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  1. Not a link, nor really a tip, but do yourself a favour and pick up Glenn Beck’s latest, An Inconvenient Book. Funny, to the point, and pretty darn accurate.

  4. Lisa LaFlamme ( the CTV Pro) might want to kill her little darling usage of “very unique.”
    “Very unique”?
    The core meaning of unique (from Latin ‘one’) is ‘being only one of its kind,’ it is logically impossible, the argument goes, to submodify it: it either is ‘unique’ or it is not, and there are no stages in between.

  5. American Research Group poll results, pre-New-Hampshire primary, show John McCain in the lead as of a few days ago. Romney’s in second, and Huckabee’s in a distant third. Ron Paul is fourth, just ahead of fifth-place Rudy Giuliani.
    These results are derived from “600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of likely Republican primary voters living in New Hampshire (484 Republicans and 116 undeclared (independent) voters).” +/- 4% error range, 19 times out of 20. I got it from the blog at the Lew Rockwell Website.

  7. SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force
    “Police look inward. They’re supposed to protect their fellow citizens from criminals, and to maintain order with a minimum of force.”
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=404190&cid=21890376
    Police spokesman refers to citizens as civilians in a recent news broadcast quote. If we are “civilians”, then who are they? This comment seems to be at large with the idea of “Peace Officers”.
    Before you jump all over me on this, I am one of the strongest defenders of our Police services, but the recent lapse in public respect for our finest has to have started with the “Pretorian Guards” image police leaders have inspired with the advent of the SWAT.

  10. Posted by: Joe Molnar at January 5, 2008 1:17 AM
    Joe, those chosen to read news written by others are not selected for their perspicacity or insight.
    The number one selection criteria is prettiness and how well appearance will sell to the hypothetical brain-dead audience.
    The MSM knows it’s game and it’s not about serving the people.

  11. See LifeSiteNews.com – Jan 2 and Dec 20
    Dec 20th – more reasons why the HRCs have to get out of the freedom of speech/publication issues. An Edmonton gay activist has three filings in the federal HRC.
    Jan 2 – The Catholic League seems to be lobbying get the HRCs reigned in.
    Time to keep inundating the provincial HRCs as highly unlikely the federal body will see any change.

  12. Kate, this is huge,
    NASA’s come out and concluded THE SUN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THEY’RE PREDICTING IT’S GONNA GET COLDER!
    NASA press release:
    “Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era.”
    …
    Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.
    “We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the sun’s surface. This will have only one outcome – a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles’ behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.”
    Here:
    http://www.spaceandscience.net/id16.html

  13. HRC trumps the justice system.
    HRC rules the jailbird roost.
    …-
    Drug dealer refuses to leave his ‘comfy’ cell
    A judge has condemned the “barking mad” human rights rules that allowed a drug dealer to stay in his prison cell rather than appear in court.
    Amir Ali, who was jailed for almost four years last September, refused to leave the “comfortable” cell because he was afraid of losing it to another inmate….-
    http://tinyurl.com/339497 (telegraph-UK)

  14. Sorry for the double post, but this is amazing, NASA sound’s like they’re pretty much positive this will happen:
    “All records of sunspot counts and other proxies of solar activity going back 6,000 years clearly validates our own findings that when we have sunspot counts lower then 50 it means only one thing – an intense cold climate, globally. NASA says the solar cycle 25, the one after the next that starts this spring will be at 50 or lower. The general opinion of the SSRC scientists is that it could begin even sooner within 3 years with the next solar cycle 24. What we are saying today is that my own research and that of the other scientists at the SSRC verifies that NASA is right about one thing – a solar cycle of 50 or lower is headed our way. With this next solar minimum predicted by NASA, what I call a “solar hibernation,” the SSRC forecasts a much colder Earth just as it has transpired before for thousands of years. ”
    Read the whole thing, amazing stuff.

  15. THE NEWS ON THE IOWA CAUCUS THE MSM MISSED:
    http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/
    “”Independent Voters in the Republican Caucus
    * Ron Paul – 29%
    * John McCain – 23%
    * Mitt Romney – 19%
    * Mike Huckabee – 17%
    Ron Paul was the best at converting the Independent voters and this proves that he will be a formidable threat in New Hampshire.
    Ron Paul finished third among the youngest of voters but excelled in the 17-29 age group with 21%.””

  16. biff, don’t get too excited just yet. That wasn’t NASA, that was apparently an independent organization using NASA data. I suspect they are likely more correct than the IPCC, but I doubt that they will carry enough weight to sway the argument yet.

  18. Att. biff: Solar cycle 24 has started.
    “Last April an international panel of solar experts forecast that Solar Cycle 24 would start in March 2008, plus or minus six months.”
    …-
    WASHINGTON – A new solar cycle is under way.
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that the first sunspot of a new 11-year cycle has appeared in the sun’s northern hemisphere. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2uophy (canoenews)…-
    More:
    Read the sunspots
    The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change – and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
    R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, Financial Post
    http://tinyurl.com/2xjwma

  19. THE RUSKIS GET IT: PREDICT GLOBAL COOLING CYCLE STARTED
    http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080103/94768732.html
    “A cold spell soon to replace global warming
    MOSCOW. (Oleg Sorokhtin for RIA Novosti) – Stock up on fur coats and felt boots! This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world.
    Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.
    The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.
    Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.””

  20. Doesn’t appear to be a hoax. Though Eyore’s right, it’s not directly from NASA.
    A leading Russian scientist is also predicting global cooling,
    from FOX News yesterday:
    A researcher at Russia’s oceanology institute says global warming has peaked — and the planet is now headed for a cooling period that will last through the end of the century.
    “Oleg Sorokhtin is a fellow of the Russian academy of natural sciences. He writes in an article for the Russian news and information agency that a cold spell will set in by 2012. H believes an even colder period will begin as solar activity reaches a minimum in 2041 — and that it will last 50 to 60 years.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320431,00.html

  21. Kate headlines:
    “The Department Of Unintended Consequences: Human Rights Commission ”
    ROTFLMAO!! Another pearl cast before swine Kate!
    Perhaps we should all refer to the federal justice dept. as the “Ministry of unintended consequences” until they pull this PC demon of the benches of the nation’s courts and tribunals and put it back in Pandora’s box.
    Law is for civil justice not fabian social engineering.
    “Ministry of unintended consequences”…gotta love it! 😉

  22. WLM R “cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012”
    Maybe that’s why the Goracle and DeYawn are in such a panic for us to buy those Kyoto credits , from their 3rd world despot buddies, by the 2012 deadline.

  23. Peter Dion, aka Citoyen MacKay?
    As rotten apples from the Orchard fall on his head, Citoyen cowers in the Lib bunker. That’s not fair, he repeats; he re Petes. It’s Ralph’s fault.
    …-
    “On the Internet, several Orchard supporters have floated comparisons between Dion and Peter MacKay, now defence minister, who famously made a convention-floor deal with Orchard at the Conservative leadership in 2003 only to renege on the arrangement to pursue the merger with the Canadian Alliance that same year.”
    Dion accused of snubbing Orchard
    http://www.thestar.com/News/article/291219

  24. nomdeblog:
    ” “cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012”
    Maybe that’s why the Goracle and DeYawn are in such a panic for us to buy those Kyoto credits , from their 3rd world despot buddies, by the 2012 deadline.”
    Get them carbon credits at fire-sale prices while they last…while this latest globalist scare holds out!! Get ;em now while they last…last chance to save the earth from burning to a crisp from North American affluence…last chance to propel global socialist wealth redistribution schemes….step right up getcher gen-you-wine carbon credits here reduce your wealth guilt and climate change at the same time…get ’em at the Gore-Strong UN carbon discount center! 😉
    Actually this 2012 date is starting to even spook me…there so much stuff predicted to happen that year…end of the Mayan calender, full implementation of North American Union integration, WHO predicted avian flu pandemic, end of the solar warming cycle, Albert pike’s prediction for the start of WW3 and global government, The UN deadline for global response to agenda 21, the Gaia cult prophesy of the shift in human consciousness to the earth mother, The fortold 2nd term of a Clinton administration starts, Goricle’s point of no return to climate doom…things are getting really weird….bring back Hunter Thompson to make some sense of this nightmare. 😉

  25. Orchard is no different than Turner . Why is there so much attention payed to these a$$hats??

  26. The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry
    January 4, 2008
    By Mike Elgan
    Who in the hell is Asustek, and why does Microsoft hate them more than any other company in the industry? Why does Apple, Dell and Palm Computing hate them? …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2zt7et (earthweb)

  27. nasa, solar cycles. duh. it will be 1.6 degrees cooler by 2030. you can call me on that in 2030. by the way, who the hell would want it colder. only global warming nuts. i want to see an immediate 20 degree rise here in eastern ontario.

  28. Biff, you have nailed it, I have been saying for a long time we need to find that thermostat for the sun, which I personally think is somewhere near Biggar Sask. Only gore and the yappy jap would be stupid enough to come home to a cold house and declare a national emergency before turning up the thermostat, or finding their house to hot and going out and robbing people on the street to rectify that problem. Yes the scam is quickly unraveling and sadly they will not be charged for fraud like they should be along with the great Mo who fathered this bastard child, global warming.

  29. Good catch on the ASUS E3 PC…been eying them out myself…and they run Linux OS and Firefox….definitely a value buy for anyone who wants to support a giant slayer 😉

  31. Biff,
    your post is a blatant lie. the link you provide leads us to the space and science research center website. no ties to NASA! none!
    there’s a completetly unrelated link to a 2 yr old post naa post that has nothing whatsoever to do with SSRC’s claims.
    the entire site appears to be bogus. the listed address for the center can be traced to 2 other businesses including an attorney and a shady investment firm of some sort.
    the so-called press release is riddled with typos and has been dismissed as junk by legitimate NASA scientists.
    i can only assume that Biff posted this link as a hoax. there is no factual truth to any of it and only a minimal amount of reseaerch is required to debunk the post biff provides a link to.

  32. Protesting just a bit much aren’t we Jeff?
    Relax, we aren’t gullible to believe every single article on the web as fact. I believe you may have this site mixed up with another you frequent.

  33. Re: the Winnipeg Transit Commission story, something very similar came up in Ottawa recently, when Ottawa Transit wanted to install an electronic system/GPS on each bus that would call out each stop automatically. The trouble was, it would have cost somewhere around $8,000,000 to implement (and they’re already losing money), and this is something that’s already specified as a requirement for the drivers to begin with (if they have to keep an eye out for riders waiting at the next stop, and they have to know the route already, but they can’t do that, they shouldn’t be driving the bus in the first place).

  35. I think the SSRC is, let’s say, not to be taken seriously. It doesn’t list its members, its experts and so on. So, ignore it.
    BUT, the FACT that the sun affects the earth’s climate, is valid. The FACT that the sun causes cyclical phases of warming and cooling, is valid. the FACT that this causality has far more of an effect than any CO2 human-caused emissions, is valid. The FACT that this effect is natural and that human life is not going to be obliterated by climate changes, is valid.
    Therefore, the apocalpytic scenarios of Gore and Suzuki have only one effect. Making them very, very wealthy.
    The Man is Sinful scenarios of the AGW crowd and their groupie followers have only one effect – making the UN and its new WorldWideScam wealthy.
    What is the new UN WorldWideScam (WWS)? It’s to inform the West, vulnerable to human culpability by its judeo-christian heritage, that..well, that its human membership are All Guilty. They have Sinned. (Sin is not found in non-Western ideologies). Their Sin is..well, it’s being successful. Being Industrial. You know, inventing and making all those cars, airplanes, trains, computers, telephones..all those things that Make the Modern World Go Round. Evil Western People.
    So, the non-Western World wants all these things that it didn’t invent. How to get them? Hmmm. Oh, make the West pay for building factories in the non-Western world!!!! How to get the West to pay without any requirement for partnership in those new factories, without any requirement to pay the money back?
    Call it Sin Money. The West ‘owes’ it to ‘Us’ because They Industrialized and Polluted the World. We, Pure People, Didn’t. So, the West must now Pay Us to industrialize.
    Oh, We Pure People are Exempt from any and all pollution standards and emission standards! Exempt.
    YES- this means that the planet’s emissions and pollutions will INCREASE! And, we, the Pure People, will now be industrial and we, the Pure People, will now take over the Western Economy. Heh.
    That’s what the UN does. Yet another WWS run by the UN.
    So, global warming AND cooling is natural. It’s cause? Sun activity. Solution? Well, you can try to send a missile to the sun with a hook, to hook onto it and slow it down…and…but..heat melts steel..and…oh well.
    Solution? Everyone should control pollution. That’s different from emissions. That’s everyone. You. Not the govt. You. Other than that, there’s no solution. Believe it or not, we are part of the natural environment. We’ll manage just fine.

