Auspundits

Warmening News

Here is some news vis-a-vis global warmening:

• It's gonna be a wet and cool autumn and winter* according to the Bureau of Meterology.
• Over here at Auspundits we have been wondering where Al Gore has been since he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Now we know: directing, producing and underwriting a $US300m climate change ad campaign in the U.S. featuring Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton...on the same couch! Ouch! That would take some time to get right. So just when his stock is down, Gore uses his hard earned cash to generate some more hysteria. Isn't that conflict of interest?
• On global warmening hysteria, NASA scientist and global warming cheerleader, James Hansen has written a letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, urging him to feed his nation by reopening the Sydney soup kitchens...I mean to stop exporting coal. Hansen is about as right on policy as he is on climate science. Someone tell the PM that Hansen has some conflicts of interest.

*H/T: Andrew Bolt

Neither Here Nor There

Tonight, the Environmentalist denomination of the Gaia Cult has foisted Earth Hour on the world with the help of shrieking high priests in the IPCC and deacons from Hollywood.

At the other end of Gaia zealotry, Tim Blair has been advocating blasphemy on this religious occasion by proposing The Hour of Power.

As for me and my household, we will remain steadfast in our pattern of power consumption and environmental degradation. Which is minimal (we don't like power bills), but realistic (I will be watching The Bill tonight).

For the two types of zealots above, it begins in 15 minutes. For me it continues.

Keeping Good Company

With Thomas Jefferson that is. He apparently said:

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Apparently, the market thinks likewise. Ad revenues for newspapers fell approximately 10 percent in 2007 from 2006 in the United States. Still $US42billion too many.

I don't read newspapers for news anymore except for the selected opinion piece. Read blogs (see the blogroll to the right) and read books. Much better informed.

H/T: Bryan Caplan, Econlog

Timing Is Everything

By Moose*

We all knew Fitna was coming. And now it is here.

Fitna

He had his hosting company take his website down. His short film was rejected for broadcast by all the major networks. Yet he is the subject of numerous death threats. Here is his film, Fitna. Here's the torrent. Also on Liveleak (well, for now anyway):

Update 29/03/08 8:45AM AEST: As anticipated above, the Liveleak video has been pulled. Update 01/04/08 6:00PM AEST: Fitna back up.

Warning: This video contains disturbing images. "In the end the price was too high." Go download the torrent.

Taking A Break

Been rather hectic around here lately. Will get back to blogging when I've had a chance to recover. In the meantime, two articles on two dimensions of Britain's demographic crisis:

1. Thousands of missing teenagers: Britain Getting Concerned About Forced Marriages
2. Marriage hits lowest rate since records began almost 150 years ago

Cheney Tangos With Saudi King *BUMPED*

Over the last three months, the two most powerful men in the world, U.S. president George Bush and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, have visited Riyadh. At both meetings, energy security (read, oil) was discussed. With the price of crude oil persisting over $US100/barrel, this should not be a big surprise. During the first meeting, it was well publicized that U.S. President Bush requested the Saudis loosen their oil spigots and pump more crude on the world market, only to be rejected. Some even called the request groveling. Not so the second meeting Cheney attended. This time, Cheney came armed. No one tells the U.S. where to go.

Exhibit 103A in Phillip Adams v. The Realm of Reality

In his latest column, Phillip Adams demonstrates quite capably, without much assistance, that he is deranged. His fight with reality continues. He argues that Obama "is the Sidney Poitier of presidential politics" as cast in the movie In the Heat of the Night and implies that his detractors are evil white men. He even defends Obama's nutcase pastor, Jeremiah Wright. His church produced a sermon series on DVD titled "God Damn America". And that's just one of them. Hmmm...what to make of Adam's defence that "Obama’s candidacy is being destroyed by a couple of sermons in a local church".

He then launches into an attack on John McCain associating him with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Except that he isn't associated with either. He doesn't attend their churches. Nor did he get either man's endorsement (Robertson from memory endorsed Guiliani). More to the point, Adams gives no basis for his accusation.

Another one of Adams' Rage against Reality.

Why Waxman Should Relax

In yesterday's post about Cheney's meeting with the Saudi King, I noted the USAF's underwriting of several coal liquefaction plants and the possible concerns the Chair of the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Henry Waxman, may have with respect to all the extra CO2 these plants would billow out. Here's why Waxman should relax:

Disgraceful Censorship

So a guy puts together a 15 minute film on the Qur'an, keeps the content under wraps, buys hosting space and then is told by the hosting company that it will not host his site due to its "objectionable material". Precisely how is the hosting company to know what objectionable content is in the film? It hasn't been released yet! Craven dhimmitude.

In contrast the film's producer, Dutch MP Geert Wilders, has indicated he would take to The Dam and hand out DVDs himself. Despite the many death threats against him.

Wilders: P2P/BitTorrent dude. Then let's see them take it down.

Update: Dutch Protestant Churches join the ranks of craven dhimmitude. Rather than defend the freedoms which the church espoused and on which it grew strong, it rails against them like a child spoilt by a doting mother.