Author: Dave

It will raise the value of his speeches by at least 10,000 gallons of jet fuel. Cross Posted at Power and Control

This will take some time (assuming you are up to the task). But spend some serious time at Climate Audit and tell me the Climate “Scientists” are not cooking the books. Start here: YTD Hurricane Activity This is a real Gem: Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes Bad models: Climate Insensitivity and AR(1) Models…

I was discussing DDT in my post Global Warming Is Socialist Science and while I was doing research came across this comment at Deltoid. In Argentina, as all other countries in South, Central and North America DDT is strictly prohibited under severe penalties by the law. So you are LYING when claiming “there is no…

No, I don’t mean Al has died of AIDS. Al has won the Nobel peace Prize. Woo Hoo. Another glorious day for Socialist Science and Green Criminals. You may barf when ready. The Reference Frame tells it like it is. British Judge says “Inconvenient Truth” is Politics Not Science. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Lubos Motl at The Reference Frame is discussing Al Gore and his movie An Inconvenient Truth. Left-wing people are rarely right in politics. If they were right, they wouldn’t be left. But this audio is a remarkable exception. A self-described mildly left-wing professor criticizes the British conservatives at their CPS Fringe Event and he is…

Commenter dbjack46 was asking about the pianist in A Little Incidental Music. Here is what I found out from the wiki. Arcadi Volodos (ursprünglich russ. ??????? ?????????? ????????/Arkadi Arkadjewitsch Wolodos, wiss. Transliteration Arkadij Arkad’evi? Volodos’; * 24. Februar 1972 in Sankt Petersburg) ist ein russischer Pianist. Volodos erhielt mit acht Jahren ersten Klavierunterricht und widmete…

From Little Green Footballs: We know that Ron Paul is popular with 9/11 Troofers and Daily Kos, but here’s another hotbed of Paulmania–at Stormfront, home of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, where they’re urging the skinheads to ‘VOTE RON PAUL IN THE ONLINE POLLS!’ – Stormfront White Nationalist Community. (Warning: the link leads to a truly…

Mitt Romney got asked by a medical marijuana patient, “Will you arrest me?” Mitt gave a brilliant answer. He turned his back on the guy. So much for compassionate conservatism. My answer to the man’s question: “I will not arrest you. We should have learned our lesson from alcohol prohibition. I do not believe in…

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, on Tuesday’s Republican debate thread had some thoughts on the new American Imperialism in the comments. Let’s not forget also that America’s western foreign policy was explicitly imperialistic — using our excess farmers, and their desire for cheap, new lands — to push our western border to the Mississippi and beyond.…

Dan Rhiel is discussing the recent dust up about the socialized medicine poster children. I have some thoughts on the subject: What happens when some government junk scientist discovers that eating carrots is bad for you? Carrot rationing. Or suppose they decide pot is good for you? You will be forced to consume your daily…

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, was discussing/live blogging Tuesday’s Republican debate and it came out that Stephen (or Vodka as he is fondly known) was once a card carrying Libertarian. So I left a few words: Another ex-card-carrying-Libertarian. Woo hoo. I remember a Lib fundraiser calling me about a month after 9/11 and I made smoke…

Tom Ligon who worked for Dr. Bussard has informed me that Dr. Bussard has died. A sad day for all of us in the IEC Fusion community. A great one has passed. We are all diminished by his loss. Fortunately his work will continue. A whole community has developed to support his work: EMC2 Fusion…

While looking into into the Enron CO2 trading swindle I found this interesting tit-bit. The expressive term ‘Baptist-bootlegger’ derives from the days of prohibition. Under prohibition bootleggers and those who transported and supplied illegal alcohol made fortunes. One such entrepreneur was Joseph Kennedy whose second son, John, became US President in 1961. The bootleggers had…

Photo of Boys with a Stuffed Pig by Michael Totten © 2007 My friend Michael Totten has an article up, The Peace Corps With Muscle, that I have linked to several times in the comments here at Classical Values. So I thought it was time to do a front pager and look at how the…

Gateway Pundit has a bit on anti-Columbus Day protesters in Colorado. You know “the evil white man destroyed the noble Indians and we therefor wish to atone for the sins of our ancestors” types. Have I got news for them. The Indians fought wars with each other all the time for territory. The white man…

Jim Webb held hearings on The Mass Incarceration of American citizens. America imprisons a larger percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world. Lets look at the figures. These are from 2005. America 737 per 100,000. Russia per 611 per 100,000. Cuba 487 per 100,000. China 118 per 100,000. Canada 107 per…

I agree with Ron Paul on a lot of issues. This is one of those issues. I do think he is wrong about Iraq. Nobody is perfect.

The Briefing Room has a report on the connection between Enron and Carbon Trading. Amidst the talk about the benefits that Kyoto Protocol is supposed to promote, it is perhaps forgotten especially amongst the greenies how Kyoto was born in the corridors of very big business. The name Enron has all but faded from our…