Somebody Has it In for Haiti

If it's not one thing ... it's another.

How Warmists Kill

For example a number of people were killed on UK and European icy roads last winter (and Spring) due to the fact that the UK and Europe ran out of road salt. This running out of road salt was because Councils and Government heeded the Met Office advice that there would be a mild winter and ignored our WeatherAction warnings that the UK would run out of road salt.

As I explained to Hilary Benn on Sept 29th at the Labour conference in Manchester the reason why the Met Office long range forecasts were so deadly wrong last winter (and the one before etc etc) was because they back-tested them using (as well as failed assumptions ) CRU data which was fraudulently made warmer than reality so forecasts based on that are bound to come out too warm and cause deaths which could otherwise have been avoided.

I made the point specific in a recent video giving the tragic example of the child killed on 31st March in a school bus which crashed on snow covered black ice in Lanarkshire. See VIDEO and pdf .

Around the world thousands die from extreme weather events the solar-based forecasts of which are ignored by governments because they do not want to upset the CO2-Climate Change ideology on which they rely to control energy, resources, the public and to raise carbon taxes and boost the carbon trading bubble of false value.

Thank you

Piers

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Trap ... Cheese ... Snap

Score - Taliban 0 ... US/ANA ... 80:

The Haqqani Network suffered heavy losses in yesterday's massed assault on a US combat outpost in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. The International Security Assistance Force estimated that 78 Haqqani Network fighters were killed and said two more were captured, while Afghan officials claimed that more than 80 fighters had been killed.

Haqqani Network forces launched the attack just after midnight on Oct. 30, attacking Combat Outpost Margah in Paktika's Bermal district from four sides while mortar and rocket teams fired on the troops.

... the details.

The Sick Economics of Wind Power

Stop the wind farms ... the birds and bats will thank you; as will your wallet:

Wind energy is the environmentalists’ great energy hope, but two inconvenient truths seem to come between fantasy and reality.

... read on.

CTV: Who's the Ignorant One

CTV today printed a piece it snagged from Forbes, where it made the following statement:

Or contender for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, whose open ignorance or misreading of the First Amendment’s guarantee of separation of church and state--"You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"--caused a 10-alarm fire on the airwaves and Internet.

Pretty straightforward eh? Not really, because Ms. O'Donnell was correct.  The constitution sets out to protect "the church" from the state but does in no way use the term separation of church and state.  That came later through lawfare.  What does that make CTV and Forbes then?

He's Got My Vote: And I live 2927 Km Away

1. He treats voters like adults.
2. He's fiscally conservative.
3. He stomps all over CBC snoots.

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Palin: Corrupt Bastards

Palin unloads on media and GOP corruption ... Hot Air.

Big Gov. has the nitty gritty:

The following voice mail message was inadvertently left on the cell phone of Joe Miller campaign spokesperson Randy DeSoto.

The voices are believed to be those of the news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussing creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.

The following is a transcript of a call recorded after CBS Alaska affiliate KTVA called Joe Miller’s Senate campaign spokesperson. The call failed to disconnect properly. It was later authenticated by McDermott, who sent a text to Randy DeSoto stating, “Damn iPhone… I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”

Plot Discovered in Afghanistan

The alert was triggered by intelligence from a unit of GCHQ surveillance experts stationed in Afghanistan, the Sunday Express can reveal. Operating from a converted shipping container in Helmand, the team picked up the words “A wedding gift is being delivered”.

The phrase is an Al Qaeda code meaning a bomb is in transit.

Now, imagine how much easier it'd be for terrorists if Canadians got their wish and everyone picked up their marbles and came home. Strategically, Afghanistan is critical ... but, global strategic thinking is foreign to most Canadians. Lucky for us, we can keep freeloading off of our neighbour to the south who takes most of the risks, spends most of the cash, and receives most of the ire for protecting "our" interests.

Quote of the Weekend

The real rally to restore sanity will be next Tuesday.

Tens of millions of people will show up. Millions already have.

...the discussion.

Leftists Heckle "The One"

How the mighty have fallen!

How to Ruin a Weekend

In 50 minutes.

That Which Shall Not be Spoken

Pam:

Has anyone else noticed that in all the coverage of yesterdays massive terror dry run, not one broadcast, news outlet, or MSM report mentioned Islam, jihad, threat doctrine or the motivation. How the hell do they do that? Think about it. That's not avoidance, that's submission and people are sick of it. I see it when I go to speak. The people know and they are sick and tired of being lied to.

Christie Gold: I'm a Sensitive Guy

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie calls Jon Corzine quintessential limousins liberal Democrat in America

You're a Marxist If ...

With his new book, Stanley Kurtz has done what the media refused to do — finally vet the president and his radical past, two years too late to prevent him from becoming president, but just in time to issue a restraining order on him next Tuesday.

Yet people seem to be under the misapprehension that in order to be a Marxist, one has to be as explicitly so as the president has been with his deliberate associations with socialist and communist organizations and individuals. But Marxism isn’t a doctrine so much as an attitude. It is founded on a couple of key illogical and immoral foundations, which many people find superficially appealing, human nature being what it is.

... keep reading Rand Simberg.

Hit With the Clue Bat

Maher:

Those who accuse the once libertarian Bill Maher of becoming too much of a liberal apologist might want to clean their ears. Maher made a Juan Williams-esque confession on his program when he apprehensively noted that Mohammed has just become the most popular baby name in Britain. “Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that?” Maher asked his panel. “Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?”

... Maher still misses the point; he's off by 250 years.

Palin Defends a Critic's Right to Speak

Palin:

Individuals like Dan Fagan have a fundamental right to speak their minds without threats from the incumbent Senator from Alaska. It is hard to find a constitutional right Americans cherish more than the right to free speech. This was a right Joe Miller, as a decorated combat veteran – a tank commander tested in battle, was willing to die to defend. Dan Fagan has not always agreed with me, but I will gladly defend his right to speak freely on his radio show, which he has often used to criticize me. In fact, Fagan has actually used his radio show to attack and insult me, my husband, my children, and my family in just about every way possible. He was especially insulting to my son, who left for a war zone to defend Fagan’s right to attack our family. But when I was his governor, I never would have dreamed of threatening his right to free speech. I support him in this fight because this D.C. Beltway thuggery, as exemplified by Lisa Murkowski’s latest threat, is ruining our country. The powers that be want ordinary Americans to sit down and shut up and let the ruling class ride us right off the debt cliff we’re heading towards with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid steering the nation’s car. We can’t let them. Now is the time to put aside our past differences and stand up to the establishment powers.

