As IF Times

link Climate Scientists Warn Opportunity to Prevent Dangerous Warming Is Dwindling | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 27, 2013 | PBS.

And in other news, Harold Camping, the broadcast preacher who famously predicted the end of the world in 2011 has died.  From CNN:

“…When his May 21 prediction failed to pan out, Camping took the radio airwaves to say that he had misinterpreted the nature of the rapture but that the world would still end on October 21.  The following year, Camping admitted he was wrong and said he was getting out of the forecasting business.

“We humbly acknowledge we were wrong,” Camping and his staff members wrote in a letter to supporters posted on Family Radio’s website in March 2012.

“We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world. Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date.”

Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958. It received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009.He first inaccurately predicted the world would end in 1994. Despite his poor track record, he had gathered many followers. Some gave up their homes, entire life savings and jobs because they believed the world was ending…”

Ironically, Camping attempted to predict the world’s end but could not pinpoint his own demise.  Business strategists will note some fatal flaws in his model.  While many elements of his prognostications were sound, including the ability to raise money off of gullible peoples’ irrational fears, a fatal flaw was that there was a specific date (actually 2 specific dates ) attached to his forecasts.  This instantly kiboshed the program once the date came and went.  The other fatal flaw was the inability to rope the government into supporting his cause.  It’s one thing to preach fear as an individual, it’s much more effective if it’s state sponsored.

The Climate Change, nee Global Warming crowd have been much shrewder in their campaign.  While at the beginning, the timeline for the end was stated as “about” 20 years, the more common technique is to now invoke the classic “time is running out” schedule.  They perhaps learned from Camping that predicting the world’s end is a somewhat imprecise science.  In fact, the very reality that global temperatures have not been warming, but apparently cooling have allowed the loonies to now spin this as Climate Change.   Whereas the fanatics try to fix the image of an hourglass with dwindling sand grains in the public’s eyes, the real model they work on is the infinite loop…there is never an end.  This is pure business gold.  Any scenario can be taken as proof of Climate Change.  Snow in Cairo? AH HA!

I have to say, the longevity of the perpetration of this obvious fraud is truly amazing.  Much has to do with the way that stories are presented to the naïve public.  In the linked article for example, it says “scientists” as if to imply solidarity within the scientific community, when actually it means 3 guys: Michael Oppenheimer, the guy interviewed in the article,  Professor Plum and Dr. Irwin Corey, he of the Cadbury caramilk bar secret fame.

It’s also common to refer to observed “changes” in ocean levels, to depletion of arctic ice, to bees counted, to penguins missing etc etc in support of their dire views.  Al Gore doesn’t even rely on those bits of spurious evidence.  He confidently states that global warming is like gravity, it just is.

A guy like Harold Camping passes and the hysteria dies with him.  Sadly this virus of stupidity will not die with the passing of Al Gore or any of his acolytes.  The infection as been spread throughout the education system so that at a very young age, the cult of Climate Change has already lodged itself into the psyches of the next generation.   Years from now, 4 sunny days in a row will cause massive weeping and moaning in schoolyards.  It will be a full generation at least before this sickness gets flushed from the system.

link MSNBC yanks Baldwin show for two weeks over gay slur.

MSNBC, which by they way actually stands for Misogynists Spewing Nonsense and Buffoonery Channel, have found a line over which even they won’t dare cross.  For over a decade and most recently with increasing venom,  the uber left network’s business model was to disparage in the most unhinged terms,  conservatives of all types and particularly conservative women.  In the case of Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman, it was a two-fer as the puerile minds at that network spewed their taunts like pimply drunk frat boys hurling at their first college party.

Martin Bashir, soon to be fitted for the same suit with the long arms that tie at the back once worn by the deposed Keith Olbermann, was forced to retract and apologize for a particularly vile comment against Sarah Palin recently.  We won’t repeat the comment here, but here’s some free advice for his wife or girlfriend or partner.  Let’s just say that if a flock of seagulls flies over head, keep mouths closed.  His suggestion for Palin was so vile, even Taliban viewers tweeted their disgust.  Still, he did not receive any sanction from the network.

As for the distinguished actor Alec Baldwin, whose ratings for his new show on that network are so abysmal that it should be named 30 viewers, his big crime was…to heave a gay slur.  This is the guy who goes all Rob Ford on his daughter and TV reporters threatening violence to them but is only censored when he publicly utters a gay epithet.  As is the case with many actors, his ability to put together cogent thoughts and have intelligent discourse disappears if there is no script to follow.  So instead of the articulate characters he portrays, his vocabulary is revealed as somewhat more street. For this vile transgression, he was suspended for two weeks from the show.   Insult the women all you want, but not the girly men.

So now, there’s another word to be censored from common use, henceforth only to be referred to as the ‘f’ word.   That of course joins the ‘n’ word, the ‘c’ word but not to be confused with the other ‘f’ word.  As time goes on, this reference may even be too offensive and people will have to resort to hand gestures in place of those letters.

Like rap videos, MSNBC is devoid of any real content, it has become the Miley Cyrus of the news and information business.  It’s shock TV.  It’s the same tribal beat of misogynist and violent views over and over again masquerading as free speech and liberal thought.   Interestingly, two of these newly offensive letters are found on MSNBC’s call sign.  If we wind up getting the other letters banned, we may have to call it ***** , or the asterisk network.  Of course, for ease of discussion, it will simply be referred to as the ass network.