Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Barbara Walters in High-Def


With all due respect, seeing Barbara Walters in high-def is kinda like watching a parchment origami being made.

It occurs to me that this is why the media and the state are so tightly bound at the hip.

There's no freaking turnover. These people never -- never! -- leave their jobs.

Robert Byrd is, by my calculations, 117 years old and still serving in the Senate.

Mike Wallace is only 115 and has the complexion of a gravel driveway slathered in orange paint.

Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers have served in the House since the Continental Congress first convened. They may, in fact, have formaldehyde circulating in their veins.

In other words, the problem with the government and the government-run media is the recidivism. We need term limits for all of these losers. Give some fresh blood a chance, for heaven's sake.


The Ugliest 2010 Production Vehicle Sold in the United States


This year's winner (loser) is the Mitsubishi Outlander -- and I say that as someone who has bought a Mitsu in the past and still owns it. From the horrendous grille to the cut-rate bodywork, this beast just says 'blehhh!'.

It looks like a minivan smashed into an Audi A4.

And, hell, they're even selling 'em at Sam's Club. What does that tell you?


Democrats' Answer to the Tea Party Express


Never a bunch to ignore a challenge, the Democrats recently unveiled their response to the Tea Party Express. Behold the Delta Tau Chi Democrat Deathmobile.

Rumor has it that Harry Reid is the limo driver. He definitely looks the part.


Hat tip: CBullitt.

The new yard signs are here! The new yard signs are here!


At the height of the 2008 Presidential campaign, I recall passing neighbors' houses adorned with Obama signs.

I remember my anger and confusion. Thinking to myself, "how could any rational, educated person support a man who has no executive experience? Who worked with the Democrat Socialists of America? Who represented ACORN as an attorney? ACORN! The antithesis of all things American, undermining the integrity of our very voting system!

After the election, I recall a bitter taste in my mouth. Scrutinizing my neighbors. Questioning them, mentally, as to their motives.

More than a year later, the Obama bumper stickers and signs have all but disappeared. The economic disaster, endemic to any Socialist strategy -- and especially that of Alinsky's acolyte -- is apparent to all but the most obtuse observer.

Therefore, I have prepared the following yard signs for insertion into those very same neighbors' lawns. Perhaps at 04:00 hours, when human consciousness is at its nadir.

Just insert the signs, below, into their front yards to express your gratitude for their votes.





In this way, you can show your sincere appreciation for their act of voting us into a depression. For voting in favor of an economic catastrophe.

They'll thank you later. Perhaps when you're working, side-by-side, in the rice fields.


Related: The New Yard Signs Are Here (Part I).

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Larwyn's Linx: Symptoms of a Corrupting Sickness

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Nation

Senate to drop Public Option?: Ace
Conyers to Obama: You Won't Shut Me Up: Toldjah
ObamaFile 92: Socialized Medicine: NewZeal

Your President's 'Safe Schools' Czar's Free Fisting Kits for Kids: GWP
The Coward at the Justice Department: Wizbang
Safe Schools Czar's Reading List: Malkin

Is the Holder DOJ Imploding?: AT (Feldman)
Detroit Public School Scores Hit Rock Bottom: BlogProf
HOA drops fight with CMOH winner over flag: Ace

Defending America

Symptoms of Corrupting Sickness: WBK
The Michael Behenna Story: Getting Personal: BMW
TSA posts info on thwarting security: Hot Air

FBI searching for five 'missing students' from DC: Jawa

Economy

EPA lays off 500 coal miners in Clay County: Surber
Criminalizing Profit: AT
Do the Math: Hatless in Hattiesburg

Obama to star in “Stimulus 2: This time it’s personal”: Surber
Obama's Econ Fiction So Bald Even AP Gags: Ace
The Ten Worst States All Voted For Obama: Surber

Media

Breitbart Hammers Media Matters Over FistGate: GWP
Eastman Kodak Stands by Fisting: Malkin
Heckuva Job, Desiree: NYT downplays 'Non-Religious Christmas' at WH: NewsBusters

National Pot-Kettle Radio: Crittenden
Sarah in the Springs: Malkin
Chris Matthews Slams Wrong Author: AT (Cashill)

Climate & Energy

Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero: WUWT
UN Climate Chief to US: "Show Me The Money": LegalIns
Looking for Global Warming At West Point: Virtuous

Hurricane Expert Rips Climate Fears: Depot
Propaganda Alert: Despite Falling Temps, This Decade 'Likely' Hottest on Record : JWF
Revenge of the Computer Nerds: AT

