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  Ill Wind for the Wether-Men [Dan Collins]

  http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=12171
  65 days ago in protein wisdom · Authority: 771

  Baaaaaaaaa. For around a decade now since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2
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  Is the Warming Starting to Thaw?

  http://awolcivilization.com/?p=159
  56 days ago in AWOL Civilization · Authority: 26

  There has been a flurry of interesting articles across the blogosphere about trends in the Global Warming game. One of these pieces, offered by Pajamas Media, is “Global Warming: Mostly Hot Air” by Mike McNally. The author asserts that resistance to the cult, particularly within the scientific community, is gaining momentum and may be turning the corner; Gore-ish Global Warming can be expected to fizzle out, as did its numerous end-of-the-world predecessors.
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  Colonel Robert Neville 'celebrates the diversity' of his 200th 'Right Wing Bastard' post!

  http://colonelrobertneville.blogspot.com/2008/05/colonel-rob...
  57 days ago in Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses For Dinner. · Authority: 26

  Colonel Neville celebrates with good cheer, another personal milestone at his swingin' and happening pad! "Why the Hell can't you leave me alone?!" "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up". Lily Tomlin. Aunty Doris: “Happy 200th post Colonel! And look, we’ve banded tugetha’ and got ya a wee packet a’ sweeties! And uh left most a’ the good wunz fer ya ta!”. Colonel Neville: “Oh, gee Aunty. I don’t know what to say, except get out”. Aunty Doris: “Och, ya were ulwayz a sentimental soul even as a child card sharp”. Colonel Neville: “Yes, clearing up at retirement homes, often brought a tear to my innocent little eyes. I think it was either the stench or the curtains. But who can tell in these crazy times of random political correctness? I certainly can’t”. "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull".H.L Mencken. But I digress, digest and divest. Ok, I re-posted some bogus requests of the week, to make up the number’s, and thus win the coveted boiled sweets award. But they were all updated and improved to make them almost readable. Several readers asked “Who are you?” and “When do I get my money?” and “Is your hair dry, lifeless and hard to manage?” “So what’s it like to be Colonel Neville?” you may ask, but obviously don’t. Well, it’s a non-stop roller coaster ride of how can I say? Er, tedium. And yet this has never stopped me writing about it. For instance, to celebrate this momentous event, I had a blood test, which often makes me feel quite faint. Do they really need seven litres? Colonel Neville: “If I die, I want a Mariachi band at my funeral, but not the unsophisticated kind, more with an Oscar Peterson feel, than a combine harvester out of control in a tin can factory”. Nurse Le Strange: “Mr Colonel, don’t worry. I’m not listening and I’m not really a nurse!” Colonel Neville: “It’s getting dark and I think I can see my Father in law…” Nurse Le Strange: “That’s because it’s 7PM and the door is open to the waiting room”. The wife is very supportive and excited about the 200th post too, and we had a relaxing coffee in the sun to mark the occasion. As wives do, she offered words of encouragement. "I don't care about your stupid 200th post! Go to Hell!" Curiously, she said it was an accident, but she thought my hand was an ashtray. Though I have my suspicions, and not least because she didn’t stop, and also she doesn’t smoke. Odd, I thought. So boy, have I learnt a lot and really changed! Unbelievable changes! It’s all different now, baby! Er, not really. And yet, I have changed and sometimes even my shirts. It’s been an endless round of epiphany and revelation . Sadly, a lot of ‘em have been a total drag. For instance, I always knew that while the inner-city was full to the espresso machines with plenty of affable and deluded boobs, I now realise we’re also largely spineless boobs. It’s a matching set! The standard issue hipster and right on political pose is to stand up bravely to any Democratic leader and minor Conservative at the drop of a pamphlet. And this is entirely because there is no threat whatsoever, no matter how stratospheric the hysterical hyperbole. But bring on a real threat from any theocratic Middle-Eastern monkey house, third world Hell hole, unstable freak nation, Totalitarian Communist kingdom or outpost etc , and it’s a weak “Call the U.N!” but not to any gauche and actual actions. Or it’s a standard Left