Global warming- Friends of Science............

WSJ- Nancy Pelosi's Middle East trip

Maybe they should divert some of the $16 million for Nathan Phillips beautification to more worthwhile projects

RCMP- a step in the right direction but the same needs to be done to beef up the investigative backbone right across the country

FTC- Do Not Call Registry- Annual Report - pdf

Blackfive-blogging for enjoyment, info beyond the MSM filters

More on Pelosi's Middle East road trip-

The Brotherhood in Holland

Crime beat- Project Everywhichway

"The Crown alleges Bains was the head of a Victoria-based criminal organization that was shipping kilograms of cocaine to the Toronto area. The money was then shipped back by Federal Express in vacuum-sealed bags stuffed with fabric softeners to “disguise” the contents"

Charles Krauthammer

"Remember the great return to multilateralism -- the new emphasis on diplomacy and "working with the allies'' -- so widely heralded at the beginning of the second Bush administration? To general acclaim, the cowboys had been banished and the grown-ups brought back to town.

What exactly has the new multilateralism brought us? North Korea tested a nuclear device. Iran has accelerated its march to developing the bomb. The pro-Western government in Beirut hangs by a thread. The Darfur genocide continues unabated.

The capture and release of the 15 British hostages illustrate once again the fatuousness of the "international community'' and its great institutions. You want your people back? Go to the EU and get stiffed. Go to the Security Council and get a statement that refuses even to "deplore'' this act of piracy. (You settle for a humiliating expression of "grave concern"). Then turn to the despised Americans. They'll deal some cards and bail you out."

Walid Phares- Admedinejad's "Plan B" - The Circus Continues

Bone fide peace plans vs "just drink the Kool Aid" Plans

The man to deal with Iran at the UN

Global warming

"Green advocates want the public to believe that climate projection is an easy business. Of course, environmentalists say, we can know how warm it will be in 10, 25, 50, even 75 years. It's all in the computer models that predict climate change.

What, then, to make of the scientific uncertainty of La Nina — the periodic cooling of the Pacific Ocean that causes weather havoc?

"A fog of unpredictability enshrouds when (La Nina) may strike and how strong it might be," says Reuters, noting the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's cannot say for sure what effect the weather phenomenon will have this year.

In fact, the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's own models show there is "considerable uncertainty as to when La Nina might develop and how strong it might be."

Yet, it's only a few months away. Are computer models looking to forecast climate change decades from now any more accurate?

This is one reason why we say global warming theory is more about faith than science. There is more speculation than evidence, more hope in man's culpability than a clear-headed look at the facts that might disprove the scientific "consensus" that global warming movement leader Al Gore preaches.

On the original Good Friday, Earth went dark for three hours. The only darkness we see on this Good Friday, though, is that caused by the U.N. climate report, which brings light to nothing."