Where the hell is Al Gore? Why isn’t he out there, holding a press conference to explain this latest inconvenient truth?
So
here we are, reeling from another blizzard, the greatest storm of the
century to hit Massachusetts since way back in 2013, and guess what?
The global-warming cultists are blaming it on, what else, global warming. Excuse me, climate change.
Here’s the headline yesterday in one of the U.K.’s leading moonbat broadsheets:
“Climate change responsible for super-charging winter storms, scientists say.”
Homer Simpson used to say, “Donuts! Is there anything they can’t do?”
Listen
Homer, donuts got nothing on global warming, er climate change. It
causes blizzards … and heat waves. Floods … and droughts. That’s why
1,700 billionaires had to fly to Davos this week to huddle over how to
cut down on the carbon footprint — your carbon footprint, not theirs.
Here is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2008: “Anemic winters … snow is so scarce today.”
Hey Bobby, shovel this!
Another
true believer named Porter Fox wrote an interminable op-ed piece for
The New York Times less than a year ago under the headline, “The End of
Snow?”
Can we lose the question mark? The answer is no. Believe it or not, this guy wrote “a book on the future of snow.”
It’s
got a great future, snow, at least until the spring. But shhhh, don’t
tell Porter Fox. You know what they say: If you believe in nothing,
you’ll fall for anything.
“I was floored,” he wrote, “by how much snow had already disappeared from the planet.”
Now if it would only disappear from my driveway.
At
the State House, the office of state Sen. Mike Barrett,
Moonbat-Lexington, sent out an email late Monday announcing the
postponement of a legislative briefing Tuesday on a bill, “An Act
combating climate change.”
In other words, an outbreak of global warming hysteria was canceled due to a blizzard.
It’s
a cult, a failed cult. MIT professor Richard Lindzen told me last week:
“As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart,
instead of saying, ‘Oh, we were wrong,’ they get more and more
fanatical … Think about it, you’ve led an unpleasant life, you have led a
very virtuous life. But now you’re told, you get absolution if you
watch your carbon footprint. It’s salvation!”
It’s like the Middle
Ages. These trust-funded loons are buying indulgences. And their
epiphany occurred on the road not to Damascus, but to Davos.
Let’s close with one more apocalyptic report from noted snowologist Porter Fox on what happens when the white stuff disappears:
“What
follows is a dangerous chain reaction of catastrophes like forest
fires, drought, mountain pine beetle infestations, degraded river
habitat, loss of hydroelectric power, dried-up aquifers and shifting
weather patterns.”
The warmologists call it the apocalypse, the rest of us call it spring.http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/01/carr_cult_of_climate_change_at_it_again
Tuesday 27 January is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi
concentration camp at Auschwitz. Six survivors, some of whom will be
returning to the site for the last time, tell Kate Connolly their
stories
A doctor escorts a group of Auschwitz survivors from the camp in January 1945.Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images
Irene Fogel Weiss, born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia,
now Batrad, Ukraine. She lives in Virginia, US. She will be returning
to Auschwitz for the third time, as part of the US presidential
delegation, along with her daughter, Lesley Weiss
We lived in Bótrágy, a very small, mostly poor town in Czechoslovakia
with a population of approximately 1,000 mainly farming families,
including about 10 Jewish families. The town was a typical low-income
community with a tailor, a shoemaker, a grocery store, where people
struggled to get by, but where everyone knew each other and there was
easy communication between the neighbours, though that didn’t mean we
were equal.
When I was eight years old Czechoslovakia broke apart and we became
part of Hungary. That was when our problems started, because the
Hungarians were allied with the Nazis. It was a difficult time for
Jewish families, as suddenly the law no longer protected us and
overnight we lost our civil rights. My father’s lumber business was
confiscated and given to a non-Jew, and we received no compensation.
Jewish children were thrown out of Hungarian schools, so right away we
had no choice but to concentrate on hunkering down and trying not to
bring attention to ourselves. We couldn’t ride the trains and we had to
wear the yellow star. It was a free for all. With no law to protect us,
it was common for Jews to get beaten up or thrown off the train...Continue reading...