Liberal free life-time pass to any mass murderer, as long as you’re anti-US, Israel or the West in general. All three is even better. And certainly not a single effective impoliteness will be aimed at any actual multiple killer’s like Iran's Ahmachimphead, Cuba's head pig Castro, Kim mentally Ill Sung, Rabid Mugabe, Charles Taylor type Congo or Africa wide clone, Assad the ass hat, any Saudi despot, Hamas my ass, Shining Path, Janjaweed, Al Aqsa or Weatheredmen ad nauseum etc, etcetera. Nope, not much fuss at any genuinely malevolent force much anywhere, unless they’re way over there somewhere, like um, yes there is one, um, whatever, and nuttin’. That’s right, they’re angry at China, but only for killin’ Tibetan’s and not for er, Communist totalitarianism per se. "Harrumph, cough, cough!" But show ‘em a faraway could be better Republican etc, and boy! The inner-city fluff ball is ready to whine and hyperbole with the best of the whiners and hyperbolers. And they say the latte set don’t like bowling! Hey, and man, they’ll dare to smash a McDonald’s window, or throw bolts at police horses, thus freeing millions of oppressed people across the world. The inner-city really is a lot like Invasion of the Body Snatchers on a loop. A loopy loop. Much of the local political opinion is backdated, nuance free, phony, irrelevant and as ineffective as a Mike Moore Subway endorsement. “I gained more weight than a Subway franchise by only eating everything I could find”. Mike ‘can I have a straw with that vat of lard?’ Moore. Still, he has the money and I don’t, and all he had to do was lie relentlessly and commit high treason by making among other agitprop dross, a propaganda film for the Cuban totalitarian dictatorship. “I love Cuban food!” says Mike. “All of it!” And show the average inner urban Left Liberal groover a seriously driven Islamist loon, and they turn inside out and abandon every alleged 'value' they may have ever had, in a disgusting and frightening paroxysm of moral inversion and abasement. Then they’ll attack you for not being a team player, in their relentlessly suicidal grovelfest. "Courage", as C.S Lewis said, "is not merely one of the virtues, but THE virtue at the testing point". But have I achieved anything? Well, have ya? Hmmm? Well, I did finally finish that feature wall and the towel rail is looking just great. And you should see what I did with the cutlery drawer! As for the tea towels, well, they speak for themselves, though not literally. So, gee, merely due to time constraints in my busy schedule, I could have written everyday and even multiple posts. Now that does bug me, cos’ they might have been nice, all those words an’ things, like “merry” and “haberdashery” or “elegiac”. Or big words like chocolate biscuit. And speaking of gloom, the great Mark Steyn, the wonderful Phyllis Chessler and many other writers and blogger’s in the Conservative sphere, seem to be feeling a little creeped out lately by the pressing facts of the rather dominant forces of the PC Left, the radical and of the relentless Islamisation of the West via Sharia creep. Well, concerned and creeped out at least a little more than usual. And I think they're completely on the money. Concerned? So am I. Creeped out? Quite a lot actually, kids. "What, me worry?" Alfred E. Neuman. Something is very wrong and er, it's gettin' worse, sports. The most common trends are often anti-reason and conformist forms of cowardice, cloaked in for the good of all lies and mediocrity. As Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun has said, the mass movement and fraud of Global Warming hysteria, is the greatest attack on reason in our lifetime. And Mark Steyn makes the case yet again, that the Left PC idea of diversity of opinion means every opinion is valid except for his, yours and mine, which should be well, crushed and silenced. "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern". Lord Acton. Phyllis is charmingly urgent, yet always personal as per usual, in saying that standards in much public discourse are buckling, and the empirical is being replaced, piece by piece, with the ideological, the lazy, the mediocre and the fake. As usual with Phyllis, she's entirely correct. But hey, why waste another minute being depressed and bored by me. Mark Steyn is still running a great series of pieces on Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart. So happy 200th post to me! Sheesh, it’s enough to drive ya crazy, innit? Hey, did I tell ya about my Pookah? "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there". Mickey Friedman.
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  Global Warming: Mostly Hot Air

