This is for a particular commenter who has made another appearance here once more.

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

Boston (MA) - Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man’s contributions.

Oh dear, that nasty old sow, Mother Nature, is screwing with man again. Nothing like a poke in the eye with a sharp bit of manmade hubris, is there now.

Methane - powerful greenhouse gas

The two lead authors of a paper published in this week’s Geophysical Review Letters, Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, state that as a result of the increase, several million tons of new methane is present in the atmosphere. [snip]

Ohmigod! No cow can poot that much, must be Gore running that gianormous houseboat and the Hollyweird swells jetting off to Europe. All those big mouths belching CO2 and farting at those parties did it.

More study
[snip]
…Where does one even begin? And how relevant are any of the data findings at this late date? Looking back over 2007 data as it was captured may prove as ineffective if the data does not support the high resolution details such a study requires.

One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to get a handle on the big picture of global warming. Findings like these tell us it’s too early to know for sure if man’s impact is affecting things at the political cry of “alarming rates.” We may simply be going through another natural cycle of warmer and colder times - one that’s been observed through a scientific analysis of the Earth to be naturally occurring for hundreds of thousands of years. [snip]

So, that was only an acorn falling from the tree and not the sky.
Global warming BUNGHOLES.

RBSH

Awarded only to Knights of the Un-PC Word

Wear this proudly; steal their thunder with the “Right Might” lighting bolt!

Teenager among four fatal stabbings in London in 24 hours

• A teenager is among four victims of separate fatal stabbings which took place in London over the past day, as a fifth man fights for life.

• His death brings the number of teenagers killed in the capital this year to 20 and comes just days after the Metropolitan police announced that knife crime had usurped terrorism to become their top priority.

• In Walthamstow, north east London, a man in his 20s was fatally stabbed in an attack in St David’s Court yesterday evening.

• In Tottenham, north London, a murder inquiry was launched after a man was found stabbed to death at the rear of a disused pub in Tottenham High Road.

• Four people remain in custody today after a 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Leyton, east London.
  The man, named locally as Adnan Patel, died from a stab wound to the chest after crashing his Ford Focus in Downsell Road, Leyton.
  Detectives are investigating whether he was fleeing from the occupants of a van who stabbed him in an apparent road rage attack moments earlier.
  Paramedics were called as passers-by gave emergency first aid and tried to stem the bleeding but Mr Patel died at the scene.

• A fifth man is in a life-threatening condition after a knife attack in London Willesden, north west London at 4.20am this morning.

All of these individuals are were upstanding citizens, who avoided fighting back which breaks the law. Instead, they calmly left all this unpleasantness up to the police.

Police officer dies of heart attack after being diagnosed with indigestion

From NHS, we get news of this money saving treatment. Brits better hope this doesn’t become the new medical rage.

A policeman with a family history of coronary disease was sent home and told to take indigestion remedy when a hospital failed to recognise he was having a heart attack.

PC Brian Burnett, 49, a dog handler, was three months away from retiring when he was taken ill with severe chest pains.

He went to Lincoln County Hospital’s accident and emergency unit where he was examined by a doctor and given an electrocardiogram (ECG) test to check his heart.

But he was told to go home and take Gaviscon, over-the-counter treatment for heartburn and indigestion.

PC Burnett collapsed and died 34 hours later from an atherothrombosis, a condition which leads to arteries becoming blocked.

His widow Christine has now been awarded a six figure sum in compensation three years after his death, with United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust accepting negligence.

Of course, a tidy sum to be sure at first glance. Think of the tidy sums saved by not having the surgical costs on the NHS and savings on his pension.

National health care does save the system money.

Anna Temple, of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, said: “We offer our condolences to the family of Mr Burnett.

How wonderful and sensitive of them to care.

