Just thought I would point out the obvious fact that is it getting harder to claim a consensus when over half of the scientists don’t buy the holy consensus.

Breaking: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

Last week in his blog post, New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears, on the Inhofe EPW Press Blog, Marc Morano cited a July 2007 review of 539 abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals from 2004 through 2007 that found that climate science continues to shift toward the views off global warming skeptics.

Today, Michael Asher provides more details about this new survey in his blog post, Survey: Less Than Half Of All Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory. Asher writes that the study has been submitted for publication in the journal Energy and Environment.

Face it, the glaciers are not what is melting.  What’s melting is the facade of lies about Global Warming. 

Granted this is hardly empirical, or a totally conclusive scientific fact, but it is interesting.

Face it, the glaciers are not what is melting.  What’s melting is the facade of lies about Global Warming.

Of course, this isn’t scientific either:

Priest offers ‘eco-confessions’ for environmental sinners

Forgotten to recycle any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer?

The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in “green confessions” to help eco-sinners to find forgiveness.

Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county’s Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.

Why not?  We already have eco indulgences, the so called carbon offsets…though those are not within the Church.

Good.  I cannot wait to see how this works.  Murtha’s comments were inexcusable. He badly slandered some innocent people.  Via Hot Air:

Well, the Marine Corps investigator has now dropped all charges against 3 of the 8 accused Marines in the case, and only one Marine still stands accused of crimes at the scene. The others are charged with various after-the-fact issues that arose from investigations of Haditha, not the events themselves. Murtha’s aim, of course, in accusing the Marines of murder “in cold blood” was to pin the blame on Bush. But in the process of blaming Bush, he slandered those Marines.

One of those Marines, Col. Jeffrey Chessani, plans to sue Murtha once he’s exonerated.

Brian Rooney, one of the attorneys at Michigan’s Thomas More Law Center representing Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani and a former Marine captain himself told NewsMax.com that his client, who is alleged to have failed to fully investigate the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha November, 2005 and not reporting an alleged Law of War violation, may follow the example of another Haditha Marine, SSgt. Frank Wuterich who is suing Murtha for libel.

I hope he cleans Murtha’s clock.  Our politicians need to be reminded that they have an ethical obligation to the truth.

Why am I not surprised?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070830/D8RBARRG2.html

An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Running games are still allowed as long as students don’t chase each other, she said.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn’t object.

In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

I hear the latest acceptable game is to sit in a circle, say nurturing and encouraging things to the person next you including a nice compliment, and then move on the next.

Then you shuffle and compliment a new person.  If your compliment is deemed not sincere you stand in the middle and the group offers you a freindly intervention.

Ok, I might have made that up….

Fools.

Let the excuses begin.  The School and the Government are going to vigorously defend themselves and blame the other.  I am going to deconstruct this dreck in detail.  At the bottom, I will note the real solution which the panel ignored.

 Va. Tech president defends school’s response, while the Governor-appointed panel sharply critical of university’s actions

Virginia Tech’s president, facing calls for his ouster, defended his university’s response to the nation’s deadliest school shooting, saying Thursday that officials couldn’t have known the gunman would attack twice.

He is right.  The initial attack was a homicide in the dorm, and like it or not, sometimes that happens.  There was nothing overt to suggest he was planning to make it a massacre, and in fact, one of the victim’s boyfriend was considered a person of interest initially.  As the timeline shows:

TIMELINE:  7.15am -  Virginia Tech Police Department receives an emergency call to go to a dormitory room at West Ambler Johnston Residence Hall at the Virginia Tech University.  Officers and members of the Virginia Tech rescue squad arrive to find two people, a man and a woman, have been shot dead in a dormitory.  The hall is closed off, students are asked to remain in their rooms and police begin collecting evidence and identifying witnesses.

The university authorities believe the deaths are “an isolated incident, domestic in nature.”

Between 7:30 am and 8:00 am: Heather Haugh, Emily Hilscher’s friend and roommate arrived to meet her to go to chemistry class together. When she asked about Hilscher, Haugh was questioned by detectives and gave them the information that Hilscher would usually spend weekends with her boyfriend, Karl Thornhill, at his off-campus townhouse. She explained that on Monday mornings Thornhill would drop off Hilscher and go back to Radford University where he was a student, and that Thornhill was an avid gun user. This led the police to seek him out as a “person of interest.”

I hate to sit here and defend Al Sharpton, but I have to.  You see in the wake of the Michael Vick scandal he was quoted as saying:

If the police caught Brett Favre (a white quarterback for the Green Bay Packers) running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other, would they bust him? Of course not,” Sharpton wrote Tuesday on his personal blog .

Ok.  that is clearly the most absurd thing ever.  I am no lover of Sharpton, and he has a history of absurdity, but that had to be bogus.

And it was:

MSNBC Duped By Blog Parody Site

What does a major news organization do on a big story when it looks for a lively quote?

Reporters will interview people, or, in this day and age, do an internet search. And then you can strike GOLD: that great QUOTE on a website that fits a story perfectly.

But there are danger signs on the cyberspace highway.

That’s because there are parody sites…and some of them look like REAL websites of the rich, famous and infamous. And some of them are so silly and laugh-out loud outrageous, snarky and downright dumb that they seem like they MUST be the real thing.

