Month: January 2010

Pat Robertson never seems to miss an opportunity to make a horse’s ass of himself, and the latest is his attempt to blame the disastrous Haitian earthquake on a “pact” he says a Haitian made with Satan in 1803, for which God has retaliated: On the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “700 Club” today, after a lengthy…

While I was disturbed to read about Oliver Stone’s attempt to rehabilitate Stalin and Hitler in the eyes of young people (who need to “walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view”), considering Oliver Stone’s history it’s not surprising. Still, I can’t help find myself wondering whether Stone and the…

Watts Up With That has the timeline (as best as it can be reconstructed) of the ClimateGate story. Climate Audit is also covering the story. My first inkling of it was between 3:34 am and 4:40am GMT Fri Nov 20, 2009 at Talk Polywell. I started a post on it at 04:29 am GMT (posted…

From Tim Blair, the amusingly flawed history of “consensus” as reported in the NYT: — 1955: “Sun power still is a losing proposition in dollars and cents. But experts agree that its prospects never have looked so good.” And haven’t things changed since then! Apart from the dollars and cents, of course. — 1956: “WEAR…

Earlier today, four male Saudi Arabian passengers disrupted a flight from Seattle to Detroit, terrifying the passengers and causing the plane to be stopped short of the gate after it landed, upon which they were taken off without any charges filed: MyFoxDetroit.com – Sources tell Fox 2 that a flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan…

Art in the West has a long tradition of never shying away from controversy, and as New York is supposed to be on the cutting edge, the last place you’d expect to see censorship would be in New York’s art museums, right? Wrong. Controversial art may be one thing, but if the controversy involves Islam,…

From Random Traverse. WASHINGTON, DC – Congress is considering sweeping legislation which will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition. “Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not…

Famulus of Prometheus Fusion will be featured at Nerd Night, Friday, January 15th, in NYC. *Presentation 1 Fusing the Atom and Living to Tell by Famulus Description: We have built an open source nuclear fusion reactor and fused the atom. This is the story of a remarkable fusion device called the Farnsworth Fusor and its…

Massachusetts may be in the process of electing a Republican to take Ted Kennedy’s old seat. His name? Scott Brown. Our good friend Abbey in Cleveland called us last night and said, “You’re not going to believe this. So sit down”. She then went on to explain that she’s making her FIRST EVER political donation…

Yemeni’s top cleric Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani — a man also said to be Osama bin Laden’s spiritual advisor — is not happy with the United States, which he thinks is planning a “foreign occupation” of Yemen: SAN’A, Yemen – Yemen’s most influential Islamic cleric, considered an al-Qaida-linked terrorist by the United States, warned Monday that…

Not as Governor Of Alaska. She is going to be a TV commentator on FOX News. Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced Monday. “I am thrilled to be…

I guess the Catastrophic Global Warming scare is officially over. At least according to one IPCC scientist. The research has been carried out by eminent climate scientists, including Professor Mojib Latif. He is a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He and his colleagues predicted the cooling trend in a 2008…

It didn’t take long for the people who want to rule us to say just that. I like Don Surber’s take: Global cooling proves global warming. Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told the newspaper: “A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000…

While I’m a skeptic about alternative (or naturopathic) medicine, if I hear about a treatment for the more annoying symptoms of the common cold, I’m quite willing to check it out, especially if it’s harmless. And if it works, I spread the word. For example, I have long believed in the value of sage tea…

I finally found a picture of my favorite Communist, Comrade Kaprugina from Doctor Zhivago. When Zhivago returned from the war to discover that the Bolsheviks had taken over his family home and stuffed it with people (50 square meters for a family of five), he was promptly put in his place by Comrade Kaprugina, who,…

I’m pretty zonked out from an awful cold (and from the even awfuller cold meds) right now, so not only am I not up to blogging, I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be making much sense. Of course, I guess if I started spouting inanities, it would be hard to beat Harry Reid, who seems hell…

Remember global warming? Back in the day, because she was gullible enough to believe in it, Coco tried to do something to cool the planet But now that she’s moved to Ann Arbor, I’m afraid Coco has given up on global warming. Instead, she plays in the snow. Here we are on a frozen lake.…

You think I’m joking? I’m not. First let’s look at the shutdown. The heaviest snowfall to hit northern China in nearly six decades continued to snarl traffic yesterday, stranding thousands of passengers on railways and at airports. The unusually harsh winter weather also caused coal shortages, forcing some provinces to cut power supplies. And what…

And this death to skeptics is not just an artifact of history. We hear those calls even today. A public appeal has been issued by an influential U.S. website asking: “At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers.” The appeal appeared on Talking Points Memo, an often cited website that helps set…

I hate it when I voice paranoid suspicions which turn out to be accurate descriptions of official policy, but I guess I better get used to it. In a post titled “Egalitarianism For Asses” on December 27, I worried that there might be “growing tacit acceptance of an absurd proposition” — that it is better…