Climate Desk #1
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton
The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture concept of global warming and the credible threat of any significant anthropomorphic climate change.
Washington and Jefferson warned of entangling alliances, those where the US itself and it's citizens became subject of foreign regulations and laws. The Kyoto and now Copenhagen climate treaties would subject the US to taxation and regulation of a world body.
Climate Desk #2
Just another small reason I'm a Anthrpogenic Global Warming Skeptic. Any time anything happens the AGW crowd runs around like a Chicken little yelling "Global Warming, Global Warming!"
Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
This article has been corrected but it still uses the alarmist headline. So what happened?
Trampling – Not Climate Change or Poaching – Likely Cause of Icy Cape Walrus Deaths
Trampling by other walruses was the most likely cause of death of 131 walruses carcasses found on the shore near Icy Cape, Alaska, according to an investigative team. The carcasses, the majority of which were young animals, were discovered along the beach above the high-tide line on Sept. 14 by a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) survey crew in the area.
From a little thing to the larger things, the Gorebul Warming crowd jumps to conclusions.
Health Care Desk
Harry "Real Estate" Reid let the cat out of the bag on the floor of the Senate.
VIDEO
He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions — tort reform — $54 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, doesnt it, Mr. President? The answer is yes. But remember, were talking about $2 trillion, $54 billion compared to $2 trillion. You can do the math. We can all do the math. Its a very small percent."
2010 Election Preview Desk
King Co. Washington has has the County Executive on the ballot. King Co. Politics is dominate by deep blue Seattle and it's media. The former county exec. Ron Sims has run the county into the ground before being tapped by Pres. Obama as the #2 at HUD.
A former media personality news anchor Susan Hutchison, with no previous political experience and running as an (R) leads the race and has garnered the endorsement of Seattle sole remaining newspaper.
The Times recommends Susan Hutchison for King County executive
KING County is a government in trouble. It is being swamped by the recession, a string of unsustainable budgets, a faulty dam and a larger outbreak of H1N1 flu. These are all real and immediate problems that demand decisive action.
I believe this race is an early bellwether of the '10 mid-terms. The (R)s can make significant gains in the House and Senate by running against the budgets of the President and (D) controlled congress.
Ahh -- much roomier.
ReplyDeleteRepost from below -- the scrambled eggs recipe Attila was talking about earlier:
ReplyDeleteScrambled eggs, according to Julia (from Mastering French Cooking, p. 125
7 eggs plus 2 egg yoks
4 tsp water or milk
2 TB softened butter (for pan)
1 1/2 to 2 Tbss softened butter or whipping cream (for last step)
"Beat eggs in the bowl with seasonings in liquid for 20 to 30 seconds just to blend yolks and whites. Smear the bottom and sides of the pan with the butter. Pour in the eggs and set over moderately low heat. Stir slowly and continually, reaching all over the bottom of the pan. Nothing will seem to happen for 2 to 3 minutes as the eggs gradually heat. Suddenly they will begin to thicken into a custard. Stir rapidly, moving pan on and off heat, until the eggs have almost thickened to the consistency you wish. Then remove from heat, as they will continue to thicken slightly. Just as soon as they are of the right consistency, stir in the enrichment butter or cream, which will stop the cooking. Season to taste, turn out onto the platter, decorate with parsley, and serve.
Uh oh -- I killed it.
ReplyDeleteHey Lucius - partial repost from prior thread just for you: "And I don't get what the big deal is about scrambled eggs for cryin' out loud!
ReplyDeleteGeez, when I lived in Manhattan, this is how I got scrambled eggs "Hello, Deli? Gimme an order of scrambled eggs - 3 of 'em please, side of WELL DONE bacon, hash browns, english mufffin,
STAT! Thanks Gus, how the hell are you doing today? Yep, that's it. Thank you!" sixty seconds, TOPS."
:)
And with respect to Lord Monckton, bullshit. Our rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution cannot be abrogated by ANY treaty with any other nation(s) as it affects us here in the United States!
ReplyDeleteIt is awfully precious, I know.
