Author: William Teach

Can “Extreme Weather” Cause Tectonic Movement?

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(Comments now open. Something went goofy while posting using iPhone after it missed it’s scheduled posting time) Why, yes, they are still pushing this People who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, scientists claim. Long-term climate change has the potential to spin Earth’s tectonic plates, […]

 

Thursday Evening Open Thread: Ganja’s Illegal In Jamaica?

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Like, dude, one to get you, like, you know, going Ten years ago, Jamaica’s government-appointed National Commission on Ganja produced a report calling for marijuana decriminalization, which the Jamaican government, under pressure from the US, promptly forgot about. But now, the government of Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that it will again review those […]

 

Obama’s Deficit Speech To Be About Sharing The Pain Democrats Created?

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This should be an interesting day, as Champ sets out his “vision” for reducing the deficit President Barack Obama will describe his plans for long-term deficit reduction Wednesday, in a move likely to kick off a months-long debate with Republicans while alienating some members of his own Democratic Party. In a midday speech in Washington, […]

 

Climate Alarmist Comes Up With 3 Point Plan To Restart The Alarmism

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As the globull warming craze dies a slow, deserved death, many alarmists are working to find ways to get people back on board with the Cult of Gore. Here’s another one at Fangaroo Joe Romm of Climate Progress recently had an interesting post on an email from Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp regarding “how […]

 

Good News! CIA Mostly Out Of Detention And Interrogation Business

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This should make every feel very safe. From the LA Times He’s considered one of world’s most dangerous terrorism suspects, and the U.S. offered a $1-million reward for his capture in 2005. Intelligence experts say he’s a master bomb maker and extremist leader who possesses a wealth of information about Al Qaeda-linked groups in Southeast […]

 

Ed Markey (D-ranged): GOP “Trying To Destroy The Whole Wide World”

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Not content with simply whining about one thing at a time, Ed Markey (D-Ma) works the Internet and globull warming into the same rant (via The Blaze through The Daily Bayonette through Tom Nelson) Some choice derangement from his rants about GOP legislation to stop ‘net neutrality” and stop the EPA from regulation greenhouse gases […]

 

Climate Morons To March On D.C. On April 18th, Confront “Climate Criminals”

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Obviously, they will provide these climate criminals with ideas on how to control our 4.5 billion year old climate From April 15th through the 18th, thousands of students and youth will be attending Powershift 2011. This conference has been billed as another opportunity to do something about climate change. Throughout the conference, Democratic politicians from […]

 

Apparently, After Budget Battle Washington Is Still Broken

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That’s the conclusion of the Washington Post’s Dan Baltz As the midnight Friday deadline loomed for a possible government shutdown, and politicians continued their rhetorical war of words, a larger message went out to the rest of the country: Washington is still broken. Unfortunately, Dan never quite says “why” Washington is still “broken.” But, is […]

 

Climate Morons Discuss Mounting Primary Challenges And Collecting Scalps

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Apparently, Grist writer David Roberts (who’s going for the Commander Ricker look) missed the memo on the “new tone”: Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps So, 350.org and 1Sky are uniting. Interesting news! I was particularly struck by this bit from Bill McKibben and Betsy Taylor’s post: We […]

 

Shutdown Threat Tests Obama’s Leadership Skills

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Oh, wait, sorry, the headline for Dan Balz’s Washington Post opinion piece says “style,” not “skills.” Surprised? I’m not. Kinda hard to discuss skills that a person lacks. One would think that a former community organizer would posses some leadership skills, yet, I suppose whipping up some people who are agitated to begin with is […]

 

NY Times Notices That Using Food As Fuel Is Not The Best Of Ideas

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Better really, really, really late than never: Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears The starchy cassava root has long been an important ingredient in everything from tapioca pudding and ice cream to paper and animal feed. But last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s […]

 

Say, How’d Obama’s Libya Speech Work Out? #Fail

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It went so poorly that even Talking Points Memo notices and discusses According to a Pew poll released Tuesday, 57% of Americans don’t think the U.S. has a clear plan in Libya, a seven-point rise since last week, and one that comes after President Obama addressed the country to lay out the nation’s involvement and […]

 

SCOTUS Upholds Right Of Parents For School Choice

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The Supreme Court stood up for taxpayers, parents, and choice In a decision school choice advocates are cheering, the Supreme Court dismissed an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against an Arizona school program, which allows residents to get a tax break for donations to organizations that grant scholarships to private schools. Justice Anthony Kennedy […]

 

Eric Holder: Congress Should Mind Their Own Damned Business On Detainees

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Hey, Holder is just following the lead of His Imperial Majesty, Barack Obama Attorney General Eric Holder today criticized U.S. lawmakers for preventing the administration from being able to move the suspects from Guantanamo to the U.S. for a civilian trial. Holder said he stood by the administration’s original decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed […]

 

Politico: War Obama Launched Gets In The Way Of Obama’s Economy Talking Points

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Truly one of the funniest, or, is that “most absurd?”, headlines of the day, via the Politico’s Glenn Thrush: Now Libya steps on President Obama’s message President Barack Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect […]