Wait, huh…?

This morning, we could read in the papers that Helle Thorning, the threat to decency and second in command of the red faction in Denmark (next only to foreman Villy), was happy that the red-green chamber of horrors had won the election in Norway.  This evening, we can then read that they didn’t.  Actually the […]

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Getting One’s Just Deserts…

The largest party in Denmark proposed to increase the fines for taking part in illegal demonstrations. Normally, I’m not for the way the climate debate progresses, but at least this is a positive outcome.  The proposal, dubbed “lømmelpakken” (the lout bill) basically has three parts: Hefty increase in the fines, e.g., from DKK 600 to […]

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CO2 is the Food of Trees! Why Do You Hate Trees?

I just read that the Danish Nationalist Party suggests we give more money to Bjørn Lomborg. This made me happy. Bjørn Lomborg is known for suggesting that just throwing money at the environmental problems with no regard for how we spend the money may not be right.

A lot of arguments these days come from people who does not understand the difference between correlation and causality. The CO2 argument is one of those. We notice that temperature has risen. At the same time (or a decade or so displaces, depending on who you ask) CO2 in the atmosphere has risen. This is correlation: knowing the value of one of the phenomena, allows us to predict the value of the other. […]

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On a Scale from 1 to Stupid…

Some times you read the news and it’s just instant facepalm. I felt like this reading this article.

The article is about the fact that iraqi police demands $750 a pop to release three people. A group called the Mentally Disabled Idiots (actually they are called Church Asylum, but that does not make any sense, as there is no such thing, so my name is better).

Okay, give me a B, give me an L, give me the rest of the letters in blackmail…
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