All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear.

How many high school and college assignments were written based on what the students read (and copied) from Wikipedia? How many otherwise intelligent people have had their opinions swayed based on what they discovered at Wikipedia?

Sure, Connolley is no longer a Wikipedia administrator. He was de-sysoped for an unrelated topic, cold fusion, not for anything to do with the global warming issue. Yet for the last dozen years it was HIS opinions that were “translated” into fact at Wikipedia.

What type of person erases facts in order to allow his disillusioned beliefs to become the “new facts”? Sounds like some of the Holocaust deniers.

What type of encyclopedia can Wikipedia claim to be? How many more of these situations have we simply not discovered yet? Is there anyone out there that still believes in Wikipedia?

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ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it.

The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they’ve even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” produced its “reporting” on Climate-gate Tuesday night, when Stewart quipped, “Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!”

Stewart described leaked e-mails from Britain’s University of East Anglia, including one referring to a researcher’s “trick” to “hide the decline” in some temperature readings in recent decades.

“It’s just scientist-speak for using a standard statistical technique — recalibrating data – in order to trick you,” Stewart said sarcastically.

Nearly two weeks since news broke of the e-mail scandal, climate change skeptics have gloated; a leading climate scientist has resigned; at least one U.S. lawmaker has called for an investigation, and countless prominent news outlets have deemed the story worthy of major reporting.

Still, according to a report Wednesday morning by the conservative Media Research Center, “none of the broadcast network weekday morning and evening news shows addressed Climate-Gate or the incriminating Jones development. … This marked 12 days since the information was first uncovered that they have ignored this global scandal.”

The US media outlets, constantly possessing a left-leaning agenda on both What and How they broadcast their version of the news, have said nothing about ClimateGate, a slap in the face to Liberals who have told us over and over that man-made global warming is going to destroy the planet.

The Business & Media Institute had just as much trouble finding the networks’ Climate-gate coverage.

“An examination of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC since Nov. 20 yielded zero mentions of the scandal, even in the Nov. 25 reports about Obama going to Copenhagen to discuss the need for emissions reductions,” the Institute reported Wednesday.

But during that time, the Institute says, “the networks reported on pro-golfer Tiger Woods’ ‘minor’ car accident at least 37 times. They also found time to report on an orphaned Moose and the meal selection at the president’s State Dinner.”

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacted to the findings saying, “To pretend this story simply doesn’t exist is damning to journalism.”

True, but Mr. Bozell is grossly incorrect in assuming that the major network news outlets in the US are even attempting anything resembling journalism, that the major network news outlets in the US have ever attempted to hire genuine journalists. What the major network news outlets are doing has absolutely nothing to do with providing news to the citizens of the US, but rather to indoctrinate the masses into their narrow political belief system.

And these are the same media outlets that are considering pressuring Congress to give them taxpayer money to financially bail them out of trouble?

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Live music, guest speakers, picket parties, and more. Speakers to include Gubernatorial candidates Ray McBerry and John Oxendine.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123012698033

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Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

Is there anything Democrats don’t want to control?

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The most recent issue of the National Shooting Sports Foundation newsletter, Bullet Points, observes that the faux gun group known as American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), has endorsed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice.

As former NRA President Sandy Froman recently pointed out, Sotomayor has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court’s landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Froman says “Sotomayor’s view on the Second Amendment clearly reflects an extreme anti-gun philosophy.”

“… the faux gun group known as American Hunters and Shooters Association”? How can someone with such a gun-friendly name be, in fact, anti-gun?

Says John Lott:

American Hunters and Shooters Association’s (AHSA) president, John E. Rosenthal, is also the founder of Stop Handgun Violence, Inc.

Stop Handgun Violence is credited with lobbying and subsequently helping to pass the licensing and registration system in place in the state of Massachusetts. Stop Handgun Violence has supported every anti-second amendment rights bill since the organizations creation, and is the personal pet anti-gun group of the Democrats. And yet it’s founder, Rosenthal, was a president of AHSA, an organization that supposedly supports the right to keep and bear arms?

