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Gary Aminoff
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Month: December 2015
OUR SUPERSTITIOUS PRESIDENT
Victor Davis Hanson wrote this article about Obama and the ‘scientific method.’ It is excellent and important to read to get an understanding of Obama and his approach to science. ~GA
President Obama talks a lot about the scientific method. On climate change, he has often invoked the idea of a great divide between those on the progressive left, such as himself, who believe in “settled science” and thus a looming man-caused climatological disaster, and those, presumably on the Neanderthal Right, who are slaves to superstition, ideology, prejudice, and self-interest—and thus deny that the planet is rapidly warming due to inordinate human-induced releases of excessive carbon.
PC IS ABOUT CONTROL
“Political correctness is the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.”
[This appears in the November–December 2015 issue of The Austrian.]
I’d like to speak today about what political correctness is, at least in its modern version, what it is not, and what we might do to fight against it.
To begin, we need to understand that political correctness is not about being nice. It’s not simply a social issue or a subset of the culture wars.
THE KOCH MACHINE
Politico published an article about the Koch Brothers. This is a minor attempt to demonize them. But, I am posting it because I think it important that Republicans get an idea of the powerful forces being arrayed in their support. ~GA
How the Koch network rivals the GOP
By Kenneth P. Vogel
The political machine that Charles Koch launched a dozen years ago in a Chicago hotel conference room with 16 other rich conservatives has exploded in size and influence in the past few elections and now eclipses the official GOP in key areas.
ATTACKS ON JEWS GO UNREPORTED BY THE MEDIA
From my friend, David P. Steinmann:
99% of American Jews have no idea this kind of thing is happening pretty much all the time. On the streets, and on college and university campuses.
Why don’t they know? Because, with a very few exceptions, the media doesn’t think it fits their news narrative so it isn’t reported. But if someone is overheard saying something negative about, say, a Muslim person, the District Attorney launches a full-scale investigation. That does fit the media’s definition of news.
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WHY HUMAN CAUSED “GLOBAL WARMING” ISN’T SO!
The following article gets into specific data showing why human activity is not causing Global Warming. Very interesting to those of us who like to have the scientific backup to support our position.
By Mike Van Biezen
The Most Comprehensive Assault On ‘Global Warming’ Ever
It made sense. Knowing that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that our industrialized world is adding a large amount of it to the atmosphere on a yearly basis, I accepted the premise that this would cause global temperatures to rise. But one day about 7 years ago, I looked at the ubiquitous graph showing the “global” temperature of the last 150 years and noticed something odd. It was subtle, and as I found out later, disguised so that it would be overlooked. There appeared to be a period of about 40 years between 1940 and 1980 where the global temperatures actually declined a bit. As a data analysis expert, I could not ignore that subtle hint and began to look into it a little more. Forty years is a long time, and while carbon dioxide concentrations were increasing exponentially over the same period, I could not overlook that this showed an unexpected shift in the correlation between global temperatures and CO2concentrations. Thus I began to look into it a little further and here are some of the results 7 years later.
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WHY CHILDREN GET GIFTS ON CHRISTMAS: A HISTORY
In 1800s New York, the overlapping interests of middle-class families and the wealthy produced a cultural practice that’s still in place today.
Paul Ringel, in an article in The Atlantic, explains how the custom of giving gifts to children at Christmas time originated the late 1700s and early 1800s in America.
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Which Are Death Spiral States?
William Baldwin writes in Forbes that if your state has more takers than makers, you are in a death spiral state.
As the state grapples with drought, it confronts the decades of inaction by state and federal officials in expanding its water system.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, the authors criticize the State with failing to solve water problems over the past several decades.
One of the seemingly easiest ways to expand California’s water supply would be to raise the height of the 602-foot Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet, adding the equivalent of another reservoir to the drought-stricken state.
The federal Bureau of Reclamation has been studying the idea to some degree since 1980. But regulatory delays and pushback from critics—including a Native-American tribe that has performed war dances at the dam—prevented it from happening.
Raising the dam, which is a fairly common procedure though not on this magnitude, would cost about $1.3 billion. Getting the project funded through Congress and other sources, however, would be a challenge.
The hurdles in expanding the Shasta Dam underscore a broader problem in the nation’s most populous state as it grapples with a devastating four-year drought: state and federal officials haven’t significantly upgraded California’s water infrastructure in decades.
Since the last major state or federal dam was completed in 1979, California’s population has grown to 39 million people from 23 million. Continue reading “SOLVING DROUGHT MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF YEARS OF NEGLECT”
POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR DIVISION OF ISRAEL IN CHRISTMAS DAY SERMON
Pope Francis on Christmas Day, called for peace in the Holy Land and elsewhere throughout the world.
Pope Francis used part of his Christmas message to urge Israelis and Palestinians to formulate a two-state solution by sitting down at the negotiation table and agreeing to a peace deal to allow both sides ‘to live together in harmony’.
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BEAR TO THE RIGHT 