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the theology of "Avatar"

Posted by Far_view on Monday, December 21, 2009 10:13:15 PM
I haven't seen Avatar yet. I might wait for it to come out on DVD, or just not watch it at all, because it looks like it disses the U.S. military. I don't know if they're actually the "U.S. military" in the movie, but they look just like them in the previews. Anyway, apparently the movie puts forward a pantheistic world view (where "pantheism" is defined as "a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe"). Ross Douthat has a column on this (and Hollywood's propensity in recent years to promote pantheism) here.
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Climate Research Unit cherry picked Russian data to show global warming

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:57:45 PM
This Climate-gate story just keeps getting more and more disgraceful. This story details how the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) cherry-picked data from Russian climate stations to achieve their desired result showing global warming. It also has an e-mail from Phil Jones of the CRU where he exults over spiking a paper that would have contradicted the CRU's global warming story. This isn't how science is done.
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Is there any better reason to not take the Copenhagen conference seriously?

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:45:25 PM
There's a story here about how Hugo Chavez received "deafening" applause at the Copenhagen climate summit after saying things like "capitalism is the road to hell". I knew the people at that meeting were socialists, but their response to Chavez really leaves not a shred of doubt as to that fact.
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Winning "Whole Foods" Republicans

Posted by Far_view on Monday, December 14, 2009 5:56:30 PM
Interesting column here suggesting the GOP should stop with the anti-intellectual rhetoric and woo so-called "Whole Foods" Republicans- voters who might shop at Whole Foods and are college educated or with advanced degrees and who are anti-Big Government... hey... he's talking about me (though I'm not a regular Whole Foods shopper). I couldn't agree more. I find some of the anti-intellectual rhetoric of people like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin to be very irksome and it turns me off big time. Hearing what the Dems are promoting scares me lots more, but it would be nice if the GOP could adopt the type of strategy promoted in this article.
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Senate version of Obamacare in serious trouble?

Posted by Far_view on Friday, December 11, 2009 9:05:30 PM
Rich Lowry says that Harry Reid's Senate health care bill is "tottering" and might "fall apart". Let's hope he's right.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Committee: hoisted on their own petards

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:46:05 PM
This story put a smile on my face. The liberal elite of the Nobel Peace prize committee are apparently irked by the fact that Obama is blowing them off on most of the events typically attended by the prize winner. Obama's even blowing off a lunch invitation by the King of Norway. This is what you call poetic justice. These guys on the peace prize committee give the award to a prima donna who hasn't accomplished one darn thing and, what do you know! the prima donna acts like a prima donna and blows them off on their events.
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Strong arming CO2 emissions standards

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:51:46 PM
David Harsanyi of the Denver Post has a good column talking about how the Obama adminstration is preparing to strong-arm CO2 emissions standards into reality one way or another. Be it via cap and tax legislation or via EPA regulation... its really quite disgusting when you thing about it.
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Branson rolls out Spaceship Two

Posted by Far_view on Monday, December 07, 2009 11:29:40 PM
Story here about the roll out event in the Mojave for Richard Branson and Burt Rutan's "Spaceship Two". I guess the vehicle they rolled out tonight is to be called "Enterprise" (how original! (not!)). Seriously, though this is good news. If Branson and Rutan can get "Virgin Galactic" going it will be a HUGE boost to the commercial space industry.
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Hey Harry Reid, the Democrats actually -did- defend slavery

Posted by Far_view on Monday, December 07, 2009 9:32:54 PM
Harry Reid's rhetoric has really gone over the line- trying to equate the GOP's opposition to Obamacare to those who defended slavery??? Hey, Harry, last time I checked, the party that actually did defend slavery was the Democrat party.
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A more detailed analysis of the Climate-gate e-mails

Posted by Far_view on Sunday, December 06, 2009 5:29:01 PM
Steven Hayward of the Weekly Standard has a detailed analysis of the e-mails obtained from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. It is quite revealing. The e-mails show the bias of the principal people involved. A convenient summary from within Hayward's piece:

"The emails do not in and of themselves reveal that catastrophic climate change scenarios are a hoax or without any foundation. What they reveal is something problematic for the scientific community as a whole, namely, the tendency of scientists to cross the line from being disinterested investigators after the truth to advocates for a preconceived conclusion about the issues at hand."
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Der Spiegel gets it right on Obama's Afghanistan speech

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:13:30 PM
Once again we have to look to foreign publications to get an accurate accounting of goings on within the U.S. Der Spiegel has a great piece that analyze's Obama's speech from Tuesday night. Some key bits from the article:

Speaking of what will come from Obama's plan:
"An additional 30,000 US soldiers are to march into Afghanistan -- and then they will march right back out again. America is going to war -- and from there it will continue ahead to peace. It was the speech of a Nobel War Prize laureate."

also:
"In his speech on America's new Afghanistan strategy, Obama tried to speak to both places. It was two speeches in one. That is why it felt so false. Both dreamers and realists were left feeling distraught."
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Even Jon Stewart is on to the Climate-gate story!!!

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:31:38 PM
I was pretty surprised to see this report... that even Jon Stewart is doing bits on the Climate-gate story. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, but still was, to see that CBS, ABC, and NBC have still not reported on it!!! Amazing! I mean there is ignoring news and then there is complete manipulation of the news and to just shut out this story smells more of the latter than the former.

Oh, there's also a very good story here, asking the question why Obama won't acknowledge the scandal. I mean he's using taxpayer dollars to go to Copenhagen for the boondoggle conference over there... he owes us some acknowledgement that he is aware of this scandle.
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More on the hacked global warming e-mails

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:28:48 PM
The Washington Times has an editorial on the hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The more I think about this the more apalled I am by how much these guys, who apparently fudged data and were prepared to delete data rather than release it, abused the scientific process. Science is founded on a free and open exchange of ideas. These guys were pursuing an agenda, they were not pursuing science.
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It's official! Global warming is a fraud!

Posted by Far_view on Friday, November 20, 2009 7:17:40 PM
This is an amazing story. While one has to frown on the means by which this information was obtained (hacking into an institute's e-mail system), still the contents are just so appalling that one has to take notice. In the e-mails the "scientists" (these guys really don't deserve the title) talk about how to fudge data to make global warming look worse than it is.


Update... Michelle Malkin also has a great post on this story.
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Repealing Obama-care

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:53:34 PM
Ramesh Ponnuru has a post on NRO saying that Republicans should vow to repeal Obama-care if it does end up going through. I agree with this 100%. I think it is very defeatist to say that if it is voted in that it is all over. A lot of the provisions wouldn't even go into effect until 2013 so there should be a robust effort to repeal it (though, admittedly, it would be better to stop it now).
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