Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

Andrew says: Gore is an anti-capitalist enviro-fascist loon. The fact that anyone pays attention to his idiocy after the damage he helped cause with biofuels is beyond me. Gore is not a scientist and like other Hollywood types waxing about the enviroment should be ignored.


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Centreright addresses this issue.

He, and his ilk, are losing supporters, The American Physical Society has come to their senses.

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Well its a lot safer than going to Catholic Church for some children. At least they won’t get fiddled with playing video games. And what was Benedict doing in his youth? Or yeah he was a member of the Hitler Jungen. What is with religious leaders these days? First it was the Arsebishop of Canterbury sucking up to Islamists and slagging off capitalism; now its the Pope prattling on about things he knows nothing about. And they wonder why the young are skeptical about Christianity.

It might be better if both of them got their own houses in order before criticising what other people do with their spare time.

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Says it all really.

From: Resistance is Futile who has some more fun posters on his blog.

Like this as well

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Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.

Dr Rowan Williams also criticised Christianity’s history for its violence, its use of harsh punishments and its betrayal of its peaceful principles.

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Nick Cohen on Harry’s Place about Islam Expo and Demos.

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And there are people who think its a good idea to label music that is used interrogation by the US government. Of course, its the far-left that is doing this little idea. Surely if the music is that bad its not something to crow about.

There is no Celine Dion in the list nor Aqua so its not that bad. And no Victoria Beckham either?

Oh and they have released a video of a teenaged terrorist being interviewed. He whines and complains…but he is still a bloody terrorist.

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Last Friday, in the wake of a closely argued debate about whether Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, had used the phrase “Evil Jew” or “Jewish Lobby” in a speech, Harry’s Place received a letter. The letter is from Dean and Dean, a firm of solicitors who are acting for Mr Sawalha.

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No doubt this is the opening gambit in a campaign of legal intimidation by Islamists in the UK. We need to support Harry’s Place as the first line of defence against this sort of bullying.

Update: There is a blogburst started in support of Harry’s Place.

The Iconoclast is on side not surprisingly.

The Jerusalem Post has picked up on this reports Z-Word.

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Yes, this dog has offended Scottish Muslims. The police are under fire for this “affront”. No one seems to be able to question why a small minority can cause such a fuss with their petty objections to things. Not like UK Muslims have a great record of helping the kaffir police anyway. And here we thought Scots had some of stones when it came to these sort of things.

No wonder Smeaton is moving to the US. He is probably worried about being prosecuted for restricting the rights of the terrorist he prevented from blowing up the airport.

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Yes, there are no Obamaniacs running around killing supporters of McCain. However some of the though-police behaviour of Obamaniacs are similar.

In Zimbabwe if you do not support Mugabe you are accused of supporting “imperialism”. If you do not support Obama you are a “racist” according to the Obamaniacs. Mugabe does his best to censor all press in his country. Obamaniacs are doing their best to make sure no one says anything in the press that is the slightest bit anti-Obama. Obamaniacs are doing their best to get anti-Obama bloggers banned and/or censored whenever possible. Obamaniacs are trying to limit criticism of their boy by all means necessary.

Both have a bye from the left for whatever they do.

And both Mugabe and Obama certainly have personality cults where their followers are uncritical no matter what they do (or in Obama’s case flip-flopping on issues aplenty). The whole “Hussein” as middle name thing is cultish that is for sure.

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They cannot even manage mentioning Mugabe and his genocidal behaviour. And we should care about the continent why?

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Here are the details. Well done to Mark Steyn for holding his bottle and not letting the bastards get him down.

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You know it’s been a good event when Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, emails to say, “Jolliest party of the year! Thank you so much”...
On the cigar terrace and out on the street, at the front of the building, nothing was going to stop guests lighting up. Smoke-free England? I don’t think so.

Andrew says: My beloved and I chose to attend this event as my first since I started feeling better chemo-wise. It was a great event that we all enjoyed greatly. Even Michael White of the Guardian seemed to enjoy himself.


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And David Davis…

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This is a remarkable achievement, No, not [Liberal Opposition leader Stephane] Dion’s proposed “Green Shift” tax program—which is approximately the stupidest idea ever. I refer to the director of this commercial, who accomplished the previously-thought impossible task of getting politicians to clap in time. Go to any political convention and you’ll get the idea.

