Wednesday, March 31, 2010

MORE jobs LOST - 23,000 this month

Quoting the ADP Employment Report:
“Nonfarm private employment decreased 23,000 from February to March on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report®. The estimated change of employment from January 2010 to February 2010 was revised down slightly, from a decline of 20,000 to a decline of 24,000.”
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Click here to further examine Obama’s EPIC FAILURE!

54% STILL Want to Repeal ObamaCare

Quoting Rasmussen Reports:
“One week after the House of Representatives passed the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, 54% of the nation's likely voters still favor repealing the new law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% oppose repeal.”
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Click here & examine the tyranny of ObamaCare.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

NewsBusted Video - 3/26/10

NewsBusted Comedy Show From 3/26/10:


NewsBusted Comedy Show From 3/23/10:

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Racial Epithet - Put up or SHUT UP!

3/28/10 update:
1) The lame stream media expects Breitbart to prove a negative!
Really? Seriously? What has “journalism” come to?
I wish I could say that I am surprised -- I’m not!

2) Breitbart now offers a $100,000 donation to UNCF
if Lewis can PROVE “the N-word” was used!
Guess what - he will NEVER have to pay!
It NEVER HAPPENED!

3/26/10 update:
Dims took their best shot
& came up short on ALL COUNTS!
WOW! What a shocker - NOT!

The day before ObamaCare was tyrannically and dishonestly imposed upon an unwilling nation, Dims claimed that “some among the [Tea Party protest] crowd chanted ‘the N-word, the N-word, 15 times’.”

Yeah, sorry Dims, we’ve seen this trick before (over and over and over again).

The best way to fully understand the strategy behind this game is to click here and study the history of Cultural Marxism.

Quoting Andrew Breitbart at BigJournalism.com:
“As I have said over and over and over, the left has one trick that it will use again and again when its back is in the corner: shout ‘racist’ in a crowded country….

YouTube video shows that at least two of the men in the procession were carrying video cameras and holding them above the crowd. They have not come forth with evidence to show that even one person hurled the vile racist epithet…

It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once…

Rep. Lewis, if you can’t do that, I’ll give him a backup plan: a lie detector test. If you provide verifiable video evidence showing that a single racist epithet was hurled as you walked among the tea partiers, or you pass a simple lie detector test, I will provide a $10K check to the United Negro College Fund.”
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If you don’t understand why I chose the above image, then please study the history of Cultural Marxism.

Okay, that is simple enough. If the allegations are true, why would Lewis not take this opportunity to put $10,000 in the coffers of the UNCF? I’m betting he won’t -- I’m betting it never happened! WHY, in the age of ubiquitous cell phone videos and wall to wall media hype, did NOBODY capture ANY evidence that this EVER happened?

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Obama's Dangerous Nuke Free Fantasy

Quoting The Associated Press
(emphasis mine):
“The U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades Friday, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals' warhead arsenals by nearly one-third and talking hopefully of eventually ridding a fearful world of nuclear arms altogether…

Obama called the pact a step toward ‘the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.’”
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I knew this was coming.
And, I warned you in advance.

Excuse me Chairman Zero…
Is Iran onboard with your moronic utopian fantasy?
Dims are DANGEROUS!

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The ObamaCare Writedowns

Quoting The Wall Street Journal:
“Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses…

Democrats don't like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet.

The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them.

Meanwhile, John DiStaso of the New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week that ObamaCare could cost the Granite State's major ski resorts as much as $1 million in fines”
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Aditionally…
Our local Socialist rag reports:
“Steamboat Ski Area officials said Tuesday that the federal health care overhaul could cost their business as much as $2 million a year beginning in 2014.”
What a job killer!
Obama’s epic failure just got WORSE!
Maybe Obama’s biggest fan can offer advice.

Click here for commentary.

Friday, March 26, 2010

SpiderBait - Black Betty

It’s only rock and roll, but I like it.
Inspired by a recent FlashForward soundtrack:


Chairman Zero - Be careful what you ask for!

From the Leftist web site TalkingPointsMemo,
Obama On GOP running on repeal:
“Go For It”


Chairman Zero defied public opinion in imposing his tyranny.
So, it’s little wonder he is blind to current public opinion.
Chairman Zero: 55% of America sides with the GOP!
Update: Make that 61% (as of 9/20/10)!

Click here and ponder tyrannical times.

