Despite an announcement that it has stopped censoring in China, google.com.cn still censored Correction: A commentor points out that if we search for Tiananmen+Square+massacre instead of just Tiananmen+Square, we get uncensored results. Nonetheless, there is something smelly about that page rank. Also, google continues to censor right here: Type “Christianity is†into the search box, and it will drop down the following suggestions wrong a lie bullshit not a religion …
What the Tea Party stands for
There is a risk that the Tea Party movement is sufficiently vague and unspecific to enable everyone to read into what they want, so that people with fundamentally irreconcilable views believe they’re part of the same movement, which is a good way to get people into power so that they can start scooping up some of the gravy, and a bad way to accomplish any political objective. The original Tea …
Torture the underpants bomber
Fifty eight percent of those polled favor “aggressive interrogation techniques such as waterboardingâ€Â for Umar Farouk. He should be asked who gave him the bomb, and where they gave him the bomb. We should then kill everyone in the general vicinity of where the bomb came from. Not because we cannot afford to lose a few planes and a few passengers every now and then, but because we cannot afford …
Unemployment
Officially, unemployment has fallen to the curiously round number of ten percent. Are you feeling more prosperous? Yes, strange to report, zero hedge observes that the money paid to the unemployed has risen substantially, and risen a lot in the last two months. While there are officially nine and half million unemployed, there appear to be fourteen million receiving unemployment benefits. Funny thing that.
No twentieth century warming 3
Hadcrut temperatures are fraudulent, for the Climategate files reveals that no one knows how they were constructed. The Air vent attempts an honest reconstruction: Of course, this reconstruction can only be as good as the data it rests on, which we now know from the Climategate documents directory to be poor. I argue we should throw out all dubious data – which likely means we should rely on proxy indications …
The scientific method
When science becomes a priesthood, it is no longer science. Reference to authority is unscientific, indeed antiscientific, a rejection of the principles of science. One must appeal to evidence, not authority. What authority says is not scientific evidence. Independent replication is evidence. If people all over the world have made observations for the last 100 years about temperature, I can’t replicate them; but other people at the time could replicate …
No twentieth century warming
The earliest ice outs, and thus the warmest years, were in the 1950s. The warming from 1975 to 1998 is real, but not very large – just a blip in the overall cooling trend from 1950. During the 1950s, Winnipesaukee ice outs were generally around Julian day 100, which is usually April 10. These days, it is around Julian day 107, which is usually April 17 – the ice is …
Merry Christmas
There is a reason that the United States, the most Christian nation in the world, is also the most free nation in the world. And that reason is that of all the deadly superstitions that infest the world, Christianity is the least murderous, the least oppressive, fosters the least hatred and envy, and is responsible for fewer wars and mass murders than any religion of comparable size. And the comparative …
Warmism for politicians
If Sarah Palin is so amazingly dumb, how come she gets everything right on a complex issue, and explains it in language that the average voter can understand? Sarah Palin explains climate change, covering every issue, except for the documents directory of the climategate files, in clear, easy to understand language. She makes one minor error, describing “hide the decline†as hiding the decline of temperature, when in fact they …
The extraordinary inanity of nation building
When first I saw slides from this presentation, I assumed them to be parody, but no, they are the real thing. The people planning this war really are this stupid, crazy, and evil.