Time for Thorns

We can thank Amb. Louis Susman for  confirming to us all that the Obama Administration neither knows nor cares about actual science, only about using it as a weapon with which to silence critics and acquire power.

What other excuse could  His Oneness have for ignoring the fact that the emails suggest that the  raw data was  error-filled and manipulated,  and therefor is unreliable for scientific purposes,  not to mention that the computer  source code used is third-rate.

And give a cheer for the two brave  Canadians who discovered faulty calculations in some of the key scientific studies underlying the UN’s Climate reports.

And this wouldn’t be the first time  scientists eager for grant money reached the conclusion wanted by the money bags instead of actually following the evidence.

Stay tuned,  folks — this is going to get a lot more interesting!

As Jonah Goldberg points out,  it is nearly impossible to do a parody of the  United Nations,  because it so routinely parodies itself.

The impulse for a United Nations may have been a noble one,  but it was created with all the pathologies of the old League of Nations.   No one with a brain can be surprised that it is now little more than an international collection of crooks and leeches, conferring legitimacy upon despots and tyrants while eternally seeking ways to funnel more citizens’ money through its very sticky coffers.

A British  man has fallen more than 120 feet to the bottom of a stairwell of the United Nations offices in Vienna,  but the Austrian police claim there are no “suspicious circumstances” to a man falling from the 17th floor.

I wonder if they also found nothing suspicious about another man who fell from a similar spot in the same building four months ago?

Do UN workers get hazardous duty pay in that building,  or only if  they’re in the nuke hunt business?

For a sample of what speeches to the UN General Assembly should be,  check out Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu,  here.    I listened to all of it,  and I was not only impressed by it,  but embarrassed anew by the newspeak drivel our own president delivered.

UPDATE:  Here is a transcript of the speech.  Well worth your time.

Here’s a site where global warming/climate change is discussed in terms of actual science,  not politically correct blather.

The newest offering is an 880-page online book , entitled  “Climate Change Reconsidered”,   which rebuts the serial unscientifically based findings by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.    There are a few chapters where some knowledge of science is helpful,  but if your math skills are up to deciding which number is larger,  you can manage quite nicely.

The authors,  Dr.  S.  Fred Singer  (a retired atmospheric physicist),  and Craig Idso,  looked at everything the UN did,  and much more.   I have followed Dr. Singer for years,  and find him to be a no-frills,  just the facts sort of man.    He engages in none of the cherry-picking or political pandering by which the UN panel has earned its bad reputation.

As if an underground nuke test and a slew of missiles wasn’t sufficient, the NoKos have now threatened to sink US and South Korea ships if they carry through with their interdiction operation of ships carrying goods to North Korea.

A lot of  people seem surprised that the NoKos have declared themselves at war with their neighbor,  but remember that it was an armistice which was signed,  not a peace treaty.    This is also the perfect time to point out  that the UNITED NATIONS brokered that deal.    Tell me again why liberals think that cesspool of corruption is a shimmering pearl of competence?

If you don’t know who Anne Bayefsky is, you should, because she labors under no illusions about this so-called “human rights” conference sponsored by the UN.

If you see her byline on anything, read it!

Another in Kathy Shaidle’s enlightening series about Islam in America.

Muslims have been using lawsuits in many places besides Minneapolis, and it has proven effective.

Combined with the UN’s resolution against religious “defamation”,  this is a concerted effort to kill free speech.

David D’Arcy has a column up on WSJ which will make you grind your teeth, especially when you remember that Obama  sees the United Nation as an indispensable partner for his global ambitions:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123154119846269481.html

Yes, the UN will put up a temporary building to occupy while the headquarters is renovated for only $1.9 billion.  Of course, had the UN ever done a lick of real maintenance,  the building wouldn’t be in such a deplorable condition.

I suspect not even His Oneness believes the renovation will cost less than 3 or 4 billion dollars.  It’s hard to steal enough from a $1.9 billion budget to satisfy all the crooks who inhabit that cesspool of socialism and corruption.

AP is reporting that Gaza residents said Hamas was firing rockets from the UN school, here:

http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.international/2e630d57-www.wlos.com.shtml

And Philip Klein at the American Spectator blog found a video showing Hamas firing rockets from the same school in 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JNQk2gbROk