Open Letter: 140 Scientists Ask UN for Climate Change Proof: CCC
Another Media Coverup: Kremer
Prominent Climate Hoaxer: 'Denial Industry is Out to Dupe the Public': JWF

World

New Confrontation in Iran: Mousavi vs. Regime Thugs: Ledeen
Minarets and Reciprocity: PJM (Chesler)
Good News from Copenhagen: Greenroom

Directive Number Nine: Belmont
When Elephants Dance: JOM

Sci-Tech

Visa, AmEx tangled in Web scam probe: CNet
iPhone starting to win over corporate security skeptics: Infoworld

Cornucopia

The Tiger Woods Saga: A Definitive Timeline: Gawker
Victor, Victory, Victoria: Michelle's Mirror
Danica Patrick Going Rogue: Yahoo!

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

'Gore Effect' Slams Copenhagen With Subfreezing Temps


Amidst new revelations of data manipulation by scientists hoping to 'prove' global warming, the infamous 'Gore Effect' has socked Copenhagen. One intrepid warmist reports that temperatures are hovering just above zero.

It's so cold that the media center, depicted above, requires that reporters bundle themselves up while inside.

"The Gore Effect" has a long and uniquely entertaining history. In simple terms, it strikes the Warmists whenever and wherever they gather as if Mother Nature herself is mocking the UN's rapidly disintegrating bunko scam.

What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys ridiculing promoters of the global warming scam.

The Gore Effect: Politico, November 2008

First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated: Register, October 2008

Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington - Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as snow blankets D.C.: Business and Media, December 2007

HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM: Drudge Report, February 2007

NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Times, March 2007

Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC: WND, December 2006

Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps: MOTLS, October 2008

Global warming activists urged to focus on Earth Day rallies and ignore snow as it 'piles up outside our windows': Alarmism, April 17, 2007

No Joke! Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness in New York: WKTV, October 22, 2008

Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow: Baltimore Sun, January 2008

Global warming rally in the snow: Alarmism, April 2007

Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: Live Daily, April 2007

Brrrr - Obama to global warming demonstrators: 'This is probably not the weather to hold up those signs...it's a little chilly today', Space Daily, October 28, 2008

Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm: Nashua Telegraph, March 2007

The Gore Effect, Cont. - Gore speaks in Italy during 'rare' cold and snow: Planet Gore

Climate protest canceled 'due to rain and cold': Telegraph (Australia), Nov. 23, 2008

Gee, I wonder what temperature was the "correct" one on Earth before Al Gore and the UN figured out how to profit from the Warming Grift?

The 'smoking gun at Darwin Zero' may hold some clues.


I can't believe this headline made it by the editor's review


Papa B (who else) spotted this one:



Vexing BHO, Jihadis Fail To Set Date For Withdrawal


Dan from New York:

If you’ve seen this WSJ item -- "U.S. Man Named in India Plot" -- the patience and long range planning of the terror organization behind the “successful” Mumbai attacks is a striking contrast to the get in, get out strategy of our fidgety Hedger-in-Chief. On the plus side, though, the six-year (or longer) incubation period for that operation must be a source of comfort to the White House. If al Qaeda waits that long for their next extravaganza here, Barack Hussein Obama will be approaching the end of his second term.


What Can I Say?


Papa B sent this one in:

1. Two antennas meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.

2. Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I've lost my electron."
    The other says, "Are you sure?"
    The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive..."

3. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says,"I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

4. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a assaulted.

5. A sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender says,"Sorry we don't serve food in here."

6. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

7. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: "A beer please, and one for the road."

8. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?"

9. "Doc, I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home.'"
    "That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome."
    "Is it common?"
    Doc says, "It's Not Unusual."

10. Two cows standing next to each other in a field, Daisy says to Dolly, "I was artificially inseminated this morning." "I don't believe you," said Dolly. "It's true, no bull!" exclaimed Daisy.

11. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.

12. A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet and says, "My dog's cross-eyed,is there anything you can do for him?" "Well," says the vet, "let's have a look at him." So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his teeth. Finally, he says, "I'm going to have to put him down."
    "What? Because he's cross-eyed?"
    "No, because he's really heavy."

13. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.

14. I went to the butcher's the other day and I bet him 50 bucks that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the stakes are too high."

15. I went to a seafood disco last week... and pulled a mussel.

16. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

17. Two termites walk into a bar. One asks, "Is the bar tender here?"

I sense a Steven Wright ripoff, but I'm too lazy to check.


