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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (2219)	2/3/2011 7:07:32 PM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

Gore's Unending Blizzard Of Lies 2/3/2011 investors.com Hoaxes: As the nation digs itself out, the grand wizard of global warming comes out of hiding and blames it all on that SUV stuck in your driveway. A blizzard is a terrible thing to waste. What has been dubbed the Groundhog Day Blizzard has caused Al Gore to poke his head out of his massive carbon-generating mansion in Nashville, Tenn., to blame the 2,000-mile storm on our alleged obsession with fossil fuels. Sorry, Al, but in Chicago the solar panels were buried under upward of two feet of snow as citizens cranked up those polluting snow blowers, a scene repeated in much of the country. In the middle of blowing snow, blowing smoke does not help. Get our drift? Fox News icon Bill O'Reilly recently asked rhetorically, "Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?" He said he'd left a message for Gore. Gore replied on his blog Tuesday that "scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe" and that what we are shoveling is a result of "increased evaporation meeting the cold air of winter." Gore has been relatively quiet in recent months as the hot air of his theories met the cold logic of observable fact. Earth has demonstrably cooled in the past decade as the sun and its solar cycle grew quiet. The ClimateGate scandal was a direct result of scientists — and we use the term loosely — at Britain's Climate Research Unit and others, such as Michael Mann, conspiring to manipulate data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Mann was the architect behind the famous hockey-stick graph produced in 1999. It really should have been dubbed the hokey stick, since it was developed by Mann using manipulated tree ring data. It supposedly proved that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years, then soared off the charts in the 20th century. The assessment reports of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been exposed as fraudulent accumulations of anecdotal evidence and speculation. Case in point was the claim in its 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. It was not based on any scientific study or research. It was instead based on one scientist's speculation in a telephone interview with a reporter. Some Himalayan glaciers are in fact advancing, and a report by scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Potsdam said there was "no uniform response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change" and highlighted "the importance of debris cover for understanding glacier retreat." People such as Gore, who used to moan about "global warming" but are now faced with a demonstrably cooling earth, have begun talking instead about "climate change," which covers just about everything under our quiet sun. As Gore writes in his blog post, climate change "can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters." So if it's too hot or too cold or too wet or too dry, it's all due to climate change. In 2007, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., warned that we wouldn't have enough snow and that "the most optimistic climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30% to 70% of the snow pack will disappear." In 2009, Boxer warned: "Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snow pack in the Western mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood." Reduced snow? On the Senate floor on March 31, 2002, Sen. Robert Byrd said the lack of snow that winter in the nation's capital showed the need to do something about global warming. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2005 said of Sierra Nevada white stuff: "By the end of the century, the shrinking of the snow pack will eliminate the water source for 16 million people." Too much snow, too little snow, floods and droughts, all caused by global warming, er, climate change. Al Gore and friends have been doing a lot of shoveling, but it hasn't been the white stuff.

To: longnshort who wrote (2219)	2/4/2011 3:03:29 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4326

OT--This is what we are dealing with: ............................................................ PAKISTAN: 14-year-old killed for refusing to marry father’s cousin By Shahid Mirza February 4, 2011 tribune.com.pk VEHARI: A 14-year-old girl was killed in Vehari on Wednesday night allegedly by his family for refusing to marry a man they proposed. Rafia’s father Mukhtar Hussain and an uncle were arrested by Luddan police on Thursday. The police said Hussain and his brothers – former nazim Muhammad Ramzaan and Farasat Hussain – killed the girl by giving her electric shocks. SHO Mirza Asif Baig said that Mukhtar Hussain had admitted to killing his daughter. He said Hussain wanted to marry the girl to his 52-year-old cousin, Saeed Ahmed. Hussain told the police his cousin was married but had no son. He said they had registered a case against Hussain and his brother. The victim’s mother, nominally the complainant, told The Express Tribune that she did not want her husband to be jailed. “My daughter was a disgrace to the family. We can’t tolerate our children disrespecting their elders’ wishes so we killed her,” Mukhtar Mai said, “why would I want my husband to be punished? He did the right thing.” She said that earlier she had wanted to marry Rafia in her family. She added that she withdrew her decision once her husband and his brothers decided to marry her to Ahmed. Ali Muhammad, the girl’s grand father, also endorsed his son’s actions. He said Rafia had previously tried to elope with a neighbour. Experts said that in such cases the court had the power to set aside any attempt by the complainant to withdraw or settle the case or pardon the murderers. Sayed Faisal Raza Bukhari, a criminal law expert, told the Tribune that in honour killing cases where the complainant had withdrawn or intended to withdraw the FIR, the court had the right to intervene and punish the offender. He said Section 311 of the Pakistan Penal Code vested the power in the court. He said it was meant to stop people from abusing the judicial process. Section 311: ta’zir on waiver of qisas Ta’zir after waiver or compounding of right of qisas in qatl-i-amd: Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 309 or Section 310, where all the wali do not waive or compound the right of qisas, or [if] the principle of fasad-fil-arz the Court may, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, punish an offender against whom the right of qisas has been waived or compounded with death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description for a term of which may extend to fourteen years as ta’zir. Provided that if the offence has been committed in the name or on the pretext of honour, the imprisonment shall not be less than ten years. Explanation: For the purpose of this section, the expression ‘fasad-fil-arz’ shall include the past conduct of the offender, or whether he has any previous convictions, or the brutal or shocking manner in which the offence has been committed which is outrageous to the public conscience, or if the offender is considered a potential danger to the community or if the offence has been committed in the name or on the pretext of honour. Code of Criminal Procedure Published in The Express Tribune, February 4th, 2011.