Today's Nuze: December 07, 2007

Friday, December 7, 2007

AFTERTHOUGHT!

The answer from yesterday's question:

Since the 100-pound sack of potatoes was 99 percent water, it consisted of 99 pounds of water and 1 pound of pure potato essence. After the evaporation, the sack weighed X pounds and was 98 percent water and 2 percent potato essence. Thus 2 percent of the new weight X is the 1 pound of potato essence. Since .02X = 1, we can solve to get that X = 50 pounds. The answer is that the potatoes now weigh just 50 pounds. This may seem an apolitical problem, but imagine your stockbroker's fixed fee constituting 1 percent of the original worth of your investment, but 2 percent of its present worth. Then the problem is not necessarily small potatoes.

The final question if you wanna be President:

Deduction, Again, it should go without saying that the ability to make simple deductions is a prerequisite for good decision-making.

A simple, yet abstract problem of this type? How about the following (answer on page 4): Imagine there are three closed boxes, each full of marbles on a table before you. They're labeled "all blue marbles," "all red marbles," and "blue and red marbles." You're told that the labels do describe the contents of the boxes, but all three labels are pasted on the wrong boxes. You may reach into only one box blindfolded and remove only one marble. Which box should you select from to enable you to correctly label the boxes?

Additional reading assignments:

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is being chastised for suggesting that mosque minarets should not be higher than church steeples built in Germany.

Now we are getting articles about how to protect yourself in a mall shooting ... here's an idea: carry a gun. Protect yourself.

GREEN U-TURN

Australia's new green Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has suddenly done an about-face on cutting green house gas emissions. I love to see a leader with convictions. Just days after Rudd said Australia would back a 25-40% cut on 1990 emission levels by 2020, he has suddenly decided that it is unrealistic.

The electricity industry stepped up and warned that it wouldn't be able to meet growing consumer demand and comply with the target, causing huge rises in electricity prices. The Energy Supply Association of Australia found that cutting carbon emissions by 30% of 2000 levels by 2030 would push power costs up by 30%.

Perhaps Australia's new "green" top guy has figured out that this whole global warming thing is really a badly disguised attack by tired or communists and leftists castoffs against the industrialized world and the evil specter of capitalism.

THE U.N. BALI CONFERENCE

First ... let's start with this. If you don't read anything else today .. anywhere .. read this. It's a column from the Canadian Financial Post. I heard the Godfather talking about it yesterday .. and Peter Foster says what a lot of the more aware among us have been saying for years (The Godfather and my humble self included) .. that the environmental movement has been occupied by cast-off Commies and assorted anti-capitalist radicals.

At the Bali conference on global warming, more than 200 climate scientists issued a declaration to agree on strong targets for tackling climate change. The declaration says that global greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by at least 50% below 1990 levels by 2050. The goal "must be to limit global warming to no more than 2 C above the pre-industrial temperature."

And developing nations demanded rapid transfers of technology to help them combat climate change. Poor counties are demanding that they need more scientific know-how to reduce pollution and improve energy efficiency. Where do they get this technology? From wealthy nations. Who pays for it? Wealthy nations; evil, nasty, oppressive, horrible wealth nations. In the meantime those wealthy nations at the conference are focusing on making big countries like China setting goals for cutting pollution emissions.

Meanwhile, the government officials and activists that have flown to Bali will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in one year. Each delegate with produce an average of 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide. This total is the equivalent of 20,350 mid-sized cars. Some of the nations' delegates promise to offset their carbon footprint by planting trees or buying emissions credits. But scientists say that these symbolic actions won't do squat.

Another great column about the global warming mob hysteria. It's by Andrew Bolt. He tells of the nightmare he experiences being on the outside watching the mob self-destruct.

NO PRESS CREDENTIALS FOR YOU!

