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Then and Now

Obama and Satan

That's right, Obama gets top billing. But that thing about Obama looking like Satan reminded me: doesn't Obama also resemble Marina Oswald? Little bit, huh?

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Is this a professor or a hobo? I got 100% right through cheating shamelessly.

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Climategate 3.0

 You remember Climategate: the release of e-mails between the heavy-hitters in the Global Warming industry. They were released in two batches in 2009 and 2011. Now there's been a third, much larger, release of encrypted files that is being scrubbed of personal information before being disseminated online.

We also now have a message from the whistle-blower, Mr FOIA,  who is behind the release:

Why did [Mr. FOIA] do it? His answer was both angry and anguished: “Climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material ‘might’ …. The price of ‘climate protection’ with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations,” he wrote. “We can’t pour trillions in this massive hole-digging-and-filling-up endeavor and pretend it’s not [taking] away from something and someone else.”

That’s the most important statement so far in the decades-old climate debate: You’re forcing us backward into poverty and ignorance – for nothing, except to further your careers, funding and power.

Less than a week later, London’s Mail on Sunday newspaper ran an outraged feature based on the British Meteorological Office’s recent admission that global surface temperatures haven’t risen in more than 15 years. Citing a chart of predicted and actual temperatures, the Mail noted: “Official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed. The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. The chart shows in incontrovertible detail how the speed of global warming has been massively overestimated. Yet those forecasts have had a ruinous impact on the bills we pay, from heating to car fuel to huge sums paid by councils to reduce carbon emissions. The eco-debate was, in effect, hijacked by false data.”

I hope the retreat from this AGW insanity continues with this third batch of e-mails. Personally, I don't need much more proof thanwhat we've already seen:

Phil Jones wrote, “I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working on the IPCC 5th  Assessment Report would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden. I’ve discussed this with the main funder [the U.S. Department of Energy] in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.”

The U.S. government was colluding with the hiders, who received tens of millions of dollars over the years.

Jones wrote to Mann, “Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith Briffa re AR4 [the IPCC 4th Assessment Report]? Keith will do likewise. … We will be getting Caspar Ammann to do likewise.”

Why do "scientists" need to hide information? Or, more importantly, why should we pay more for beef, gasoline, air travel, and manufactured products because these "scientists" are hiding information?

 Read more about Climategate 3.0 here.

Deja Vu

If I was John Kerry, I'd stay away from soccer balls, just because they will remind some of us of his first header pic:

 

And that will remind us of some of his other interactions with sports:

 

 

 And that will remind us that this is a man with absolutely zero trigger discipline:

This Really Works

Und Now We Tanz

This is Why We Have an Internet

And why we have Wikipedia:

Despite its being an apparently trivial topic, some people hold strong opinions on the matter. Advice columnist Ann Landers said that the subject was the most controversial issue in her column's history. Defenders of either position cite advantages ranging from aesthetics, hospitality, and cleanliness to paper conservation, the ease of detaching individual squares, and compatibility with a recreational vehicle or a cat. Celebrities and experts are found on both sides. Some writers have proposed connections to age, sex, or political philosophy; and survey evidence has shown a correlation with socioeconomic status.


Solutions range from compromise, to using separate dispensers or separate bathrooms entirely, or simply ignoring the issue altogether. One man advocates a plan under which his country will standardize on a single forced orientation, and at least one inventor hopes to popularize a new kind of toilet roll holder which swivels from one orientation to the other.

Once you've had quite enough of this sort of thing, be sure to scroll down to Similar Controversies.

Has Anyone Else Noticed?

Anyone else notice that the farmer in American Gothic resembles Satan?

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