The Kids in Grade One Talking Circle Finally Became Adults

... but they never did really grow up.

I saw this shite in schools ... from grade one to grade 12 (they passed around a ball or eagle feather) ... and I wondered to myself ... "what in the hell are we creating?"

Now I know ...

Bigger than France

Canada’s standing among nations has fared well in recent years. Emerging as a model of resilience amidst global economic turmoil, foreign leaders are increasingly turning to us for ideas on how to sort out their own domestic problems. We’ve done plenty of self-congratulation for this feat, and will likely do much more, but very few of us have stopped to consider what our newfound success means for this country in the long-term. Now that we’re here, it’s a question worth asking.

... indeed.

Rockford Files Meets OWS

uber-ht

Official Backers of OWS

Communist Party USA
Sources: Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller

American Nazi Party
Sources: Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News


Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
Sources: The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News

Barack Obama
Sources: ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York

... lots more.

Never ... Under Any Circumstances ...

... trust political hacks:

It is suspicious to this Republican Party observer that former Bush political adviser Karl Rove is pumping the story for all it’s worth. Given the presumption in Republican circles that Rove was responsible for the anti-Rick Perry data dump, it is not unreasonable to wonder if he is behind this latest sneak attack — all the while playing the “independent” commentator declaring Cain’s doom on various news outlets.

... and your lack of trust should include the so-called "conservatives" who rule the Harper PMO. Sure, you may agree with them some of the time ... or even often; but don't hesitate to crush them under the bus if need be because political hacks, the world over, are loyal to none but themselves.  The only value ideology or philosophy holds for hacks; is that it is a tool to gain power.

For the folks though, political power is sought so that ideology and philosophy can be enacted.

European Debt-Deal Explained

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The Old Breed

Herman

Bio-Terror

... as easy as one, two, three:

Cheney nodded. “O.K.,” he said. “But what are we looking for? What does a biological weapon look like?”

At this, Larsen reached into his briefcase and pulled out a small test tube. “Mr. Vice President,” he said, “it looks like this.” Inside the tube was a weaponized powder of Bacillus globigii, almost genetically identical to anthrax. “And by the way,” Larsen said, “I just smuggled this into your office.”

Euroquake

Fuze set and lit ... 2 weeks to go:

So, the centre-piece of last week's "package" is far less decisive than meets the eye. It was, in fact, singularly indecisive. The hope that Greece will clean-up its balance sheet autonomously now relies even more on a privatization programme that is already laughably behind schedule. So the moral hazard will go on, making it tougher still for the governments of Portugal, Ireland and the other eurozone "peripheries" to sell to their electorates the virtues of fiscal responsibility. These are not clever-clever academic points. I'm pointing-out, quite simply, what the bond markets will have noticed.

I'm still amazed at how far and long "Progressive" societies can push the great socialist Ponzi scheme before the whole thing comes crashing down.

Give a Europhile an Inch

... and he'll take your country:

Prime Minister David Cameron has said London's financial district is under "constant attack" from European Union directives, the BBC reported on Friday.

During a flight from the EU leaders' summit in Brussels to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, western Australia, Cameron told a BBC reporter that Britain's finance industry should be protected from EU measures.

"London -- the centre of financial services in Europe -- is under constant attack through Brussels directives," Cameron said.

"It's an area of concern, it's a key national interest that we need to defend."

There is a God

... and he's decided to Occupy Wall Street:

The leaves may still be on the trees but it appears autumn has been bypassed, as the East Coast braces itself for snowstorms which could hit 60 million people.

New England has already been struck by a very early snowstorm, while this weekend looks set to see huge amounts of sleet and snow covering the North East, invariably causing power outages and travel chaos.

Forecasts for this nor'easter have changed in the last couple of days and the prospect of a snow-free Halloween weekend have now gone.

Low pressure will track up the East Coast on Saturday possibly bringing significant amounts of the white stuff across the tri-state area, Pennsylvania and New England.

Tell Me Please ...

... why did we go to war in Libya? Was it so that we could replace a despot with an entire government of raging Canada hating, pedophile prophet worshiping, killers:

The war to rid the country of the Gaddafi dictatorship might have ended, but the battle for control of post-revolutionary Libya has only just begun. And it will surprise few that assorted radicals, jihadists, Salafists, and LIFG veterans are attempting to fill the power vacuum and replace one dictatorship with another.

It's hard to come up with a more ill-conceived adventure than The Great Get-Gaddafi Caper.  With all the ill going on in the Muslim World, from Kenya to Syria, one is forced to do a double take ... why Libya?