More:

Its domain name: http://www.huntersandshooters.com was registered on 25-Apr-05 by Registrant:DCS – Internet Advocacy Group, 600 Pennsylvania Ave SE, suite 200, Washington, District of Columbia

The PR Firm called DCS- Internet Advocacy Group http://dcscongressional.com/ is located at: 600 Pennsylvania Ave SE, suite 200, Washington, District of Columbia 20003

The Democrat Leadership Council http://www.dlc.org/
is located at: 600 Pennsylvania Ave SE, suite 400, Washington, District of Columbia 20003 As listed on their website and on their domain name registration.

So ALL three groups:The Democrat leadership council (DLC) , DCS – Internet Advocacy Group and The American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) Are located in the same building …

Hmmm, could it be that the Democrat Leadership Council simply “created” the American Hunters and Shooters Association to trot out at their next anti-gun rally?

While the AHSA claims to be a non-partisan organization, the AHSA has only endorsed Democratic candidates.

More:

The AHSA press person, Dan Drummond, appears to be a familiar name in Virginia Democratic circles:

Dan Drummond
Chairman, Fairfax City Democratic Committee
dan@fairfaxcitydemocrats.org
703-218-4090

and

The web site huntersandshooters.com is presently (8-5-2005) registered through GoDaddy.com to one Robert Ricker at a PO box in Frederick, MD.

Ricker has indeed shown up to give anti-gun testimony before legislative committees in Annapolis.

The AHSA describes itself as “… a national grassroots organization committed to safe and responsible gun ownership” and “… a mainstream group of hunters who are looking to belong to a gun owners association that doesn’t have a radical agenda.” Yet according to information from a 2005 deposition, the group had fewer than 150 dues paying individual members, hardly a national grassroots organization.

And numerous ASHA officials have testified in favor of gun control legislation in numerous jurisdictions, completely contrary to what the Secomd Amendment states.

Ray Schoenke is listed as the Founding President. Schoenke ran for Governor of Maryland as a Democrat and has given millions to Democratic politicians and causes according to a Washington Post article. Among the groups that Schoenke has donated to are two that actively lobby to ban firearms: Handgun Control, Inc. and America Coming Together. Schoenke was on the Governor’s Commission on Gun Violence in 1996. Doesn’t sound like someone that would support the Second Amendment, huh?

Schoenke also maintains a “diary” at the Daily Kos blog (I do not link there), probably the most left-wing online political community in existence.

Paul Helmke, the President of the Brady Campaign, says of the AHSA, “I see our issues as complementary to theirs”. The Brady Campaign wants to remove guns from the hands of just about everyone except the police and military. Therefore I cannot see how the AHSA is going to defend my Constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms.

Says the NRA:

AHSA was created with the specific intent to provide political cover for anti-gun politicians by allowing them to claim support from a “sportsmen’s” group. In truth, the anti-gun credentials of AHSA’s leadership is well documented. For instance, AHSA president Ray Schoenke has a long history of giving political donations to some of the most anti-gun politicians, including Al Gore, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein and Ted Kennedy. In 2000, Schoenke donated $5,000 to Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Campaign) and the Ray and Holly Schoenke Foundation also made donations to the Brady Campaign. AHSA Board member John Rosenthal remains the leader of Stop Handgun Violence, the Massachusetts anti-gun group. And one of the leading organizers of AHSA is Bob Ricker, who has been a paid expert witness against gun manufacturers in a number of reckless lawsuits.

AHSA would be more correctly called the “American Association for the Protection of Anti-Gun Politicians.” No gun owner or sportsman should fall prey to its carefully crafted lies and deceptions.

Why do I bring all this up? Bear with me as I try to wrap this up.

First, the ASHA is no friend of the right to keep and bear arms. Therefore their support of Sotomayor tells me a lot about what she thinks of the Second Amendment.

Second, the AHSA endorsed Barack Obama for President of the US. In a statement on the AHSA website titled “Obama: He ‘gets it,’” Schoenke announced the endorsement, saying that Senator Obama`s voting record has clearly demonstrated his commitment to the Second Amendment.

- Obama supports a ban on the resale of police issued firearms, even if the money is going to police departments for replacement equipment.

- Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.

- Obama was a member of the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, the leading source of funds for anti-gun organizations and “research.”

