Washington or Ataturk?

I've said for some time that Iraq needs its own George Washington, or al-Washington, or whatever. Maybe they need an Ataturk more. BBC:

Secularism is fundamental to Turkey's identity as a nation.

Turkey was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a military general, in what had been the Ottoman Sultanate.

Ataturk was determined that this mainly Muslim nation would be a modern, secular country, and he introduced wide-ranging reforms, including the emancipation of women, the introduction of western dress, legal code and alphabet, and the abolition of Islamic institutions.

If Iraqis (all Iraqis) viewed themselves as Iraqis first, and Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds second, many of their problems would vanish in an instant.

I'm also amazed that many Christians in America don't understand why we're secular and must stay that way.

And so it begins...

This is how we'll achieve immortality one day. Mark my words. Knowing we could do this was the first step, and this appears to be the second one; from BBC:

US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.

The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.

In other smaller simulations the researchers say they have seen characteristics of thought patterns observed in real mouse brains.

Now the team is tuning the simulation to make it run faster and to make it more like a real mouse brain.

[...]

On other smaller simulations the researchers said they had seen "biologically consistent dynamical properties" emerge as nerve impulses flowed through the virtual cortex.

In these other tests the team saw the groups of neurons form spontaneously into groups. They also saw nerves in the simulated synapses firing in a ways similar to the staggered, co-ordinated patterns seen in nature.

Muslims and pigs

This nonsense has to stop. NIS News:

A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the Islamic children refused to talk about pigs. Reporting this, Alderman Lodewijk Asscher said he wants to take "tough measures." Subsidies for all kinds of dubious groups must stop and parents of unruly children penalised financially.

Here's the solution:

Hawking at Zero-G

Scientist Stephen Hawking went up in NASA's "vomit comet" today to experience weightlessness. Good for him.

Putin the Terrible

Putin the Terrible

I can't think of any reason Russia would be against a European missile shield unless they plan to shoot missiles at Europe. Hello?

BBC:

Russia may stop implementing a key defence treaty because of concerns over US plans for a missile shield in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said.

Mr Putin made the threat during his annual address to parliament - which he said would be his last as president.

He also hit out at an influx of foreign money which he said was being used to meddle in Russia's internal affairs.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed Russian concerns over the missile shield as "ludicrous".

Boris Yeltsin croaks

Long-time readers, if there are any, know that The Shaved Ape doesn't follow the old line of never speaking ill of the dead. I'm not worried about hauntings and vengeful gods and such. If somebody's a bastard in life, they're a bastard in death.


Yeltsin is the guy who said the U.S. government "rigged" the first Iraqi vote, even after the NDI and the UN said it was "free and fair". The NDI and UN hate America, by the way (they'd never issue a statement in support of the U.S. unless it was true).

Links
Times of London

Wife-beaters illegal in Iran?

You have to read between the lines to find what's interesting in a new story out of Iran. The BBC is reporting that two thousand people protested a new crackdown on "un-Islamic dress".

Two thousand young men in Iran have protested against new clothing curbs, reports say, amid growing discontent about a crackdown on un-Islamic dress.

Shiraz university students were angry about new rules banning sleeveless T-shirts, even inside all-male dorms.

Follow me on this. We call a "sleeveless T-shirt" a "wife-beater". Iran is a society that allows -- even promotes -- wife beating, but they ban the wife-beater shirt? That seems strange.

Hillarious Clinton

'brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness'

Nobody deals with the issue of gun control quite like Ted Nugent. In a CNN commentary piece he lashes out at what he calls the "brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness" after the Virginia Tech massacre. I agree with him 110%.

CNN.com:

No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder.

[...]

Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.

I still think it's the noise. If guns were quieter, liberals wouldn't be so scared of them.

Kofi Annan: Climate chump

Just when we rid ourselves of the corrupt, ineffective Secretary General, he keeps popping up. AP:

The greatest threat facing humanity is climate change, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday, and praised a Norwegian initiative to reduce the country's net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that his Labor party would set the world's most ambitious climate goals, and presented a three-point plan during his party's annual congress, which this year focused on climate change.

