The story is that Danny Kaye had Bing Crosby in stitches during this routine. You can really see it in the last few moments. Crosby can hardly stop from breaking up. One of my favorite Christmas films of all time.
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Church, Aliens, and Colbert
News Bits
The whackiest bit of propaganda yet: Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? This is what passes for journalism today. Now, I think Russia knows that the passage of cap-n-trade would bankrupt western nations. Seems to me they would be for that and not for merely embarrassing British scientists. Silly Brits.
Second whackiest bit of propaganda goes to the Guardian, which thinks if it simulataneously publishes hogwash in numerous other old media venues, then its warmist mush is true. It is true, I tell you! Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation' Of course, as the article tells you, it's all about wealth redistribution to poor countries and punishing ourselves because we are so, so bad and evil.
And, as the mantra goes on ad nauseum is this: Copenhagen emissions targets ‘not enough to avert catastrophic warming’ The sky is falling, doncha know.
Now the next article is one that, if you can get through it (it's a real snorer), is the warmist version of a calm, cool, and collected. And it goes on and on as if ClimateGate had never happened, just like the articles above: If It Warms Up, Who's Going to Pay? Take a wild guess--who do ya think is going to pay?
Now this is a see-through technique--blame the rich nations for an undercover conspiracy to cheat the poor nations of the money that is rightfully theirs. Because if you make them feel guilty they may promise to ante up a bit more just to shut you up. The article claims that poor countries are suffering terribly from the effects of global warming caused by the rich countries. Now, there is literally no proof of that. The whole thing is absolutely insane: EU aims to raid aid budgets for climate deal: Oxfam
Here's a slightly less zany article about ClimateGate. It's from the NYT, so you can imagine: As Climate Meeting Starts, a Revival of Skepticism
Here's some sanity from American Thinker: Donald Kennedy and the corruption of Science Magazine.
This is a nice editorial from The Washington Times on the media's silence about ClimateGate: EDITORIAL: Media complicity in Climategate
There is other news. The dems are at war with small business.
When big business gets in bed with government, the little guy gets hurt. Comcast just loves Obamacare, of course.
Iran, that naughty little badboy of the middle east, says it simply must have 20 nuclear plants.
Last, and least, I just can't believe all this stuff about Tiger Woods. Honestly, now the number of women is up to 7! Yes, in five short years of marriage, the guy has managed to bed all these women in addition to his wife? There's probably more that we'll never (thankfully) know about. I was about to link to a story, but it's all over the news anyhow. What I think can be safely said is that the man is out of control. He's acting out in very destructive ways. Can't imagine a marriage surviving this type of infidelity, but one never knows. LORD have mercy and comfort all the afflicted, including two very sweet and innocent children.
Second whackiest bit of propaganda goes to the Guardian, which thinks if it simulataneously publishes hogwash in numerous other old media venues, then its warmist mush is true. It is true, I tell you! Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation' Of course, as the article tells you, it's all about wealth redistribution to poor countries and punishing ourselves because we are so, so bad and evil.
And, as the mantra goes on ad nauseum is this: Copenhagen emissions targets ‘not enough to avert catastrophic warming’ The sky is falling, doncha know.
Now the next article is one that, if you can get through it (it's a real snorer), is the warmist version of a calm, cool, and collected. And it goes on and on as if ClimateGate had never happened, just like the articles above: If It Warms Up, Who's Going to Pay? Take a wild guess--who do ya think is going to pay?
Now this is a see-through technique--blame the rich nations for an undercover conspiracy to cheat the poor nations of the money that is rightfully theirs. Because if you make them feel guilty they may promise to ante up a bit more just to shut you up. The article claims that poor countries are suffering terribly from the effects of global warming caused by the rich countries. Now, there is literally no proof of that. The whole thing is absolutely insane: EU aims to raid aid budgets for climate deal: Oxfam
Here's a slightly less zany article about ClimateGate. It's from the NYT, so you can imagine: As Climate Meeting Starts, a Revival of Skepticism
Here's some sanity from American Thinker: Donald Kennedy and the corruption of Science Magazine.
This is a nice editorial from The Washington Times on the media's silence about ClimateGate: EDITORIAL: Media complicity in Climategate
There is other news. The dems are at war with small business.