Obama's biggest fan - Fidel Castro

Obama, with his bald faced lies -- married to phony promises, clearly failed miserably in his pathetic attempt to win the hearts and minds of the American people. Hell, this phony couldn’t even win over his own party without engaging in the sleaziest corruption ever seen outside of Chicago.

But, Obama’s semi-stealth strategy for an absolute Socialist takeover has, to the surprise of nobody, won him one at least ONE big fan -- Fidel Castro.

Click the image & ponder tyrannical times:
Click the image & ponder tyrannical times

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Will America Breakup?

Quoting Jeffrey T. Kuhner at WashingtonTimes.com:
“President Obama is splintering America. The passage of Obamacare was a historic victory for liberal governance. Yet, its true cost may be that it triggers the eventual breakup of the country…

The bitter debate over Obamacare has exposed the country's profound divisions. We are no longer one nation or one people. Rather, there are now two Americas: one conservative, the other liberal. Increasingly, we no longer just disagree but we despise each other.”
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1) I disagree with the author’s assertion that homosexuality is “immoral”. For my part, I don’t care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes -- so long as they do not hold a gun to my head and demand that I reimburse them for the consequences of their behaviors. And, there’s the rub.

2) I do NOT advocate, condone or endorse either violence or destruction of property. That -- I believe -- is EXACTLY what the so-called “Progressives” WANT! They WANT civil unrest as an EXCUSE to grab absolute power.

3) But, there is -- absolutely, positively -- no reconciling the two Americas (and, there never will be). I no longer care to live in Obama’s America. I really, truly, deeply and sincerely would like to find a way to peacefully divide the nation into two (and watch from afar as the Obamanation sinks into ruin).

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Government Motors 'vision' of the future

Quoting The AP:
“GM's ‘automobile solution’ for the future, just might fit into an apartment foyer…

The two-wheel, two-seater EN-V, which looks something like an oversized vacuum cleaner, is not just about making vehicles small, lightweight and emission-free, the company says.”
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Leave it to Government Motors to imagine a car with an even higher fatality rate than the so-called “Smart Car”. Heck, I would be far safer and a whole lot happier on a hog.

Coulter suppressed by the tyrannical Left

Quoting Fox News
(emphasis mine):
“A protest by hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a Tuesday night speech by American conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa.

A spokesman for the organizers said Coulter was advised against appearing after about 2,000 ‘threatening’ students crowded the entrance to Marion Hall, posing a security threat…

A protest organizer, international studies student Mike Fancie, said he was pleased they were able to stop Coulter from speaking.
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Stalin would be very proud of these thugs.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cartoons for today - 3/23/10

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Anyone who does not understand why each “bullet point” is
dead bang accurate has simply not examined the evidence.


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Click here & examine the latest polling data.
Click here & examine ObamaCare accounting fraud.
Click here & understand the motive behind ObamaCare.

Obama Zombies

Quoting Young America’s Foundation (YAF):
“Jason Mattera, former Young America's Foundation spokesman, is out with a brand-new book, Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation…

Obama Zombies uncovers the true, behind-the-scenes story of the methods and tactics the Obama campaign unleashed on youth culture. Through personal interviews and meticulous original research, Mattera explains why conservatism's future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left.”
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Click here for more on academic indoctrination.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Dims Flunked Third Grade Math

Nothing is EVER so expensive as that which is “free”:

Click here and here to further examine this theme.

We’ve been trained to expect “free” health care
by people with ulterior motives.

Hell NO! Shame on you!

From the songs for tyrannical times collection:

Click here for the rest of John Boehner’s speech.
Click here for the back-story.

Given the polling data, the clear as day accounting fraud and the obvious quasi-hidden agenda (just to name a few of the MANY overt travesties), is it any wonder the Dims rammed this through on a Sunday, after the damn bill was made available for inspection just the previous Thursday?
What SCUM!
SCREW IT! LET’S RIDE!
(on Washington D.C.)

Does Pelosi have a serious pre-existing condition?

Click the image & examine the evidence of illness:
Click the image & examine the evidence of illness
This image was cropped from an Ann Althouse photo credited below:

Sunday, March 21, 2010

ObamaCare = No More AAA Debt Rating?

