“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” –George Washington Obama cuts missile defense in Poland as we observe the 70th anniversary of the invasion that started WWII “The U.S. has abandoned plans to install a missile defense system in Europe, according to a report. If true, this [...]
Archive for September, 2009
9 Sep
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009
This is the first of what might turn into a series of monthly updates of some maritime climate parameters monitored by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite. All monthly statistics have been computed by me from daily global gridpoint data produced and archived by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) under the direction of Frank Wentz, [...]
9 Sep
Chicago, Obama, and Health Care Reform
“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be…” –John Adams “Chicago politics is not about ideology. It is about, ‘Who Gets What, When, and How,’ to quote the inimitable Harold D. Laswell, one of the outstanding political theorists of the last century. The [...]
5 Sep
Russia Rebukes America for Turning Marxist (by Rick Joyner)
Could it possibly be true that one of the most insightful voices of clarity about current events in America could come from Pravda, the premier Russian Newspaper? An editorial published in Pravda is a sweeping summary of what is now happening in America that is, and should, cause every American to consider what is transpiring [...]
4 Sep
January 2008 – 4 sources say “globally cooler” in the past 12 months
via: wattsupwiththat January 2008 was an exceptional month for our planet, with a significant cooling, especially since January 2007 started out well above normal. January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. I have reported in the past two weeks that HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, [...]