Countries Agree To Redistribute Wealth For Climate Change, As Snow Collapses Metrodome

Big doings in exotic Cancun, doings which highlight exactly what this whole farce is all about Delegates from 193 nations agreed Saturday on a new global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major […]

 

Having Solved All Other Problems, LA Bans Some Fast Food Places

Apparently, there’s no more crime in LA, no illegals, and no budget issues New stand-alone fast food restaurants have been banned from setting up shop in South Los Angeles, due to rising health concerns by the city council. How many fast food eateries does one area really need? The Los Angeles City Council thinks South […]

 

Ethanol Subsidies Show Why Washington Is Broken

Interesting revelations from the Investors Business Daily Here’s the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise: – $6 billion in subsidies for 2011. – $10 per extra gallon of ethanol. – $14 million per extra job. – $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote. In a season […]

 

Tis’ The Season For Liberals To Go Nuts Over Nativity Scenes

For people who say they are all about freedom and expression and tolerance, they sure show none, especially during the Christmas season A nativity scene that has been sitting in front of the Franklin County Courthouse for more than 50 years is under fire from an atheist group. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is […]

 

New Research Shows That Conservatives Are Independent, Liberals Sheeple

A bit of fluff for a Friday morning It goes without saying that conservatives and liberals don’t see the world in the same way. Now, research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that is exactly, and quite literally, the case. In a new study, UNL researchers measured both liberals’ and conservatives’ reaction to “gaze cues” […]

 

Christmas In Britain Could Be Cancelled Due To Winter Global Warming

From UK’s Metro Festivities are facing a white-out with the return of snow next week and Arctic conditions set to continue beyond the 25th. It means drivers are being warned not to travel in the run-up to Christmas, when millions hit the roads to visit relatives or to do last-minute shopping. Chaos across the transport […]

 

Liberals Want Sex Industry To Go Green And “Ethical”

That’s what the moonbats at Grist want to know. After a long, long, long recitation of all the evils in Big Sex (you just know they’ll have to call it that soon), they come up with Individuals selling sex to others is, of course, just a small part of the sex economy. Far from being […]

 

Snap! Chinese Firm Could Get $450 Million In Stimulus Money

Hey, imagine what could be done with $450 million dollars if given to Americans. 90 million $5 meals at a fast food joint. 15 million coats for those in need during this cold winter. Every citizen in the US could buy two candy bars. Or, we could just give it away to China Top Democratic […]

 

Hey, Good News, States See Some Revenue Growth. Bad News: Everything Else

I due truly love the spin from the LA Times: States’ budget picture is brightening – But many continue to face deficits. Tax revenues are rising but demand for social services remains high, and there won’t be a batch of federal stimulus money this year. Interesting. They destroy their own headline with the sub. Then […]

 

Could “Developing” Countries Be Paid To Not Cut Their Trees Down?

Remember when developing countries were referred to as third world rat holes, er, countries? And how they have been “developing” for going on 20-30 years? Countries where many of the peasants need to cut down trees in order to survive? And the countries use the trees to continue “developing”? Well, now For years, policymakers and […]

 

Obama’s Tax Cuts Surrender All Part Of His Plan, Or Something

Apparently, it has nothing to do with having no choice in breaking yet another promise to his unhinged rich people hating base: Obama’s tax cut extension part of strategy to show bipartisanship Although his liberal supporters are furious about the decision, President Obama’s willingness to extend all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts is […]

 

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise

Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in…….exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall Islands CANCUN, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, […]

 


Dems Plan To Push Over 100 Bills In One Swoop

Simply showing that they are yet again attempting to thwart and ignore the will of the people, as they have been mostly doing since Obama took office, Dems are going to push whatever they can Democratic efforts to push through more than 100 public lands and water bills in the lame duck session are reaching […]

 

Obamanomics: State Debt Shows A Looming Crisis

Obviously, the New York Times isn’t blaming this on Obama and the Democrats, yet, since Democrats have held the power of the purse and legislation throughout this entire economic downturn, and the Presidency for the past two years, not too mention a good chunk of the state legislatures, it’s their policies that create the problems […]

 

Poor Countries Whining They Are Excluded From Exotic Cancun Climate Talks

Poor little babies, can’t get in on all the moolah and the awesome buffets The UN climate negotiations are weighted heavily against the poorest countries, who cannot send delegates to key meetings, often do not understand what is being said and are unable keep up with the decisions being taken in their name, a report […]