Quoting The Sydney Morning Herald:
“The bond market is saying that it's safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama…

The $US2.59 trillion of Treasury Department sales since the start of 2009 have… raised concerns whether the US deserves its AAA credit rating…

While Treasuries backed by the full faith and credit of the government typically yield less than corporate debt, the relationship has flipped…

America will use about 7 per cent of taxes for debt payments in 2010 and almost 11 per cent in 2013, moving ‘substantially’ closer to losing its AAA rating, Moody's said last week.”
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So, on the very night that ObamaCare passes the House, we learn the bond market is signaling that U.S. Treasury notes might have already effectively lost their “AAA” rating -- leading to even higher interest payments on our soaring national debt.

But, the Dims tell us ObamaCare will reduce deficit spending. So, what’s going on here?

What’s going on here is that everybody -- including the Dims -- knows ObamaCare will dramatically increase deficit spending!

Click here for the facts on the big spending Dims.
Click here for the facts on ObamaCare & deficit spending.
Click here to examine our debt crisis & Paul Ryan’s plan.

Paul Ryan For President

IF there is any hope of saving this country,
it rests with Paul Ryan.

This was his speech tonight
against the travesty of ObamaCare:


H/T to Nice Deb.
Click here to examine our debt crisis & Ryan’s plan.

John Boehner speaks truth to power

Despite Boehner’s impassioned appeal,
House Dims defied the will of the people:


House Dims flip off the American people

House Dims brazenly defied the will of the people.
Tonight, they voted to send ObamaCare to Obama’s desk.


This is a very sad night for America.
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Busting the Dim deceptions about ObamaCare

Dims claim ObamaCare will REDUCE deficit spending.
The NYT describes that claim as fantasy in, fantasy out!


Click the image to explore the charts:
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Click here for details behind the charts.
Click here to examine “The Doctor Fix”.
Click here to examine our debt crisis & Paul Ryan’s plan.

Paul Ryan on abortion & deficits in ObamaCare


Click here to examine just “The Doctor Fix”.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Screw it! Let's Ride!

Let’s ride on Washington D. C.
and deliver that sucker back to the people:


We don’t do Government Motors!
And, we damn sure don’t do Socialist Health Care!

Cartoon of the day-03/20/10

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Click here & examine the latest polling data.
Click here & examine ObamaCare accounting fraud.
Click here & understand the motive behind ObamaCare.
Click here to see why ObamaCare will severely limit access.

Click here for the fight song.
Click here for the protest song.

Friday, March 19, 2010

CBO busts the latest ObamaCare Voodoo accounting

The Dims are crowing about an alleged ObamaCare deficit reduction. But, this alleged reduction is based upon what they KNOW is a phony set of assumptions. And, as usual, the dishonest Dims are trying to ram this bill through -- THIS SUNDAY -- before the American people figure out their latest WHOPPER of a deception!

Click here for the CBO report which the Dims are using to support their LIES!

Click here for the CBO report -- requested by Congressman Paul Ryan -- which exposes the LIES!

Here are the basics behind this latest example of ObamaCare Voodoo economics:

1) The Dim CBO score assumes -- at the request of the Dims -- that nothing will be done to address a looming deadline imposed by previously passed legislation which will require a 21% decrease in reimbursements doctors receive from Medicare.

Doctors are ALREADY abandoning Medicare in DROVES! Even The Mayo Clinic is backing out! If Medicare reimbursement is cut by ANOTHER 21%, will ANY doctors continue to accept Medicare patients? Not bloody many! The Dims KNOW THIS! They KNOW they will be FORCED -- either now or later -- to pass H.R.3961, commonly known as “The Doctor Fix”.

2) The CBO score requested by Paul Ryan factors in “The Doctor Fix”. And, with “The Doctor Fix” included (as it was in the Senate bill), we find that ObamaCare substantially INCREASES already catastrophic deficit spending -- DUH!

3) Obama has SWORN that he would NOT sign any health care bill which increased deficit spending. But, Obama KNOWS that he is using LIES, deceptions and Voodoo economics to merely PRETEND that this pig of a bill will not increase deficit spending!

What a filthy, stinking pack of SHAMELESS CROOKS, THEIVES & LIARS!

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Click here for even MORE ObamaCare Voodoo economics.

Obama Approval Index Ties Record Low - Minus 21

With a weekend vote looming on the tyranny of ObamaCare,
Obama’s approval index has tied its all-time record low -- minus 21.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Walgreens - Why ObamaCare stinks on ice

Quoting a Walgreens press release:
“Walgreens… has given notice to the State of Washington that… effective April 16 they will not accept new Washington Medicaid patients.”
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H/T to The Freedom Post.

