Author: Kate

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 46 Comments

Climategate-I was the revelation that climate scientists crusading over global warming at East Anglia University had tried to censor inconvenient data and shut dissenters out of academic journals. Climategate-II is the revelation that the 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change, saying Himalayan glaciers might disappear by 2035, was not science at all but idle, unsubstantiated speculation.
It speaks volumes for the huge biases within IPCC that it took two years for this hoax to be exposed. Any hoax opposing the global warming thesis would be exposed in ten seconds flat. The IPCC is willing to swallow unexamined what it finds convenient, while raising a thousand technical objections to anything inconvenient. This is religious crusading, not objective science. The tactics being used to discredit and destroy heretics is reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition.”

Read the whole thing. Then compare the depth of detail it contains with this curiously vague version.
h/t Maz2
In a shocking coincidence – Al Gore tries to cool ‘climate spin’ by correcting claims of North pole thaw
Update: Another case of wet feet?

Australia’s peak science agency, the CSIRO, has backed away from attributing a decade of drought in Tasmania to climate change, claiming ‘’the jury is still out’’ on the science …

Over 100K Dead Voters On The Rolls In Massachusetts

Political Animal 83 Comments

And one of them is named Mary Jo Kopechne.

Mass. Senate Race: With 39 Percent of Precincts Reporting, Brown Has 52 to 47 Percent Lead Over Coakley

(Meanwhile, over at CNN, a rerun of the award-winning documentary “CHIRP: Song Of The Nocturnal Insect”.)
Time for a Poll!

Who’s Having The Most Fun On This, Their First Anniversary?
Barack Obama
Glenn Beck
  
pollcode.com free polls

More – The Huffington Post’s Great Big Red Letter Headline.

Brown VS Coakley

Political Animal 42 Comments

The campaign of unintended consequences;

Over the past several days as the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts heated up, the available “inventory” of advertising spots to buy from the TV networks dried up.
And then disappeared entirely.
On cable we here at the Tea Party Express were not able to purchase any additional local spots. Zero. None. Nada.

Polls just closed. I’ve never seen so many Republicans afraid to “jinx” themselves in my lifetime.
That’s a good sign. Maybe they’re catching on.
Heh.

Great Moments In Political Messaging

Roadkill 63 Comments

“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?“
Polls have opened. And go here for Steyn’s take.
Updates: In a watershed moment for post-2009 Democrats, the first mention of “blame” that excludes the word “Bush”. And speaking of monkey wrenches, the media wing of the Democratic machine has its own problems.
(I’m busy with stuff that makes blogging difficult today. Your best source for ongoing developments is likely to be the Corner.)

Team Rubicon

Military 23 Comments

Blackfive;

A good friend of mine reached out to me to get some medical supplies and doctors into Haiti. The plan was to get the supplies, docs, and SF medics into the Dominican Republic and convoy into Haiti. Since convoys have been attacked from the DR, you need to have security personnel who can sub as medics and medics who can sub as security personnel.
So you send experienced operators – Soldiers and Marines.

Continuing updates here. If you’d like to help out, there’s more at the link.

I Remember When…

More Money Than Brains 131 Comments

… a “ridiculous school field trip” meant a day at the mall to “study pop culture”…

The Grade 12 students from a high school in South Slocan, B.C., and seven adult chaperones were on a mission to set up a goat farm in a town about 45 kilometres outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Update: Is that a whiff of moral indignation I detect?

Seriously, Kate, what’s the bug up your butt on this one? They made a choice to actually venture out and attempt to change something in the world for the better and you have gall to ridicule them? I thought better of you.

Except that they won’t “change the world for the better” and the people telling them so are lying. Don’t take my word for it, check the track record. If such projects were of any lasting use, Haiti would be Miami by now.
No, this is more like an episode of Survivor: Extreme Moral Preening
Steyn gets to the meat of the matter – “Even by the standards of Third World dysfunction, what country is such a basket case that it needs outside help to set up a goat farm?”
Here’s a sensible observation;

Let the kids graduate from grade twelve first, and then they can pay their own way to travel to hell holes to set up goat farms.

Precisely. Set aside the fact (as their parents evidently did) that the country is a cesspool of crime and disease, has no real governing authority, infrastructure, justice system, or effective policing. (What, were all the spots to Somalia taken?) These kids were there just weeks before they’re expected to take final exams and graduate – small wonder that so many university profs complain that first year students are barely literate.
Well, they’re home now, and that’s good. When the counseling sessions wrap up, maybe they can get cracking on that safe grad.

You’re A Brave Man…

Baiting The Left 56 Comments

Colby Cosh;

… I suppose one might point out that even the wicked Pat Robertson is entitled to just treatment at the hands of his critics. In talking about the “curse” he believes Haiti lies under, Robertson was referring to a genuine event in the annals of that country’s revolutionary struggle—the 1791 Voodoo prayer for liberty in the Bois Caïman. As some liberal and perhaps even “secularist” observers have pointed out, this aspect of Haitian history is something of a legitimate problem for traditional Haitian Christians. It might even be a problem for a sincere Catholic who took the trouble to inquire into it! Would Rex Murphy, squeezed into 18th-century breeches and sent by time machine to the Bois Caïman, have happily pledged his life to the destruction of the “pitiless” “white men’s god”? Freely inquiring minds want to know!

h/t
Related – As if we were going to see any of it in the first place.

“Nobody wanted to know what Hasan was up to.”

Terrorism 26 Comments

Ralph Peters;

Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It’s so inept, it doesn’t even rise to cover-up level.
“Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood” never mentions Islamist terror. Its 86 mind-numbing pages treat “the alleged perpetrator,” Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter (guess they’re still looking for the pickup truck with the gun rack).
[…]
Unquestionably, the officers who let Hasan slide, despite his well-known wackiness and hatred of America, bear plenty of blame. But this disgraceful pretense of a report never asks why they didn’t stop Hasan’s career in its tracks.
The answer is straightforward: Hasan’s superiors feared — correctly — that any attempt to call attention to his radicalism or to prevent his promotion would backfire on them, destroying their careers, not his.
Hasan was a protected-species minority. Under the PC tyranny of today’s armed services, no non-minority officer was going to take him on.

h/t nick

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation