The Anti-Science, Anti-Nuclear Left

Global Warming & Nuclear Power: Made for Each Other | National Review Online
Atomic energy is indispensable in reducing greenhouse gases, but climate-change activists don’t want to hear it. 
Among the favorite claims of climate-change activists is that anyone who dares to disagree with their worldview is a “denier,” and that those who reject their orthodoxy about the workings of the Earth’s atmosphere are “anti-science.” 
But when it comes to the technologies that can actually reduce the volume of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, it’s obvious that the climate-change jihadis are the ones who are anti-science.
For proof of that, consider the energy plan put forward on Monday by Bernie Sanders...
The gist of Sanders’s plan, which is modestly titled “Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet,” is to create a “completely nuclear-free clean energy system for electricity, heating, and transportation.” 
It also declares that Sanders wants “a moratorium on nuclear power plant license renewals in the United States.” 
Ah yes, nuclear-free. 
How very 1970s. 
So what does “the science” say about nuclear energy? 
In January of this year, the International Energy Agency declared that “nuclear power is a critical element in limiting greenhouse gas emissions.” 
It went on to say that global nuclear generation capacity must more than double by 2050 (to about 750 gigawatts) if the countries of the world are to have any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 2-degree scenario that is widely agreed upon as the acceptable limit. 
The scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made it clear that nuclear energy is essential. 
“...continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change.” 
They continued: “There is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.” 
...“If I came out in favor of nuclear,” he said (McKibben), “it would split this movement in half.” 
So there you have it. McKibben, like many other environmentalists, knows in his heart that there isn’t much chance of reducing carbon output without nuclear. 
But he does not want to be caught saying so in public. 
The punch line here is obvious. 
Climate-change activists, and politicians like Sanders, prefer the convenient fib about renewables to the hard reality that nuclear energy is essential to limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. 
Four years ago, McKibben made it clear that he prefers political power over truth. 
Seems to me that that’s the very essence of being anti-science.

Lunch video-----Waters' World - New York City - What Going On With ISIS?

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SPREAD THIS: Top U.S. General Defies Obama, Issues Chilling Warning to America

SPREAD THIS: Top U.S. General Defies Obama, Issues Chilling Warning to America:

"Gen. John Campbell, commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that the Islamic State group affiliate in the country has been growing rapidly and has expressed a desire to strike against U.S. interests in the near future.

“They don’t have the capability right now to attack Europe, or attack the homeland, the United States, but that’s what they want to do, they’ve said that’s what they want to do,” Campbell said in an interview with The Associated Press."

Obama and Friends' Incredible Malfeasance on Iran

Obama and Friends' Incredible Malfeasance on Iran | PJ Media
"It's official: on October 10, Iran tested an Emad ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead. 
A panel of experts commissioned by the UN Security Councilreported that the launch violated Security Council Resolution 1929, which says "Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons..."
Iran is also known to have tested yet another nuclear-capable missile on November 21.
That's one development on the Iran front -- continuing to develop potential nuke-carrying missiles in blatant breach of U.N. resolutions.
And the other development is that the board of directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voted to close the books on ten years of Iran's illegal nuclear-weapons work, thereby helping open the path -- as the Obama administration and its allies devoutly hope -- to the lifting of sanctions on Iran in January.
The IAEA's board of directors gave Iran a clean bill of health even though, earlier this month, the agency's own investigators released a report that in no way confirmed that Iran hadn't already been working on nuclear weapons or had stopped working on them. 
...Why are Obama and his allies so gung-ho to get the deal moving, and the sanctions lifted, at any conceivable price?
One answer lies in Obama's overall policy on Iran, which, from the beginning, can be termed sinister -- from his refusal to help the domestic protest that erupted after Iran's fraudulent June 2009 elections; to his heavy pressure on Israel not to attack Iran despite a steady stream of threats to annihilate Israel from Iran's leaders; to his staunch refusal to enact sanctions until forced to do so by Congress; to his July 14, 2015, nuke deal that is full of holes and includes ludicrous terms of enforcement; to his current blithe acceptance of Iran's ongoing human rights abuses, openly expressed hatred and aggression toward America, and nuclear-related testing.
And for the other answer, you have to follow the money..."

Must read of the day!-----The perilous business of predicting the future

Climate Change Predictions:
The perilous business of predicting the future. 
Last week, powerful men from all over the world finished negotiating a new climate deal — the “Paris Agreement.” 
France’s foreign minister, the host of the “COP21” climate conference, called the plan an “historic turning point” in the battle against global warming. 
Our representative, John Kerry, called it “a victory for the planet.” 
The deal sets various goals for 2023, and for 2050 through 2100. 
It is absurd to think that the world’s foreign ministers can intelligently discuss what the world’s climate, industry, transportation, or energy markets will look like in 2023 — much less 2050 or 2100.
Consider that 2023 is eight years from now. 
Eight years ago, did anyone at COP21 know Uber was coming? 
Did any of those foreign ministers know how popular drones would become? 
That new supersonic passenger planes would be in development? 
That four different private companies would be launching space flights? 

...Did they know about the fracking boom? 
Of course not. 
Michael Crichton — the brilliant novelist and thinker — posed this question in a speech at Caltech in 2003, re climate predictions for 2100. 
What environmental problems would men in 1900 have predicted for 2000? 
Where to get enough horses, and what to do with all the manure. 
“Horse pollution was bad in 1900,” said Crichton. 
How much worse would someone in 1900 expect it to “be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? 
“But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport. 
And in 2000, France was getting 80 percent of its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. 
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan were getting more than 30 percent from this source, unknown in 1900. 
Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was. 
They didn’t know its structure. 
They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, Internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, Prozac, leotards, lap dancing, e-mail, tape recorders, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, Teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. 
None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. 
They wouldn’t know what you are talking about. 
Now: you tell me you can predict the world of 2100. 
Tell me it’s even worth thinking about..."
Read it all!!

Yes America, Fences Do Work

Yes America, Fences Do Work | Dispatches From The Conservative Underground:
"If anyone doubts that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are correct when they call for a wall to make America more secure, they only need to take a look at Israel to see a prime example of how well it will work.
From 2000 to 2005 hundreds of Palestinian terrorists coming from the West Bank have conducted suicide bombings and other terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Israel has responded by erecting a large security fence to protect innocent Israeli civilians.
This massive construction project will run along the Green line between Israel and the West Bank. Israel has previously built a fence around the Gaza strip,  which has effectively stopped all suicide bombings from that area.
Although no fence or wall will be 100% effective, this fence has made it considerably more difficult to launch attacks against our civilians.
Before the fence was built all a terrorist had to do was simply walk over the green line into Israeli territory.
At that time, seventy-five percent of attacks on Israeli civilians came across that border..."

High School Holiday Concert Includes Song With ‘Allahu Akbar’ Lyrics — and Here’s How Some Parents Are Reacting | TheBlaze.com

High School Holiday Concert Includes Song With ‘Allahu Akbar’ Lyrics — and Here’s How Some Parents Are Reacting | TheBlaze.com:

"Some parents in a Minnesota school district are questioning a choir director’s decision to include a Ramadan-themed song during Thursday night’s holiday show — a tune with lyrics that include the phrase “Allahu Akbar.”

The saying, which means “God is great,” is a common Islamic phrase, but some families who attended the concert at Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota, apparently didn’t appreciate its inclusion in the show."

