George Rebane
Emeritus Professor Robert Johnston, UC Irvine, will be presenting on land use and transportation modeling in the age of anthropogenic global warming. This will be on 18 Feb 2009 in Incline Village (details here). Of course, the whole presentation starts with the revealed truth that AGW is real as inscribed on the stone tablets brought down from Mt. Gore. For the technical reader, please note that in the syllabus of the good professor’s references, there is a glaring lack of studies which corroborate the performance of the cited models with the real world. This is of a piece with similar holes in the work of those using the various climate change models for their political ends.
To close California’s near $50B looming budget deficit, the Democrats are planning to tax the bejeezus out of its citizens and businesses. And our Governator of the Compliant Character will probably go along with them. We are already the second highest tax state in the country, and are paying for it with an exodus of corporations and the well-heeled. And the new tax addicts will continue to ignore their impact on business and jobs. The most recent big red flag, that warns us of the economic disaster to come from new carbon and deficit taxes, is that Silicon Valley had just one new IPO in 2008. Compare that with an average of 28 per year since 1985. This is not only bad, but VERY BAD. All of this matters not to politicians betting their sinecures on the demonstrated smarts of the California voter.
The rank and file Christian has some major catch up to do if the religion is to remain a staple of American culture. Most of us in the faith are more than fuzzy about our theology, and almost none of us are aware of the secular humanist assault – led by luminaries such as Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins – on Judeo-Christian beliefs and traditions. Here is a report on the recent activities of Freedom From Religion, one of a growing number of primarily left-wing organizations active in banning religion from the American scene.
The Independent reports on “scientific illiteracy (being) all the rage among the glitterati”.
When it comes to science, Barack Obama is no better than many of us. Today he joins the list of shame of those in public life who made scientifically unsupportable statements in 2008.
These folks, of course, are the cows with the shiny bells that lead the rest of us in the unquestioning herd.
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