So, what -- you might ask -- does this have to do with ObamaCare?

What is going on here is typical of all efforts by the Dims to “manage” the soaring cost of healthcare. In the “mind” of a Dim, we need only forcibly reduce the compensation to the providers and costs will plummet -- with no adverse side effects. Just eliminate the evil profit motive and all will be well.

Well, no, eliminate that evil profit motive and the goods and services will become less available -- or, not available at all. Any properly educated fifth grader could understand that. But, nobody ever accused the Dims of being smarter than a fifth grader (or, our “education” system of working properly).

Click here and here to understand why our health care problem is a function -- not of too little access to health care, but too MUCH access to health care (on somebody else’s dime).

Click here to further explore why ObamaCare stinks on ice.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

February accelerates USA cooling trends

1) This post deals with USA temperatures.
2) Click here to address global temperature trends.
3) Click here to reproduce each NOAA graph below.
4) Note the warming bias (about 30%) in NOAA data.


February, 1998-2010
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1) February, 2010 was 2.24 F COLDER than the avg. Feb. of the 20th century!
2) We see a twelve year February COOLING TREND of -4.61 F per decade!


February, 1981-2010
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We see a TWENTY-NINE year February cooling trend of -0.13 F per decade!


Winter, 1998-2010
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1) Winter, 2010 was 1.76 F COLDER than the avg. winter of the 20th century!
2) We see a twelve year winter COOLING TREND of -3.15 F per decade!


Winter, 1987-2010
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NO WINTER WARMING TREND over the last TWENTY-THREE years!


Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to examine EPA tyranny.


NEJM - Why ObamaCare stinks on ice (updated)

3/17/10 Update:
Subsequent to the creation of this post, the cowards at the New England Journal of Medicine removed their original entry and replaced it with an entry which -- rather than offering their own commentary -- merely links to the firm which conducted the survey.

Were some power crazed “Progressives” upset at the attention this survey received? Did NEJM get a call from Pelosi?

Quoting The New England Journal of Medicine:
“46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.”
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Click here for Paul Ryan’s take on ObamaCare.

Howard Stern & Mad Magazine reject the Dims

First Howard Stern:


Then Mad Magazine!
Seriously! Click the image:

Seriously! Click the image
Geez! Who’s next? Bill Maher?
H/T to BigFurHat at iOwnTheWorld.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Paul Ryan - Why ObamaCare stinks on ice


Click here for more commentary.

Existing entitlements alone WILL cause a fiscal collapse.
ObamaCare entitlements WILL accelerate the collapse.
Paul Ryan has a plan that could save the nation.
Click here & examine all of that.

Unfortunately, most indicators I see suggest the Dims will -- in OVERT DEFIANCE of the will of the people -- garner enough votes to impose this pig upon the American people. If they do, it will be -- by FAR -- the single worst act of tyranny in the entire history of this nation. We can only hope the Republicans can find some way to stop it.

Combat dogs take to the skies

Quoting TimesOnline:
“The use of dogs in High Altitude High Opening missions was pioneered by America’s Delta Force, which trained the animals to breathe through oxygen masks during the jump.”
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Six myths about climate change 'deniers'

Quoting Bill DiPuccio
at Quadrant Online:
“There are numerous myths surrounding those who are wrongly labeled ‘deniers’. Most of them can be distilled into six basic accusations:

1. ‘Deniers’ believe the climate has not warmed…
2. ‘Deniers’ are not real scientists…
3. ‘Deniers’ are a tiny minority of scientists…
4. ‘Deniers’ are anti-environmental shills of Big Oil…
5. ‘Deniers’ think CO2 is irrelevant…
6. ‘Deniers’ believe humans have no impact on climate.”
Click the image & read the rebuttal to each myth:
Click the image & read the rebuttal to each myth
Click here for some basic climate change science.

I’m disappointed to see Mr. DiPuccio cave in to the false claim that the “current consensus” sides with the AGW alarmists.

It is my position that if there exists any “current consensus” among scientists on AGW, the consensus is on the skeptical side.

IF there exists any contrary “current consensus” among scientists who are currently publishing literature on climate science, it is my view that this is driven more by a financial incentive which is entirely corrupted by politics than anything else.

Three of four temperature datasets are tainted

Quoting Christopher Horner at Pajamas Media:
“NASA’s temperature data is worse than the Climategate temperature data. According to NASA…

Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts have found NCDC completely incredible, having made a practice out of not including cooler temperature stations over time, exaggerating the warming illusion.

