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What happened to global warming?

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

Nobel Peace Prize

So, Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

What’s a few millions?

Since we are on the subject of a 'few millions' been wasted on a futile computer program, I cannot help but wonder if the consultants working on Ontario EHealth are the same consultants that worded on the Canadian Long Gun Registry?

What’s a few millions?

Ahhh here we go again, fall is in the air and the Anti-gun crowd are scrambling to make themselves seen to the media and the Canadian public. This time they are using the economic down turn to prop up their calls for a return to registering firearms. I fail to understand their reasoning that the present Amnesty will "cost" the government 15 million dollars in lost revenue.

Rob Lamb’s letter to the loons at the Norwegian Nobel Institute

October 9, 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Institute Henrik Ibsens gate 51 0255 Oslo Via email: postmaster@nobel.no

Baffoon quality public discourse

The Braidwood inquiry into the tasering death of Robert Dziekanski is about as serious a wake up call as a nation can face.

Afghanistan Debacle On The Horizon?

President Obama is trying to decide our military strategy in Afghanistan. He is mulling over input from his civilian and military advisers, and members of Congress, but he cannot make a timely decision because of his lack of military and national security experience. His community organizing background is not very helpful in this situation.

October in Ontario

BLAZING SUMAC ON THE HILL GOLDEN PUMPKINS IN A MOUND WOOD-SMOKE IN THE EVENING CHILL LEAFY-CARPETS ON THE GROUND

A truly desperate party

To the surprise of nobody the Liberals continue to give us plenty of reasons to make sure in the next federal election, whenever that may be, they remain in opposition where they clearly belong. They continue to be a party in chaos lacking direction and identity and now fractured along French and English lines. Recent reports of Liberals wanting to cross the floor may mean Centrist Liberals are willing to leave their party to join the center and right of center Conservatives.

Tax The Sick: Obama’s New Plan

Faced with a need to scrounge for revenue to fund his plan for health care, President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus have come up with a brilliant new idea: Tax the sick!

Afghanistan

Re "U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan." (N.Y Times)

Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming

A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

OCTOBER TIME

BLAZING SUMAC ON THE HILL GOLDEN PUMPKINS IN A MOUND WOOD SMOKE IN THE EVENING CHILL

Will President Obama Veto Health Reform?

With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. The bill will contain new taxes on the middle class. It will add to the deficit. And it will put government bureaucrats between Americans and their doctors, among other things.

Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era

-World Climate Report

The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.

Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:

Inconvenient Censorship

Stanford University has banned a skeptical documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University -- apparently on behalf of Prof. Schneider -- the documentary filmmakers were forced to use a blank screen and an actor had to read the transcript of Schneider's already taped but legally banned climate interview.

Canada’s swine flu propaganda hits resistance

A Canadian TV news station has asked viewers for feedback on whether Health Canada is rolling out its mass "swine flu" vaccinations fast enough...This is one canadian's responce:

British pedophile being investigated in connection with Madeleine McCann case, part 1

Private investigators working for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann are now examining a pedophile that was in the area of Portugal the family was staying when the little girl disappeared, according to the Mirror.

CNSNews.com - Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claim

CNSNews.com - Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Try.

Coach:

"Team, We are all loyal and heroic Socialists here, as you know very well. Even so, I remind you once again that the fastest runner in this race will be executed for vanity and egotism as well as for insulting his teammates,...