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From the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works site:
This significant new study adds to a growing body of peer-reviewed literature and other scientific analyses challenging former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen’s March 2008 presentation of data from the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office found the Earth has had “no statistically significant warming since 1995.”

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Via U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works

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It amazes me that so few people know that world wide temperature averages have been declining for several years now. Earth Day needs to make know the Coming Ice Age.

Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.
Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. “If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.”

From Fox News

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Hat Tip Debbie Schlussel

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Two pro-Palestinian politicians from England narrowly missed getting hit by a Palestinian-fired mortar during a recent trip to Israel and Gaza. From the Buxton Avertiser (anti-Israel bias alert):

HIGH PEAK MP Tom Levitt had a lucky escape when a Palestinian mortar bomb landed just 50 yards away from him during a trip to Israel and Gaza.

Mr Levitt had joined three other MPs on a four-day tour of the region, meeting groups and witnessing the effects of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory on the West Bank.

The incident happened as the group returned from Gaza to Israel, after witnessing the humanitarian work of the United Nations in the beleaguered territory.

When security fears prompted the Israelis to close the border crossing, the party was delayed by 90 minutes. As they finally entered the new compound – across which no Israelis and few Palestinians are now allowed to cross – a loud explosion rocked the building.”

After a few moments’ panic we were told to take shelter in the nearby toilet block, which had clearly been built as a bomb shelter,” said Mr Levitt.

“No-one had been hurt and no buildings were damaged in the attack. Ten minutes later the all-clear was given.

“Although this was a short range, poorly targeted, Palestinian Qassan mortar bomb it gave us a true flavour of the threat currently faced by people on both sides of the border.”

Hat Tip McClatchy Watch

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It has been a rough winter in many parts of the world this year. The stranded ship is from China.

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That is just not right. This man can have a little more dignity then this.

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A nice blog at The Filter about the fact that government can not create prosperity. A good government can help create the conditions that lead to prosperity. A bad government can try to control wealth, innovation, business with the intention of making things better. History reveals this approach will fail every time in the end.

In all times and in all places there has been too much government. We now know what prosperity is: it is the gradual extension of the division of labour through the free exchange of goods and ideas, and the consequent introduction of efficiencies by the invention of new technologies. This is the process that has given us health, wealth and wisdom on a scale unimagined by our ancestors. It not only raises material standards of living, it also fuels social integration, fairness and charity. It has never failed yet. No society has grown poorer or more unequal through trade, exchange and invention.

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After a long wait and anticipation we got a chance to have dinner at the Waterboy. Located in Midtown at 2000 Capitol Ave in Sacramento California this is a nice location. The restaurant does not try to pass itself off as the ultimate gourmet experience but instead focuses on a open, relaxed and comfortable place with great food and service. We think they succeeded. The service was warm and friendly by every member of the staff we encountered. But it is for the food that we came and it was exceptional. Since the menu is constantly changing and there are often specials not everything we ordered was on the menu. Everything we ordered was prepared perfectly, from the antipasto, to the main course, desert, to the espresso. Having eaten at a few of the nicer restaurants in Sacramento such as The Firehouse, Ruth Chris, Capitol Grill, etc. I can recommend this as arguably the best we have had to date.”

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The more I look at burkas the more I think of women wrapped in grave clothes or lepers. It is beyond repressive, it casts women as diseased, ugly, and dead. It is because of these wonderful attributes that a firm in Germany decided that it would use the burka to market its ideas:

…because it is often perceived in the west as a symbol of repression.

This is how liberals think, really. The choice was made because it was perceived as negative, not because it is positive. Kind of hard to find anything positive about wearing grave clothes imposed by men who are allowed to beat you. Narrowing the point is that liberals will choose to support bad things (such as burkas and Islamic law) that should be contrary to their beliefs only if it is in conflict with Christian values.

Hat Tip Engadget.

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For many years now Republican’s have enjoyed watching the Democrats in disarray and seeking purpose. I suspect the dems would still be fractured if we did not have a war. Liberals of all flavors can really rally behind a war protest. As for the conservatives it would appear that we are in for a rough ride in the years ahead. We certainly have not elected a Reagan conservative since Reagan. What we are left with is candidates such as McCPain that appear to have electability but little else. Romney appears to be the best conservative is not getting a lot of love from us either.

The problem, in my way of thinking, is with the Republican party. It effectively is the democrat party of just a few years ago. The only true conservative in this election was Fred Thompson and Republicans spent more time finding fault with how he ran his campaign rather then embracing a conservative that had a record to match his consistent words. Ron Paul for his strangeness also represents a true conservative (I believe he just goes to far in his lack of support for the war on terrorism). Ron Paul and his ideas are getting thrown under the bus.

So how will this ship get righted? History will tell but it will likely require our slipping nation to get worse before more Americans and especially conservatives wake up and realize things are getting worse with liberal (socialist) agendas. Another possibility would be a major terrorist strike. Either way our country will be hosed before it can get better.

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