Fitna (version anglaise)

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Live Leak pulled the film because of terror threats, by muslims, go figure. Freedom of speech is a concept some will never comprehend or defend.  

More evidence that the Global Warming phenomenon is not a human phenomena at all.

Moonbattery: Hacking Away at the Consensus Lie

Even now unscrupulous political hacks like Al Gore continue to bellow about the imaginary consensus that the global warming hoax is for real. Yet with every passing day, more scientists gather the courage to risk their careers by denouncing the hoax. Popular Technology.net names a few of the “deniers” who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid; the list of scientists goes on for too long to reproduce it here.

Some informative links are also provided:

19,000 Scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever (OISM)
4000 Scientists sign ‘The Heidelberg Appeal’ (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares (Heartland Institute)
105 Scientists sign ‘The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change’ (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
77 Skeptical Scientists (Business and Media Institute)
60 Scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming (Financial Post, Canada)
41 Scientists debunk global warming alert (Telegraph.co.uk)
27 Skeptical Scientists, ‘The Deniers’ (National Post, Canada)
An Inconvenient Fact: …only 51 individuals signed the IPCC Report released on February 2, 2007.

The idea that a “consensus” constitutes validity is moronic. Michael Crichton is quoted:

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus…

So is Marcus Aurelius:

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

But to say there’s a consensus anyway is not just a mistake or an exaggeration, but a deliberate and preposterous lie — though hardly the only untruth Al Gore and his acolytes have promoted with politically motivated assistance from our complicit media and schools.

Then add this from the Wall Street Journal.

My Nobel Moment - WSJ.com

I’ve had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don’t think I will add “0.0001 Nobel Laureate” to my resume.

The other half of the prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore, whose carbon footprint would stomp my neighborhood flat. But that’s another story.

Both halves of the award honor promoting the message that Earth’s temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases. The Nobel committee praises Mr. Gore and the IPCC for alerting us to a potential catastrophe and for spurring us to a carbonless economy.

I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never “proof”) and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time.

There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don’t find the alarmist theory matching observations. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming — around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)

It is my turn to cringe when I hear overstated-confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next 100 years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that system’s behavior over the next five days.

Mother Nature simply operates at a level of complexity that is, at this point, beyond the mastery of mere mortals (such as scientists) and the tools available to us. As my high-school physics teacher admonished us in those we-shall-conquer-the-world-with-a-slide-rule days, “Begin all of your scientific pronouncements with ‘At our present level of ignorance, we think we know . . .’”

I haven’t seen that type of climate humility lately. Rather I see jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see in every weather anomaly the specter of a global-warming apocalypse. Explaining each successive phenomenon as a result of human action gives them comfort and an easy answer.

Others of us scratch our heads and try to understand the real causes behind what we see. We discount the possibility that everything is caused by human actions, because everything we’ve seen the climate do has happened before. Sea levels rise and fall continually. The Arctic ice cap has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames, and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North America.

One of the challenges in studying global climate is keeping a global perspective, especially when much of the research focuses on data gathered from spots around the globe. Often observations from one region get more attention than equally valid data from another.

The recent CNN report “Planet in Peril,” for instance, spent considerable time discussing shrinking Arctic sea ice cover. CNN did not note that winter sea ice around Antarctica last month set a record maximum (yes, maximum) for coverage since aerial measurements started.

Then there is the challenge of translating global trends to local climate. For instance, hasn’t global warming led to the five-year drought and fires in the U.S. Southwest?

Not necessarily.

There has been a drought, but it would be a stretch to link this drought to carbon dioxide. If you look at the 1,000-year climate record for the western U.S. you will see not five-year but 50-year-long droughts. The 12th and 13th centuries were particularly dry. The inconvenient truth is that the last century has been fairly benign in the American West. A return to the region’s long-term “normal” climate would present huge challenges for urban planners.

