Going Rogue is selling like hotcakes. I guess her popularity is deeper than the networks realized. It appears she will be a force in the 2012 presidential election, even if she is not on the ticket. Without Sarah Palin's support, the Republicans are in deep trouble. However, it now appears that the Republican elites are aware that Sarah Palin's support is essential.
Wednesday’s Fox and Friends on FNC passed on a piece of information not likely to receive much attention from the mainstream media – that Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is so far outpacing Hillary Clinton’s Living History in sales. Co-anchor Alisyn Camerota relayed that "now there's a comparison between how Sarah Palin's book has done in the first week and how Hillary Clinton's memoir did the first week, and the winner is: Sarah Palin."
President Obama and his band of renown's are still advocating for a climate change agenda, even though there is a huge ClimateGate scandal. What is he thinking?
Who's denyin' now?
There may not be a better example of establishment media Climategate denial than Jim Tankersley's "breaking" story at the Los Angeles Times's Greenspace blog that President Barack Obama will attend the December 7-19 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tankersley identifies all kinds of supposed factors that seem to have influenced the president's alleged change of heart on attending, while ignoring one that seems more than a little possible -- the need to get some kind of one-world commitment done before enough of the world learns of the fraud that is Climategate.
ClimateGate and professional journals are in the spotlight. Well well, it seems that the professional journal community has finally been exposed.
However, professionals journals have always been suspect. For example, in the Management discipline, professional journals dealing with management sciences will block out the pitfalls of outsourcing production capacity to low wage countries.
Also, academic journals are suspect, because they will be reluctant to publish articles touting the academic success of Home School or Christian School students.
Thus, professional journals must be read with an eye the probability of self serving publishing goals.
And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.
“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.
After a couple of days of feeling out of sorts, it seems that Penny’s puppy pharmaceutical treatment has helped out immensely and that there was a very energetic and eager pointer ready for a big mountain hike this morning.
We took a great long hike down and then up to the top of the mountain The Aerie rests on. There were great views out to the ocean and even down to Point Loma.
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
