After seeing the AP story that mentioned some scientists support Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” I knew something shady was up. Because Gore’s rants are already known to be a lot of hot air.

Below is an excerpt from the AP story.

The Republican led majority of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works immediately took exception to the report. Below is a portion their response, but read it all when you have time.

This lead me to wonder about the other 4 scientists named in the AP article. So I did some digging and came up with some interesting information about them all.

First William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. In a piece posted at blog North Carolina Conservative, Charles R. Hosler, Meteorologist, U.S. EPA (Retired) raises some issues with Schlesinger’s view that his view of this issue is the consensus of the scientific community.

Next was Michael MacCracken, who used to be in charge of the nation’s global warming effects program and is now chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington. He ran the program under the Clinton Administration and Left Wing Nuts Greenpeace note this.

I think MacCracken is staying loyal to the bunch that lined his pockets and hoping the same hype can keep him earning money. After all he’s now looked to an an “authority” in the endorsement of the Man Made Global Warming Will Kill Us All Scam, so he’s got to keep it going. He can’t let thousands of other scientists get in the way of his money making ventures.

Tom (Thomas) Wigley, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, really is not a Gore supporter at all. He feels that global warming would continue even if all made made emissions of greenhouse gases stopped today. Because of activity in the ocean. I’ve mentioned the ocean and other factors in this previous post.

CNE Environment is a European site that sticks to the facts and cuts out the bull. Well worth reading their site when you have time.

And finally there’s Scripps Institution geosciences professor Jeff Severinghaus. Although he said the entertainment value of Gore’s resulted in:

“My wife fell asleep. Of course, I was on the edge of my chair.”

He does not necessarily seem to endorse Gore’s view that man made climate change will destroy the earth. Although he feels man is causing global climate change. When he reviewed a previous Global Warming Scare Movie named “The Day after Tomorrow”, he mentioned an abrupt change was unlikely.

update 6/2/2006 11:03PM: Unfortunately because of some glitch the rest of this post was cut off. I could work on adding the rest again, but this particular post has some odd bug within my blogging software and I don’t want to add the rest and have it cut off again or something worse happen to this thread. What you see was pretty close to the end anyway. But in the cut off portion, I did include a commentary that has now been made public and I suggest you read by Richard S. Lindzen.

In a split decision, that mostly favored the state endorsed 2004 districting plan in Texas. The US Supreme Court said that one district needed to be redrawn or rather recreated to be what it once was. In the name of protecting Hispanic/Latino voting rights. Once again the government has mandated that people be grouped by race and expected to vote alike on the basis of race. It’s been done with Blacks and now Latinos. The Liberals played the race card again and got a partial change. Although for the most part things in Texas will remain the same and Democrats won’t see any real gains in Congress. And that’s the only reason Liberals challenged in the first place. It had nothing to do with race, which was just a cover for some complaints. It was really just a bunch of upset Liberals trying to obtain more power.

Government should stop trying to electorally segregate minorities. Just the same, Chief Justice John Roberts has found that keeping Texas districts as they were would have given Latinos voting power in more districts than before. So in the race baited challenge, those who wanted to increase Latino voting power have actually diluted it.

See what Chief Justice Roberts found.

Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito all joined Roberts in dissenting on that part of the opinion.

Allahpundit at Hot Air has some excellent commentary about this and why race based districting is a bad idea.

Although polls done by various sources show most Blacks are Pro-Life, it seems that does not matter to members of the Civil Rights Industry. Because those so-called Black Leaders do what is profitable for themselves, not what would save the lives of millions of Black people. Namely babies in the womb.

They ignore the trail of dead babies and run to issues like “voting rights”, when Blacks already have their voting rights guaranteed regardless of special provisions set to expire in the Voting Rights Act. (As I’ve explained before, I hope they do expire!) Also, most Blacks never are actually part of an Affirmative Action program and the majority of successful Blacks have done well without being part of one. But the Civil Rights Industry still acts like discriminating against the best qualified candidates in the name of race is somehow a good thing.

While they still ignore the trail of dead babies.

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The abortion rate of black women is three times higher than that of white women and 60% of African-American women who become pregnant will have an abortion. More than 14 million abortions have been done on black women and abortion businesses are frequently located in minority communities.
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Polls show most Blacks are Pro-Life.

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Meanwhile, polls show black Americans are pro-life and supporting pro-life candidates in greater margins than before.

