This from the Orwellian file:

Holiday Display Task Force in Ft Collins, Co.

Holiday Display Task Force Recommends Broad Multi-Cultural Display

Christmas is alive and well in Fort Collins. So are other winter holidays. A Holiday Display Task Force, comprised of 15 citizens from a variety of faiths and organizations, who were appointed by the City Manager, has reviewed the City’s Holiday Display Policy and developed a set of recommendations that will be formally presented to the City Council on November 20. Recommendations from the Holiday Display Task Force apply only to City-sponsored displays inside and outside City buildings and facilities. They do not cover Old Town Square, which is owned by and under the authority of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA), nor do they address public or private programs held in conjunction with the holiday season or displays on private property.

 

 

Fort Collins Holiday Display Task Force

The Holiday Display Task Force is charged with reviewing the City's existing holiday display policy (PDF 28KB) and making recommendations regarding the display of religious symbols on public property. The 20 representatives were appointed by the City Manager after applying for the position during the month of July. The task force will begin meeting in August and will make recommendations to the City Council no later than October 31, 2007.

An example of some of the policy suggestions: Avoid snowflakes and red and green lighting--these things are too closely relatable to Christmas. My advice, remember this season to 'X' out--Xmas not Christmas!

The founder of the Weather Channel went apeshit over the idea of catastrophic man-made global warming yesterday. Check out this rant:

Intro by Joe D’Aleo, Icecap, CCM

I was privileged to work with John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel in the year before it became a reality and then for the first of the 6 years I was fortunate to be the Director of Meteorology. No one worked harder than John to make The Weather Channel a reality and to make sure the staffing, the information and technology was the very best possible at that time. John currently works with KUSI in San Diego. He posts regularly. I am very pleased to present his latest insightful post.

 

By John Coleman

 

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

 

Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.

 

I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.

 

I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.

 

In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend.