When Scientists Have a Heart of Darkness

Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?

Here's what Phil Jones of the CRU and his colleague Michael Mann of Penn State mean by “peer review.” When Climate Research published a paper dissenting from the Jones-Mann "consensus," Jones demanded that the journal "rid itself of this troublesome editor," and Mann advised that "we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers."

So much for Climate Research. When Geophysical Research Letters also showed signs of wandering off the "consensus" reservation, Dr. Tom Wigley ("one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change") suggested they get the goods on its editor, Jim Saiers, and go to his bosses at the American Geophysical Union to “get him ousted.” When another pair of troublesome dissenters emerge, Dr. Jones assured Dr. Mann, “I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Which in essence is what they did. The more frantically they talked up "peer review" as the only legitimate basis for criticism, the more assiduously they turned the process into what James Lewis calls the Chicago machine politics of international science. The headline in the Wall Street Journal Europe is unimproveable: "How To Forge A Consensus." Pressuring publishers, firing editors, blacklisting scientists: That's "peer review," climate-style.

When the peers are mafia-style thugs, you get mafia-style science.

The Insane Running the Asylum

POLITICALLY-correct penpushers have banned calling yobs "youths" - so as not to hurt their feelings.

Government bureaucrats insist they must be called "young persons" instead.

Why not just call them yobs?

Annoyed civil servants had to spend hours correcting the document itself, after they were the first to fall foul of the new rule.

More than 100 mentions of the banned word had to be deleted in the 26-page code.

Stupid.

Coming to America?

Better hope not.

Want to fix the National Health Service? Go private

One of Labour's great triumphs with the National Health Service is that people now go into hospital to die rather than to be cured. It seems to render the whole debate about assisted suicide utterly pointless. Who needs a Dignitas clinic when you can check into a hospital in Basildon and be relatively certain to be taken out in a box?

It is a further achievement of our monitoring, regulating culture that even the monitors and the regulators don't seem to have a clue how bad things are – or they certainly didn't in Basildon. This exposes one of the great pretences of the NHS: that it is there first and foremost for the benefit of patients. It isn't. It exists these days mostly for the benefit of various trade unionists who are fully paid-up members of the Brown clientele, and who earn good money as petty bureaucrats trying to "manage" things that, if they need to be managed at all, could be far better done by fewer people in much more efficient systems.

SEIU anyone?

Good Advice

Yeah, he's an atheist. Nobody is perfect. Religion deserves much of what he says about it anyway. And most of what he has to say in this video is spot on.

The Opposite is Also True

I found this very interesting and thought provoking. Learn something new everyday.

'Nuff Said

"This is Your Brain on Political Correctness: Dead."

Major Nidal Hasan had an enabler

Commissar Lynch has it exactly backwards: it's the craven submission to political correctness, the willingness to leave your marbles with the Diversity Café hat-check girl, that leads to death—real death, with real corpses, from Texas to Ontario. And when the guy’s on the table firing wildly and screaming "Allahu akbar!", the PC enforcers won’t be there for you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dennis Prager is right on with this message.

911 Can't Stop the Violence

She called 9-1-1 just before being beaten to death with a blunt object outside of her home.

That's not the main point of the article at the link but it is something to consider.

The Gravy Train

How politicians 'solve' problems

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind.

Many of the things the government does that may seem stupid are not stupid at all, from the standpoint of the elected officials or bureaucrats who do these things.

The current economic downturn that has cost millions of people their jobs began with successive administrations of both parties pushing banks and other lenders to make mortgage loans to people whose incomes, credit history and inability or unwillingness to make a substantial down payment on a house made them bad risks.

Was that stupid? Not at all. The money that was being put at risk was not the politicians' money, and in most cases was not even the government's money. Moreover, the jobs that are being lost by the millions are not the politicians' jobs – and jobs in the government's bureaucracies are increasing.

And they want to do more of this.

How-to of the Day

It's not difficult to make a woman happy.

Offensive Congressman

When I first saw this video I thought it was faked.



How is it that they don't take congressmen like this away in handcuffs? Or at least a straight jacket? What part of complete travesty of our constitutional government don't they understand? If you refuse to defend and protect the constitution you should be removed from office. Period. Isn't that the oath they take?

Sticking It To You

Government Deficits and Private Growth

For anyone who wondered if last winter's federal seizure of the financial services industry would have adverse economic consequences, an answer is now available. The credit market has been tilted to favor a single borrower with a huge appetite for money, Washington. Private borrowers, particularly small businesses, have been sent to the end of the queue.

The Obama administration is not and has no intention of creating a climate of job growth in America with the exception of government jobs. All the talk of creating jobs from this administration is just that - talk. The stimulus was payback to the unions, lawyers and politicians. It does nothing to feed the economic engine of this country. This is not only business as usual in Washington, it's business as usual on steroids. It is the most selfish, greedy and ruthless administration I have ever seen in this country.

Throwing It All Away

The trial of terrorists in New York will be a circus and a sham at best and probably a train wreck. A circus train wreck.

Trying the Sheikh to Try Our Faith

It has been increasingly obvious that this administration is dedicated to destroying the nation’s economy by increasing its debt, imposing changes to our healthcare system—one sixth of the nation’s economy, taking ownership in General Motors and AIG, and doing nothing substantive about a rising unemployment rate.

It has done this at an astonishing rate of speed as if it realizes it only has a limited amount of time in which to bring down America.

The only element of the system that Obama has not yet significantly harmed is our system of justice. Americans implicitly believe in our system of justice which is fretted about with all manner of ways to protect the rights of the accused.

The Sky is Falling

The Global Warming/Climate Change Hoax is over and it's time for the mainstream media to fess up. The liars have been exposed and it's time to end it. Now.

The global warming fraud exposed

First, the data simply does not support their conclusions. Second, they know the data doesn't support their conclusions.

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!

The hoax has its roots in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an instrument of the United Nations Environmental Program, for whom global warming was the open sesame to achieving a one-world-government by scaring nations into signing a treaty that would control their use of energy, the means of producing it, and require vast billions to be sent to less developed nations in exchange for “emitting” greenhouse gases.

Energy is called "the master resource" because, if you have lots of it, you can call your own shots. If you don't, you are condemned to live in the dark and keeping people in the dark about the global warming hoax was essential.

For years the IPCC has been controlled by a handful of the worst liars in the world, utterly devoted to taking actual climate data and twisting it to confirm the assertion that the Earth was not only warming dramatically, but that humanity was in peril of rising oceans, melting glaciers and polar ice caps, more hurricanes, the die-off of countless animal species, and every other calamity that could possibly be attributed to "global warming", including acne.

So, around November 20, when some enterprising individual hacked into the computers of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), making off with thousands of emails and documents that demonstrate the level of collusion and deception being practiced by its scientists.

The Hockey Stick was never accurate--and CRU knew it

The infamous "hockey stick" temperature graph purporting to show a runaway acceleration in global temperatures beginning in 1850 was never accurate--and the Climatic Research Unit knew it wasn't accurate when they published it.

SNL Obama Skit

Black is a Choice?

Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'

"We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama," Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. "You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

Here is a protege of Martin Luther King Jr. who has not comprehended the message. Sad.

Look at the Facts

The Last Call You May Ever Make

On a related note, it is unbelievable to me that our military personnel are not allowed to carry weapons on base. Why do we treat trained soldiers like children? Civilian police officers took out the terrorist in Ft. Hood - not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is a military base. How many people could have been saved if some of the people there had guns on them? Just let concealed carry permit holders carry their guns. No extra permitting or expenses required. Or better yet, allow military personnel to get a federal carry permit so they can carry at any base in the United States. It's the least we can do for them. How embarrassing is it for soldiers to be sitting ducks? It's crazy.

No gun zones are some of the most dangerous places you can be.

This Boggles the Mind

Schools let students seek secret abortions

A 12-year-old girl is prohibited from bringing aspirin to California public schools without a note from her mother or father – but in many California districts she may sign herself out of classes, leave her junior-high campus without parental permission, secretly have an abortion and return to school before the end of the day – and her own family may be none the wiser.