Get Your War On: Plan B In Iraq


Get Your War On is still kicking ass and taking names -- so funny it will make you cry. In case you're interested, here are the sources mentioned in the strip above:

Hottest Hoax Around?

The always funny and thought-provoking Mark Fiore has a great take on the "hoax" of global warming.

I was at a party a few weeks ago and brought up the Al Gore documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," and was stunned when a friend said that he believed that the verdict was still out on global warming.

After the party we exchanged some emails, and he sent me this "interesting" article. It's pretty typical of the petro-propaganda that we've come to expect from the Bush administration.

The article quotes Roger Pielke as an expert on climate issues. It didn't take long for me to find testimony he gave to the US Senate back in 2002, in which he claimed that impacts from climate have more to do with "the increasing vulnerability of human and environmental systems to climate variability and change, not changes in climate per se." Think about that for a minute, so it sinks in.

He goes on to posit that "adaptation to climate" should be as important as energy policy, and that "changes in energy policy are insufficient to address the primary reasons underlying trends in the societal impacts of weather and climate."

The article my friend sent me attempts to elevate Pielke by citing Ian Murray as a character reference. Murray is "a senior fellow specializing in global climate change and environmental science at the free market-based Competitive Enterprise Institute." The Center for Media & Democracy says that CEI "postures as an advocate of 'sound science' in the development of public policy. In fact, it is an ideologically-driven, well-funded front for corporations opposed to safety and environmental regulations that affect the way they do business."

Murray anticipates any criticism of himself or Pielke by stating, "These days, people get bashed over the head with the idea that there is a consensus, and anybody who speaks out against the so-called consensus is a contrarian or a tool of the oil industry or an otherwise morally suspect person."

Yeah, that's precisely what I was thinking.

As for crosswalk.com, the source my friend sent, and the original source of the story, cnsnews.com, I had never heard of the former and the latter was supposedly created to combat the so-called "liberal media."
British MP George Galloway
Discusses Israel and Lebanon on SKY News


This is worth watching, if only because Galloway attempts to set the current situation in Lebanon in a proper historical context, and points the finger at SKY News for their pro-Israel bias.



Some interesting comments on Galloway's interview can be found here.

Why didn't the NFL hire Condi? She wanted the job!

Michael Ventre writes for MSNBC about the NFL's hiring of Roger Goodell to succeed Paul Tagliabue as the new NFL commissioner.
Yes, the league owners really rolled the dice on this cat. Goodell was a “think inside the box inside another box” decision, arrived at after about five minutes of discussion, four of which were probably spent trying to wake up Al Davis. There was more debate before Kim Jong-il replaced his father Kim Il-sung.
Why didn't they hire Condoleeza?! God knows, she openly campaigned for the job on Meet the Press -- shamelessly, I think.

I say, for the common good, NFL owners, please renege on your offer to Goodell and give Condi the job instead. We need to get her out of the government, where she can only do more harm.