Month: May 2014

The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%’

Reported By online.wsj.com on 2014-05-26 

 Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the ‘crippling consequences’ of climate change. ‘Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists,’ he added, ‘tell us this is urgent.’ …Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research….”

UN climate change expert reveals bias in global warming report

Reported By Fox News on 2014-05-20 

“The [latest IPCC] report also illustrates just how outmoded the IPCC has become since it was founded in 1988. Its reports are written over a period of three years, and finished months before publication. When preparations started on AR5, the world hadn’t warmed for 13 years. That is a bit odd, if you believe the models, but not odd enough to merit a lot of attention. By the time the report was finished, however, it hadn’t warmed for 17 years. That is decidedly odd, but hard to accommodate in a near-final draft that has been through three rounds of review…. Here are some suggestions: Away with the infrequent, massive set pieces. Away with alarmism – that has been tried for 25 years, with no discernible impact on emissions. Away with activists posing as scientists. Away with the freshman mistakes. Just good, sober, solid science. Let the chips fall where they may….”

Bat-wielding mugger stopped by woman with gun

Reported By ABC News on 2014-05-19 

 “A man was shot in South Toledo while attempting to attack a couple with a bat…. The suspect approached the woman and her boyfriend with a bat. He hit the male victim in the arm, but that’s when the woman pulled out a gun and fired twice. The suspect showed up at the University of Toledo Medical Center a short while later seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to the leg….”

Homeowner with AR-15 outshoots armed home invader

Reported By www.wral.com on 2014-05-12 

 “Jonathan Haith said he was sleeping in his home on Thomas Lane at around 9:45 a.m. when he heard a light knock on his backdoor. He ignored it at first. Then he heard a louder sound….. Someone kicked in the door. Haith grabbed the AR-15 rifle he keeps under his bed…. Haith said he surprised the intruder…. [The intruder shot and missed, Haith returned fire and the intruder] was struck in the stomach. He ran out of the home, and collapsed across the street in a church parking lot…. Police were also able to apprehend a man who was waiting outside in a car….”

There is no Legitimate Redistribution

This past Friday Catholic Pope Francis spoke to United Nations leaders in Rome, and urged “the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state” [ref].

I know many Catholics that I highly respect, and in many ways the Catholic Church has stood up for Biblical Christian values that many other religions have discarded in the pursuit of worldliness.  But in this instance the Pope is dead wrong.

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Scientists are not saints in white laboratory smocks

Reported By Fox News on 2014-05-06 

“George Will told viewers Tuesday on ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’ that ‘scientists are not saints in white laboratory smocks’ after the White House released a National Climate Assessment report concluding that the effects of global warming are harming the nation…. ‘If you want money from the biggest source of direct research in this country, the federal government, don’t question its orthodoxy.’ Will added that there is no evidence for the increase in extreme weather and cited a former vice president who was also big on climate change: ‘Al Gore, who in 2008, said by 2013, for those of you keeping score at home, that’s last year, the ice cap in The North Pole would be gone. It’s not.'”

Detroit grandma shot by attackers wards them off with her own gun

Reported By m.clickondetroit.com on 2014-05-06 

“Her siblings now jokingly call her Rambo. However, Paris Ainsworth easily could have been killed. Her attackers shot her four times, but she had eight bullets for them…. It was late Saturday night when she arrived home after working a double shift. She saw two men moving closer to her as she was about to get out of her car. Before she got out, she put her .45 caliber handgun in her pocket…. He shot immediately…. She was hit three times in the side and once in the hand. It was not her shooting hand…. The two men were arrested after showing up wounded at Sinai-Grace Hospital in west Detroit, the same place where Ainsworth was being treated….”

Stabbing victim shoots and kills her attacker

Reported By CBS News on 2014-05-05 

“Dallas police say a woman … shot and killed a man as he stabbed her…. On Friday evening, Martin was sitting in her car, talking to an unidentified female resident. Police say the two began arguing, which prompted the woman’s husband, 52-year-old Louis Rodriguez, to come over…. Feeling uneasy, Martin placed a handgun on her lap that was inside her purse, and remained inside her vehicle. It was then that Rodriguez pulled a knife out and began stabbing Martin. In self-defense, Martin fired her handgun several times at Rodriguez, ultimately killing him….”

Two burglars shot dead breaking into elderly woman’s home

Reported By Fox News on 2014-05-04 

 “Two teenage boys were killed after attempting to burglarize a home…. Sacramento Police responded to a burglary just after midnight on Sunday morning. When they arrived, they found two suspects had been shot and killed by the occupants. Neighbors said the owner is an elderly woman, who has been a victim of several burglaries since her husband passed away….[A neighbor] said the woman asked a family member to stay with her, in case she was burglarized again. We are told, her family member fired several rounds in self defense, and killed the intruders….”