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October 14, 2009 - 05:36 am
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More On Scaife's Brain Trust

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

They just can't help themselves.

Take a look at today's "Midweek Briefing." Here is the middle "brief":
As the BBC's climate correspondent Paul Hudson reminds, global temperatures have not increased over the past 11 years. And he says that solar scientist Piers Corbyn is preparing to report to the international scientific community this month that solar activity is almost entirely responsible for temperature variations. Concludes Mr. Hudson: "One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over.
Before we look at Hudson's reporting, let's just have a look at how Nature.com sees the BBC report:
The BBC quotes Piers Corbyn from weather forecasting company Weatheraction and Don Easterbrook of Western Washington University.

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July 9, 2009 - 05:49 am
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Brian Kilmeade Is An Idiot

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Here's why.

As every story I've read hat tips Gawker, I'll have to assume they have the original story. Here's what they say:
To stave off dementia! Yes, today the befuddled screech owls on Fox & Friends were discussing a study that states that those that stay married fend off Alzheimer's and dementia better than lonely divorcees. Brian Kilmeade took issue with this.

He didn't trust the study because it was done in Finland and Sweden and the Finns and the Swedes stay "pure" by only marrying each other. Whereas in America, everyone marries everyone (so long as they're white and their partner is white.

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July 5, 2009 - 08:22 am
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Jack Kelly Sunday

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

In this week's column, Jack spews more of the right wing talking points on global climate change - making the usual non sequiturs to "prove" as a hoax something the world's scientific community actually supports. And they say the conservative movement is out of ideas.

I don't know if he's on a schedule or anything, but it turns out that Jack Kelly wrote another Climate Change article in the first week of July 2006. This one. In case you don't recall (and there's little or no reason why you should) that was the column where Fact-Free Jack missed the date of an important report - by 5 years.

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April 26, 2009 - 12:09 pm
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Jack Kelly Sunday

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

It was inevitable. In this week's column, Jack Kelly spins torture.

He starts, in all places, with the posthumous decapitation of Oliver Cromwell and the "bill of attainder" that led to it. Then he points out:
For obvious reasons, the American colonists were not fond of this aspect of the British legal system. Article 1, section 9, clause 3 of the Constitution declares: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed."
Do you know what else it says in Article 1, section 9 of the US Constitution? This is the sentence immediately above the one Jack patriotically parrots:
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

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April 19, 2009 - 07:41 am
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Torture. Waterboarding. Disgusting.

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Emptywheel is reporting:
According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
From page 37 of the memo:
The CIA used the waterboard "at least 83 times during August 2002" in the interrogation of Zubaydah. IG Report at 90, and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM, see id. at 91.
And sums it up:
The CIA wants you to believe waterboarding is effective. Yet somehow, it took them 183 applications of the waterboard in a one month period to get what they claimed was cooperation out of KSM.

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