What do Syria, Myanmar, Darfur, Hell, Afghanistan, Iran and Britain have in common? God-awful places to live is the answer.
However none except Britain are so uncivilized as to keep you from protecting life and property. The U.S. under the Donks and libs strive mightily to get us to that place particularly with the “progressive education” so enjoyed.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. [snip]

In Britain, protecting oneself by means of a weapon, from assault with intent to maim or kill, is punishable with time in prison, not short either.

How did they get they get to this position. By the liberal method of constantly moving the goal posts back to get a bit more correctness in the law.

When the Donks took over congress in the ‘70’s here, they got their ideas from across the pond. We are about 10 years behind Britain in rampant stupidity, only because of luck and some members of SCOTUS. No problem seeing why the left vilifies the conservative side of the bench, is there?

A sampling of cases illustrates the impact of these measures:

In 1973 a young man running on a road at night was stopped by the police and found to be carrying a length of steel, a cycle chain, and a metal clock weight. He explained that a gang of youths had been after him. At his hearing it was found he had been threatened and had previously notified the police. The justices agreed he had a valid reason to carry the weapons. Indeed, 16 days later he was attacked and beaten so badly he was hospitalized. But the prosecutor appealed the ruling, and the appellate judges insisted that carrying a weapon must be related to an imminent and immediate threat. They sent the case back to the lower court with directions to convict.

A proper and PC verdict, would you say?
Now if the jogger said he was carrying the metal to help him lose weight and build up stamina, what could the prosecutor have said?
The lesson to be learned in this PC world is do not tell the truth!

In 1987 two men assaulted Eric Butler, a 56-year-old British Petroleum executive, in a London subway car, trying to strangle him and smashing his head against the door. No one came to his aid. He later testified, “My air supply was being cut off, my eyes became blurred, and I feared for my life.” In desperation he unsheathed an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick and slashed at one of his attackers, stabbing the man in the stomach. The assailants were charged with wounding. Butler was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.

NYC has a law that allows prosecution for assault if one defends themselves with their cane. A prosecutor can bring the case to the grand jury, which as you know, will indict a ham sandwich for not having mustard. I presume using your crutch would make matters ever worse.

In 1994 an English homeowner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the homeowner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.

Absolutely right! We cannot have these young malefactors wetting their pants, can we.

In 1999 Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence. He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three-year sentence, is now free and has been granted $5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.

Comparison
Bernard Hugo Goetz, known as Bernhard or Bernie (born November 7, 1947) was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” by the New York press. How the BBC views this.

One-year-old racists are the scourge of civilization.

Claim: Kids who say ‘yuck’ may be racist

Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.

The London-based National Children’s Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.

[snip]

The bureau says to be aware of children who “react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying ‘yuck’.”

[snip]

Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.

Kind of hard to respond to this level of moronic thought, isn’t it. The planet is in more danger from the oxygen use by this bunch than any global threat.

Childhood is was a time of testing one’s abilities and limits. Today, being a kid is banned as aggressive, antisocial and overtly masculine, Oh the shame, the shame of being Ritalin free.

At McLean School, Playing Tag Turns Into Hot Potato

Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School, has told students they may no longer play tag during recess after determining that the game of chasing, dodging and yelling “You’re it!” had gotten out of hand. Hooker explained to parents in a letter this month that tag had become a game “of intense aggression.”The principal said that her goal is to keep students safe and that she hopes to restore tag (as well as touch football, also now on hold) after teachers and administrators review recess policies.

After her review, tag will be acceptable provided there is no running and being “it” is abolished. New touch football rules stipulate walking for a touchdown and saying in a modulated voice “you’re touched.”

Students will be gratified to know the:

The Fairfax County schools’ office of risk management maintains a list of activities that are prohibited at any school-sponsored events. In addition to bungee-jumping and scuba diving, students are not permitted to break dance or play dodge ball or tug-of-war.

Unregulated activities such as

A 14-year-old Arizona girl was arrested on suspicion of hitting another teen over the head with a folding chair…[snip]

are not part of written school policy. This seems to be of a more serious nature than tag. I guess proscribing this behavior might sully the student’s self-esteem. Better to raise girlymen.

