Thanks Lori, for filling in whilst I was gone. Feel free to do so again anytime in the future...
Unitarian Golfball Heads Freeze to Death During Global Warming trek:
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. --As the world's warmest winter on record drew to an end with a weekend snow storm, a group of religious leaders started walking across the state Friday to bring attention to global warming. "People have been asking me what happens if it snows," said the Rev. Fred Small of the First Church Unitarian in Littleton. "I tell them: 'we walk.'" The nine-day haul from downtown Northampton to Copley Square in Boston was planned far before forecasts called for a weekend of snow and sleet just a few days before the start of spring. "It was windy and cold. I was walking on the front of the line and I felt like I was bow of a ship with the wind just coming into my face," said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas of the Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, where the group warmed up on bowls of lentil and minestrone soup after walking eight miles in deep snow from Northampton to Amherst.
Gore's man-crush takes the fight to Israel:
Climate Expert Leonardo Di Caprio's Bodyguards Arrested in Scuffle Over Carbon Offsets in Jerusalem. Uh oh, we can't allow this to happen, we must have our Vietnam:
Early signs of progress in Baghdad crackdown. Bomb deaths decline by 30 percent, but U.S. remains cautious.
No wonder Land Spe culator Harry Reid has been foaming at the mouth to get the Troop Surge blocked. It might work. I wonder if he has a picture of Ronald Reagan in his office? It is after all a prerequisite for shady land or business deals... BAGHDAD - Bomb deaths have gone down 30 percent in Baghdad since the U.S.-led security crackdown began a month ago. Execution-style slayings are down by nearly half. The once frequent sound of weapons has been reduced to episodic, and downtown shoppers have returned to outdoor markets — favored targets of car bombers. There are signs of progress in the campaign to restore order in Iraq, starting with its capital city. But while many Iraqis are encouraged, they remain skeptical how long the relative calm will last. Each bombing renews fears that the horror is returning. Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents are still around, perhaps just lying low or hiding outside the city until the operation is over. U.S. military officials, burned before by overly optimistic forecasts, have been cautious about declaring the operation a success. Another reason it seems premature: only two of the five U.S. brigades earmarked for the mission are in the streets, and the full complement of American reinforcements is not due until late May.U.S. officials say that key to the operation’s long-term success is the willingness of Iraq’s sectarian and ethnic political parties to strike a power- and money-sharing deal. That remains elusive — a proposal for governing the country’s main source of income — oil — is bogged down in parliamentary squabbling.
Meanwhile, in another blow to the Dick Durbin, Hank Reid lose at any cost contingent, a poll among Iraqis indicates that a majority of them believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam:
MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today. The survey of more than 5,000 Iraqis found the majority optimistic despite their suffering in sectarian violence since the American-led invasion four years ago this week. One in four Iraqis has had a family member murdered, says the poll by Opinion Research Business. In Baghdad, the capital, one in four has had a relative kidnapped and one in three said members of their family had fled abroad. But when asked whether they preferred life under Saddam, the dictator who was executed last December, or under Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, most replied that things were better for them today. Only 27% think there is a civil war in Iraq, compared with 61% who do not, according to the survey carried out last month.
Obviously The London Times is a stooge for FOX News. A big setback for our heroes Durbin unt Reid...
Break out the Carbon Neutral Butt Plugs!!
Climate Deniers Receive Death Threats:
Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community. They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions. Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change. One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming. "Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor. "I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal." Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - who also appeared on the documentary - recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. "Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science." Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, agreed. He said: "The Green movement has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what environmentalists seem to want to do."
"Back to your Glass Holding Cell, you've exceeded your Carbon Footprint for the day"! Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: "Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system."
Global Cooling Pounds Phoenix:
PHOENIX -- For the fourth consecutive day, Phoenix roasted in record high temperatures. It was 99 degrees Saturday, breaking the old record for the date of 92 degrees set in 1972.
Note that the previous record of 92 degrees was set back in the '70s when the prevailing theory amongst Gorelike alarmists at the first Earth Day Festivals was that we were going to plunge the Earth into another Ice Age with our wanton industrial practices and Ronald Reagan photos. To coin a phrase from my favorite Vulcan: Fascinating... It was also 99 degrees on Friday, which shattered the old record of 95 set in 1921.
Prescott Bush was behind the 1921 debacle, I saw it on the History Channel...
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