  http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2008/05/global-warmi...
  61 days ago in Not a sheep · Authority: 21

  An excellent article at Pajamas Media about how the global warming industry is having to face up to truth that their theories may be no more than bunkum. "Too many interested parties have too much invested in climate change alarmism to admit that the game is up just yet, but sooner or later their position is going to become untenable. And when it does, while acknowledging that many people embraced climate change alarmism for genuine reasons, we’ll have to decide what to do with those who knew or suspected their claims had no substance, but pressed on out of a desire to get rich or impose their ideologies on others."
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  Global warming talk: Is it mostly “hot air?”

  http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2008/05/global-warmi...
  62 days ago in John In Carolina · Authority: 42

  Pajamas Media’s Mike McNally says it is [excerpts] - - - The past few months have not been good to the still-infant discipline of climate change alarmism — that strange amalgam of pseudo-science, crystal ball gazing, and mass hysteria that was formerly known as global warming alarmism until it became apparent a few years back that the globe had in fact stopped warming, and the alarmists decided that the term “climate change” was a more effective way of describing what the rest of us call “weather.” (emphasis added) For around a decade now — since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped — the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2 emissions heat up the planet, and managing for the best part to keep a lid on dissent, thanks to an unlikely, and decidedly unholy, alliance of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upping the fear factor. This alliance includes politicians who see climate change as a new way of persuading citizens to give them more power; corporations who play on our concern and guilt to sell us anything from eco-friendly washing powder to flex-fuel SUVs; scientists keen to get their hands on a share of the $5 billion handed out by governments and NGOs each year for climate change research; and the legions of bureaucrats employed to draw up regulations and run the globe-trotting climate conference circus. Then there’s the lavishly funded environmental lobby; socialists who see climate change as their last, best hope of undermining free-market democracies and cutting the United States down to size; and a media which understands that “World Ends Tomorrow” stories get more viewers than “Everything Likely to Be Just Fine” stories, and whose members tend to side with the leftist, anti-American crowd…. Comments: Many “eco-friendly” global warming “leaders” have their own interests to advance. They don't understand complex data, but they're sure they understand what they call "science." McNally makes the case for why we should question, if not outright reject, what on careful inspection appear to be the “hot air” claims of global warming alarmist. I hope you give his article a read here.John In Carolina
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  My Position on Global Warming

  http://enableate.com/steve/2008/1154
  63 days ago in Enableate · Authority: 4

  My Position on Global Warming May 16th, 2008 Mike McNally over at Pajamas Media delineates a position on global warming that I agree with. If you want to get a better understanding of my position I suggest you read it. The past few months have not been good to the still-infant discipline of climate change alarmism — that strange amalgam of pseudo-science, crystal ball gazing, and mass hysteria that was formerly known as global warming alarmism until it became apparent a few years back that the globe had in fact stopped warming, and the alarmists decided that the term “climate change” was a more effective way of describing what the rest of us call “weather.” For around a decade now — since around the time, coincidentally, that the warming stopped — the alarmists have had things pretty much their own way, dominating the debate with ever more dramatic predictions of impending doom as man-made CO2 emissions heat up the planet, and managing for the best part to keep a lid on dissent, thanks to an unlikely, and decidedly unholy, alliance of organizations and individuals with a vested interest in upping the fear factor. Posted in Global Warming
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  http://savkobabe.blogspot.com/2008/05/food-for-thought-alway...
  63 days ago in And you thought YOU were cranky? · Authority: 13

  FOOD FOR THOUGHT The always insightful Anchoress has some thoughts newly posted yesterday that are worth your time and attention. Among them: No, I’m not bitter; I’m just tired of the nonsense; I’m tired of elected officials hog-tying America’s potential and capabilities for an unproven climate scam, I’m tired of a house and senate incapable of doing anything beyond spiting each other and obstructing any sort of change or progress on issues from energy, to education to social security to illegal (and legal) immigration. I’m tired of watching the nation simply roll over and accept the argument that the solution to anything is “more government and more bureaucracy” instead of simply rejecting that notion outright. I’m tired of being told that America wants and needs the sort of socialized medicine that is bringing supplemental-insurance purchasing Canadians down to the lower 48, and bringing Britain to her knees, rather than even attempting real-market reform, and I’m tired of not liking any of these candidates for president. It’s been a very long campaign season - it began right after the November ‘06 elections - and it has been dreadfully uninspiring. I want a do-over and all-new candidates, preferably none of whom are professional, career politicians. I know I can’t have it. But it’s what I want. I’m not bitter, but damn, I gotta tell you…I’m not happy, either. I agree with every single word she writes, and in this case, she is saying what I have long thought, only in kinder terms than perhaps I would use!
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  The death of climate change?

  http://www.evaneco.com/?p=1217
  63 days ago in A Conservative Christian Environmental Blog - 'Cause the World's Not Ours to Mess Up [Ps 24:1] · Authority: 101

  McNally: A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that precisely zero per cent of Americans — yes, zero, that’s not a typo — rated global warming as the most important issue in the upcoming presidential election. Given that the Beltway Republicans (Bush, McCain et al) generally think the opposite of what the rest of us do, maybe McNally’s on to something.
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  Links of the Day

  http://kingdomofidiots.blogspot.com/2008/05/links-of-day_15....
  64 days ago in Kingdom of Idiots · Authority: 2

  Good Stuff The coming November blow-out Global Warming: Mostly Hot Air The American Dream Love Story: Barack Obama's mom was 17 when Barack Sr., a 24-year-old married man, knocked her up Barack Obama, Focal Point of All Existence Wife Steals Deployed Husband's Money, Is Convicted--but Still Comes out on Top You Want Reasons? Media Bias In The Kennedy-Andropov Affair CA Supreme Court strikes down Gay Marriage Ban Defining Some Terms in the Upcoming Sam Alito Smear Campaign Quotes of the Day POLYGAMY baby! It's the next logical and correct step! I'm going to marry a dozen eastern European women! Sweet! Thanks California! From Fark: It amuses me how many idiots consider themselves 'informed' because they get their news from comedy central

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