ReplyDeleteWow, my avatar is back!! Thank you very much CC!
ReplyDeleteOk, I've got my breakfast here in front of me - Lucius that recipe is missing something.
ReplyDeleteThere's a note in there somewhere that the egg mixture should be 2/3 to 1 in deep in the pan.
That's what I meant about 'obsessive'
Ah, but the Constitution is a "living document" don't you see?
ReplyDelete"Rule of Law" is a concept leftists cannot abide by, unless by law you mean "the whim of the Elite." Undermining trust in the law and convincing people that the Constitution is flawed are essential to their plans.
Lucus,
ReplyDeleteYa, made us all hungry and we ran off to fix breakfast.
Um, kindly disregard that last comment of mine.
ReplyDeleteWhy the hell are the first five or six comments showing avatars and the rest aren't?
Isn't Blogspot used to blogs that routinely draw in 1200+ comments a day, from Fruticup to Fruticup?!
real
ReplyDeleteOur rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution cannot be abrogated by ANY treaty with any other nation(s) as it affects us here in the United States!
You would think wouldn't you? But I have a lot less confidence in SCOTUS since the Kelo decision.
5 avatars and POOF!
ReplyDeleteVanity Fair, Sports Illustrated and Harper’s Bazaar Among Category Winners in Best Cover Contest
ReplyDeleteTen magazine covers were chosen by Amazon.com customers as Best Magazine Cover of the Year in their respective categories, it was announced today by Peter Larsen, Director of Magazines at Amazon.com and Sid Holt, Chief Executive of American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). This marks the first time in the four-year history of the award that the winners were determined by consumers rather than by members of ASME. Magazine covers were eligible if they appeared in issues dated from June 1, 2008, through May 30, 2009.
Best Obama Cover: Rolling Stone
(July 10-24, 2008 issue)
Photographer Peter Yang caught up with Barack Obama in Raleigh, North Carolina, just a few days after he had finally nailed down the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination.
/the Kool-Aid is strong
Honey -- oh yeah, that's in the sidebar: "Depth of eggs in pan should be 2/3 to 1 inch."
ReplyDeleteLucius - "Rule of Law" is a concept leftists cannot abide by, unless by law you mean "the whim of the Elite." Well I have an anatomically impossible suggestion for 'em!
ReplyDeleteKB,
ReplyDeleteThey created the Obama category this year too, the kool-aid is very strong with this one.
The koolaid guzzling was nearly this bad when Dhimmi Carter first got into the White House. The problem is, if they only thing you have are symbols and the cult of personality, people get bored of the latter and suspicious of the former once policy goes awry.
ReplyDeleteI just finished that NYT article on the walruses.
ReplyDeleteI would have flunked a 7th grader turning that in
based on the pretzel logic alone.
Well, at least there isn't an "Obama-themed" sitcom out yet. Remember this shameless television gem?
ReplyDeleteWell this seems to be an appropriate time to post this:
ReplyDeleteDaily Presidential Tracking Poll
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends)."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Honey -- but note that if you point out the errors in their reporting, the unwarranted assumptions, the sloppy logic, you are immediately a denier, a reactionary knuckle-dragging creationist, an enemy of "science", and worse than the Holocaust Deniers.
ReplyDeleteLucius
ReplyDeleteACH! BRAIN BLEACH!
Realwest.
ReplyDeleteOverall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That figure has stayed in a very narrow range between 47% and 52% every day for six weeks. Fifty percent (50%) now disapprove
How the MSM will report that:
"New Poll Shows Half the American People Still Racist Despite President's Success."
I suppose they could do "Obama Country."
ReplyDeleteOops -- Too late; it's already been done.
Lucius - "The problem is, if they only thing you have are symbols and the cult of personality, people get bored of the latter and suspicious of the former once policy goes awry."
ReplyDeleteYep, remember ABC News' "NIGHTLINE" with just Ted Koppel started with the taking of our civilian personnel hostage at the US Embassy in Teheran. And Nightline was pretty damn critical of Carter too!
Course, that WAS back in the day when reporters would - you know - report the NEWS whether or not it was flattering to the POTUS.
Sigh.
Well, there's hope still - the more Obama and the Dems step on their Johnsons, the more difficult it's gonna be for the MSM to overlook it.
And as we all know, when the MSM turns around and bites the hand that stroked it, payback can be a bitch!
In case anyone might have missed it this week, Caroline Glick puts it simply but eloquently: ...this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis.
ReplyDeleteLucius -- and the they pull your mic.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to be closer to Oligarchy instead of Representative Republic with The Rule of Law theses days don't we?
ReplyDeleteThe Obama channel
ReplyDeleteChannel 73 on the Dish Network is now The Obama Channel.
/it's not like the concept is still theoretical
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ReplyDelete@AttilaTheHoney: Pretzel Logic!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2iPhS2XSnk
G'morning all!
Morning FF.
ReplyDeleteReal -- the news people are sharks. They can be perfectly docile and even let you pet them. But when they smell blood in the water, it's all over.
ReplyDeleteMedia types are perhaps the only people with bigger egos than politicians, and when it comes down to their ego or your political career, your political career is toast regardless of which side of the aisle you happen to be on.
ReplyDeleteAccepting AGW for the sake of argument, isn't it true that these treaties -- because places like Mexico, China, elsewhere will not play along -- will actually have a negative net impact on the environment because production here (and other signatories, where regulations do exist and are enforced) will, by economic preference, move to those non-signatory states who will proceed to belch out greater degrees of crap-all into the environment without any concern for the global community and its silly little protocols?
ReplyDeleteFinally Free
ReplyDeleteThanks for that - loved it!
Centaur
ReplyDeleteYes
Hey JCM, y'all might want to check your e-mail!
ReplyDeleteOkay -- thought so. Thanks Atilla.
ReplyDeleteOT: Who else is ready for some college football today!
Centaur - "will, by economic preference, move to those non-signatory states" what do you mean will?
ReplyDeleteY'all ever tried to buy a cotton or cotton blend shirt or anything these days that isn't made in China or Vietnam or Honduras?!
It's already happened.
Realwest -- good point. I guess even moreso then. Or I guess it's just too damn late anyway?
ReplyDeleteWell, my son's team won their football game 14-12 in the last minute and a half. Game ended with an interception. So now they go into the playoffs undefeated.
ReplyDeleteCentaur
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years ago when the last candy cane maker in the US moved operations to Mexico - because of sugar costs here in the US. the sugar lobby is something to behold.
Centaur said...
ReplyDeleteEven if AGW was correct... these treaties are not about climate.
First the treaties are a world tax primarily on the US. The treaties are also and economic control mechanism over the US. Lastly the treaties relegate the third world to prominent status since the treaties don't allow development unless they jump straight to "clean energy."
The enivros are watermelons.
Green on the outside... RED on the inside.
AGW treaties are yet anouther example of leftist elites engaging in self-rightous self-loathing. It's about them feeling that they are moral despite the fact that they enjoy all the advantages of wealth, power, and privilege.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, ordinary people suffer on account of their boundless moral vanity.
Yeah - we've lost a lot of candy makers in Chicago due to high taxes and regulations in Illinois, which is a different but very related topic.
ReplyDeleteHoney -- yep. Bob's Candy Canes. They were my grandfather's biggest account (he was a food broker) for decades. They were hand rolled in Albany Georgia. Not no mo'.
ReplyDeleteWTF is Marc Lynch smoking?
ReplyDeleteThe [Goldstone Report] vote shows that Israel is paying a price for its short-sighted diplomatic strategy of confrontation with the Obama administration... Netanyahu has spent many long months doing everything in his power to subvert Obama's peace initiatives, defying the demand to freeze settlements and inciting American and Israeli public opinion against the President and against peace...
This is why I no longer read Foreign Policy. Wankers.
JCM -- that's true. We've achieved this high standard of living through industry, and now they want to deny the third world that same avenue.
