Note the date on THIS article….and read the whole thing. If you are not disturbed by this, then you have the sensibilities of a head of cabbage….and most likely the intellgence and cognitave ability as well.

The men referred are experts at “climate change”….not climate science….

Their whole reason for existence is to find more funding for “climate change”, not climate research……It has become a business.

Sadly, that business has influenced the whole economic structure of the free world.

Read the linked article….

It’s all about power….money, fueled by propaganda, used by power seekers, funded by taxpayers, for social engineering.

Period.

Still waiting for some real reporting via the MSM.

Mr Obama wants a clean quick end to the war win Afghanistan…..So, no doubt, do we all.

But he fails to realize that our opponents in this are long term thinkers. They play chess.

Mr Obama, on the other hand, is thinking like a man used to playing checkers. He is, no doubt, a very skilled checkers player. But this sort of decision is not for those without a longer term strategy. To actually announce that 2011 is our goal (albeit with the caveat that we might have to stay longer) telegraphs to his opponent (AlQueda and others) that all they have to do is wait, and the current regime will lose heart and fail to pay attention long enough to win in the interval.

Were I on the opposite side in Afghanistan, I would take the intervening 2 (+/-) years to reorganize, re-equip, and train, saving my strength for the day when the deadline passes…..At which time, Mr Obama will be under the gun to finish things quickly. He will do nearly anything to meet that goal, even to the point of cut and run, and failure….. I would save my men and materiel for the future, and only pursue a strategy of harassment, never committing or allowing my forces to engage for any length of time, nor ever take risks that might lead to any real defeat or damage to my forces.

Our opponents understand that this will be a long war, and grueling one, and now they know that there will be a point at which the “Great Satan” will decide to leave, job finished or not, leaving the people of Afghanistan to their own devices. Thus leaving a void which they can fill at their leisure.

Make no mistake, I am not sure that we can win in such a place. The people and their culture is foreign to our way of living, and even, perhaps to our understanding. It may be that creating a stable democratic style government is impossible with the afghans at this time. It may be that there needs to be 2 countries rather than on Afghanistan…

Whatever the outcome, it is certain that the Bush Administrations failure to find and neuter Osama Bin Laden was indeed, a failure. After that, the war in Afghanistan became, in my opinion, a waste of men and materiel. Having said that, if we do not prune away the vines of evil continuously in areas such as Afghanistan, they will regrow, and strangle the countries and the people in that region, and regain strength and marshall their forces to strike the western wold once again. Bush (W) knew that, and warned the American people that this would be a long war.

Chess.

Mr Obama told the foes of the US, in Afghanistan, that we would leave in 2 years(more or less) and we have not the strength of will nor the fortitude to continue the fight… He essentially told them how to win.

Checkers.

Seems that scientist have found a way to grow “meat” in the laboratory…..

Meat. Artificial meat.

MMMMM. Now Vegetarians can enjoy bacon. And Steak. And Porkchops….

Frankenfoods, coming soon to a store near you.

Go see Bore Patch for a really really really good series of posts on “climate gate” and the “science” (or lack therof) therein.

He points out that there is NO warming that is not “adjusted”.

None

Zero

Nada.

And he shows that if you run the so called climate model, you GET A “HOCKEY STICK” no matter what data you input.

In other words. this whole thing is BULLSHIT.

But you already knew that.

Didn’t you.

The SWISS seems to be angry enough at the Muslim attempts to change the country to which they emigrated that they have banned the erection of new minarets.

This is serious. The SWISS have done this. If it had been the Germans, or the French I could understand….But the SWISS?

Here is a quote that should tell you why….and it is the same thing that OG and myself have said…..”Backers said the growing Muslim population was straining the country “because Muslims don’t just practice religion.””.

Seems that some of the Swiss (57.5 to 42.5 percent)as Og and I do, the rest are with RobertaX.

ETA: Seems that the WOMEN of Switzerland were the larges supporters of the ammendment….

Ivan Kenneally has commentary on the politics of GW “science…

Jonah Goldberg has a point about the double standard of scrutiny for these leaked emails and documents…

Some snark

Others take a look at the code that is used in the program that “models” the climate.

And Megan points out that we are basing a change in our entire lifestyle and it’s costs on a fairly faulty model.

Here we have a report that another bunch of climate data (from NZ of all places?) is “adjusted” to fit the preexisting theory, not the theory adjusting to real data….One wonders about the veracity of all of the other data used in light of these revelations….IS there any climate data that is not “adjusted” to make it fit the theory of global warming ???

Here we have the point that it’s not about the science, it’s about the funding…No one is going to pay anyone to do a report that says “all is well, we have no issues, you can relax now”….at least not more than once.

And, Via Insty, we have a piece that points out that it is all about the money and control….Not about the science, not about the environment, and not about the climate…..

Look: World leaders are going to Copenhagen in a few days to discuss how they are going to strangle their respective economies in order to reduce carbon emissions. I have no issue with reducing carbon, nor making our use of energy more efficient. But the fact is that this is, and always has been, based upon poor science and half assed computer models that were written to make the outcome fit a predetermined outcome that fits the “hockey stick” graph/theory. It’s not like there is any real proof that WE HUMANS are causing the planet to warm. In fact, we might not be. then agaibn, we might. But science like this proves nothing except that many people have gotten a lot of money for a very poor “research” product.

If the ice is all gonna melt, and the oceans are gonna rise, then why did Al the Gore just buy a bunch of oceanfront property in California??? Kinda like the “End of the World is Near” prophet buying long term investments…

Follow the links here, decide for yourself. Look at the evidence that is mounting. If this were business (Global Warming Research IS a busines, but I am talking about a private, stockholder owned business) then the FBI would be all over this, investigating for racketeering and fraudulent use of governmnet money….

Ask yourself why, if the MSM had the time and resources to fact check Sarah Palin’s book with a bunch of people, can’t they devote a portion of those resources to investigating this bogus climate “research”? Why are they whitewashing this? Who benefits?

And ask yourself why you hear very little from the MSM about it?

ETA: I have been getting HUGE traffic from Google search. For those of nyou that found me that way. Please, take the time to read some of my other posts…..Hope you like them, and if not, well, your comments might just make me take the time to re-think my opinion….I hope you enjoy my blog…

Seems that the ARMY wants to fix the M4. Seems that the fixes are what everyone already says they need….A piston, and a barrel that is thicker, and a better trigger.

So maybe they are gonna buy the new Ruger??? Or maybe an SU-16?

Srsly. Why now? Not that these fixes haven’t been needed. And no I am not bashing the M4. It is a good system, albeit with some issues. But what firearms platform doesn’t have issues? (with the possible exception of the designs of JMB……)

One wonders though…Why now?

Who benefits from this? (other than the military men and women who may (and I say may) get a better, more reliable rifle.

THIS points out that the earth hasn’t warmed in over a decade.

At all.

None.

Nada.

The average temperature rise over the last decade:

0.00 degrees C.

None. Not even a teensy teensy tiny bit.

Makes one go HMMMMM…..

Via Hoosierboy, I found THIS.

Ask yourself: How do YOU answer his question?

I know my answer……