In the Past Assange Would be Dead

I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?

In case you didn’t know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — effort to disclose secret or classified information. In a series of recent dumps, he unveiled thousands upon thousands of classified documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military and other government officials insist that WikiLeaks is doing serious damage to American national security and is going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis and Afghans who’ve risked their lives and the lives of their families to help us.

... keep reading Goldberg.

Saskatchewan Cancels Human Rights Commission

Brad Wall, doing what federal conservatives won't:

The provincial government plans to introduce human rights legislation that will dissolve the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal in favour of having a court hear the complaints.

Justice Minister Don Morgan said the change, among other reforms to the Human Rights Code, is being undertaken at the suggestion of Judge David Arnot, chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. The commission is the body that receives human rights complaints and occasionally refers a matter to a tribunal for a hearing.

In the Hottest Year Ever; So Far

European ski resorts opened early.

South American fish froze.

Water Buffalo in Vietnam froze.

Those predicted prairie global warming droughts drowned Saskatchewan.

The warmest year was not so in the arctic.

Early winter is hitting Scotland ... and the MET predicts much more ... which of course follows the coldest winter in 100 years.

Yes ... we know ... weather isn't climate; but neither are climate models.

Reality Check

Canadian Court Gets it Right

... for once:

Remember the immigrant Chinese grocer who was charged with and whatnot, for tying up a thief/shoplifter and waiting for the police.

... he's been found ...

Global Warming Dots

... and how to connect them:

1. Governments are pursuing green energy because they wish to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
2. They wish to reduce CO2 emissions because our societies now believe that such emissions will trigger dangerous global warming.
3. The reason we believe this is because, for the past 22 years, a United Nations organization called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced a series of reports. The most recent concludes that humanity is likely responsible for some of the slight warming observed during the last 1/3 of the past 150 years.
4. But many of the things we’ve told been about the IPCC and how it writes its reports turns out not to be true.
5. These reports don’t base their arguments solely on peer-reviewed scientific literature. In fact, nearly one-third of the sources cited are material such as press releases, news clippings, activist publications, newsletters, student theses, and discussion papers.
6. The reports aren’t written by the world’s top experts. World-renowned experts on sea level, malaria, and species extinction weren’t recruited to write the relevant sections of the IPCC report. Instead, the IPCC assigned that task to activists and climate modelers. Furthermore, several of the people who have served as senior IPCC authors did so while they were 20-something graduate students. By no stretch of the imagination were these individuals world-class experts.
7. Thousands of the globe’s top scientists did not conclude that humans are responsible for the warming. Only a few dozen people had input into that particular question. At no time has the IPCC asked thousands of scientists for their opinion on this matter.

Bonus

Say bye-bye to Blinky:

Democrats on Capitol Hill and K Street are increasingly convinced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi would have little interest in being Minority Leader -- and may start preparing to leave Congress altogether -- if Republicans win the House next week.

Pelosi and her allies adamantly refuse to entertain questions about a possible Democratic minority. But Democratic sources say they have a hard time imagining the 70-year-old, independently wealthy California Democrat would want to return to the less-powerful post that she held for four years before becoming Speaker in 2007, particularly after having spent the past four years driving the Congressional agenda.

Asian Detente

With detente, would come an even greater Asian economic powerhouse:

In the next two months, India and China will seek a means to arrest the rise of the Great Wall coming up between them. The two sides will use Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s expected December visit to New Delhi to resolve some of the problems bedeviling relations between the two Asian giants.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Wen issued instructions to their respective special representatives and officials to look into these issues with “a sense of urgency” after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Vietnam.

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More Max

From The Gods:

At the federal level this can only bode well. One of the common arguments offered by defenders of "incrementalism" is that Quebec will never vote in a small government party. A more fiscally and economically reticent Quebec would undercut that argument. Joined with Quebec's long standing desire for greater autonomy, you have the workings of a genuinely conservative majority government. Brian Mulroney built two majority governments by promising less government to Alberta, more autonomy to Quebec and national stability to Ontario. There is no reason that Mad Max couldn't repeat the trick, albeit actually carrying through on such an agenda. Unlike the Brian.

Flush Them All

North American elites, including those in Canada, need to be flushed down a massive toilet ... and I include in that the elites within the CPC.  All one needs is to spend a bit of time speaking to CPC insiders and the sense of elitism and arrogance becomes suffocating.  The GOP has the problem.  The DNC has the problem.  And in Canada, all three of our national parties have the problem in spades.  The elites are out of touch, obsessed with tribal warfare, and virtually free of any solid principle they are willing to sacrifice for.  There is no thought, no value, no hill, that our elites would be willing to die on, save that of saving their own asses.

The latest ... a former president, the second most popular in US history, tries to subvert the will of the people ... in his own party:

Former President Bill Clinton tried to persuade Florida Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out of his U.S. Senate race and support Gov. Charlie Crist's independent candidacy in hopes of thwarting a victory by Republican Marco Rubio.

People familiar with the matter said the former president and other top national Democrats worry a win by the charismatic Mr. Rubio, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, would make him a political phenomenon capable of boosting the GOP's chances with Hispanic voters. These people said the conversation occurred during Mr. Clinton's Florida visit on Oct. 19. Mr. Meek wavered for several days—suggesting to some that he could leave the race—but decided against it.

Before Canadian conservatives respond with smug comments, they should consider their own head honcho ... talk about completely and totally divorced from the base ... talk about one of the most sandbagged and arrogant conservative PMOs ever, talk about a bar of slippery soap in the bathtub ... that's our man.  There is no capacity left among the elites to treat voters like adults simply because elites are ... well ... elite.

There is a template emerging though, one that will just about guarantee success for the first party to grasp it ... TREAT VOTERS LIKE ADULTS.