They ALWAYS knew it was fraud!-----Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’

Study: Surface Temps Lower at 410 Weather Stations With ‘Minimal Artificial Impact’:
"Surface temperatures recorded over three decades at 410 ideally situated weather stations are markedly lower than temperatures recorded at stations located near multiple heatsinks, according to a new study presented Thursday at the 2015 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The study examined the 30-year temperature records collected from a subset of 410 weather stations belonging to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) of 1,218 stations.
...“The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts.
This study demonstrates conclusively that this issue affects temperature trend and that NOAA’s methods are not correcting for this problem, resulting in an inflated temperature trend,” said lead author Anthony Watts, who blogs at Watts Up With That?
...The worst (Class 5) have their “temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such as a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.”
“The poorest sites tend to be warmer,” explained co-author John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University."

Latest Pathetic Publicity Stunt Of Michael Moore's "We Are All Muslims" ....Backfires!

History for December 20

History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Mudd 1833 - Physician that set John Wilkes Booth's leg after the assissination of President Lincoln, Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Max Lerner 1902 


George Roy Hill 1922 - Director, John Hillerman 1932 - Actor ("Magnum, p.i."), Jenny Agutter 1952 - Actress ("The Snow Goose," "Logan's Run") 


1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America. 


1820 - The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year. 


1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire. 


1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film. 


1946 - In Indochina (Vietnam), full-scale guerrilla warfare between Vietnam partisans and French troops began. 


1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause. 


1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. 


1995 - An American Airlines Boeing 757 en route to Cali, Colombia, crashed into a mountain, killing all but four of the 163 people aboard. 

WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com

WATCH: Kentucky School Cuts Bible Passages from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ — So Parents Decide to Take Glenn Beck’s Advice | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When one Kentucky elementary school cut Linus Van Pelt’s famous monologue from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” in which he shares the meaning of the holiday season by reading Luke 2:8-14, the administration probably wasn’t expecting the kind of response they received during Thursday’s Christmas production."

Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times

Want To Know How Ridiculous The Omnibus Bill Is? It Has A Meaningless Porn Filter Clause Four Times | Techdirt:
"Following Congress passing the Omnibus spending bill, it of course did not take long for President Obama to sign the bill, meaning that the fake cybersecurity bill/actual surveillance bill, is now law. Particularly ridiculous is that in his little speech about it, Obama talked about how he "wasn't wild about everything in it" but that he was happy that it was a bill "without ideological provisions." Except, you know, for the many ones that did get in there.
But, what do you expect with a 2000+ page bill that Congress was only given a couple of days to look at before voting on. 
...But it's the other wacky provision that caught my attention.
Apparently this provision is in the omnibus no less than four times in different places:
"None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography."
Apparently, this little clause has become so standard, you can find it in earlier funding bills as well. It's the 2013 funding bill the the 2012 funding bill and many more, I assume.
And, as Carter notes, this language is "completely meaningless," but it's still in there four times. 
Just because.
So Congress can't seem to get much of anything done, but it does pass an omnibus bill that includes a weird meaningless porn filter requirement four times... and a damaging surveillance bill.
And you wonder why people dislike and distrust Congress."

And we wonder why college grads are duffuses?-----Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé

Instructor complains that Rutgers has ditched his course on Beyoncé - The College Fix
An adjunct at Rutgers University says that the school has “effectively canceled” his course on black feminism taught through the pop singer Beyoncé.
School officials say the course was merely moved over to the American studies program, but instructor Kevin Allred says he had to ask that program to pick it up — after the women’s studies department did not put it on the spring semester schedule.
Allred has taught “Politicizing Beyoncé” eleven times now. 
According to him, the course discusses “the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.”
...Allred has made a … splash here at The College Fix before for claiming that “there are no good white people, only ‘less bad’ white people.”

U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’

U.S. not so ‘stupid’ as to ‘welcome terrorists to kill us’:

“We took an oath. We’re supposed to protect this country, the Constitution. We’re supposed to provide for the common defense. We’ve got to take a stand here. It’s worth taking a stand to save American lives,” said Gohmert, a former judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Of greatest concern to Gohmert is what he sees as Congress continuing to fund the refugee program without meaningful changes or taking a pause to re-evaluate how best to keep Islamic radicals away from America’s shores."

