As I suspected, it’s not what’s in the emails but what’s in the released code that damages the AGW alarmists’ case.
Sexing up a graph is at best a misdemeanor. But a Declan McCullough story suggests a more disturbing possibility: the CRU’s main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish.
Note that Dear Leader Himself probably ranks close to a 0. His only real job was a stint as an associate at a law firm, as I recall.
This needs to be edited down to a minute, tops, but it’s pretty good.
Michael Yon links to an analysis from Great Britain which looks like a worthy read.
It is a false dichotomy to say that we must continue as we are, or we just leave the place to revert to the dark ages. There is an alternative between these extreme positions. We can still prevent AQ returning as a threat to us out of Afghanistan without the deployment of tens of thousands of troops and the loss of hundreds of lives and billions of dollars. To achieve that, we need to have two clear policy aims.
- First, to maintain wide-ranging capabilities to find, fix and strike anyone presenting an international threat.
Second, to ensure that NATO’s rebalancing can not be painted as victory for the Islamists. We can not cut and run but must continue to support some sort of loose national government and make deals with locals in the Pashtoon belt.
Liberals, being the humorless, simpering beasts they are, not only believe there’s such a thing as a “hate crime”, but they can get their panties in a bunch over a cartoon which clearly illustrates why “hate crime” is an absurd notion.
Tinsley states the obvious defends himself here:
“The point my cartoon made was that the animus behind a crime matters far less (or sometimes, not at all) than does the real violence done to a real person or people, and that a ‘hate-crime’ mindset often trivializes that very violence by subordinating it to a political agenda.
This all reminds me of the line of dialogue I wanted to add to The Lion King. After Mufasa explains the circle of life Simba should have asked, “So… they don’t mind that we eat them, then?”
