Another sign of the coming apocalypse courtesy of BREITBART.COM

"Hard" scientists become ideological poli-scientist

I can’t add anything that this post http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/08/intellectual-stalinism-of-science.html says about this story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801680_pf.html except to say, “well said”.

It's not science, it's "Scientism". Secondhand Smoke: Intellectual Stalinism of Science Establishment Revealed

I love this story. Steel from the World Trade Center used to construct the USS New York

A member of the CCSP Committee resigns over climate change politics Climate Science ? Resignation from the CCSP Committee ?Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere-Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences?

Britain's House of Lords discloses that the Kyoto Treaty is a "failed accompli". Money quote from the UK's Telegraph: "Hard though it may be for the hair-shirt brigade and the Royal Society to accept, there's an awful possibility that the Americans were right all along. The Kyoto accord looks like yesterday's approach to yesterday's conception of tomorrow's problem." Perhaps now Europe will come clean about climate change

This is astonishing. If the public can turn its attention from Tom Cruise's meltdown, the fate of a lost girl in Aruba, and a President exercising his prerogative to appoint an ambassador to a long vacant post, they will witness a life or death drama is about to unfold in space that is unequaled since Apollo 13. NASA to Conduct Spacewalk to Mend Shuttle

Ah, summer. The summertime heat stifles many people, making them lethargic and unable to work, or even think with all their faculties intact. That description applies in triplicate to the Democratic partisans and their allies in the media who continue to try to make a scandal out of the Plame Game. They've succeeded like the pistol in the movie "The Mexican" in creating a scandal that backfires on them.

Here's a link to two posts at National Review's website that summarizes what we know of Joe Wilson's tattered reputation and what has been learned after the recent set of Sunday talk shows. Keep scrolling to read the second; both are worth your time.

Hmmm. Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power - Yahoo! News

Does this mean that we're closer to this?

WSJ: French Land in New Jersey; Charge Fails

The Wall Street Journal brings us the story of hapless French military aircraft forced to land in NJ. What's worse, one of the pilots apparently maxed out his credit card.

"Low on fuel and struggling in bad weather, nine French fighter jets and a radar plane couldn't return to their aircraft carrier during maneuvers with the Canadian military and landed at the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey instead. The Federal Aviation Administration helped the jets land, and French marines and translators were sent to the airport to help the pilots, Philadelphia TV station WPVI reported. The U.S. State Department also got involved when one of the French pilots had his credit card rejected when he tried to buy fuel, the TV station reported. The FAA couldn't confirm the failed credit-card transaction."

A fascinating footnote to the Deep Throat saga that was finally concluded today. The American Spectator

What's good for General Electric isn't good for the USA. TCS: Tech Central Station - General Rent Seeker

A new debate is about to begin: militarizing space, or anticipating future threats? New York Times: Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Arms

Kofi's selective recollections during the Oil-for-Food scandal investigations seem awfully convenient, and highly questionable. My Way News: Annan Failed to Disclose Key Contacts

Winds of Change links to a story exposing pro-global warming bias at noted scientific journals Science and Nature. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you--not. Winds of Change.NET: "It's All Over for Science"

Was Einstein right when he first said what he postulated, or when he said what he postulated was wrong? We may be getting closer to the answer, or we may not...Fermilab - Press Releases

Another liberal newsman eats his words, and leaves his job amidst a cloud of self-inflicted controversy. AP: Eason Jordan resigns from CNN

Drudge reports another tale of necessity being the mother of invention. Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

The Diplomad writes, "Fight Global Warming: Turn on the A/C & Open the Windows" and in doing so provides as fine a fisking on the muddle-headed thinking that is evident in "the independent report [that] was made by the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Center for American Progress in the United States and the Australia Institute" on global warming as I've seen in a long time.

The New York Post Online Edition comments on the glacial pace of government action even in the face of crisis. A person is granted citizenship 3 1/2 years after his death during 9/11. Many of the obvious steps to increase government data quality and hence awareness of threats have yet to be taken.