Great Minds Of Harvard
“Because having seen what Hussein had done the Kurds the correct reaction was to further enable to Hussein regime?”
Heh – “You know that’s what I was thinking , what we need in politics in Canaduh is a politician that spent 30 years in the US teaching “human rights” who’s honest enough to admit “that upon serious reconsideration, and a house in Toronto, they’ve discovered they’re perfectly OK with gassing minorities.”
Now Remember
The Canadian left believes the Democrats are the “Canada friendly” party.
I know. Hard to fathom.
Y2Kyoto: Hummer Your Way To A Better Climate
Save the planet – get your dirty feet off it;
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving.
“The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.”
It’s official. The only way to meet the one tonne challenge is to kill somebody.
(h/t Tenebris)
Another Setback
In the Democrats’ hard fought battle for defeat;
The U.S. military surge, widely denounced as a last-ditch effort by an embattled, lame-duck president fighting an un-winnable civil war, is working. Even as vocal a war critic as Deputy Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has now acknowledged as much, telling CNN that the U.S. military is “making real progress.”
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multi-national force in Iraq and author of the counterinsurgency surge strategy now underway, told Talk Radio host Allen Colmes that during the past seven weeks, U.S. troops have inflicted “enormous damage” on al Qaeda forces in Iraq, causing three times the losses sustained by coalition forces. Petraeus added that al Qaeda in Iraq, which is responsible for most of the high-profile car bombings and suicide attacks, has been “clearly linked to the… al Qaeda senior leadership, located in the Pakistan Afghanistan border trial areas.” In other words, beating al Qaeda in Iraq is clearly a serious blow to Osama bin Laden wherever he is hiding.
Reader Tips
Paul Marek on the role of new media in peer review.
New Recklessness at the New Republic.
Google News: helping put dinosaur media out of its misery.
More evidence that pot smoking causes brain damage.
Add yours in the comments.
This Is What They Mean By “The Debate Is Over”
As word of the revised GISS temperature rankings (1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA) spreads, reaction is predictable. Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit is under DOS attack.
How pathetic.
Eleanor Roosevelt Had A Dream
A pioneering experiment in progressiveness, the story of Arthurdale;
Delivered late and vastly over budget,[11] Arthurdale displayed all the characteristics of a boondoggle, a political creature that “puts people over profits” and is widely familiar to all Americans, circa 2007. The pre-fabricated houses, even when it was known that they were unsuitable for West Virginia winter and wouldn’t fit their foundations, were still built but then torn to pieces and remodeled. An article in the August 1934 Saturday Evening Post speaks of how chimneys were built eight feet away from their houses’ sides, after which the houses were reconstructed to meet the chimneys.
From padded payrolls, to houses stuffed with goodies (“most Arthurdale families found their new homes lavish,” Hoffman 2001, p. 44), to the importing of rhododendrons (a flower native to the Arthurdale area) from sixty miles away (just to leave them to rot), to wells being drilled at great expense and then abandoned, the project was every bit the financial disaster that one should expect when giving management over obscene sums of cash to people who believe “profit” is a curse word.
Even Mrs. Roosevelt herself noted “much money was spent, perhaps some of it unwisely,” and if you substitute “perhaps some” with the far more accurate “all,” she would have been spot on.
A great read.
(h/t reader Daniel Ryan)
Feel The Diversity
When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”.
(Punjabi Stephane – call your office.)
Y2Kyoto: Saving The Planet Through Glyphosates
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SDA flashback: Goodbye Greenie Dirt Road
The Sound Of Settled Science (bumped)
Good morning to our regular media hounds sniffing around for tips – have we got a doozy for you!
Roger Pielke Sr. ;
The hard work of of Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit) and Anthony Watts (www.surfacestations.org) has resulted in the identification of a significant error in the assessment of the rankings of what have been the warmest years in the United States as identified by GISS. The current warmest year is 1934.
Much more in the comments there – “As it stands, we are looking at a bladeless “Hockey Stick”, and for all intents and purposes at the falsification of the anthropogenic warming hypothesis for North America. Of particular note is that the Climate Audit piece indicates that GISS has erased the old [unadjusted] data, giving it the makings of an excercise in covering one’s tracks. The legality of this must be questionable given that we are dealing a federally funded agency. Astounding.”
