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Quote of the day Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:35 PM PDT "The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising…" – ‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change   Link to this post!

Obama State Department Official: War on Terror Is Over Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT Michael Hirsh blogging about an article he wrote for National Journal wrote: "The war on terror is over," one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism." Really?  Whew! Seriously, just because Al Qaida has been diminished doesn't mean other groups won't step up to take their place.  I understand that tactics will change and the "frontlines" so to speak will change, but to declare it over? Just a tad premature don't you think?  It seems to be the type of complacency that a terrorist organization would want us to fall into.  Which is something we've seen in the Obama Administration's inability to use the term so this view by the State Department official is hardly a surprise.  But evidently our "victory," according to the National Journal is due to "Obama’s savagely successful military drone campaign against the worst of the violent jihadists, al Qaida." Link to this post!

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