But don't fear, PM Harper says it was all about F-35 contracts protecting "the people" ... ok.

F-35: The Soap Opra Continues

... and in episode 976, we go down under:

Australian government officials have begun auditing the F-35 program because of concerns that the first tranche of aircraft would not be delivered on schedule, Lockheed Martin officials confirmed.

The review, rare in Australian defense programs, could lead officials to defer the planned order for the first aircraft.

No Wonder Tuitions Are so High

It's because the "progressives" who dominate universities insist on making campuses dumping grounds for useless courses of study, useless "social" research, useless foundations, useless think-tanks, and useless associations:

Diversity never held anyone together because people usually bond over their commonalities, not their differences. At one little state-run university, diversity is starting to cause a great campus divide.

If you want to find creative ways of spending other people's money ... talk to a progressive.

The Math Behind the Crushing USA Debt

Simple math, putting the "Ug" into Ugly:

NOW we need to cut the federal budget not with a knife or a scalpel, but a chainsaw. Bachmann has said "43%." There were gasps when she uttered those words. Sorry, that's not enough. (Take your heart medication before continuing folks.)

Here's the math.

Finally ... OWS Explained !

The Corzine Effect

After being defeated in his bid for reelection as governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine had to console himself with the role of CEO of MF Global (NYSE:MF). In his place the new governor, Chris Christie, has been getting attention for fixing a lot of the state’s problems that went unfixed under Corzine.

When Corzine became CEO of MF Global in March 2010, its share price was at $8.08, and it rose as high as $9.76 a month later. Since then, however, the stock has been in a long ugly slide, and on Tuesday it fell to a price of $1.8 6, after reporting a larger than expected quarterly loss.

I wonder if the board of MF Global has Christie’s phone number

~ Tom McClellan

Wow ... The Un-Politician for Sure

Herminating the airwaves.

Kill the Beast Already

You can't make this stuff up:

The government continued to defend its controversial purchase of new stealth fighter jets Monday following a weekend report that the F-35s don't have the satellite capabilities necessary for communicating in the Arctic.

Hammered during question period over the latest in a series of technical problems that have come to light in recent months, Defence Minister Peter MacKay insisted the 65 jets Canada has committed to purchasing will be up to snuff by the time they're delivered.

More at 3D.

Despots and Their Comeuppance

Hyperinflation

Could it happen:

The beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic was some 89 years ago this week. There is a stream of opinion that the US is headed for the same type of end. How else can it be, given that we owe some $75-80 trillion dollars in the coming years, over five times current GDP and growing every year? Remember the good old days of about five to six years ago (if memory serves me correctly) when it was only $50 trillion? With a nod to Ben Bernanke's helicopter speech, where he detailed how the Fed could prevent deflation, I ask the opposite question, "Can 'it' (hyperinflation) really happen here?" I write this on a plane flying to NYC, with a tighter deadline than normal, so let's see how far we can get. More on where I'm heading at the end of the letter.

Hertz Draws a Line in the Sand

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Kittens Become Cats

Winning the Olympics

... seven times:

It was like they won the Olympics, one observer quipped of the ecstatic reaction at the Irving Halifax shipyard as Ottawa announced that Irving Shipbuilding Industries had won the right to negotiate a $25 billion contract to build the Royal Canadian Navy’s combat ships for the next 30 years.

For once, the Olympics analogy is an understatement. For Nova Scotia, this is more like winning the next seven Olympic Games.

Commentary

Embrace It

Can I explain myself to those who see mining oil sands as a moral offense? I plead humanism. Modern capitalism and the technology it engenders has lifted a significant proportion of humanity out of our natural state of abject poverty for the first time in history. Even now, depending on the cycles of nature to renew supplies of fuel (in the form of wood and manure) means poverty, disease, and early death for millions.

So how did I happen to be standing at the edge of the Millennium oil sands mine in Alberta, Canada, this summer? I was on a propaganda trip with other journalists and bloggers paid for by the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and natural gas lobby in Washington, D.C.

I love the smell of fretting Greens in the morning.

D-OWS

... the result was never in doubt ...

Heh!

How To Write About "The Other"

Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black Africans.

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress.

... indeed, there's a trick to being a good little journalist:

First, be white. If you are Aboriginal, you can certainly speak on behalf of every Aboriginal person in Australia, but it is best to get a white person to write down what they think you should be saying. Non-Aboriginal people of colour will just confuse everybody. Only white people can write objectively about the Aboriginal experience.