(Climate Audit is currently down – I suspect in the same way SDA goes down when I post on Marc Emery’s cannibus cult…)
Update: My hunch was right. Climate Audit is under DOS attack.
Climate Audit:
Or as explained by commentor Chris Christner. “Congratulations Steve! On your own you’ve managed to reduce temperatures more than the Kyoto Protocol ever could!”
More here from Anthony Watts: “Here’s a story of scientific investigation and discovery I’m proud to have had a small part in.”
And here too.
Michelle Malkin has another roundup
Doing The Cabinet Shuffle
A little speculation from Stephen Taylor.
Related: Contrary to comments attributed to Dr. Strangelove, Stephen Harper is not being promoted to the Presidency.
Perhaps It Didn’t Melt After All
Fodder for the engineers in the audience;
Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country, federal officials said today.
The Federal Highway Administration swiftly responded by urging all states to take extra care with how much weight they place on bridges when sending construction crews to work on bridges. Crews were doing work on the deck of the Interstate 35W bridge when it gave way, hurling rush-hour traffic into the Mississippi River and killing at least five people.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation is months from completion, and officials in Washington said they were still working to confirm the design flaw in the so-called gusset plates and what, if any, role it had in the collapse.
Still, in making public their suspicion about a flaw, the investigators were signaling they consider it a potentially crucial discovery and also a safety concern for other bridges around the country. Gusset plates are used in the construction of many bridges, not just those with a similar design to the one here.
I don’t know that gusset plate failure can really stand up against the more compelling global warming theory.
via Drudge
Endeavour*
Take An EnviroTourist To Lunch
One solution to gun control advocacy.
Upon further reflection, Mr. Warren’s commentary reminds me of that relatively common sub-species among urban bureaucrats and academia who, with straight faces, declare there is “no future in agriculture”.
To them I can only say this – the transition of rural farm economy from food to fuel production can’t happen fast enough.
By Request
I don’t know what this relates to.
And I’m not entirely certain I want to.
Via Bourque, according to the comments.
UPDATE – Ted reports the following: “This is a photo from the United Jewish Appeal’s Walk With Israel, which is the largest pro-Israel event in Canada on May 27.”
While I have nothing but the utmost respect for Ted, I hesitate to accept his information as accurate, for as everyone who follows the Canadian progressive blogosphere knows, Israel walks like this:
And now another photo mystery solved…
It’s The First Time In History
That the late afternoon sun has melted steel;
[Melissa Hortman of the Minnesota House of Representatives] speculated that 90-plus-degree heat Wednesday and the above-normal temperatures of the past two summers may have been a contributing factor.
“Did the heat put extra strain on the steel?” Hortman said. “You wonder if this bridge was built to withstand the massive heat we have had this summer.”
Wait! There’s more from a “Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American Progress“.
My brother also wonders if the low level of the Mississippi played a role. He writes that most of “Minnesota is currently under Moderate to Severe Drought conditions. The water level has been lower but the less-than-optimal conditions” could have been a stressor.
And here’s a sobering question. With our bridges now failing under the dual assaults of sunlight and too much air beneath them – how will they perform when faced with the global warming rivers of lava?
h/t Newsbusters
It’s Time To Review My Ad Rates
Alan D. Mutter;
Three weeks ago, Newsosaur’s admittedly modest traffic spiked to an all-time daily high of more than 1,000 visits as the result of a link from a blog called, I kid you not, Small Dead Animals.
Two weeks ago, by contrast, Forbes and Business Week each quoted Newsosaur on their websites, and those links resulted in a single, solitary hit from a Business Week reader.
So, there you have it: Small Dead Animals top Large Ones by 1,000 to 1.
One event, of course, doesn’t prove much.
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Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri (above right), a senior member of the terrorist organization. The image shows al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with writing on it. But after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that al-Zawahiri’s image was superimposed in front of the background — and was most likely videotaped in front of a black sheet.
It’s the stupid people, stupid.
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: Jamaat ul-Fuqra
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Sesame Street
(Well Sinbad was Persian, wasn’t he?)