Posts Made By: Dave Snope

I will begin by nominating his grandmother. She gave up her executive career and uprooted her life, moved far, far away from home to raise her daughter's mixed-race and possibly illegitemite child, who was social unacceptable in the family's town, while Barack's mother went off to college in Washington. The woman who sacrificed all for her family. She is an angel of a mother and grandmother for that.

Me either. It would indeed kill brain cells.

Naah, the Brits are now recommending that all of their libraries put the koran on the top shelf so that no other books are above it. It's their culture to lose. Now if their banks ever allow back the piggy bank for children, there is hope for England.

That Islamberg stuff is old news. Not sure why FoxNews is the last to learn about Jamaat al Fuqra. Maybe they should send their reporter into Red House, Va., or York County, SC, Dunlap, CA., Georgia, California, Colorado, Washington... of course the last reporter who went into Red House compound was surrounded by guys with guns that came up out of holes in the ground so Rick Leventhal better be brave.

37 research papers that all start with the premise that the earth is getting warmer and will continue to do so, therefore we will have 37 "possible" disaster scenarios if we do not take immediate action to reduce CO2. Hurry up and send lots more money for research before we figure out that it has been getting cooler.

As Richard Lindzen reported at the 2009 ICCC:
The earth’s climate (in contrast to the climate in current climate GCMs) is dominated by a strong net negative feedback. Climate sensitivity is on the order of 0.3°C, and such warming as may arise from increasing greenhouse gases will be indistinguishable from the fluctuations in climate that occur naturally from processes internal to the climate system itself.

Alarming climate predictions depend critically on the fact that models have large positive feedbacks. The crucial question is whether nature actually behaves this way? The answer, as we have just seen, is unambiguously no.

C'mon!

It's not so hard to discuss AGW without calling out the politicians.

PC taken to the point of total distortion. And letting CAIR review textbooks before publication.

There are hundreds of passages exhorting the believers to violent jihad, piracy, and taking of slaves:
Qur'an:9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."

Qur'an:47:4 "When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah's Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam."

You are punished if you don't fight:
Qur'an:9:38 "Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah's Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place."

Qur'an:8:72 "Those who accepted Islam and left their homes to fight in Allah's Cause with their possessions and persons, and those who gave (them) asylum, aid, and shelter, those who harbored them - these are allies of one another. You are not responsible for protecting those who embraced Islam but did not leave their homes [to fight] until they do so." [Another translation reads:] "You are only called to protect Muslims who fight."

Those who don't fight are not as good as those who do:
Qur'an:4:95 "Not equal are believers who sit home and receive no hurt and those who fight in Allah's Cause with their wealth and lives. Allah has granted a grade higher to those who fight with their possessions and bodies to those who sit home. Those who fight He has distinguished with a special reward."

Qur'an:9:19 "Do you make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the Mosque, equal to those who fight in the Cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of Allah. Those who believe, and left their homes, striving with might, fighting in Allah's Cause with their goods and their lives, have the highest rank in the sight of Allah."

They should address a version of this to Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, since he thinks the debate was over years ago.

Here is a neat video from a plane flying over the Wilkins Ice Shelf area. The geometrically cut ice sheets amaze me, like giant sheets of wire-cut styrofoam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKX6OnehTc

This is Waylon enjoying a walk in the spring flowers:

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/110052921

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/110052916

Beautiful photograph Mike! Thanks for sharing it with us.