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"I'm doing this to de-mystify abortion," she says. "I'm doing this so other women know, 'Hey, it's not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was.' It's just not that bad."Read the comments from pro-aborts cheering her on for murdering her unborn child. Truly sickening.
Absolutely marvellous work. Saying that Von Rompuy has "all the charisma of a damp rag" and called the oxygen thief a "low-grade bank clerk" from a "non-country" which, to be fair, is being rather kind, it's a shame that speaking rules didn't allow him to have more of a say. The Eurofanatics in the Parliament of the occupying powers didn't like it, and neither does the BBC.
For anyone who values freedom and the chance of escaping from the EUSSR, though, it's yet another reason to hope for his success against Labour's Speaker-stooge Bercow
For anyone who hasn't seen this yet, the excellent Ann Coulter at CPAC last week.
Seven Cuban doctors and a nurse sued Cuba, Venezuela and the state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) for alleged conspiracy to force them to work in conditions of "modern slaves" in order to pay off the Cuban debt with the Venezuelan government for oil supply.
The defendants "intentionally and arbitrarily" held the health staff in "debt servitude" and the staff became "economic slaves" and "political advocates," according to the complaint filed in the United States, Efe reported.
In the complaint, the leading defense attorney ArÃstides Cantón argued that the plaintiffs travelled to Venezuela in "deceit" and "threats," and were forced to work unlimited hours in a social welfare program known as "Mission Barrio Adentro," in areas with high rate of crime.But, isn't Cuba an absolute model for healthcare, not to mention, governance? That's certainly what Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, and other useful idiots in Hollywood would have us believe. Of course, every doctor enslaved to Venezuela is one fewer for the Cubans.
"Ken Clarke, the shadow Business Secretary, is to hold secret talks in Brussels with Jose Manuel Barroso to assure the European Commission President the EU has nothing to fear from a Conservative government. The two-day visit to Brussels, which begins on Tuesday, by the most pro-EU member of David Cameron's cabinet-in-waiting is seen by European officials as a signal that a new Conservative administration will work with the EU executive rather battling against it."
Let's see how far it gets, shall we?
Apologies for the lack of posting, but small amounts of real-lifeishness have temporarily interrupted the flow. This graph, spotted on PoliticsHome, though, is rather worrying. How on earth has the pill-popping onion-dabbing, Nokia-throwing, secretary-slapping, printer-destroying one-eyed son of the manse managed this trick, eh?
In a Tuesday NBC Nightly News story, reporter Ron Mott actually acknowledged that the decision to use “environmentally friendly” ice resurfacing machines “that kept breaking down” had led to lengthy delays for speed skating competitions at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the piece on problems at the games, Mott reported:
In the past two days, men's speed skating was slowed to a standstill because of poor ice conditions, further complicated by the environmentally friendly machines, used in place of the tried and true Zamboni, that kept breaking down. A Zamboni is being brought in from Calgary.
On USAToday.com, Tom Weir explained the malfunctions, “that delayed the women's 3,000 meters Sunday and which threatened to postpone the men's 500 Monday were unprecedented at Olympic speedskating,” and were caused by Canada putting “green” interests ahead of reliability:
The problems suffered by Olympia brand resurfacers brought into question the decision of the Vancouver Olympics to be as green as possible, and use electric-powered machines to groom the ice. To prevent further problems, a traditional, propane-powered Zamboni has been trucked in from Calgary.
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore. Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity.The crowd at the Trump National Gold Club gave him a standing ovation. Quite right too.
This display is currently on show at the 126th Nice Carnival in France. It's truly the stuff of nightmares. The theme being celebrated is "King of the Blue Planet" and the float is called "Yes We Can Be Ecologist."
Left Coast Rebel has the story, complete with some excellent cynicism.
Built in 1985, at the end of the boom, Kamaoa soon suffered from lack of maintenance. In 1994, the site lease was purchased by Redwood City, CA-based Apollo Energy.