When big business gets in bed with government, the little guy gets hurt. Comcast just loves Obamacare, of course.
Iran, that naughty little badboy of the middle east, says it simply must have 20 nuclear plants.
Last, and least, I just can't believe all this stuff about Tiger Woods. Honestly, now the number of women is up to 7! Yes, in five short years of marriage, the guy has managed to bed all these women in addition to his wife? There's probably more that we'll never (thankfully) know about. I was about to link to a story, but it's all over the news anyhow. What I think can be safely said is that the man is out of control. He's acting out in very destructive ways. Can't imagine a marriage surviving this type of infidelity, but one never knows. LORD have mercy and comfort all the afflicted, including two very sweet and innocent children.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
O's school czar, exposed
I am linking to Gateway Pundit, who is a blogger at First Things. The link (provided below) exposes the Safe School Czar Keven Jennings, appointed by Obama. The First Things site has come under cyber attack, according to The Anchoress, because of the expose. She also has additional links of interest on this topic.
It is vitally important that people understand what is going on in our schools and just what the Obama administration has planned for them. It is sick, perverted, disgusting. I am warning you that what Gateway Pundit has uncovered will make your skin crawl. It is not for children, but the stuff is being targeted at primary and secondary schoolchildren.
Obama and his sort count on sleepy Americans to trust that their government knows best and wouldn't knowingly harm schoolchildren. Don't kid yourself.
Obama Czar Kevin Jennings and his curriculum (AGAIN, I WARN YOU THIS STUFF IS EXPLICIT. IT IS PORNOGRAPHY AND IT IS TARGETING YOUR CHILDREN. I could not read all the exerpts it was so horrible.)
Many of the comments afterward implore Gateway Pundit to link only to the exerpts and not reproduce them. However, as much as this stuff is nauseating, I think it's better to have it all in one place so that you don't have to click link after link. You can read enough to understand just what is at stake and then be motivated to demand this man and his curriculum be expunged from Obama's administration. And do read the comments. Many of them give more information on what is behind Obama and his Czar. And like the curriculum, it is impure and evil.
All that evil asks is to be let alone. It has been let alone long enough, in my opinion.
It is vitally important that people understand what is going on in our schools and just what the Obama administration has planned for them. It is sick, perverted, disgusting. I am warning you that what Gateway Pundit has uncovered will make your skin crawl. It is not for children, but the stuff is being targeted at primary and secondary schoolchildren.
Obama and his sort count on sleepy Americans to trust that their government knows best and wouldn't knowingly harm schoolchildren. Don't kid yourself.
Obama Czar Kevin Jennings and his curriculum (AGAIN, I WARN YOU THIS STUFF IS EXPLICIT. IT IS PORNOGRAPHY AND IT IS TARGETING YOUR CHILDREN. I could not read all the exerpts it was so horrible.)
Many of the comments afterward implore Gateway Pundit to link only to the exerpts and not reproduce them. However, as much as this stuff is nauseating, I think it's better to have it all in one place so that you don't have to click link after link. You can read enough to understand just what is at stake and then be motivated to demand this man and his curriculum be expunged from Obama's administration. And do read the comments. Many of them give more information on what is behind Obama and his Czar. And like the curriculum, it is impure and evil.
All that evil asks is to be let alone. It has been let alone long enough, in my opinion.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
VOICES IN THE MIST
The Time draws near the birth of Christ,
The moon is hid, the night is still.
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut before me and the sound:
Each voice four changes on the wind,
That now dilate, and note decrease,
Peace and goodwill, goodwill and peace,
Peace and goodwill, to all mankind.
The Time draws near the birth of Christ,
The moon is hid, the night is still.
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut before me and the sound:
Each voice four changes on the wind,
That now dilate, and note decrease,
Peace and goodwill, goodwill and peace,
Peace and goodwill, to all mankind.
I love my oven even if it does cause warming!
I've been holiday baking this fine winter day so have come to the news late. Of course, it is really more of the same. The climate-warmists have resorted to squeaking and squawking that people are being mean to them, are assassinating their characters, and that the science underneath all the lies, obstructions, and denials is really sound. In fact, ta da, it is still accurate. As in Dan Rather's 'fake but accurate' mantra. Apparently, when one has allowed oneself to become hopelessly corrupted, hopelessly mired in ideology, the thought that facts might have more weight than yet another lie from one's mouth does not occur to oneself. Truly disgusting, and truly frightening to those who understand that there are spiritual things at stake also, like one's immortal soul.
