People seem to often be focusing first on this word "trick" used in a Phil Jones email:
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
Seems' [...]
Anybody who's followed the Mann-Made Global Warming religion knows the name of AlGore's right-hand man, Dr. James Hansen.
Some of us have known that name for decades. Because back in the 1970's, he was at the forefront of fear-mongering over the coming ice age.
On July 9, 1971, the Post published' [...]
Despite reports indicating that he's been shot (as appears to be the case) and may be dead (according to a Pierce County Sheriff spokeman - and definitely not the case), Maurice Clemmons remains on the loose at this writing, having successfully eluded law enforcement since allegedly fatally shooting four [...]
A week or so after announcing a run for the job of Oregon governor, Bill Sizemore and his wife have been indicted for criminal tax evasion. What is it with this guy, anyway? Heck, they could have taken advantage of the recently-ended tax amnesty program, but they couldn't be' [...]
Though some uninformed idiots continue to blame "right-wing hackers" for the CRU document dump of over 3000 emails and other documents, people on all sides are beginning to take notice, even (sort of) in the USA. The WarmMongers, of course, insist that things have been taken out of context, yadda, [...]
Say what you will about light rail, that it functions very effectively in bringing together diverse elements of the community is indisputable. By building fixed-rail lines while simultaneously cancelling bus service in areas served by the lines, transit agencies are able to assemble a high-density, target-rich environment for the thugs who [...]
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger has assembled a new bureau, the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Unit. This bureau will meet each week with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in order to determine who will be charged with environmental crimes.
Rather than facing civil penalties, as has been the case in the [...]
WATCH out for the iPod zombies. Cyclists distracted by music blaring in their ears have become the latest menace on Britain’s roads.
Cyclists are a bandit tribe who blithely ignore the usual laws of the road - Eleanor Mills
Pedestrians, too, have fallen [...]
Always the victim. Sometimes, you have to wonder if the eugenicists weren't onto something.
' [...]Voters in Switzerland voted overwhelmingly to ban minarets — despite the opposition of the Swiss Council of Religions and the Swiss government.
Mutalip Karaademi, president of the Islamic Community, Langenthal: “We are fully integrated in Switzerland. We love this country almost more than our own.”
Read that last pair of lines [...]
The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health. [...]
Back in the day, it was the mainstream media who uncovered and reported the important stories. There was no internet in the days of Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate - all news came from organized media.
That's all changed today, as Mark Steyn notes:
Michael Gerson has lousy timing. In The [...]
Walmart had a lot of irate folks after the Black Friday sales began at 5 a.m. yesterday. The reason? Walmart advertised e-Machines laptops for $198.00 as an early-bird only deal. Each store had 37 of them.
Unbelievably, the store actually pre-assigned the laptops to people who called the day before and requested [...]
With the possible exception of Nanny Pelosi and a very few others, Democrats are quaking in their collectivist boots. With good reason: one year into a "new Washington" born of optimism and ambition, the mantra of "hope'n'change" has been clearly shown for what it was - just words. The "transparent" [...]
It doesn't matter how you look at the whole "man-made global warming" scam if you happen to live in Portland and/or Multnomah county. Like it or not, various city and county bureaus plan to dictate exactly how residents will live.
Looming lifestyle changes will affect how you heat and' [...]
The Manhattan Declaration states that “the lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are severely threatened; that the institution of marriage, already buffeted by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is in jeopardy of being redefined to accommodate fashionable ideologies; that freedom of religion and the rights of conscience [...]
Supported by $300 million from the economic stimulus, the program will offer rebates to consumers who buy energy-efficient refrigerators, [...]
Mr. Rogers, a longtime fixture in Washington County politics, decided to do a little fixing up in his Tigard area accounting firm. He thought he'd replace cubicles with small offices, and have a small bar-sink installed. Then he ran into a bit of a surprise: the fees that Rogers, a Washington' [...]
Illegal aliens really do have it made in the shade, here in the good ol' USA. Case in point: one Angel Castaneda (Enrique Colon, according to his fake drivers' license). After “drinking and doing whatever” all night, he was heading for home and calling his wife with threats. Wifey had [...]
On the drive home from a delightful Thanksgiving dinner with in-laws (complemented by a surprisingly good home-fermented kiwi white wine), who should turn up on the radio but our old friend and confirmed apostle of doom - David Appel. This development might have caused digestive issues for those lacking stern [...]
That's how Richard Somerville and Mike Mann (Mann being the inventor of the "hockey stick" graph) describe recent revelations emanating from the November 20 distribution of a large number of emails and documents which appear to validate concerns regarding collusion, orchestrated data manipulation, and other junk science techniques employed by [...]
Breitbart's Big Government site strikes gold again. Of course, everywhere they pan in the ACORN area yields nuggets, and they haven't likely hit the mother lode yet.
On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from' [...]
38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. Nearly 20% more than that oppose it, and BO's numbers are keeping up with the free-fall. That whole Hope'n'Change thing sure had a short shelf-life.