Annan — in Oslo to address the party's congress — said Norway's plan should set a standard for other nations.

"If we do not get the climate under control, if we do not confront the challenges of the environment, then everything else may be washed aside," Annan said at a news conference.

Humanity's greatest threat is Koffee Kup. If he hadn't let all those people get slaughtered in Rwanda, I might listen to what AnusAnnan says. To catch up with Annan, go here.

(Ham) + (Muslim) = hate crime

A ham sandwich hate crime

Offering somebody a ham sandwich is a hate crime under The Sharia Law of the United States. Sun Journal*:

One student has been suspended and more disciplinary action could follow a possible hate crime at Lewiston Middle School, Superintendent Leon Levesque said Wednesday.

On April 11, a white student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive.

The act reminded students of a man who threw a pig's head into a Lewiston mosque last summer.

The school incident is being treated seriously as "a hate incident," Levesque said. Lewiston police are investigating, and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence is working with the school to create a response plan.

I have the solution to this problem:





Via LGF

Climate hysteria from down under

An idiot "scientist" is telling us to stop the practice of cremation. From AFP:

An Australian scientist called Wednesday for an end to the age-old tradition of cremation, saying the practice contributed to global warming.

Professor Roger Short said people could instead choose to help the environment after death by being buried in a cardboard box under a tree.

I wonder how much grant money the prof is receiving?

Changing story involving Governor Corzine

The Houston Chronicle is covering the changing story about the SUV crash of Governor Corzine, which they're right to do. I believe their assessment of the latest story is in error, though.

Corzine was heading to the governor's mansion April 12 for a meeting with Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team when he crashed on the Garden State Parkway north of Atlantic City. His SUV was in the left lane with its emergency lights flashing when a red pickup tried to get out of its way.

But the pickup's right wheels went onto the grassy highway shoulder, and the driver overcorrected, swerving back on the road. That set off a chain reaction: A white pickup truck swerved to avoid the red truck, struck Corzine's sport utility vehicle and sent it careening into a guard rail.

The SUV was in the left lane, and the pickup was trying to get out of the way, which means the pickup was also in the left lane. If that's the case, how could the right wheels go "onto the grassy highway shoulder"?

It's probably a minor error. They must have meant to say the pickup's left wheels went onto the shoulder.

The changing stories are very strange, in any event. First we were told a red pickup driven by a retard crashed into the governor, then fled the scene. Now we're told the SUV was driving 91 mph and struck the pickup as it was trying to get out of the way.

People like to say that the U.S. has an almost uncorrupted government -- meaning government is mostly transparent, and a free press works overtime exposing wrongdoing.

But that doesn't change the fact that a continual stream of lies and coverups flows from (seemingly) all government officials. Whether it's the Katrina response, the legal firing of federal prosecutors, placing a $90k bribe in a freezer, or a simple car crash, our elected and appointed officials are a sorry lot.

Microsoft complains about Google's acquisition of DoucleClick

The Seattle Times is reporting on Microsoft hypocrisy:

Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, and AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company, urged regulators to review the deal because of antitrust concerns.

Just say "No" to overseas cowards

Foreign news editorials are criticizing U.S. gun laws and availability following The Virginia Massacre™. From AP:

"Only the names change — And the numbers," read a headline in the Times of London. "Why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?"

I can answer that question with ease: A rampage killing is incredibly rare -- so rare it's laughable to be worried about it in the slightest. The chances of dying in an auto accident is many thousands of times greater. The chances of being killed by slipping and falling down are much greater, too.

We want guns because they are a means of protection and security, but there's much more to it than that. An armed population is a population that cannot be oppressed by government. Read about Gandhi's experience in India to find out how to control a population against its will.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." -- Gandhi. He employed passive resistance because it was his only option.