Next, establish authenticity by acknowledging the elders. Even if you’ve never met any elders, find some to acknowledge. You can then refer to them at every opportunity as ‘Aunty’ or ‘Uncle’, which will sound so authentic that you can put as many words in their mouths as you wish.

Presumptuous

Ethical Oil:

A Canadian company has been threatening to confiscate private land from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico, and is already suing many who have refused to allow the Keystone XL pipeline on their property even though the controversial project has yet to receive federal approval.

What ... No Amber Alert ?

NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: “How in the world does that happen?!” A truck filled with President Obama’s podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to Chesterfield.

Source

A plea for help.

Flaherty Unleashed

The European deer has been caught in the headlights:

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has torn a strip off European political leaders for dithering while their economy has faltered, putting the entire world in jeopardy of another recession.

In a blistering speech delivered in Dublin, Ireland on Monday, Flaherty called on Europe to finally make the tough decisions that are needed to gain control of the crisis and restore confidence in the markets.

“What started as a sovereign debt crisis in smaller countries in Europe in the spring of 2010 has now spread to larger European countries, causing extreme stress in the European financial sector and threatening global growth,” according to a prepared text of Flaherty’s speech.

The Harper PMO is clearly covering ass ... but doing so using truthful argument. Although global recession is clearly the looming monster, that sticky Canuck deficit is the pebble in the shoe ... manageable for now, but a ticking time-bomb if Europeans trigger another 2008-type event.

Go West Young Man

Western Canada ... taking care of business:

The National Energy Board gave the go-ahead Thursday for the country’s first exports of liquefied natural gas, approving a licence sought by KM LNG, a group, led by Apache Corp, planning an LNG project on the Pacific Coast.

The board gave KM permission to export up to 200 million tonnes of LNG over the next 20 years, an amount equivalent to 9.36 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

The gas will come from conventional reserves and shale gas projects in Western Canada, and will be taken by pipeline to a liquefaction plant at Kitimat, British Columbia.

More F-35 Travails

... from 3D:

If defense budget cuts stay at $450 billion or less, the U.S. Air Force can maintain all its missions and capabilities; however, the service can deliver them only at a reduced capacity, says Lt. Gen. Herbert Carlisle, deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and requirements.

Canada to USA Brain-drain

... so yesterday:

"Canada’s stronger economy is becoming a magnet for Americans hunting for work. In a reversal of historical flows, immigration lawyers report a surge of calls from Americans who want to move north. Statistics bear out their observations: A record number of Americans applied for temporary work visas last year, Immigration Canada statistics show, spurred largely by the contrasting health of the two countries’ labor markets.

Green Economics

Robbing Peter to help Paul buy a luxury car:

We didn't believe it until we verified it with our own eyes – and amazingly it's true: Colorado is offering a $42,083 rebate on the 2009 Tesla Roadster until December 31st. Carry the one, move the decimal point... yep, that's a 38-percent discount on what must be the most desirable electric car currently for sale in the United States.

By the way, the Tesla Roadster boasts greater acceleration and better handling than the Porsche 911.

Perma-Parasites

“We have accepted today the existence in perpetuity of a permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by society -- fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a dependent nation the size of Spain in our independent America. We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.”

Sounds like Canada.

More from Pat.

Oy

... then, some clarity:

I Miss the Roman Warm Period

Nothing beats a Roman bath:

These findings clearly demonstrate that for this particular part of the planet, there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about late-20th-century/early-21st-century warmth. And adding this result to the similar results that have been obtained for a great many other "parts of the planet," it is beginning to look like the Roman Warm Period, much like the Medieval Warm Period, was probably warmer than it has been recently over most of the planet.

I Love the Smell of Power Projection in the Morning

BUFFs to 2040

The Canada Connection

OWS:

Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.

I Love Czech Honesty

There's nothing like a riled up Czech physicist:

Dobrý, dobrý, dobrý:

First of all, Slovakia is not a tiny country. It is a medium-size country that is about 5.5 million times greater than the f*cked-up assh*le who invented the title. Second of all, Slovakia isn't holding anyone to ransom. It's a couple of the European ass*oles and parasites – e.g. the citizens of Greeks – who demanded a ransom (€7 billion) from Slovakia: Slovakia doesn't want anything from the world so the headline is upside down. During the first and only genuine vote, Slovakia rejected this blackmailing. The only thing Slovakia dared to do was to freely democratically decide about the money it has earned. But freedom, democracy, and ownership rights are something that the f*cked-up fascist and communist advocates of continental and global communist funds to "save" the assh*les and losers from the wallets of those who do useful work have no respect to.