- Obama voted for an Illinois State Senate bill to ban and confiscate “assault weapons,” but the bill was so poorly crafted, it would have also banned most semi-auto and single and double barrel shotguns commonly used by sportsmen.

- Obama has endorsed a 500% increase in the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.

- Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.

- Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.

- Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.

Obama will try, during his tenure, to restrict the ability of “mere mortals” to keep and bear arms. When he does he will bring out the ASHA as “experts” in the restriction of gun rights and “common sense” gun laws. Before that happens you need to be well-aware of just who the ASHA really is … just as phony as Obama himself.

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“It’s extraordinary,” Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, “that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”

The ad is a blatant attempt to attack McCain as too old for the job. And it’s a damn lie.

McCain has been one of the Senate’s leading authorities on telecom and the Internet. In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the “Senate’s savviest technologist.” That same year, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most “cybersavvy” of all the presidential candidates that year.

The reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain’s injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and websites. The Obama campaign is doing nothing more than mocking a disabled veteran.

The Obama minions believe that since McCain doesn’t send his own emails he somehow is unable to lead this country. But, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane, or led men during wartime, actions far more important in leading this country than the ability to send emails.

Older Americans, working-class Americans, veterans, and other voters Obama desperately needs are not going to care and, instead, will take offense at Obama’s condescension to “old folks”.

Obama is pathetic, arrogant, elitist, and not fit for the White House.

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More than 70 percent of the political journalists surveyed by communications firm Brodeur in May said they spent at least an hour per day reading blogs and other online media. AJR asked seven political writers and reporters to name their must-reads.

As part of a Brodeur study of reporters and social media, 69 political reporters listed their favorite blogs. Their top five:

• The Huffington Post
• Real Clear Politics
• Talking Points Memo
• Daily Kos
• Townhall.com

So what does this mean?

“The Huffington Post” – a liberal news website and aggregated weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer. It is an attempt at providing a liberal counterpoint to sites such as the The Drudge Report.

“Real Clear Politics” – a Chicago-based political news aggregator, polling data aggregator, and blog founded in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan. The site also compiles averages of major political polls on various elections throughout the United States to give a broader view of the race. They really try to be independent, neither Liberal or Conservative.

“Talking Points Memo” – a liberal web-based political journalism organization created and run by Josh Marshall. They are highly critical of Republicans in general, and President Bush in particular.

“Daily Kos” – a political blog, publishing news and opinion from a liberal point of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of “netroots activists”, whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the Democratic Party. In 2003, Kos creator Markos Moulitsas was retained by the Howard Dean campaign as a technical advisor.

“Townhall.com” – a web-based publication primarily dedicated to conservative United States politics. It was previously operated by the Heritage Foundation, but is now owned and operated by Salem Communications, and was re-designed to create a clearinghouse for conservative New Media and activism.

Does anyone notice any pattern?

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Quick, what’s the most disgusting potential way to attack the McCain-Palin presidential ticket? After two weeks of conspiring to destroy Sarah Palin and her family, often through dishonest means, what could be worse than what we’ve already seen, right?

Well, if you thought the left side of talk radio and the blogosphere had sunk to fresh lows with that smear strategy, it’s now clear they haven’t even scratched the surface.

Enter syndicated libtalker Randi Rhodes, known for her previous unhinged skits, public spills, obscene rants and wild accusations.

Known as a particularly strident supporter of Barack Obama, Rhodes seems to think even John McCain’s six year period of torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese is fair game.

During the first hour of Friday’s Randi Rhodes Show, she had this to say about McCain’s sacrifices during the Vietnam War:

RHODES: Of course he (McCain) became very friendly with the Vietnamese. They called him the Prince. He was well treated actually. And he was well treated because he traded these propaganda interviews for good treatment. So look, it’s a horrible story anyway you cut it, anyway you look at it, any way you you you deal with it. But, it’s not the story Fred Thompson told. Nor is it the story Rudy Giuliani told. Nor is it the story Sarah Palin told. Nor is it the story anybody. Cindy McCain knew to limit herself to ‘I think what my husband did in Vietnam was heroic’ because she knows the truth too.

Huh?

John McCain’s capture and subsequent imprisonment began on October 26, 1967. Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, instead beating and interrogating him to get information, and he was given medical care only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral.

