Another Reason to Loath Progressives

... because when reality bites ... they create an alternative reality:

Somebody tell me: What have I missed? Will somebody explain to me what tea party person has advocated violence? What have I missed here? What tea party has engaged in acts of violence? And, by the way, President Clinton, the fight is about taxation by duly honestly elect representatives that you don't have to...? We have had a number of pieces of legislation including the recent health care bill rammed down our throat. This regime is governing against the will of the people. There's nothing Democratic about what happened here. Bribes and kickbacks to members of Congress in order to get their votes for this thing? Let's go back also to April 28, 2003, in Hartford, Connecticut. The tea party people are peaceful. They are festive. They're described that way even by the regime's media. Festive and good cheer. They're not taunting anybody, they're not menacing anybody; they're not threatening anybody. All they are is dissenting. They disagree with the direction the regime is taking the country. Back in 2003, Mrs. Clinton went nuts at the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner. It's in Hartford, Connecticut. You remember this.

HILLARY 2003 (screeching): I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!"

I can see it now ... Rahm and the boys wishing for a domestic terrorist act ... hoping for an Oklahoma city ... begging for a crisis that shan't be wasted.

A Cloud that Eats Money

Thank You Mr. President

Truly an Interesting Religion

... that can dish up a never ending supply of THIS:

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the main hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing 10 people and triggering chaos and panic on the wards.

Police said it appeared to be a sectarian attack linked to the nearby shooting of a Shi'ite banker whose body had been brought to the hospital shortly before the bomb blast.

Quetta, capital of insurgency-hit southwestern Baluchistan province, has seen frequent violence pitting militants from the majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite communities.

City police chief Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh put the death toll at 10, including four policemen and a cameraman with a private television station.

More than 30 people were wounded, including at least four journalists and a local MP.

Not N*gger ... Not Even F*ggot

... it should have been liar:

U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler is distancing himself from comments he made to the Times-News last month, stating he heard racial slurs yelled from a crowd of angry health care protesters outside the U.S. Capitol.

On March 20, black Democratic congressmen John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver said they heard the N-word as they walked to the Capitol to vote on health care. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is gay, said anti-homosexual epithets were yelled at him.

At that time, Shuler told the Times-News he was walking toward the Capitol with Cleaver when protesters began yelling racial epithets at Cleaver.

On Wednesday, Shuler told The Associated Press that he heard slurs against Frank, but not Cleaver.

Goldman: Just the Tip of the Iceberg

SEC goes after Goldman:

"This litigation exposes the cynical, savage culture of Wall Street that allows a dealer to commit fraud on one customer to benefit another," Chris Whalen, a bank analyst at Institutional Risk Analytics, said in a note to clients Friday.

Khuzami said the case was the first brought by a new SEC division investigating the abuses of so-called structured products such as CDOs in the credit crisis. He said the investigation continues but declined to comment further.

It's too bad that the SEC doesn't have the teeth nor political will to go after all the creepy crawlies hiding under rocks.

Climate Science Politics

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Special Delivery from the IPCC

... a truck load of guano:

21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations' Nobel-winning climate bible earned an F on a report card we are releasing today. Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,531 sources cited in the report – finding 5,587 to be not peer-reviewed.

Contrary to statements by the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the celebrated 2007 report does not rely solely on research published in reputable scientific journals. It also cites press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, working papers, student theses, discussion papers, and literature published by green advocacy groups. Such material is often called "grey literature."

I've always said that leftists and leftist-types(greens) usually deflect from their own transgressions by screaming long and hard whenever they find their opposition taking missteps that they themselves are already taking in spades.

If they are cheating ... they scream doubly hard when there is so much as a whif of cheating by your oppostion. If they are lying ... they are sure to point and tisk-tisk at even perceived mistruths uttered by your opposition. And, when they aren't using peer reviewed literature even when their onw rules state that they must ... these same scoundrels mock, ridicule and belittle all of their detractors for not using peer reviewed literature ... and that, after they themselves have corrupted the peer-review process so that detractors can't get published in the first place.

Turning Alinsky on Himself

Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

Tea Party Violence Update

From yesterday ...

An Update @ GATEWAY

Update2: from Gateway ... and from Malkin.

What a Humanoid Tapeworm Looks Like

Mail Online:

The Davey family's £815-a-week state handouts pay for a four-bedroom home, top-of-the-range mod cons and two vehicles including a Mercedes people carrier.

Father-of-seven Peter gave up work because he could make more living on benefits.
Yet he and his wife Claire are still not happy with their lot.

With an eighth child on the way, they are demanding a bigger house, courtesy of the taxpayer.

'It's really hard,' said Mrs Davey, 29, who is seven months pregnant. 'We can't afford holidays and I don't want my kids living on a council estate and struggling like I have.