Previous ... The Law and Disorder PM

A Whiff of Respect

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The Grand Inquisitor Speaks

Out - of - touch:

Critical statements on jurisprudence such as Wilders has made during the proceedings against him have an “undermining” effect on jurisprudence, particularly as the leader of the PVV [Wilders’ Party for Freedom] is also still a parliamentarian, according to Corstens. MPs should contribute to the stability of the constitutional state, said the president on television programme Buitenhof.

Caught in the EU Nutcracker

Sovereign UK ... no more:

"Despite demands the runaway bill be reined in," it then says, "No10 has acknowledged it is powerless to prevent the budget soaring by at least 2.9 percent - equivalent to an extra £429million from the UK - after failing to gain support from other EU members." Then we learn that the rise could even be as high as 6 percent, at a time when public services in Britain are being slashed in a bid to cut the deficit.

Kabul Emerging

From Kabul, Platt writes:

One person we met with yesterday said that in the time of the Taliban, she could sit on her balcony in downtown Kabul and see one car go by in three hours. So traffic like this is the sign of a recovering, even booming, city. Yet in the time of the Soviet occupation, Kabul had orderly roads and streetcar lines. After being devastated by the civil war and Taliban rule, it is going to take at least another decade before the roads are anywhere close to what a modern city should have…

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Who Said It ?

“I say that I am against putting the mosque in that particular place. And I’ll tell you why. For two reasons: first of all, those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York, and not try to agitate the wound by saying 'we need to put the mosque next to the 9/11 site'.

"The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can’t say 'let’s just go back to where we were pre-9/11'," he said. “I am against putting the mosque there out of respect for those people who have been wounded over there.”

Guess Who

Let's All Thank Bill Maher

With every opening of their pie-holes, the likes of Maher and Bahar ensure a GOP landslide.  Too stupid are these self deligated elites, to realize that they are not bashing the right side of the aisle ... but the all important center:

UK Proles ?

And I thought they no longer existed:

Heffer, it seems, is tapping into the same mood that we're detecting. The Westminster slime, with their comfortable salaries and pensions, secure behind their concrete barriers and machine-gun toting cops, still haven't got it. But out in the country, there is a mood. You can touch it, feel it, cut it with a knife. It is there and it is growing.

Stephen Harper: The Law and Disorder Prime Minister

The more I witness Harper operate, the more I cringe. Little, very little is left of the man I voted for ... he has now become the most cynical of political hacks ... where there is hardly a principle he won't "deep six" in order to get what he wants. Like Obama, every single thing that passes from his lips has a very limited shelf-life. Harper was elected by a base ... a base which he now completely and totally takes for granted and to whom he tosses a bone now and then like one would to a neglected dog. And the base, like a neglected dog, piddles with glee.  Not me.

The latest is just another point of evidence that our PM is not who we thought he was. Read the following piece and if you aren't familiar with the writer, let me make it clear that he is one of the more cerebral and reasonable among us ... not a peddler of shrill polemics but one who having supported Mr. Harper is now judging the PM by what he "DOES", not by what one may hope he is, nor by what he once falsely claimed to be.

Gods of the Copybook Headings:

In his four years in power the Prime Minister has sold Canadian conservatives a false bill of goods. He has promised us greater freedom from the state, a fight against crime and a strong defence of Canadian sovereignty. In supporting Julian Fantino for Parliament he has again failed to live up to his promises.

Yes, that Fantino.

For those piddling neglected dogs in the base who so eagerly bark and growl in defence of their abusive master ... before you toss out your tired excuses which will surely include something about "the reality of minority government", "that bad liberal media" or "GTA voters", let me utter one word ... FORD.

Further: Coren on Caledonia (Yes, this happened in Harper's Canada)

Conversations With Liberals/Progressives

Muslim Taxi Spy Network

You can run, but you can't hide from The Borg:

"Our experience is that many of the girls are afraid to take a taxi. They say that the family works in the taxi business. If the women are seen in the city, it's reported back to the family," Gunnar Svensson of the Oslo police told NRK.

The Making of a Heretic

Indeed, the zeolots are becoming unhinged as they eat their own:

But to say the least, she still has a human face. In any sensible scientific discipline, her attitudes would be a template of the ultimate moderate perspective on controversial issues. She would be the prototype of the "glue" that holds the community together. The fact that in the climate science, her totally "centrist" opinions - and her "sin" of having interacted with the "infidels" - are enough to promote her to a heretic says something about the discipline, indeed.

More details and discussion @ SDA.

Canadian Bureaucrats Run the Third Largest Fortune 500

... and it's also one of the worst run. Be sure to read the whole thing.

If the Canadian health-care system were a corporation, it would be among the biggest in the world. Last year, the total amount paid into the system — or the revenues it pulled in, depending on how you look at it — topped out at a record $183.1 billion, enough to earn it third place on the Fortune 500, between oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron. And if it were a corporation, it would be in a state of dire crisis.

The Sweet Taste of Victory

Sometimes it just feels so good to win:

In a little reported move, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is ending carbon trading this year — the very purpose for which it was founded. CCX will remain open for business, however, as it transitions into the murky world of dealing in carbon offsets.

Outside of a report in Crain’s Chicago Business and a soft-pedalled article in the certain-that-cap-and-trade-will-happen trade publication Carbon Control News, the media has ignored the demise of the only voluntary U.S. effort at carbon trading.

CCX was sold earlier this year for $600 million to the New York Stock Exchange-listed IntercontinentalExchange (Symbol: ICE), an electronic futures and derivatives platform based in Atlanta and London. ICE also acquired the European Climate Exchange as part of the transaction. The ECX remains open to accomodate the Kyoto Protocol-required carbon trading among EU nations. The sale of CCX to ICE allowed climateers like Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Goldman Sachs to cash out of investments in CCX.

This is What They are Down To

Good for a laugh ... when you've utterly and completely lost the argument ... go fear ... go infantile:

A Growing Chasm Between the Military and the Rest of Us?

David Wood:

The U.S. Army now begins its 10th continuous year in combat, the first time in its history the United States has excused the vast majority of its citizens from service and engaged in a major, decade-long conflict instead with an Army manned entirely by professional warriors.