 

CNN Takes A Stab At Why There’s Really No Job Recovery

Surprisingly, Bush was not mentioned. Instead, they find a different villain The problem with bringing down the stubbornly high unemployment rate is that employers are learning to do more with less. Employers still aren’t hiring enough. Just look at November’s disappointing employment report, which barely eked out a gain in jobs. Or better yet, look […]

 

Climate Hysteria Today: Why, Yes, England’s Snow And Cold Is Caused By Climate Change

It’s simply amazing what greenhouse gases can do, isn’t it? From jolly ole England As a blanket of snow settles across the country, train services grind to a halt and roads become impassable, you could be forgiven for thinking that global warming seems more remote than ever. But yesterday, the World Meteorological Organisation announced that […]

 

Friday Stupid: That Bathroom For Female House Members Could Cost Some Serious Moola!

Alternate title: When Liberals Put Partisan Politics Over Support For Women’s Equality. Alternate alternate title: I Don’t Remember This Concern Over Democrat Spending. Real title: don’t forget to turn the coffee pot on, dummy. Sorry, that was a note to self: Women’s bathroom in House: $200K Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner’s idea to build a women’s bathroom […]

 

Snap! GOP To Kill House Climate Alarmism Panel

I can just picture Nancy P. stomping her ruby slippers and screaming “they can’t do this!!!!1!!!!” Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. I actually think this is a bad move. Instead of […]

 

GOP Looks To Change Spending Process – Obviously, Some Have A Problem With This

A very interesting notion is coming from the Republicans, especially the new guard House Republicans seem intent on blowing up the staid appropriations process when they take power in January – potentially upending the old bulls in both parties who have spent decades building their power over the federal budget. The plans include slicing and […]

 

Dispatches From The Climate Conference In Exotic Cancun

Welcome to sunny, wonderful, exotic Cancun, where the water is warm, the drinks are cool, and airports are very busy! Via Campesina will bring 4,000 Mexicans — indigenous peoples, farmers and their allies to Cancun, and a few hundred from the Global South. The Bolivian government is flying in 90 people, and Venezuela is flying […]

 

FCC Moving Ahead With Net Neutrality

Something seems to be missing from their idea regarding what the Internet should be about, though Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is moving forward with a net neutrality order at the agency’s December meeting, setting the stage for a likely fight over the contentious web rules on Capitol Hill. Genachowski released the agenda for […]

 

Are The Climate Alarmists Giving Up On CO2?

The Washington Post highlights the potential change in tactics by the alarmists (in order to continue on the path for more control of people and economies, along with redistribution of wealth, especially to their own pockets, ala Al Gore) Many policymakers and business leaders have come to see the most basic method of slowing global […]

 

Washington Post: What’s Up With You Righties And American Exceptionalism?

You right wingnuts keep using that phrase, and Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post has a problem with that Is this a great country or what? “American exceptionalism” is a phrase that, until recently, was rarely heard outside the confines of think tanks, opinion journals and university history departments. But with Republicans and tea party […]

 

NY Times Hypocrisy Watch: We’ll Publish Wikileaks Info, But Not ClimateGate

Powerline makes an interesting observation The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks. My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined to publish or post any of […]

 

Snap! Supermodel Says Manmade Globull Warming Causes Everything!

Sadly, you can’t really call be too critical of her, because actual scientists and people in the know hold the same idiotic notions: Helena Christensen calls for action on climate change The supermodel, who is a global ambassador for Oxfam, visited villages in the foothills of the Himalayas to see first hand the effect of […]

 

When It Comes To TSA Groping, Rep. Peter King Thinks You Righties Are Talking Like Left Wing Nancy’s

Usually, one can depend on Rep. Peter King, who has sat on the House Homeland Security Committee and will soon be chairman, to be very sensible, especially when it comes to supporting Conservatives and the War on Terrorism. But, like most people (including me), every once in a while he has to get stuck on […]

 

Man Of Vague Religion Arrested In Bomb Plot At Portland Christmas Tree Lighting

Janet Napolitano will surely institute enhanced groping in order to attend future Christmas tree lightings The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon. A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a […]

 

Spain Learns That Solar Really, Really Needs Government Handouts

Apparently, without government money, solar power might not even be able to power its own life support The Spanish government has launched a new regulatory framework that will result in subsidized tariffs for ground-mounted solar energy projects drop 45% this year, killing future investment in the trade, which industry leaders expect will be frozen in […]