When Lauren Fern was told last summer that her pet pooch Gizelle was
dying of bone cancer, she decided to savour every moment she had left
with her beloved dog and create a bucket list.
First up on that
list, Lauren took her four-legged friend canoeing. While this may seem
like a random activity for a dog, Lauren had very heartfelt reasons for
choosing it.
"Gizelle and I always used to watch The Little
Mermaid together, and a favourite scene was the one where Ariel is
chauffeured in a row boat by Prince Eric," she revealed.
Next
up, Lauren and Gizelle spent some time together in New York's Times
Square. Again, New York has a special significance to the close pair as
when Lauren moved to the city from her small hometown in Tennessee,
Gizelle was right by her side, helping her set up home.
"Together
Gizelle and I had been through college, boyfriends, our early 20s, and a
move from simple Tennessee to big and scary New York City," Lauren
wrote in a moving blog post...Continue reading...
Wildlife
Photography, probably the most adventurous photography genre in the
whole world. Actually wildlife photography is not that easy as it look
like. In fact, a wildlife photographer has to spend most of his time in a
year searching for some amazing shots in the jungles and wildlife. Most
of their life passes out in wildlife looking for some amazing frames to
capture. The most important fact is that wildlife photography is an
awkward genre in that sense because you can’t do this if you only have a
big knowledge of photography. Side by side you have to acquire
knowledge about the wildlife, geographical studies, environmental
studies and a lot more things. Even you will have study the animal
psychology to become a good wildlife photographer...Continue reading, 40 Best Wildlife Photos.
By Carmine Starnino Constable Kevin Gibson wants to use music to prevent street violence.
Four nights a week, Wanda Kent drives east, across Winnipeg’s Red
River and down a long cul-de-sac to a dilapidated, grey stucco building.
“On my first visit,” says the single, unemployed mother of five, “I
thought I had the wrong address.” Inside the softly lit East End
Cultural and Leisure Centre, however, is plush carpeting and a stage, as
well as a soundproof recording studio. Keyboards and a range of guitars
line the walls. There’s even a piano used by performers at the 2014
Juno Awards.
Kent has been bringing her 12-year-old twin girls here for two years.
It’s a chance to escape the North End, an area afflicted with the
highest rates of reported muggings and assaults in the city, and where
Kent is often afraid to let her children play outside. Tonight, a
volunteer lines up Chelsea and Cassie, both dressed in jeans and black
tops, with 20 other children, many new arrivals from Sudan and Rwanda.
Soon the group is harmonizing along with Serena Ryder’s hit song
“Stompa.”...http://www.readersdigest.ca/magazine/true-stories/singing-policeman/Serena Ryder
Stewart BellAn image grab taken from a video uploaded
on YouTube on July 8, 2012, shows a man identified as Abu Muhammad
al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). AFP / Getty Images
The ISIS spokesman renewed his calls for terrorist attacks in Canada on
Monday in a fiery speech that referred to the Oct. 22 attack on
Parliament Hill and warned that “what lies ahead will be worse — with
Allah’s permission.”...Continue reading...
Strong bond: Sirga embraces Val, who cared for her when she was abandoned
With what seems to be a huge smile on her face, a lioness hugs the man who saved her in this amazing moment captured on camera.
The story of Sirga and conservationist Valentin Gruener was one of the biggest viral hits of 2014, with a video of the beautiful beast leaping into his arms viewed almost 10 million times on YouTube.
Their unlikely friendship began when cub Sirga was driven out of her pride, and faced certain death alone on the plains...Read more...