That said, here's the roundup for today:
James Delingpole provides a little video fun with one of the warmists going up against a skeptic. Both behave badly, but the warmist gets the last word in--to his shame.
Is it possible that the warmists have come to rely on a single tree to hold up their entire house of cards?
I knew I loved Medieval Times. Contrary to what your PC history book says, there was lots of good stuff going on back in the day. Including the MWP (Medieval Warming Period)! This article is fantastic for those who want a layperson's guide to the background of ClimateGate.
Yes, Al Gore, has officially gone into hiding. This article will have give you a jolly belly laugh!
And then there's the NYT. Smarmy and stupid, like a one-eyed troll emerging from some dark cave into the sunlight. They don't get it because they don't want to get it. And they're going to go the way of the dinosaur precisely for that reason. This is the 'fake but accurate' story, part deux.
That said, here's the roundup for today:
James Delingpole provides a little video fun with one of the warmists going up against a skeptic. Both behave badly, but the warmist gets the last word in--to his shame.
Is it possible that the warmists have come to rely on a single tree to hold up their entire house of cards?
I knew I loved Medieval Times. Contrary to what your PC history book says, there was lots of good stuff going on back in the day. Including the MWP (Medieval Warming Period)! This article is fantastic for those who want a layperson's guide to the background of ClimateGate.
Yes, Al Gore, has officially gone into hiding. This article will have give you a jolly belly laugh!
And then there's the NYT. Smarmy and stupid, like a one-eyed troll emerging from some dark cave into the sunlight. They don't get it because they don't want to get it. And they're going to go the way of the dinosaur precisely for that reason. This is the 'fake but accurate' story, part deux.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
It goes on and on....
It's interesting to see how quickly the press and its propagandists attempt to control and direct the unfolding ClimateGate scandal. This article mentions the term 'greenhouse gas', instead of C02. Wonder why that particular term is being used again, suddenly. The article also doesn't mention, not once, ClimateGate. And it puts a positive spin on Obama's sudden decision to attend the later sessions of the Copenhagen climate get-together, rather than the earlier sessions that he had planned for and announced. That is quite interesting because I just read the day before that France's Sarkozy was criticizing Obama for his original plan to attend the conference in the early sessions. Methinks there is an attempt to hold things together that are fast coming apart. The article, itself, seems a desperate bid to manufacture their version of the truth. It is breathtaking in its assumptions.
Nile Gardiner speaks to the joke-that-is-the-UN, which is calling for an investigation into ClimateGate. And yes, he's right on.
Sarah Palin has spoken. About ClimateGate. She says all the right things. I can't help but think, though, that she's finally got some decent handlers.
IBD brings up what may be the next phase of ClimateGate: NASA-Gate. It's a very messy business. And NASA has some 'splaining to do.
George Will does a fabulous job of pointing out the hypocrisy of the warmists. FTA: China, nimble at the politics of pretending that is characteristic of climate-change theater, promises only to reduce its "carbon intensity" -- carbon emissions per unit of production. So China's emissions will rise.
Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen.
And this: Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes. They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet's fate depends. So some of them consider it virtuous to embroider facts, exaggerate certitudes, suppress inconvenient data, and manipulate the peer-review process to suppress scholarly dissent and, above all, to declare that the debate is over.
And last, but not least, is a long but absorbing article by Stephen F. Hayward that gives a very balanced view of the scientific ethics involved in ClimateGate. He explains some things that other articles haven't and really nails down what it means when scientists abandon truth and embrace ideology.
Nile Gardiner speaks to the joke-that-is-the-UN, which is calling for an investigation into ClimateGate. And yes, he's right on.
Sarah Palin has spoken. About ClimateGate. She says all the right things. I can't help but think, though, that she's finally got some decent handlers.
IBD brings up what may be the next phase of ClimateGate: NASA-Gate. It's a very messy business. And NASA has some 'splaining to do.
George Will does a fabulous job of pointing out the hypocrisy of the warmists. FTA: China, nimble at the politics of pretending that is characteristic of climate-change theater, promises only to reduce its "carbon intensity" -- carbon emissions per unit of production. So China's emissions will rise.
Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen.
And this: Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes. They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet's fate depends. So some of them consider it virtuous to embroider facts, exaggerate certitudes, suppress inconvenient data, and manipulate the peer-review process to suppress scholarly dissent and, above all, to declare that the debate is over.
And last, but not least, is a long but absorbing article by Stephen F. Hayward that gives a very balanced view of the scientific ethics involved in ClimateGate. He explains some things that other articles haven't and really nails down what it means when scientists abandon truth and embrace ideology.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Education at home
My final 'homeschool experiment' is off to college in January. Yes, a big sigh of relief. Are there gaps in his education? You betcha. But he can think. He can wrap his mind around an issue and weigh its points. He looks at things from more than one angle. He doesn't necessarily trust that what others tell him is the truth. He has a standard, an unmovable foundation from which to base his perspective.
He's not particularly well-read, though we did read far more classics than most kids get nowadays. His taste runs to Tolkien and Robert Jordan right now, and I'm dandy with that. Aquinas is on his shelf and he does open it up now and then.
If I had to do it over I would homeschool again. Would probably be a little more tough on certain subjects and not spend quite so much time delving into world history and literature. And we did go on an awful lot of field trips over the years. And we did spend an awful lot of time roaming the woods and collecting specimens. And we did settle into a rather carefree and slow-paced daily routine. And I did put on a few lame Shakespeare plays, but the kids loved them. We also did a lot of just playing, and taking swimming lessons, guitar and art lessons, and horseback riding, and volunteering, and so forth.
And for some strange reason, both kids have a good idea of what they want to do in life. I'm still working on that one for myself. It wasn't always easy. I remember when my son was 12 he decided he didn't want to do school, and honestly I had to call his dad to come home from work (or threaten to) more times than I care to remember. I think it had something to do with not wanting to be under the authority of a woman. But we muddled through and he was fine until just last year when he'd had it up to his eyeballs with grammar and algebra.
Things kinda went off the rails for awhile, but you know, I think some of those times when not much was getting done on the outside, stuff was getting done on the inside. He must've been working through his purpose in life, because he knows exactly what he wants to do and knows what courses to take and it's really gratifying to see him go off (all six-foot-something of him) and connect with the world and move through it with so much more grace than I ever did.
He'll be 18 next month. I have two college students at home now. It blows me away. I thank God, for it was all by His leading that we went down this path many years ago. And it was worth the financial toll and tantrums and the teacher burnout and the disapproval by friends and family. It was worth every moment.
Came across a post at Buttered Ham that goes along with my theme of home education. It's not for everyone, but something has to change in the public school sector.
He's not particularly well-read, though we did read far more classics than most kids get nowadays. His taste runs to Tolkien and Robert Jordan right now, and I'm dandy with that. Aquinas is on his shelf and he does open it up now and then.
If I had to do it over I would homeschool again. Would probably be a little more tough on certain subjects and not spend quite so much time delving into world history and literature. And we did go on an awful lot of field trips over the years. And we did spend an awful lot of time roaming the woods and collecting specimens. And we did settle into a rather carefree and slow-paced daily routine. And I did put on a few lame Shakespeare plays, but the kids loved them. We also did a lot of just playing, and taking swimming lessons, guitar and art lessons, and horseback riding, and volunteering, and so forth.
And for some strange reason, both kids have a good idea of what they want to do in life. I'm still working on that one for myself. It wasn't always easy. I remember when my son was 12 he decided he didn't want to do school, and honestly I had to call his dad to come home from work (or threaten to) more times than I care to remember. I think it had something to do with not wanting to be under the authority of a woman. But we muddled through and he was fine until just last year when he'd had it up to his eyeballs with grammar and algebra.
Things kinda went off the rails for awhile, but you know, I think some of those times when not much was getting done on the outside, stuff was getting done on the inside. He must've been working through his purpose in life, because he knows exactly what he wants to do and knows what courses to take and it's really gratifying to see him go off (all six-foot-something of him) and connect with the world and move through it with so much more grace than I ever did.
He'll be 18 next month. I have two college students at home now. It blows me away. I thank God, for it was all by His leading that we went down this path many years ago. And it was worth the financial toll and tantrums and the teacher burnout and the disapproval by friends and family. It was worth every moment.
