About God-Damned Time!!!

Canada can now strip jihadists of their passports

Moving Right Along

Rubella Has Officially Been Eradicated From The Americas

Who Ya Gonna Believe?

Bush is Vindicated on WMDs – NY Times Admits It

No, Bush was not right about Iraq: How conservatives misread new Times bombshell 

That NYT Story On Abandoned Munitions Doesn't Prove Bush Was Right About WMDs

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

I've always believed the biggest weapon of mass destruction was dragged out of a hole in the ground and hanged by the neck until dead.

 

 

 

Yup

The World's Most Persecuted Minority: ChristiansThe most persecuted people today are Christians in the Middle East. The perpetrators of the destruction of that region's Christian community? Islamists. Middle East expert Raymond Ibrahim lays out the grim details.
Posted by Prager University on Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Dippers In Deep...

...do-do:

NDP MPs ordered to repay office spending to be denied expense claims

We Get Noticed..

 ...For a very good reason:

Canada to Strip Citizenship of Dual-National Terror Convicts

 

 

Heavy Sigh

Italian police: Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard

A Time Honoured Tradition...

...in Iraq, apparently:

Iraq Exhumes 500 Bodies from ISIS Massacre in Tikrit

Good One

Hamas And Its Pals

Egyptian Court: We Can't Designate Israel a 'Terrorist State'

Hamas Tortured Rival Palestinians, Blamed Israel

Hamas executed Palestinians during summer war

Amnesty accuses Hamas of war crimes in Gaza

When two Gazans fight, Israel suffers

Yup

One more. Europe has found its backbone:

NETHERLANDS joins France and Belgium in banning full face-covering Muslim headbags, albeit a partial ban

Stock In Trade Response

Doesn't every new government come up with the excuse upon assuming office?

Notley Finds The Unexpected, Says Fiscal Situation Bigger Than PCs Led On

Which, of course, means they won't be keeping any of their promises.

Just Try Not To cry

I'm Going To Go Out On A Limb Here...

...and say these cave deposits will show the earth has warmed and cooled countless times in the past with out the help of humans:

Cave Deposits May Help Predict Future Weather Patterns on our Warming Planet

 Stalagmites record amazing amount of weather data

 

About Damned Time

Amnesty International says Hamas tortured, killed Palestinians

The militant group Hamas tortured and killed Palestinians during the war against Israel in the Gaza Strip last year, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.

"Hamas, which controls Gaza, arrested and tortured dozens of Palestinians and executed at least 23, the human rights group reported."

 I may have  to change my mind about Amnesty International.

 

Another One...

...about history.  This time ancient Greece: 

Ancient Greeks: Golden Age of Civilization

Ancient China

PYRAMIDS IN CHINA: ANCIENT LOST SECRETS 

History of China

The Last Emperor of China

You know me. I'm a history junkie. The history of China fascinates me. There were so many firsts that took place in China. Their golden age was about the same time as the Roman Empire in the West. They were light-years ahead of  anything in Europe at the time. Gun powder, steel, using fossil fuels for heat, energy and industry.  The first use of paper currency. The list goes on.

Irony Of Ironies

On CJME radio's website right now, two headlines appear. The first says: "Search resumes for those missing  in Texas flood waters".  Immediately below that is the headline: "City of Regina asks people to conserve water".

CAGW Exposed

Global Warming Continues To Pummel Polar Ice Caps By Not Causing Them To Melt

"As I've written previously, we’ve experienced the calmest Hurricane season in 30 years, the quietest tornado season in 60 years; the creation of 19,000 Manhattan islands worth of sea ice, and (again) the Arctic Ice Cap has grown by 533,000 square miles. In 2007, the BBC warned the cap could vanish by 2013. Oh, and we’re at the most industrialized point in human history–and air quality couldn’t be better, according to the EPA."

 

Ya Think!!!!

Climate change a UN-led ruse, says Tony Abbott's business adviser Maurice Newman

No Sooner Said, Than...

...done.  Well, not done but under way at least:

Obama Might Leave the White House Sooner Than We Think

"The Republican-controlled house has started discussing the possibility of impeaching President Obama, according to the Conservative Tribune."

Well Duh!