With over half of the world’s 7 billion people
residing in urban settings, food consumption and waste has reached an
all-time high. And while the accelerated rate at which the population
continues to grow is alarming, the more troublesome fact remains our
misuse of resources. Essentially, less is being grown resourcefully,
while more is being consumed. Vertical farm owner, James Cannon, highlights the extent to which urban dwellings have contributed to the current consumption issues by explaining:
If cities produced just ten percent of the ground crops they
currently consume, by employing sustainable indoor vertical farms and
greenhouses to do so, then nearly half of the damaged portion of the
Brazilian rainforest could theoretically be restored (340,000 square
miles worth) and a significant amount of carbon would be sequestered as
the result.
By just producing 10% of what they consume, cities could amazingly eliminate a huge portion of their carbon footprint...Continue reading...
Lumpy, sweetest owl you'll ever meet.
(Great Grey)... Someone told me you guys might like my pictures from work. There are
over 150 birds at the center so I picked out just a few of my favorites. It's hard work, sometimes dangerous but at the end of the
day it's worth it. Here's an assortment of owls, eagles, hawks and
vultures...Photos here...
By Phil Tank, The StarPhoenix:
Huma and Aftab Ahmad appreciated what high-profile American
politician Hillary Clinton said Monday about battling global terrorism.
Clinton,
the former U.S. Secretary of State who is widely expected to seek the
Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election, spoke about
several global issues in front of a receptive capacity crowd at TCU
Place Wednesday night.
Clinton called the war on terror a contest of ideas and stressed that extremists should not be confused with moderate Muslims.
She remarked on the story of a moderate Muslim who helped defend Jewish people during the recent Paris attacks.
“Those are the stories that can inspire all the moderate Muslims and everyone as well,” Huma said.
“We’re proud Canadians, but at the same time we’re also very moderate Muslims,” Aftab added. “I think she did a good job.”
Clinton referred in her speech to Islamic terrorism.
“ I think we should be cautious about using the term Islamic terrorism,” Huma said...Continue reading...
When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a
Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost.
The jihadists were launching an assault on the new, highest profile effort by
Saudi Arabia to insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its neighbours.
The Saudis are building a 600-mile-long “Great Wall” - a combined fence and
ditch - to separates the country from Iraq to the north.
Much of the area on the Iraqi side is now controlled by Isil, which regards
the ultimate capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the “Two Holy Mosques” of
Mecca and Medina, as a key goal.
The proposal had been discussed since 2006, at the height of the Iraqi civil
war, but work began in September last year after Isil’s charge through much
of the west and north of the country gave it a substantial land border with
the Kingdom to the south...Continue reading...
eCanadaNow, staff: NEW YORK – Recently the files of Project Blue Book, a once secret
United States Air Force project that sought to carefully document
reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, were made public and
declassified for the first time in decades. Project Blue Book
was launched in 1947 and was over by late 1969, after amassing over
130,000 documents on some 12,618 alleged UFO sightings by military
members and civilians.
The Air Force project was based out of Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Ohio and ran from 1947 to 1969. Through the project, the Air
Force amassed a total of 12,618 recorded sightings. Out of that total,
701 incidents remain “unidentified.” A University of Colorado report
called the “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” found that
“there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as
‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles,” according to a 1985 Air
Force fact sheet. Project Blue Book officially ended on Dec. 17, 1969.
Military Times reports: http://www.ecanadanow.com/curiosity/2015/01/20/ufo-reports-declassified-130000-pages-of-declassified-ufo-records/
Islam does not apologize, does not assimilate, and does not accept
any other law than Muslim law. Their goal is absolute domination.
Anything or anyone that says otherwise is either lying, or have been
fooled into believing lies.
Freedom of Speech, according to Muslims,
according to the socialists, and according to the liberal left
appeasers, must be curbed. You are allowed to say whatever you want, as
long as it fits into the little bubble of allowed speech the rulers and
terrorists tell you that you can say. Everything else is unacceptable,
because it might make the aggressors angry.
The Islamic terror attacks in Paris, specifically when Charlie Hebdo
was targeted, was about quelling free speech, and after free speech has
been horrifically attacked, the response has been, “Be careful what you
say. We don’t want to make the peaceful people of the religion of peace
angry.”