Contrary to law, truth isn’t a defense against the PC idiots.

Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur

PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. [snip]
She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000. [snip]

One needs the awareness that the Constitution is silent on education. Since most schools at the time were church run with some private, the need for public education did not exist. Looking at what passes for education today, proves all those white men had smarts.
Catholic schools demand scholarship, ethics, parental involvement and student disipline, or else. The greatest lack in the Catholic schools is the lack of victimhood and the PC ethos.
Which is why they work.
Incidently, non-catholics are not required to take religious instruction.
Viewed this way, the demise of Parochial education is desired by the Left.

‘Crisis’ with loss of Catholic schools

[snip]
Since 1999, a total of 1,267 Catholic schools have closed and 374 have opened, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. The number of Catholic elementary and high schools fell from 8,719 in the 1989-1990 school year to 7,378 in the current year, according to NCEA data.

According to Fordham researchers, the NCEA data translates into about 300,000 students who have been displaced from Catholic schools, at a cost to taxpayers of about $20 billion as public schools absorb the students. In an interview last month with The Washington Times, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington predicted that this trend would continue without government vouchers, saying the church faced continued challenges to “sustain all of these schools, particularly in the poorest, urban areas.”

As Catholic families increasingly moved to suburbs in the 1960s and ’70s, urban Catholic schools increasingly began educating poor, non-Catholic students, the report noted. There were solid academic results, it argued, citing evidence like Andrew Greeley’s 1982 findings, which showed achievement of minority students was higher in Catholic schools than in public schools. [snip](emphasis added)

The report authors also argued that private-school vouchers “are no panacea” — noting that programs in Milwaukee and the District have not really helped the Catholic urban schools there and the Archdiocese of Washington is turning seven of its schools into public charter schools. [snip]

Private school vouchers cannot be used at Catholic schools; that is forbidden by law thanks to the ACLU and the Donks.

As part of the study, Fordham also commissioned a survey of 800 adults. The majority of adults surveyed chose Catholic schools as the best to offer a disciplined learning environment and instill moral values, and public schools as the best to work with economically disadvantaged students. [snip] (emphasis added)

Here are two delightfully incorrect photos. Both are from Canada, circa 1942.

I’m posting these for no other reason than to upset some fascist.

I wonder if Vermont teachers went to NY to help? The scores look like they did. After one gets by the dazzling footwork in Vermont, the scores are very close to one another.

Understand, the teachers of today went through the same educational system. This goes far to explain the problems in and with our schools.

Writing Mastery Eludes Majority In Eighth Grade

Three-quarters of eighth-graders in New York City’s public schools cannot write proficiently, a problem demonstrated by more than two-thirds of students statewide, according to results from a federally administered test released yesterday.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, found that 55% of city eighth-graders scored at the basic level, meaning they had a partial mastery of skills, and 20% scored below basic. The national average was 57% scoring at basic and 13% scoring below. The New York State scores represent no significant progress since the last time the test was administered, in 2002. Nationally, eighth-graders made modest but significant gains, with the average score rising three points since 2002, though the percentage of students scoring proficient, 33%, did not change significantly.

There is no way to record change over time for New York City, because 2007 was the first year the test results were separated out from state scores.

The city’s scores can be compared with other large central cities. By that metric, New York City’s scores were statistically neither better nor worse than the average; they were lower than three cities that topped the average: Charlotte, N.C.; San Diego, Calif., and Austin, Texas.

The director of research at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, Jason Brooks, released a statement comparing the NAEP results to results produced by New York State tests, which last year showed eighth-graders posting large improvements on a reading test, with 42% meeting state standards versus 37% the year before.

Mr. Brooks said the discrepancies prove state exams are “dumbed-down.”