Things are dire when even left-oriented folks like those [...]
A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March [...]
According to the U.N., climate change causes women to become hookers. The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population [...]
Walpin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. The Obama administration' [...]
Strangely, this story doesn't seem to be getting much play in the American media, but U.K. media manages to report it. MoTown once was famous for music and muscle cars, but now represents something entirely different.
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe,' [...]
The High Priest hath annointed his Disciple, yea and verily, and hath found him wanting not. AlGore has endorsed Billy Bradbury for the Oregon governorship. Having built so much, and having worked so hard to stoke hysteria among governments and inDUHviduals alike, the annointment by the High Priest [...]
The average Joe seems to know what completely escapes BO: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. BO, on the other hand, continues to mull the idea of yet another Porkulus plan.
And while [...]
Some years ago, Newsweek held an aura of respectability. As local blogger Rob Kremer recently pointed out: Newsweek used to be a very good rag. Decent columnists, good business coverage, intelligent writing. Now it is just another failing liberal media outlet.
The only problem with Kremer's observation is that he [...]
How desperate is the Religion becoming? When they resort to stuff like this, it's obvious that they're desperate indeed:
The high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering glass buildings, the Towers of Mammon in an unidentified urban' [...]
We need to have cfc bulbs to "Save The Planet". The EU is already into a mandatory switch, so the USA won't be far behind - incandescent bulbs will soon be a thing of the past. We'll all save energy with our (mercury laden) compact fluorescent replacements. Incandescent bulbs lose [...]
At its November 12 meeting, Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) adopted “performance targets” calling for a tripling of walking, biking, and transit use by 2035. This came despite the release of the Annual Portland Resident Survey conducted by the City Auditor, showing that levels of solo driving [...]
AlGore's in town to stump for his acolyte, Billy Bradbury (and of course, to push his latest vision of the impending Apocalypse). In the other corner, Greenies have apparently vandalized the venue (Keller Auditorium); spray-painting slogans all around. This being Portland, you have to wonder where the Greenies got [...]
CNSNews.com asked Merkley: “Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health care?”
Merkley said: “The very first enumerated power gives the power to provide for the common defense and the general welfare. So it’s right on, right on the front end.”
Obviously, Merkley isn't' [...]
Colorado just got the first conviction in the USA based on this technique. A punk did smash-and-grabs on a bunch of cars in an apartment complex. Unfortunately for him, he cut his widdle self during one of them, leaving a bloodstain on a seat. As one wag put it, [...]
He's not throwing folks under the bus any longer. There's some good news!
But wait! There's more! The Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.
So the [...]
At present this appears to be only a threat, as apparently no action has occurred thus far. However, a number of sources are reporting that visitors to Atlas Shrugs and to Politico have had a http://www.whitehouse.gov cookie inserted onto their computer hard drive.
First, BO wanted you to send an email to [...]
Apparently, they've been getting a lot more realistic.
Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do [...]
Leftists are out there claiming that the guy who emptied magazines into his fellow servicemen and women while hollering "Allahu Akbar" is really no different from the nut who killed an abortionist.
Let's not excuse the nut who shot the good doctor, but at the same time, let's note that an [...]
The boffins have found water on the moon. This discovery has profound implications.
We can surmise that the water is a byproduct of alien landings and takeoffs, or perhaps cometary residue. In any case, the water can be catalyzed into hydrogen fuel and atmospheric oxygen - good news for colonists. Do [...]Another officer, Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, 42, said in an interview Thursday that he fired the shots that brought down the gunman after Sergeant Munley was seriously wounded. A witness confirmed Sergeant Todd’s account.
Although it is undisputed that Sgt. Kimberly Munley ran into fire and shot the guy, the question [...]
Conservatives in America clearly have their work cut out for them, as the long-term plans of Liberals and Marxists are bearing their wormy fruit. Our public schools are places of indoctrination, rather than actual learning. And they've churned out a generation of illiterates with high self-esteem - who are now' [...]
Rarely does The Oregonian newspaper actually report news, but this story hit the front page, above the fold. There's a bit of difference between the print edition account and the web version, as the print edition notes that animals were not afforded sufficient time to acclimate to the new [...]
Thanks to $25 million in recovery money, America's poorest city now has hippos.
Camden's residents were told the recovery would help to lift them out of poverty. The state's "strategic revitalization plan," the recovery's guide, even listed jobs as the No. 1 goal.
The law followed an old strategy of aiding [...]
Oregon was the worst or close to the worst of the 50 states on two key indicators in the Pew report. They were a drop in tax collections from first quarter 2008 [...]
Barack Obama said his administration would be open, honest, and transparent if he became president. How's he been doing on all that? The latest move seems transparent enough; although there seems considerable hubris associated with the term, "civil servant", the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government [...]
Coyote, over at NW Republican, came up with a great find this morning: local liberal mudslinger Kari Chisholm, who runs the Blue Oregon site, insinuated that a recent fire in the offices of SEIU local 49 was politically-motivated arson.