Writers from The Heartland Institute showed up in Bali to cover the global warming mass hysteria meeting. They were denied press credentials. Why? Because these people represented an organization that has not bought the global warming scam hook, line and sinker. It's not only some writers that are being barred. A group of scientists from The International Climate Science Coalition was denied the opportunity to be present at panel discussions and other events, and their members were denied press credentials. The UN is working to freeze these scientists out of any future discussions on the matter by using the tired old "the science is settled" line.

Please, folks. Wake up to what's going on o0ut there. It's all about wealth redistribution, not the climate.

HILLARY NAME POPULARITY

Someone has developed a chart showing the popularity of the girl's name "Hillary" over the years. The chart looks at the ranking of the "Hillary" name in the top 1000 list of girls names in the United States. Here are the numbers. For those of you who went to government schools we'll explain that the year is shown first and the ranking for that year second.

1963 - 863

1992 - 131

1993 - 261

1994 - 566

1998 - 868

2002 - off

2003 - off

2006 - 982

Looky Looky! Hillary really started gaining in popularity when Bill started his first presidential run ... then when people started figuring out what she really was, her name went in the tank. Looks like she's made a stunning comeback - by a cat's whisker - by running for president.

ANOTHER UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EMAIL!

First ... let's go back to the original email which I featured in Nealz Nuze Tuesday of last week. You can read it here. The University of Florida Vice President for Student Affairs was, it seems, quite exercised that a conservative group on campus was advertising the showing of the movie "Obsession." The posters advertising the movie contained the phrase "Radical Islam wants you dead."

To: All UF students

From: Patricia Telles-Irvin, Vice President for Student Affairs
Subject: My e-mail last week

There has been much discussion about an e-mail I sent Nov. 26 regarding the posters advertising the movie "Obsession."

Since that time, some important dialogue has been exchanged between members of the student groups involved. But over the last week, there has been some misunderstanding on the university's position on certain points.

Please allow me to clarify.

* The university supports the rights of students to freely express themselves on any issue.

* The university condemns terrorists acts and those who perpetrate them, regardless of who they are. And we clearly recognize there are people who use Islam to support violence.

* The university has no intention of taking disciplinary action against anyone involved in creating or distributing the posters. That was never a consideration.

* The university has heard allegations that the posters were removed by people who opposed their message. Efforts by the University Police Department and Student Affairs to confirm this or identify offenders were unsuccessful. Removal of posters from proper venues is prohibited by the university's policies and will not be tolerated.

The original intent of my e-mail was to foster greater understanding and communication among groups. As we all surely know, free speech is a cherished right not only in this country but also on this campus. We
should always feel comfortable expressing our diverse opinions.

So, why the letter? Chose one. Patricia Hyphen-Hyphen wrote the new letter to the student body because:

(a) She had profoundly embarrassed the University when evil talk show hosts revealed the contents of her original email to the entire world.

(b) The Florida attorney general is looking into the possibility that there has been an attempt to stifle free speech on the Florida campus.

MUSLIM CULTURE TESTS

An official from Sudan says that Westerners going to live in Sudan should have to pass an exam on the local culture ... in other words, be indoctrinated on the Islamic ways of life.

Khalid al Mubarak works at London's Sudan embassy. He says that courses were mandatory in the colonial era and they "worked very well." He says a two-week course could help avoid accidental insults ... like naming a teddy bear after the prophet Muhammad.

The courses would be run through government colleges and "should consist of educating somebody of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in Muslim cultures." For example, it is important for Westerners to learn how to "properly" speak to a woman "who must be treated with deference and modesty." Westerners should also know to eat with their right hand and wipe with their left.

I wonder if they will teach westerners how to murder their daughters if they become rape victims, or that it is OK to name a suicide bomber Muhammad, but not a cuddly little teddy bear.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THE HOMELESS

Here's another one of my favorite stories about a government school hosting a sleepover for a night ... so students can know what it feels like to be homeless. Well it must be really great to be homeless in Buffalo, New York (where, by the way, it was 18 degrees this particular night).

