/6771

O'I Watch: O'narcissist.

Cannoneer rounds up the O'"I"s.
...-

"8. Cannoneer No. 4:

I wanted to take just a few minutes . . .

And I spoke again this morning . . .

I asked them to keep . . .

Since I was first notified of this incident, I’ve ordered . . .

First, I directed . . .

Second, I’ve ordered . . .

So I have ordered . . .

Third, I’ve directed . . .

Before I leave, let me also briefly address . . .

As I said in Oslo,

And I’m confident that history will be on the side of those who seek justice.

Transcript of Obama speech"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/12/28/president-obama-urges-america-to-learn/#comments

Batb "Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?"

This comment jumped out at me. That's so true. Not only are we bad at detecting the guilty, when we do identify culpability, we bend over backwards to convince ourselves that they are not really guilty. The wrong doing of society -- inequality etc. -- are really to blame for criminal behavior and terrorism.

LindaL, check out Christopher Hitchen's article which I linked to. I don't agree with him on a number of things, but I'm with him on his views on the WOT.

We're a bunch of (useful) idiots by allowing the big lie of "multiculturalism," the actual opiate of the masses, to blind us as to how to confront this jihad. We need to be hard-headed, eagle-eyed, ruthless in finding the terrorists out and then making sure they're incarcerated and thoroughly interrogated in order to find more cells of jihad.

Where our enemy has us, is in their firm understanding of and commitment to this Terrorist War. They're serious about it. They intend to take us out.

Us? We don't seem to be serious about it; we seem to be ambivalent about what to do about our "enemies" -- who we're not even sure are our enemies. After all, aren't we all supposed to celebrate and benefit from our "multicultural" mix? Aren't we being "racist" when we begin to suspect certain ethnic groups of being terrorists -- even when we have proof-positive that 99.9% of terrorist activities in the West over the past 25 years have been perpetrated by Muslims?

'Talk about skewed priorities.