Cannibalizing parts from the original 37 turbines, Apollo personnel kept the declining facility going with outdated equipment. But even in a place where wind-shaped trees grow sideways, maintenance issues were overwhelming. By 2004 Kamaoa accounts began to show up on a Hawaii State Department of Finance list of unclaimed properties. In 2006, transmission was finally cut off by Hawaii Electric Company.
California's wind farms - then comprising about 80% of the world's wind generation capacity -- ceased to generate much more quickly than Kamaoa. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills.But wait - isn't wind energy all about protecting the environment?
Stay tuned for more skeletons of the green energy movement, coming to a community near you. Read more...Altamont's turbines have since 2008 been tethered four months of every year in an effort to protect migrating birds after environmentalists filed suit. According to the Golden Gate Audubon Society, 75 to 110 Golden Eagles, 380 Burrowing Owls, 300 Red-tailed Hawks, and 333 American Kestrels (falcons) are killed by Altamont turbines annually. A July, 2008 study by the Alameda County Community Development Agency points to 10,000 annual bird deaths from Altamont Pass wind turbines. Audubon calls Altamont, "probably the worst site ever chosen for a wind energy project." In 2004 the group unsuccessfully challenged renewal applications for 18 of 20 Altamont wind farms.
With an expansive doff of the fedora to Moonbattery, it seems that the solution to our "key economic, social and environmental problems" turns out to be surprisingly simple, according to the British taxpayer-financed New Economics Foundation. All we have to do is stop engaging in so much productive activity.
To solve inequality of outcomes between the industrious and the lazy, and to rescue the polar bears from their imaginary plight, a 3-day work week is proposed:
According to nef, there are several forces pushing us towards a shorter working week: lasting damage to the economy caused by the banking crisis, an increasingly divided society with too much over-work alongside too much unemployment, and an urgent need for deep cuts in environmentally damaging over-consumption.
Quoth Ann Coote, nef's Head of Social Policy:
So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume. And our consumption habits are squandering the earth's natural resources. Spending less time in paid work could help us to break this pattern. … It is time to break the power of the old industrial clock, take back our lives and work [or rather, refrain from working] for a sustainable future.
If we work less, we'll have less, so there will be less for socialists to envy. Plus a few die-hard nutters still believe that doing anything other than loafing - or as nef would put it, partaking of "civic engagement" - at Starbucks makes it be too hot out.
According to Cootie's colleague Andrew Simms, producing less will also alleviate poverty and hunger, presumably because companies will have to hire twice as many people - with all the extravagant benefits and government-imposed liabilities that entails - to get the same amount of work done. How companies could stay in business under these conditions is left to the imagination. Presumably they will not - thus the promised reduction in harmless carbon emissions.
Here's an idea for nef. Why don't we drop the incrementalism and go directly back to hunting and gathering - except without the hunting, because it oppresses animals? Only if the government forces everyone to subsist by foraging for roots and berries can we eliminate income disparities and limit carbon emissions to breathing and flatulence.
....the hour is late, and things are getting desperate. It doesn't look like Jennifer Aniston is turning up this year either, even though the table was booked for 8pm as it has been in the same restaurant every 14th February for a decade. Maybe my note was lost in the post again....sometimes the glue doesn't hold those newspaper cut-out letters on the envelope very well. And Jen, my darling, that restraining order really wasn't necessary.
So, in one final roll of the dice, TheEye resorts to online dating....
"It's simply part of their job description that they can make people indignant," said district court judge, Ann-Louise Roos.
Medvedev's order for a greater sale of key assets comes after he conferred with officials last week about ways to encourage investment -- and as the government is facing a budget deficit for a second straight year.
Medvedev also instructed the Cabinet to come up with a proposal to punish more severely those bureaucrats that hamper investmentMeanwhile, the Obama regime, which has already taken over two car companies and several banks, will hire 153,000 extra bureaucrats in 2010 alone to hamper investment. This will take the number of directly employed civilian federal jobs to a staggering 1.43 million people. The American government pushes forward on its "jobs bill" which, like the last one, will borrow billions in order to keep Government bureaucrats at work, pushes forward on massive new regulations of finance and insurance, pushes forward on industry-destroying climate change regulations, and declares that companies that make profits are enemies of the regime. Sounds exactly like what is happening to the once vibrant economy bequeathed to Blair and Brown all those misery-filled years ago.