'The price of living is going up but benefits are going down. My carer's allowance is only going up by 80p this year and petrol is so expensive now, I'm worried how we'll cope.

'We're still waiting for somewhere bigger.'

Mrs Davey has never had a full-time job while her 35-year-old husband gave up his post in administration nine years ago after realising they would be better off living off the state.

Finally Some Clarity in Global Warming Predictions

That settles it then ... time to start planting palm trees in Saskatoon:

Global warming has reached the point of no return, a study published in the Tuesday edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a joint team of the U.S., French and Swiss researchers concludes. Even if the world reduces emissions of CO2 to the level before the industrial revolution, it will take at least 1,000 years to reverse the climate change effect that have already taken hold, AP on Sunday quoted the team as saying. Dr. Susan Solomon of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research laboratory led the study. “People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide the climate would go back to normal in 100 years, 200 years; that’s not true,” she said, adding the effects are well nigh irreversible.

... read it all HERE.

Imagine if "Journalists" Had Cavorted With the Wehrmacht

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What Sinks Faster Than a Windfarm?

... any prospect of profits ... of course.

Tea Party Violence

Allee Bautsch, chief campaign fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown, were savagely beaten Friday night in New Orleans after leaving a Republican party fundraising dinner by a group of thugs who reportedly targeted the couple because they were wearing Sarah Palin pins.

Bautch's leg was broken and Brown incurred a broken jaw and nose as well as a concussion.

The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons:

Two people at the Brennan’s event have now confirmed that the protest had largely broken up by the time it ended, but we also understand from someone who visited Allee Bautsch in the hospital Saturday morning that she and Brown were followed and attacked expressly because they had Palin pins on (she heard one of the attackers say “Let’s get them, they have Palin pins on” – so the attack WAS politically motivated as its victims understood it. It was not a mugging, it was not an argument gone wrong and it was not a bar fight.

The story of a Republican and her boyfriend being viciously attacked for wearing Palin buttons has yet to make national headlines, unlike say, unfounded rumors of nasty words being said by Tea Party protesters.

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Graphing Temperature

Why Greece Will Won't Fail

From EUR:

Unwittingly, The Financial Times may have delivered the ultimate epitaph for the foolhardy experiment of allowing Greece into the eurozone.

It comes in its latest analytical offering – of which there has been no shortage – when we are told of the latest developments, with the rider: "This was not how things were supposed to work out." That, most certainly would suffice for the gravestone of a nation.

The situation on which the FT was commenting was the declaration by somebody or other in the EU telling everybody who would listen that the "colleagues" would come dashing to the rescue if need be. Greece would not be allowed to default.

Somehow, though, this message does not seem to have got through to the markets. Nervousness about Athens' public finances, we are told, has contaminated lending in the private sector, with depositors having withdrawn €10 billion from Greek banks.

This is what the FT thinks should not be happening. Greece cannot be forced out of the euro and is unlikely to leave voluntarily so, with the declaration of support, the markets are supposed to rush in and buy up Greek debt.

The reason for this seems to be that the EU – with Germany looming in the foreground – is playing an elaborate game of chicken. It framed its statement of support, says the FT, in terms of a reason why the support would never actually be needed.

... keep reading.

New Element Discovered

Amazing Science:

A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named Pelosium. Pelosium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons,and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.

These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quan More..tities of lepton-like particles called peons.

The symbol for Pelosium is PU.

PU's mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons within the Pelosium molecule, leading to the formation of isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientist to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.

When catalyzed with money, Pelosium activates CNNadnausium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons as Pelosium.

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Tiger's Wood

... and all the others:

“I’m not surprised at all,” one player told me in a moment of rare candour after I’d promised anonymity. “They’re all at it. I know loads who are worse than Tiger, they’re just not so famous, so no-one talks about it. There’s a rule, a code of omerta: what happens on tour, stays on tour.”

There are some spots which are well known for bad behaviour: Thailand, Malaysia, Amsterdam and eastern Europe. “In those places the lads just go berserk,” the player said. This was confirmed to me by a veteran journalist who covered the European Tour, a circuit of 48 tournaments over 49 weeks held everywhere from Glasgow to Dubai and including the Andalucia Open.

“Eighty per cent of the caddies are brothel hands, they know one in every city. Of course there are some honourable husbands and boyfriends, but for the rest? I shudder to think what they are taking home. There’s a minority of the players who will go with the caddies on these excursions, I’d say 5% of them: they know who they are. Some of the top ones are at it, the ones who get a taste for it.

“There are those who prefer to pay,” a player adds. “And for the rest, there are always girls at these tournaments. Sometimes they are the drivers of the courtesy cars, or they are with the management companies, or with the sponsors or promoters. At the end of some tournaments there’ll be girls at the final green, asking if you’d like them to take you on a tour round their city, or hang out. If you want to get laid there’s usually an opportunity.”