Without a doubt, atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing due primarily to carbon-based energy production (with its undisputed benefits to humanity) and many people ardently believe we must “do something” about its alleged consequence, global warming. This might seem like a legitimate concern given the potential disasters that are announced almost daily, so I’ve looked at a couple of ways in which humans might reduce CO2 emissions and their impact on temperatures.

California and some Northeastern states have decided to force their residents to buy cars that average 43 miles-per-gallon within the next decade. Even if you applied this law to the entire world, the net effect would reduce projected warming by about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, an amount so minuscule as to be undetectable. Global temperatures vary more than that from day to day.

Suppose you are very serious about making a dent in carbon emissions and could replace about 10% of the world’s energy sources with non-CO2-emitting nuclear power by 2020 — roughly equivalent to halving U.S. emissions. Based on IPCC-like projections, the required 1,000 new nuclear power plants would slow the warming by about 0.2 ?176 degrees Fahrenheit per century. It’s a dent.

But what is the economic and human price, and what is it worth given the scientific uncertainty?

My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this simple fact: Without access to energy, life is brutal and short. The uncertain impacts of global warming far in the future must be weighed against disasters at our doorsteps today. Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobelists), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit “global warming.”

Given the scientific uncertainty and our relative impotence regarding climate change, the moral imperative here seems clear to me.

Mr. Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a participant in the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Can we now just stop spending tax dollars to fix something that humans did not cause.

Found on reddit. The translation is “Everything’s possible”:
 

Troops Return Home to Patriot Welcome

Marylanders surprised U.S. troops with an event organized by John Flynn and Kathy Thorn, co-chairs of Operation Welcome Home (Maryland) at BWI Airport.  The September 22 event brought approximately 200 volunteers, greeting 500 troops (two planes), coming back from theatre. The planes were returning from Iraq through Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Some of the returning troops were local, but many caught connecting flights to get to their final destination. None of the troops expected the greeting that awaited. The sixth event since March 2007, organizers rallied supporters, on March 10 with 100 volunteers showing their support, on May 19, 200 volunteers rallied, and on July 28, volunteers swelled to 300 to welcome troops home. On August 8, the first weekday event, over 100 volunteers were on hand and another 100 volunteers took part on August 22.

“The goal of Operation Welcome Home is to make sure every returning troop has the welcome home that they deserve.“

The photos in this collection were taken Sept. 22 by Edward Primoff.

Troops Return Home to Patriot Welcome

A little levity… 

You got to love this from:

Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: FEC Complaint Filed Against Hillary Clinton for President Committee

FEC Complaint Filed Against Hillary Clinton for President Committee

How much longer are we going to let the crimes of Democrats, particularly those of the Clinton Machine, go unpunished? As the co-authors of a book about the rampant corruption in the Democratic Party, Mark and I know very well that Democrats are rarely held accountable when they break the law.

In response to recent stories from the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post, we are filing an FEC Complaint (posted below) against the Hillary Clinton for President Committee. These stories revealed evidence of illegal immigrants and straw donors donating to Hillary’s campaign, donors who felt pressured to give money for fear of retribution, and a significant number of poor donors who gave $1,000 or $2,300 to Hillary’s campaign — when they obviously weren’t in the financial position to do so.

Hillary’s campaign has dismissed the story as “derogatory to Chinese-Americans,” so clearly they have zero interest in ridding themselves of illegal contributions.

With the complaint filed, Hillary’s campaign has 15 days to respond.

Read the rest here. Keep in mind that each and every American can speak out with the same type of action. Dem’s have turned it into an art form, kudos to the folks at Blogs for Bush for taking the initiative to their front door.

It was the right thing to do.

Jury Awards Father $11 Million in Funeral Protesters Case-Fox News

BALTIMORE  —  The father of a fallen Marine was awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family’s privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the Marine’s funeral.

The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress to the Marine’s father, Albert Snyder of York, Pa.

