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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A comparison of local and aggregated climate model outputs with observed data
Gorebull Worming models are worse than useless at predicting.
Abstract
We compare the output of various climate models to temperature and precipitation observations at 55 points around the globe. We also spatially aggregate model output and observations over the contiguous USA using data from 70 stations, and we perform comparison at several temporal scales, including a climatic (30-year) scale. Besides confirming the findings of a previous assessment study that model projections at point scale are poor, results show that the spatially integrated projections are also poor.
Posted by: tipper || 11/22/2010 13:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Entitlement America
In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year
Posted by: tipper || 11/22/2010 07:22 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little wonder The War on Poverty is a never-ending story.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/22/2010 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  See also RENSE > USDA "DONATES" GRAIN RESERVES - US MAY FACE FAMINE. US Strategic = National Contingency/Emergens Reserves nearly all given away to International Humanitarian Relief.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/22/2010 22:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
In a nutshell, "Israelification" is a system that protects life without annoying passengers
Posted by: tipper || 11/22/2010 14:22 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The problem with the Isreali system is that you need competent operators who can learn the "tells", analyze information and make valid decsions based on the facts. Since TSA seems to be comprised mostly of ACORN rejects with little interest and fewer brains, it ain't gonna work here unless there's a sea change.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/22/2010 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep. TSA gets about 120 hours of training, background checked and set loose.
Posted by: Private Eye || 11/22/2010 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  TSA gets about 120 hours of training

Hey, it is no easy job teaching people to be that surly and ass-holic.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/22/2010 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  The Israeli profilers are just ordinary people with good training and good motivation.

TSA folk, many of whom are ex military, are just as good, however, the training would take a long time and the results might not be acceptable to Americans. That is because Americans don't like people knowing their business and many Americans have never been subjected to a serious inquiry. It would be very upsetting to them. Of course there is also the problem that CAIR would complain as would the ACLU and others.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/22/2010 19:56 Comments || Top||

#5  At the risk of getting called for piling on, a quote from over at Instapundit:

According to an interview with the TSA Human Resources office, there is NO psychological testing of applicants.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/22/2010 19:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep. Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. By people whose majority have never been subjected to a serious psyche inquiry.
Posted by: Private Eye || 11/22/2010 20:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Ah, do I detect the old left/soviet whiff of 'those who don't agree with me must be mentally unstable'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2010 20:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Ya know, too bad TSA can't be all Special Forces.
Posted by: Private Eye || 11/22/2010 20:47 Comments || Top||

#9  You wish.
Posted by: Private Eye || 11/22/2010 20:48 Comments || Top||

#10  PE - best to get off the stage while you're diminished
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2010 20:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Best idea i've heard all day. Hope someone makes a convincing argument on how we could ever hope to compare to Israeli style security with the human resources and mindsets we have to work with here at home. And soon. Ill be waiting in the troll lounge, Cheers!
Posted by: Private Eye || 11/22/2010 21:17 Comments || Top||


Iowahawk: Comply With Me
Posted by: tipper || 11/22/2010 14:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tasteless... but funny.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/22/2010 18:28 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Is Enlightenment Infecting the Islamic World
The author of this is editor of a blog featuring posts of ex muslims and some infidel scholars that question sources and texts of Islam and point out the cruelty, the illogic and/or the absurdity of such texts and sources. One might expect such an editor to overvalue his impact on the world but his opinion is still important.

First, to the question of helping Muslim leave Islam or increasing the pool of Muslim apostates, when islam-watch was launched, one could only hear the names of Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi, Taslima Nasrin, Anwar Shaikh, Nonie Darwish, Ali Sina, Abul Kasem, Sher Khan, Syed Kamran Mirza, Ayesha Ahmed and a few such apostates. But today, there are hundreds of testimonies of ex-Muslims floating on the internet. There are dozens of blogs, critical of Islam, started by ex-Muslims. There are former teachers of madrassas and imams of mosques, who have left Islam and writing actively or running anti-Islam blogs.

My belief is: suppression of Islamic radicalism through means other than the critical examination of the Islamic core, i.e. without true enlightenment about Islam, would not offer us a lasting solution to Islam's scourge on humanity. And the razor-sharp criticism of the Islamic core in Website like ours will play the decisive role in subverting the Islamic design, if we ever win this battle. Islam-watch.org, I believe, has made a contribution to that end in some measure. Enlightenment about Islam and consequent abandonment of it, silently or otherwise, is occurring on a scale never seen in history.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NEW ENLIGHTENMENT

versus

* TOPIX/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [PAKISTANI Christian, Womens' Rights Activist] NASIR SAEED: CHRISTIAN WOMEN [in Islamic/Muslim-domin Cultures, Society] ARE CONSIDERED THE "BOOTY OF WAR" [War Prizes], + treated = abused as such.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/22/2010 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Duh... A fundamentalist outlook is impervious to intellectual intervention / analysis. Anyone who wises up is no longer a fundamentalist, but an apostate, as far as the fundawhackos are concerned.

Haul 'em (fundamentalist pisslamists) all down to the shock shop. With pork chops in their mouths...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2010 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  No. Islam fits Muslims.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2010 1:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Enlightenment about Islam and consequent abandonment of it, silently or otherwise, is occurring on a scale never seen in history.
Posted by lord garth


I'm not so sure. History is replete with Islamic relapses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2010 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Personally, I think the next step should be a series of "News of Islam" radio stations.

The internet postings of the apostates and scholars are good but the only audience is the small number of internet capable and curious in the Islamic world.

The number who get radio reception is about two orders of magnitude higher. This, however, is a very labor intensive task as it will require far more content and in many languages. We are probably at least 5 years away from having the cumulative talent to do this.

Hopefully, when that time comes, a financial angel will appear.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/22/2010 8:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, I thought it said, "Is Entitlement Infecting...", a more believable thesis.
Posted by: KBK || 11/22/2010 13:25 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2010-11-22
  23 killed in Somalia fighting
Sun 2010-11-21
  FARC Honcho Killed
Sat 2010-11-20
  Nigeria seizes $9.9-million heroin shipment from Iran
Fri 2010-11-19
  Foopie cleared of terror charges in key Guantanamo trial
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  Hekmatyar offers truce terms
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  Stop all settlements and we'll talk: Palestinians
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