Watching it, I was reminded of this (probably apocryphal) story from a few years ago:

Bono is at a U2 concert when he asks the audience for some quiet. Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands. Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

A voice from near the front pierces the silence: “Well, f***ing stop doing it then!”

Update: I knew it was too good to be true. Here’s the snopes.com link.

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One could argue that the Republicans in Congress do not deserve any gifts considering their lack lustre performance over the last many years. However, they have been gifted a subject with which to bash the Democrats from here to November. More importantly Republicans in Congress seem to be waking up to the fact this issue could be a key to salvaging something in November.

Even John McCain has seen the writing on the wall and changed his position on parts of the issue. He realises that the public did not agree with his ole stance and that the new one would be more prudent and realistic. Would that the Democratic Congress and Obama open their eyes in the same way. Well maybe not until after November if one wishes to be partisan.

I am sure many of you are well aware what I am referring to in the above to paragraphs. The gift policy that keeps giving is one of domestic drilling in the US. While the Democrats blame big oil and speculators; the Republicans are start to make sure the public realises that the reason there has been no significant drilling in the US over the past decade is down to them. Some Democrats are even calling for socialist measures such as nationalising refineries; a tactic that has worked so well in Venezuela.

Now it is also possible to link other energy issues to the subject including their continuing opposition to new nuclear plants and refineries. If the Republicans paint the Democrats as beholden to the enviroloon lobby they will be helped greatly. The record of the Democrats on energy independence is an appalling one that is plain to see for anyone who cares to look.

The fact that Democrats and some Republicans, stand up Olympia Snowe, cling to their 60s hippie mentality about energy is both amusing and appalling. Despite the evidence of the harm that the drive for biofuel has done to the planets food supply and the American taxpayer they persist in touting it. Despite the fact that alternative energy is still years off; they cling to be a belief that it will solve their problems.

The American people are starting to break free of the shackles of the enviroloon lobby and the media obsession with environmental issues however wrong and are starting to favour more drilling. They merely have to go have a fill up in their self-funded, as opposed to taxpayer funded like politicians, cars to realise that its time for the US to start exploiting its own oil reserves. The American people have far more common sense than those sitting on their high green horse in Washington.

It will be interesting to see if the Democrats panic over this issue and begin to back peddle on it to get closer to the popular view in the country. One thinks that with Pelosi as their leader in the House this will not happen as she seems to only care about what her left-wing constituents in California care about; and the rest of the county can just cling to their guns/religion.

It has been a long time coming but the US has finally got to realise that their future energy needs will be met by a myriad of sources. We can no longer just rely on pie in the sky possible future tech but look at the situation realistically. The US has plenty of oil under its own soil to sustain it for quite a while. As technology gets better even more will open up in the future. Being idealistic is all fine and good but when it puts the country in jeopardy its need to be called out.

McCain has begun to see reason on the subject as have all but a few RINOs. The Republicans should unite behind this subject and push it forward.

If the Republicans of all ilks hammer on this issue in the next few months they can turn the tide against them. This is a subject which they are generally right and the Democrats are clearly wrong on according to the great American public. Its a subject social, fiscal and defence conservatives can unite on.

With a bit of backbone and clever tactics the Republicans have been given the hammer which to bash their opponents with. Its not often this kind of gift comes to a party in opposition.

Lets hope they grasp it with both hands for the sake of their party and the sake of the country as a whole.

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Read Dan Hannan MEP’s experience while wearing the shirt in Brussels. Not big on democracy those EU politicians are they?

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On last night’s Factor he ranted against capitalism. Yes, of course, he is ranting against speculation. Does he rant against Al Gore and the enviro-loons? Nope, not once. He even make the daft statement that the US cannot “drill” itself out of this enviro-loon caused mess. His paranoid rant is just pathetic and shows his anti-capitalist populist instincts (plus ignorance about economics). Fortunately he is decent enough to have someone not as ignorant on to put him right, in the form of Karl Rove. He does try and have opposing points of views on which is to be lauded.

