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FLASH POINTS Current affairs and topical issues for discussion and debate. Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense FFi Editor (10-Dec-09, 09:28 pm) Evidence for human interference with Earth's climate continues to accumulate By John Rennie\|Scientific American\|November 30, 2009 On November 18, with the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen fast approaching, U.S. Sen. James R. Inhofe (R–Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to be "The Year of the Skeptic." Had the senator's speech marked a new commitment to dispassionate, rational inquiry, a respect for scientific thought and a well-grounded doubt in ghosts, astrology, creationism and homeopathy, it might have been cause for cheer. But Inhofe had a more narrow definition of skeptic in mind: he meant "standing up and exposing the science, the costs and the hysteria behind global warming alarmism." Read more » 0 comments ∙∙∙ Howard Dean Flattens Wingnut Wolf Blitzer on Abramoff FFi Editor (09-Jan-06, 03:33 pm) Don't miss this video clip of Howard Dean refuting Wolf Blitzer's false accusation that Democrats received contributions from Abramoff! Blitzer is visibly shaken by the encounter. Republicans are up to their eyeballs in the Abramoff scandal and they are doing everything they can to frame the debate as though this is a bipartisan problem instead of a Republican one. But as Dean points out, there is absolutely no evidence of Democrats receiving any money from Abramoff, none! Read more » 0 comments ∙∙∙ Two Loudon City firefighters fired for not doing their jobs FFi Editor (22-Dec-05, 11:37 pm) The following story (and video) is interesting because it demonstrates a point I have talked about extensively, most prominently in my essay A Firefighter Speaks-Out, in which I ask why it is that Jesus is always lavished with praise for the good things that happen but absolved of blame for the bad; and this even though he supposedly has the advantage of being omniscient and omnipotent, and thus could easily prevent such tragedies as this. Read more » 1 comments ∙∙∙

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