'Life Unworthy of Life': Rationed Care Through Democrat Eugenics


Nazi Germany enacted social policies to target certain human beings as "life unworthy of life" (German Lebensunwertes Leben). Among the targeted groups were the disabled and mentally ill. These programs were called Nazi Eugenics.

This poster promotes the policies of the era. It reads:

60000 Reichsmarks ... this is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the Community of Germans during his lifetime ... Fellow Citizen, that is your money, too ... Read '[A] New People' ... The monthly magazines of the Office for Race Politics of the NSDAP

It's hard to imagine government having the power to gauge the value of a human life, isn't it?

Yet the health care bill being contemplated in the United States Senate slashes $500 billion from Medicare. It is clear that these huge cuts will be accompanied by rationing. How will the new "Health Benefits Advisory Committee" decide who gets treatment? How do you assign a dollar value to a human life? What happens when a 'public option' becomes the only option for care?

This white paper by presidential adviser Ezekiel Emanuel places arbitrary values on human lives in order to ration care. It describes -- quite precisely -- how the public option rationing will work.

Emanuel's algorithm -- called "the complete lives system" -- discriminates against the disabled, the mentally ill, the elderly and even very young children.

Emanuel says of his system: "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a two-month-old girl."

I doubt the parents of the two-month-old agree.

And, if you are a child with disabilities, the government has already completely given up on you. Emanuel believes "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed."

...What’s worse, since he does not believe in “guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason," once the public option puts the private sector out of business, these types of life-changing services for children will no longer exist.

Years of research in treating children with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and dyslexia are in jeopardy of being rendered null and void. Years of progress in passing anti-discrimination laws may be undone in one single bill.

It's hard to imagine such a system in the United States, where Americans could once choose their own treatment, pay for the health insurance they felt they needed and the procedures they required.

Where they could make decisions for their parents, their children and themselves.

But such a system is coming, whether you like it or not.

The Democrats' plans are pure evil, which explains the resemblance to Nazi Eugenics. They are willing to destroy every last vestige of our health care system -- the finest such system in the world -- in order to control you and your family.

Ask not for whom the distant bell tolls. It tolls for thee.


Christmas Decorating Idea


M. A. sent this one in.

This certainly makes things easier (click to enbiggen).


Larwyn's Linx: The EPA's War on Carbon

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Nation

The EPA's War on Carbon: Malkin
They Think You're Stupid: Latest Public Option Ploy: LegalIns
Dingy Harry's 2010 Suicide Mission: JWF

Was Dem Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Pen?: BigGov
The Next Sneak Attack: Morrissey
The Streams Have Crossed: Ace

Drudge's Middle Column Captures the Times: C & S
Soldier imprisoned after killing AQ terrorist: BMW
Is America headed for an explosion on Main Street?: Riehl

Economy

We're from the government...: Maggie's Farm
Goldman's hedge strategy for Cap-n-Trade: the EPA: Zero Hedge
Words Fail: BizzyBlog

Obama: Health Care Reform Is Our Jobs Program: York
FedSpeak Translation: Denninger
Here's What's Next: CBullitt

Media

Taxpayer-funded NPR tells Mara Liasson to stay off Fox News: GWP
MSNBC on ClimateGate: Fingers in Ears While Singing 'La La La La La La...': NewsBusters
What You Should Know About Obama's 'Safe Schools Czar': CrazyUnk (Image, Language Warning!)

The Same, Yet Different: Crittenden
AP: 'A workshop on government openness is closed to the public': Surber
Krugman on Copenhagen: JOM

Truth to Power: JOM
Funniest SNL Skit of the Year?: McClatchy Watch
Friedman to Gregory: Islam Needs a Civil War: HNN

Climate & Energy

Shhhh... don't tell the trees!: WUWT
Climategate? The EPA never heard of it: PJM
Climate Change Hoax Photo o' the Day: JWF

Time for Keith Briffa and Phil Jones to Go Directly to Jail: AmDig
Phil Jones Has 'Gone Underground': BMW

World

Copenhagen: Behind the sleazy science, rotten economics: PJM (Rosett)
Hondurans pull off a coup against Chavez: PJM
Your tax dollars and Copenhagen: Riehl

Administration forgot they told military to defeat the enemy: Aces
Copenhagen's Carbon Kerplosion: Fausta
Experience Counts: S, C & A

Iran Revolution Day 168: Iran Police Surround University: Atlas
Chicago Perpetrator of Man-Caused Disasters Charged in Mumbai Massacre: JWF
'I said he was acting...like a terrorist,' says roommate of Jihadi that Murdered Professor: Atlas

