Comedy

Comedy from the conservative press:

They claim that Hillary Clinton said that “the surge was working”. In fact she said no such thing:

According to an August 21 New York Times article, Clinton told the VFW: “We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it’s working. … We’re just years too late changing our tactics. We can’t ever let that happen again.” The Times also reported that “[a]ides to Mrs. Clinton said her remarks that military tactics in Iraq are ‘working’ referred specifically to reports of increased cooperation from Sunnis leading to greater success against insurgents in Al Anbar Province.” And according to an April 29 Times article on improvements in Al Anbar, the progress there “began last September” — months before Bush announced his plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq.

The conservatives brazenly lie about global warming research (or are too stupid to understand it). As Media Matters explains:

During the August 21 edition of Fox News’ Special Report, host Brit Hume cited “new research by University of Washington mathematicians [that] shows a correlation between high solar activity and periods of global warming” as evidence to support his claim that “[global warming] skeptics are increasingly certain that the scare is vastly overblown.” But an August 9, 2007, New Scientist article (subscription required) on the mathematicians’ research warned that “[c]limate-change skeptics may seize on the findings as evidence that the sun’s variability can explain global warming — but [the report's co-author] mathematician Ka-Kit Tung says quite the contrary is true.” According to the article, Tung, who is a University of Washington professor of applied mathematics and an adjunct professor in Atmospheric Science, says his finding, in the New Scientist’s words, “adds to the evidence that mainstream climate models are right about the likely extent of future human-generated warming.”

Remember, that is from New Scientist, not some pundit. The report goes on:

In summarizing the report, which analyzed satellite data on solar radiation and surface temperatures between 1959 and 2004 and found that global average temperatures fluctuated by almost 0.2 °C between high and low points in the 11-year solar cycle, The New Scientist reported:

“The finding adds to the evidence that mainstream climate models are right about the likely extent of future human-generated warming, Tung says. It also effectively rules out some lower estimates in those models.”

The article added:

Tung says his findings provide important real-world evidence that climate model predictions of global warming are correct. For instance, they show that the temperature changes are two to three times as strong in polar regions. On the face of it this is surprising, because the variation in solar radiation is greatest in the tropics. But Tung says “it reinforces the idea of melting ice as an amplification mechanism in the climate-change models.”
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More humor: weblinks and videos.

Do you want to write a postmodernist paper? History Mike can help you.

One of the strangest (and subversively brilliant) websites that I have stumbled across in recent years is what is known as the Postmodern Essay Generator, which produces scholarly-looking essays that are entirely without meaning.

Anyone who has struggled through a text that is weighed down by the author’s postmodern discourse will chuckle at this idea. The Essay Generator uses an application known as the Dada Engine, which generates random text from legitimate academic materials. [...]

Redstate Update: weighs in on the VFW candidate forum, including Obama’s, Clinton’s and Thompson’s appearances there.

Highly Non-PC Religious Humor If you are a sensitive believer, quit reading now.

The witty and lovely Shalini points us to a youtube video. I found this amusing because my wife once did one of these acts….at a church fundraiser!