There have been a lot of prophecies of doom before. As before, the prophets of doom are making money and gaining power from their prophecies Some of the data supposedly demonstrating global warming turned out to be fraudulent. The major scientific global warming authorities, notably the IPCC seem curiously relaxed about employing some fraudulent data, which casts doubt on the rest of their data. The anthropogenic global warming movement is …
Escalating prophecies of doom
When prophecies of doom are not working out, the first reaction is to escalate them: Ted Turner tells us: We will be eight degrees hotter in thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow, most people will have died, and the rest of use will be cannibals, civilization will have broken down. Over past millenia, global temperatures have risen and fallen several degrees. A few thousand …
Commodity derivatives: the new currencies
E-gold, which I thought would save the world, turned out to be something of a bust, with essentially zero use in real internet commerce, but “unenumerated reports†that we are seeing the financial markets going into commodity based fractional reserve monies in a big way, many trillions of dollars.  Still, you cannot pay for your we hosting or cell phone minutes with commodity based monies. These moneys are for big …
I was wrong 1
I was wrong about Muslim reaction to the video “Fitnaâ€. I said that Muslim’s were not reacting, just their pals in the west. This is not the case. Muslims are reacting, and, as usual, threatening murder and terror, though their western pals reacted first.
More pussy for Muslims: It’s the law!
The state of Texas has just engaged in the mass abduction of wives and children from Christian polygamists because of the alleged bad conduct of one Christian polygamist – though strangely they seem unable to find the person who alleged this bad conduct. Evidently, although Muslim polygamy is multicultural, Christian polygamy is not.
Who is funding terror?
We are funding terror. Twelve days ago, the US gave one hundred and fifty million dollars to the Palestinian Authority, much of which will be used to buy arms to murder Jews, much of which will be used to reward terrorists for their holy deeds. Why pay off the Palestinians when there are many deserving people going hungry? Duh! The answer, of course, is that it is a payoff. If …
Housing price bottom
When I say prices look like they have bottomed, I don’t mean that the prices sellers are asking may have bottomed. Asking prices are, for the most part, still way too high. But if we look at sales that are actually being made, both for houses, and for land with secure development approval, the prices are a good deal lower, the people buying are the smart money, and the people …
Fitna the movie
Most servers have been intimidated into silence, but the gutsy “Pirate Bay†is still serving “Fitnaâ€, in bittorrent form, the only major commercial service still standing. But the interesting thing is who is doing the intimidating. At first, it was a western, politically correct, demand for pre-emptive surrender.. Fitna shows a verse from the Koran urging murder, terror, or conquest. Then it shows today’s Muslim preachers urging murder, terror and …
The long war
As I write this there is chaos in Basra. Tomorrow there will be chaos some place else. In Basra today Iranians are backing every pony in this race, for what they want is chaos, and chaos is easy to create. We are pursuing a strategy based on creating order. Creating order in the Middle East is like pushing mud uphill. As I wrote when the attack on the Taliban was …
Global warmers lie again 2
The Salt Lake Tribune tells us Antarctic ice melt shows warming is speeding up The sound of a chunk of Antarctic ice hundreds of years old and seven times the size of Manhattan collapsing into the ocean should be enough to rouse the concern of even the most staunch global warming skeptics. A more accurate headline would be “Rapidly expanding Antarctic ice shelf spawns gigantic icebergs.†The antarctic ice shelf …