Go West, Young Man

FP:

Global market turmoil has tarnished the economic outlook for 2012, but in an era of diminished expectations, Canada’s western provinces will lead all others in growth, BMO Capital Markets said Wednesday.

California

One of the world's largest economies goes bust:

The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden State has cratered, Michael Lewis goes where the buck literally stops—the local level, where the likes of San Jose mayor Chuck Reed and Vallejo fire chief Paige Meyer are trying to avert even worse catastrophes and rethink what it means to be a society.

When the Iron Curtain Fell ...

... all it did was let out the cockroaches:

When Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn led the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground in 1969, a chance meeting led Army veteran Larry Grathwohl into joining the group. Grathwohl served as a courier, running messages between the group’s leadership (called the “Weather Bureau”) and individual cells that were to carry out attacks.

Grathwohl was also an informant for the FBI.

In an interview from the 1982 documentary No Place To Hide that recently surfaced, Grathwohl discussed what the Weathermen intended to do after overthrowing the U.S. government, including what they would do with those Americans who refused to embrace communism.

I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.

... more about OWS.

Gawker gets into it, with a hit list ... or put another way, how to drive 80% of NYC's tax base out.

We Sleep Safe

Yon:

From a (sadly now ex)Brit soldier and erstwhile comrade in arms: This encapsulates everything that is great about the American Military. There is raw courage, cool professionalism whilst excellent technology and support is on hand. And that MEDEVAC was 20mins from call to HLS. Of course war is hell. But every man is a volunteer, well trained, equipped and usually, highly motivated. But war is the last resort, a desperate set of measures employed when there is no other option available to ensure our way of life, freedom and ultimately democracy, survive. "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

BTW ... a pox on those who say that Afghans are not taking up the fight.

An Hour Well Spent

The Big Green Black Hole

... all paid for by you and me:

All hail Greedor. Following the NYT’s effort, Jo Nova presents her Climate Change Scare Machine Cycle:

F-35 Drama in Japan

U.S. aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) said on Thursday it will offer final assembly of the F-35 fighter to Japanese firms in a bid for a defense contract from Tokyo.

Lockheed, seeking to bolster its chances of winning a bid to supply warplanes worth as much as $8 billion to Japan, said it will also offer manufacture of major components, maintenance work and engine assembly of the F-35 to Japanese firms…

... and the worm continues to turn.

It's Not the Boundary ... It's the Jews

An Epic Failure of the Left

... and the rest of us:

Glavin, also of the left, is frustrated by the limits of his supposed comrades’ solidarity and internationalism. Afghanistan’s democrats — its students, human rights activists, women, socialists and secularists — should, by rights, be championed and supported by the western left. They are, after all, fighting for the same things liberals in Canada struggled for and earned over the last century. What’s more, they’re fighting for these rights against an explicitly fascistic strain of religious and ethnic extremism embodied in the Taliban.

Erosion

To speak or not to speak:

Proponents of a more refined First Amendment argue that this freedom should be treated not as a right but as a privilege — a special entitlement granted by the state on a conditional basis that can be revoked if it is ever abused or maltreated.

The Other GDP

There is a relationship between the size of government and the size and health of the private sector ... but unfortunately, that relationship is not what Keynsians would lead us to believe:

It may be a surprise to you to see that it has gotten up to the same levels seen at the height of WWII.

There is much more detail at McClellan Financial Publications.

* disclosure: I subscribe to McClellan Financial Publications

Canada Numer One

Stability:

As an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban. The 1989 US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which includes Mexico) touched off a dramatic increase in trade and economic integration with the US, its principal trading partner. Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with the US, which absorbs about three-fourths of Canadian exports each year. Canada is the US's largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power. Given its great natural resources, skilled labor force, and modern capital plant, Canada enjoyed solid economic growth from 1993 through 2007. Buffeted by the global economic crisis, the economy dropped into a sharp recession in the final months of 2008, and Ottawa posted its first fiscal deficit in 2009 after 12 years of surplus. Canada's major banks, however, emerged from the financial crisis of 2008-09 among the strongest in the world, owing to the financial sector's tradition of conservative lending practices and strong capitalization. During 2010, Canada's economy grew only 3%, due to decreased global demand and a highly valued Canadian dollar.

The Rosary From Hell

Some bloggers are making a big deal about a school determining that rosaries are gang symbols. On the face of it, the notion is ridiculous; but upon closer examination and given what's been happening in the UK lately, prudence may be the best route, as the following video makes abundantly clear:

Stuck in a Time-Warping Black Hole

The headline on the front page of the Globe and Mail on Monday states: "Alberta steps into the present."