This is an Army that, under the pressure of combat, has turned inward, leaving civilian America behind, reduced to the role of a well-wishing but impatient spectator. A decade of fighting has hardened soldiers in ways that civilians can't share. America respects its warriors, but from a distance.

Read it all, and then ask yourself ... is this happening in Canada as well?

Delicious

Israel:

A preliminary geological survey has indicated that there might be about 26 million barrels of recoverable oil a mile under the sand near two kibbutzim in the northern Negev. That would amount to about $2 billion at current prices. There might be 12 million additional barrels further down.

Rare Earth Wars

China versus the World:

In case you haven't been following this arcane dispute, here's a quick primer: Rare-earth minerals are the 15 elements in that funny box at the bottom of the periodic table -- known as lanthanides -- plus two others. About 95 percent of global production takes place in China, largely at one huge mining complex in Inner Mongolia. The lanthanides are essential to much of modern electronics and high-tech equipment of various kinds. The magnets in windmills and iPod headphones rely on neodymium. Lutetium crystals make MRI machines work; terbium goes into compact fluorescent bulbs; scandium is essential for halogen lights; lanthanum powers the batteries for the Toyota Prius. For some of these products, alternative materials are available (moving to a non-rare-earth technology would make those cute little white earbuds about the size of a Coke can, though). For others, there simply isn't a viable substitute.

The Saskatchewan Angle ... if China wants rare earth war, we'll happily oblige.

O-Bama's Legacy is Now Secured

Your-Abia

O ... K ...

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.

The Great Global Warming Climb Down

It has begun:

Here’s something that you can bring to the bank: With regard to global warming, the major purveyors of news in the industrialized world will be climbing down from their various versions of frenzied alarmism. Here’s something else that you can bring to your banker: the climb-down will be sneaky. On the other hand, when the series of editorial re-positionings is visible to casual members of the public at all, it will be beyond awkward.

How do I know? Because the process has already begun.

The Robo-Wars Heat Up

Now the big boys are getting into it:

Computer-generated algorithmic trades have run amok in markets more than once this year, and U.S. regulators should look for ways to hold traders accountable, a top official on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Monday.

Bart Chilton, a commissioner with the futures regulator, said "mini-flash crashes occur all too often" following a surge in high-frequency trading.

Securities and futures regulators have been trying to determine ways to prevent another event like the May 6 "flash crash" when markets temporarily plunged. The CFTC on Tuesday will unveil new draft rules to clamp down on disruptive trading practices.

Go Green

Go Broke:

The German electricity grid faces instability because of too much solar power, an expert said.

Thanks to a generous feed-in tariff, the installation of rooftop solar panels and large-scale photovoltaic plants has exploded in Germany.

Stephan Kohler, chairman of the DENA agency, an energy adviser to the government, has warned that the green boom could turn into a disaster for Germany's aging power grid.

Monday Must Read

A letter to President Ralph Giordano:

The decisive obstacles to integration come from the Muslim minority itself, even if you go on the assumption that most of them are peace-loving. It is still disturbing how quickly enormous protests can be organized in the Islamic world the minute Muslims feel insulted or under attack. How quiet it is in the local organizations and mosque groups, however, when, for example, three co-workers in a bible-printer’s in the Turkish town Malatya are massacred, nuns in Somalia are shot to death, and Christians in Pakistan, because of breaking a “blasphemy law,” await their execution in death cells. Icy silence…

Read it all.

SF

Gunter Joins Mad Max

Perfect:

Maxime Bernier is right: End transfer payments to the provinces. Let Ottawa give them greater room to tax their own residents, but let provincial legislatures also have to make the tough choice to increase taxes on their own citizens if the politicians want to spend more on health, education, welfare and other provincial functions Ottawa is now subsidizing.

Consider, for instance, that the PEI government is contemplating eliminating tuition for the more than 5,000 Islanders who attend one of the province’s two post-secondary schools, University of Prince Edward Island and Holland College. After having faced protests this past spring up over planned tuition hikes (and with the potential of facing voters sometime next year), Premier Robert Ghiz launched the free-tuition trial balloon this week.

Watching this from Saskatchewan, all I can say is that it is entirely possible that had there been no equilization payments flowing into Saskatchewan for years, there likely would not have been an NDP dynasty, and Sask-a-boom would've happened alongside Albertas boom.  Poorman payments flowing from the Fed do nothing but encourage wreckless spending at home.

Murphy on Juan

Rex:

Commentator Juan Williams got fired from a 10-year stint with National Public Radio this week for saying “When I get on [a] plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

What Mr. Williams described might be an eccentric reaction; it might be commonplace. But, after the Twin Towers, after the Pentagon, after London and Madrid and all the rest, Mr. Williams’ response here isn’t irrational. Nor can it be confused with a blanket attack on all Muslims. In post-9/11 America, thanks mainly to Islamist terrorist Osama bin Laden and 19 Muslim hijackers, there is for many people a frisson of anxiety surrounding the subject of Muslims, airports and airplanes. Mr. Williams’ crime was to mention its existence.

The IPCC's Children

Truly, the IPCC is an interesting place:

Yesterday I wrote about Richard Klein, a Dutch geography professor currently working in Sweden, who began writing reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the tender age of 25.

That was nine full years prior to earning his PhD, and part of a larger pattern. Sari Kovats also became an IPCC author 15 years prior to completing her doctorate, Lisa Alexander became an IPCC author a decade prior to getting hers, and Laurens Bouwer hadn’t even finished his Masters when he first served as a lead author. The IPCC has a history, therefore, of pretending that grad students are the equivalent of the world’s top scientists.

...the details.

The Awakening

It's been 9 years since 9/11, but the awakening has begun ... finally.

Why the Left is Not Crowing Over the Wiki Leaks

... because among the left, it's been considered a matter of faith that over 600,000  Iraqis were killed in Iraq even before (2006) the massive increase in murders and bombings just prior to the surge.  Wiki puts Iraqi deaths of civilians at 66,081 for the entire war, with a count for enemy dead running at 23,984.

Furthermore, not much outrage will be expressed over the "fact" that Iraqi security and military forces routinely get ugly on captured terrorists. What, with the Black & Decker torture shops found all over Iraq, where completely innocent people were held by the thousands, tortured over extended periods of time, then murdered; or where bombs were detonated in crowds of shoppers by "imported" thugs, don't expect much weeping for the Jihadists.  Getting ugly on these scum was a contributing factor in the rapid collapse of the terror networks; so fake outrage from leftist do-gooders complaining from their cozy corners of the Western World will be ignored.

I can just about guarantee that if violence of this level was brought to our shores ... we'd be getting very ugly on every single thug caught in order to take down the networks and those who opposed our methods would be swept aside like shit on a high tide.  WW2 standards would rapidly become the norm.

Tolerant Intolerance

Williams speaks fires back.

Oofta

Free Speech Fascists

Mark Steyn has been denied the use of a municipal facility following pressure from unnamed Muslim groups ... I kid you not.

Moderates?

Baskets and Spears

Now They Work for Us

Thought Crime

THIS, is why "progressives" are losing the argument, and why they need to be crushed wherever they abide.  For progressives, open honest speech only applies when that speech is favorable to the tribe:

Late Wednesday night, NPR issued a statement praising Williams as a valuable contributor but saying it had given him notice that it is severing his contract. "His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR," the statement read.

Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.

Video ... more Video of the classic enemy response.

And, a perfect ending where open, frank, honest, discussion pays.

The Evil Rich

The Obama's Pretend to be Proles

Is this the president of the most powerful country on earth ... playing at being quaint:



Sorry Barry, there's no covering up the disdain you hold for the proles ... no covering up the arrogance it took to give a speech in Berlin loaded with profound historical utterances before you'd even proven your mettle as a leader.  There's no hiding the fact that you only shine when prancing before an adoring crowd ... or squeazing the flesh at NY fashion events.  There's no hiding the fact that your brain is incapable of wrapping around the profound concerns and fears of everyday people.  In another time, in another place, you would've thrived ... say in Communist Cuba ... or Maoist China ... or Saddam's Iraq ... but democracy just isn't your bag.  Thank god for democracy; thank god for the proles.  November can't come soon enough.

Could There Be Anyone More Stupid

... than Caribou Barbie:

I mean, hell, it must be extremely embarrassing to have your obvious ignorance of 5th grade American history revealed by the likes of the Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and PBS anchor & presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill. HAHAHAHAHA, what a freakin' dumb ass! What happened in 1773, indeed!

Indeed ... indeed!

The Post-Reptilian President

Obama clearly believes that his brand of politics represents "facts and science and argument." His opponents, in disturbing contrast, are using the more fearful, primitive portion of their brains. Obama views himself as the neocortical leader -- the defender, not just of the stimulus package and health-care reform but also of cognitive reasoning. His critics rely on their lizard brains -- the location of reptilian ritual and aggression. Some, presumably Democrats, rise above their evolutionary hard-wiring in times of social stress; others, sadly, do not.

... read it all.

Loosing the Middle

Does anyone wonder why The Big O is losing the middle:

Only two-thirds of Obama voters in 2008 (67 percent) say they'll vote for one of his fellow Democrats in 2010. Eight percent of those voters say they will vote Republican this year, and 21 percent say it depends.

... after all, you can't expect to hold centrists when your official propoganda branch spends most of its time bashing them:

“The media profile is of an angry, racist rabble, and that doesn’t match the people I’ve seen in focus groups,” says Republican pollster Whit Ayres, describing the Tea Party movement. “There’s a predisposition in the more liberal elements of the media to paint Republicans as unsophisticated rubes who don’t appreciate all the wonderful things the Obama administration and the Democratic Party have done for the country. It’s just out of touch with the reality.”

Bash the folks, the you will reap what you sow ... but tenfold more.

Climate Realism: A Summary

Warren Meyer offers a summary of the Climate Realist's position:

In writing that column, it struck me that it was not surprising that many average folks may be unfamiliar with the science behind the climate skeptic’s position, since it almost never appears anywhere in the press. This week I want to give a necessarily brief summary of the skeptic’s case. There is not space here to include all the charts and numbers; for those interested, this video and slide presentation provides much of the analytical backup.

It is important to begin by emphasizing that few skeptics doubt or deny that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas or that it and other greenhouse gasses (water vapor being the most important) help to warm the surface of the Earth. Further, few skeptics deny that man is probably contributing to higher CO2 levels through his burning of fossil fuels, though remember we are talking about a maximum total change in atmospheric CO2 concentration due to man of about 0.01% over the last 100 years.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

The Great O-Fashion Schism

Oh my, President Jug Ears and his dear wife, First Lady Tent and Awning, are even pissing off D.C. socialites:

Instead of welcoming guests in a formal receiving line with a White House photographer on hand to help visitors capture their historic moment, or simply strolling through the Red, Blue and Green rooms chatting informally with invitees, the Obamas prefer to stand in a designated spot, such as one end of the East Room or in the Grand Foyer, safely positioned behind a red velvet rope. The kind of red velvet rope clubs use to keep out the riffraff. From there, the presidential couple smiles, chats, makes eye contact and waves as their guests jockey for position to touch their hands. No mingling.

“For a campaign rally, sure, that’s fine. But not for the White House,’’ says one museum board member who, like many, requested anonymity. “Every president — Bill Clinton, both Bushes, the Reagans — they would always have a quick receiving line. Each couple would be formally announced. A few words would be exchanged. But this President thinks he is such a rock star. It’s like he’s inviting guests to the White House just to snub them.”

At the end of the day, Mo & Bo can prominade from Washington to Rhiad but he's still a dud, and she's still a bowser voodoo queen ... flattered NY fashion designers notwithstanding.

O - Musical

Maureen Dowd Hates

Kate McMillan ... because she's a mean girl:

These women — Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama. Whether they’re mistreating the help or belittling the president’s manhood, making snide comments about a rival’s hair or ripping an opponent for spending money on a men’s fashion show, the Mean Girls have replaced Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold. They are the ideal nihilistic cheerleaders for an angry electorate.

... and Louise, and Kathy, and Donna ... and my wife ... brings tears to my eyes.

Another Canadian Honour Killing?

Marisol:

"Her father called 911 on Wednesday, saying he had 'slapped' his daughter during an argument at their apartment."

