Islamic authorities in Malaysia on Thursday seized 321 Bibles from a Christian group because they used the word Allah to refer to God, signaling growing intolerance that may inflame ethnic and religious tension in the Southeast Asian country.
ACME Exploding Safe Purchased By Accident
Tragic victim of circumstance: “Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki also said no foul play was suspected.”
Y2Kyoto: Released From The Icy Grip of Irony
Rescue of trapped climate-change researchers finally succeeds. But no word as to why there were there;
… the word “climate” appears once in [the CNN] web report, although not as an explanation. It doesn’t appear at all in the CBS report. The Associated Press report similarly avoids this key data point. Scott Johnson called this expedition the “ship of fools,” and perhaps that can be applied to these reports on the denouement, too.
Update: Aurora Australis will now start heading towards open water. The ship is currently travelling at a quarter knot in heavy ice towards open water. Webcam here.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
“I refused to let Detroit go bankrupt”: Fiat to buy full control of Chrysler
h/t peterj
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
The Sound Of Settled Science
IPCC silently slashes predictions: Official projections of global warming have plummeted since Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies told the U.S. Congress in June 1988 the world would warm by 1 Cº every 20 years till 2050 (Fig. 1), implying 6 Cº to 2100.
Reader Tips
Tonight we kick off the new year with a look back at 2013: The Best of James O’Keefe & Project Veritas.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: Caught In The Icy Grip Of Irony
“Anthony, we have a really strange situation here”. World’s most famous ice-trapped warmists receive help from world’s most famous skeptic blog.
KUSI.com – KUSI News – San Diego CA – News, Weather, PPR
Y2Kyoto: Seized In Irony’s Warm Embrace
Cold stalks a warmist…
But there was something wrong with my bicycle. The wheels wouldn’t go round. I turned the bike over and found to my surprise that they spun freely. I started pushing it up the hill, but again it seemed to be snagged. My friend gallantly offered to swap. But there was something wrong with his bicycle too. It felt absurdly heavy, and the wheels also seemed to be jammed.
Free Ethical Oil!
I am convinced that most Canadians do not comprehend that without fossil fuels, most of this country would be uninhabitable.
Fossil fuels keeping tens of millions of Canadians from freezing to death.
http://t.co/dhNT1vahOR pic.twitter.com/50tj4RkHGO
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) January 1, 2014
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Via Instapundit: PolitiFact Tries To Hide That It Rated ‘True’ in 2008 Obamacare’s ‘Keep Your Health Plan’ Promise.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Happy New America: The Viral Photo Out of Connecticut That’s Giving Some Gun Owners Chills
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors: Benghazi Bureau
“So the New York Times David D. Kirkpatrick wants us to believe that the Times somehow embedded a reporter into a random protest that turned out to be a highly organized attack motivated by an internet video no one had seen. And for the last 15 months, they kept that secret. What a bunch of lying schmucks.”
That’s A Lot Of Quid Pro Quo Going Up In Smoke
Environmentalists don't like pipelines, so we pay Buffett an arm and a leg to take oil by train. Yay, environment pic.twitter.com/RxaAZX2Zz6
— Buford (@ACapMgmt) December 31, 2013
Reader Tips
Tonight we take a trip back in time to the Roosevelt Grill in New York, as “Mr. New Year’s Eve” himself, bandleader Guy Lombardo, hosts New Year’s Eve, 1957.
Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s wishing you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2014.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Operation Empty Chair
The Obama administration’s outreach to the Islamic Front in Syria earlier this month failed due to a flawed plan and unrealistic goals, insiders say–and now American influence on the ground with the armed Syrian opposition is at a new low.
Update: Syria misses deadline to remove chemical weapons
Wynneing!
Too little, too late.
That’s how Alex Vasni and his wife, Anar, felt, as they stood on their Kenworthy Ave. porch Monday morning and watched Premier Kathleen Wynne hand out food hampers to select neighbours on the street while the media followed her.[…]
“Someone came around and pre-interviewed us for this (photo opportunity),” said Anar, 55. “My husband was venting away and so now, they just bypassed us. Even if they brought the food basket to us, we would’ve told them to give it to the people that really need it — the ones without power, still.”
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And New York City just became Ground Zero.