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To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/20/2013 5:13:13 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 85487

why was it so much warmer 1200 years ago oh wise one ?

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/20/2013 5:40:39 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 85487

I believe they know it. That's why I think they're conmen when they tell people the earth is hotter today than it was 1200 ya when those trees grew where glaciers are now. Here's something else I believe: That the climate scientists would keep those trees secret if they could.

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/20/2013 6:09:59 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Thehammer Respond to of 85487

How long before Don Lemon fired? He's black, gay and a liberal but he's starting to act like an openminded thinker on a few issues lately: CNN’s Don Lemon Rethinking Position On Guns After CDC Study ... Rather than flatly speaking out against firearms, Lemon noted that a recent study has actually changed his views on guns. Citing the Center for Disease Control’sresearch that was released this summer, he implored listeners to consider that the results might also challenge their own perspective. “It just might make you rethink your stance, your view, on the issue,” said Lemon. “It did for me. It’s making me rethink it.” So, what, exactly did this apparently transformational study claim? Here are just a few of the bullet points, as assembled from Guns & Ammo Magazine: 1. Armed citizens are less likely to be injured by an attacker: 2. Defensive uses of guns are common: 3. Mass shootings and accidental firearm deaths account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths, and both are declining ..... You can find liberals on SI saying the exact opposite of the above CDC findings. I say they're science deniers!

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/20/2013 6:37:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

Gullible Green sailors trapped in the Arctic Should they sue Sierra Club Canada for predicting an ice-free Arctic in 2013? Churchville, VA—The naïve advice of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did Britain’s BBC network.) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage. As a former sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the agonies they now face. The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60% this fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record. The passage is now impassable. More than a dozen of the boats are trapped, apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the North Atlantic. Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers might not be able to rescue them. The Northwest Passage blog reminds us that fall super storms are a potentially deadly fact in Alaska. “It is only a matter time. . . . Give Mother Nature her due time and she will move billions of tons of sea ice and push it up against the Alaska Arctic coast—effectively closing the door to exit the Arctic ice from western Canada. . . . No icebreakers are going to be able to offer any assistance. Mother Nature is mightier than all the icebreakers put together.” Note that the Atlantic exit is already problematic. Helicopter rescues on Arctic ice are incredibly expensive, involving hundreds of miles of flying by copters and crews expensively maintained in that icy and sparsely populated region. Additionally, all the lovely boats become write-offs. The boaters ignored major warning signs. The planet has not warmed appreciably in at least 15 years.NASA told us in 2007 that the Pacific Ocean had shifted into the cool phase of its 60-year cycle and that fact predicted cooler winters until 2030. Most concerning of all is that the costs of an Arctic sailing mistake are horrendous. Wonderfully preserved hulks of sunken explorers’ ships litter the sea-bottom around the Northwest Passage. Some of the vessels that survived the ice were trapped for as long as three winters. At least one sailboat recently froze into the ice near Svalbard. The captain and his boat were buried under the heavy snow, 100 miles from human habitation. (He actually survived to write a book.) The risks run by the Arctic boaters are obvious. Modern society is running less obvious risks based on the same sort of naïve advice coming from the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a host of like-minded “saviors of the planet.” What about the poor and elderly Britons and Germans who have frozen to death in their homes because they couldn’t afford the higher costs of gas and electricity imposed by “renewable fuels”? What about the millions of Third World mothers and children who die of lung diseases every year as it is politically incorrect to give them access to tiny amounts of kerosene for heating and cooking. The alternative is burning dung and charcoal in indoor, poorly ventilated fires. Closer to home, what about the millions of young Americans who can’t get jobs in an economy stalled by overpriced “Green” energy and investor uncertainty over the War on Coal? Inevitably, being gullible carries a price tag. We are just beginning to realize how expensive the naïveté of the environmental movement has become. - See more at: cfact.org

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/23/2013 8:20:21 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB longnshort Respond to of 85487