Snyder sued the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified monetary damages after members staged a demonstration at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.

The defense said it planned to appeal and one of the church’s leaders, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the members would continue their pickets of military funerals.

Church members believe that U.S. deaths in the war in Iraq are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.

Before the jury began deliberating the size of punitive damages, U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett noted the size of the compensatory award “far exceeds the net worth of the defendants,” according to financial statements filed with the court.

Snyder sobbed when he heard the first verdict, while members of the church greeted the news with tight-lipped smiles.

Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “God hates fags.”

A number of states have passed laws regarding funeral protests, and Congress has passed a law prohibiting such protests at federal cemeteries, but the Maryland lawsuit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.

Snyder’s suit named the church, its founder, the Rev. Fred Phelps, and his two daughters, Shirley Phelps-Roper and Rebecca Phelps-Davis, 46. Snyder claimed the protests intruded upon what should have been a private ceremony and sullied his memory of the event.

Attorneys for the church said in closing arguments Tuesday that the burial was a public event and that even abhorrent points of view are protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and religion.

In his closing arguments during the punitive damages phase, plaintiff attorney Craig Trebilcock described church members as bullies who “seek out those among us who are at the weakest point in our lives.”

“That’s why they’ve gotten away with it until this point,” the attorney said, adding that grieving families were too weak to fight back “until this man.”

Defense lawyer Jonathan Katz reminded jurors that punitive damages are designed to deter future conduct, but not bankrupt or financially destroy.

It was unclear if the plaintiffs will be able to collect the damages awarded.

The defense attorney said the assets of the church and the three defendants are less than a million dollars and the compensatory award is about three times the defendants’ net worth, mainly in homes, cars and retirement accounts.

In his rebuttal, Trebilcock said it was up to jurors to decide the truthfulness of the financial documents, noting the documents show Rebecca Phelps-Davis has $306 in the bank.

Trebilcock noted Phelps-Davis is a practicing attorney and pointed to testimony by the defendants showing how much they traveled to spread their message.

“Rebecca Phelps has $306? She must be using Priceline.com. It doesn’t make any sense.”

The attorney urged jurors to determine an amount “that says don’t do this in Maryland again. Do not bring your circus of hate to Maryland again.”

The church has about 75 members.

The so called church members comprise mostly family members. They are basically a hate group using religion to spew that hate and as a bonus they are tax exempt.

Earlier, church members staged a demonstration outside the federal courthouse, which is located on a busy thoroughfare a few blocks west of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, while passing motorists honked and shouted insults.

Church founder Fred Phelps held a sign reading “God is your enemy,” while his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper stood on an American flag while carrying a sign that read “God hates fag enablers.” Members of the group sang “God Hates America,”‘ to the tune of “God Bless America.”

The shame is that it will take years of appeals and ultimately a Supreme Court decision to end this case and give these so called servants of Satan their due and lose their tax exempt status.

MD Legislators need some behavior modification, we all must take a stand against the most pervasive tax and spend plan in the country. O’Malley could care less about your personal trials he wants everyone to pay for his lack of management skills along with his liberal and inexperienced henchmen in the legislature.

SmartGov Get Smart

Countdown to stop taxes…Call To Action.Anti-Tax Rally Day Agenda, Monday October 29, 2007

12 Noon to 2:00 pm SmartGov.Net Press Conference with Coalition Leaders at Lawyers Mall in Annapolis. (In front of the State House) Media invited along with public.

2:00 - 4:00 pm Citizens are encouraged to visit their legislators and deliver their personal message opposing the proposed taxes. SmartGov.Net personnel will be available onsite with information to assist you in finding your legislator. Please note, a photo ID is required in order to enter the State House.

4:00 - 6:00 pm Mass Rally at Lawyers Mall. Numerous speakers from every walk of life in Maryland will rally in protest to the proposed Tax Hikes. If you can attend only one item on today’s agenda, make it the 4:00 rally.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Citizens are encouraged to visit their legislators and deliver their personal message opposing the proposed taxes. SmartGov.Net personnel will be available onsite with information to assist you in finding your legislator. Please note, a photo ID is required in order to enter the State House.