ReplyDeleteCentaur - a guy on another blog used to post photos from Bejing before the Olympics and before the Chinese cleaned it up (to the extent they could) and the air - no more than 20 yards up from the ground, was just BROWN. Worse than it ever was here during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution.
ReplyDeleteAnd given China's overall lack of concern for the Environmental vis a vis it's own economic growth, any SERIOUS AGW/Environmentalists would be jumping up and down, screaming about the pollution China ALONE is spewing into the Atmosphere.
Course, OUR government won't say shit, cause China is, ya know, a little bit to the LEFT of our govenment..........just about where the Democrat base is today.
Centaur said...
ReplyDeleteYeah - we've lost a lot of candy makers in Chicago due to high taxes and regulations in Illinois, which is a different but very related topic.
Mayor Daley says he isn't going to raise taxes to cover the $9B deficit.
His nose is even longer than after promising not to use taxpayer funds to fund the Olympics (thankfully, we will never know for sure).
Hi everyone.
Realwest: "any SERIOUS AGW/Environmentalists would be jumping up and down, screaming about the pollution China ALONE is spewing into the Atmosphere"
ReplyDeleteWhich just speaks to the point, this is not really about the environment. Not for a whole lot of them, anyway. It's the same way with their selective outrage over perceived human rights abuses.
Good Saturday morning all. Hows the state of the blog? Besides the avatars still being on strike?
ReplyDeleteReal,
ReplyDeleteWe get China's air borne crap in Seattle, some days the China crap is worse than our local stuff.
realwest
ReplyDeleteEnvironmentally China has issues as serious as Russia's. In my resarch on global water issues, I ran across one study that studied water quality in 110 Chinese cities. 70 of them lacked enough potable water for the population.
It's going to get worse. The only hope men have of finding wives (given the gender imbalance) is moving to the cities. That's fewer hands in agriculture and a lot more people putting stress on infrastructure that isn't really there.
I get a kick out of the EUnichs who carp about the rise of China at the expense of the U.S.
um, don't think so. We can fuck ourselves over, as Obama is trying to do, but China can't do it.
I don't know why folks can't see through the Democrat Party Elites - the Kerry, Pelosi et.al.group of incredibly WEALTHY PEOPLE pretending to speak for the "common man". I mean, with all their wealth and their mansions -some of which they cutely refer to as vacation homes, and their Yachts and Planes and all, what the Elites are really telling the Common Man is:
ReplyDelete"Hey, we got ours, fuck you."
@Centaur, JCM: people that returned from work trips to Shanghai etc. told me of breathing difficulties at times.
ReplyDeleteIt's really fecking bad, alright.
It can be argued, successfully IMHO, that the best environmental is modern industrial western society. Substance farming, and third world living is not "environmentally" sound. Command economics have also been extraordinarily damaging to the environment.
ReplyDeleteThe best model for the a balance between clean and high standard of living is right here.
This meeting should take place in Shanhai, not Copenhagen.
ReplyDeleteOn the surface, the idea of economic equality may seem like an honorable moral goal, which explains its resilience and power over people. This is why it continues repeatedly and with impunity to bring one economic and social disaster after another anywhere it’s tried. On the flip side, opponents of economic equality are branded as greedy, selfish, and immoral — which is why few politicians dare oppose this absurdity.
ReplyDeleteThe current political debates mostly end up in the following compromise: capitalism may be more economically efficient, but it’s still morally inferior to economic equality that benefits most people.
Such a view has two big problems.
The writer lived under communisim - he sould know.
realwest
ReplyDelete*SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!* x 100
I was in the shower and suddenly realized I had forgotten your smooch! How thoughtless of me!
Better? :D
AtillaTheHoney - well to a degree, China is already facing what they refer to as
ReplyDelete"unrest" in the rural provinces (ya know where they grow the food) over what the farmers perceive as a horrible imbalance of expenditures by the Chinese Government on Urban areas to the detriment of rural areas.
I don't know how many Chinese men are moving to the cities to meet chicks, but the reality is that China's policies towards the environment (not to mention their "quaint" notion of birth control) could easily lead to a revolution in China.