New global study suggests that cooling, not warming, is the greater threat to humanity

 "A new study published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, concludes we’re 20 more times likely to die from cold than heat.
It says this has “important implications ... for predictions of future effect in climate-change scenarios.”
You think?
The researchers, including Canadian scientists, compiled data on more than 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries from 1985 to 2012, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.K. and the U.S.
They found 7.71% of all deaths were due to “sub-optimal” hot and cold temperatures, but with cold responsible for the vast majority — 7.29% compared to 0.42% for heat.
The study also found most deaths don’t occur during extreme temperatures, but when they are slightly above or below normal, although again, 6.66% of all deaths were related to moderate cold compared to less than 1% for moderate heat."[--]" a warming world could mean fewer temperature-related deaths, not more.
All of this runs contrary to the constant barrage of hysterical propaganda from climate warm mongers.
That would include Al Gore, whose Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth incorrectly depicted global warming (aka climate change) as a never ending, planet-wide, relentless assault of rapidly rising temperatures, stronger hurricanes, deadly heat waves and unrelenting droughts happening everywhere at once.
"

Blogspot Is In One Of Its Moods...

...Nothing is working the way it should. This is soooo frustrating.

Not Being An American...

...I have no idea what the impeachment process entails or how long it takes, but this is interesting:

Congress Releases Their Case For Impeaching Obama… There Is No Way He Will Win

Every Thing Is GMO'd

If you don’t want your food genetically modified, tell nature to stop it

 "Recent research drives home how misled alarmists are about genetically modified food. All human beings, two Cambridge University scientists have established, are genetically modified, including Chipotle’s customers. Over the years, hundreds of foreign genes have jumped into human DNA through a natural phenomenon called “gene flow.” As a result, all humans carry genes that originated in algae, bacteria and fungi.  

If humans can safely accept alien genes without mishap, why not food, too?"

 

Can't A Girl Get A Break?

Kate Middleton Rudely Called Out for First 'Girl Mom' Mistake

"When Kate Middleton left the hospital with baby Charlotte last week, the majority of people could only focus on how insanely adorable the new princess is -- and of course, how insanely gorgeous the Duchess looked. Some keen-eyed people noticed that the little bonnet Princess Charlotte was wearing was on backwards! Hey, cut the Duchess some slack -- she's used to having a boy! Unless you have a hat like this, it's hard to tell that it's on "wrong." I actually have one of these hats -- a pixie hat -- for my daughter, and when I first got it, I put it on the exact same way. It's hard to tell! Here, check out Kate's first "style slip up," as the Daily Mail, called it with her new baby."

[---]

"The part that surrounds the face should be on the neck."

And this qualifies as news?

Boys And Dads

This One...

...put tears in my eyes:

Aussies Again

Australia to strip citizenship of Australian-born jihadis with immigrant parents

Can we please have some of that, Mr. Harper?

Pow! Zap! Kaboom!

Funeral Home Posts the Greatest Sign About American Troops Ever

"There is a story that dates back to World War II about a French soldier captured by the Nazi’s. Just before morning roll call began, the Commandant of Colditz Castle, a castle turned POW camp announced that by order of Hitler, any POW who had a special trade before the war could be relocated to Germany to live out the war in peace and work as they did before the war.

Immediately, a French soldier volunteered his services in front of nearly 1000 POWs from a mixture of nations including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Poland, and many others. As you can imagine a lot of boos and probably a ton of language was directed at this poor French soldier who just wanted to make it through the war. Upon quieting the multitude of prisoners down, the shocked commandant asked the Frenchman why he is volunteering. The Frenchman responded that he was tired of fighting and truly wanted to do something he enjoyed before the war. He was trained and ready to work for the Germans. But there was one condition the Frenchman told the German officer and that was to keep him as busy as possible because they more work he gets, the less he will think about getting in trouble.

Elated, the Commandant asked the man, “Sir, your wish is my command. Now what was your job before the war?” Not missing a beat, the Frenchman responded, “Sir, I was an undertaker.”"

