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Al Gore won

6 July 2008

There recently was the death of a 98 year old lady named Irena. In Warsaw, during WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive…
She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German).
Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she [...]

Geopolitical Diary: The Saudi’s Oil Game Plan

29 June 2008

The long-awaited Jeddah Oil Conference on oil supplies was held and yielded the long-expected answer. The Saudis are going to increase oil supplies by the amount floated a week ago, and are prepared to increase supplies even more if there is demand for more product, which they do not see at this time. The subtext [...]

Sokal gets one more minute of fame

23 June 2008

Remember Alan Sokal? He’s the physicist who, in 1996, submitted an article to the postmodernist journal Social Text in which he claimed that “physical ‘reality,” including gravity, “is at bottom a social and linguistic construct.” The whole thing was a hoax aimed at exposing postmodernism as fundamentally nonsensical.
It appears global warmism has found its Alan [...]

Dear Barack Obama,

6 June 2008

I received a scanned copy of a column by Will Manly of The Hays Daily News, a newspaper in Kansas. You know, the heartland? The people Barack Obama says turn to guns and church because they’re bitter? Well this old boy fired back with both small town barrels.
Dear Barack Obama:
I grew to like you over [...]

The Geopolitics of $130 Oil

31 May 2008

Oil prices have risen dramatically over the past year. When they passed $100 a barrel, they hit new heights, expressed in dollars adjusted for inflation. As they passed $120 a barrel, they clearly began to have global impact. Recently, we have seen startling rises in the price of food, particularly grains. Apart from higher prices, [...]