This and That.

Time to get back to work here.

One of my hobby horses has been the Global Warming Scam. Sometime last year I got into a discussion at The Vigil [I won't link to it, don't want to attract loony lefties] wherein I got a couple of hoity toity look down your nose responses to the effect that if I couldn’t link to some peer reviewed articles to support my views I wasn’t worth reading. I posted this link to the series of articles in The National Post by ‘The Deniers’, eminent scientists all who are not part of the ‘consensus’ so touted by the Goracle and the rest of the lefty brain dead. Made no difference.
I should say I support Global Warming, bring it on I say, but alas I think we may be in for a period of Global Cooling. Another five years and they’ll be handing out credits for CO2 production and a big carbon foot print [not to be confused with a Big Foot footprint, something else entirely] will be deemed socially and morally correct. Which brings me to this article, ‘Temperature Monitors Report Wide Scale Global Cooling’. It’s actually kinda scary.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.

Haven’t heard much from the Goracle lately, have we?

Update. The link seems to have gone screwy but Dr. Sanity has a post on the article with a link that worked when I tried it.
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A YouTube video worth seeing, Mark Steyn on Multiculturism.

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A couple of days ago it was my birthday, one week later it is my daughter’s. Today she mentioned that I was born in ’36 and I’m 72, she was born in ’72 and she will be 36. I don’t know if this might be a common occurrence, it seems odd enough to me to not be. Numbers are fascinating, wish I could be a mathematician.

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Project for Sunday, figure out uploading pics here. [Put that to remind myself].

The Razor.

I’ve been commenting on a couple of posts at Scott Kirwin’s The Razor that you might find interesting.

Two Suzukis.

Schinichi Suzuki of the University of Tokyo has a plan to launch one hundred origami planes from a satellite in orbit. What a cool idea!

Dr David Suzuki, famous environmentalist [puke] has a plan to throw politicians who do nothing about global warming in jail. . I’m cool to that idea.

In fact it looks more and more like global cooling should be the concern of all these puffed up control freaks who think we’re all doomed.

The Munich Air Crash.

Fifty years ago today, the Manchester United soccer team, known as the Busby Babes , manager Matt Busby had picked young players, were on board a plane at Munich airport when it crashed on take off. Eight of the team including probably the best player, Duncan Edwards, were killed.
Seems like only yesterday as they say, but in other ways it was a different world.

From a column in today’s Daily Telegraph by Jan Moir commemorating the crash:

Fifty years ago today, a 25-year-old footballer called Harry Gregg climbed back into the burning fuselage of a crashed aeroplane to rescue his team-mates and fellow passengers.

In the immediate aftermath of the Munich air disaster, which killed 23 of the 44 people on board, the Manchester United player saved the lives of a pregnant woman and her small daughter and pulled Bobby Charlton and Matt Busby, among others, to safety. For this, he was called the Hero of Munich, an epithet the modest Ulsterman has always hated.

In his moment of truth, Gregg did not hesitate to do what he could amid the carnage, but afterwards he never wanted to speak of it. No wonder, for the terrible trauma of the crash, on the plane’s third attempt to take off from Munich airport in atrocious weather, is the stuff of enduring aviophobic nightmare.

None of the survivors sued the airline, none suffered post traumatic stress disorder, [it hadn't been invented yet] none spent hours on the psychiatrist’s couch, they just got on with their lives as best they could as people did then. Jan Moir compares the event to the recent crash landing of a jet at Heathrow Airport in which no one was killed and where a number of passengers are suing for damages because they see a chance to make a quick buck are so upset, the poor dears, they might stamp their feet if someone doesn’t pony up.

So I’m getting old, I like the old way, I liked it better when people were grown up.

This and That.

Tonight, in Toronto in the middle of winter, there was a ladybug crawling up my computer screen. [We call them ladybirds in England] I guess she’s been listening too much to the Goracle and, like millions of others, become confused.

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I just published a post I did on Christmas Day and forgot about.
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For some reason [lack of time?] I haven’t read The Razor for a while, he has some interesting posts up, including this one on Benazir Bhutto. I left him a link to this column by Ralph Peters in The New York Post who has a knowledgeable and down to earth assessment of Bhutto and how her death will do more for Pakistan than if she’d become Prime Minister.

This and That.

Gee, it was so nice this morning to turn on the radio and not hear Christmas music! I mean I like Christmas music, but wall to wall all day long? The radio starions are like too many these days, right up to most of the candidates for Pres, commercially driven followers.

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There have been a number of cases where people such as kindergarten teachers have been accused of abusing the young children in their charge. Basing their case on testament dragged out of the children by psychiatrists and social workers, police and prosecutors have succeeded in getting convictions. the unfortunate adults whose protestations of innocence were dismissed out of hand ending up in prison. The cause of the prosecution’s certainty lay in their belief in ‘repressed memory’, that traumatic events were ‘forgotten’ to protect the patients’ mental well being. There was also the mantra at the time of ‘children never lie’.

Which leads into this article From Harvard Magazine, pouring several buckets of cold water on the theory.

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Found this site tonight via The National Post. It does a great job fact checking statements made by the Presidential candidates.

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The next Pres will be a Republican, my money is on McCain. How do I know the Republicans will win? Easy, just look at the three main Democratic contenders, they don’t have a pinch of coon shit’s experience between the three of them, and they think they can get elected? Who are they kidding? [Well I guess apart from themselves, way too many people who should know better, but still not enough to get any of them elected.]