I Want My Daddy

Whenever I hear/read a story about WWII vets, I think of my dad:

70 years after WWII service, Shoals man receives high school diploma


Canadian soldier’s World War Two remains finally laid to rest

Trogdolites

Oldest stone tools pre-date Homo genus

Headline Of The Week

Men Aren't Useless Afterall: Scientists Discover Link Between Males and Extinction

Scientists Claim To Have Found Reason Why Males Exist

Why do males even exist?

Science Offers Clues For The Existence Of Men

A lot of fragile egos are being brused as we speak.

They're Just Like The Rest Of Us!!!

Prince William enduring 'sleepless nights' with Princess Charlotte

Prince William's Daughter Princess Charlotte Keeping Him Up at Night, Gets Baby Gift From Women's Soccer Team

A few 'sleepless nights' courtesy of baby Charlotte: William reveals his new daughter is keeping him up at night during visit to the England Lionesses football team

Royal baby: Queen meets great-granddaughter

Or maybe not:

Queen meets great-granddaughter

We don't all get a visit from the Queen.

Well Done, Mounties!!

Canadian police arrest 10 at airport on suspicion of leaving to join Isis

'Nuff Said

Academic Mob Chases ‘Climate Change Contrarian’ Bjorn Lomborg Off Campus

"How long before this McCarthyite question is asked of everyone who enters into academia, in order to weed out those who refuse to bow and scrape before green orthodoxy?

If you think this sounds like a far-fetched proposition, consider a recent scandalous act of academic censorship at the University of Western Australia (UWA). And consider, more importantly, the lack of outrage it caused in the West's professorial circles.

It involves Bjorn Lomborg, the blonde-haired, Danish annoyer of environmentalists everywhere."

[---]

"...what can only be described as a ramshackle modern-day Inquisition, which found Lomborg guilty of the crime of denial—not of God, but of climate-change alarmism—and had him cast out of UWA."

How conservatives lost the plot over the rejection of Bjorn Lomborg

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Government Of China Forces Muslim Imams To Dance On The Street And Scream That They Will Never Preach The Islamic Religion

I Don't Know What To Say...

...about this:

Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany

“King Goldenlocks”: A Newly Translated Fairy Tale

Cinderfellas: The Long-Lost Fairy Tales

Forgotten fairytales slay the Cinderella stereotype

Except to say that I feel cheated. I'll have to buy them for the grand kiddies and read them before I give them to them.

Slavery And Hypocrisy

LIBERAL SILENCE AS USUAL: Where is the outcry for the modern blacks still owned as slaves by Islamic countries

This map shows where the world’s 30 million slaves live. There are 60,000 in the U.S.

Aussies Kick Ass

Australian Leader Abbott Slams Muslim Imams, Launches Crackdown on Radical Mosques, Muslims Furious

Victorian Islamic council criticises federal government over Reclaim Australia rallies

Muslim leaders outraged by Tony Abbott's chiding over extremism

No Matter How Much...

...I may dislike Obama, I would never wish this upon him.

After Promising To Behead Obama, ISIS Posts This GRAPHIC Image

ISIS Promises to Behead Barack Obama – Posts Bloody Photo Online

I guess they don't take defeat too well:

Daring US Delta Force raid in ISIS heartland kills commander and scores of jihadis

I've Been Watching...

...old episodes of the Red Green Show. They are just as funny now as they were 24 years ago.

Scaaaary!!!

Warning signs that Yellowstone may Erupt

"If the Yellowstone Super Volcano were to erupt, it would be 2,000 times bigger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in the 1980’s. Everything within 500 miles would be dead or destroyed within minutes, 2/3rds of the entire United States would be covered in volcanic ash and the climate of the entire planet would cool within a month."

That's roughly 550 miles from where I live.

Moving Right Along

UK troops to smash migrants trade: Navy to stop flood of refugees from Libya

A New Word Has Been Coined!!

"Climatard"

"A person with no formal education or training in science who believes that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that the world's climate is being disastrously altered by human emmissions of this vital gas which is essential to life. Favours drastic unreasonable measures, with no proof they will have any effect and will have any effect and which will cause real, immediate economic devastation for the poor and middle class. Flies into a rage if you don't agree with him."

I'm going to use it. It goes well with "Leftard".

Vive La France, Again

French Mayor calls for a ban of Islam 'the only solution for most of France's problems'

Mayor In France Pushes For New Law In France That Will Ban Islam, Saying, “We must ban the Muslim faith in France.”