Where Speech Is Least Free In America

Where Speech Is Least Free In America - Forbes:
A good argument can be made nowhere in America is free speech less safe than on private college and university campuses.

...But the First Amendment does not apply to private colleges and universities because they don’t involve governmental action.
Oddly, while all colleges that accept federal student aid money must abide by a vast host of regulations, the Supreme Court ruled in Rendell-Baker v. Kohn that acceptance of such money does not bring them under the umbrella of the First Amendment.
...Not only is there scant legal protection for free speech on private campuses, it is under vigorous attack from zealous students (and sometimes administrators) who regard it as their right and duty to assail anyone whose speech “offends” them.
Saying or doing almost anything these days can conceivably land a student in trouble because someone has whined that it’s a “microaggression” or “harassment” or merely “insensitive.”
With that in mind, consider a recent case at Colorado College.
If Franz Kafka or George Orwell had toyed with a similar plot, they’d probably have rejected it as too far-fetched. 
Here is what happened.
Back in November, a student, Thaddeus Pryor, wrote the following reply to a comment (#blackwomenmatter) on the social media site Yik Yak: 
“They matter, they’re just not hot.” 
A student, offended that someone was not taking things seriously, complained to college officials. After ascertaining that the comment had been written by Pryor, the Dean of Students summoned him to a meeting.
Pryor said that he was just joking.
What he did not realize is that there are now many things that must not be joked about on college campuses.
...For having joked in a way that offended the wrong people,
Pryor was told that he was suspended from Colorado College until June, 2017.
Moreover, he is banned from setting foot on campus during that time.
And in the final “pound of flesh” retribution, the school intends to prohibit him from taking any college credits elsewhere..."

Cornell’s Decorating Rules: You Can Put Up Anything You Want As Long As It’s a Snowflake

Cornell’s Decorating Rules: You Can Put Up Anything You Want As Long As It’s a Snowflake - FIRE
Cornell University’s Department of Environmental Health & Safety recently issued fire safety guidance for holiday decorations with sensible prohibitions against hazards such as “combustible decorations” and burning candles. 
...restrictions on free expression can pop up in the strangest places. 
Sure enough, the final section of the guidance veers off from physical safety into rules apparently designed to ensure some kind of ephemeral, emotional safety.

...Cornell’s commitment to diversity and the University Assembly guidelines:

GUIDELINES FOR INCLUSIVE SEASONAL DISPLAYS

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with Cornell’s Commitment to Diversity and the University Assembly Guidelines:  

• Snowflakes  
• Trees (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines) decorated with snowflakes and other non-religious symbols

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are Consistent with University Assembly Guidelines But Should be Basis of Dialogue Within Unit or Living Area  

• Trees decorated with bows, garland and lights (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  
• Wreaths with bows (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines)  
• Combination of snowflakes, (in accordance with Fire Safety Guidelines), Santa Claus figure, and dreidel  
• Holly

Winter Holiday Displays/Decorations that are NOT Consistent with Either University Assembly Guidelines or the University’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusiveness

• Nativity scene  
• Menorah  
• Angels  
• Mistletoe  
• Stars at the top of trees  
• Crosses  
• Star of David

Cornell is a private and land-grant university, but it professes a “deep commitment to academic freedom and a belief that such freedom is essential to creativity and innovation.”...

Lunch video-----The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics

By the Numbers is an honest and open discussion about Muslim opinions and demographics. Narrated by Raheel Raza, president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow, this short film is about the acceptance that radical Islam is a bigger problem than most politically correct governments and individuals are ready to admit.
Is ISIS, the Islamic State, trying to penetrate the U.S. with the refugee influx? 
Are Muslims radicalized on U.S. soil? 
Are organizations such as CAIR, who purport to represent American Muslims accepting and liberal or radicalized with links to terror organizations?