  36. No need to wait. Global Cooling is happening right now as 2007 is the coldest this century despite the predictions by the media early last year that 2007 would surpass 1998 as the warmest on record. Great post! And check out the graphs.
    http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/01/2007-warmest-year-on-record-coldest-in.html
    “The RSS MSU linear trend extracted from the 1998-2007 interval is -0.48 °C per century of cooling! Numerically, it’s almost the same trend that we assign to the 20th century but with the opposite sign. The RSS MSU data imply that 2007 was 0.12 °C cooler than the already cool year 2006.”

  37. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/01/04/stories/2008010450970900.htm
    “the North’s bio-fuel appetite will pave the way for the South’s starvation”
    “Poor pay the price
    Swaziland, a tiny nation in the African continent, is already in the grip of a terrible famine, where 40 per cent of its people face acute food shortages. The reason? The government there has allocated thousands of hectares of farmland in the district of Lavumisa, worst hit by drought and famine, for ethanol production from the Swazi people’s staple food crop, cassava.”

  38. But remember, tim, a true follower of AGW, is someone operating within the mental blindness of a camp follower. Facts are irrelevant. All of reality can be explained within their Mantra: AGW. And all will be healed by the UN Sin Trip Money Transference.

  40. Re the media,happened to suffer thru As It Happens on cbc last eve (gotta get a Sat.radio for out here in the boonies!)Interview between Carol Off-her-Rocker,and guy that has weblog on miscommunications/outright lies by media (regret the error.com)and once story is out there,the lame attempts of retraction.Interestingly,even tho this fellow is from TO,most examples were US based,and NOT ONE example of cbc ‘errors’..conv.ensued,on the factuality of blog-based info,and Carol puts her own spin on all the incorrect info put out there by bloggers.I did check out link at this blog..and lo and behold,quite a list of cbc corrections..no mention of Lawandgate,or more serious misinfo.Interesting little blog.

  41. does it matter if cooling began in 2007 or will begin in 2012 or 2020. The exdperts tend to agree… it is on it’s way.
    At the cryosphere website they are showing an + 804,000 square kilometer anomaly of sea ice world wide. The base level of ice is based on the mean for 1979 – 2000.

  42. Britney Spears younger (16 years old) sister announced that she is pregnant. It appears to me that the younger Spears did not save her VIRGINITY for MARRIAGE as did Britney.
    Bwaaaaaaaaa. Bwaaaaaaaaaa.

  43. Maz2, at 9:45 AM
    http://tinyurl.com/2zt7et
    Excellent find!
    I will second WLM Redux 10:08
    This is the avenue to shake free of the ponderous MS Windows stranglehold!
    Asus motherboards have earned our respect over the long term.. now they provide a sort of freedom. NICE!
    The article ends up with . . .
    ** Now rumors are circulating that a new Intel
    Merom-based ASUS Eee PC that may ship as early as April will run so efficiently that it won’t need a fan. The entire laptop will be solid state — no moving parts. Intel loves that kind of thing.
    There’s no question about it — Asustek is the most hated company in the industry.
    Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Palm hate Asustek because the company can give us something they can’t: A super cheap, flexible, powerful mobile computer. At $299, why would anyone not buy one?
    ==================
    = TG