That would be like being in a fist fight because the other guy ran up
to you and just started beating on you, and everyone watching the
altercation screaming, “That’s what you get for making him mad!”
Pope Francis went so far as to say, “It’s normal. You cannot provoke.
You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith
of others… there is a limit.”
Christians are constantly being bombarded by attacks, insults, and
poking by leftist secularists making fun of faith in Jesus Christ. . .
but the last time I checked, nobody is worried about Christian
terrorists strapping bombs on their bodies, or slaughtering thousands of
innocent people, for daring to insult Christianity...Continue reading...
By Joseph Brean, Postmedia News: In his blogging about Canada's hate speech laws,
rightwing personality Ezra Levant defamed a young law student as a
serial liar, a bigot and a Jew-hating "illiberal Islamic fascist," bent
on destroying Canada's tradition of free expression, a judge has found.
For
these unfair, false and "extremely serious" written comments, which
were motivated by "ill will," and showed a "reckless disregard for the
truth," Levant must pay Khurrum Awan $80,000, Judge Wendy Matheson of
Ontario Superior Court ruled Thursday.
Awan is now a lawyer in
Saskatchewan, but in 2007 he was the public face of a campaign to
protest the representation of Muslims in Maclean's magazine. This led to
three failed human rights complaints and spurred Canada's first online
culture war over the hate speech section of the Canadian Human Rights
Act.
The judge rejected the argument of Iain MacKinnon, Levant's
lawyer, that readers of his blog would not take his comments "at face
value" because they would be "well aware of Mr. Levant's penchant to
stir controversy and make outlandish comments."
She ordered Levant
to remove the posts from his website within 15 days - they have been
posted there for years - and pay Awan $50,000 in general damages plus
$30,000 in aggravated damages.
"Mr. Awan is very pleased with the
decision and is grateful that at long last he has been vindicated," said
his lawyer, Brian Shiller.
Levant called the ruling "very
troubling" and said he felt compelled to appeal. "This is a shocking
case of libel chill that should concern any Canadian who is worried
about radical Islam, and the right to call out anti-Semitism in the
public square," he said.
It’s happened to the best of us. We
purchase a shirt, a pair of shoes, a hat that we love and think is
totally unique—and then show up at school or work and see someone
wearing the exact same thing. It’s a little embarrassing. Hans Eijkelboom takes that feeling to another level with People of the Twenty-First Century, a photo series that suggests we’re more like sheep than snowflakes...Continue reading, photos...
MADELINE
Weinstein was reaching for the top of the shelves at Meow Parlour, New
York’s new cat cafe, going for the ultimate prize: Roger, the most
antisocial animal in the place. Down below, on floor level, nine other
cats roamed, batting at toys, leaping exuberantly, bumping heads
affectionately against the outstretched hands of customers. Roger
remained aloof.
Ms.
Weinstein, an actress who lives in Manhattan, extended the tips of her
fingers to Roger’s nose. He took an exploratory sniff. She worked her
hand behind his ears and began to scratch lightly. Roger began to thaw,
then melt.
“I
have two cats, so it’s kind of absurd that I’m here and paying for
this,” Ms. Weinstein said. “But I can’t get too much cat in my life.”
Christina
Ha, who opened Meow Parlour on Hester Street in mid-December with
Emilie Legrand, one of her assistant chefs, is betting that the city is
full of people who can’t get too much cat. The concept has been tried
successfully in cities all over the world, notably in Japan, a cat-crazy
country where landlords tend to prohibit pets. Why not New York?...Continue reading, photos...
“Particularly on the Left, political thought is a
sort of masturbation fantasy in which the world of facts hardly
matters.” ― George Orwell I deleted a post that originated at Daily Mail Online and checked out another creation of theirs, that is it for Daily Mail Online. I will not even link back to them. I am not happy, I am livid, and I will check resources closely before posting. Thomas, please, enough, move on...
by viraltonic Alicja Zmyslowska is a 19-year-old pet photographer based in Poland
that takes incredibly vibrant and lively portraits of dogs. Talk about a
dream hobby!
