AGW Alarmist Not A Fan Of "Truth To Power" When He Is The Power

University of Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider, friend of Al Gore and AGW alarmist, is not fond of answering questions about "Climategate" and assorted other Global Warming facts that are not from friendly channels. And Phelim McAleer definitely would fall into the "not friendly" camp. McAleer asked a few "Inconvenient" questions of the good professor, and you can see what resulted.

During some testy exchanges with McAleer, UN officials and Professor Schneider’s assistants twice tried to cut short McAleer’s question.

However as the press conference drew to a close Professor Schneider’s assistant called armed UN security guards to the room. They held McAleer and aggressively ordered cameraman Ian Foster to stop filming. The guard threatened to take away the camera and expel the film crew from the conference if they did not obey his instructions to stop filming Professor Schneider.

The guard demanded to look at the film crews press credentials and refused to allow them to film until Professor Schneider left the room.
McAleer said he was disappointed by Professor Schneider’s behaviour.

“It was a press conference. Climategate is a major story – it goes to the heart of the Global Warming debate by calling into question the scientific data and the integrity of many scientists involved.”

“These questions should be answered. The attempts by UN officials and Professor Schneider’s assistant to remove my microphone were hamfisted  but events took a more sinister turn when they called an armed UN security officer to silence a journalist.”

Two officers corralled the film crew and one officer can be seen on tape threatening the cameraman. The Guard can also be heard warning that if the crew did not stop filming their would seize the equipment and the journalists expelled from the conference.

McAleer says he has made an official complaint tabout the incident.

“I have met Mr Christopher Ankerson the UN’s head of security for the conference and he has confirmed it was Professor Schneider’s staff who asked the security guards to come corral us at the press conference. Mr Ankerson could not say what grounds the security guard had for ordering us to stop filming.”

“This is a blatant attempt to stop journalists doing journalism and asking hard questions. It is not the job of armed UN security officers to stop legitimate journalists asking legitimate questions of senior members of the UN’s IPCC.”

Professor Schneider was interviewed for McAleer’s “Not Evil Just Wrong” documentary but lawyers later wrote to McAleer saying he was withdrawing permission for the interview to be used.

McAleer, who is from Ireland, has gained quite a reputation for asking difficult questions of those who have been promoting the idea of man-made Global Warming.

Professor, here is my message to you:

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Fun for the whole family!

Guess the movie by Nicolas Cage's hair!

Sadly, I knew nearly all of these, though, c'mon, 6 is a gimme.  Also, I really love 9, Steve Buscemi is all the awesome in that.   

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In my 2009 Christmas stocking I want, part 4

Ho ho ho boxer shorts. Because you really need a laugh cue card when taking off your pants.

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Beyond parody

The only things that are missing from this column are a thrill up her leg and a mention of the crease in his trousers.

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In my 2009 Christmas stocking I want, part 3

Willy wear.  Because I haven't humiliated and embarrassed my husband enough this year.

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My stars and garters! What is the world coming to these days!

I am posting this because I am OUTRAGED, OUTRAGED I tell you that the video surveillance hasn't leaked such horrors would occur around The Children.

I expect you Morons to respond with the shock and horror that this inspires.  Also, remember to pace yourselves.  Carpal tunnel is nothing to sneeze at.

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In my 2009 Christmas stocking I want, part 2

Lucky Christmas poo.  Which comes with a festive red and green cardboard backing.

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Further proof that John Edwards is a douche

Either that or the whole Rielle Hunter thing was an elaborate ploy to hide his nancypants ways.

Is it pathetic that I trust the National Enquirer more than I trust MSNBC?

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In my 2009 Christmas stocking I want, part 1

I realized last night that I hadn't started posting these again.  I hope these aren't too late to help you with your holiday shopping.



A holiday poster of David Hasselhoff.  Complete with a facsimile of his handwriting, probably because his real handwriting is too shaky from the DTs for him to sign the posters.

