Tornadoes In NC Cause Massive Damage, Kill Up To Two Dozen

No politics today this morning, folks. Just time to offer your prayers for those who were killed or injured on Saturday, and to their families A violent storm system slashed across central North Carolina on Saturday with apparent tornadoes touching down, causing multiple deaths and leaving a wide swath of property damage, downed trees, power […]

 

Can “Extreme Weather” Cause Tectonic Movement?

(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, […]

 

Obama Signs Budget, And Signing Statement Disregarding Section On Czars

Elections have consequences, but, apparently only when His Royal Majesty Barack H. Obama is elected. Jake Tapper reports In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case simply says he will not abide by it. Last week the White House and congressional […]

 


Your Automatic Ice Maker Is Bad For Globull Warming

Did you know that your automatic ice maker is evil? Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker. Climate modelers have long known that households are far […]

 

Obama Abdicates Campaign Passion To Obama Zombies

It’s campaign season, a year and a half before the 2012 elections….hey, remember when Obama told the GOP there would be plenty of time for campaigning in 2012?…..and His Imperial Majesty Barack H. Obama has a message for supporters President Barack Obama made his debut as a candidate for reelection on Thursday night by urging […]

 

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

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 […]

 

Pathetic: Warmists Now Trying To Connect With “JoeSixpack”

Here’s the latest attempt to somehow create a notion that globull warming is evil and going to destroy us all, because the climate has never changed ever in the 4+ billion year history of the Earth. RealClimate says Perhaps a way to connect with Joe Sixpack? Click the image to open up in full page. […]

 

Even The Washington Post Notices Obama’s Deficit Speech Was For Campaign 2012

More and more this year, the liberal leaning MSM are willing to give Obama a gentle smack on the behind, like a 4 year who snakes a cookie without mommies permission. And Dan Baltz at the Washington Post is today’s token liberal who chides Obama: Analysis: Obama speech frames a 2012 choice for the country […]

 

Bad News, Libs: Smoking A Joint Bad For Your Carbon Footprint

Oh, all right, yes, I know and have known plenty of right leaning folks who smoke pot. I don’t hang with them because, personally, I don’t smoke it, do not care for the way it makes me feel. And, as a sidebar, as I’ve said many times before, I could care less whether it is […]

 

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

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

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

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”

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 […]

 

Surprise! Obama’s Deficit “Plan” Will Include Tax Increases

Of course, it appears as if his plan is more of a draft, well, really, a rough outline….OK, more of some talking points scribbled on a cocktail napkin from a campaign event: Obama Puts Taxes on Table President Barack Obama will lay out his plan for reducing the nation’s deficit Wednesday, belatedly entering a fight […]

 

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

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

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 “Scientists:” Did We Say Ice Free In 2013? We Meant 2016. Our Bad!

Mark Landsbaum at the Orange County Register finds a big Woopsie! from climate “scientists” Global warming is a lot like everything else. There are pretty easy ways to tell when you’re being conned or at least whether the ones making claims know what they are talking about. For example, one way to know whether a […]

 

Climate Morons Discuss Mounting Primary Challenges And Collecting Scalps

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

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

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 […]

 

Obama Road Tests 2012 Campaign Slogans, Such As “I’m Not A Perfect Partier”

Huh? He didn’t say that? That was just my eyes replacing “president” with “partier”, due to his actions over the past 2+ years? Oh. Sorry. My Bad. Anyhow, he’d have to spend a lot more time at East Carolina University if he wants to perfect his partying skills, but, moving on For the first time […]

 

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

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 […]

 

Obama To Philly And NY As Budget Battle Reigns

Remember this from Tuesday? President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on congressional leaders – especially Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) – to act like “grown-ups” and avert a government shutdown after they made no apparent progress in reaching a budget agreement at a White House meeting earlier in the day. Obama, in a surprise appearance at […]

 

SCOTUS Upholds Right Of Parents For School Choice

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 […]

 

Age Of Hopium: Inflation Raising Prices, Not Wages

So, Monday, everybody but Obama announced his 2012 re-election campaign (which had been actually going on since January 21st, 2009), with the theme of “I don’t agree with Obama on everything, but, I respect him and trust him.” Tells us how that works out as the US Misery Index continues to rise, and consumer prices […]

 

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

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 […]

 

Shockingly, Aussies Are Irritated By The Subject Of Globull Warming

Oh, and they are apparently given poor information to change their minds and become followers of Gore A LACK of “credible information” is one of the main reasons that 40 per cent of Australians do not believe that humans have a role in global warming, according to the head of the federal government’s Climate Commission, […]

 

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

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 […]