When it comes to dog photography, Zmyslowska has all her bases
covered – she says she’s done everything from sports photography (read:
fetch) to show-ring photos. Our favorites, however, are her adorable
portraits, which, by focusing on each dog as an individual, really bring
out their individual characteristics and personalities.
Zmyslowska shoots her beautiful dog portraits with a wide array of gear, including the Canon 70-200mm, 85mm and 50mm lenses.
Read on for her interview with ViralTonic!..Continue, photos...
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - A tricky insect-eating plant from Borneo is living proof that one need not have a brain to outsmart the opposition.
Scientists say the tropical
carnivorous plant regularly exploits natural weather fluctuations to
adjust the slipperiness of its pitfall traps in order to capture and
dine on batches of ants at a time rather than individual ants.
The
research involved an Asian species of pitcher plant, so named because
its leaves form cup-shaped insect traps that look like a pitcher.
When
the rim of the plant becomes wet, it gets extremely slippery and ants
walking on the surface fall victim to the voracious vegetation.
In
hot, sunny weather, however, the surface dries and becomes safe for
ants to visit. Individual ants serving as scouts for their colonies
discover and collect sweet nectar from the trap and return to their nest
to tell their fellow ants where to find a nice meal.
Numerous
ants then march unwittingly into the trap in search of food and are
captured because the plant has made its trap slippery and inescapable.
So by letting the individual scouts escape, the plant eventually manages
to capture much more prey.
To
control when its trap is slippery, the pitcher plant secretes sugary
nectar that primes the trapping surface to become wet through
condensation at lower humidity levels than other plant surfaces. That
activates the trap during afternoons when many day-active insects are
still out and about.
"Of course a
plant is not clever in the human sense - it cannot plot. However,
natural selection is very relentless and will only reward the most
successful strategies," said biologist Ulrike Bauer of Britain's
University of Bristol, who led the study being published on Wednesday in
the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
There
are about 600 species of carnivorous plants known worldwide. The
pitcher plants generally grow in nutrient-poor habitats, which is why
they capture animal prey to feed on. Most species trap insects. A few
attract small mammals and collect their feces for nourishment.
"What
superficially looks like an arms race between nectar robbers and deadly
predators could in fact be a sophisticated case of mutual benefit,"
Bauer said.
"As long as the energy
gain (eating the nectar) outweighs the loss of worker ants, the ant
colony benefits from the relationship just as much as the plant does."
(Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Peter Cooney) http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/14/us-science-plant-idUSKBN0KN00J20150114
by FOX 4 Newsroom
SEATTLE — A dog in Seattle has learned how to ride the bus to take herself to the local dog park.
It all began when owner Jeff Young said he would stop for a cigarette
on his way to the dog park and if the bus arrived before he was done,
Eclipse, the dog would get on without him.
“We get separated,” Young said. “She gets on the bus without me, and I catch up with her at the dog park.”
Eclipse is a black lab, bullmastiff mix.
A spokesperson for Metro Transit said they love the fact that Eclipse is a supporter of public transit. http://fox4kc.com/2015/01/13/dog-rides-bus-alone-to-go-to-dog-park/
To
whomever is setting these non-permitted traps, please stop. We've
already had to free Deputy Vannatter twice this week. Also, as Deputy
Fly found out, the powder on the powdered doughnuts you're using for
bait is very hard to get out of our green uniforms. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding in this very delicate matter.
Jaco Marx
is a dentist by profession and a photographer by passion. Currently
living in central South Africa, Marx spends most of his free time
photographing the African wilderness, both to simply enjoy his passion,
as well as to document the wildlife around him. And the results are just breathtakingly gorgeous!
He says: “My mission with my
photography is to influence people; to change the way we think about
wildlife,To realize in what fragile state nature finds itself in these
times we live: less habitat and more people, fauna and flora under
severe pressure. Photography is a powerful tool for conservation.”