If that sounds bigoted and patronizing, it's because it is. But what's most ironic about the Toronto-based paper's unvarnished prejudice is if the Globe's editors judged Ontario by the standards it is using to declare Alberta's leap into the present, then the centre of the universe must be stuck in some time-warping black hole that has sucked it well back into the 1900s.

... come to think of it, Charles is aptly describing all of Progressia.

Mr. Harper ... It's Time to Shine

After five years in power, the Conservative government finally has introduced a bill to repeal the censorship provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

... now it's up to Mr. Harper to do the right thing.

Top 8 Sniper Shots in History

Number 3:

Specifics: After sitting atop a roof for more than three days, Reynolds plugged a Taliban commander nicknamed "Mula," and responsible for multiple attacks on UK and US troops, from more than 2,000 yards. The father of one is a member of the 3 Scots: The Black Watch. Scotland's Black Watch is an elite military regiment whose history stretches back almost three centuries. Seems Reynolds might be the most noteworthy of them all. Beware a man willing to wear a kilt.

The Cockpit

While the C-5 was turning over its engines, a female crewman gave the G.I.s on board the usual information regarding seat belts, emergency exits, etc.

Finally, she said, 'Now sit back and enjoy your trip while your captain, Judith Campbell, and crew take you safely to Afghanistan '

An old Master Sergeant sitting in the eighth row thought to himself,
'Did I hear her right? Is the captain a woman? '

When the attendant came by he said 'Did I understand you right? Is the captain a woman?'

'Yes,'! said the attendant, 'In fact, this entire crew is female.'

'My God,' he said, 'I wish I had two double scotch and sodas. I don't know what to think with only women up there in the cockpit.'

'That's another thing, Sergeant,' said the crew member, 'We No Longer Call It The Cockpit'

'It's The Box Office.'

If These are Today's Bolsheviks ...

... I'm not even going to bother stocking up on ammo:

Target Store's Super-Sale

The Bunker

... in mentality and deed:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office was so seized with controlling public opinion of Canada's shooting war in southern Afghanistan that even Defence Minister Peter MacKay wasn't always in the loop, says a new book about the conflict.

"The Savage War," by Canadian Press defence writer and Afghanistan correspondent Murray Brewster, paints a portrait of a PMO keen to preserve its tenuous grip on minority power and desperate to control the message amid dwindling public support for the war.

MacKay, who took over Defence from Gordon O'Connor in August 2007, was blindsided by the Harper government's decision later that year to set up a blue-ribbon panel to review the mission headed by former Liberal cabinet minister John Manley, Brewster writes.

"It wasn't discussed with the broader cabinet, no," the minister says in the interview. "I didn't know all of the specifics."

And to think that all that "pathological control" over the PMO did little to win the last election ... it all came down to Ontario voters being herded to the CPC by the horrific specter of a Quebec entrenched Layton government.

Recall this blog screaming at the lack of leadership on Afghanistan ... of the utter failure of the PMO to explain the mission to Canadians and to lead.

"I think the reason there was so much silence was because we were trying to figure out how to transition the communications politically from a hard terrorism message to, you know, about women voting and all that stuff."

Progressives Will Do Anything ...

... absolutely anything, to expand government:

Denmark has imposed a "fat tax" on foods such as butter and oil as a way to curb unhealthy eating habits.

The Nordic country introduced the tax Saturday, of 16 kroner ($2.90) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of saturated fat in a product.

Big Fish

Haji Mali Khan, who is described by the International Security Assistance Force as "one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani Network and a revered elder of the Haqqani clan," was captured during a raid in the Jani Khel district of Paktia. Security forces also captured his deputy, his bodyguard, and "multiple additional insurgents." Khan was "heavily armed" but he "submitted to the security force without incident or resistance," ISAF stated.

It's been a bad week for the barbarians.

The Official United Nations Choir

A Come to Jesus ...

“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.*

... and so will the voters.

The WWF is the IPCC

Bastards:

The scientists whose names appear below have not only been examining one of the world’s most important questions for the IPCC. They have a documented, public relationship with professional lobbyists who have a strong interest in influencing this matter. (For readers who are just tuning in, the WWF believes it is “nearly impossible to overstate” the threat posed by climate change – see here, backup link here.)

The people on the list below either played some role in the 2007 Climate Bible or are helping to write the next IPCC report which is expected to be completed in 2013. In many cases, they’re doing dual duty.

Herb Takes Bill to the Woodshed