And Russia is doomed. All they really have now is oil. And as the US makes even baby steps to get away from our depenedence on oil (iirc, we are the biggest consumers of oil in the world at the moment) the competition within the OPEC nations for sales is gonna deprive Russia of it's main cash export -after AK-47's, I mean - or at the very least, significantly drop their revenues.
I'm off to take on the day. That means buy beer, watch football, and ready myself for dinner with the in-laws tonight. Y'all have a great Saturday.
ReplyDeleteJCM
ReplyDeletetoday's Financial Times reviewed about 5 books that explore the nexus between agriculture, environment, climate change, population control.
They ALL proposed 'solutions' that are untenable. One even promotes organic farming on the grounds that the yields are 25% higher (not true - they're about 30% LOWER).
None of these authors, btw, has ever picked up so much as a spade.
Hey there {Miss Trixie} - *Smoooches* back to you gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYou were in the shower when you rememberd to give me my smooches? Uh, do y'all need anyone to wash your back?!
:)
real - I would not be so dismissive of Russia. They are about to complete the process of getting Europe by the short hairs vis a vis their energy supplies. (I've got something about the contracts for new pipleines around here somewhere but I don't feel like looking for it at the moment).
ReplyDeleteReal, Miss Trixie....
ReplyDeleteGET A ROOM.....
jeesh.....
;-P
Hey JCM - "We get China's air borne crap in Seattle, some days the China crap is worse than our local stuff."
ReplyDeleteHow can y'all tell where it's coming from? Good lord it ain't thick enough to support license plates, is it?!?
/
JCM - "Real, Miss Trixie....
ReplyDeleteGET A ROOM....."
I'd LOVE TO, it's just that Miss Trixie has too much good taste for that!
:<(
Ok. So my grocery order arrives and as I unpack it all and put it away I notice my fresh ginger.
ReplyDeleteI ordered .5 lbs and I got 5 LBS!
What - in the name of Sam Hill - am I going to do with 5 LBS OF FRESH GINGER?
Aaaaargh! Last time this happened I ordered 8 ears of fresh corn and I got 18.
Yikes!
JCM and realwest
ReplyDelete*snicker*
You two crack me up!
Miss Trixie -
ReplyDeleteOOPS!
I'd start learning how to make preserves.
The bottom is all the solutions I see being provided by the AGW crowd.
ReplyDeleteAll are top down, command and control economic solutions. I just don't see any real environmental solutions.
For example nuclear and natural gas are off the table with the watermelons.
Atilla
ReplyDeleteI'd start learning how to make preserves.
Now that's not a polite way to refer to JCM and realwest. :P
Atilla
ReplyDeleteAnd on top of that, I was shorted avocadoes BUT they did send me limes and cilantro. How am I supposed to make and freeze guacamole?
Nuts.
Hey AttillatheHoney - I'm only dismissive of Russia because Obama, unitentional though it may have been, has made enough noise about "going Green" and getting away from Oil (thereby proving he thinks we only use Oil as a fuel for cars and trucks)that oil producing states are starting to get a little bit concerned that he might actually MEAN it and if a BIG part of their market for oil in Europe is now gonna receive greater competition from the ME, their profit margins are gonna get slimmer and slimmer.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think France is getting 70%+ of all it's electrical power from Nuclear energy? And what's gonna happen to the price of oil when Europe catches up to France (and probably surpasses it) with nuclear energy and Electric Cars and Trucks?
If we had a POTUS who really understood what the hell he's doing, Russia would be crapping in their pants about now.
I have to go soon. I just wanted to make one more comment about climate change, fossil fuels, etc.
ReplyDeleteThere is a misapprehension about nitrogen fertilizers. People seem to think it's petroleum based. Mostly not true. It's ammonia based which comes fron natural gas, i.e., methane.
You know how we're all supposed to eat less meat because cows fart methane with is a 'greenhouse' gas, not to mention their manure.