According to Chisholm:
I checked in today with a spokesman for [...]
Forget about any so-called recession, or that Oregon's jobless rate continues to climb (in the private sector only). Folks, we have a real problem, here: people seem to be abandoning land-line telephones. This is a huge problem for cash-strapped communities like Keizer and Portland, and quite obviously, something needs to [...]
There's a new Jihad code that marginalizes bin Laden's group.
"Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners" [...]
Well, okay, he's always acting. But this time, he's speechifying in an effort to head off any potential anti-Muslim sentiment. You know the drill: it's all about Diversity.
President Barack Obama yesterday sought to head off a potential anti-Muslim backlash from the Fort Hood shootings by praising the ethnic and [...]
Clean, Green, Sustainable Portland is ranked in the number 10 slot on Forbes' list of the most toxic cities in America. Go by streetcar!
' [...]A University of Illinois perfesser has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation in order to pursue a cure for cancer means of altering the sexes of papaya plants. No, this isn't a put-on; your money is really going to fund this critically important endeavor. Apparently,' [...]
In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasanallegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Baseon Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the [...]
"Climate Change" (code for Man-Made Global Warming) has been recognized for what we've known all along: a religious belief. The landmark ruling comes from the U.K., but has global implications.
His employers contended that climate change was a scientific, not a religious or philosophical belief, and thus not legally protected.' [...]
What could possibly have motivated an army shrink to go on a rampage like that? Post-traumatic stress, perhaps? Nope - the 39-year-old Doctor has never served in a war zone; his job consisted of "counselling" soldiers who (unlike him) actually had served in war, and who returned with stress-related disorders. [...]
Is there any point to conducting a census of U.S. citizens if citizenship is assumed, rather than affirmed, for all respondents? Democratics believe so, and to that end have blocked an attempt by Republican Senators to ascertain citizenship status of respondents. Among its many purposes, census population totals are [...]
With thousands of folks shouting "Kill The Bill" (and no, they weren't talking about former President Clinton) - the area must have been pretty loud. Of course, this isn't about BO: he can't propose legislation; he can only sign it. And sign he will, if the' [...]
Certainly not government. When the "planners" decided that a commuter rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville was worth the diversion investment of transport dollars to "improve" the existing Portland & Western Railroad tracks and associated "upgrades", it never occurred to them that the rules for heavy rail differ greatly [...]
My bad. I should never have tried to represent myself at trial. So please hold off on that whole execution thing. That whole gig I had going, where I drove around and shot folks while they were putting groceries into their car or filling up their gas tank? I mean, [...]
It's been amusing to watch as Leftists spin the result of the New York 23rd Congressional District election. Everybody from Nanny Pelosi to anonymous blog-stalkers have hailed the election of Owens to the seat, employing the same meme:
Since the Civil War a Republican has always had the seat.
The fact is, [...]
Conservatives generally believe in the value of work. You profit, or you fail, by dint of your work ethic and the value of your ideas. While conservatives are among the most generous of people, we believe that welfare is a safety net, not a hammock. Leftists don't share this perspective,' [...]
Oregon Department of "Transportation" (ODOT) has come up with a great idea to alleviate congestion on the 217 freeway around southwest Portland: close on-ramps. We don't need to add traffic lanes, when that sort of money could be spent on fixed rail. If they just close some of the' [...]
YOU can search for a house in Argleton, find out what the local weather is like, and even plan your route to it on the internet.
Amusingly, what you can't do is actually visit the place, because it doesn't exist. Go figure.
[...]A while back, Oregon tried to prevent people from publishing state laws, claiming that the state held copyright to the material. This claim was bogus from the start, as any laws enacted by any public agency clearly fall into public domain. After a brief battle, the state gave it up [...]
Don't you just hate when it happens? You try to do a big "green" power project to Save The Planet and all, and then a tribe of indians gets in the way. Don't they understand the importance of Going Green, of Saving The Planet, of Walking As One With [...]
That's how The Wall Street Journal describes the 1,990-page "health bill" that Nanny Pelosi unveiled last week. If anything, WSJ sugar-coated it. Among the many "features" of the bill are some which are likely unconstitutional, such as the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance or face heavy penalties.
Republican' [...]
While The Oregonian has a long and storied history of presenting opinion under the guise of journalism, and an equally long history of being scooped on every bit of investigative journalism, it appears as though they have finally come up with something interesting.
State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of [...]
Apparently having solved all of their other problems, their City Attorney, one Dennis Herrera, has fired off a letter to Kellogg's (yes, the cereal company) demanding evidence that Cocoa Krispies really "helps support your child's immunity" as it purports to do on the front of the box.
Herrera claims that [...]
Sinking in the polls, the liberal Democrat who was nominated by local Republican leaders in an effort to hold the NY-23 seat for Republicans suspended her campaign and has now endorsed her Democrat former "opponent". Dede Scuzzofava was running third after an upstart conservative entered the race and quickly [...]