PsychoLib hospital worker wants to deny treatment for Obamacare "nonbelievers" One more thing about Obamacare - does anyone want a PsychoLib in charge of their families healthcare? California Democrat Hopes Obamacare Denies Treatment For "Nonbelievers" As one Twitter, @coff33loveit, put it, this is why government should not be allowed to control healthcare. Would you want the likes of Stephanie Handler or Allen Brauer deciding whether or not you - or your children - receive treatment? Would you want them deciding which treatments you should have? "Nonbelievers"? Obamacare is an ideology? Or is she referring to the cult of Obama? The really scary part is that Handler works for a medical center: Handler has since deleted her linkedin and Twitter accounts. Unfortunately for her, the internet is forever. mypetjawa.mu.nu

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/23/2013 2:38:06 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 85487

Well koan, what seem completely obvious is that you have no idea what climatologist know. And you know of no climatologist who have an explanation of the science that supports any proffer of the sensitivity of the Earth's temperature so small changes of the trace gas CO2. The only science climatologists have is predictions of computer models. The cause and effect cannot be observed or tested. You say you have an SIL who has a PHD. Well ask him what science predicts the sensitivity being suggested by your IPCC experts or your anonymous consensus experts. Recently you did get a little credibility when I noticed you had been banned by Siouxpal. But that is very little when you make simple comes backs that address nothing.

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/23/2013 3:02:17 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brian Sullivan FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Pelosi thinks part time work is a liberation Pelosi: Death of 40-hour work week means freedom to ‘follow your passion’ Nice, let them eat cake attitude. September 23, 2013 by Joe Saunders 15 Comments Americans with a lot free time on their hands thanks to Obamacare can spend it pursuing their happiness instead of earning a living, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosisaid Sunday. During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Candy Crowley read Pelosi part of a letter signed by union goon James Hoffa Jr. that described Obamacare’s impact on employers as a way to “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week.” “That’s pretty tough from a loyal Democratic constituency,” said Crowley, sometimes considered a pretty loyal Democratic constituency herself. Pelosi was unfazed. Some parts of Obamacare need to be clarified, she acknowledged, but losing that 40-hour work week will really free Americans to “pursue your happiness … follow your passion.” “Obverwhelmingly, for the American people, this is a liberation,” the San Francisco millionaire said dreamily, possibly confusing “the American people” who have to make a living with her fellow guests at George Soros’s wedding Saturday in New York. bizpacreview.com

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/25/2013 10:57:13 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Shocking! Refugees Leave War-Torn Chicago Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 6:44 AM Cities in Wisconsin have welcomed refugees from war-torn areas like Somalia, Burma and the former Yugoslavia. Now the refugees are coming from another war-torn area much closer by: Chicago. The Smoking Gun reports: The group, the cop reported, included four adults, a five-month-old baby, several toddlers, and two older children. As detailed in a Madison Police Department incident report, the adults “were shocked” by the veteran officer’s concern for their welfare . . . “They explained they had escaped the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side,” police noted. The group, which was not seeking handouts, told the officer that they “fled Chicago from where a lot of shootings and deaths were occurring.” The officer added, “It was just too dangerous to stay; some people they knew were killed.” As reported earlier by Gateway Pundit, there have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, and kids must pass through safe passage areas on their way to school to avoid the gang wars. Last Thursday, 13 people were shot in a South Side Chicago park, including a three year-old boy. Chicago has the toughest gun laws in Illinois, and the Brady Campaign ranks Illinois as the ninth toughest state on guns. Plus, President Obama’s former chief of staff is Mayor. It’s a Democrat’s heaven. No thanks, says this group. They’d rather live like refugees on the streets of Wisconsin. - See more at: thegatewaypundit.com

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/27/2013 12:20:50 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Jorj X Mckie Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Welfare State is Over, Dutch King Announces September 27, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield Holland’s new king Willem-Alexander today declared the end of the welfare state in a nationally-televised annual address. The king, who is at 46 the youngest monarch in Europe, said a new ‘participation society’ would take its place, in which people must save and invest to create their own social safety net with less help from the national government. ‘The shift to a “participation society” is especially visible in social security and long-term care,’ the king said in a speech to MPs written for him by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government. The classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century in these areas in particular brought forth arrangements that are unsustainable in their current form.’ He said that nowadays, people expect and ‘want to make their own choices, to arrange their own lives, and take care of each other.’ Well some do. Others don’t. That’s the problem we’re all faced with. What began as a social safety net has evolved into a lifestyle for some, especially those with the least investment in their host country. The toxic relationship between left-wing activists and the professional poor is destroying entire economies as the left is motivated to increase the welfare rolls and those on them are motivated to vote for the left. frontpagemag.com

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/30/2013 8:09:09 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

Neill Macaulay: The Professor Who Lynched ‘Negroes’ And went on to a long distinguished academic career. It was all okay cause he was a leftist. September 30, 2013 By Humberto Fontova Execution of Cuban prisoner by firing squad. Any professor in the U.S. who utters the “N-word” even offhandedly gets cashiered instantly. Examples abound. Nowadays even using the perfectly proper term “Negro” can get an educator fired, as in the case of a Bronx teacher. The trick to—not only keeping one’s academic job—but catapulting to emeritus status apparently involves using the term “Negro” only for anti-communist black people that you lynched. I use the word “lynch” here—not in the current conservative context referring to liberal handling of Herman Cain, Allen West, Clarence Thomas, etc.—but literally, as in murdering. An example exists: The first (victim) was a tall handsome mulatto. He stood blindfolded before the paredon (firing squad wall), his hands bound in front of him. “Muchachos,” he said calmly, “The only crime you are going to commit is to kill me, because I am innocent.” I stepped into the field shouted: “Ready!..Aim!–FIRE!”…the man went down and I went up to him immediately, commanding the firing squad to order arms as I walked. There were bullet holes in his shirt and he seemed dead, but I wasted no time in putting the automatic to his head and pulled the trigger. It made a neat round hole. Next (victim) to die was a Negro who was hauled kicking and screaming to the paredon…I told the jailers to throw him up against the wall and get out of the way…the condemned man froze in terror when he saw his executioners arrayed before him. “READY!” My command jolted him out of his trance. “NO!–NO!” he cried. “Do NOT Get ready.” He tried to climb the wall. “NO!” he yelled while trying to hide behind one of the execution stakes, but the gun muzzles tracked him relentlessly. “FIRE!” He turned his head and ducked just as the guns went off. Most of the bullets struck him in profile, tearing his nose, lips, chin and most of his cheeks. His face was transformed into a raw, red mass of flesh and bone that contrasted sharply to the smooth black skin bordering it. He lay on his back with what was left of his face turned to the firing squad. Anyone that hideously blasted, I thought, had to be dead…”[W]ell,” I commented to the firing squad, “it is not necessary to give to give him the tiro de gracia.” “Yes, Americano!” shouted one of my men. “He still lives! Give him the shot!” His arms and legs were twitching. His movement ceased only when a bullet from my pistol entered his skull. The above comes from *University of Florida Professor Emeritus Neill Macaulay’s memoirs titled, A Rebel in Cuba, published in 1970.* The judicial process these black Cubans had undergone was best described by Fidel and Che themselves: “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution, We execute from Revolutionary conviction.” (Che Guevara, Feb. 1959) “Legal proof is impossible to obtain against war criminals. So we sentence them based on moral conviction.” (Fidel Castro Feb. 1959) “The whole procedure was sickening,” wrote New York Times (no less) correspondent, Ruby Hart Phillips, about a trial she attended in Havana in early 1959. “The defense attorney made absolutely no defense, instead he apologized to the court for defending the prisoner.” Edwin Tetlow, Havana correspondent for London’s Daily Telegraph, wrote about a “trial” by Che Guevara’s judicial dream — team where he noticed the dozens of death sentences posted on a board – before the trial had started. The future professor Emeritus who gleefully carried out these death sentences continued gloating: Escalona(a communist commander later notorious for exterminating rural Cuban rebel with Soviet arms and officers) introduced me to Fidel as “the man who is training the firing squads.” Fidel threw his head back and roared with laughter. As I stretched out my hand, he grabbed me by my shoulders and gave me a bear hug. Everybody was happy. At the University (of Havana) he was known as Greaseball. To me, however, he (Fidel) was very attractive. This attraction probably grew when Fidel Castro gifted Yankee executioner Neill Macaulay with property stolen from rightful Cuban owners under penalty of firing squad and torture chamber. More from professor Macaulay’s book: Fidel says to give the Americano what he wants. So I selected a plot of about sixty-five acres from an immense plantation that had been jointly owned by some friends of Batista. The INRA (Che Guevara’sInstituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) gave me virtually unlimited credit…there was no house on my land so I chose as a residence the former country home of Pepe Fraga, Batista’s former chief of parking meters in Havana. Late in July my wife and infant son joined me there. An American mercenary joins Castro and Che Guevara’s criminal band, executes (murders, actually) Cubans without trial, steals the property of Cubans at gunpoint. Then heserves for decades as Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies at University of Florida, apparently with nobody batting an eye. The University of Florida is a state college, so there’s a good chance his salary was paid partly by his victims’ families. And again apparently nobody bats an eye. Upon Macaulay’s death in 2007 (some suspect from suicide) Leftist professor and documentarian Glenn Gebhard wrote: “He (Macaulay) was not a socialist or a communist, and he left (Cuba) after he realized he couldn’t make a living…He was a man of action and really smart.” Che Guevara, whatever else we can say about him, seemed to actually believe in the Communist holy book. Macaulay apparently murdered Cubans for fun and profit. Quite fittingly, among Professor Neill Macaulay’s final academic duties was to hail a book by Castro “agent-of- influence” (also the Council on Foreign Relations Latin American “expert”) Julia Sweig as: “the best book ever written about Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement.” In the early 1960s South Carolinian Neill Macaulay briefly lost his US citizenship for serving in a foreign nation’s military. Then “family friend” Strom Thurmond pulled some strings to get it back. In brief: a “good ‘ole southern boy” boasts of murdering “Negroes” as a mercenary. Then among the nation’s most prominent segregationists of the time (Strom Thurmond) retrieves his U.S. citizenship. Then a southern institute of higher learning hires and honors him. And not one liberal peeps in protest. Who but a gleeful servant of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara could get away with something like this in the eyes of U.S. media and academia? frontpagemag.com