Well, guess what - use the cow waste to make the fertilizer and you won't be using 'fossil fuels' and you'll decrease the greenhouse gas.
Common sense. There's so little of it.
realwest
ReplyDeleteEurope seems to be having a problem with nuclear. Merkel had a plan to decomssion most of their reactors until she looked at the numbers and backed off. Those in the UK are aging and they can't get new ones built.
As for electric cars - where the fuck do they think the electricity is coming from? Hamsters on treadmills in Brussels?
Miss Trixie said...
ReplyDeleteAtilla
I'd start learning how to make preserves.
Now that's not a polite way to refer to JCM and realwest. :P
LMAO!
Actually JCM, while I agree with your top-down
ReplyDeletecontrol by the AGW crowd, while a lot of politicians and not a few bloggers made a big deal out of Sen. Graham's (R-SC) seeming to sign off on a different version of Cap and Trade, they all seemed to overlook that he got nuclear energy into the bill as an alternative fuel and the only one commercially viable NOW.
We all know that most of the Democrat base and epecially the Uber-Left, live in the coastal cities for the most part. Once they realize that food doesn't magically appear in the super markets, that fine wine doesn't magically appear in the wine and liquor stores, that medicine is the same way, methinks they are gonna VERY QUICKLY realize how VITAL truck, van and automobiles (and yes, SUV's) are to stocking those shelves. Then they'll no doubt turn to electric power, but commerically we aren't there yet with wind or solar, only nuclear. The top-down AGW crowd is in for a very rude awakening - too bad the rest of us will have to suffer with 'em.
gotta go
ReplyDeleteMiss Trixie, dear, I'm afraid you are SOL. I can't think of a substitute for avacadoes.
Altho if you have any mangoes laying around you could whip up a nice chutney.
See you guys later.....
Thanks Atilla. Alas - no mangoes either.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, we're off to terrorize the 'hood as it's one of those gorgeous, bright, brisk autumn days that just begs for a long walk among the leaves.
And picking crap out of Lil Miss' fur ... :D
Later!
Real,
ReplyDeleteThat part of the problem I have with the (R)s right now.
They sign on for the incremental leftist agenda thinking if they get one little thing in their it's okay.
Of, goodie Graham got nuclear energy in the bill, but no provision to streamline the permitting process, meanwhile the other 99.9% of the bill tells me what kind of car, where to set my thermostat, what kind of light bulbs and restricts liberty based on a bullshit premise.
The (R)s will do the same thing with Health Care, roll over for a pittance, proclaim their conservative values, and we get it in the shorts.
Howdy. It's a chilly, rainy day here in DC, and that puts me in a good mood. Why? Because it's an excellent excuse for getting some range time in. Will report back on ammo availability in the area!
ReplyDeleteI used to volunteer regularly at an old folks' home and then, for various reasons, I stopped going entirely. After 6 or 7 months I popped in out of the blue to say howdy and there was no one I knew to say howdy to. Poof!
ReplyDeleteI suppose buzz would remind me of the old saying, "You can't go to the home again."
REALWEST- I was born and grew up in a 3rd world country. Believe me, the ruling class of the New! Improved! United States of Social Justice won't suffer a bit. It's all about destroying the self-reliant middle class.
Ground offensive begins in Pakistan al-Qaida haven
ReplyDeleteDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a ground offensive against al-Qaida and the Taliban's main stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday, officials said, in the country's toughest test yet against a strengthening insurgency.
The United States has long pushed the government to carry out an assault in South Waziristan, and it comes after two weeks of militant attacks that have killed more than 175 people across the nuclear-armed country. That has ramped up pressure on the army to act.
Pakistan has fought three unsuccessful campaigns since 2001 in the region, which is the nerve-center for Pakistani insurgents fighting the U.S.-backed government. It is also a major base for foreign militants to plan attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan and on targets in the West.
Let's hope that fourth time's the charm.
When life gives you ginger, make ginger ale.