Three out of the four temperature datasets stink, with corroboration from the alarmists. Second-sourced, no less.

Anyone know if Japan [the location of only remaining alarmist dataset] has a FOIA?”
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Click here for the closest approximation of temperature trends.

Click here for ClimateGate Reloaded.
Click here for some basic climate change science.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Test your knowledge of the American revolution

Quoting The American Revolution Center:
“John Adams, in the Defense of the Constitutions (1787), argues for the importance of patriotic education by writing that students and citizens ‘should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.’ A principal means of securing the ‘blessings of liberty’ that the Constitution describes is by educating rising generations about these precious birth rights. In a democratic republic, the primary purpose of education is to cultivate civic and moral literacy among its citizens.”
Click the image & take the test:
Click the image & take the test
I got 15 of 20 correct -- a middle C grade.
That’s not good enough -- I need to study more.

Click here for the results of a similar test
(where the average grade was a miserable 44%).
The average citizen needs to study A WHOLE LOT MORE!

Carly for Cali - Dump Barbara Boxer


There are very few people I despise more than Boxer.
I would LOVE to see that worthless bimbo go!
Click here to learn more.

Click here for Obama’s quote on electric rates.
Click here for more facts on Cap & Trade.

Click here for some basic climate change science.

Today's Cartoons - 3/13/10

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Click here for Scott Brown’s analysis.


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Click here for more on Rangel.

Scott Brown busts the Dims on health care


Click here for the polling data.
Click here & call the fence sitters.

Call These Swing Congressmen on Health Care

Quoting Dick Morris
(former Clinton advisor):
“These thirty Democratic Congressmen all voted for Obamacare the first time around. But Pelosi cannot count on their votes again as Obama tries to jam the bill through using reconciliation in the Senate. These members are all vulnerable and are frightened of the voter backlash their support for Obamacare has kindled… pick up the phone and call these swing Congressmen. Let them hear from you!”
Click the image for the phone list:
Click the image for the phone list
Call them all!
Click here to learn more.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Toyota Recalling Demonic Lawn Mowers


In related news:
Click here for “Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax”
(and the role of the lame stream media).

Click here for more on the Toyota hysteria.

Today's Cartoon - 3/12/10

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Pelosi - Pass the bill to find out what is in it

According to Nancy (the botox bimbo) Pelosi,
she has to pass her health care tyranny before we can
find out what is in her 2,700 pages of pure tyranny:


Are you freaking kidding me?
No wonder Obama’s approval rating is in the tank!

We know there are 111 new bureaucracies in the bill.
Click here to learn more.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Can Nancy Pelosi Get The Votes?

Quoting Michael Barone at The Wall Street Journal:
“Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to Asia. Nevertheless, analysts close to the Democratic leadership tell me they're confident the leadership will find some way to squeeze out the 216 votes needed for a majority.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indeed shown mastery at amassing majorities. But it's hard to see how she'll do so on this one. The arithmetic as I see it doesn't add up.”
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House Dems are on notice that
NONE of the Senate Republicans will tolerate Dim tyranny.

Click here & recall some of the sleaze in the current bill.
Click here & examine public opinion.

Cartoon of the Day - 3/10/10

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Click here for the facts.

Welcome to the 5th & final stage of AGW hysteria

Quoting page 8 of
“In Denial - The meltdown of the climate campaign”:
“[Anthony] Downs laid out a five-stage cycle through which political issues of all kinds typically pass.”
The 5 stages are described as
(I inserted the links):
1) A group of experts and interest groups begin promoting [or fabricating] a problem or crisis.

2) Stage one is soon followed by the alarmed discovery of the problem by the news media and broader political class.

3) There comes “a gradually spreading realization that the cost of ‘solving’ the [alleged] problem is very high indeed.”

4) A gradual decline in the intensity of public interest in the problem.

5) “In the final [post-problem] stage,” Downs concluded, “an issue that has been replaced at the center of public concern moves into a prolonged limbo—a twilight realm of lesser attention or spasmodic recurrences of interest.”
“In Denial - The meltdown of the climate campaign”
then concludes:
“The death rattle of the climate campaign will be deafening. It has too much political momentum and fanatical devotion to go quietly. The climate campaigners have been fond of warning of catastrophic ‘tipping points’ for years. Well, a tipping point has indeed arrived—just not the one the climate campaigners expected.