Thomas Jefferson explained the American view, with the exception of cowardly liberals, with eloquence: "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it away." When he says "they", he means government.

The French daily Le Monde said the regularity of mass shootings across the Atlantic was a blotch on America's image.

"It would be unjust and especially false to reduce the United States to the image created, in a recurrent way, from the bursts of murderous fury that some isolated individuals succumb to. But acts like this are rare elsewhere, and tend to often disfigure the 'American dream.'"

The only gun problem America has are the liberal laws preventing law abiding citizens from getting a concealed-carry permit. I can think of nothing more terrorizing than to be near a murderer killing people with a gun and not having one of my own.

Could you imagine being in your own home when a criminal breaks in and tries to kill one of your children? Liberals actually believe we shouldn't have guns to kill the criminal. My home is an armed home, and no laws, and no government, and no cowardly Europeans will ever change that.


Where the Europeans say, "Oh, my goodness, criminals can hurt and kill people with guns, so we must take them away from everyone!", Americans say, "Take away my personal protection and you will be shot." I'll take the stronger position any day.


Livin' scared in Europe

And what do you get when guns are taken away? Is all calm and peaceful? No! Britain has staged many "knife amnesty" programs. British doctor associations have called for the banning of long kitchen knives. I'm not kidding! Next it will be cricket bats because somewhere, at some time, somebody murdered somebody else with one. Given enough time, the British will be ordered by law to live their lives in rubber-lined rooms.

Virginia Tech: Hippie Roundup

The Shaved Ape enters the hippie wasteland so you don't have to

As predicted right here at The Shaved Ape, leftoids are blaming the Virginia Tech massacre on guns. They're also using it to demonstrate how evil George Bush is for making war on Saddam Hussein.

AmericaBlog

Why is it legal in America for you to buy an AK-47? Oh that's right, it's your constitutional right to own an AK-47. I'm sure the founders, when considering their "original intent" that the Republicans always lecture us on, had in mind assault weapons when they were really writing about muskets. I don't know what kind of gun the shooter had, but it is far too easy for any nutjob to own a gun in this country, and it needs to stop.

[...]

We need to stop trying to convince 100% of the American people that we're right. The Republicans are content with 30% of the public supporting them. Let them have their wacky 30%, while we embrace the 70% (or however many) who are rational, normal, non-extremists who actually believe that kids running around shooting other kids is a bad thing.

It's time to revisit gun control in George Bush's America.

Rising Hegemon

Attaturk is using the Virginia Tech massacre to demonstrate how horrible it was to remove the genocidal madman in Iraq:

Up to 32 in Virginia. Horrible, awful. We, as a nation, are shocked.

Imagine though, a world where this kind of murderous slaughter is an everyday occurrence:

He goes on to list the murders in Iraq for April 15. How clever.

White Noise Insanity

Kay's big, bleeding heart actually stopped short of calling for removing all guns from society or raising taxes or turning America into a socialist Mecca like France. She couldn't, however, keep from using a random act of violence to bash Bush. I wonder if her knee physically jerked as she was writing her little post?

Oh boy. This was just reported on Keith Olbermann’s show, Countdown, a few minutes ago that the shooter may be an Asian national here on a student visa and I have to say it’s my worst fear. Why? Because this is the kind of fear that George W. Bush and his band of warmongers have been touting since 9/11. They have constantly implied that those who are not pasty white and who are not legal residents are America’s enemy and it’s the kind of talk that has become common and comfortable in this country. I can’t stand it.

[...]

What a very sad today was. My heart hasn’t ached this bad since I watched Katrina unfold. I had the same feeling of helplessness watching the news today of these shootings that I did when I stood in my livingroom screaming at the television, “Get some fucking boats for crying out loud!”.

Kay must not have known, in those early moments in the Katrina tragedy, that most of those affected in New Orleans didn't want boats. They wanted some lawless time to steal big screen TVs and Nikes, and to shoot at rescuers. We all saw it. Store after store was pillaged and people came out with armfuls of football jerseys -- not a scrap of canned food anywhere to be seen.