Good!

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death

The Scam Continues

Hottest year ever? Giant clam reveals Middle Ages were warmer than today

"While government science and media begin the ramp-up to claim 2014 as the “hottest year ever” China’s Sea’s biggest bivalve shows that the Middle Ages were warmer than today, when Carbon Dioxide was lower."(Emphasis added)

The Only Thing...

...missing is an empire to overthrow:

Burundi coup plotters arrested, general who led coup bid on the run

But, But, But...

...it was supposed to be global warming:

California Drought Is Worsened by Global Warming, Scientists Say

Drought relief, at last? New signs point to strengthening El Niño

Climate Change Caused California Drought

Hot hands: Fingerprints of climate change all over California drought

Did climate change cause California drought?


Study: Human-caused global warming behind Calif. drought

Gotta love this one:

California marijuana could become stronger due to global warming – study

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

How the NDP can win the next Alberta election

The Chicoms Get In On The Act

THE CHINESE HAVE BALLS: China Makes Major Move To Ban Islam

And it's not chicken balls.

"So what is China doing? It’s declaring an all-out war to make sure Islam doesn’t take over and never gains the strength to attack them. So let me simplify it:

– Female head-coverings are banned. Period.

– Men are discouraged from growing long beards (often poorly grown ones, might I add).

– Even Islamic restaurants are forced to sell cigarettes and drinks. And …

– They must display them prominently. Any business owner who does not follow this order…will lose their business. Gone."

And Now Japan...

...gets in on the act:

The Land without Muslims

"It is interesting to know that there is a country in the world whose official and public approach to the Muslim matter is totally different. This country is Japan. This country keeps a very low profile on all levels regarding the Muslim matter: On the diplomatic level, senior political figures from Islamic countries almost never visit Japan, and Japanese leaders rarely visit Muslim countries. The relations with Muslim countries are based on concerns such as oil and gas, which Japan imports from some Muslim countries. The official policy of Japan is not to give citizenship to Muslims who come to Japan, and even permits for permanent residency are given sparingly to Muslims.

Japan forbids exhorting people to adopt the religion of Islam (Dawah), and any Muslim who actively encourages conversion to Islam is seen as proselytizing to a foreign and undesirable culture."

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

GLOBAL WARMING CULT BAFFLED AS ANTARCTIC ICE CONTINUES TO GROW

Why is Antarctic sea ice at record levels despite global warming?

"While Arctic sea ice continues to decline, Antarctic levels are confounding the world’s most trusted climate models with record highs for the third year running."

Global Warming Wreaks Havoc On Antarctic Research Stations

"And by wreaking havoc, I mean there’s so much sea ice around the continent that access to the research stations has been curtailed. In fact, one station had to be airlifted a year’s worth of supplies since ships could not break through the ice."

Believe It When You See It??

An Egyptian secular party?

Well, outside of Israel, Egypt is just about the only nation in the Middle East where one might expect such a development. God Speed.

Alright, Norway!!!

Norway repeals blasphemy law, in response to Charlie Hebdo murders

Air Canada Delivers...

...a baby, that is. On the long flight across the Pacific Ocean to Japan.

Baby born on Air Canada flight, mom 'had no idea' she was pregnant

"Luckily, there were also three doctors on the flight, and one immediately came to Guan's aid when the flight crew asked if there was a physician aboard."

Awe, Poor Baby

Sweden’s Supreme Court Rejects Julian Assange’s Sexual-Assault Appeal

Julian Assange Loses Final Appeal of His Swedish Arrest Warrant

Julian Assange stuck in detention after losing appeal in Sweden's Supreme Court

Swedish court rejects Assange arrest appeal

Ruskies 1...

...muzzies, a big goose egg.

Yup

Saskatchewan offers refuge for Alberta energy companies following NDP win

RIP

Another icon from my youth:

Too Funny

Hahahaha hahahaha... Men .. women .. How true.. Can't stop laughing

Posted by Neetu Chandraa on Friday, May 2, 2014

I Thought The Pope Was Supposed To Be...

