Tis the season for all sorts of wondrous things.  For Christians, there is the birth of Christ.  For Jews, there is Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.  For Santa Claus, there’s a spy mission to Venezuela:

Colombia's defense chief joked Monday that Venezuelan troops might have mistaken Santa's sleigh for a spy plane, dismissing accusations by President Hugo Chavez about drones flying over Venezuela.

Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft.

The ‘Pentagon has declined to comment on Chavez's accusations,’ and it’s not surprising.  Things are go’in south down there.  Pun intended.

Beginning with Russian arms sales, throw in a Russian naval visit, and then add a few

 Russian military factories, and even called the President Obama a nasty name at Copenhagen.

Hugo has been, for many, a bad boy and has earned a visited from the spy in the red suit . . . a rather ironic color actually.  

The Big Pixy as espionage agent offers a bit of a chuckle.  And remember real hope is here.  Merry Christmas.  

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Carbon prices fall in wake of Copenhagen

Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union's carbon-trading scheme.

2 feet for Christmas? You better watch out

A storm likely to hit on Wednesday could make this "the snowiest Christmas ... in 30 years" - and be a pain for last-minute travelers.

Winter freeze kills 79 in Poland

WARSAW - Ten people have died of cold in Poland over the past day, taking the toll since winter set in earlier this month to 79, police said Tuesday.

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The open source known as Wikipedia has always been a problem, and continues to be a problem.  Anyone and everyone has access, and can and do, throw garbage into it. 

And this from the American Thinker just exemplifies the point . . . again:

For AGW religionists, when in doubt, change the facts

In the religion of AGW, Human Caused Global Warming , if facts don't fit the theology, the facts must change, not the theology …more

Wikipedia contaminates young minds.  They’ve been trained to believe what they read.  Fear and hate are easy emotions to nature and ignorance is a kind of fertilizer.

Link to an older posting:

Wikipedia-screwing-up-facts-just-for you

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Orwellian Nightmare: Science Is Whatever ‘the Party’ Says It Is

Relativism corrupts: First Climategate, then a mathematics professor sees his colleagues challenging the truth of 2 + 2 = 4. Really …more

American Thinker Blog:

Climategate gaining traction - even in New Jersey

Cracking the ice on climategate in blue Jersey is a sign of the wheels coming off. More

As I’ve become an adult, I’ve grown more and more weary of government, state, local or Federal, and now, it is the Federal government and the UN in tandem, which are spark the most concern. 

When someone says, “I’m here to save you,” and they are so concerned, we must hold our freedom all that much closer. 

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The opportunity to blog a few pieces for the American Thinker has resulted in the posts listed below: 

Climategate gives skeptics a 'window of opportunity'

The revelation of the CRU's climate data manipulation, which led to ClimateGate, has presented a window of opportunity to express skepticism and mounting doubt regarding climate change/AGW . . . more

I just shoveled 6 inches of global warming off my driveway

The UN announced 2000-2009 to be the warmest decade as the country braces for a massive winter storm as reported by Weather Channel: . . . more

Saudis want independent investigation of Climategate

Mecca and Medinah, the two holiest places in Islam, may reside within the borders of Saudi Arabia but the Kingdom lives and dies by oil alone . . . more

Deceit of Biblical proportions

This morning I scraped Global Warming/Climate Change off the windshield of my car.  As the old song goes, ‘Baby, it's cold outside.'  But, do recall, we had a number of eggheads from CRU  (Climate Research Unit) telling us the temperature is rising . . . more

But there is far more at the Thinker and you should take time to read because as informed about this fraud and fiasco known as Climate Change/AGW.  

For instance:

Climate science in Flyover Country

Russ Vaughn

[…] But geez, folks...don't anyone besides me notice a trend here in how every time the Anthropogenic (whatever that means) Global Warming crowd gens up an event to promote their ding-a-ling ideas, Mother Earth tends to rain (well, more likely snow) on their parades? . . . more

In previous interglacial periods, namely about 125,000, 240,000 and 340,000 years ago, temperatures were about three degrees warmer than now.  Or so we had thought . . . more

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Deceit of biblical proportion

This morning I scraped Global Warming/Climate Change off the windshield of my car.  As the old song goes, ‘Baby, it’s cold outside.’  But, do recall, we had a number of eggheads from CRU (Climate Research Unit) telling us the temperature is rising.

Science is taken from the Latin scientia meaning knowledge.  Well, a whole lot of people got fooled.  When science, the search for knowledge becomes the pursuit for money, I can’t even call Climate science Voodoo.  Voodoo is, at its core, an unadulterated belief.

The ultimate lesson to be learned and relearned is this:  When members of the scientific community, and some aspect of scientific research, become ensnared by the tentacles of the governmental establishment, we as citizens must immediately recognize that there is a problem.

Embryonic stem cell research comes to mind, and the political fight which ensued was more like a grudge match.  President Bush banned Federal funding while President Obama rescinded that ban.   Lots of money is involved as the National Institute of Health (NIH) opened a new website to divvy out the cash.  But up to this date no scientific or medical benefit has been derived from Embryonic stem cell research. 

Science must be saved from the exploitation of those who would pervert the scientific pursuit of knowledge for mere financial gain and fraudulent academic credentials ...more at American Thinker.

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Read this E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin Science, from the NYT, but the basic fact and subject is fraud, Climate Change Fraud or Hoax.   Pick one.  No other commonsense stance can be taken, and writing ‘trying to spin science’ can’t change the lie. 

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