Of course, when Kay learned that the Virginia Tech shooter was Asian-American, she went on an unhinged rant about how right-wingers are racist -- even before they had a chance to respond:

I’m sorry, but if the reich wingers of this country are going to start spewing their hatred to yet another group of people whose skin is of a different color of their own, then they need to understand that it’s more than just the skin color or whether or not they’re legal residents of this country. IT’S WHY THEY DID WHAT THEY DID THAT NEEDS TO BE FOCUSED ON.

Guys like Bill O’Reilly of Fox News will be the first one to make this argument that ‘those people’ are our enemy now. Hell, when 8 children were burned in a fire in New York City recently and it was found out they were the children of illegal immigrants, he went ballistic. Instead of having compassion for these young innocent children and how they died, he decided to use the tragedy as a way to say, “See? It’s good that these children died. There are less of them now!”. Sick. Completely sick.

Virginia Tech shooting

Undoubtedly everyone has heard about what is being called the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. At 4:00 p.m., Fox News is saying more than 30 are dead, and CNN says more than 22 are dead. AP story here.

Going forward, there will be a lot of discussion. Some will ask what we learned from Columbine. Others will try to renew the gun control "debate".

Twenty-two gun laws were broken in the commission of the Columbine crime. Liberals immediately called for more gun laws, which may earn them a few liberal votes, but nobody took them seriously, for obvious reasons.

If the Virginia Tech event sparks renewed gun control "debate", we will hear the same things we always hear. Liberals will demand knee-jerk gun control legislation, saying guns are an evil in society. They will ignore the fact that criminals won't give up their guns, which will leave law abiding citizens largely unprotected.

Guns are loud, and so they tend scare liberals. Also, liberals believe guns act on their own.

Muqtada al-Sadr throws a fit

While hiding in Iran like a coward, Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the "Mehdi Army", ordered his six ministers to withdraw from the Iraqi government. BBC story here.


This is very good news, I think. What better way to remove this goon's influence from government than for him to do it voluntarily? It will end in similar fashion to the first rounds of voting in Iraq, when Sunni clerics advised their followers to boycott the vote. Of course, the Sunnis immediately complained that they weren't represented in the new government.

The lunatics are saving us the trouble of disenfranchising them -- they're actually willing to do it themselves.

Al-Sadr is no different than Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, another illegitimate Shia army trying to control a democratic government. Like Nasrallah, al-Sadr's strings are pulled by the nutjob Mullahs in Iran.

The best way to weaken al-Sadr (and Nasrallah), would be to conquer Iran. I'm all for that.

And, is it just me, or do I see a parallel to the early Roman Empire? Julius Caesar, the first dictator, seized control through arms, but also by taking away popular support for the senate. Senators in the Roman Republic were patrons of their districts -- they gave out bread to the poor and hosted sporting events, among other popular activities. We still use the phrase "bread and circuses" from that era. In exchange, the people voted for them.

Caesar didn't take Rome (the city) by force of arms, he did it by becoming a bigger patron than the senators. He gave away more bread.

Both al-Sadr and Nasrallah are losing control in the same way the old Roman senate lost control to Caesar (except that a democratically elected government is nothing like a dictorship). Both have armies at their disposal, but their "organizations" do much more than threaten with arms. They're patrons, providing assistance to the people via housing, schools, hospitals, etc. The patronage is the key to their power, and as a democratic government becomes the chief patron of the land, the people will shift their support.

Now al-Sadr has walked away from government. Remember what happened to senators who left the senate to oppose the new, centralized power in Rome.

Don Imus, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and hypocrisy

Links
Don Imus, WFAN
Don Imus, MSNBC
Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH
Al Sharpton, National Action Network

Nancy Pelosi defends the indefensible

I watched cable news for a while this afternoon, and was surprised to see Madam Idiot trying to defend her treasonous trip to Syria, a country that is officially isolated by U.S. foreign policy -- which only the sitting president has the power to change. As always, Pelosi looked to be in over her head. Liberals like to say Bush lacks intellectual curiosity, but even they would have to admit that Bush looks like Albert Einstein compared to Pelosi.