A spokesman for the city Department of Education, David Cantor, pointed out that the writing scores are higher than the levels the city’s eighth-graders posted on national reading and math tests last year. On the 2007 reading exam, 19% of eighth-graders scored proficient, and 16% did so on the math. [snip]

I need an explanation. 42% score proficient in writing; 19% score proficient in reading. How can some one score higher on a writing test that the reading test? How would they know what they wrote?

On the writing test, 19% of New York City eighth-graders were tested with accommodations, the highest percentage of any city included in the study and above the national average, 9%.

Meanwhile, 2% of eighth-graders were excluded from the test, a lower number than several cities, such as Cleveland, where 11% were excluded.

Sample questions from the writing test can be viewed at http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/. One question asked students to write a letter describing what a backpack is.

The education historian Diane Ravitch, who has served on the governing board of NAEP, said, “The conclusion we draw is we have some serious issues having to do with reading, writing, and math by the time kids are in eighth grade.” [snip]

School vouchers are the only answer.

They’re humane, no waterboarding here.

This site has links to the videos

Purported Al Qaeda Video Shows Prisoners Burned Alive

Al Qaeda’s latest display of terror has made its way onto the Internet, showing horrifying images of what appear to be prisoners in Iraq being doused with an inflammatory liquid and then burned alive.

The video, which appears to have been posted first on Google last December in an alleged anti-Al Qaeda Web film, shows five insurgents standing behind three blindfolded prisoners kneeling at the edge of a burning pit. [snip]

According to the summary — in Arabic and German — included in the nearly 15-minute video posted on Google, many of the clips were found in Diyala, Iraq. The makers of the film say that the originals were “passed to us by others.”

These are the nice people we won’t waterboard because it’s unfriendly. You don’t wish them to be upset and change into nasty persons, do you?

With all the arm waving over multiculturalism, why is it not valid here. Like I mean, you know dude everything is soooo equal!
The unhinged left believes diversity is righteous, except when it conflicts with their beliefs. Forget not too, that this “animal lover” abused and tortured five “Flippers” for money!

Dolphin slaughter brings charges from both sides

TAIJI, Japan (CNN) — Ric O’Barry sometimes dresses as a woman or wears a large surgical mask to disguise his Western identity on trips to spots overlooking the ocean.

He prowls the cliffs near Taiji, Japan, with a video camera, hoping to catch fishermen doing something that appalls him: catching dolphins.

“This here is ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth,” says O’Barry, who trained five dolphins to play “Flipper” on the TV series of that name. “It’s absolutely barbaric, and it needs to stop.”

Offending this clown and all the diversity dummies is the best reason to persevere with “doing the dolphin.”

Fishermen hunt dolphins almost every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean. Watch fishermen catch dolphins »

Locals know that they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it’s a tradition hundreds of years old. And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering chickens or cows.

“I know there are many different ways of thinking in different societies, but for us who’ve been eating this for a long time … it’s an awkward thing to be criticized for,” says Kayoko Tanaka, a retired middle school teacher. “I either fry dolphin meat or turn it into a stew.”

O’Barry says the dolphins face a cruel fate.

“It takes a very long time to die. They bleed to death. And some of them are dragged in the boats with hooks while they’re still alive,” he says. “Many of them are gutted while they’re still alive.”

OK, so what’s your point?

To some puzzled people in rural Japan, the question comes down to this: What’s the difference between killing and eating a dolphin, and killing and eating a fish? Or a chicken? Or a cow? [snip]

Many Japanese consider the deer a sacred messenger from the gods, he says, but they would never suggest that people in other parts of the world stop venturing into the woods on a quest for venison.

“We don’t like to play God to say, ‘This animal is just for food, and this is not,’ ” he says. “Because we know, nation to nation, we have totally different ideas.” [snip]

Representatives of the Taiji Fishermen’s Union declined requests for an on-camera interview. So did the town’s mayor and several others. And O’Barry says he’s gotten into a few shouting matches with fishermen, who resent him and his camera.

