IMHO VBG: 25 April, 2007

Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria

April 21, 2007

Saturday, April 21, 2007

This Earth Day, Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, wants you to calm down. The Earth, he says, is in good shape. "Forests are returning in Europe and the United States. Air quality has improved. Water quality has improved. We grow more food on less land. We've done a reasonably good job in much of the world in conquering hunger. And yet we're acting as though: "How can we stand any more of this?" A leading critic on the theory of man-made global warming, Professor Lindzen has developed a reputation as America's anti-doom-andgloom scientist. And he's not, he says, as lonely as you might think...

more at http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ebd65ed3-80c2-441b-98ca-c4fbc7233e96&p=1

Heinz plays ketchup with green gang

The Boston Herald 04/25/2007

[Not to be out done by Sheryl Crow] ...here comes Teresa Heinz, she of the $35 million Gulfstream V, the speed boats - including hubby John Kerry’s 42-foot-long Scaramouche that gets less than one mile per gallon - and a fleet of fuel-sucking SUVs.

Ta-raaaaay-za’s the covergirl for N magazine’s upcoming green issue where she lectures us about how we can save Mother Earth.

Heinz and her senatorial spouse, as you are so aware, are peddling a new tome titled “This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future.” Even the title sounds wind-baggy...

http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=196594

Environmental Alarmists Have It Backwards

Real Clear Politics ^ | April 25, 2007 | John Stossel

Last Sunday was marked by an orgy of celebrations of Earth Day, the worldwide annual event intended to "to spark a revolution against environmental abuse."

Even the Bush administration had an Earth Day website, which stated, "Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet".

Watching the media coverage, you'd think that the earth was in imminent danger -- that human life itself was on the verge of extinction. Technology is fingered as the perp.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

John Semmens of Arizona's Laissez Faire Institute points out that Earth Day misses an important point. In the April issue of The Freeman magazine, Semmens says the environmental movement overlooks how hospitable the earth has become -- thanks to technology. "The environmental alarmists have it backwards. If anything imperils the earth it is ignorant obstruction of science and progress. ... That technology provides the best option for serving human wants and conserving the environment should be evident in the progress made in environmental improvement in the United States. Virtually every measure shows that pollution is headed downward and that nature is making a comeback." (Carbon dioxide excepted, if it is really a pollutant.)

more at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/how_about_economic_progress_da.html

Mortgage Fraud Funding Jihad?

Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/11/2007 | Patrick Poole

A man arrested in December at the Kansas City airport with $70,000 in his bulging pockets while trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight claiming the money was actually Muslim prayer books, a San Francisco mortgage company executive who went on the run from the FBI in November, seven people arrested in September in Salt Lake City with ties to al-Qaeda, and a co-defendant in the Sami al-Arian/Palestinian Islamic Jihad trial all have one thing in common – the growing trend of terrorist associations with mortgage fraud rings in the US.

Financial experts say that mortgage fraud has become the fastest growing type of white-collar crime, and terrorist organizations have been quick to jump on the trend. But what concerns federal authorities is how regularly mortgage fraud is showing up in terrorism investigations...

more at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=27682

A Madrassa Grows In Brooklyn

New York Sun ^ | April 24, 2007 | Daniel Pipes

Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a "multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction."... more at http://www.nysun.com/article/53060

EEOC Takes on Salvation Army

April 25, 2007

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which might easily be called the Department of Political Correctness, has decided to take on the Salvation Army.

Yes, the Salvation Army — that phenomenally successful assistance organization which began in Great Britain over one hundred and forty years ago. The Salvation Army, which has helped thousands of people in countries all over the world, is being sued by the EEOC.

As most people are aware, the Salvation Army is a Christian evangelical organization the mission of which is to help the downtrodden, blind, sick, addicted, and anyone else in need.

"Army" personnel stand on street corners during Christmastime, ringing a bell on behalf of the poor. One of their most important ways to raise money is through donations of old clothes and household goods, which they sell in their thrift stores.

They also operate soup kitchens and hire people no one else would hire. Since 1865 the Salvation Army has lived by Christ's admonition that as we do unto the least of our people we do unto the Lord. Now the organization is in trouble for insisting its employees learn to speak English.

It all started in a thrift store in Framingham, Mass. Two Hispanic employees were given one year to learn English in order to speak the language of the country in which they live and the language spoken by other employees. They failed to do so; in turn the employees were fired. The EEOC filed a lawsuit against the Salvation Army claiming the employees had suffered "emotional pain, humiliation, and embarrassment" as a result of the English-only policy.

more at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/24/154250.shtml

Ethanol causes more smog?

Study says fuel touted by Bush could be worse for environment

While ethanol is widely touted as a solution to air pollution, when Brazil promoted the alternative fuel in the 1970s the skies above the South American nation's cities actually became smoggier.

Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric chemist at Stanford University, says in a newly published research paper ethanol isn't the clean-burning, healthy alternative to gasoline it's made out to be, reports Environmental Science and Technology Online.

A move to E85 blends of auto fuel, as espoused by President Bush – 85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline – actually could result in more ozone and about 185 more deaths per year across the U.S., Jacobson said in his paper, published by ES&T's Research ASAP.

more at

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55375

Students punished for opposing 'gay' advocacy

Dozens of 1st Amendment lawsuits being considered against administrators

April 25, 2007

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of students in several Sacramento area school districts are being penalized by school officials for objecting to the homosexual advocacy "Day of Silence," according to a law firm handling many complaints...

...Snider said an estimated 3,000-4,000 Sacramento area students remained out of class to protest the GLSEN event. Others attended and many "did some sort of speech activities on the Day of Silence or the days following."

..."A lot of students were suspended," he said. "Others were just kicked out [of school] and told to go home for the day. I'm not certain that is legal. You can't just kick students out."

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