Whoops! People Who Buy Green Cars Drive More

The Law Of Unintended Liberal Policy Consequences has once again struck with a vengeance Sweden, that sustainability superstar, really prides itself on being “green.” It is one of the few countries to decouple CO2 emissions from economic growth. It has switched a huge portion of its heating away from fossil fuels (district heating). It’s the […]

 

Even The Brits Notice How Weak America Is Under Obama

Over at the UK Telegraph, Niles Gardiner does the heavy lifting in showing just how weak Obama’s foreign policy is The débacle of Washington’s handling of the Libya issue is symbolic of a wider problem at the heart of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. The fact that it took ten days and at least a […]

 

Paul Krugman: There’s A “Virtual Blackout” On Wisconsin News Coverage

No, seriously, and it gives him “That Iraq Feeling” I don’t watch cable news, or actually any kind of TV news. But I gather that there’s a virtual blackout on the huge demonstrations in Wisconsin, except on Fox, which portrays them as thuggish and violent. So, wait, wait, he doesn’t watch any TV news, yet, […]

 

Snap! Bill Gates Provides $70 Million For Food Security Against….Climate Change!

But, he isn’t giving the money away, oh, no, he is “investing” it as a way to save Mankind! The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it is investing $70 million into food security initiatives in order to battle one of climate change’s looming threats–catastrophic food shortages. The United Kingdom Department for International […]

 

Wisconisin Protesters Allowed To Continue To Pollute Capital Building

It must smell horrible in there So much for quickly returning to normal business hours at the state Capitol. Faced with several hundred drum-beating, dancing and chanting demonstrators who refused to leave the state Capitol after the doors were shut at 4 p.m. Sunday, police decided to let the crowd spend the night and continue […]

 

With All This Global Warming Induced Cold, Check Your Car For Rats

Let’s go with something a little more light hearted this Sunday morning, unless, that is, you yourself have had this problem, causing you to be late to work, and then you can blame yourself for driving a fossil fueled vehicle which creates cold weather due to greenhouse gases or something When the weather turns cold, […]

 

Treehugger Shows What A Post Fossil Fueled World Looks Like

This one’s a hoot: A Graphic Video Demonstration of Life After The Kunstlerian Decline of a World Dependent on Oil (and if someone could tell me what a “Kunstlerian Decline” actually is, that would be great, since the only occurrence of that phrase is linked to this same Treehugger story). Unfortunately, there is little to […]

 

President Chump: You Republicans Need To Compromise And Build Energy Efficient Lightbulbs!

Yes, I know, some of you do not like it when I call him things like Chump and Sparky, but, how can I resist when we are treated to weekly addresses like this? Over the last month, I’ve been traveling the country, talking to Americans about how we can out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build the rest […]

 

Snap! Eco-Classroom Too Cold To Use, Thanks To Solar Panels

It appears that solar power isn’t quite at the stage where it can fight off the chills from globull warming induced cold. A funny story to start off your Friday Eco-campaigners who built a classroom powered by the sun believed they were paving the way for the future. Instead they have been taught a valuable […]

 

DU Today: Koch Brothers Are Mean Because They Won’t Just Give People Money

So far, I’ve personally stayed away from most discussion of the Koch Brothers, because it just enables the insane left to come up with more conspiracy theories, but, this one at the Democratic Underground by LynneSin takes the cake: Dear Koch Brothers: You have BILLIONS of dollars! Why keep the rest of us from having […]

 

Grist: You Don’t Care About Globull Warming Because Your Brain Is Wired Wrong

The headline at Grist is an attention grabber: Maybe no one cares about climate change because we’re wired for extinction. Yet, the article doesn’t really support that, as George Black goes on a tear that our brains are wired wrong In my unending (and thus far, I have to confess, largely fruitless) attempts to figure […]

 

A Study In Contrasts: Results Of Idiotic Choice Of Words By A Republican And A Democrat

We had dueling idiocy from both Parties, starting with this fool, who is a Republican An Indiana deputy attorney general “is no longer employed” by the state after Mother Jones magazine reported he tweeted that police should to use live ammunition against Wisconsin labor protesters, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday. The magazine reported Wednesday […]

 

Wisconsin Assembly Pulls All Nighter, Democrats Become Snippy

In the real world, mom and dad (or kindergarten teacher) would put the Dems into timeout, asked them if they had been eating Playdo. Right now, the Wisconsin assembly is going strong into their second day of debate and votes, along with a filibuster and enormous amounts of amendments from Democrats, and, we have Capitol […]

 

Judge Upholds ObamaCare, Says Not Purchasing Insurance Is Commerce

Semantics, pure semantics A third federal judge upheld the constitutionality of the Obama health care law on Tuesday, reinforcing the divide in the lower courts as the case moves toward its first hearings on the appellate level. Judge Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia became the third appointee of President […]

 