8:00 pm Pack the State House Gallery to witness the opening ceremony for the special session. Remember, a photo ID is required in order to enter the State House.

Parking: If arriving by car you may park at the Naval Academy Stadium parking lot on Taylor Avenue for $5.00 and take the free shuttle to Lawyers Mall at the State House. Bus drivers may drop off rally participants at Lawyers Mall and then park at the Naval Academy Stadium parking log.

Take Action, just say No to O’Malley’s tax scheme. Also a message needs to be sent to the Maryland Association of Counties, they support O’Malley’s plan. In the next election all supporters of the tax and spend plan need to be summarily removed from office. They have no clue what is in the best interest of their constituents. This is especially true for the Rhino’s in office such as two of Carroll County’s commissioners.

Al Gore’s lie.

WorldNetDaily: The global-warming hucksters

Like the panics of bygone eras, this one has the aspect of yet another re-enactment of the Big Con. The huckster arrives in town, tells all the rubes that disaster impends for them and their families, but says there may be one last chance they can be saved – but it will take a lot of money. And the folks should go about collecting it, right now.

This, it seems to me, is what the global-warming scare and scam are all about – frightening Americans into transferring sovereignty, power and wealth to a global political elite that claims it alone understands the crisis and it alone can save us from impending disaster.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, from which China and India were exempt, the United States was to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels, which could not be done without inducing a new Depression and reducing the standard of living of the American people. So, we ignored Kyoto – and how have we suffered? The Europeans who signed on also largely ignored it. How have they suffered?

We are told global warming was responsible for the hurricane summer of Katrina and Rita that devastated Texas, Mississippi and New Orleans. Yet Dr. William Gray, perhaps the nation’s foremost expert on hurricanes, says he and his most experienced colleagues believe humans have little impact on global warming and global warming cannot explain the frequency or ferocity of hurricanes. After all, we had more hurricanes in the first half of the 20th century than in the last 50 years, as global warming was taking place.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” says Gray. “They’re going to the Gore movie (’An Inconvenient Truth’) and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous. … We’ll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was.”

Gray does concede that for a scholar to question global warming can put his next federal grant in mortal peril.

While modest warming has taken place, there is no conclusive evidence human beings are responsible, no conclusive evidence Earth’s temperature is rising dangerously or will reach intolerable levels and no conclusive evidence that warming will do more harm than good.

The glaciers may be receding, but the polar bear population is growing, alarmingly in some Canadian Indian villages. Though more people on our planet of 6 billion may die of heat, estimates are that many more may be spared death from the cold. The Arctic ice cap may be shrinking, but that may mean year-round passage through northern Canadian waters from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the immense resources of the Arctic made more accessible to man. Why else did Vladimir Putin’s boys make their dash to claim the pole?

The mammoth government we have today is a result of politicians rushing to solve “crises” by creating and empowering new federal agencies.

Whether it’s hunger, poverty or homelessness, in the end, the poor are always with us, but now we have something else always with us: scores of thousands of federal bureaucrats and armies of academics to study the problem and assess the progress, with all their pay and benefits provided by our tax dollars.

Cal Coolidge said that when you see 10 troubles coming up the road toward you, sometimes the best thing to do is nothing, because nine of them will fall into the ditch before they get to you. And so it will be with global warming, if we don’t sell out America to the hucksters who would save us.

This madness will not end until Americans wake up to the fact that people lie to get ahead. Al Gore is a liar beyond the pale. Some Americans are gullible enough to believe Gore is a prophet, Gore is an opportunist without conscience or character, history will reveal this in time. It is a shame the media entertain this type of hyperbole as fact knowing there is nothing to back up his specious Inconvenient Truth.