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A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never! - The Washington Post

Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections.

Campaign to dumb-down the people.

Tomorrow (March 17) the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 1076, legislation that would prohibit NPR from receiving any federal funding and prohibit local public radio stations from using federal funding to acquire ANY radio programming. 

50 million 'environmental refugees' by 2020, experts say - Yahoo! News

Also see The death spiral accelerates.

Global Warming: Dire Prediction for the Year 3000 - Yahoo! News

This is actually a wildly optimistic prediction because it assumes that we (humans) will stop increasing the concentration of green house gasses in the atmosphere. Not likely in the foreseeable future.

Jewish groups respond to Palin's use of 'blood libel' - Yahoo! News

"Ms. Palin clearly took some time to reflect before putting out her statement today. Despite that time, her primary conclusion was that she is the victim and Rep. Giffords is the perpetrator. As a powerful rhetorical advocate for personal responsibility, Ms.

What Some 2010 Events Portend

Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, Australia, California and Europe; record snow in eastern & middle US even in the Gulf States and deadly out-of-season tornadoes in places were tornadoes are rare even in tornado season.

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A reasonable response to, with explanation of, the "Ground Zero Mosque" kerfuffle.

Dear Imam Rauf, Please accept my donation along with my wishes for the success of your Park51 endeavor AS PLANNED.

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As China premier Wen visits India, tension over oil markets not far from surface

READ THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS; THEN READ FACT (5) OF "Climate Crisis: Five Facts and a Corollary" IN THIS COLUMN

Richard Cohen - Boehner's health delusion

It shows a GOP out of touch with reality, a party of Marie Antoinettes, babbling total nonsense about health care. The same swing voters who used the election to hurt the Democrats might learn that America's health-care system is No. 1 only in health-related bankruptcies.

Unexamined Belief

Why do people do stupid things or embrace stupid ideas? Because they're stupid!

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On Scientific Proof

Some say that there is no scientific proof of links between global warming and specific regional effects. Not too many years ago tobacco industry officials were saying that there was no scientific proof of links between cigarettes and lung cancer or heart disease.

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Ezra Klein - The GOP's bad idea

The new GOP policy agenda is ". . . a document with a clear theory of what has gone wrong -- debt, policy uncertainty, and too much government -- and a solid promise to make most of it worse. . ."

Op-Ed Columnist - Aren't We Clever? - NYTimes.com

"In a year that's on track to be our planet's hottest on record, Americans} turned "climate change" into a four-letter word that many U.S. politicians won't even dare utter in public. . . .

Taliban Using Mosque Controversy to Recruit - Newsweek

Republican generated hysteria & islamophobia is a disaster for US and our efforts to combat terrorism. It is doing more to help Al'Qaeda and the Taliban than money or support they get from Saudi Arabia & Pakistan.

The Screw the People Party

Open letter to Sen. Bob Menedes Chairman Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee & Gov. Tim Kaine chairman of the Democratic National Committee Dear Sen. Menendez & Gov. Kaine,

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Global Warming "Undeniable," U.S. Government Report Says

See: "Climate Crisis: Five Facts and a Corollary" below.

Climate Will Change Everything

This is one of the articles in "This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future" John Brockman Harper Collins, 2009

Climate Crisis: Five Facts and a Corollary

THE FACTS: (1) Concern about global warming has reduced public attention to the many other threats against the health of our planet and the lives of its inhabitants.

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Column on Paradoxes about Intruding on "nature" - Windows Live

Dr. Machan describes animals devouring one another, building dams, pollinating or reproducing [the kinds of things they've done since life began] as interference with nature.

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We are born ignorant, not stupid. Stupidity is achieved with effort, extreme stupidity -- such as the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY -- requires ex …