Thursday, March 12, 2009

American Thinker: Are you smarter than me?
Mensa admits members whose IQ's are in the top two percent of the country. When I joined in 1984, mine was in the top one percent so theoretically I'm smarter than Obama. This does not qualify me to be elected anything but it does mean I can think thoroughly about many issues that interest me. I tend to question statements that are furnished without evidence.

That's why I never understood how people fell for Al Gore's global warming panic. He's not a scientist. He flunked out of Divinity School. Besides how can you conclude that the planet is undergoing rapid climate change when we've only been documenting those records for a few hundred years? The planet was warmer before there were human beings on it. Nevertheless, Al Gore made millions selling the idea of carbon footprints to a dumb nation. Now I cringe whenever I see the word green.
Is someone off their rocker? « Various Philosophies of Cynicism
[China], which spent £20bn on last year’s Beijing Olympics, received more than £38m in British aid in 2007.
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“The costs of not helping China to continue to develop, and to develop sustainably, are likely to be higher to the UK taxpayer than providing limited funding for an ongoing development partnership,” [Malcolm Bruce] added.
Podcast: Chris Horner on the Dennis Prager show
Prager H3: Red Hot Lies
Dennis Prager
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Christopher Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an acknowledged expert on global warming legislation and regulation, and has testified before Senate committees and given numerous addresses in the European Parliament. His new book is Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed. Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on November 18, 2008. [MP3]

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