To: koan who wrote (53694)	9/30/2013 8:16:26 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Paul Smith Respond to of 85487

Liberal paradise

To: koan who wrote (53694)	10/2/2013 8:04:32 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

Dartmouth shows libs don't just want racial segregation: Dartmouth Will Spend $3.6 Million on Special Gay & Lesbian Housing Dartmouth College, an Ivy League institution, will spend millions to create a special housing complex exclusively for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender students. The building will also house special programs to encourage students in their sexual “expression.” .... thecollegefix.com

To: koan who wrote (53694)	10/10/2013 1:00:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Feds’ Closure of Alaska Land Violates State Law By Alec Torres October 10, 2013 12:30 PM When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began shutting down lands in Alaska because of the shutdown, Alaska lawmakers pushed back. Citing the 1980 law guaranteeing state residents access to the land, these Alaskans are not only calling the practice wrong, but illegal. “It seems that agencies are working harder to keep people off federal lands than they have ever worked before to get them to visit federal lands,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski. The Alaska National Interest Land Conservation act demands that the government give notice of any closures before blocking access to public lands, according to a Washington Times report. Though the Park Service and Bureau of Land Management have left their lands open, the Fish and Wildlife Service has closed access to their lands in spite of the law. The federal government has faced increasing criticism since the government shutdown for blocking access to parks and public spaces, even open-air memorialsthat need no park supervision as well as pieces of property that the federal government neither owns nor pays for. nationalreview.com