ReplyDeleteJCM - well I'd disagree with you about nuclear energy being a little thing, but I do understand what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteBut -in all seriousness - what can we do? Reid said yesterday that the Dems will "go nuclear" on the House Health Care bill (that provides for government health care*) and requires only 51 votes not 60 in the Senate and if they do that we are all fucked royally.
We take what we can, block what we can and wait (and hope and pray for the 2010 Congressional elections) for our opportunies to come along.
*The health care bill that was passed before the August recess and all the townhall meetings. The Dems are playing to their extreme LEFT wing base and TRYING to keep the "moderate" or "Blue Dog" Dems either on board or make their reluctance to go along irrelevent to the passage of the legislation already passed by the House!
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteWhen life gives you ginger, make ginger ale.
A better option: Make Dogfish Head "Pangea" ale.
http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/pangaea.htm
Howdy O.R. - I won't even BOTHER to ask you why this weather makes you feel so good. I'll just chalk it up to some of your more (and endearing!)
ReplyDeleteidiosynchracies! I mean you still have to go OUT to get to the range, and then OUT to come home!
Real,
ReplyDeleteI can agree on the nuc part, but with out kicking the bureaucraps in the teeth and tell them to quit road blocking it's meaningless.
The larger issue, I'm sick of allow the (D)s 10 steps to get one.
I mean you still have to go OUT to get to the range, and then OUT to come home!
ReplyDeleteActually, only in part... the car's in a garage, mere steps away, all indoors!
(Plus, I really don't mind rainy days at all.)
Mamacita!
ReplyDeleteWait. That's not my mother. That's me, wolfie. How the hell did her name pop up there?
This place is much too difficult for a complete cyberdunce, I fear.
Hi Barbara! Uh, did I use to know you by a different nic?!
ReplyDeleteWhich 3rd world country?
And you're right - take away all of the incentives for folks to work hard, save money and leave everything up to the Nanny State (as long as, as I said above, you've got yours) is where the LEFT ELITES want to take us.
And while I understand -sora- how the MSM LOVES Obama, I'm still taken aback by their acquiesence in his CLASS WARFARE. Now he's threatening the Health Insurance Industry. And when the subcommittee met to discuss Countrywide's "special" loans to Dems, ALL OF THE DEMS LEFT THE ROOM. No lie, saw it on video on Fox this morning. So no action, no hearing and most importantly no questioning of Countrywides loans to folks like Sen. Dodd could be raised.
Oklahoma 6, Texas 0
ReplyDeleteJCM said...
ReplyDeleteReal,
We get China's air borne crap in Seattle
OMG! Chinese airborne units are landing in Seattle!!!!
It's Red Dawn!
WOLVERINES!!
[running off to sporting goods store to clear out firearms]
RW- Good grief. They just walked out? Brazen.
ReplyDeleteThe critical votes are held by the fuzzy middle. The fuzzy middle ONLY know what the MSM tells them. The Dems can get away with stuff like this because they know they won't be held accountable.
(I'm wolfie! Actually right now I'm my mother, but I will try my best to get myself here in due course!.....Good to see you!)
Gotta go.....
ReplyDeleteSee ya' all later!
JCM -"The larger issue, I'm sick of allow the (D)s 10 steps to get one." Me too. But candidly, what can we do about it -see my comment about ALL the Dems walking out on the Countrywide Savings Bank hearing above.
ReplyDeleteAll we CAN do, I'm afraid is to wait for the 2010 elections,hope folks aren't STILL BLAMING BUSH for the economy and vote in enough R's to do us some good. In the meantime we do what we can. Hey if Graham hadn't stuck in that nuclear stuff, Cap and Tax would have passed anyway, using that nuclear option for that as well.
BTW, for what it's worth, Michael Steele repsonded a while ago when I wrote him a very nice, well written SLAM against Snowe, Collins and Specter, told me he can't control who puts an "R" after their name, but that some folks -especially Collins who's up for re-election in 2010 could be facing a PRIMARY CHALLENGER who would be extremely well funded by the RNC. And you'll notice that while Snowe and Collins were very vocal in their support of the "Stimulus Bill" and Snowe has indicated that under certain circumstances she could vote for the health care bill, Collins has been especially quiet about it.
The MSM does not just acquiese to class warfare; they foment it. They view themselves as the genuine vanguard elite -- the politicans exist to push THEIR agenda, not the other way around. It's an alliance of egoists and both sides views the other as subordinate.
ReplyDeleteThe media knows that the American people distrust and hate them. Which provides them with even greater incentive to neuter the public. The more the public criticizes them the more they feel that they must be right.
As for the walk out, the left things they are immune. They are morally superior; they deserve whatever graft comes their way.
It's good the Fox showed the video; the atitude of the Dems will not play well to a public watching houses foreclosed and jobs evaporate.
Our one ally in the struggle against the reactionary totalitarian Left is their boundless arrogance and deep-seated contempt of the ordinary citizen.
Okay, the interwebs ate my post again.
ReplyDeleteReal, I agree that getting rid of even one of the Snowe Collins thing would be good. Hope Maine wises up.
ReplyDeleteIt's Red Dawn!
WOLVERINES!!
There are a lot of ChiComs in Ann Arbor; that much is certain.
Meanwhile, my Northwestern Wildcats are playing MSU a lot closer than my Wolverines did last week.
Well all y'all, I gotta go now. Hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
ReplyDeleteMickey Kaus Plan for Presidential Success (we link, you decideTM):
ReplyDelete"-- Obama gets health care reform, but not until well after New Year's Day. That leaves no time in 2010 to take up "card check" or "comprehensive immigration reform" before the election season hits. Darn! Even "cap and trade," which as Tom Edsall notes pleases affluent elites a lot more than Obama's low-income base, has to undergo further study. What can you do?
-- The economy picks up, but unemployment remains high enough--and doubts about health care reform among the elderly persistent enough--to get the Dems clobbered in the 2010 midterms. Republicans may even win back the House. All those controversial big Dem bills that got backed up in 2010--well, they certainly won't be enacted by the GOPs. So frustrating!
-- Without a new wave of low-wage immigrants drawn by legalization, meanwhile, the labor market eventually grows tight enough at the bottom to finally raise wages as the economy grows--just in time for Obama's 2012 campaign.
-- Returned to office in an incumbent-friendly year, Obama still faces a GOP-heavy Congress, sharply limiting what he can do. He's forced to shelve much of his ambitious second term agenda--sorry!--and focus on those areas where Republicans are favorably disposed--like reining in the cost of entitlements and expanding charter schools. (As Walter Shapiro once argued--and Bill Clinton proved--having a Democrat in the White House with a Republican Congress is the institutional recipe for controlling the budget. The Democratic President reins in defense spending while the Republican Congress reins in domestic spending.)
I'm only partly joking. Or maybe I'm not joking at all. Losing control of Congress didn't cripple Bill Clinton, did it? It arguably saved Bill Clinton. Having Newt Gingrich in charge of the House allowed Clinton to push off against Republican excess, tame his own party's demands, and actually balance the budget. The difference with Obama is that unlike Clinton he will have accomplished his main goal--health care reform--first, before the drawbridge goes up."
Lucius- Well said.
ReplyDeleteThe number one reason given for choosing to go to journalism school is "I want to change the world."
Harvard U. admits to $1.8bn loss in funds goof.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it the late lamented William Buckley who wrote that he'd rather be governed by the first 400 people in the Cambridge, MA phone directory than by 400 Harvard profs?
See ya'll down the road.
ReplyDeleteJames Taranto: Fake but Aristotelian. Apparently Rush Limbaugh has something in common with ... Aristotle.
ReplyDelete/Both had fake quotes added to their Wikiquote pages
Gateway Pundit: Hundreds of protestors at Texas A&M on occasion of 0bama speech at Bush 41 Presidential Library.
ReplyDeleteJim Hoft notes that on the same day that 0bama speaks by invitation by Bush 41, he bashes Bush 43. Stay classy, Barry.
Yikes! My kid just hit a groundhog with his bicycle. Gotta go. (Please don't tell PETA.)
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