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Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, a formidable scientist and debater, has written a thorough and definitive account of what we know to date about the great climate fraud. Parts of his paper are quite technical, but if you are a brave reader you will pass over what you don’t ...

It’s as bad as it sounds. The bone marrow biopsy confirmed this condition, while finding virtually no CLL in the marrow. Ironic, since at diagnosis I had a frightening 90% CLL infiltration. Chemotherapy drove it out and kept it out — but the toxic drugs also caused the ...

I did not watch Obama’s speech on Afghanistan. This morning I see some praise, some detraction. One rather surprising skeptic is found at Der Speigel . Germany has definitely fallen out of love with Obama. Ralph Peters writes with dismay about the folly of trying to schedule inherently ...

I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. Some days ago I had hoped to back it off a week, but now I am developing the so-called “B-symptoms” of accelerating lymphoma. It is time to make final preparation for treatment. I will not get to finish with my verse translation of ...

A new form of malware causes Windows to go black — and stay that way. Naturally it is being called “the black screen of death.” One must replace the OS to fix it — and that means data loss, unless one is backed up. I’m not good about backing up. I will have to ...

When the house at Orchard Glen was finally complete in 1988, autumn was coming on, and we hastened to get the landscaping done. It was late October, chill and gray, when a crew planted the seven junipers that lined our curving front drive. Not long after that I festooned them with little white ...

Of course I am repulsed by the treatment of women in Arab lands. But I have a simpler explanation for it than Hege Storhaug does. He notes that suppression of women was not practiced among pre-Islamic Arab tribes, but he does not seem to recognize the significance of that cultural finding. It ...

I haven’t posted a weblog pick in a long time. Now that I am less feverish, my curiosity is back, and today I stumbled on a site with some of the most beautiful underwater photography I’ve ever seen, done by an amateur who calls himself “mad dog.” He is living in Papua ...

My choice of strict trimeter made this psalm difficult to word, but I am happy with the outcome, now that my consultant has clarified some murky areas. My sources were remarkably contradictory in some passages here. 57 to the choirmaster: al-tash’khet, a mikh’tam of David, when he fled ...

I lied, like Phil Jones, “climate scientist.” These links are not random at all. First, Christopher Booker in the Telegraph. You’ve probably read this already. It has been much quoted, for good reason. The British are doing a much better job informing the public of this ...

Jack Kelly sees the dilemma very clearly. Here is the close of his article on the creation and destruction of wealth. The economy wants to heal itself. But the president keeps heaping burdens upon it. His job approval has tumbled as Americans recoil from the taxes and spending proposed in ...

Models all indicate a shift in the pattern over North America. I presume this shift extends to the whole northern hemisphere, but it is especially pronounced here, downstream of the two major ocean anomalies in the Pacific. We have a moderate El Nino well established in equatorial waters, and ...

You have seen no images on FB lately. All my remaining image files are trapped in the other computer, until I solve my transfer problem. (I lost several hundred recent images altogether.) I almost got the cable to work yesterday, and one more little setting will probably do the trick, but I ...

Honduras held a peaceful presidential election today. A business-friendly cattle rancher won a clear majority. One hopes that relations with the US will get back to normal after the amazing folly of Obama supporting the Chavista. Yet I cannot help wonder whether supporters of Zelaya will not go ...

Oddly enough, the USA Today story has no byline. It must have been filed from the Rockies, the only part of the US that has suffered cold and heavy snow. A stray cat was found frozen but not quite dead. The local animal shelter managed to restore the cat to life. It’s three or four years ...

Mark Steyn, cleverly calling the scandal “warmergate,” details the failings of the MSM, which is deliberately ignoring the biggest fraud in scientific history. He has also asked an excellent question: who peer reviews the peer reviewers? But the best article I have read on this ...

I have done my rounds. Nothing caught my attention in the news. There is a change in weather pattern developing, and I will post on this later. Right now I must prepare for church. Afterward I shall dine at Sushi Thai for the first time in a long while. By the time I am done, I hope to have ...

It was predictable that the Obama administration would spend a lot of time castigating its predecessor. That is what the Democratic base wants it to do. So we have the coming grotesquerie of the trial in New York, which will actually be a trial of Bush detention and torture policies. And we ...

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