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What Global Warming?

Aaron — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:20:13 +0000

More Guns, Less Crime in ‘09

Aaron — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:02 +0000

But shouldn’t more guns equate to more murders and other violent crime? Only if you live in liberal never-never land.

Americans went on binges buying guns and ammunition in early 2009, worried that a radical leftist president and Democrat-dominated Congress would violate their Second-Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The effects? Less murder, robbery, rape, and property crime, according to an FBI report released Monday. This gives the young president and Democrat Congress at least one proud but unintended accomplishment for which they’ll never claim credit.

Indeed, gun buyers were out in droves in late 2008 and early 2009. While it’s easy to infer that increased gun ownership figures align precisely with the drop in crime in the same calendar period, you won’t see that headline in the New York Times, despite their penchant for such inferences about increases in crime coinciding with increasing “guns on the street.” Read more…

Soldier toy disarmed at airport

Aaron — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:54:28 +0000

A little old but shows how our tax dollars are hard at work.

A doll caused a security alert at an American airport because its two-inch plastic gun was considered a dangerous weapon.

Judy Powell, 55, from Walton on the Hill, Surrey, bought the GI Joe toy in Las Vegas and packed it in her hand luggage.

But security staff at Los Angeles International Airport refused to let Mrs Powell on board the plane with the replica rifle. Read more…

BMW S1000RR on the Dyno: Off the Charts!

Aaron — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:40:47 +0000

I want one!!

Used to be 180 hp at the back wheel was the result of tens of thousands of dollars of soup-up work: a turbo or nitrous, or just getting your hands on a megabucks works racebike. Them days are over: Motorcycle News, the weekly U.K. publication, just strapped a BMW S1000RR superbike to its dyno, revealing 183 hp at the rear tire. If you think this was a fluke, another dyno run by exhaust manufacturer Akrapovic (say “Ahh-Crop-Oh-Vitch”) showed 185.5 hp! Read more…

Kawasaki Out Of AMA Road Racing

Aaron — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:37:00 +0000

Great job DMG! Let’s see if you can completely run this series into the ground.

Whether it’s the dismal economy or a dislike for the current promoters of the series, there’s no arguing that the DMG-run 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing Championship is losing luster and losing it quickly. Today Kawasaki announced that the company will not field a team in the series in the coming season, joining Honda in pulling out and leaving Suzuki, Yamaha and possibly Ducati with factory participation in the series.

At least in its press release, Kawasaki blamed the economy as the reason for not going racing. Read more…

‘New era’ for MotoGP as 1,000cc returns in 2012

Aaron — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:56:32 +0000

Valentino Rossi has got his wish – the maximum engine capacity for MotoGP will return to 1,000cc from 2012 onwards, ending the era of what the Yamaha star has in the past described as ‘the biggest mistake the world championship has made in the last 15 years’.

Damn right! (Emphasis mine)

The announcement was made following a reunion of the Grand Prix Commission at the Geneva headquarters of governing body the FIM to discuss the future of MotoGP, assembling leading representatives from commercial and television rights-holder Dorna and the Motorcycle Sports Manufacturers’ Association (MSMA). Read more…

Mladin Tweets Imply That He’s Considering Coming Out Of Retirement For World Superbike Ride

Aaron — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:54:01 +0000

Seven-time AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin, 37, seems to be implying that he’s considering coming out of retirement to accept a ride in the 2010 FIM Superbike World Championship.

On December 9, Mladin posted the following on his Twitter page:

“a couple of world superbike offers have come my way in the past month. 1 of them very good in regards to machinery. decisions decisions ” Read more…

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Aaron — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:53:00 +0000

Copenhagen Climate Scam Conference

Aaron — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:48:04 +0000

With delegates from 194 nations present, the Copenhagen Climate Conference in Denmark got off to a fitting start with a film focusing on the alleged apocalyptic consequences of not acting to stop global warming before it’s too late. The planet will be ravaged and millions of people will die horrifying deaths as increasing temperatures in the Earth’s atmosphere result in a monumentally devastating deluge of man-made floods, droughts, storms, and rising seas. At the end of the terrifying film, a sweet little girl plaintively begs the conference attendees to “please help save the world.” It’s a script right out of Hollywood, made to order for an Academy Award-winning spectacular produced by Cecil B. DeMille or George Lucas. There’s just one problem: It would have to be titled “Climate Scam” because of the ultimate inconvenient truth: The case for global warming is based on junk science. Read more…

Feel-good story of the week

Aaron — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:34:13 +0000

A sniffer dog that went missing in action after a battle in Afghanistan has been found safe and well after more than a year in the desert.

Sabi the black Labrador was with a joint Australian-Afghan army patrol when it was ambushed by Taliban militants in September 2008. Read more…