The lingering question is whether the collapse of the climate campaign is also a sign of a broader collapse in public enthusiasm for environmentalism in general. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, two of the more thoughtful and independent-minded figures in the environmental movement, have been warning their green friends that the public has reached the point of ‘apocalypse fatigue.’ They’ve been met with denunciations from the climate campaign enforcers for their heresy. The climate campaign has no idea that it is on the cusp of becoming as ludicrous and forlorn as the World -Esperanto Association.”
Click the image & read the entire report:
Click the image & read the entire report
Click here for some basic climate change science.

Is the climate science settled?

Al Gore (a washed up politician & total charlatan) sez:
The science is settled.

The debate is over.
Phil Jones (scientist at the core of the ClimateGate scandal) sez:
“It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view.”
Another myth bites the dust!
Click here to further refute the so-called “consensus”.
Click here & explore the meltdown of the climate campaign.
Click here for some basic climate change science.

Obama Approval Index Ties Record Low - Minus 21

Approval index = strongly approve - strongly disapprove.
Obama’s approval index is now minus 21.
This ties the record low.

Obama’s approval rating is 43%.
This also ties the record low.

Health care tyranny is to blame.

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Rasmussen Reports further notes
(in a link which changes every day):
“Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help.

Sixty percent (60%) of parents believe that textbooks used by their students are more concerned about political correctness than accuracy.

Republicans hold a seven-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.”

Monday, March 8, 2010

Truly innovative music from Perpetuum Jazzile


Toto’s Africa covered by Perpetuum Jazzile.

It begins (slowly & brilliantly) with
a thunder storm simulated by hands and feet.

This Slovenian choir is just brilliant!
I bless the rains down in Africa:


Click here for Toto’s original version.

Judge Jim Gray in 1992 on Drug Prohibition


To be clear on my views:

1) I agree with everything the judge said.

2) I have undying contempt for those who -- today -- consume illegal drugs. They have more blood on their hands than the murderous cartels. Without the demand, there would be no cartels. Users are scum! Period!

3) That said, I have even more contempt for the (Progressive) politicians who created the prohibition on both alcohol AND narcotics in the first place. Yes, it was so-called “Progressives” who first created both. Study your history.

So-called “Progressives” have always wanted to tightly control what we put in our bodies. Just look at their current war against all manner of foods which they deem to be either unhealthy or even bad for the environment.

4) Of all the stupid, ignorant, destructive politicians; none are more so than those who make the consumption of a drug legal (or effectively legal) while leaving the production and distribution illegal. That is an unsurpassed recipe for maximizing violence and criminal profits. It is very hard to believe these politicians are really so stupid as to not understand that.

5) Those that claim alcohol is worse than pot are willfully ignorant.

First, the overwhelming majority of those who consume alcohol NEVER consume it to the point of intoxication. EVERYBODY who consumes pot ALWAYS consumes it for the SOLE PURPOSE of getting intoxicated. Everybody who uses pot abuses pot.

Second, click here and dispel the propaganda suggesting that pot is harmless and non-addictive. Pot is FAR from harmless and it is CLEARLY addictive.

I believe that -- over the last 50 years -- drug abuse has severely weakened the fabric of this nation (and this world). The nation and the world would be much better off if we could reduce the amount of drug abuse. As the Dutch have said, perhaps making drug abuse boring will help reduce the amount of abuse. Changing cultural attitudes will do far more good.

6) As bad as all the various illegal drugs are and as much harm as they do to our society, the prohibition of these drugs does MANY orders of magnitude MORE HARM to our society. Street gangs alone do FAR more harm to our nation (and our youth) EVERY MONTH than al Qaeda ever has in its entire lifetime (so far).

Decriminalizing narcotics will not entirely eliminate street gangs. But, it will eliminate what is -- by far -- their largest source of income (and allure).

I am not arguing against fighting radical Islam -- we must do so. I AM suggesting that we need to end the enormously counterproductive prohibition on all narcotics. How we do that will not be easy or comfortable. But, we MUST find a way to get ‘er done. The system we have today becomes more corrupt, more destructive and more counter-productive with each passing year.

The current system is not working and can never work. It will only get worse and worse and worse.

The Messiah Promises More Free Candy

The Messiah promises more free candy.
And, the indoctrinated “students” lap it up:


There is, of course, no free lunch.
And, nothing is ever so expensive as that which is “free”.
Click here and here to understand why.
Click here and here for more on how much free candy costs.

