hell’s handmaiden

Noonan is chirping in about global warming. Apparently, it isn’t happening. His evidence? It snowed in Colorado… at 8000 feet or so. Well, that sure changes my mind. I mean, if North America’s highest range isn’t suffering saharan heat, then obviously the Earth isn’t on average warming up.

Someone please tell Mark that global warming is an average and that no reputable scientist believes that every single point will warm up. Some points will warm. Others will cool. Some will dry. Others will get wet. But the average temperature is rising. Average. Good grief! I know ten year olds with a better grasp of the issue.

… anyone can honestly believe that the middle east will settle down and give up on nuclear arms while the world’s favorite fascistic state gets to keep its bombs? Arab Nations Fail to Get Resolution Vote - washingtonpost.com

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Some excerpts from a post quoted by Leiter Reports:

One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. “But, Comrade Stalin,” stammered Beria, “five suspects have already confessed to stealing it.”

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These czars were hardly bleeding-heart liberals, but long experience in the use of these “interrogation” practices in Russia had taught them that once condoned, torture will destroy their security apparatus. They understood that torture is the professional disease of any investigative machinery.