...infallible:

Environmental Statement by Vatican Does Not Meet Media Expectations

Vatican Paper: Ditch Capitalism To Stop Global Warming

UN, Vatican team up for climate change agenda

Climate Change Skeptics Write Open Letter Urging Pope Francis to Rethink Global Warming

Pope attacked by climate change sceptics


Vatican, U.N. join forces against climate change

Climate change skeptics press their case to the Vatican

Vatican Global-Warming Conference Displays Climate of Cooperation

Vatican calls for urgent action on climate change: Wealthiest have moral obligation to find solutions

Why Pope Francis is about to make a dramatic wave in the climate debate

Heartland Tells Ban Ki-Moon: ‘Climate Change Is Not as Bad as You Think’: A report from the papal climate conference, where skeptics are told to get lost.

If the Pope Wants to Have a Truly Moral Climate-Change Debate, Here Are a Few Ideas

Ahead of Vatican climate change summit, skeptics issues (sic) strong, blunt warnings to Francis

Conservative thinktank seeks to change Pope Francis's mind on climate change

Peter Foster: The Greening Of The Vatican

A Message For Pope Francis

Vatican Joins with U.N. to Make Moral Case for Climate Action

Climate Scientists Head to Rome on Urgent Mission to Save The Pope From Clutches of ManBearPig

Why God is Not a Warmist

Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives’ Alarm

Global Warming? The Pope is Wrong


British climate change sceptics who travelled to the Vatican interrupted by 'papal heavies' half-way through making their point

Francis Is Out of His Element

Pope Francis and climate change: why Catholic skeptics are so alarmed

Heartland Replies (Again) to Media Matters

Wednesday Update from Rome: Heartland Echoes Behind Walls of Vatican

Heartland Daily Podcast – Rome: Heartland Attacked By Name at Vatican Climate Conference

Catholics Should Put Freedom Above Sustainability Fad

World’s Leading Scientific ‘Skeptics’ of Man-Caused Global Warming Invite Public and Press to Lunch Event April 28
Just Outside the Vatican

Monday Update on Heartland’s trip to Rome for Vatican Climate Summit

He sure can generate a lot of headlines, though.

A Fairly Long Interview....

....but at the 5:13 mark Freeman Dyson nails it:

Half the CO2 emitted has gone into increasing vegetation by 20%, and thus increasing food production and enhancing biodiversity. He also says we can genetically engineer trees so they absorb more CO2.

Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Hysteria April, 2015

Related:

I Wouldn't Go That Far

But I do think a lifetime in prison, perhaps a psychiatric facility, is in order. However, I wouldn't interfere with what China is doing. One Islamist less in the world is a good thing.

China Deals With Growing Muslim Problem By Shooting Muslims

Geert Wilders Does It Again

4 times....

...Savages:

Finally: Outgoing Nigerian president turns tide against Boko Haram

Yay!!

Nigerian army rescues more women, girls from Boko Haram

Yay, again!!!

Boko Haram: Nigerian army 'frees another 234 women and children'

Over 200 Nigerian women rescued from Boko Haram are pregnant – UN

Savages!!!!

Another Day...

...another sign Europe is on the rebound:

The Queen of Denmark: Islam must be countered

Ya Think?

Norway deports record number of Muslims, crime rate drops dramatically

Crime Went Down 30% in this Country when they Deported Radical Muslims

In Sweden, the Land of the Open Door, Anti-Muslim Sentiment Finds a Foothold

Welcome back, Europe.

Yup

UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming

Global Warming Skepticism On The Rise In Europe

Quick!! before there's no one left who believes this guff.

Out Of The Park

My hero, Thomas Sowell, hits one out of the park:

Riots Are The Legacy Of Slavery? Try Legacy Of Welfare

Continuing On

Previously.

NORWAY: New right wing government is kicking out foreign criminals, most of them Muslims

Right-wing Buddhist leading the campaign to force Muslims out of Burma says he wants his group 'to be like the English Defence League'

The only thing we need to do now is lose the epithet "Right-Wing". We are mainstream, fer Christ's sake.

That Settles It

The One is a complete blithering idiot:

Obama falsely claims Keystone XL would carry only Canadian oil

Obama KXL claim debunked in a Montana field

Impeach him, please. What are you waiting for?