  44. Jeff:
    “Liar!”
    Ahem, see where I later recognized that it wasn’t NASA.
    My goodness, we have struck a nerve havn’t we.
    Also see the other posts which also allude to solar activity leading to the earth’s tempurature (gee imagine that – that massive ball of firey gas thousands of times the size of the Earth, and responsible for all heat in the solar system….actually affecting the Earth’s tempurature).
    It’s out there scientifically Jeff, and you can scream “liar” as loud as you want.
    Watching the AGW believers flail as the other and better theories surpass the religious like thinking, will be fun to watch indeed.

  45. OODA Loop works for PM Harper = “Canada’s newfound clout”.
    “This is the first time that I have seen us [Canada] really flex our muscle at a world meeting.”
    …-
    “A lot of power also came to Canada in 2007 as the world watched its oil production – and capacity – grow.
    Frank Atkins, economics professor at the University of Calgary, said a glaring example of Canada’s newfound clout was at the United Nations climate change summit this month in Bali, where federal environment minister John Baird stood his ground rather than give in to impossible greenhouse gas emissions reductions, which is what the previous Liberal government did at Kyoto.
    “He acted like he represented a country that is an oil producer,” Mr. Atkins said.
    The message was: “We want to be on the green bandwagon, but we are not going to be on what is dictated by the Europeans. This is the first time that I have seen us really flex our muscle at a world meeting.
    “[Prime Minister Stephen] Harper learned some economics,” said Mr. Atkins, who was Mr. Harper’s supervisor when the Prime Minister was a master student at the University of Calgary.” …-
    New power brokers packing lock, stock and $100 barrels
    The economics of energy is challenging the world’s traditional hegemonies
    Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post
    http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=213305
    CBC/CanPress/MSM pimp for Blastering Liberal Citoyen Dion. …-
    Dion blasts Harper’s foreign policy ‘blunders’
    September 20, 2007
    The Canadian Press
    Stéphane Dion is blasting the Conservative government’s foreign policy as mediocre, rigid, simplistic, amateurish, ineffective and incompetent.
    http://tinyurl.com/32tj2c (cbc)

  46. Now ‘This’ may be something to worry about;
    R. Timothy Patterson is professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University.
    “Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada. As a country at the northern limit to agriculture in the world, it would take very little cooling to destroy much of our food crops, while a warming would only require that we adopt farming techniques practiced to the south of us.”
    The Earth has been warmer, and all around then loved it, including the Polar Bears.
    The Earth has been cooler, with a kilometer or two of ice covering most of Canada.
    Wonder if the Polar Bears were squished to death ?
    When the Earth cools, will the David Suzukis of the world demand that we all burn MORE fossils in order to save the Bears !?

  47. Things are looking up for us ** Poor Boys**
    To go along with the new modern Asustek laptop bargain at $299,
    http://tinyurl.com/2zt7et
    you will soon be able to buy a car that uses no gas or diesel for 2,500 Euros.
    There is a BBC video waiting for you at:
    AutoBlogGreen.com
    French designed, India made at Tata Motors and a new plant going up in Melbourn Au.
    Soon, a car and a great laptop for 9K. = TG

  49. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/why_seasons.html&edu=high
    “When the northern half of the Earth is pointing towards the Sun, the northern hemisphere of the Earth gets more direct sunlight and we call this season “summer” for the north. At this same time, the southern half of the Earth is pointed away from the Sun, so people in the southern hemisphere get less direct sunlight and we call this “winter” for the south. So, because of the tilt of the Earth’s axis, the seasons in the south are the opposite of those in the north.”
    You’d think the dingdongs would be able to figure out that warm weather occurs in the summer because of the sun. When your part of the earth is getting little sunlight each day, it is usually winter. Luckily, air currents exist, warm and cold, and change it up a little for us poor buggers in the north.
    I’m sick of the whole global warming idiocy – bring global warming on…..I’m freezing.

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