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Tuesday, November 19. 2013

Tuesday morning links

Sultan: The God of global warming


If You’ve Lost Country Music and College Football Fans…


Failed Left-Wing Policies Sinking Obama's Presidency


If the true history of
the West and Islam is being turned upside its head, what other
historical “orthodoxies” being peddled around as truth are also false?


The Cult of Outrage


Employment data was falsified prior to election


Capital gains: Spending on contracts and lobbying propels a wave of new wealth in D .C.


Obamacare vs. the Dutiful - Hard-working Americans might wonder, “Why bother?”


Marxist Sandinista Movement Could Maintain Permanent Control of Nicaragua - New constitutional amendments could put dictator in place


A tribute to Prince Charles, champion of anti-science, on his 65th birthday


Ireland Will Bulldoze 40 Vacant Housing Developments — Only 1,260 to Go

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Anti-science is all the rage. It isn't just Prince Charles that believes in vitalism and it's many progeny. I thought that the one line in the story captured the problem and hypocrisy of alternative medicine perfectly: "The Royal family is famous for using homeopathy and other doubtful treatments while they are healthy, and for employing the very best conventional medicine has to offer as soon as they are ill." The problem is that many people get converted to the quackery and fail to ever get a science based treatment for serious health problems. Alternative medicine has changed the standard from "first do no harm" to "first do nothing useful".
#1 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-11-19 11:06 (Reply)
Cult of Outrage goes way back, the cure is to quietly ignore it and by so doing avoid becoming part of the cult yourself.

Some how, don't think the elite worry about losing Country Music and College Football fans, they are after all rabble
#2 walt moffett on 2013-11-19 13:42 (Reply)
God of Global Warming: No, Ray, it was punishment for being and idiot and the people who elected you.

Yes, there are the professionally outraged. Just like the professional feminists, who are also outraged.

Employment data fudged? Quelle suprise!

If/when the 'dutiful' go Galt...
#3 Sam L. on 2013-11-19 14:19 (Reply)
From the article:

"In response to the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan; the green prophets of the left are prophesying that their liberal deity is angry over capitalism and industrialization.

"Whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Haiyan," The Nation wrote. "

One looks on in astonishment, fear and horror at such thinking.

How long until, like Aztec priests, they demand sacrifices of Bitter Clingers to appease the Climate Gods?

I can only speculate that human mentality has changed little over the centuries.

Whether by design or accident, the Greens seem to want to return to an era of poverty and barbarism.
#4 feeblemind on 2013-11-19 15:32 (Reply)

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