McCain spent six weeks in the hospital while receiving only marginal care. He lost 50 pounds, was in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white at age 31.

In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would remain for two years.

In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head. He subsequently received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal to sign propaganda statements.

Altogether, McCain was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years.

But this, according to Obama supporter and left-wing loony Randi Rhodes, proves that “he was well treated.”

Remember, this is the same clown that, on October 14, 2007, sustained injuries that kept her off the air for several days. She reported to her boss that she had been mugged, a claim that was repeated all across the internet along with the speculation that her mugging was at the hands of conservative right wing factions. It was later revealed that Randi had, in fact, been drinking in an Irish Pub right before the “injury” and does not remember what happened to her … meaning that in a drunken stupor she simply fell flat on her face.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 17, 2008 – Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.

Available today in approximately 50 languages, Firefox 3 is two to three times faster than its predecessor and offers more than 15,000 improvements, including the revolutionary smart location bar, malware protection, and extensive under the hood work to improve the speed and performance of the browser.

“We’re really proud of Firefox 3 and it just shows what a committed, energized global community can do when they work together,” said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla.

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 18.41% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of May 2008, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.

Firefox uses the open source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.

Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.0, released on June 17, 2008. Firefox’s source code is free software, released under a tri-license GPL/LGPL/MPL.

Mozilla Firefox supports many web standards, including HTML, XML, XHTML, SVG 1.1 (partial), CSS (with extensions), ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSLT, XPath, and PNG images with alpha transparency. Firefox also supports standards proposals created by the WHATWG such as client-side storage, and canvas element.

Although Firefox 2 does not pass the Acid2 standards-compliance test, all releases since Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 do.

Forbes.com called Firefox the best browser in a 2004 commentary piece. PC World named Firefox “Product of the Year” in 2005 on their “100 Best Products of 2005″ list. After the release of Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, PC World reviewed both and declared that Firefox was the better browser. Which? Magazine named Firefox its “Best Buy” web browser.

Download here.

There is no reason to still be using the bloated and vulnerable Internet Explorer.

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Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago.

Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It was one of 12 Muhammad cartoons published in 2005 and then again in 2006 that led to protests in Muslim countries.

Investigators said they foiled the plot in its early stages in a pre- dawn raid in the western Denmark city of Aarhus. The police intelligence agency, PET, said two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin were arrested.

“The case shows that, unfortunately, there are in Denmark groups of extremists that do not accept and respect the basic principles on which the Danish democracy has been built,” Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

Tuesday’s arrests were meant “to prevent a terror-related assassination of one of the cartoonists behind the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,” PET chief Jakob Scharf said. Investigators believe the plot had not advanced far enough to try the suspects.

More antics from that wacky Religion of Peace™.

From Michelle Malkin:

Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back. Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark. “Sammenhold,” you may recall, is the Danish word for solidarity. With the arrests this week of five jihadists accused of plotting to murder one of the Danish cartoonists, it’s time to demonstrate sammenhold again.

As a show of solidarity and a reminder of how cowardly American media outlets refused to stand up when it counted, take a minute to reprint your favorite Mo cartoon or link back to the blogging you did on the cartoon rage two years ago.

Here’s the Mohammed Cartoon blogburst from Feb. 3, 2006. At least 192 blogs participated, including:

Yep, this humble blog was part of the festivities, posting all 12 of the cartoons. What a fun day it was.

Says Ed Morrissey:

Perhaps bloggers can take up some of the slack, and provide some leadership for our media outlets here in the US. At the very least, we can do so to salute the courage of the Danes on the front lines for free speech. It’s easy to defend free speech when it doesn’t cost anyone anything. The Danes have manned the barricades when it counts.

Unfortunately, American newspapers and media outlets do not appear interested in expressing the same solidarity. CNN doesn’t include the image in its report, and so far, I haven’t seen any newspaper cover it yet, although they may tomorrow. Only the New York Times gave any coverage to the arrests in today’s editions.

In solidarity with the Danish newspapers, here’s the cartoon that has assassins targeting Westergaard:

Bring on the fatwas, punks. Here’s more of us:

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Bookworm Room
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Common Folk Using Common Sense
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Diary of a Hollywood Refugee
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