For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

All the news that's unfit to print

Published Tue, Nov 27 2007 10:21 AM
Technorati Tags: Global Warming

Here's a bit of news that you probably won't be reading on the front page of the New York Times…

The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.

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    This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

    • It's an interesting bit of commentary don't you think? Christopher Booker of the Telegraph finishes this little tidbit with the following:

    This year will be remembered for two things.

    First, it was the year when the scientific data showed that the cosmic scare over global warming may well turn out to be just that - yet another vastly inflated scare.

    Second, it was the year when the hysteria generated by all the bogus science behind this scare finally drove those who rule over us, including Gordon "Plastic Bags" Brown, wholly out of their wits.

    "Plastic Bags" — not that's an interesting tag don't you think? It sort of reminds me of the lunacy going on in San Francisco. They're…

    • Banning plastic bags to "save the environment".
    • Mandating compact fluorescent lights to "save the environment".
    • Considering banning home fireplace use to "save the environment".

    None of these things will "save the environment". They're just feel-good measures that inconvenience ordinary people for no benefit other than securing power and assuaging the guilt of the elites.

    Of course we already know that the elites are "above" the rules. Just look at today's foremost prophet of global warming for an example.

    A tip of the hat to Nancy Morgan for the link to the Telegraph article.

    Cross posted at NW Bloggers.

    Trackposted to The Pink Flamingo, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, The Amboy Times, Republican National Convention Blog, Chuck Adkins, Dumb Ox Daily News, Adam's Blog, and The World According to Carl, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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