Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Tide? What tide? Nobody here but us AGW warmest chickens! Rush was ALL OVER this yesterday & today. John C. Ray at “Greenie Watch” has a good compilation as well.. They are circling the wagons, hunkering down and depending upon their allies in the MSM to keep quiet. The usual defenses are being deployed: “things taken out of context,” jealous professional rivals and critics, etc.,–all of whom are being slandered/slimed. So far the MSM and the Govt have pretty much been complicit in supporting the cover-up pretty much here–but NOT in the UK. Obama and his minions are still going full speed ahead on Cap & Trade and Copenhagen. The wheels haven’t come off AGW Climate change yet, but the squeaky sounds of the lug nuts loosening can be heard…
A very good (222comments and counting) discussion on this can be found over at the Volokh Conspiracy.
PS: Kate over at “Small Dead Animals” has a good compilation of other bloggers & newspaper comments also.
Played golf today and it got up to near 70 degrees. Definately global warming. Keep it coming Gorical; I love it. Besides, I won $5. Life is good but I still can’t afford that expensive gin that Lex drinks, much less the cuke slices.
What expensive gin? Better than my Bombay? Thirsty gullets want to know!
Byron, Lex has become addicted to Hendricks gin which runs about $75 in the VA ABC stores. That’s for a 1.75 liter bottle which lasts me a week or so. Compare that to Tanquerey at $47 and Sapphire in the low $50s. Of course, the cucumber to flavor the Hendricks will cost extra.
Cucumber? YGTBSM! I’m a purist, nuttin’ but a sliver of lime and some good tonic water for me…cucumber, really? And that’s got to be some serious gin if it’s better than Bombay Sapphire (of which I partook this afternoon as I was doing the garlic mashed potatos)
I may have to give that a try. I’m always on the lookout for a better gin
Ah…ABC local has it for $60 for a liter, $40 for a 3/4 liter. And I’m still drinking from the same liter of Bombay that I got last New Years
Comments following Megan McArdle’s article seem to point to there being a need for a city sanitation truck, with which to haul away the garbage…code.
As for me, I’m staying out of that ditch mentioned in the New Testament, the one referred to in the scenario where one blind man leads another.
It may not all be junque science, and it may not even be mostly junque science, but I think it’s probably a good way to bet.
AGW is much like Darwinism. It’s based not on science, but consensus. When you have someone that questions the consensus, you have a heretic burning and go on to the next one. It looks as thought the heretics burning this time are the consensus “scientists.” That’s what happens when a scientist sells his soul for a mess of pottage.
If you understand the scientific method, when they wouldn’t turn over the raw data, you knew somebody’s lyin’
East Anglia, isn’t that near Piltdown?
Easy there Grampa, I was a denizen of East Anglia for three years compliments of the good old USAF. Stop denigrating us natives!!
Don’t worry VX. We know you were probably too deep into the Stout to be gun decking climate data. Besides, many of those at U East Anglia that were doing the gun decking were not East Anglians.
Well, I’ll only go so far, QM, the Uni is up in Norwich in Norfolk–enemy territory to us “southerners” down in Ipswitch in Suffolk! But at least we had an older and more successful FC in Ipswitch Town FC Norwich with rival hated Norwich City!
Alas, ITFC languished in the 2nd division when I was stationed there—then reversed fortunes and took off like a rocket to 1st Division (now Premier Div) and several Championships in mid-late 70s/early 80s as soon as I left (there’s a lesson in there somewhere. 
) But “The Blues” or “Tractor Boys” are now unfortunately out of the Premier League once again and have been “relegated” to the lower div for several years. East Anglia is (or was when I was there) the most truly “rural” part of England and one of the most conservative, but I have gleaned from comments at “Harry’s Place” that both Ipswitch (mainly a commercial seaport and manufacturing town when I was there) and Norwich (fishing and tourists) have both become hot-beds of young professional/academic liberal/lefty overflow from London as of late. Like liberals moving from Mass to New Hampshire & VT, I guess. Damn people are everywhere! Have to swat ‘em like flies! 
All I wanna know is who won the Push Ball game. All that British Football stuff is for wusses.
VX:
“Piltdown Man” was a famous scientific fraud.
Faked data, consensus mongering, etc. etc.
Exposed in the fifties.
Grampa/
Jeeze, I’m gonna have to use more smilies! OF COURSE I knew the Piltdown bit, I’m half-way to 66, I grew up with that scientific scam–would have been hard to be alive in the 50s and miss it. But it DOES get me to thinking: What IS IT with the British and their penchant for scientific scams? Reminds me of Bertrand Russell’s comment when confronted by his graduate students with the news that their research showed that the facts didn’t fit his theories on social interaction (a lesson here for delving into fields out-side one’s area of expertise–which in Russell’s case was mathematics and logic) to which he famously replied: “Well, so much worse for the facts.”
The UEA is a well known red-brick university full of marxists, most of these ‘climate scientists’ are heavily into the ‘social sciences’, which explains why they want the results to fit their theory.
I won’t bother you with the link but I’ve put together some stuff on CERN’s cloud chamber experiments, of which the full monty version looks likely to disprove the whole CO2 nonsense.
We are having great fun with this in the UK and look forward to litigous yanks getting someone banged up for all this junk science.
PS Thanks for the support for what the British troops are doing.