So what does O’Barry say to their claim that he has no right to tell them to abandon a tradition that has flourished in their corner of the world for more than 400 years?

“If someone came to my hometown and told me what to do, what to eat, I’d be outraged,” he says. “But that’s not going to stop me from doing it. I mean, tradition? It used to be traditional for women not to vote. So do we keep that going because it’s traditional and cultural? Of course not.” [snip]

Answer this, If the dolphin are so smart, why do they there, producing excellent tempura?

This guy spent too much time underwater without oxygen.

From a Michelle Malkin repost:

I have had the pleasure of speaking and debating alongside former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm. In Colorado five years ago, we took on an open-borders contingent that was pushing for the illegal alien ID card known as the matricula consular (which I’ve blogged about extensively here.) He’s a true maverick–a Democrat who has long presaged the self-destructive impact of open borders. In 2004, Dick Lamm gave a now-famous speech at one of the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s conferences. The incisive speech, “I have a plan to destroy America,” went viral. I still have at least one or two readers e-mailing it to me every week. I’m reprinting it today. [snip]

I have a plan to destroy America by Richard D. Lamm

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan: [snip]

Go here to read this speech

And from this turkey:

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” –Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.

May I add, no friend of America.

Reality will bite you hard.

For those of you who believe the police are there for you, for those of you who know there is never a cop around when you need one, and for those of you who live in fantasyland of gun weapons control, this message is for you. Take it to heart fools!

This is not a slam at the police; it is a slam at you, the criminal enabler, and the charter member of the victimhood club.

This should be on every police vehicle in large type.

The police protect and serve the community at large. You protect yourself.

Incidentally, why don’t you put a sign in your front yard reading “GUN FREE ZONE.”

What would we do with out the UN.

Early in our debate over female genital cutting, Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago critiqued a 2006 Lancet study by a group of researchers working with the World Health Organization. I invited those researchers from the W.H.O. study to respond.

They’ve prepared a response written by Hermione Lovel of Department of Health in Cambridge, England; Efua Dorkenoo of WHO; Zeinab Mohamed and Clare McGettigan of the University of Manchester, England, and E.O. Akande of W.H.O. and University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. The researchers addressed two questions raised by Lab readers:

1. Are there local organizations around the world discussing this topic? (Asked by Elizabeth Tierney.)
2. Is there any any collation of evidence on the positive and negative effects female genital mutilation (FGM)?

Here are the researchers’ answers:

1. There are many local organizations around the world discussing female genital mutilaltion (FGM). Your readers may be interested to know they exist in many countries in Africa where FGM is a traditional practice as well as in western countries where the practice has been reported in specific immigrant communities. To list just a few examples, they include the Inter-African Committee (IAC) which is the largest African women’s regional organization with national chapters in 28 African countries working to end FGM . Other well known groups working to stop FGM include Tostan in Senegal; BAFROW in the Gambia; the Babiker Badri Scientific Society in Sudan, Equality Now Kenya, Agency for Cultural Change UK, FORWARD UK, FORWARD Germany and RAINBO. Most of these are fully engaged in their work in local communities so do not devote their limited resources to web sites but some do have a web presence people. These include the large organizations such as the IAC, EQUALITY NOW and RAINBO. All have networks of grassroots organizations campaigning against FGM in Africa and parts of the Middle East. Most importantly the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research publishes factual education materials on FGM which can be downloaded here.
3. Aside from a number of research articles that have brought together what we know to date of the health complications, in 1995 a Manchester University team was commissioned to work with WHO to undertake a systematic literature search on primary evidence of health sequelae of FGM. This was produced in 2000 and is available here. [snip]

Understand, now that these NGO’s are talking about FGM, we assure ending this practice. Devoting this amount of compassion to the subject guarantees the solution.

How about dealing with this like the Brits and Progressives deal with guns. That works so well.