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Global “warming” almost rendered mankind extinct

About 70,000 years ago, that is.  Pre-Hummers, pre-factories, pre-Al Gore’s jumbo jet and energy hog of a mansion, etc.  From the AP:

Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released ThursdayThe report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.

… Paleontologist Meave Leakey, a Genographic adviser, commented: “Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction.”

Who, indeed!  You mean that “climate change” has actually been cyclical in the past?  Why, that’s just crazy talk!  For those of you on the left, the prior two sentences were examples of sarcasm.

April 25, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 4 Comments

DC drops $10 mill on a streetcar that has no rails to run on

Liberal mecca Washington, D.C., is all about Big Government and economic ignorance, and stories like this just emphasize that fact.  From WJLA:

Three streetcars purchased by the District of Columbia for about $10 million are being held in the Czech Republic until the city builds tracks for the cars.

D.C. Department of Transportation Director Emeka Moneme say that although the streetcars were purchased three years ago, there is no timetable for when a rail line will be built.

Moneme says he would like to have the streetcars in D.C. this summer. Plans call for the cars to run from Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington to the Anacostia Metro Station.

The streetcars are being maintained by Skoda-Inekon, a company that manufactures streetcars in the Czech Republic.

“We have NO idea if or when a rail line will be built.  Hey, I’ve got a great idea!  Let’s pilfer $10 million of the taxpayers’ money to buy a streetcar that won’t be running on anything!”  Friggin’ brilliant.  What, did Marion Barry come up with that crackpot (pun intended) idea?

April 25, 2008 Posted by | big government, D.C., economic ignorance | 6 Comments

Junk science fad is starving 100 million more people

From USA Today:

Alarmed by rising global food prices, some European leaders are rethinking their commitment to use ethanol fuel and are considering other policy changes to lower the costs of basic staples.
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The use of corn and sugar to make ethanol is a main driver of rampant inflation in worldwide food costs during the past year. Grocery bills are up across Europe, and the United Nations World Food Program says that rising food prices have pushed 100 million people into hunger worldwide.
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“A world food crisis … threatens to roll back progress made in recent years to lift millions of people out of poverty and, through increased inflation, affects us all,” Brown said before opening a summit here on the world food crisis.

Notes Ed Morrissey:

Every fill of the tank with ethanol uses the same amount of corn a child would eat in a year, and let’s not even talk about the amount of potable water used to grow the corn in the first place. Given the above, which is the better use of the corn?

If we produce ethanol from waste — such as with switchgrass, which shows promise — then no ethical problem would exist, although certainly the efficiency issues would remain. Until then, we should end the push to turn food into fuel, driven by the global-climate-change hysteria and pandering to the agricultural sector. Feed people ahead of cars. Is that really such a difficult concept? 

Congrats, you global “warming” Chicken Littles.  You’ve succeeded in jacking our food and energy costs up, even to the point of forcing people into hunger.  You people officially suck.

April 25, 2008 Posted by | environuts, global warming, shameful | 7 Comments

Pelosi quotes Scripture that doesn’t exist

It doesn’t exist in any version/edition of the Bible, my friends.  Maybe the passage she quotes is from the Book of Big Government, right next to the “And the Lord sayeth, ‘Thou shalt tax the people through the nose to fundeth substandard health care for all’” passage.  That’s her story, and she’s “clinging” to it.  From CNS News:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is “fictional,” according to biblical scholars.

In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children’s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.”

Cybercast News Service repeatedly queried the speaker’s office for two days to determine where the alleged Bible quote is found. Thus far, no one has responded. …

Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn’t exist – it’s “fictional.”

“It is not in the Bible,” Mariottini said. “There is nothing that even approximates that.”

And to think that folks find the left to be out of touch when it comes to faith!

April 25, 2008 Posted by | Pelosi, shameful | 8 Comments

   

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