Warming Scam
A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring, and less than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.” More than a quarter of the weathercasters in the survey agreed with the statement, “Global warming is a scam,” the researchers found.
Oh, and in another story the Gulf Stream was determined not to be slowing down either.
Isn’t it ironic that science is destroying the claims by the pseudo-scientists? Grab the popcorn because I’ll bet there’s more coming.
Elsewhere, famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing”, recounted the pilot, Jimmy Dolittle. “There were two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, ‘HELP-COLD'”.
One friend of Prof. Schneider told ecoEnquirer that he had been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming.
Wilt Chamberlain
One of the most famous numbers in American sports history is Wilt Chamberlain’s average of 50 points scored per NBA game in 1961-62 (including 100 in a single game). Nobody else has ever averaged 40. He also led the league in rebounding, the second most prominent statistic, with an astonishing 26 per game.
Fascism
“The variant of socialism where the government doesn’t nationalize the means of production but controls it through law and regulation is called fascism.”
— Classical Values
Panem et circenses
This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 AD ). In context, the Latin phrase panis et circenses (bread and circuses) is given as the only remaining cares of a Roman populace which has given up its birthright of political involvement. Here Juvenal displays his contempt for the declining heroism of his contemporary Romans. Roman politicians devised a plan in 140 B.C. to win the votes of the poor; by giving out cheap food and entertainment, politicians decided that this policy of “bread and circuses” would be the most effective way to rise to power.
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