Came across a post at Buttered Ham that goes along with my theme of home education. It's not for everyone, but something has to change in the public school sector.
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
From An Old Story
Babe and mother, coming mage,
Shepherd, ass, and cow!
Angels watching the new age,
Time's intensest Now!
Heaven down-brooding, Earth upstraining,
Far ends closing in!
Sure the eternal tide is gaining
On the strand of sin!
Whatever the weather....UPDATED
Oh My Gosh! Al Gore is a poet. Vanity Fair has a fawning fluff piece on 'Al Gore the climate whore' as commenter pliades called him over at Lucianne.com this morning. You just cannot make this stuff up. The man has actually written a poem about global warming. It is untitled and Vanity Fair calls it "equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing." Here it is (or at least the parts that Vanity Fair published:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Okie dokie. Then Vanity Fair goes on to speculate that Gore may be the shepherd. Naturally. Here's the kicker: "But the final lines of Gore’s poem certainly apply to the governments that will gather in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18 for what is regarded as humanity’s last chance to avert absolutely catastrophic climate change."
Yes. Those are actual lines from the article. I can't believe people could actually write this stuff as if it was real. I keep thinking there's a punchline somewhere.
Here's Conrad Black at NRO: Green Is The New Red: Global-warming hysteria was made to order for anti-capitalist militants. From the article (which is full of sense): "As Lord Lawson wrote in his book An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, those concerned about imminent environmental catastrophe — as compared, for example, to the real danger of nuclear terrorism — “need not worry about saving this planet. They are already living on another one. . . . We appear to have entered a new age of unreason. . . . It is from this, above all, that we really need to save the planet.”
You've heard their names, but here's the low-down on the warmist-mongers by Barbara Hollingworth at the Washington Examiner: Who's who on climate fraud. There's five of 'em and here's a snippet: "These five, though far from being the only ones, are among the top perpetrators of the Great Global Warming Hoax. They should never be taken seriously again."
UPDATE: Do read this wonderful article about Global warming's new clothes. It doesn't get any better than this.
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Okie dokie. Then Vanity Fair goes on to speculate that Gore may be the shepherd. Naturally. Here's the kicker: "But the final lines of Gore’s poem certainly apply to the governments that will gather in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18 for what is regarded as humanity’s last chance to avert absolutely catastrophic climate change."
Yes. Those are actual lines from the article. I can't believe people could actually write this stuff as if it was real. I keep thinking there's a punchline somewhere.
Here's Conrad Black at NRO: Green Is The New Red: Global-warming hysteria was made to order for anti-capitalist militants. From the article (which is full of sense): "As Lord Lawson wrote in his book An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, those concerned about imminent environmental catastrophe — as compared, for example, to the real danger of nuclear terrorism — “need not worry about saving this planet. They are already living on another one. . . . We appear to have entered a new age of unreason. . . . It is from this, above all, that we really need to save the planet.”
You've heard their names, but here's the low-down on the warmist-mongers by Barbara Hollingworth at the Washington Examiner: Who's who on climate fraud. There's five of 'em and here's a snippet: "These five, though far from being the only ones, are among the top perpetrators of the Great Global Warming Hoax. They should never be taken seriously again."
UPDATE: Do read this wonderful article about Global warming's new clothes. It doesn't get any better than this.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The hot seat in Denmark
The High Priest of Global Warming, aka Al Gore, is getting cold feet just as things are really heating up: Gore cancels personal appearance in Copenhagen. And then there's this: Copenhagen targets not tough enough, says Al Gore.
Apparently his eminence is feeling somewhat of a target himself. Even 3,000 unhappy ticket-buyers ($1290 a piece) isn't enough for him to make an appearance. Who will speak on behalf of the polar bears?
Apparently his eminence is feeling somewhat of a target himself. Even 3,000 unhappy ticket-buyers ($1290 a piece) isn't enough for him to make an appearance. Who will speak on behalf of the polar bears?
Getting capped
These warmist guys aren't going to go down without a fight. The White House is determined to cap-n-trade us. Remember that book The White Mountains? The alien tripods 'capped' all the humans, which made them into little submissive automatons. Appropriate, hein? Here's an unlovely little snippet from the article: "If you could take those e mails and chop them up into fairy dust and sprinkle them over the Greenland ice cap and stop the accelerated melting going on there, that would be a good thing, but that won't happen."