It amuses me when the left rants about the “bias” of Fox News. There is a great difference of opinion on Fox. Just listen to O’Reily and Cavuto for instance. They agree on virtually nothing.

I watch O’Reily for Dennis Miller and, on other days to get the juices flowing. I can’t do it daily or it would probably be bad for me. He never fails to annoy me with his populist bollocks.

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The atrocities of Christian and Jewish extremism should be on display alongside those perpetrated by their Muslim counterparts: from the Ku Klux Klan to Baruch Goldstein to September 11th, religious fanatics of all faiths perpetrate violence that aggravates intercultural tensions and widens the perception gap.

Moral relativity from a Muslim Iman in today’s DT. They just love bringing up Goldstein and the KKK (who were/are not motivated on religious grounds) when excusing 9/11. How many did the KKK kill or Goldstein compared to the 3000+ lives lost on 9/11? This sort of comparison is offensive in extremis; but typical of the Islamic mindset.

Naturally he mentions the Crusades, a defensive war against Muslim aggression. (There is on exception the Albigensian Crusade and no Muslims were involved at all.) Inotherwords because Christians stood up for themselves and drove back the Islamic hordes from their midst they were wrong and evil.

Update: Contrast it to this piece about anti-Israel sentiment in the UK. Needless to say several commenters back up the piece’s point quite nicely.

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We all know of the paranoia of the various ilks of Jew haters around the world. You know the ones that think Jews have more power that they deserv. Well they are right about one thing, especially in the US, Jewish voters are very motivated when needs be. I predict, considering some of Obama’s friends and supporters, that there will be a serious Jewish shift to McCain, that may in fact put him over the top in places like Florida. Jewish women seem to be especially aggrieved by the fiddling that got Obama the nomination.

Have a gander at some of the paranoid ranting showing up on Obama’s official site. He is also hiring people like this guy. Can you imagine how the MSM would react if similar stuff turned up on McCain’s site? But I digress.

As you can imagine there are lots of observers and bloggers who are monitoring Obama and his cronies. This blog hopes do its part to keep Obama from winning in November.

Of course what will happen is that the paranoids will be right when their loony ranting ensure Obama wont win. You can imagine what the bleating is going to be like post-Obama.

Update: Another tack from Janet Daily with the same conclusion.

Update II: Not surprisingly major Jewish donors are heading to McCain instead of Obama.

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Andrew Coyne, editor of Macleans, live-blogging the farcical Mark Steyn “trial” by the B.C. HRC:

2:37 PM Were going through an interview Awan gave on Mike Duffy Live. He tells Duffy that this isnt a case of free speech versus minority rights. Rather, he says, Macleans can go on publishing what it likes, Steyn can write whatever he likes, just so long as the Muslim community gets a right of reply. (Im paraphrasing. The video of the interview is ”>here.) So really, what theyre proposing (he explains in the interview) is an extension of free speech.

I think I see his point. Every time Macleans wants to publish an article some group doesnt like, they just have to give them an equal amount of space in the magazine. Double the space, at twice the cost to Macleans – but zero cost to the complainants. Thats free speech, of a kind.

2:43 PM Porter turns to the Amiel column. The two have a detailed discussion of it. My eyes are beginning to glaze over.

2:54 PM The tribunals majestic eye now turns to the important question of Little Mosque on the Prairie. Porter is incredulous. Are you taking a review of a CBC sitcom comedy, to be judged as to whether its politically correct?

God help me, this reads like a Monty Python script. I can hardly wait for the man from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

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The Bishop of Stafford has written an article in a parish magazine likening climate change deniers to Josef Fritzl, the Austrial child abuser that locked up and raped his daughter for 24 years. As a “climate change denier” myself, I find these remarks highly offensive so I got on the blower to the office of the Diocise of Lichfield…

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I urge everyone to email them and complain to this slur against people willing to debate the issue. bishop.lichfield@lichfield.anglican.org Spread the word on this disgracefully and nasty cretin.

Considering the record of the clergy on kiddie-fiddling surely its unwise to cast such a phrase on others.

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100,000 have already signed the petition including this blogger. Send a message to the enviroloons and Congresscritters that you are sick and tired of their getting in the way of finding and using domestic oil/gas. The US is a resource rich country but we have fools who won’t let us use it.

It made me so pleased that the first time I tried to sign the petition the site was overweighted with hits.

There is one focused on the North East…please sign here.

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They get upset when the sole BNP councillor in London gets a blog but doesn’t when jew-hating/gay-hating/everyone hating Islamists get a voice in the Guardian and the Independent. If it weren’t so serious, it would be funny, the hysteria and foolish actions that are resulting from the result of the London elections. With each outrage they are giving more fodder to the BNP. The seating arrangements in the chamber being the most pathetic so far.

Harry’s Place is an exception to the above of course.

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Both the UN and the media may soon be forced to jettison entirely the myth of a climate science ‘consensus’. If nothing else, the fast rising number of ‘mavericks’ demands it.

Andrew says: You think the UN might regret the fact they used people with no scientific qualifications at all, like Al Gore, to push their dubious assertions? No one should be surprised that many scientists took affront to attempt to stifle debate.

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Vaclav Klaus has re-iterated the truism that the enviromental movement is just statism/marxism under another name. Those who are behind it wish to control your life via the hammer of the state. The excuse has changed but the general gist has not. Readers of this blog will know that I have been saying this for years.

Klaus wants to debate to Gore about the subject. You think Gore has the guts to debate such a clever man?

Krauthammer agrees with this line of reasoning.

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Watching her brain freeze and the reaction of the two Reps. behind her is most amusing.

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Try sitting in a darkened room with a glass of single malt Lionel – it’s always helped me when I start talking bollocks
Posted by Peter Hindley on May 24, 2008 10:46 AM

This was a comment in response to this piece of idiocy in today’s DT.

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My purpose here is to show that this concern is misplaced, that human activities are not influencing the global climate in a perceptible way, and that, in any case, very little can be done about global climate change. It is unstoppable; we should not even try to influence it.

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PrimeTimePolitics hosts a good discussion with the man. Its in five parts and he handles his book plus the anti-free speech crusade in Canada. It makes for rather interesting watching. There is a face to face with several of his critics who seemed to whine alot.

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Wall Street Journal:

Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights.
Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional expos, which she promises will “name names.”

An article about some whiny, thin-skinned professor (no doubt, an affirmative-action hire) at Dartmouth. This, though, was my favorite part:

I once wrote a term paper for a lit-crit course where I “deconstructed” the MTV program “Pimp My Ride.” A typical passage: “Each episode is a text of inescapable complexity . . . Our received notions of what constitutes a ride are constantly subverted and undermined.” It received an A.

(If you’re not familiar with “Pimp My Ride,” it’s a program where people nominate either their own, or a friend’s beater of a car. Then a team of automotive specialists—who are very good at what they do—descend on it and rebuild it from the wheels up, topping it off with a custom paint job and enough video and audio gear to annoy other motorists from five blocks away.)

Via this comment at SDA

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Weekly Standard:

A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring “account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms.” No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,” is enough to short circuit the brain.

A “clear majority” of the panel adopted what it called a “biocentric” moral view, meaning that “living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive.” Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim “absolute ownership” over plants and, moreover, that “individual plants have an inherent worth.” This means that “we may not use them just as we please, even if the plant community is not in danger, or if our actions do not endanger the species, or if we are not acting arbitrarily.”

The committee offered this illustration: A farmer mows his field (apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmer’s herd—the report doesn’t say). But then, while walking home, he casually “decapitates” some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can’t agree why. The report states, opaquely:

At this point it remains unclear whether this action is condemned because it expresses a particular moral stance of the farmer toward other organisms or because something bad is being done to the flowers themselves.

What is clear, however, is that Switzerland’s enshrining of “plant dignity” is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people

I tracked down the report, and here it is, in all its pomo stupidity, if you can stand it. (PDF file):

The hierarchical position can be criticised for being unclear about why the membership of a species, or the complexity of abilities, should be morally relevant. This objection is usually countered by saying that the complexity of an organisms telos correlates with its ability to perceive harm. Further, we should take into account that our understanding is multiply situated, i.e. it remains tied to the abilities given to us and achieved by us culturally: the human perspective cannot be overcome. This does not rule out our ascribing moral status to other living organisms.

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