The wheels are really falling off the Great Climate Change Hoax now. We're almost so punch-drunk with revelations of concocted science and dodgy grant-seeking deception that it's almost getting tiring to turn over the next rock and watch what crawls out from underneath. Today we read:
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
D - Do you agree that natural influences could have contributed significantly to the global warming observed from 1975-1998, and, if so, please could you specify each natural influence and express its radiative forcing over the period in Watts per square metre.
This area is slightly outside my area of expertise. When considering changes over this period we need to consider all possible factors (so human and natural influences as well as natural internal variability of the climate system). Natural influences (from volcanoes and the Sun) over this period could have contributed to the change over this period. Volcanic influences from the two large eruptions (El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991) would exert a negative influence. Solar influence was about flat over this period. Combining only these two natural influences, therefore, we might have expected some cooling over this period.
E - How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?However these quotes are the clear winners:
I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon. (question G in the BBC interview)
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming. (question b)
The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.
Adopting a vegetarian diet based around meat substitutes such as tofu can cause more damage to the environment, according to a new study.
The study concluded: "A switch from beef and milk to highly refined livestock product analogues such as tofu could actually increase the quantity of arable land needed to supply the UK."
The results showed that the amount of foreign land required to produce the substitute products - and the potential destruction of forests to make way for farmland - outweighed the negatives of rearing beef and lamb in the UK.
Meat substitutes were also found to be highly processed, often requiring large amounts of energy to produce. The study recognised that the environmental merits of vegetarianism depended largely on which types of foods were consumed as an alternative to meat.
Islamic scholars have forbidden Muslim travellers from passing through full body scans at airports because they violate religious rules on nudity.
The Fiqh Council of North America issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, yesterday warning Muslims not to go through the scanners. ‘It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,’ .
Beetles are destroying ponderosa, pinyon, lodgepole pines and other trees important to the ecosystem. The beetles have their place in the ecosystem too, of course, but climate change and human activities have allowed beetles to take over more than they should.
To combat such infestations, scientists thought up the "nastiest, most offensive sounds" they could. Those included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds.The solution to tree-eating beetles is obvious: blast Rush's show through loudspeakers wherever there are trees.
The scientists then played these recordings near beetle-infested trees that they brought into a lab setting. The sounds disrupted tunneling, mating and reproduction for the beetles, making it harder for the insects to eat through the trees.
Richard Hofstetter, an entomology professor at Northern Arizona University who worked on the project, told Discovery News that "the most annoying sound" his colleague, Reagan McGuire, "could think of was Rush Limbaugh or rock music."
McGuire started to pump the sounds of Limbaugh into portions of infested tree trunks brought into their lab, but Hofstetter said McGuire "could not bear listening to Limbaugh, so he ended up playing Rush backwards, which still kept the voice and intonation the same, but the words were meaningless."
Hold on to your wallet…
The obvious musical choice would seem to have been The Beatles, but the scientists believe actual beetles wouldn't mind this band.
Hofstetter said his team is currently seeking additional funding…
An attempt by Europe’s richest countries to end the crisis engulfing the euro failed to impress financial markets today as the single currency fell despite promises that the battered Greek economy would not be allowed to implode. As the EU’s main paymaster, Angela Merkel refused to tie Germany down to a bailout of Athens at a one-day European summit, with EU leaders instead making a general pledge to take “determined and co-ordinated action if needed” to prop up the euro. The statement of political intent followed a failure by the 16 nations in the eurozone to agree the precise details of a rescue plan for Greece, leaving the euro to lose most of the gains it had made in the run-up to the Brussels meeting of the 27 EU leaders.
Question Time tomorrow night is a Northern Ireland special.Over on A Tangled Web, Patty writes about Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocking Sarah Palin for making a note on the palm of her hand for a recent speech...by writing "Hope" and "Change" on his own hand. The irony of Gibbs working for a man who needed a teleprompter to speak at a local school seems to have eluded him, as did the fact that he spelt "Hoax" incorrectly.