In an August 2004 survey sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.
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Even the NAACP has quietly backed off their pro-death stance and a poll done by Black Enterprise also found most Blacks are Pro-Life.

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Those pro-life values prompted black Americans to protest a decision by the nation’s largest civil rights group to endorse abortion.

When the NAACP took an official position in favor of abortion in early 2004, which it has since quietly rescinded, a poll conducted by Black Enterprise Magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision.
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While most Black people realize the trail of bodies is growing it looks like the Civil Rights Industry continues to look for a trail of dollars. They continue to run their “get out the Black vote” drives, which really are a means to keep their Liberal donors giving them more money. So long as Liberals lose elections they claim the election was not fair. If it really was about bringing more Blacks to the polls, they could start by helping to prevent the murder in the womb of millions of Black babies.

update 6/29/2006 10:15PM: Reverend DL Foster offers more perspective, about another angle used by these race hustlers.

Reade Seligmann’s lawyers Kirk Osborn and Ernest Conner are now taking their crack at the newly released 536 pages of documents from DA Mike Nifong. They say they’ve found a dozen conflicting statements from the accuser and they need Nifong to tell them exactly which line to defend against, because they have no clue what story Nifong actually feels is true. First I’ll list a new article below, then my findings from the actual court document. Details not mentioned in the media report.

Now I must say, that although the defense has been blowing this case out of the water, there is one thing they have failed to do.

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If they chose to, the defense lawyers could make public all the information they have received from Nifong. But they have not done so.
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The defense shows a supreme level of confidence in their clients’ innocence. So I think that given their level of confidence, they should make all the documents public. Although I believe they are innocent, I wonder why the defense is holding back. Of course it is to the defense’s advantage to control what is released, but their public displays while not releasing it all makes one wonder if there’s something in there they might just fear seeing in the public? A full release of all documents would help in calling DA Mike Nifong’s actions into question. Because until every detail is public, Nifong still has his “you don’t know it all yet” card to play with those who still feel there is a case.

I found the actual document used in the court filing on Kirk Osborn’s web site.

One of the stories in the document mentions that the stripper accuser said her “co-worker” robbed her of $2,000.00. But Nifong never charged her and the other stripper (Kim Roberts) has once said she felt the allegations were a “crock”.

Also I found this interesting statement in the document.

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The discovery provides no account of which story is going to be presented as the “true story” or how any crime could have even occurred given the number of established facts which contradict every one of Ms. Mangum’s stories (except for the true story that she was not raped).
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From what we know it does look like Nifong has a virtual “grab bag” of stories to choose from.

The document also includes 22 requests from the defense. Here’s one I found to be interesting.

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19. A detailed statement of the factual information upon with the State will rely to prove each of the elements of each charge in each indictment.
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I think that means the defense can’t even find a case to defend against. So they need to know what the prosecution sees worth making a trial out of this. The defense attorneys say they have fully reviewed all of the documents.

Well making up stories worked for the real villain in the movie that I’ve placed a graphic of at the top of this post. Which is why I’ll keep using it. It’s just so appropriate!

Related post: Duke Lacrosse Rape Case: 536 Pages. 5 Rapists. 4 Dancers. No Toxicology Report. No Payoff From Defense and No Plea Deal Requested.

Like with the old .com boom, the explosion of the blogosphere is bringing in a lot of investment capital.

I found this article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.

Patricof’s firm (Greycroft Partners LP) has invested under $1 million for a minority stake in PaidContent.org’s parent company ContentNext Media Incorporated. Mr. Patricof feels blogs are a good area to invest in, because blogs cost less to get off the ground and show a quicker return on investment. He mentioned that starting a magazine cost $15-$25 million and have a few years of losses, but with blogs the numbers look much more promising.

Plenty more people are doing the same as Rafat Ali. And Mr. Ali says that ContentNext Media will bring in over $1 million this year from ads and event sponsorships. He says the company made $60K just 3 years ago. So he is moving upward.

How long will the blogosphere boom last? Is this just the start? We won’t know all those answers till it’s over, but for now things are looking good and those with the skills are cashing in big. Many are former journalists. Will traditional journalists turned bloggers get the major share or will pajamas bloggers with no prior journalism experience? Again time will tell.

Wired News interviewed Mr. Ali a few years ago.

Back then Mr. Ali estimated he would earn $60-$80K that year. I guess he came in at his low end estimate. But he’s in the UK, so taxes are eating him up . Which means it is much better to be a blogger in America .

Any blogger that wants to grow in the field would do well to read his interview.