Archive for 16 Feb 2007

It’s the Science, Stupid

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 in Politics

It’s the Science, Stupid
Don’t be misled: There is no global-warming consensus among scientists.

By Thomas Sowell

If you take the mainstream media seriously, you might think that every important scientist believes that “global warming” poses a great threat, and that we need to make drastic changes in the way we live, in order to avoid catastrophes to the environment, to various species, and to ourselves.

The media play a key role in perpetuating such beliefs. Often they seize upon every heat wave to hype global warming, but see no implications in record-setting cold weather, such as many places have been experiencing lately.

Remember how the unusually large number of hurricanes a couple of years ago was hyped in the media as being a result of global warming, with more such hurricanes being predicted to return the following year and the years thereafter?

But, when not one hurricane struck the United States all last year, the media had little or nothing to say about the false predictions they had hyped. It’s heads I win and tails you lose.

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As I always say, consensus science is junk science.
When the left started the mass hysteria about global warming, my only thought was to reach for my wallet.
I seem to remember a similar hysteria back in the ’70s about the coming ice age. That one didn’t happen, so it must be global warming instead!

Idiots. One and all that fall for this BS.

NBA Banishes Tim Hardaway From All-Star Game After Anti-Gay Remarks

MIAMI — The NBA banished Tim Hardaway from All-Star weekend in Las Vegas because of his anti-gay remarks.

Hardaway, who played in five All-Star games during the 1990s, was already in Las Vegas and scheduled to make a series of public appearances this week on behalf of the league. But after saying, “I hate gay people” during a radio interview, commissioner David Stern stepped in.

“It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours,” Stern said in a statement Thursday.

Hardaway apologized for his comments, which came a week after John Amaechi became the first former NBA player to say he was gay.

“As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause,” Hardaway said Thursday in a statement issued by his agent. “I regret and apologize for the statements that I made that have certainly caused the same kinds of feelings and reactions.

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I don’t know why he is apologizing. It is his opinion. It is how he feels about homos. First amendment says he can say it.

I liked him better before he apologized.

I hate homos too.

I think they are an abomination and an affront to God.