Homeless people in Buffalo must have:

Pizza Hut pizza
Dunkin Donuts
A cushy gymnasium they can duck into when they get cold
Hot chocolate
Coffee
Portable DVD players
Air mattresses

Are you seeing where I am going with this, folks?

THE WUSSIFICATION CONTINUES

Organizers of the Babes in the Wood and Robin Hood productions in Norfolk (we are talking England, folks) have been banned from throwing candy out to kids in the audience. The age-old tradition is coming to an end because the Gorleston Pavilion Theatre is afraid of getting sued if any children are smacked in the face by a stray piece of candy. Instead, the candy will be dropped into the front row and passed around by ushers.

In this same theatre last month, Peter Pan was banned from flying during a performance by a local youth theatre group for "health and safety" reasons.

TEENAGE BIRTHS

The teenage birth rate in America rose for the first time in 15 years. The birthrate had been dropping since 1991, but from 2005 to 2006 the rate rose 3%. Experts are saying that the rise is due to increased federal financing of abstinence-only health-education programs, which do not teach teens how to use contraceptives.

Births to unwed mothers also reached a record high in 2006. But health officials say the increase in teenage birthrates is not the chief cause of births to unwed mothers, attributing teens to just a quarter of unwed mothers. Thirty years ago, more than half of unwed mothers were teenagers.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

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This should make you feel better ... Bill Clinton says that he would sit in on cabinet meetings "only if asked" when Hillary is president. Bill has also announced that he'll only have sex with interns if they ask him.

John Bolton took the time to comb through the Iran nuclear weapons report. I'm not surprised as to what he found.

Here's a sorry statistic for our lawmakers ... the war against Islamic extremism is twice as popular as the U.S. Congress.

Iran and its peace-loving religion is hanging those pesky gays again. Wait, didn't Ahmadinejad say he didn't have gays in his country?

Speaking of gays, the "God Hates Fags" folks have set their own words to the "We Are the World" tune. Maybe they should move to Iran.

Looks like Hugo Chavez won't being winning the prize for Mr. Congeniality this year.

Read this story and just imagine if the races had been reversed. Ah, that's what I thought.

Squirrels and squid and butterflies, oh my! More deaths attributed to global warming. And let's not forget the Amazon either.

Newt Gingrich believes that Mike Huckabee can win the Republican nomination.

A man from Tacoma, Washington wants to burn a Mexican flag on the steps of the state Capitol of Olympia. Anyone got a match?

According to Sherri Shepherd on The View, nothing came before Jesus.

A woman in Portland is seeking $100,000 for the pain and humiliation caused by police when they threw her out of a Portland Timbers game.

A person moves to a town and then complains that the bells on the local church are too loud (they have been ringing for over 200 years, by the way). Now the district council is forced to investigate the complaint.

There's a new $2 million hotel in South Florida with plasma TV screens, world-class groomers and a special disco ... for pets.

A New York store posted a sign in its window describing its hams as "Delicious for Hanukkah." Seriously, check it out. You have GOT to be kidding me.

The people have voted. And the award for the ugliest house goes to ...

Gotta love a redneck Christmas with a shootin' Santa in your front yard ... aiming his gun at Rudolph. I think the ugliest house in Atlanta sits at the corner of Northside Drive and that Sagamore Drive .. little cut-through to Peachtree Battle. You'll see it there ... a block with glass windows. I think they want two million for that monstrosity.

Subject:Somebody's Gotta Say it
Name:Carl Campbell

Message:
Just wanted to say that your latest book is the best book I have read in a long time. I don't always agree with you, but have to really examine my position on things when our opinions differ after you lay out your reasoning. Thanks for making me stretch my brain, and keep up the good work.

By the way, I don't blame you for not wanting to run for president but this country needs someone who is not afraid to do what is best regardless of the offenses that it would cause so long is it made America better. You could be the shot in the arm that this country so desperately needs.

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