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Scapegoating Fox-Jon Stewart asks: What difference does it make?
Jon Stewart incites audience hatred of Fox News. They love it! http://youtu.be/rDbABdX1V2w Video was flagged as copyright violation after 57 hits! So go here and watch from 7:30 to 8:39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Kbe0pDcutRo#t=455 Then read the description: Jon Stewart incites audience hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged blunder, chemical weapons, funny, Kerry gaffe, red line, scapegoat, Syria
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A picture from the past
Deprogramming available here: https://secure.palmcoastd.com/pcd/document?iid=054DDI2FPFD Rx: six weeks
Christmas at sea
It a surprisingly easy to read poem from the 19th century. It’s by Robert Louis Stevenson: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rlstevenson/bl-rlstevenson-chratsea.htm
ABC documentary producers caught in sting!
ABC here is the Australian Broadcast Network http://joannenova.com.au/2012/12/abc-doco-uncut-evans-nova-minchin-and-rose-the-full-unedited-video/ When the Smith and Nasht came to our house (on behalf of the ABC) to take footage for the “I can change your mind” documentary, David and I asked fellow skeptic and camera-man … Continue reading
Posted in global warming, journalistic bias
Tagged ABC, James Delingpole, Joanne Nova, kitchen, Kruschev
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The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition was the target of a propaganda campaign fueled by the novelty of the newly invented printing press. As a result, its place as the top symbol of all that was wrong with (fill in the blank … Continue reading
Study Says Community Reinvestment Act Induced Banks To Take Bad Risks
http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/21/study-says-community-reinvestment-act-in Note that the authors of the study caution that their work here may actually understate the impact of the CRA. How? Because the study assumes that the major impact of CRA took place when banks were undergoing examination regarding … Continue reading
Gun controversy yields exciting talking heads! (really)
I was about to post a video of an intense discussion(links at bottom) between Piers Morgan and Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, when over the radio, I heard the much heralded press event from the NRA by Wayne … Continue reading
Top climate bureaucrats at the IPCC continue theater of the absurd
IPCC Declares Its Intent to Circumvent Expert Reviewers http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/12/15/ipcc-declares-its-intent-to-circumvent-expert-reviewers/ It doesn’t matter how carefully those 800 people examined the IPCC’s text. It doesn’t matter how long they laboured over their comments. The IPCC reserves the right to keep changing the substance … Continue reading
Posted in AR5, Climate Change, global warming, IPPC, NGO, UN, war on logic
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JournoLister @ National Journal: Where’s Obama in the Benghazi Report?
In a replay of Abu Ghraib, the government excuses itself at the highest levels. http://www.nationaljournal.com/where-s-obama-in-the-benghazi-report-20121219 This article actually tries to draw a parallel with Abu Ghraib. This appears to be a rather devious way of absolving Obama while seeming to … Continue reading
Posted in Benghazi, JournoList, Obama
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FIRE: New Report: Three-Fifths of Colleges Seriously Restrict Free Speech on Campus
http://thefire.org/article/15257.html Note: A lot of the links in the article do not work for me. The article notes a 13% improvement over five years ago, I guess so much damage has been done they can relax their grip now.
Posted in FIRE, Free Speech
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