MSNBC found that out recently, when it quoted a GREAT QUOTE on the Michael Vick case by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Only it turned out not to be a quote by the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Rather then sheepishly admit they got snookered, they ran for cover.

How did MSNBC explain it?

By running a correction saying the quoted Sharpton site was a “hoax.”

WRONG. Newsgroper is a supremely delicious parody site that anyone except someone who believes in the Easter Bunny will conclude is a parody — perfectly done. It’s sort of like a fake Huffington Post.

I swear, just about every time this bozo opens his mouth something else elitist and ignorant pops put ans reinforces my belief that he really is that far out of touch with not just the average American, but with reality.

Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs

 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

And I imagine he drove off in his Cadillac SUV, and flew away in his private jet for his next 400 dollar haircut before heading home to his 28000 sq ft house.

(Source Politico)

Putz.

I’m sick of this patronizing “do as I say not as I do” attitude, which is common in politics in general, but in the environmental matters in particular, seems to permeate the Democrats.

Politicians love telling us how much we have to sacrifice and all the things we must do while casually going about their wasteful business, only stopping long enough to buy indulgences, to give them back their happy place of smug superiority.

As Sister Toldjah notes:

And just how many SUVs can you count around the Edwards estate?

Edwards sounds like he’s channeling the Goracle, who pleaded in his Academy Award winning global warming crock-, er, documentary for people to conserve and sacrifice in order to save our planet, even though he himself wasn’t and hasn’t exactly been doing his part to help.

Nor are many of his loyal supporters (scroll).

Same same for Senator John Kerry.

And Senator Dianne Feinstein. And Ahhhnold.

And Arianna Huffington.

Agreed.  ST has the money quote on this issue here:

My initial reaction was to laugh.  Damage control.

But a part of me has to wonder why.  Afterall, the money he raised was legal right?  So why act as though it was tainted?

Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case.

The donor, Norman Hsu, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic candidates since 2003, and was slated to be co-host next month for a Clinton gala featuring the entertainer Quincy Jones.

The event would not have been unusual for Mr. Hsu, a businessman from Hong Kong who moves in circles of power and influence, serving on the board of a university in New York and helping to bankroll Democratic campaigns.

But what was not widely known was that Mr. Hsu, who is in the apparel business in New York, has been considered a fugitive since he failed to show up in a San Mateo County courtroom about 15 years ago to be sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud investors, according to the California attorney general’s office.

Make of it what you will. 

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So why so much focus just on Democratic scandals?  Because they annoy me pointing the finger at the corruption in the Republican party when their house is just as dirty.

They claim to be the party of the working class and accuse the Republicans of being owned by rich money. As this story shows, they have more then a little cash on their side:

Soros-linked group hit with huge fine

The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.

America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.

The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.

The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.

And speaking of the Democratsd and their finance woes, here is another:

PRO-CLINTON ‘DIRTY CASH’ MAN FLEES

A Pakistani immigrant is wanted by federal authorities on charges he channeled $30,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential war chest.

The FBI is hunting Los Angeles businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, who vanished soon after his grand-jury indictment for violating federal election laws last May.

Clinton’s camp has denied any knowledge of Jinnah’s scheme, which is also alleged to have funneled more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the political action committees of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

His scam is very like the one Hsu used with the Paw family.

Read more at fec.gov, NewsBusters.org, The Caucus, The Anchoress and Wake up America,  The Trail,  TIME and MSNBC

All this does, frankly is remind me that the problem is not a culture of corruption in one or the other party, but a culture of corruption in Washington DC.  Money costs elections, elections mean power and money becomes influence, and that’s the bottom line. 

His name should be familiar.  I just blogged about his nifty donation laundereing scheme.

Is this coincidence or is this a scheme to ‘launder’ campaign donations?  I believe it is a carefully arranged way to direct money to campaigns, bypassing campaign donation limits, and not a coincidence

Well turns out that Norman Hsu is also a fugitive, according to the LA Times:

Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

The Los Angeles Times reports on this website tonight and in Wednesday’s print editions that a major Democratic Party fundraiser named Norman Hsu is wanted by authorities for skipping out on an agreement to serve up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to grand theft swindling charges.

In a story by Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, The Times reports that for three years Hsu has been carving out a place of political and financial influence by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into Democratic Party coffers, much of the money earmarked for Sen. Hillary Clinton. He has earned the ranking of Hillraiser for pledging to raise at least $100,000 for her.

In just the last 36 months Hsu has been involved in raising more than $1 million for Clinton and other Democrats. Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, confirmed today that Hsu had been a “longtime and generous supporter” of the party including Clinton. “We have no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them,” Wolfson added.

Hsu has developed a specialty of bundling hefty campaign contributions from obscure citizens who live modest lives and have never before given money to campaigns. Many are not even registered to vote.

Over the years other recipients of Hsu donations have included Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Edward Kennedy.

Hsu’s lawyer confirmed today that his client was the one involved in the California case but said he did not remember pleading to a criminal case nor facing jail time.

I ran across this at Hot Air

It is a brilliant smack down, and yet another example of the media cutting a few corners on the truth.

  Enjoy.