Sunday, March 30

Fitna, the movie.


Anon.R.mous posted it.
Live Leak pulled it after being threatened. (You can see what they had to say on Anon.R's post)
YouTube pulled it, at least the first part.
Fred has posted it.
He got it from Nobody's Business.
Nobody's Business got it from Google who has not yet caved in to the pressure.
You can also find it on The Liberal Blogger: here.
All of us who care about free speech should post it as well.
Here is the embed code: (just close the space(s) between the first and last angle brackets < and e, and d and >, < and /):
< embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3369102968312745410&hl=en" flashvars=""> < /embed >

Thursday, March 27

Great idea

Blogging grievances

NEW YORK (AP) — The name alone oozes suspense: “Evolution of Security,” and the tagline adds a special thrilling kick: “Terrorists Evolve. Threats Evolve. Security Must Stay Ahead. You Play A Part.”

It’s not often that the federal government invites people to air their grievances. But the Transportation Security Administration is welcoming people to complain, criticize and question TSA operations on its “Evolution of Security” blog — http://www.tsa.gov/blog — which went live Jan. 30. A TSA blogger team reads all of the comments and posts almost all of them, no matter how harsh or how cranky the poster....
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Wednesday, March 19

Hulk trailer

Who's the racist?



Preacher Wright is a racist. You can call it reverse racism, but he and Farrakhan, and others, and Obama and his wife for sitting there and accepting it are racists.

They have a life that is the best the world has to offer, but they eat up this crap and they say it is because they are black and downtrodden, they refuse to acknowledge their own good fortune and the vast sea change that has led us all away from racist attitudes towards them, as evidenced by the huge crowds coming to see Obama, and people who loved him for himself, his vision, and his oratory, transcending skin color.

America was ready. These guys aren't.

Why do I have the feeling that if he was suddenly the majority, there would be no tolerance, no equal rights, and no compassion for whites? This is a flat out racist hate-monger, and this explains why Michelle Obama never felt proud of this country which has given her so much. No fancy speech can fix this.

Obama on Wright:

"I had not heard him make such, what I consider to be objectionable remarks from the pulpit. Had I heard them while I was in church, I would have objected. Had that been the tenor of the church generally, I probably wouldn't be a member of the church." - 3/15/08

"Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes."
- 3/18/08

KT has a bunch of great posts up about this. Here's one with links to others

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Blog: Science Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
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