They've turned up the volume of mockery and arrogance. Fairy dust, huh? These people are just rank. They stink of hubris and willful blindness and the desire to control us. But the jig is up.
And here's the governor of California going all Follywood as he unveils a map detailing the future of a globally-warmed City by the Bay--drowning in rising ocean waters. Are you kidding me? What kind of idiocy would tempt a politician to come out just now and act as if 'the science is settled'? I know what kind of politician. A showman; a conman; a snakeoil saleman. The bigger the lie, the more confident you have to be to sell it.
And you can count on the press to keep up the increasingly ridiculous propaganda. Get a load of this article. A snippet: President Barack Obama and Congress are talking about $1.2 billion a year from the U.S. for international climate aid, which includes adaptation. The U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer, said $10 billion to $12 billion a year is needed from developed countries through 2012 to "kick-start" things. Then it will get even more expensive.
The World Bank estimates adaptation costs will total $75 billion to $100 billion a year over the next 40 years. The International Institute for Environment and Development, a London think tank, says that number is too low.
It may even be $200 billion a year or $300 billion a year, said Chris Hope, a business school professor at the University of Cambridge and part of the IIED study.
Nevertheless, Hope said failing to adapt would be even more expensive — perhaps $6 trillion a year on average over the next 200 years. Adaptation could cut that by about $2 trillion a year, he said.
As much as three-quarters of the spending will be needed in the developing world, experts say. [Yeah, they need it to redistribute wealth, the real motive behind this modern-day pirate raid on the west.]
"Those are not the countries that caused the problem," Hope said. "There's a pretty strong moral case for us giving them assistance for the impacts that we've largely caused."
Sending money from rich countries to poor ones raises questions of who will control the spending and whether it will be wasted or stolen.
As for helping plants and animals, British climate scientist Martin Parry said the world will have to create a triage system to figure out which living things can be saved, which can't and are effectively goners, and which don't need immediate help. [They just love playing God. No, they think they are God.]
"It's a brutal way to go about things," Parry said.
And what about people?
Some islands, such as the Maldives, and some coastal cities will not be able to survive rising seas no matter what protections are put in place, said Saleemel Huq, a senior fellow at IIED who runs an adaptation center in Bangladesh. In those cases, he said, the world will need "planned relocation" of people and cities. [Does anybody, anybody believe a word they're saying at this point? Anyone not in the scientific or political bubble, that is?]
They've turned up the volume of mockery and arrogance. Fairy dust, huh? These people are just rank. They stink of hubris and willful blindness and the desire to control us. But the jig is up.
And here's the governor of California going all Follywood as he unveils a map detailing the future of a globally-warmed City by the Bay--drowning in rising ocean waters. Are you kidding me? What kind of idiocy would tempt a politician to come out just now and act as if 'the science is settled'? I know what kind of politician. A showman; a conman; a snakeoil saleman. The bigger the lie, the more confident you have to be to sell it.
And you can count on the press to keep up the increasingly ridiculous propaganda. Get a load of this article. A snippet: President Barack Obama and Congress are talking about $1.2 billion a year from the U.S. for international climate aid, which includes adaptation. The U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer, said $10 billion to $12 billion a year is needed from developed countries through 2012 to "kick-start" things. Then it will get even more expensive.
The World Bank estimates adaptation costs will total $75 billion to $100 billion a year over the next 40 years. The International Institute for Environment and Development, a London think tank, says that number is too low.
It may even be $200 billion a year or $300 billion a year, said Chris Hope, a business school professor at the University of Cambridge and part of the IIED study.
Nevertheless, Hope said failing to adapt would be even more expensive — perhaps $6 trillion a year on average over the next 200 years. Adaptation could cut that by about $2 trillion a year, he said.
As much as three-quarters of the spending will be needed in the developing world, experts say. [Yeah, they need it to redistribute wealth, the real motive behind this modern-day pirate raid on the west.]
"Those are not the countries that caused the problem," Hope said. "There's a pretty strong moral case for us giving them assistance for the impacts that we've largely caused."