Here's something on her "defense" from a CBS TV station.


I caught the San Francisco Chronicle lying by omission. Read the first paragraph in a story about Pelosi:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran.

The sharpest criticism came from The Washington Post, a far left paper that hates Bush with passion and loves all things liberal with equal passion. The Chronicle knows this. They're downplaying the seriousness of Madam Idiot's mistake.

And you think you have problems

Check this out, especially the photo.

Woody Allen's women

[parody]

Woody Allen was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935. Since then, he has humped just about everything younger than himself. Many believe he started making movies just to cast himself opposite young women. Muriel Hemingway, Diane Keaton, and Mia Farrow fit this mold.


In 1992 Allen dropped Mia Farrow to go after Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. He was 57, Soon-Yi was 22.


By 1995 Soon-Yi was showing signs of age, so Allen pushed her aside in favor of a younger woman:


Never satisfied, he went even younger in 1999:


2003:


2007:

Why climate hysteria is doomed

The Guffawington Huffington Post's Bob Cesca is clinging to the idiotic climate hysteria as if his life depends on it. We need a new type of professional to handle those like Bob -- climate psychologists. Clearly Bob needs to talk to somebody about being afraid the world is coming to an end. And didn't we used to look with pity on people who made such irrational claims? Didn't we smile and nod with concern, then escort them, forcibly, to a mental institution?

Bob, in all his splendor:

On the flip side, however, we have a half-dozen or so scientists; Senator Inhofe; most of the right-wing bloggers; several FOX News television pundits, despite their network's polling; and old timey comedian Jackie Mason who have convinced around 14 percent of Americans (according, again, to FOX News) that the climate crisis simply isn't happening.

It took less than five seconds to find these 60 scientists who don't believe the sky is falling cooking. I could probably find, oh, another "half-dozen" if I spent a few more seconds looking.

Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards

Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.

Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph, Ont.

Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant

Dr. Andreas Prokoph, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology

Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa

Dr. Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.

Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University of Alberta

Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.

Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria

Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K.

Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta

Dr. David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Va., and Sioux Lookout, Ont.

Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.

Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary

Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont.

Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of Auckland, N.Z.

Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.

Mr. George Taylor, Dept. of Meteorology, Oregon State University; Oregon State climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists

Dr. Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Mr. William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and Technical Review

Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand

Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia

Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, Calif.

Dr. Roy W. Spencer, principal research scientist, Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama, Huntsville

Dr. Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn.

Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS

Dr. Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health)

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, U.K.; editor, Energy & Environment

Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an economist who has focused on climate change

Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey

Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway

Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand

Dr. Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001,' Wellington, N.Z.

Dr. Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut

Dr Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.

Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K.

Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000

Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences, University of Virginia; former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service

Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society

Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass.

Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland

Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany

Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland

Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant.

Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore.

Dr. Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health

Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist

Dr. Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

Laurel & Hardy to the rescue

If there's a photo opp or other chance for shameless self promotion, Laurel & Hardy Al & Jesse will come running. Now it's Don Imus who's in Big Trouble with the dynamic duo (NY Times).


"Here we are! Look at us!"

Considering how upset the black community gets when insulted, I decided to search for other recent examples. You can imagine my total shock to find somebody called "Mims" sitting nearly atop the hip-hop music charts with the following lyrics (pulled from throughout his No. 4 song):

+ nigga gimme what you got
+ Find me with different women that you niggas never had
+ And when I say I’m hot my nigga this is what I mean
+ Then niggas start to hate rearrange their face

I don't recall hearing Mims apologize profusely on Al Sharpton's radio show. R. Kelly isn't on the show, either. He's No. 3 right now:

+ Thats why these niggas cant stand em
+ Witta rich nigga, fly young dude
+ I dont understand when a nigga bring his girl friend to da CLUB
+ Just soon as she go to the bathroom nigga Ima holla at her

Trick Daddy is quite the "artist":

+ Niggaz done twist up the fro
+ Nigga you don't know
+ To kill a nigga and do the rest of ya life in the chain gang
+ Fuck niggaz and slimy hoes make the world
+ But every bitch that ya shot
+ And all hoes got slayed
+ So I'm a stack my flow and say "fuck you hoes"
+ etc.