It Just Won't Stop

Congo-Brazzaville bans Islamic face veil in public places

Good thing, too.

When Will This Be Over?

Ah!

Couldn't have happened to a nicer better guy.

Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'incapacitated by spinal injuries after US air strike in Iraq'

It's A Girl!!!

A baby sister for George. No news yet whether he's jealous.

Quite Possibly The Best...

...comments in an article on the AGW scam ever written:

The Climatistas Are Quaking


To wit:

• This “journalism” is criminal level exaggeration; Glowbull warming causes earthquakes? Seriously?
• Newsweek was overpriced when it was sold for $1. This article proves it.
• People are paid to write this guff? McGuire is a fruitcake and should be locked up, yet he is quoted and supported by this ridiculous article. This is unbelievably bad, even for Newsweek.
• Breaking News! Climate change is to blame for the Baltimore Riots, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, and Justin Bieber. Don’t worry though, the process can be reversed if you buy carbon credits.
• hahahahha….I just KNEW that volcanoes and earthquakes were caused by “Climate Change”….that’s the funniest thing that I’ve seen all month Thank you for giving me my morning laugh…..I work in Geophysics, by the way….

• Not so long ago the IPCC was telling us CO2 was causing the Himalayan glaciers to disappear. Now CO2 is causing plate tectonics. CO2 is the Swiss Army knife of global warming conspiracists.

That last one is my favourite.

The Power Of Mom Nature

Mount Everest Shrank As Nepal Quake Lifted Kathmandu

Mount Everest Shrank As Nepal Quake Lifted Kathmandu

(Those are two different reports with the same title.)

Cooler Weather...

...on its way:

"The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century.

The sun's X-ray output has flatlined in recent days and NOAA forecasters estimate a scant 1% chance of strong flares in the next 24 hours. Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and the current nearly blank sun may signal the end of the solar maximum phase."

[---]

"Finally, if history is a guide, it is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have a cooling impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere - and where we all live. There have been two notable historical periods with decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The first period is known as the “Maunder Minimum”, named after the solar astronomer Edward Maunder, and it lasted from around 1645 to 1715. The second one is referred to as the “Dalton Minimum”, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton, and it lasted from about 1790 to 1830. Both of these historical periods coincided with colder-than-normal global temperatures in an era now referred to by many scientists as the “Little Ice Age”. In addition, research studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth. This research suggests that in times of low solar activity where solar winds are typically weak; more cosmic rays reach the Earth’s atmosphere which, in turn, has been found to lead to an increase in certain types of clouds that can act to cool the Earth."

All I can say is, if CO2 really does warm the earth, we better start spewing it out as if there's no tomorrow.

Gotta Love...

...Irish jiggers:

It's Happened Before???

Scientists Solve Mystery of Collapse of Ancient Tibetan Civilization

"Scientists have solved the mystery of the collapse of an ancient civilization living on the fringes of the Tibetan Plateau around 2,000 BC, and it seems that climate change is to blame.

That's at least according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which details how cooling global temperatures at the end of the Holocene Climatic Optimum - a 4,000 year period of warm weather - would have made it impossible for these ancient people to cultivate millet, their primary food source."

And is was global cooling?????

Heresy

Experts Predict Future Extinctions With Fossil Record

"It's no secret that countless species are threatened or in danger of extinction across our tiny blue world. What may be a surprise, however, is that a great deal of those extinctions may be natural. A new study has taken to the fossil record to determine just how many species would still be on their way out even if humans had not been around to sully their natural habitats."

You mean you're not going to blame Anthropogenic Global Warming?

How Dare The Russians...

...refuse him "special treatment"!!

"South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that Mr Kim opted to remain in Pyongyang because Russia "refused to comply with the North's request for special treatment, given that there will be several other foreign dignitaries at the event.

"Without top-grade security, Kim would inevitably have become a freak show for the global press", it added.

Being treated equally with other international leaders - and not enjoying centre-stage in the commemorative events, as he always does at home - would also have damaged his standing in the eyes of the North Korean public.

Analysts have suggested that the North Korean leader is still concerned about the degree of genuine support for his regime in political and military circles at home and is reluctant to give his rivals an opportunity to plot against him."

Ya think?