Wisconsin Democrats To Offer A 100+ Amendments To Gum Up The Works

But the Donkey Weasel Party isn’t doing it for an substantive changes, oh no. They just want to delay the work of government Democrats plan to offer more than 100 amendments in the state Assembly to Gov. Scott Walker’s plan taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin’s public workers. Democratic Minority Leader Peter […]

 

Obviously, If You Love Gaia, You Must Stand Up For Planned Parenthood

Grist’s resident GINK (green inclinations, no kids) Lisa Hymas, makes the case that enviros, greens, climate morons should stand up for Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand A society is not sustainable if women don’t have basic control over their fertility. That’s just fundamental, a no-brainer. So the ongoing Republican assault war blitzkrieg on women’s […]

 

Hooray! NY Times Says Obama White House Barely Involved With Wisconsin Protests

File this story under “media ObamaZombies”: Wisconsin Puts Obama Between Competing Desires The battle in Wisconsin over public employee unions has left President Obama facing a tricky balance between showing solidarity with longtime political supporters and projecting a message in favor of deep spending cuts to reduce the debt. Really? Well, it would have been […]

 

Liberals Provide Smears And Innuendo Over Wisconsin Doctors Notes Story

A bit of typical unhinged derangement and lying from Crooks and Liars to amuse you as you start your Sunday: Wisconsin Protesters Breitbarted Over Bogus Teachers’ Excuses Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses […]

 

House Votes To Kill Funding To UN IPCC

They really were busy little beavers over the past 24+ hours. They voted to defund Planned Parenthood, Net Neutrality, the Obama Czars, and blocked the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. And, this Just before 2 a.m. on February 19, the war on climate science showed its grip on the U.S. House of Representatives as it […]

 

GOP Led House Trims Budget By $61 Billion

Well, it’s not even close to the hundreds of billions we need to cut from the bloated federal budget, but, it’s a start, and the hardest part of the journey is the first step In a rare early morning weekend vote, the House approved an aggressive plan Saturday to eliminate dozens of federal programs and […]

 

Oh, Noes! Evil Girl Scout Cookies Killing Orangutans, Cause Climate Change

Those evil Girl Scouts are facing dissension in the ranks over the long term plans of Big Girl Scouts to kill all the orangutans and bury the world in globull warming created snow! Are Girl Scout cookies killing orangutans? It’s Girl Scout cookie season, but Michigan scouts Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva are finding other […]

 

Hooray! Harry Reid Saves/Creates 280,000 Jobs He Previously Killed

Even The Politico is having a tough time cheerleading for the bat guano super-weasel Harry Reid is pushing The Senate passed an aviation reauthorization bill Thursday night, ending three weeks of work on a relatively standard piece of legislation that Democrats are calling a “downpayment” on their broader jobs agenda. “Today, the Senate passed a […]

 

Globull Warming Causes Extreme Rain….Or Not

So, all the climate morons are going ga-ga over a new report that links extreme rain (what we used to simply call “rain”) to globull warming. But, does it really? Global warming helped drive a rise in the intensity of extreme rain and snowfall across much of the Northern Hemisphere during the last half of […]

 

Reince Priebus Wishes Everyone A Happy Stimulus Day

I bet you forgot, as I did, that February 16th was Stimulus Day. Reince Priebus did not, and offers up this op-ed in The Washington Times Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law a “stimulus package” that his administration promised would keep unemployment under 8 percent. What has been the result of nearly […]

 

AGW Today – High Tides, Maple Syrup, And Tomatoes, Oh My

Sea rise is so dangerous, and so prevalent, that the climate morons have to…….fake it, because they can’t find the real thing! (via Steven Goddard) Want a glimpse of what a warmer world with higher sea level might look like? A local environmental group is asking Orange County residents to help them create that dramatic […]

 

Obama And Dems Suddenly Want Bipartisanship On Budget

It’s always amusing when Democrats call for “bipartisanship”, because it means that their ideas are really bad, and they want to include Republicans, so they can throw Republicans under the bus when the legislation is really horrendous and the American People hate it. Witness the budget President Obama conceded on Tuesday that his new budget […]

 

GOP Boots Pelosi’s Climate Alarmism From House Cafeteria

Well, the Republicans have done something right After about a month in control of the House of Representatives, Republicans haven’t managed to undo as many deeds of their Democratic predecessors as they’d like. They couldn’t get rid of “Obamacare,” and they haven’t made much headway in slashing the president’s $4-trillion budget. But the GOP has […]

 

Muslim Brotherhood Plans To Form Political Party In Egypt

There’s absolutely nothing to worry about. I know this because Smart Liberals said so. They are apparently a “non-violent secular group.” So, we should have no reason to be concerned Egypt’s long banned Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday it intends to form a political party once democracy is established, as the country’s new military rulers launched […]

 

Say, How’s That Carbon Scheme Going In Australia?

The Sydney Morning Herald digs in to the numbers SUCCESSIVE federal governments have spent more than $5.5 billion over the past decade on climate change programs that are delivering only small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at unusually high costs for taxpayers and the economy. An analysis by the Herald of government schemes designed to […]