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Baiting The Left 27 Comments

Find an anti-Semite; (link fixed!)

Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli remarks while lecturing at the University of Oslo, in an article published afterward in the Norwegian press and in an interview with Haaretz that followed.
Among other statements, Galtung claimed that a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control U.S. media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” wrote Galtung in an article published in Norway.

Related.
h/t EBD

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Political Animal 28 Comments

Super Smart Left Wing Academic – Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
Super Duper Smart Left Wing Academic – “Once all the writing competition submissions have been graded, these scores, as well as the law school transcripts of all those who have chosen to release the, are submitted to a Selection Committee made up of the President ad two other Review editors who have been elected by their fellow editors.”
h/t FFoF

“My views, I suspect, differ from beginning to end.”

What He Said 50 Comments

From Robert Wenzel’s ‘David’ speech.

Please allow me to begin with methodology, I hold the view developed by such great economic thinkers as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard that there are no constants in the science of economics similar to those in the physical sciences.
In the science of physics, we know that water freezes at 32 degrees. We can predict with immense accuracy exactly how far a rocket ship will travel filled with 500 gallons of fuel. There is preciseness because there are constants, which do not change and upon which equations can be constructed.
There are no such constants in the field of economics since the science of economics deals with human action, which can change at any time. If potato prices remain the same for 10 weeks, it does not mean they will be the same the following day. I defy anyone in this room to provide me with a constant in the field of economics that has the same unchanging constancy that exists in the fields of physics or chemistry.
And yet, in paper after paper here at the Federal Reserve, I see equations built as though constants do exist.

(h/t Me No Dhimmi)

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

2012 48 Comments

The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.

Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
[…]
Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.
Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004.

h/t Maz2

Black Caviar

Equine 7 Comments

The Australian super horse: now 20 for 20 – The dramatic impact that the unbeaten mare has on the sporting landscape will be further underlined when the AFL concedes to a request to have the starting time of the Adelaide-Geelong match on Saturday week altered so football fans can see the champion mare have her last Australian start before leaving for England.

h/t TimR

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy 27 Comments

All tremble before the awesome power of Gore, God Of Blunder;

New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.
Researchers used satellite data from 2003 to 2011 to examine surface temperatures across as wide swath of west Texas, which has built four of the world’s largest wind farms. The data showed a direct correlation between night-time temperatures increases of 0.72 degrees C (1.3 degrees F) and the placement of the farms.
“Given the present installed capacity and the projected growth in installation of wind farms across the world, I feel that wind farms, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional meteorology,”
[…]
Zhou and his colleagues found that turbulence behind the wind turbine blades stirs up a layer of cooler air that usually settles on the ground at night, and mixes in warm air that is on top.
That layering effect is usually reversed during the daytime, with warm air on the surface and cooler air higher up.”The year-to-year land surface temperature over wind farms shows a persistent upward trend from 2003 to 2011, consistent with the increasing number of operational wind turbines with time,” Zhou said.

h/t John

Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Science 43 Comments

The sound of censored science;

Unlike their coverage of the political establishment or the corporate establishment, journalists will rarely be skeptical of the scientific establishment. Perhaps these ­unskeptical journalists don’t question scientists out of a belief that scientists’ pronouncements are free of the self-interest that taints politicians or corporations. Or perhaps these journalists, who are themselves rarely scientifically literate, blindly accept the views of scientific authority figures because they lack the training to assess rival views. Or perhaps these journalists fear being subjected to ridicule if they buck politically correct views. Whatever the reasons for journalistic deference to dogma in science, the victim is the information-consuming public, which at best is kept in the dark, at worst is duped.

All of which boils down to “lazy and stupid”.
h/t Ken (Kulak)

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

The One 42 Comments

IBD;

Like so many others, the final decision to pull the trigger on the world’s most-wanted man was delegated to an admiral who undoubtedly would have been thrown under the bus had the mission failed.
[…]
The Panetta memo, rather than presenting a profile in courage, says “approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the president.” This left enough wiggle room to blame the operation planners and controllers if the raid had gone as wrong as President Jimmy Carter’s famous failure to rescue American hostages held by Iran. This memo left room for the blame for another “Blackhawk Down” snafu to be blamed on anyone and everyone but President Obama.

Theoremic Academiosia

Uncategorized 50 Comments

Another stunning finding from the “bank robbers wear trousers, ergo trousers cause bank robberies” school of press-release science:

The presence of big-box retail stores erodes a community’s social fabric, according to a study out of Penn State university that found the number of Walmart stores in a U.S. county is significantly correlated with the number of hate groups in the area.
Societal factors known to influence hate group participation, like unemployment rate, high crime rate and low education, are less statistically significant than how many Walmarts there are, said lead author Stephan Goertz…

“Are you sure you want those paper towels, hon?”

Walmart’s “Protestant values” of thrift and savings constitute a form of what’s called religious priming — the use of words or phrases to encourage certain attitudes and behaviours — and that religious priming is linked to racism and intolerance.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

Alternative Subsidy 29 Comments

Spiegel;

In 2006, solar-panel manufacturer Conergy moved into the never-used computer chip factory, joining Odersun, already headquartered in the city. In 2007, the United States solar giant First Solar opened a factory as well, followed by a second one last year.
Now, though, the future suddenly looks decidedly dark. Odersun declared bankruptcy in March and Conergy, while pledging to return to profit this year, has seen its share price lose 99.6 percent of its value in the last five years. Many doubt the company will survive. Worst of all, however, was the announcement earlier this month that First Solar was closing both of its factories in Frankfurt an der Oder; 1,200 people will soon be jobless as a result.
“We saw the solar industry as a chance to reindustrialize the region and invested significantly in incentives,” Frankfurt an der Oder Mayor Martin Wilke told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “This is a serious setback. It is a very difficult situation.”

And that’s just for starters.
h/t Maz2

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