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TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Look What Britain Just Discovered Inside Muslim "Refugee" Camps

TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Look What Britain Just Discovered Inside Muslim "Refugee" Camps:

"A new report shows that British authorities, including Prime Minister David Cameron, knew that they were taking in tens of thousands of Syrians from refugee camps controlled by the Islamic State group, according to the U.K. Express.

According to the report from the Barnabas Fund, a group that aids persecuted Christians around the world, Prime Minister Cameron knew as early as September, when he visited the camps for displaced Syrians in Lebanon, that the Islamic State group was in control of them."

The war against citizens-----Government accused of cover-up as data suggests million EU migrants unaccounted for in Britain

Government accused of cover-up as data suggests million EU migrants unaccounted for in Britain - Telegraph:
"HMRC fails to release data which could show true number of EU migrants coming to Britain because it would be 'unhelpful' to renegotiation.
David Cameron has been accused of a "migration cover-up" after it emerged that more than a million migrants who have come to the UK in recent years are unaccounted for.
Ministers have failed to release data which experts believe could show the true number of EU migrants coming to the UK, claiming that it would be “unhelpful” to Mr Cameron’s current renegotiation with Brussels ahead of the in-out referendum.
There were accusations that the figures are being suppressed amid fears that releasing the data could lead to Britain leaving the EU.
Experts warned that it could mean the number of migrants coming to Britain from the EU is actually hundreds of thousands higher than previously thought..."

GOPers empower their tormentors------Agency that promotes campus-rape witch hunts gets budget increase from GOP Congress

Agency that promotes campus-rape witch hunts gets budget increase from GOP Congress - The College Fix:
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is deeply unpopular among backers of due process in campus rape proceedings, First Amendment advocates and promoters of race-neutral discipline in schools – but not in Congress.
The Education Department component gets $107 million in the 2016 omnibus bill (page 977) set to go before the full House tomorrow.
That’s up from $100 million in last year’s omnibus bill – an increase of 7 percent.
Retired attorney Paul Mirengoff at Powerline explains why this is so troubling, especially coming from Republican lawmakers:
"This outfit [OCR] does all it can to impose the left’s agenda at the K-12 and college levels.
...By increasing OCR’s budget, Congress rewards its misconduct.
The budget should be slashed, not increased."
He says

• OCR puts K-12 schools in “legal jeopardy if they discipline black students more often in percentage terms” than whites, by applying a “disparate impact” standard with no basis in law 
• contradicts Supreme Court precedent on the threshold at which bullying becomes “a federal case” 
• forces colleges to lower their burden of proof in rape cases, “strongly discourages” cross-examination of accusers, and turns “dirty jokes” and even truthful claims about sexual history into sexual harassment for federal purposes

Mirengoff concludes: “Why is a Republican Congress about to reward OCR for abridging constitutional rights[?]”...

Another new weapon-"Culturally Inappropriate"----- Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken

Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken | New York Post:
"Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”
Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.
General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese, and simply “weird,” one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.
Others were up in arms over banh mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables, and on ciabatta bread, rather than the traditional French baguette.
“It was ridiculous,” gripes Diep Nguyen, a freshman who is a Vietnam native.
Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, “disrespectful” of her culture. 
Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. 
“If people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative,” she said.
Oberlin’s black student union joined in the fray this month by staging a protest outside Afrikan Heritage House, an on-campus dorm.
The cafeteria there wasn’t serving enough vegan and vegetarian options and had failed to make fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu, the school newspaper reported.
Those students started a petition that also recommends the reduction of cream used in dishes, because “black American food doesn’t have much cream in it,” according to the Review.
The Nevada-based Universal Society of Hinduism joined the food fight last week after students discovered that the traditional Indian dish, tandoori, contained beef.
“Consuming beef was considered sacrilegious among Hindus,” blasted society president Rajan Zed, the Chronical-Telegram reported.
Campus dietitian Michele Gross told the Review this week the first meeting between college officials and dyspeptic students went well, and changes are being implemented to address all concerns."