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How Modern Liberals Think

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:12:13 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: This really changed the way I view a lot of the liberal posts here at Clipmarks and elsewhere.

Clip Source: mypetjawa.mu.nu

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Being a former liberal Democrat, I can vouch for much of this. The general ethos of the leftist mind necessitates that you must resist restraining (conservative) impulses. Logic and reason are restraining impulses. Since modern liberalism is primarily a state of unrestrained emotional turbulence, the liberal must find reasons for excusing his most base emotional instincts and instead embrace the "liberation" that comes from not being able to summon reason to control your impulses. Many consequently fall prey to the tempting natural impulse of letting emotion override logic and reason. The liberal creed dictates that feelings are more important than anything, and that they shall hold court over reason.

Tags: liberal, liberals, liberalism, politics

The Boy With The Incredible Brain

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:54:40 GMT

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Clip Source: video.google.com

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This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few ... all » savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world’s most famous savant, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Oscar winning film ‘Rain Man’. (2005) «

Tags: pi, savant, autism, neuroscience

God Kicked Out Of Courtroom

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:26:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thebulletin.us

A Mississippi judge lays down the law and prohibits the mention of God in the courtroom. The decision seeks to clarify an area of the law many lawyers say is muddled at best, convoluted at worst.

United States District Judge Michael P. Mills of the Northern District of Mississippi ruled last week that the mention of religion or a deity by legal counsel during opening or closing arguments would be strictly prohibited in his courtroom. The decision seeks to clarify an area of the law many lawyers say is muddled at best, convoluted at worst.

In other words, legal counsel would be prohibited from referencing religion in such a manner that a juror could conclude that he was suppose to use his religious beliefs as a tool in deciding the case and applying the legal standard. Thus, some have contended that the ruling requires jurors to check their Christian worldview at the courthouse door.

Tags: god, court, religion, law, legal

Hillary Clinton and Saddam Hussein

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:46:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intellectualconservative.com

It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.
-- Hillary Clinton, 10/10/02

Tags: clinton, iraq

Nancy Pelosi on Saddam Hussein

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:14:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intellectualconservative.com

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
-- Nancy Pelosi, 12/16/98

Tags: politics, iraq, saddam hussein, liberals, hypocrisy, democrats

Quantum Physics

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:26:35 GMT

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Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: quantum

Voyage Into the Brain

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:48:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Stephen Wiltshire is a British man who was diagnosed as autistic when he was a child. He's also been noted for his exacting memory, which allows him to recreate [in drawings] vast scenes he sees only once. This video shows his 16-foot-panorama of Rome after taking one helicopter ride above the city.

Tags: brain, stephen wiltshire, youtube, video, visual memory, memory, draw, drawing, art, rome, aerial, panorama, idiot savant, autistic

Two new books support that Human Global Warming is false.

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:59:18 GMT

clipped by: B Rosen
clipper's remarks: More from my Global Warming debunked research.

Clip Source: www.drudgereport.com

Two powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.

Singer and Avery note that most of the earth’s recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth’s last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites.

Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth’s temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth’s temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can’t accurately register cloud effects.

The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun’s irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth’s temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth’s atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms.

Tags: global warming debunked, fake, theory

Global Warming, 'The Science' & the Politics

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:01:12 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
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The unfortunate thing is that many people still hold onto a ‘normal’ faith in science such that it can first find truth, then speak truth to power, and that truth-based policy will then follow. Fred Singer has this view of science; so does Mark Lynas. That is why they reduce their exchange to one about scientific truth rather than about values, perspectives and political preferences. If the battle of science is won, then the war of values will be won.

Clip Source: www.postnormaltimes.net

Book review: Unstoppable Global Warming - every 1,500 years

Is this a book about science? It is certainly written by scientists, one a climate physicist (Professor Fred Singer, an ex-US Government science advisor and outspoken critic of the idea that humans are warming the planet), the other a biologist. Its central thesis – the warming currently observed around the world is a function of a 1,500 year ‘unstoppable’ cycle in solar energy – is linked to evidence that most people would recognise as being generated by science. And the book is written as a scientific text, with citations to peer-reviewed articles, deference to numbers and adoption of technical terms. But whether this book is about science or about something else depends on what you believe science to be. One of the central reasons we disagree about climate change is because we have different conceptions of what science is and with what authority it speaks – in other words, how scientific ‘knowledge’ interacts with those other realms of understanding brought to us by politics, ethics and spirituality.

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