Sci-Tech

Why Startups and Web Innovation Need Net Neutrality: BizWk
Tell AT&T where iPhone service blows: BizInsider
Monster's Power-Line Networking: InstaPundit

Cornucopia

A Real President Giving a Real Battle Speech: AmDig
Tiger had me in the rough: News of the World (UK)
Massive Hit in Pee-Wee Football: Viral Footage

Daily Scoreboard: Surber
Kennedy Center: Doo Wa’s and Hoo-ha’s: Michelle's Mirror
I'll never wash my right hand again: Jawa

The Sinful Secret of the Brown Bed: C & S
Cartoon Credit: Barking Crayon

Monday, December 07, 2009

The 2010 Fisker Karmo Eco-Sport


The claimed range is 300 miles. It features a plug-in hybrid motor with solar panels to augment the batteries. Introducing the 2010 Fisker Karma Eco-Sport.





Its appearance is very appealing. And the driver will be able to select between two modes of driving:

• Stealth Drive, which is the quiet economy mode for optimal relaxed and efficient driving.
• By flipping the second paddle behind the steering wheel, the car will switch to Sport Drive, which will access the full power of the vehicle.

I'd also like a 600HP conventional motor (say, a 32-valve twin-turbo V8), just in case my batteries didn't work.


Whenever Democrats are foundering, expect them to deal...


Shhh... don't confuse Harry Reid when he's playing the race card...

"When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'" Yes, we called those people Democrats.

"When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn't quite right." We called those people Democrats, too.

"When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today." Oops. Those were the Democrats as well.

This guy is a walking disaster.

As an aside, the Democrat socialized health care plan appears to have been "penned from the pen."


Are Pro-Choice Democrats Ready to Turn Over Control of Their Bodies to a Political 'Health Choices Commissioner'?


Democrats want control over you. That used to mean control over your material wealth -- the manifestation of your labor -- through oppressive taxation and regulation.


Now it means they will decide your fate. The fate of your body.

All of you pro-choicers out there: where are you?

I assume you're going to stand up against national health care?

The issue of abortion notwithstanding, what about giving up control of your body to an all-powerful "Health Choices Commissioner"?


A maze of bureaucracies -- including 111 new boards, commissions, regulators and programs will govern your treatment.


Whether the term 'death panel' is overblown or not, this maze of red tape and regulation will absolutely decide what kind of medical treatment you will receive.


Of that, there is no debate.

How can an unelected few, officious boards of central planners, know what kind of medical benefits your children need when they're rationing who gets what?

They can't. You're about to turn these decisions over to a handful of politicians and bureaucrats, who will be called "experts."


These political hacks -- not you -- will decide the medical fate of your children and your parents. You won't. They will.

Let me ask you: will they make a better decision than you?


As for affordability, they'll take care of that too. There will be less new technology, fewer breakthrough drugs, less hospitals, less doctors and less nurses. It will become much more affordable, because you will be waiting in line. And who will pay the price? You will... through lower-quality health care and treatments approved by central planners.

How do we know this? Because we have examples in the UK and Canada, where waits for MRI scans can be six months long and many children never see a dentist.


Welcome to Socialism! Welcome to Barack Obama's America!

Call Harry Reid's offices (DC: 202-224-3542, Reno: 775-686-5750 and Carson City: 775-882-7343) -- and your own Senator's office as well -- and tell them how pleased you are that the government will be making all of your health care decisions.


Based upon: Mark Levin, 1/12/2009.

The Last Days of Rome: Abandoned Supercars of Dubai, Part II


The London Times calls the failure of Dubai's economy "the modern equivalent of the last days of Rome." Nothing gives evidence to the grandeur that was once the hub of the oil economy like the tens of thousands of abandoned cars parked around the city.

...the pain in this new and gaudy metropolis is palpable. Ross, who asked not to be identified, is one of countless expatriates who have been caught out by the collapse in Dubai’s once-booming property market.

Like many he bought a flat off-plan in what was a red-hot property market. Today he is trapped, his passport confiscated until he repays bank loans he used to invest in a property that may never exist. If his work dries up before he can clear his debts he will go to jail...

Those expats lucky enough to escape the country -- and debtors prison -- abandoned some of the finest automobiles ever manufactured.















Nearly half of newly built office space has not been rented and the amount of available space is estimated to double in the next year.

A $7.6 billion metro train opened in September; the Times reports that a recent 9:30am weekday run carried 21 people, though its capacity is 640.

But worry not, all of these debts are mere pittances compared to the roughly $3.5 trillion deficit that the Obama Democrats are running up in their first two years in office.


Related: Luxury Cars Abandoned in Dubai, Part I.


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