Headlines Monday 8th September

Met’s models washed out
Andrew Bolt
Britain’s Met office firmly predicts man will cause the world to warm by 2100. But its record of predicting the weather over just the few months keeps inspiring ridicule. Steven Goddard on the Met’s latest:

On April 3, 2008 the Met made their annual UK summer forecast - “The coming summer is expected to be a ‘typical British summer’, according to long-range forecasts issued today. Summer temperatures across the UK are more likely to be warmer than average and rainfall near or above average for the three months of summer.”

On August 29, 2008 The Met reported that the summer of 2008 was ”one of the wettest on record across the UK.” Here is how the Independent described the UK summer - “It has been a miserable summer for bugs as well as people….The combined effect of low temperatures and rain has presented Britain’s invertebrates with a double whammy.”
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Mayo not the Liberal disaster they say
Andrew Bolt
Much is being made of the swing against the Liberals in the by-election for Mayo after the retirement of former Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer.

Treasurer Wayne Swan gloats that it spells the end for Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson. Glenn Milne agrees, drawing a parallel with the less of the Newcastle by-election by Labor under then-doomed Simon Crean.

Steady, folks. The swing is big, yes, and Liberal candidate Jamie Briggs will be on notice to spend the next two and a half years persuading local voters they made no mistake. But there are at last four factors to consider that makes this far from the humiliation being suggested - and one of them is that Downer not long ago suffered much the same bruising results as Briggs did on Saturday.
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The newly conservative Obama
Andrew Bolt
Something Barack Obama failed to mention in either of his two autobiographies:

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and “we weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point”.

Perhaps this jogged his memory:

The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%… This is also McCain’s largest advantage over Obama since early May...

Or maybe it was this:

Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin left St. Paul, Minnesota, with a smallish bounce overall ..., the latest Zogby Interactive poll finds. The McCain/Palin ticket wins 49.7% support, compared to 45.9% backing for the Obama/Biden ticket...

UPDATE

Verbal slips, however innocent, about ”my Muslim faith” aren’t going to help much, though:

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One more Palin smear fizzles out
Andrew Bolt
The Left is now desperately hyping Sarah Palin’s Troopergate ”scandal" - the allegation (denied) that she and her family pulled strings to get her then brother-in-law Mike Wooten fired as a state trooper.

But CNN’s Drew Griffin wonders just how desperate you’d have to be to think this any scandal at all:
In our interview, Wooten rattled off a disturbing number of “mistakes” he’s made in his career. He admits tasering his stepson, illegally killing a moose and admits to multiple reprimands in his file. A state trooper investigation even found credible evidence he was drinking in his patrol car.

But please tell me if you think his tale — dubbed Troopergate by Gov. Palin’s political enemies — is really the scandal that will bring down the newest star on the political scene.
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Out of context, no doubt
Andrew Bolt
A Muslim-born reporter for Britain’s Channel 4 visits Britain’s most influential mosque:

In a large balcony above the beautiful main hall at Regent’s Park Mosque in London - widely considered the most important mosque in Britain - I am filming undercover as the woman preacher gives her talk.

What should be done to a Muslim who converts to another faith? “We kill him,” she says, ”kill him, kill, kill…You have to kill him, you understand?”
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Same faith, different prophets
Andrew Bolt
Catholics believe in Armageddon and the fires of hell. So do global warming believers.

Catholics believe we must repent our sins to be saved. So do global warming believers.

Catholics believe love of money is the root of evil. So do global warming believers, only they called money “industrialisation”.

Catholics believe we should not eat meat on Fridays. So, now, do global warming believers:

People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world’s leading authority on global warming has told The Observer. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.