Sending money from rich countries to poor ones raises questions of who will control the spending and whether it will be wasted or stolen.
As for helping plants and animals, British climate scientist Martin Parry said the world will have to create a triage system to figure out which living things can be saved, which can't and are effectively goners, and which don't need immediate help. [They just love playing God. No, they think they are God.]
"It's a brutal way to go about things," Parry said.
And what about people?
Some islands, such as the Maldives, and some coastal cities will not be able to survive rising seas no matter what protections are put in place, said Saleemel Huq, a senior fellow at IIED who runs an adaptation center in Bangladesh. In those cases, he said, the world will need "planned relocation" of people and cities. [Does anybody, anybody believe a word they're saying at this point? Anyone not in the scientific or political bubble, that is?]
You know what this is? This is fear-mongering. They throw around financial figures and scenarios and don't bat an eyelash. And it's all based on lies and obfuscation and greed and blind ideology.
It's Advent. I'm trying to wait patiently. But Lord, make haste to help us!
On the Pro-life Front
I just can't forget all those liberal Catholics who voted for Obama because of the 'seamless garment' theory. Obama was prolife in so many ways, they said, and he wanted to reduce abortions and blah, blah, blah.
Well, don't get me started on the 'seamless garment' theory, which is just a pretext for voting for the liberal agenda--and taken wildly out of context from the Scriptures. But here is an article on Obama's latest move on stem-cell research (and it ain't pretty or moral or prolife), and then Brian sent me this sickening video from the pro-aborts that says what they do is 'sacred'.
God have mercy.
Well, don't get me started on the 'seamless garment' theory, which is just a pretext for voting for the liberal agenda--and taken wildly out of context from the Scriptures. But here is an article on Obama's latest move on stem-cell research (and it ain't pretty or moral or prolife), and then Brian sent me this sickening video from the pro-aborts that says what they do is 'sacred'.
God have mercy.
A long slide downward
A couple years ago we almost got an Indymac loan for a house we wanted to build. We ended up moving out of state (the housing bubble was huge at that point) and bought a home in an area that wasn't inflated. But lookie here: George Soros owns Indymac (now known as OneWest) and he's making loads of money off the US government by refusing to modify loans for people in trouble. How's he doing it? Here's a snippet from the article:
When OneWest took over Indymac, the FDIC and OneWest executed a “Shared-Loss Agreement” covering the sale. This Agreement covered the terms of what the FDIC would reimburse OneWest for any losses from foreclosure on a property. It is at this point that the details get very confusing, so I shall try to simplify the terms. Some of the major details are:
OneWest would purchase all first mortgages at 70% of the current balance
OneWest would purchase Line of Equity Loans at 58% of the current balance.
In the event of foreclosure, the FDIC would cover from 80%-95% of losses, using the original loan amount, and not the current balance.
How does this translate to the “Real World”? Let us take a hypothetical situation. A homeowner has just lost his home in default. OneWest sells the property. Here are the details of the transaction:
The original loan amount was $500,000. Missed payments and other foreclosure costs bring the amount up to $550,000. At 70%, OneWest bought the loan for $385,000
The home is located in Stockton, CA, so its current value is likely about $185,000 and OneWest sells the home for that amount. Total loss for OneWest is $200,000. But this is not how FDIC determines the loss.
‘FDIC takes the $500,000 and subtracts the $185,000 Purchase Price. Total loss according to the FDIC is $315,000. If the FDIC is covering “ONLY” 80% of the loss, then the FDIC would reimburse OneWest to the tune of $252,000.
Add the $252,000 to the Purchase Price of $185,000, and you have One West recovering $437,000 for an “investment” of $385,000. Therefore, OneWest makes $52,000 in additional income above the actual Purchase Price loan amount after the FDIC reimbursement.
At this point, it becomes readily apparent why OneWest Bank has no intention of conducting loan modifications. Any modification means that OneWest would lose out on all this additional profit.
Greed. Lust. Power. Control.
HELL.
George ought to read the book Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams.
When OneWest took over Indymac, the FDIC and OneWest executed a “Shared-Loss Agreement” covering the sale. This Agreement covered the terms of what the FDIC would reimburse OneWest for any losses from foreclosure on a property. It is at this point that the details get very confusing, so I shall try to simplify the terms. Some of the major details are:
OneWest would purchase all first mortgages at 70% of the current balance
OneWest would purchase Line of Equity Loans at 58% of the current balance.
In the event of foreclosure, the FDIC would cover from 80%-95% of losses, using the original loan amount, and not the current balance.
How does this translate to the “Real World”? Let us take a hypothetical situation. A homeowner has just lost his home in default. OneWest sells the property. Here are the details of the transaction:
The original loan amount was $500,000. Missed payments and other foreclosure costs bring the amount up to $550,000. At 70%, OneWest bought the loan for $385,000
The home is located in Stockton, CA, so its current value is likely about $185,000 and OneWest sells the home for that amount. Total loss for OneWest is $200,000. But this is not how FDIC determines the loss.
‘FDIC takes the $500,000 and subtracts the $185,000 Purchase Price. Total loss according to the FDIC is $315,000. If the FDIC is covering “ONLY” 80% of the loss, then the FDIC would reimburse OneWest to the tune of $252,000.
Add the $252,000 to the Purchase Price of $185,000, and you have One West recovering $437,000 for an “investment” of $385,000. Therefore, OneWest makes $52,000 in additional income above the actual Purchase Price loan amount after the FDIC reimbursement.
At this point, it becomes readily apparent why OneWest Bank has no intention of conducting loan modifications. Any modification means that OneWest would lose out on all this additional profit.
Greed. Lust. Power. Control.
HELL.
George ought to read the book Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams.
Put a stake in it
Al Gore. What can you say about someone who has become very rich off perpetrating a fraud? Here he gets a little bit of 'social justice'. And here's an article on the money trail for Climategate. Here is a database for those who want to get to the leaked emails from CRU. You need to know a bit about what you're looking for, though. And here's a site that links to the Harry Read Me file that everyone's talking about--a poor programmer trying to make sense of the warmist data. The Anchoress has many more links. I think it's very important to put a stake in the vampire heart of the warmists' ideology. If not, if we allow the politicians and greedy companies and corrupt scientists to push through cap-n-trade, then our economic lifeblood and our political freedoms will be drained dry.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
A bit more on warmist plans going cold
I just have to post the delicious Mr. Delingpole's latest article on Climategate: It's all unraveling now. Please Lord, let it truly unravel. Let those idiots and crooks converging on Copenhagen shrivel into a corner and wring their hands and gnash their teeth.
"Equal opportunity versus equal achievement"
Listen to Col. West. We need this guy. And more like him. Thanks to Jon for passing this along.
Pilgrim Tales
Here's a morning reminder about the religion of peace. Iranians on pilgrimage. It's just like the Canterbury Tales! Thanks to Brian for bringing it to my attention.
Bits O' News
I didn't watch the president's speech last night. It's recorded and I'll attempt to sit through it some time today. Fred Thompson has the best quote about O's speech, though.
But Climategate is spreading like a thick, dark cloud. NRO focuses on Peer Pressure. And then we have Mr. Gingrich releasing a statement--a day late and a dollar short. His attempt to appear presidential is as thin as a cirrus cloud. He still doesn't quite understand that his brand of politics died out the day Obama got elected. The comments following the article are precious, and highlight Newt's old-style politics.
If you want to go all studious, here's Christopher Monckton's 43-page take on Climategate. Quite damning for the warmist crowd. I like plain speech, don't you?
But Climategate is spreading like a thick, dark cloud. NRO focuses on Peer Pressure. And then we have Mr. Gingrich releasing a statement--a day late and a dollar short. His attempt to appear presidential is as thin as a cirrus cloud. He still doesn't quite understand that his brand of politics died out the day Obama got elected. The comments following the article are precious, and highlight Newt's old-style politics.
If you want to go all studious, here's Christopher Monckton's 43-page take on Climategate. Quite damning for the warmist crowd. I like plain speech, don't you?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A Christmas Carol
In the bleak mid-winter,
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He come to reign;
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part--
Yet what I can, I give Him,
Give my heart.
Thr truth shall be told . . .
Bookworm Room has a brilliant post: A literary take on scientific corruption. Brilliant. After reading her illuminating post, you must, you absolutely must, read Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey mystery novels. In fact, I'm going right now to dust off Gaudy Night .
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