Wherein The Fly is Fired Up

The good news: I was crazy productive last night, having accomplished everything but my scheduled Arabic lesson (which can be doubled up on tonight); this includes a swim workout, push-ups and sit-ups, stretching, preparing a pomegranate for breakfast, preparing two days worth of work clothes, and watching Chuck while I did it. The bad news? Just the news today, but there are some pretty profound discussions from yours truly regarding climate change "science"/policy, and abortion/"health care" policy. Read on.

5 Brits Taken to Iran After Yacht Stopped in Iranian Waters (Fox, CNN, BBC, Guardian, Guardian, Times) - Is there anyone who the Iranians won't illegally detain anymore? First British sailors and Marines, then more British sailors and Marines, then three lost hikers in Kurdistan, and now this?

Australia vote deals climate law blow (BBC, Guardian); Times: Climate Change Scientists Admit Dumping Data; BBC: 'Show Your Working': What 'ClimateGate' means - Finally, the "scientists" who give the "evidence" of so-called "climate change" are seeing their ill-gotten credibility rescinded. I'm all for sustainability, and I'm all for government taking some role in making it happen, but this global warming/climate change hogwash has been a disaster in the making since day one. It appears that some folks are finally getting wise to the fact that this isn't science at all; but rather, partisans in positions of authority who have abused their hold over inconclusive data to influence international policy. This is simply unacceptable.

AP: Samuel Adams Beer Pushes the Envelop on Extreme Beer - Samuel Adams makes many awesome beers, they're one of the best brewers in the country, and I almost always have at least one of their products incorporated into my periodic Beer Runs. Samuel Adams Beer is representative of everything that is good and right in America.

CNN: Hezbollah blames U.S. for all terrorism - Yeah. Okay.

BBC: Saddam TV channel drops off air three days after launch

BBC: Spain fears Mauritania kidnap was al-Qaeda

Guardian: Dubai bans sale of the Sunday Times - Ha!

Guardian: The religious right redux - The writer tries to make the claim that it's the "religious right" who are trying to derail the absolute disaster of a health care reform plan that's currently languishing in the Senate. As both a social conservative and a taxpayer, my question is this: why should my tax dollars be used to fund something that I find morally objectionable, and that - worst case, but most common scenario - involves people making poor decisions? Let's face it, most abortions in this country do not result from rape and incest, and the vast majority of conservatives are willing to accept abortion in those cases. Most abortions happen because people - let's face it, both men and women, because it takes two - are too irresponsible to either use protection, take birth control medication, or abstain from sex. I'm twenty-seven years old, and I have never put myself in a position where I could possibly get a young woman pregnant. Moral objections aside, why should money that I worked hard to make, and that the government scarcely has any right to in the first place, be used to fund abortions for people who don't care to be as responsible as me? Nice try, Guardian, but you fail again.

Guardian: Building intolerance in Switzerland - Yeah, it's the Swiss who are intolerant, not the immigrants. Totally.

Times: Evidence of life on Mars lurks beneath surface of meteorite, Nasa experts claim - Not this rubbish, again...

AFP: Iran Guards take over naval forces in Gulf: US intelligence

UPI: Falklands oil quest takes off - Isn't that interesting, twenty-seven years later?

Have I sufficiently pissed enough people off with this post? Alright, well, check back in tomorrow for more from yours truly. In the mean time, off I go to save the world.