Maybe he forgot he was under Canadian law for a moment, as Islamic law is curiously less gung-ho about penalties for parents who kill their children, especially when one stops to think of what's higher on the list for Sharia's punishments. That includes apostasy from Islam for which the penalty is death, according to Muhammad's own command. That is also of interest here in light of the victim's reported refusal to participate in prayers.

Green Echo-Chamber

For "the science is settled crowd", being polite is now a thing of the past. While their house of bad science collapses around them, they have no intention of letting go, nay, they plan on stepping it up:

That means we no longer have the luxury of polite, time-consuming public debate on the issue. "We have to be much more aggressive about pinpointing our enemies, and doing it early—showing how and where they are spending their money to undermine our efforts," he says. "We need to learn how to inflict pain on the opposition."

The environmental movement must also do a better job of linking climate directly to shrinking harvests, falling water tables, receding glaciers, extended droughts and more violent storms. Already, food, water, and climate problems are simultaneously hitting many nations. It's happening now, and we need to connect that to climate change in the minds of all people.

Of special note among the AGW faithful, is that science has nothing to do with activism. Once convinced that they are right, there is no need for further thought, no need to engage the brain in that most valuable of human attributes ... skepticism.

Home Depot Demolishes the President's House

Langone:

But there's a much deeper problem than whether I am personally irked or not. Your insistence that your policies are necessary and beneficial to business is utterly at odds with what you and your administration are saying elsewhere. You pick a fight with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, accusing it of using foreign money to influence congressional elections, something the chamber adamantly denies. Your U.S. attorney in New York, Preet Bahrara, compares investment firms to Mexican drug cartels and says he wants the power to wiretap Wall Street when he sees fit. And you drew guffaws of approving laughter with your car-wreck metaphor, recently telling a crowd that those who differ with your approach are "standing up on the road, sipping a Slurpee" while you are "shoving" and "sweating" to fix the broken-down jalopy of state.

Previous ... Home Depot Apology Video

Carl Sagan and the Bunk-Meter

This is a repost of a piece we did in 2008.  It seems more applicable today than it did even in 2008, especially since we now know beyond a doubt that AGW proponents would have the bunk-meter flashing RED after the first two of Carl's points.

Here is the Carl Sagan's bunkometer (taken from Demon Haunted World) , which we can apply to AGW theory. If you're still married to AGW when you're done ... consider yourself religiously attached and beyond redemption ... I suggest you hurry to your local grocery and buy tin-foil:

• Whenever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts”
• Encourage substantive debate on the “evidence” by knowledgable proponents of all points of view.
• Arguments from authority carry little weight as “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that there are no authorities; at most; there are “experts”.
• Spin a variety of hypotheses. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each. The ones that survive are the ones to do in depth study on.
• Do not become attached to any hypothesis just because it’s yours. Find reasons for rejecting all, including your own, hypothesis.
• Quantify. If whatever you are explaining has a measure, quantify it so that measurement is more possible. Vague hypothesis, or those difficult to quantify will be the most difficult to prove or disprove. ie: AGW causes more hot, and more cold weather events. 
• If there is a chain argument, then each and every link must work, including the premise.
• Use Occam’s Razor; which is to choose the hypothesis that explains the data in the simplest terms.
• Ask: is the Hypothesis testable and falsifiable. Hypothesis that are not testable are not worth much. Could you duplicate accurately, at least theoretically, the hypothesis?

The Other Wilders

In Austria:

Although the trial of Dutch MP and critic of Islam, Geert Wilders, and its serious implications for free speech in Europe, is once again creating a furor in the press, another high-profile trial of a critic of Islam -- Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, in Austria -- is being overlooked.

Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff now faces up to a three-year prison sentence if convicted of "inciting hatred against a religious group" and "defamation of religion" in a lecture in 2009 on the "Islamization of Europe."

Last Marshmallow Roast

Day in, day out, the story in Afghanistan is the same.  The Taliban are being hunted mercilessly.  American air assets have been flooding the battlespace in the surge, and the enemy is being worn down.  Thousands of US soldiers are spreading out into the countryside and kicking over Taliban ant-hills, and in each case the result is the same ... dead and scattered Jihadists. 

This is the part that we hear so little about; all we hear about are the ISAF AND USA deaths ... or civilian deaths.  It's like watching a football game where only the other team's scores are given.  You have no idea if your side is winning.

The fact of the matter is that the Taliban have never faced what they are facing now.  Their leaders are killed almost as fast as they assume their positions (even in Pakistan) ... their fighters are killed day and night in a massively one-sided battle ... and they are losing.  For the first time the Taliban are willing to negotiate ... why ... because they are losing not only the battle, but the will.  Their factions are fragmenting and a growing number of fighters are coming home.  There is a limit to how many young men are willing to leave their villages never to return. 

The following video shows in great detail how many Taliban meet their end.  The message to those picking up the bits and pieces of their former jihadist buddies is clear ... "If you want some; come and get it":

America's Voodoo Queen

The following quote is not based on any Christian doctrine ... or at least any mainstream doctrine. It's what you'd find in Animism or Voodoo. My personal opinion is that Mo is simply playing at things she knows little about, like Christianity; it's all just a show:

"It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us,"

It's truly amazing what on occasion drips from the mouths of the insincere.

Remarkable Pilot

Pilot takes a head shot ... keeps on flying:

A Royal Guano Storm

Mistake? ... my ass:

Leading Canadian Climate scientist, Professor Tim Ball emailed this author to add his own comments and suggests the issue of residency time was part of the strategy to increase the focus on CO2. He says, "It is part of a bundle of claims about CO2 that are now shown false and Dr Kaiser's is another major correction. I believe they were all produced with malice and forethought driven by the political need to demonize CO2." Professor Ball further believes such a position is supported by the evidence of how the RS dealt with other issues including advocacy of dubious computer programs.

ht: Math is Hard

Taliban Peace Talks: The Difference This Time

How do peace talks with the Taliban differ from those suggested by Jack Layton several years ago?  It's simple really.

The Taliban today are fracturing because they are being slaughtered ... especially their leadership.  The sheer weight of arms being brought to bear via the surge is causing fighters to come in from the cold.