After releasing a test return capsule, the service module is headed for Moon orbit after loitering at Earth-Moon L2.
Credit: China Space Website
By Leonard David and SPACE.com
A Chinese spacecraft service module has entered orbit around the
moon, months after being used in the country's landmark test flight that
sent a prototype sample-return capsule on a flight around the moon and
returned it to Earth.
The service module from China's circumlunar test flight arrived
in orbit around the moon this week, according to Chinese state media
reports. The spacecraft is currently flying in an eight-hour orbit that
carries it within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of the lunar surface at its
closest point, and out to a range of 3,293 miles (5,300 km) at its
highest point.
According to chief engineer Zhou Jianlian of the Beijing Aerospace
Control Center the module will make its second and third braking in the
early hours of today (Jan. 12) and tomorrow, Beijing time. Doing so will
enable the module to enter a 127-minute orbit around the moon, Zhou
said. [China's 1st Round-trip Moon Shot in Pictures]...Continue reading, video...
PHOENIX – What
started out as a simple Facebook request for photos of dogs for a
16-year-old cancer patient has since turned the pet-loving boy into an
Internet celebrity.
Anthony Lyons' love for the therapy dogs that
greet him during his treatments for leukemia led a family acquaintance
to put up a Facebook event page the week before Christmas to re-create
the experience online.
The request,"Photo Doggies for Anthony," resulted in thousands of pooch pictures and cheered up Anthony, but it also has evoked gifts and gestures in the real world.
The
attention has brought Anthony offers for donations of real dogs. People
have mailed him stuffed animals. Someone offered New York Yankees
tickets. Businesses wanting to capitalize on the attention have come out
of the woodwork as they try to profit from the story.
While it
might be tempting to use the notoriety to get money for medical and
household expenses, Anthony's mother said she is adamant about not
turning the page into a for-profit operation.
"No one is
benefiting other than just their own happiness. And that makes me happy
right now," Kristen Lyons said. "This is honestly the best thing that's
ever happened to us — ever. It's given us something to do besides lay
around and wait for the next 'sick' thing to happen."...Continue reading...
The old building at 307 West Hastings Street is like a marijuana
super store, without any marijuana for sale. There’s a large retail shop
on the ground level that offers old-school pipes and papers and bongs,
and pricey high-tech vaporizers for the modern, more health-conscious
crowd. Upstairs there’s a comfortable if malodorous lounge where
bring-your-own cannabis products are openly consumed. Tobacco smoking is
not allowed.
Everywhere there are illustrations and pictures of this town’s patron
saint of marijuana, the so-called Prince of Pot, Marc Emery. This is
his joint, and on most days since his release last summer from a U.S.
prison, where he served a five-year sentence for selling marijuana
seeds, he can be found inside his store or in the lounge, getting high
and handing out free samples of potent hash oils and what he calls his
“8-bud blend.”
Mr. Emery is as cantankerous as ever, directing written and verbal
jabs at anyone whom he considers an enemy of the marijuana freedom and
legalization movement, and to those whom he perceives as threats to
himself and his wife, Jodie. His targets include Stephen Harper, whom
both Emerys despise.
They have also included Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Which is a problem for Jodie...Continue reading... See also...Jodie Emery: Liberal party dismissive of my nomination.
January 25, 2015 · by 
Serena Ryder
Stewart Bell
An image grab taken from a video uploaded
on YouTube on July 8, 2012, shows a man identified as Abu Muhammad
al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). AFP / Getty Images 
Byron Smith for The New York Times 
Johnny Crawford
After releasing a test return capsule, the service module is headed for Moon orbit after loitering at Earth-Moon L2.
Credit: China Space Website
Brian Hutchinson
http://screencrush.com/the-voices-review/.
last.fm/music Norma Tanega
By Bill Sanderson Saudi Arabia's King Salman (right) and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef walk to greet President Obama in Riy...
