“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,”

Religion Of Submission 32 Comments

Yon;

Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 78 Comments

Thanks, but no thanks;

Both halves of the [Nobel Peace Prize] honor promoting the message that Earth’s temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases. The Nobel committee praises Mr. Gore and the IPCC for alerting us to a potential catastrophe and for spurring us to a carbonless economy.
I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never “proof”) and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time.
There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don’t find the alarmist theory matching observations. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming — around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)
It is my turn to cringe when I hear overstated-confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next 100 years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that system’s behavior over the next five days.
[…]
Mr. Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a participant in the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

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Hillary Hears A Boo

Political Animal 24 Comments

It was a moment that crystallized Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggles in Tuesday night’s debate. Questioned about a plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, Mrs. Clinton at first seemed to defend it, then suggested she was against it, until finally, pressed for a direct answer, she accused the moderator, Tim Russert, of playing “gotcha.”

Heh. “Mulls Supporting Illegal Alien Pilot License”.
Fallout on Hillary’s bad night.

Sask Election Roundup

Gopher News 26 Comments

So far, the best take on Karwacki.
“Lying Ass Lorne”– on gas tax revenues.
Don’t forget to play the Saskatchewan Election Market! My tip: “NDP shares are currently underpriced”.
Another good omen for the SaskParty – because, as every Rider fan knows, we have never won a Grey Cup under an NDP administration.
Hey, Lorne – 1982 called. They’d like their bogeyman back.

The Vandalism Continues…. “No More NDP” signs placed by a private citizen (they were mounted on large round bales near Hwy 7) were torched last night. And who’s the “scary” party, again?
(I’ve chuckled every time I’ve driven past this display this past week. If someone can pop out and get me photos, I’ll post them).
Add your election links or comments.

What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?

Baiting The Left 58 Comments

University;

Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

Update – University of Delaware President Patrick Harker:

“While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the residential life program at the University of Delaware, there are questions about its practices that must be addressed and there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled. It is not feasible to evaluate these issues without a full and broad-based review.
Upon the recommendation of Vice President for Student Life Michael Gilbert and Director of Residence Life Kathleen Kerr, I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.”

“The single greatest drop in cash barley prices in the history of Canada”

Gopher News 51 Comments


We were going to thank you for donating $30,000 of our tax dollars to support the CWB pro-monopoly court case Mr. Penner refers to, Lorne – but that can wait ’till Wednesday.
Meanwhile, from Liberal MP Mark Eyking, a reminder that “Canadians can rely on Stephane Dion’s defence” of CWB “barely” marketing.
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Spelling mistake or Freudian slip? You be the judge.

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