I wonder if Ja Rule is proud of this:

Girl I'm convinced, you're my down ass bitch

Nate Dogg is "down with it":

I need me a bitch, who ain't scared to flirt
I need me a bitch in the middle of the grocery store she'll lift up her skirt
I need me a bitch, like I need my crew
I need me a bitch to pass on to my boys soon as I get through

So why aren't Laurel & Hardy Al & Jesse indignant about "Mims" and these other "artists"? Because self-degradation is fine, but from others, it's an outrage. Why the double standard? How about some parity instead of constant complaining about every perceived slight? A lot of us are getting bored with this.

The instant "racism" charge is losing its luster (and power). Soon maybe we'll be rid of it altogether.

NYC bike messengers

The Pope hates America

Pope: "Nothing positive comes from Iraq," the pope said, "torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees."

I guess he forgot that the civilian population was fleeing Saddam Hussein. He also forgot that Saddam Hussein, his sons, and the secret police terrorized the country for 25 years. And he forgot that we have found more than 70 mass graves, and that Saddam used WMD against a civilian population.

This earns the Pope the coveted The Shaved Ape anti-American Award.

Liberals ban the Easter bunny

ABC News:

A Rhode Island public school has decided the Easter bunny is too Christian and renamed him Peter Rabbit, and a state legislator is so hopping mad he has introduced an "Easter Bunny Act" to save the bunny's good name.

"Like many Rhode Islanders I'm quite frustrated … by people trying to change traditions that we've held in this country for 150 years, like the Easter bunny," Rhode Island State Rep. Richard Singleton told "Good Morning America Weekend Edition."

This is a job for Blobby, the only mascot that liberals can tolerate. He's neutral in religion, color, gender, and shape, and he makes no noise. Best of all, school children love are not offended by the Easter Blobby!

Happy Easter

Yet another space tourist

BBC: "Billionaire Charles Simonyi, 58, who led development of Microsoft's Word, lifted off from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan at 1731 GMT. "

See the liberal reach...

See the liberal apologize for Muslim violence. See the liberal attempt to equate Muslim violence to non-Muslim violence, and fail miserably. Laugh at the liberal.

Zachary Karabell at Guffawington Post:

There is no denying that the world today is marked by a high level of violence in select parts of the Muslim world; it is equally true that there have been high levels of violence in Columbia and in multiple parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where Islam is not present. Not to mention North Korea. Humans are perfectly capable of fighting for any number of reasons, and will use whatever creed or ideology is convenient to support them. But the close association of Islam with violence and terror is a triumph for a cabal of loosely connected groups who have managed to define a religion followed by as many as 1.2 billion people in a narrow, limited fashion. In the process, both Muslims and people in the West have forgotten a legacy that extends across fourteen centuries, which have seen conflict, for sure, but have also witnessed high levels of toleration and long periods of live-and-let-live. For centuries after the Arab conquests in the 7th century, for instance, a small Arab Muslim elite ruled over vast numbers of Christians and significant Jewish minorities. Those non-Muslims were largely left autonomous, save for taxes, and while their lot was not necessarily easy, no society in those centuries celebrated human rights or individual freedoms.

Zach made sure to close his eyes before burying his head in the sand.

Creeping liberalism

The liberal wheels are turning in this article on the Hatfield-McCoy feud. AP:

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and violent outbursts.

Dozens of McCoy descendants apparently have the disease, which causes high blood pressure, racing hearts, severe headaches and too much adrenaline and other "fight or flight" stress hormones.

No one blames the whole feud on this, but doctors say it could help explain some of the clan's notorious behavior.

"This condition can certainly make anybody short-tempered, and if they are prone because of their personality, it can add fuel to the fire," said Dr. Revi Mathew, a Vanderbilt University endocrinologist treating one of the family members.

Perpetrators become victims in liberal minds. Eventually we'll have to visit a museum to see personal responsibility.

Child: Mom, what's that?

Mom: Why, that's Personal Responsibility, Bobby.

Child: What's that?

Mom: I don't know, but it's not our fault, whatever it is. Take another Ritalin.

Climate Change: a journal of idiocy

The BBC has a reader feedback forum called "Has climate change affected you?". Listen to the morons:

Gregory, USA: I have seen the change over the years as a gardener. Plants blooming earlier [ I keep records and have done so for 35 years ]. Lack of rain water and a few years of horrid dry gardens. We live near Washington DC where it is hot in the summer. Now hotter and so much more polluted via cars in the heat and no air.

Apparently gardening records are scientific proof that things are 'so much more polluted via cars in the heat'. I'm sure the records will appear in "An Inconvenient Truth II".

Mansur, Russia: There are too much people in this world, we need another world war, so USA and UK can get reed of half of them. thats the only way we can save the world, so keep supporting UK and USA regime. NOT!!!

(Too much vodka) + (not enough freedom) = dumb Russians.

Robert, UK: I think it is a impossible task for the world to stop global warming we may slow it down but it will not stop it and when it happens life as we know it will stop a large part of the earth will be uninhabitable a large amount of the population will be wiped out and those left will have to help one another to survive I think as we look back on the Roman empire future generations will look back at us and think why they had it all and through it away

Speaks for itself, sort of.

Birbal, USA: Within the next 40 to 50 years we will be forced to radically change our economic and industrial policies and subsequently a new global political relationship. The whole world is now paying the price of man's greed starting from the first industrial revolution.

This is the nut of what's happening with "climate change". Socialists see it as a tool to stop the evil capitalists. They'll be happy when we're all riding horses again.

Akeru-chan, Canada: In Ottawa this year we had an extended summer. In January, when it is normally as cold as -40C, we were playing ball hockey in t-shirts in +15C weather. A lot of the geese didn't go south. In March when it should be warming up, we had -30, and they are calling for snow for the next two days.

It can only mean humans are destroying the earth! There is no other possible explanation.

Gunn, UK: We only have one home which is planet Earth,it took millions of years through slow changes to set the correct conditions for life to exist. Man has been removing a big part of the building blocks of life which is forests and jungles, this gives us breathable air, now man is seriously polluting that. Imagine fish in a bowl, if they do not find a way of cleaning their mess, they will die in their mess. We have to treat our planet as a living thing and treat it with respect. Its all we have, so Love it.

Wow, I didn't know pot was so popular in the UK. I wonder if Gunn knows he'll never be able to mate with Gaia?

Carolyne, USA: Pine beetles that used to be effected by cold are now running rampant through coniferous forrests and aspens are possibly facing extinction. It's real.

Not...the pine beetles! Not that! If the fearmongers had just mentioned pine beetles in the first place, more of us would have been willing to throw away our economies from the start.

Mark, Texas: I live in South Texas where summer temperatures are already hot enough to slow cook a hog. Another degree or two (or ten) isn't going to make a difference.

I will run my air conditioner at top capacity this summer. If Al Gore is worried about my carbon footprint, the buffoon is welcome to buy me some carbon offsets with the money he earned from that science-fiction film he made.

It takes a Texan to speak the plain truth.

Nancy Pelosi

Incompetent:

1 : not legally qualified
2 : inadequate to or unsuitable for a particular purpose
3 a : lacking the qualities needed for effective action b : unable to function properly

Usurp:

1 a : to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right b : to take or make use of without right
2 : to take the place of by or as if by force : SUPPLANT

The Palestinians elected Hamas, and Americans elected Commiecrats. I'm not sure which is worse. One thing's for sure, I'm looking forward to the next Commiecrat president. Republicans should travel the globe undermining U.S. policies to make the president look bad.

'Global war on terror' is over

A House committee has decided the phrase "Global war on terror" is out. Military Times:

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.

This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.

A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”

Demotards are little kids who make me laugh. For years I've been talking about how liberals like to change words or phrases when they perceive a negative connotation, as if the word is itself is responsible for the bad feelings. Remember when swamps became rainforests, or when cripples became disabled?

The worst part about liberal thinking is that they believe we're not at war against terrorists -- even after 9/11.

They're children with childlike emotions, and should not be involved in any level of government. They should be outside kicking around a ball, hugging each other in a corner, or having fun with their drum circles. Morons. Or should we call liberals "adherents to the non-strong ideology" because "morons" has some bad feelings associated with it?

Painting the Mona Lisa

Look at me, I'm a dictator!

The lengths an oppressive, dictatorial regime will go to for world respect is nothing short of astounding. We have a rabid mullocracy in Iran developing nuclear weapons so they'll get noticed, like a murderous infant. And China has now built a moon rover to accomplish perhaps 10% of what we accomplished 40 years ago. BBC:

Chinese scientists have shown off a prototype Moon rover that could lead to the country's first unmanned mission to the lunar surface in 2012.

The 1.5m (5ft) high, 200kg (440lbs) rover should transmit video in real time, dig into and analyse soil, and produce 3D images of the lunar surface.

I wonder how many Chinese will disappear into the commie gulag system while the little rover putters around on the moon?



Scientific discovery is not part of the Chinese moon program. It's in the theme of their F1 race, the plastic surgery beauty pageant, and the upcoming Olympics. They're trying to portray themselves as modern -- Western. And they're failing miserably because when a Chinese citizen walks into a town square and criticizes the government, he disappears. Or he gets run over by a tank and then disappears.

The world, except for fellow socialists at CNN, would be laughing if it weren't for the tragic consequences for billions of people.

All the desperate ploys to gain acceptance are unnecessary. All they need to do is give their people freedom. That's instant respect. Think Gandhi, Cincinnatus, or Washington, not despicable tyrants like Mao.

Don't tell liberals any of this, because they feel all cultures and systems of government are equal, even the ones that kill millions of people and employ secret police to terrorize ordinary citizens. We shouldn't try to ram our values down other people's throats because it just may be those people enjoy being oppressed and killed. It's not our place to say.

CNN headquarters shooting

A gunman rampaged the CNN headquarters in Atlanta today, killing one and injuring another. The man must have been so distraught over the 24/7 anti-war reporting and other socialist spew emanating from CNN that he simply lost control. It's hard to blame him.

From The Houston Chronicle:

The victims were seen being carried out of the building on stretchers. The man's face was covered in blood and his shirt was removed.

CNN reported that the offices of its Internet operations, CNN.com, were immediately evacuated. Video footage also showed police pointing guns at a man lying on the ground at the bottom of an escalator inside the building.

An announcement over the building's public-address system said there had been gunfire "with potential casualties." Police cordoned off an area by the escalators near the main entrance, facing Centennial Olympic Park.

Drunk animals

Morons turn out lights in Sydney

The city of Sydney, Australia turned off the lights today to save a planet that doesn't need saving. SMH story here.

I went outside today and looked at the planet, and it looks just fine. I think the whackjobs on the left just want to feel good about themselves by turning things off. Don't we have prescription meds to cure that kind of idiocy?

At 10:00 p.m. tonight I did my best to counter the looney left by turning on the following items in my house:

• Two TVs


• Four PCs


• Cable box


• Microwave


• Phone charger


• Razor charger


• Air purifier


• Ceiling fan


• Room fan


• Window fan


• RC helicopter charger


• Coffee maker


• Coffee grinder


• All lights