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Because I keep promising Alex ...

... and because I can find nothing else to blog about tonight, I give you previously mentioned Emberpics.

Be nice.

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Save the planet - kill a tree

As the proud owner of not one, but two fake trees, imagine my sorrow joy when I learned that I am contributing to killing the planet!  (My two SUVs probably contribute, too.)

 It may not sound like "tree-hugging," but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind, one scientist says.

 "It is a little counterintuitive to people," said Clint Springer, a biologist at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

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 Live trees actively photosynthesize as they grow from saplings, which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. After they have been cut and Christmas is over, they're usually chipped for mulch. As mulch, the bits of tree very slowly decompose, releasing carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. So in the end, a real Christmas tree is carbon neutral, putting the same amount of carbon dioxide back into the air as it took out (albeit much more slowly).

 The tree farms that grew the trees also replant after the trees are cut.

 Artificial trees, on the other hand, don't come out even in the carbon balance. Petroleum is used to make the plastics in the trees and lots of carbon dioxide-creating energy is required to make and transport them.

 Because these trees just end up in landfills after a few years' use, "those greenhouse gases are lost forever," Springer said. "There's really no opportunity to recycle those."

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What were we just talking about?

Okay, that's funny on a bunch of levels.
A local Goodwill got some kind of antique looking metal jug donated
A two gallon metal water jug was donated to Goodwill, but ...when employees opened it,

Wait for it...
they found four bags of marijuana that together equal about a pound.
D'Oh!
They claim it was a year old.
That's funny, you know some stoner saw the news story and said, "That's where I left that shit. Damn"

Via the Agitator

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Since y'all were good

And not that whiny (waves at Vinty), then fine. Bipartisianship below.



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Frum Fumbles Two Issues in One Post

Why not go for the Hat Trick, David?

Frum goes hook, line, and sinker for the old "politics of no" line about the GOP, with the added twist that Republicans have gotten an even worse deal than they would have had they been proper political dhimmis.

First he points to the Medicare/Medicaid expansion "compromise" as being worse than the public option, because at least the public option "controls costs". If only Republicans had been more accommodating we could have been stuck with a marginally less woeful fate.

To start, the announced compromise isn't exactly written in stone. In fact, there's "no legislative language". But there are two good reasons why even more obstructionism would have been in order. (1) If not for Senator Snowe the Democrats might still be trying to get a bill out of committee. (2) But beyond that, Frum doesn't even have his facts right -- Senate Republicans did play the amendment game, which only allowed Dingy Harry more time to rustle up some votes. As to Republicans being "impotent spectators", well, the score is 60-40 in the Senate, so yeah, they're pretty impotent. Nothing changes that.

Frum's second fumble is Cap & Trade. With the EPA threatening executive regulation, Frum thinks Cap & Trade looks marvelous by comparison. Maybe it does, but it would be easier to change such a policy under a new President than it would be to pass new legislation to repeal a massive bureaucratic orgy like Cap & Trade. Cap & Trade (let alone anything more destructive) threatens to be an economic catastrophe, all for the increasingly dubious belief in the religion of apocalyptic anthropogenic global warming. Were we really supposed to have gone along with that? Doesn't that look like an increasingly moronic position to take in light of Climategate, or did Frum not hear about that while watching MSNBC?

Perhaps Republicans were naive in believing there were still some Constitutional boundaries in the United States. Why should it have been assumed that the Executive would merely usurp Legislative prerogative? The answer to that is a lot more disturbing than whether Republicans played ball on an issue or two.

Improving stupid bills only improves their likelihood of passage. I still hold some hope that Obamacare can be stopped. So far, the stocks of the health care companies seem to agree. (Knock on wood.)

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An Idea So Stupid And Foolish, Only The NY Times Could Come Up With It

Yeah, this is sheer genius. No way this will ever get mocked.

And, to think, this is the "Newspaper of Record."

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Remember When Obama Claimed To Love "Shovel Ready" Jobs?

