Bill Maher Says McCain And Obama Are Lying!

About their faith. It's brilliant, and we all know it's true.

Whither goest Britain...?

How sad (and scary) is it to see one of the greatest bastions of human freedom have its own ideas taken and warped into a vehicle of self-immolation. I hope Dominic Grieve is not just a voice in the wilderness.

Planet Equality and the eclipse of nation
Melanie Phillips

On the eve of the Tory Party conference, the shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve issued a blunt warning.

In the name of multiculturalism, he said, Britain had done something terrible to itself. It had downplayed British cultural identity, leaving long-standing inhabitants fearful and new immigrants alienated, creating a vacuum ripe for exploitation by extremists.

His warning could not be more timely or appropriate. Multiculturalism and its allied doctrines of human rights and anti-discrimination are acting as a kind of corrosive acid eating away at our institutions, values and national identity.

What’s more, they are also actively preventing us from defending our own country. Just look what happened when the Army said it wanted to put a 15 per cent cap on the number of recruits it takes from overseas.

The decision was taken because it believes that any more foreign soldiers would dilute the British Army’s cultural identity. No less troubling, there is also the risk that foreign soldiers in British ranks might be banned by their own governments from taking part in certain conflicts, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read it all.

We are not alone

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

SPACE IS RED!

SpaceX and CPC both had sucess in space this weekend with Falcon I and Shenzhou VII.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/space-x-did-it.html?fark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7639498.stm

New Old Ant Found

Of course, EO Wilson is pleased.

Disgusting

A prominent gay Iraqi activist was assassinated in Baghdad.

This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a university student, has been assassinated in a barber shop.

Militias burst in and sprayed his body with bullets at point blank range.

He was the organiser of the safe houses for gays and lesbians in Baghdad. His efforts saved the lives of dozens of people.

What sickness...

Jetpack! (well, wing)

This is just the sort of thing that makes me happy:
A Swiss man became the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing - link+video.

Klingons For Jesus?

Yep.

CFI: It's Time for Science and Reason

I [heart] EO Wilson (Roll Tide!).

Only Nixon Could Go To China

And only GW Bush could socialize our banking and insurance institutions.

Let's here it for the pro-free market, pro-capitalist Republicans! Yeah!

FDR got nothin' on me!

Please, Ask This One About Dinosaurs...

"Lord Make A Way, Lord Make A Way!"

Just in case anyone missed this, here's video of Sarah Palin crediting a Kenyan witch hunter for helping her win the Alaskan governorship. And it's not from some "way back when" time: this video is from June 2008.

What she says between 0:13 and 0:15 will be in my head for the rest of the election, after which we can only hope she'll go back to the Christer fundangelical/meth capital she calls home.

From ICECAP

Lehman Brothers Close Ties to Gore, Hansen and Carbon Trading

Al Gore’s carbon trading business GIM was banked with Lehman Bros. It will be interesting to see how this will play in the future but I suspect that this increases the risk of participating in Carbon trading. Merrill Lynch, was also deeply involved in this business.

Last year Lehman Brothers released a long and highly publicized report about climate change in which they preached about decarbonization, trying to make their investors keep getting high profits from the Kyoto carbon trade scheme and the support of huge public subventions. All that, of course, with the applause of the usual choir of politicians, the entire media and the Greens.

A year ago they couldn’t predict their bankruptcy but were predicting the climate 100 years ahead. Thousands of green militants have been using the Lehman report as a proof of global warming and impending chaos. Lehman Bros said it! sacred words! Its scientific advisor is James Hansen! The report is the basis for policies on climate change in Spain, Argentina and several other countries playing the progress game; it is used by economy professors playing the climatologists; by newspapers editorials, and even by a State Secretary: Lehman Bros, said it!

Lehman Brothers spoke in his report about the climate in 2100 and its economic and financial projections, about climate change costs several decades away. They dared to recommend their investors what they considered a central value of the carbon ton in 50 years from now. Their sources and support references were taken from the IPCC AR4, AR3, and so on. Really impressive.

But even with their high ability to peek into the future, they couldn’t predict their demise one year ahead though there were many people that had been warning about this present crash for years. But Lehman Bros were recommending investments 30, 50, 100 years ahead. Some days, reality imitates fiction. Who was Lehman Bros’ ‘scientific’ adviser on climate? You guessed it, James Hansen, the same guy that wants to drive the world to bankruptcy as he did with Lehman’s Bros.

But the story has some connections with Hansen being the ‘scientific’ adviser to Al Gore, who’s the Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Climate Protection. As seen in Alliance’s website, the managing Director is none less than: Theodore Roosevelt IV. Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, Chair of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change.

Theodore Roosevelt IV is Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and a member of the Firm’s senior client coverage group, which oversees the Firms client and customer relationships. Mr. Roosevelt is an active conservationist. He is Chair of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, Vice Chair of the Wilderness Society, and a Trustee for the American Museum of Natural History, The World Resources Institute, the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, and a Trustee of Trout Unlimited.

The Lehman reports in two parts can be found on this site ‘Intellectual Capital’. In “The Business of Climate Change ll”, the following acknowledgement is made: “On the scientific side, we are grateful to Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who, at the end of a particularly informative dinner hosted by Ben Cotton of the Man Group, gave generously of his time to clear up a number of scientific questions that had been niggling us. Dr. Peter Collins and Richard Heap of the Royal Society provided valuable input and brought us up to date on the more controversial areas of scientific developments in the domain of global climate change.” H/T Eduardo Ferreyra originally posted to Climate Sceptics Internet discussion group.

Lehman’s failure provides a preview of our future if more companies bank their future on the speculative advice of these advocacy scientists, politicians and environmental groups, while ignoring short term realities.

Pope Panzer Kraut The First Just Blew Out My Irony Meter

Pope condemns 'pagan' love of money, power

But since this is coming from the boche head of a theocratic city-state AND of a financially unaccountable religious racket that rakes in millions upon millions of tax-free dollars every year, I guess 'Christian' love of power and money is virtuous.

"I 'Jesus-love' power and money tthhiiss much!"

I'm Neither Shocked Nor Surprised

The Family Research Council, the fundamentalist Christian (white, heterosexual, patriarchal) organization founded by that odious superstitious twat James Dobson, held a summit recently. On sale were boxes of Obama Waffles.

On first glance, the cover is just silly. Why anyone would want to buy such nonsense (directed against either party) is beyond me. It shows a kind of childish, emotionally retarded mentality. But then again, these people believe in imaginary super-beings, so...


But take a look at the top of the box.


Let's give it up for those precious lambs of god! They sure do know how to live down to our expectations of them.