When Jack made his naive suggestions several years ago, the Taliban had no intention of coming to the table because they were in a position of strength.  "Peace" talks back then would've been capitulation talks on our part.

The main question at this time will be; how hard a line will Karzai hold ?  He has less incentive to be conciliatory than in the past ... after all, the very Taliban leadership he is negotiating with will likely be dead by the time the next round of talks commence if US forces will it.

Psychologically, Taliban fighters in the field are being worn down.  To take leadership positions is to die; and even as fighters are hunted mercilessly by US forces, terrorist leadership negotiates ... the incentive to die is suddenly paper thin.

Furthermore, with Special Forces facilitating the return of fighters to their villages (reintegration), morale among Taliban must be falling.

The surge is working:

U.S. Gen. David Petraeus has confirmed that NATO has provided safe passage for top Taliban leaders to travel to Kabul for face-to-face negotiations with the American-backed Afghan government.

Petraeus declined to provide details of the alliance's role in the clandestine talks -- discussions that he described as "preliminary." The Afghan government has previously acknowledged that it has been involved in reconciliation talks with the Taliban with some NATO help.

Petraeus told reporters at the United Services Institute on Friday that it would "not be the easiest of tasks" for a senior Taliban leader to make his way to the capital, Kabul -- unless NATO forces permitted it.

He says NATO is "aware of it and allows it to take place."

Previous ... Reaping the Surge.

Taliban video ... note the fear; note the dying fighters; note the accurate incoming rounds (sparks).  This is happening day in day out, and even in Pakistan leadership are being hunted ruthlessly and killed in their beds almost daily via Drone. Imagine the fate of the fighters in the video if ISAF aerial support arrives.



Update: From Louise

Aisha

The Details.

Rise of the Skeptics Scientists

Little by little, the tide turns.

Devastating: Defense Witness for Wilders

Bill O'Reilly Gold

Hug a Glacier

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More Max

... floating trial balloons for the boss ... or going roque?

Maverick Max went rogue again in a Toronto speech on Wednesday by advocating Ottawa get out of transfer payments to provinces while giving legislatures more tax room to finance the health, social welfare and education services they are constitutionally obliged to deliver.

For Jim Flaherty, who rolled out a blueprint on Tuesday showing continued growth in the social transfer envelope well into the next government’s mandate, the notion of surrendering $40 billion worth of fiscal clout over the provinces is a severely alien concept.

... and who can forget this ... or this.

Seeking an Explanation

... for backwardness:





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Why They Embraced Environmentalism

... because all their other arguments failed:

Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller - Medal of Honor

Hillier Versus the Politicos

On the Harper PMO extending its control:

"What crap!" Hillier writes in the new edition of A Soldier First, an advance copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press.

"The National Defence Act is clear — our sons and daughters need to have direction from the leaders that Canadians have elected, and they need to have that direction passed through the Chief of Defence Staff without interference from bureaucrats who have no preparation or training for this task, and no responsibility for those lives.

"Any governments who permit anything different should have their rear ends booted out of office by moms and dads of those serving sons and daughters."

Age of the Transnationals

The Delingpole Greenie List

1. Encourage Daddy to convert his Aston-Martin or Kenneth-Noye style Range Rover to biofuels, like the Prince of Wales has. Biofuels are great for the environment because they lead to higher food prices and starvation in the Third World. And the more people who starve to death in the Third World the better it is for nature. Because remember, overpopulation is the real problem.

... rest of the list.

Friedman on Greed

Cringe

... this could ugly with a cap U:

More than two-thirds of state attorneys general plan this week to launch a joint probe into charges some banks used fraudulent paperwork to kick struggling borrowers out of their homes, a source familiar with the effort told Reuters on Sunday.

On Imposing

Morality:

Actually, as the communists proved in 1917, the Nazis proved in 1933, Europeans prove with hate-speech laws and Islamists prove the world over - and as history has consistently taught - ideological conquest is, has been and always will be the case. The story of man is one of spiritual, cultural, political and physical warfare, and each chapter has victory and vanquishment. Zoroastrianism was extinguished by Islam, the Ainus have largely been subsumed by the Japanese, and the Maldives' native Giraavaru culture is now only a memory. Just like animals, countless languages, cultures, beliefs and peoples have become extinct, often the victims of invasive entities that, through superior morality or might, won that inevitable battle.


And that is the battle for civilization. It may sound very noble to say, ". . . believe what you want to believe - I'm ok with that. After all, I am a Libertarian," but when enough people believe the wrong things, you will not be OK with it. You will be living under a regime that enshrines those things in law - you'll be living in tyranny.


Like it or not, imposing values is what arranging civilization is all about. And like it or not, you're part of this process. The only difference among any of us is in what and how much we impose - and in that some of us actually understand this is precisely what we're doing.

Adrian returns from Afghanistan:

Flying over the craggy brown mountains of southern Afghanistan’s sand heading for Kabul, the sporadic oases of greenery can be seen in the valleys of the inhospitable landscape below. One can’t help but think that the Taliban will never be extricated from the thousands of tiny nooks and crannies in a land that seems impenetrable to change.

Yet one is also left with the metaphorical impression that the lush valleys snaking through the mountains are symbolic of the resilience of an ancient people. The hardships of the past 30 years are but a footnote in the history of a people who still bear the genetic mark of Alexander the Great. Though Afghanistan is referred to as the graveyard of empires, it is a mistake to think that it has repelled all outside influences.

Santelli Interview

Rick Santelli is often given credit for inspiring the Tea Party movement.  He's given us a few deliscious rants over the past couple of years, but he also offers sobering and informed opinions on how the US government is dealing with recession. You can find the interview audio HERE:

Glossary for those not sure of some terms:

CPI - A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes through time in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households.

QE – Quantitative Easing is a monetary policy used by central banks to increase the supply of money by increasing the excess reserves of the banking system.

Monetization is the process of converting or establishing something into legal tender. It usually refers to the printing of banknotes by central banks, but things such as gold, diamonds and emeralds, and art can also be monetized. Even intrinsically worthless items can be made into money, as long as they are difficult to make or acquire. Monetization may also refer to exchanging securities for currency, selling a possession, charging for something that used to be free or making money on goods or services that were previously unprofitable.