Yeah. Me too. Of course, tell that to these 500 coal miners.

A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.

But CONSOL Energy’s political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant “enhanced” review. And, agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.

The latest setback for the coal industry was announced on Tuesday when CONSOL Energy said close to 500 workers would lose jobs at their Fola Operations location near Bickmore, West Virginia in February 2010.

Hope & Change, baby! Hope & Change!

You know, I am starting to get the feeling that Obama really is not serious about saving jobs not tied to his political ambitions. But that's just me.

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Sometimes I wonder...

...whether or not people like this realize that there are a lot of people pointing at them and laughing at what they consider big, scary-important issues:

If you thought the television tales about Thomas the Tank Engine were merely light-hearted fun, think again.

 In fact, they portray a world blighted by a 'conservative political ideology' and a rigid class system which stifles self-expression. And they are sexist.

That, at least, is the view of a female academic who took the trouble to analyse 23 episodes of the programme inspired by the books of the Rev W V Awdry.

According to Professor Shauna Wilton, women are under-represented in the stories and what few female characters there are tend to have 'secondary' roles or be bossy.

What's more, she has warned that such negative messages about society subconsciously gleaned from the show might even drive its young fans off the rails in later life.

The learned professor was inspired to carry out her study after watching Thomas videos with her three-year-old daughter. While the child was enthralled, her mother was dismayed.

The most hilarious thing about this is that Professor Wilton probably has no fucking idea that she's just turned herself into the flipside of the "Oh mah Gawd, one of them Teletubbies is A GAY!!!" coin. Although, if someone were to point that out to her, I'm sure she'd have a perfectly rational explanation for why her hyperventilating about hidden messages in a British childrens' show is completely different. Yeah.

And now, for the less amusing, but sadly inevitable conclusion to this episode...

Professor Wilton, from the department of political sciences at Alberta University, Canada, wants tighter controls on what is broadcast-to children.

 She said: 'We tend to think of children's TV shows as neutral and safe, but they still carry messages.

'Eventually these children will attain full political citizenship, and the opinions and world outlook they develop now, partially influencedby shows like Thomas, are part of that process.'

And who better to determine what kind of messages die Kinder the children should be receiving through the media than, well, Professor Wilton and some like-minded pals? I mean, they know best, right? The world outlook of our kiddies hangs in the balance, people!

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Idiot Gets Offended By A Pants Ad, Then Promptly Gets Pwned By Her Readers

I don't know what is better: the Dockers man-ifesto, or the mockery this idiot gets for her (I assume this is a "she") disdain for said statement. I just hope Dockers is man enough to not pull the ad.

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No, you can't haz bipartisanship

Why do I like girls?



That's why.

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If I said this blog kills you, would you read it more often?

For any of you Morons out there who smoke cigarettes, it is officially time that we blame the Surgeon General and, by proxy, the government, for our nasty habit.  So, now, at least while I'm killing myself with a Parliament Light, I'll know in my smug little heart that it isn't my fault.  It's the fucking warning label!

A small study by psychologists from the United States, Switzerland and Germany showed that warnings unrelated to death, such as "smoking makes you unattractive" or "smoking brings you and the people around you severe damage," were more effective in changing smokers' attitudes toward their habit.

This was especially the case in people who smoked to boost their self-esteem, such as youth who took up the habit to impress or fit in with their peers and others who thought smoking increased their social value, the researchers said.

"In general, when smokers are faced with death-related anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs, they produce active coping attempts as reflected in their willingness to continue the risky smoking behavior," the study said.

"To succeed with anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs one has to take into account that considering their death may make people smoke."

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The researchers said this finding can be explained by the fact that warnings such as "smoking makes you unattractive" may be particularly threatening to people who believe that smoking makes them feel valued by others or boosts their self-image.

If only the Surgeon General's warning told me that smoking makes me ugly.  I never would have started in the first place.

UPDATE: This time, with the source.  Whoops.

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