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I was playing basketball in Jerusalem this afternoon with a guy who works for the Financial Times and he said that the head of the Mossad was assassinated in Amman, Jordan several days ago. At this point it’s only the domain of rumor. I wonder if it’s true. Update:Apparently it’s not.
In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.
Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures — they’re going down, not up.
Like good ol’ Y2K and all other myths, urban legends, and scams, global warming too will see its eventual downfall. Fortunately, the economic downturn is hastening it as people don’t have spare change to indulge their fantasies. This is happening in Europe as a global warming accord is falling apart because of that.
I’m having a great time teaching English in Ramallah, Palestine again. I have a terrific class, though I do miss my old class. (I moved from teaching level 1 to teaching level 4, because I enjoy grammar.) While preparing my lesson, I came across the best resource I have found yet of conversation starters for ESL/EFL classes.
If you feel the urge to add your collective wisdom to this YouTube comment thread through comment ratings (thumbs up/thumbs down) or comments, I would be delighted.
This is the single funniest video I have seen this election cycle and certainly the funniest, most humorous performance by any political candidate. SNL should hire McCain. Watch the whole thing:
Update: See Obama’s comedy speech as well. It’s not quite as funny (unless I am biased), but there are some really hilarious lines as well:
Updated to replace MSNBC version (which was incomplete and didn’t have the last couple of minutes of McCain’s routine) with a complete Fox News version.
Obama might want to stop talking about his “community organizing” now that we know what that “community organizing” really entailed. The organization he was working for, ACORN, just got raided for electoral fraud: falsifying voter registration, signing up non-existent people to vote Democrat. This isn’t the first such incident. Gotta love Obama’s clear record of post-partisanship.
Obama has pointed to his running of his campaign as executive experience. However, if he runs the White House like he runs his campaign, America is in for a rough four years if he wins.
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