Obama forgot to tell these kids they will be stuck with the bill.

Ninjaness


In Denial - The meltdown of the climate campaign

Quoting Steven F. Hayward at The Weekly Standard:
“It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago—changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.

The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hitherto the gold standard in climate science, is under fire for shoddy work and facing calls for a serious shakeup. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel, is falling apart in the wake of the collapse of any prospect of enacting cap and trade in Congress. Meanwhile, the climate campaign’s fallback plan to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the cumbersome Clean Air Act is generating bipartisan opposition. The British media—even the left-leaning, climate alarmists of the Guardian and BBC—are turning on the climate campaign with a vengeance.”
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Click here to expand upon all of this.
Click here & explore the 5 stages of AGW Hysteria.
Click here for some basic climate change science.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Obama at the bat

An allegory for ObamaCare?

Click here if you don’t recall the original poem.
Remember Dims…
Tyranny has consequences.

Treasonous Californian arrested in Pakistan?

Another Update:
The latest report (from CBS) remains unclear.

Update:
NYDailyNews.com has backed off this story a bit.
I have changed the quote to reflect the updated entry.
They now report that the story cannot be confirmed.
Of course, it’s possible the story was leaked prematurely,
thereby compromising any potential intelligence gained from Gadahn.

Quoting NYDailyNews.com:
“Pakistani officials say they've nabbed Adam Gadahn, the treasonous Californian Al Qaeda leader who has long been on Washington's Most Wanted list.

It would be a huge victory in the battle against the terror network, but high level US officials in Washington could not immediately confirm the report.”
Click the image (of Gadahn) & read the rest:
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Senate Report on ClimateGate

Quoting The Senate report on ClimateGate:
“• The CRU controversy and recent revelations about errors in the IPCC’s most recent science assessment cast serious doubt on the validity of EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The IPCC serves as the primary basis for EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.

• Instead of moving forward on greenhouse gas regulation, the Agency should fully address the CRU controversy and the IPCC’s flawed science.”
Click the image (copied from the report)
& read the rest:

Click the image (copied from the report) & read the rest
Click here for Dr. Richard Lindzen’s Climategate assessment.
Click here for another report on ClimateGate.

Click here for more ClimateGate info.
Click here for “ClimateGate Reloaded” & IPCC errors.
Click here & examine the credentials of the IPCC Chairman.

Click here & examine EPA tyranny.
Click here & examine the socialist lawyer czarina above the EPA.

Click here for some basic climate change science.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Chris Whitley - Living With the Law

Live from Steamboat Springs, it’s Saturday Night!

Click here for more Chris Whitley.

St. James Infirmary - Eric Clapton, Dr. John:


Stevie Ray Vaughan - Willie The Wimp:

2010 - Another Downer for Arctic Sea Ice Hysteria Mongers?

Every year -- about this time -- the usual Arctic sea ice hysteria mongers stand on the street corner and scream their prophecies of doom.

This chart demonstrates that 2009 and 2008 were a disappointment to the merchants of hysteria.

This post on Accuweather.com reflects what I view as the determination of the NSIDC to paint this year as being on a par with the recent minima of 2006-2007. Note - I believe Accuweather.com is about as free of bias as one can hope for -- all views are fairly presented.

As recently as 3/3/10 -- oblivious to an obvious divergence, apparent even in their own chart -- the alarmists at NSIDC were still asserting that:
“In February, Arctic sea ice extent continued to track below the average, and near the levels observed for February 2007.”
However, year to date Arctic temperatures are currently trending lower than recent years. And this has probably been a contributing factor in a recent sharp rapid rise in the Arctic sea ice extent.

With a vast multitude of recent blows to the credibility of the church of man made global warming hysteria, I suspect the alarmists at NSIDC are desperate for a new record low (for the last few decades) in Arctic sea ice extent. But, if current trends hold, they might have set themselves up -- yet again -- for a hefty dose of egg on their faces.

Time will tell.

Meantime, examine the recent trends in Arctic temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent.

Arctic temperatures - YTD 2010
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Click here for the source.

Arctic temperatures - 2009
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Click here for the source.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent - Notice 2010 in red
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Click here for the source.


Click here to debunk the Arctic sea ice hysteria mongering.
Click here for some basic climate change science.

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