As Patty notes, Unfortunately for Gibbs, President Obama had just finished speaking from the same podium about the need for bipartisanship, and the need to "transcend petty politics." Gibbs' joke received groans.
Mohammed Atif Siddique said he should not have been jailed for “thought crime” and never had the intention of using terrorist materials he had accumulated to hurt anyone. Prosecutors confirmed the 24-year-old, who was Scotland’s first man found guilty of being an Islamist terrorist, will not face a retrial.I am sure his fellow Islamists will get the message, aren't you? Read more...
You may have read that McDoom plans to sell of the port of Dover. To the French, actually. Glad to see that Dame Vera Lynn has weighed in on this SHAMEFUL move by Labour.DAME VERA LYNN is urging officials to rethink plans to sell the Port of Dover to foreign investors, insisting it's a part of history. A spokesperson for the Port of Dover has denied reports the area itself will be sold to owners of the Port of Calais, in France, but admitted the ferrying business is to be offered for purchase. And the White Cliffs of Dover hitmaker is heartbroken by the prospect. She says, "I would feel very differently about it. The port should absolutely stay in British hands. It always has been and it should always be. It means so much to the boys who have sailed away from it and come back. "How could they even think about selling it off? It is not right. Dover is part of England. It simply can't be part of anywhere else."
So, who agrees with the author of this article that illegal immigrants to the UK should be allowed to stay?.
The argument proposed has four elements; 1/ They are here to stay so we may as well accept them. 2/It is mostly a London problem and London tends to welcome immigrants anyway. 3. Long term illegal immigrants can make a positive financial contribution and finally, 4/ Long term illegals could make good citizens.
I disagree on every point. For starters, IF we accept law-breakers, why bother having a law? Next, it is NOT just a London problem and even so, I am sick of the way in which our Capital city has become un-British through the tsunami of illegals. 3/ They can also be a long term drain on finances and 4/ They could. But then again, unless they embrace British values, they might not.
Can someone tell me what is the POINT of Druid Williams aka The Archbishop of Canterbury? I see that this bearded fool has issued a “profound apology” to the lesbian and gay Christian community today. Why? It's not HIS job to go around apologising to whichever sexual interest grouping he find most guilty about. Williams is a wretched fool and a disgrace to the office he holds.
I notice that The Times has been running character assassination pieces on Sarah Palin. The latest drivel from Allen-Mills is here, but if you're bored you can also check out this as well. What is it about Palin that drives the imagined sophisticates at The Times so crazy? I wish the UK had a Palin-esque figure and she continues to be my hope for the Presidency in 2012!
The claim has been made as town halls face a multi-million pound bill to develop an extra 7,500 sites for “gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople” in line with new housing laws. Government figures show the number of traveller caravans in England grew by more than 1,200 in the past two years to 17,900, an eight per cent rise.
Ok, so who all agrees that Cherie Blair, the wicked witch of the West, should be elevated to the House of Lords?
A political row is brewing over a controversial move to give Cherie Blair a peerage – making her the first Prime Minister’s spouse to be elevated to the Lords since Clementine Churchill. Allies of Mrs Blair say she is entitled to the honour on the basis of her decade in No10, her record as a leading lawyer and her charity work. However, the idea, which is being actively discussed in senior Labour circles, is likely to run into criticism from those who may question whether she deserves the same recognition as Lady Churchill.
I must say that I think she deserves no such honour. It is because of Cherie Blair and her ilk that our country is in such peril and to reward her by placing her in the Lords would be as lunatic an idea as rewarding Micheal Martin - that most disgraced of Speakers - by putting him in the Lords. Oh...hang on a second....
Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine each face up to seven years in jail after Keir Starmer, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, announced that he was charging them under the Theft Act 1968. Lord Hanningfield, the Tory frontbencher and leader of Essex County Council, faces six charges over his expense claims. In a joint statement, the three MPs announced that they would fight the charges by claiming parliamentary privilege over their expense claims. It said: “We maintain that this is an issue that should be resolved by the parliamentary commissioner, who is there to enforce any breach of the rules.”
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