Securities - Securities are any form of ownership that can be easily traded on a secondary market, such as stocks and bonds. It also includes their derivatives, such as futures contracts, options, or mutual funds.

Green Revolution

No, not that green revolution ... this, green revolution:

Last year when the Green Movement started, many looked at it with doubt. We, who have fought for freedom allour lives look at it as a revolution. Most scholars and so-called Iran experts and Islamic Republic lobbyists insisted that it was a civil rights movement. There were those exceptional few among scholars and policy makers in Washington who understood that this movement was much more profound than what the IR lobbyists portrayed it to be. I am very proud to be sitting next to one of these insightful and brilliant individuals, Ken Katzman.

I would like to state my opinion clearly here. The Green Movement is unquestionably a revolution and the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic. I know that Americans are not strangers to revolution. One can say that they have experienced the most successful revolution in history and they succeeded to feel their revolution, and pass on its values from generation to generation. Iranians too are not unfamiliar with revolution. 104 years ago, Iranians were the first nation in the East to establish a parliamentary system during the Constitutional Revolution. Thirty one years ago, Iranians formed another revolution that was a new phenomenon in the modern world. We Iranians are very capable of surprising the world.

Reaping the Surge

What few realize, is that the Afghanistan surge has not yet begun to crest ... and already positive signs are emerging:

"My sense is there will be a number of different opportunities that will arise as the insurgency increasingly loses momentum, and indeed understands that it's lost the initiative," Maj.-Gen. Nick Carter, who heads NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, said in a recent interview.

"You certainly see people who are putting down their weapon, picking up their shovel."

Another fact that few, some even in the military, have acknowledged, is that surge tactics always spell increased casualties for all sides, including civilians. You can't kick over that many anthills and expect casualties to remain low.  You can't force confrontation on that scale, and not lose soldiers.  But, if successful, the collapse of the Taliban will come in a surge of violence ... then a whimper, as the organization fragments and more peasants return to their villages.  Killing heaps of Taliban, especially leaders, has a way of softening resolve.

What? Since when were casualties expected to decrease during major military operations in any theatre? 

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If anyone can stabilize Afghanistan it is the US military because unlike Canada, it has an unequalled warrior ethos, and an unequalled base of support at home.

Of special importance are USA Special Forces, not just in taking down leadership targets, but in moving in and among the Pashtun and figuring out exactly what they "need" in order to lay down their SKSs and go back to their villages.  US Special Forces are unequalled anywhere for their ability in cracking the cultural codes of tribal peoples.  You can bet they are at work in Afghanistan, either killing bad guys in numbers that'd make one cringe, or working with locals to embrace peace.

I have hope ... in American politicians, civilians, and soldiers.  Many millions of Afghans depend on them; and many millions of Western civilians do as well (although they don't realize it).  A future with a terrorist controlled Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal region, now that terrorists are far more sophisticated than pre-9/11, would spell many "Mumbais" in the West ... and eventually a cloud of radiation over a Toronto or London.

And all the while, as the great issues of our world unfold, Canadian politicians will be locked in mortal combat, distracted over petty Canuck issues that focus almost exclusively on selling their souls for Quebec and GTA votes.  Canadian politics ... are so small.

Corruption

... in science:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence---it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now.

... the rest of the scathing letter.

via

Bend Over

The Swedish retail giant IKEA announced yesterday it will invest $4.6-million to install 3,790 solar panels on three Toronto area stores, giving IKEA the electric-power-producing capacity of 960,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. According to IKEA, that’s enough electricity to power 100 homes. Amazing development. Even more amazing is the economics of this project. Under the Ontario government’s feed-in-tariff solar power scheme, IKEA will receive 71.3¢ for each kilowatt of power produced, which works out to about $6,800 a year for each of the 100 hypothetical homes. Since the average Toronto home currently pays about $1,200 for the same quantity of electricity, that implies that IKEA is being overpaid by $5,400 per home equivalent.

... but it feels so good ... to be green.

It's a Start

More please:

But the real basis for supporting Mr. Chong’s admirable initiative is near-universal agreement that Question Period desperately needs fixing. Question Period — the daily 45-minute forum in which opposition members get to put questions to the government — has become a national disgrace. Decorum is abandoned as MPs shower ritual abuse on one another, posing questions designed solely to embarrass and receiving responses intended to insult or obfuscate. All in an atmosphere so toxic it’s a wonder MPs don’t emerge gagging and coughing every afternoon.

Doo Doo

... the usually resultant compound when one combines green with science:

California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used to toughen the state's clean-air standards, and scientists have spent the past several months revising data and planning a significant weakening of the landmark regulation, The Chronicle has found.

Remembering

September 21:

"Much or even most of the controversy…could have been avoided, and perhaps still can be, if the people who want to build the center were to simply say, 'We are dedicating this center to all the Muslims who were killed on 9/11,'" Clinton said.

... ok.

The Name That Shall Not be Uttered

The story purports to report that unnamed Afghan government officials are engaged in “extremely tentative” direct talks with unnamed Haqqani Taliban officials and also that unnamed American officials are engaged in similary “extremely tentative” but rather indirect talks with unnamed Haqqani Taliban officials facilitated by an unnamed intermediary from an unnamed western country, according unnamed Pakistani and Arab “sources”, the Guardian has learned.

Right ... so all run around pulling our hair out over gossip.

Powerful

Who Let These Guys in the Door

Is your MP meeting with this little group of Marxists ... and does your MP know who he/she is dealing with:

In all seriousness though, it is very important for the politicians that are meeting with these kids this week to understand that the CFS does not represent Canadian students.

The CFS passed motions last year to make it as difficult as possible for member locals to defederate. Despite the best efforts of the CFS, six schools did hold votes last year, and guess what?

Every single school voted to leave.

10/10 Jihad

EUR:

There is a battle being fought on the net over the publication of the Muslim parody of the 10:10 "no pressure" film. They really don't like that one and as fast as new copies appear, they are moving in to get them taken down, with the last one attributed to the great Franny herself. I guess we must be keeping her quite busy.

Heh!