Bigfoot showed up in Minnesota again

The story sounds plausible but, as it says towards the end, let's see a real carcass first.

Climategate

The Anthropogenic Global Warming theory is coming unraveled it appears. Apparently some sort of hacker broke in to some computer somewhere and stole thousands of e-mails showing the conspiracy to perpetrate this hoax on the rest of us. Here are some stories about it:

The Final Nail
Congressional investigation
Junk Science
The Fix is In

I don't know how this will percolate out but it's definitely a big earthquake in the AGW proponent's world.

Friends of Science

Here's a website about the failure of the computer models that predicted global warming. In the last 10 years, scientists can't figure out why average global temperatures haven't continued to increase. Because all the models said it would. Now they're baffled. Maybe they need to check some of their assumptions in the computer models?

Government failures

Comment from a reader on this article:

So non existent jobs were created or saved (a non existent metric) in districts that don't exist using money that hasn't been printed yet that will be collected from children that haven't been born yet.

If they can't get a simple "stimulus bill" right for only 878 billion, how are they going to fix healthcare that costs 1/7th of the economy?

Minority Thought Pattern

Written by a former NFL player and now pastor who happens to be Black, this piece says a whole lot about why Rush Limbaugh wasn't allowed to buy a small piece of an NFL team. And it says a whole lot about what many of the leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who use the victim mentality to keep their power at the expense of the ones they're supposedly serving.

Healthcare insurance ideas that make sense

Here's another opinion piece about a healthcare plan that makes sense. It's unfortunate that the congresscritters currently working on numerous plans haven't figured out that less is better. They're trying to kill a gnat on a glass dish with a sledge hammer without breaking the dish. All we need is to cover the most catastrophic cases of healthcare needs and then let people shop for their own, everyday needs. Then we won't have to worry so much about rationing, death panels, or anything else since the most catastrophic cases will be covered and the marketplace would take care of everything else.

Oddly enough this article came from the New York Times. I hope it becomes a more widespread idea with broader coverage.

Natural Gas bubbling up everywhere?

It seems that the energy crisis may have now been averted according to this article. Apparently engineers have figured out new ways to extract natural gas, thus increasing the amount of recoverable reserves to levels never before imagined. Some time ago, I posted a link to another article saying that the earth itself is creating this natural gas along with oil, that it's not some kind-of result of dinosaurs remains. If both articles are accurate, it looks like we don't need to worry about long-term energy needs unless these environmental wackos can convince governments that climate change is real, then we're all in trouble.