Saturday, February 13, 2010

Larry O'Donnell's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Interview of Author Marc Thiessen Opens With "Well, you're lying"

Got derangement? MSNBS' Larry O'Donnell suffered a bout of Tourette's earlier today in a futile attempt to resemble an honest analyst. His interview of author Marc Thiessen opened with the balanced question: "Well, you're lying."

You're a disgrace, Larry. I'm betting Marc Thiessen had every kind of security clearance imaginable. What do you have, besides an inner thigh rash and skid marks in your undies?

You're a loser, Larry: a sixth-tier personality on a ninth-tier network. Ever wonder why your ratings are lower than hospital EKGs? This is why, you fish-breathed truther.


Update: Drew at Ace of Spades suspects O'Donnell is auditioning for Olbermann's slot.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Dallas receives 12.5 inches of warmal colding, Bill Nye unavailable for comment

I wonder what the no-growth, flat-Earth, sixties retreads think about the onset of a new Ice Age?

A new record of 12.5 inches of snow in a 24-hour period was set at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (11.2 on Thursday) -- and flakes were still coming down after midnight. The previous daily record was 7.8 inches on Jan. 15, 1964, and Jan. 14, 1917 and the previous 24-hour record was 12.1 inches. The total for this winter, so far, is 15.7 inches, the second highest recorded in North Texas history. The highest recorded snowfall for a winter season was in 1977-78 with 17.6 inches of snow.

The snowfall forced the closure and delays of hundreds of schools and businesses on both Thursday and Friday. Now that the storm has passed, the damage assessment can begin.

As of 4:00 p.m. Friday, Oncor Electric Delivery said there are 200,000 homes and businesses in North Texas without power. Oncor added they are bringing in 1,500 contractors to repair power lines ripped down by tree branches laden with heavy snow...

Upon hearing the news, Bill Nye ("The Faux Science Guy") shrieked like a little girl and ran away sobbing.

48 Inches of Deleted Climate Data

Correspondent Bean-o sends us some pictures from inside the Beltway. He made the remark that if he ever -- ever -- sees Al Gore on the street, he'll leave him with a mouthful of bloody Chiclets™.





Straight Out of Dixie

Yup - you guessed it. Papa B got out of prison long enough to email us this one.

The South - You Gotta Love It


Alabama


A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck.

"Where's Henry?" the others asked.

"Henry had a stroke of some kind.. He's a couple of miles back up the trail," the successful hunter replied.

"You left Henry laying out there and carried the deer back?" they inquired.

"A tough call," nodded the hunter. "But I figured no one is going to steal Henry."

Georgia


The owner of a golf course in Georgia was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. He called her into his office and said, "You graduated from the University of Georgia and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000 minus 14%, how much would you take off?"
The secretary thought a moment, and then replied, "Everything but my earrings."

Louisiana


A senior at LSU was overheard saying, "When the end of the world comes, I hope to be in Louisiana." When asked why, he replied, "I'd rather be in Louisiana because everything happens in Louisiana 20 years later than in the rest of the civilized world."

Mississippi


The young man from Mississippi came running into the store and said to his buddy, "Bubba, somebody just stole your pickup truck from the parking lot!" Bubba replied, "Did you see who it was?"
The young man answered, "I couldn't tell, but I got the license number."

North Carolina


A man in North Carolina had a flat tire, pulled off on the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it. Then he got back in the car to wait. A passerby studied the scene as he drove by and was so curious he turned around and went back... He asked the fellow what the problem was. The man replied, "I have a flat tire."
The passerby asked, "But what's with the flowers?"
The man responded, "When you break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back. I never did understand it neither."

Tennessee


A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65. The trooper asked, "Got any ID?" The driver replied, "Bout whut?"

Texas


The Sheriff pulled up next to the guy unloading garbage out of his pick-up into the ditch.
The Sheriff asked, "Why are you dumping garbage in the ditch? Don't you see that sign right over your head?"
"Yep", he replied. "That's why I dumpin it here, cause it says: 'Fine For Dumping Garbage'.

You can say what you want about the South,
But you never hear of anyone retiring and moving North




Audi A1: Mini Cooper Looking Over Its Shoulder

AutoCar UK has an early look at Audi's entry-level 1-series.

Audi’s new A1 supermini is poised to become the biggest-selling model in the firm’s history following its UK launch this October. Priced from around £14,000, the A1 will provide Ingolstadt with a direct rival to the popular Mini Cooper.

Audi is pitching the A1 as the “sportiest car in its class” featuring “unique and modern” design. The front end is little changed from the original concept. Most striking are the LED daytime running lights, which feature the ‘wing’ design from the larger A8 and R8 Audis. The concept’s large, trapezoid single-frame front grille is retained. S-line models get more pronounced front foglights.

...The A1’s flagship engine is the 120bhp 1.4 TFSI petrol unit. It takes the car from 0-62mph in 9.2sec and on to a top speed of 124mph. This engine is available with the dual-clutch seven-speed S-tronic gearbox, which comes with optional paddle shifters and shaves 0.1sec off the 0-62mph time...

Paddle shifters? For a 9.0 0-60? Uhm... okay.


Leftist media breathlessly hawks single whacko Palin fan; ignores terrorists who actually bombed innocents, killed cops and launched Obama's career

Leave it to the crackpots on the left to scream the news at the top of their lungs: some dude who liked Sarah Palin stockpiled weapons.

The Massachusetts man charged this week with stockpiling weapons after saying he feared an imminent "Armageddon" appears to have been active in the Tea Party movement, and saw Sarah Palin, who he said is on a "righteous 'Mission from God,'" as the only figure capable of averting the destruction of society.

Interestingly, the same propagandists somehow missed the news that Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeffrey Jones, Mike Klonsky and a bevy of other radicals helped launch Barack Obama's career and/or offered their unconditional support for his campaign.


These leaders of the SDS and the Weather Underground remain unapologetic terrorists whose group is responsible for the murders of at least three police officers.

An eyewitness to one of the Weather Underground bombings, retired San Francisco police officer James Pera, described a catastrophic scene. "...Blood was all over the floor, desks and walls and was heaviest where Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell suffered mortal wounds to his neck, eyes, face and brain... The [police] station looked like a scene one might expect to see in a war, with wounded officers, blood, shattered windows, damaged walls, floors and ceilings, but then -- it was a war..."

"...the sergeant died a couple of days later, without regaining consciousness. He left a wife and two kids. He was forty-five years old, his life snuffed out by the murderous cowards of the Weather Underground... Think about the tragedy that befell the McDonnell family, a family that had already lost two other members, in the line of duty, the first in the 1930s and another in the 1950s... Think of Sgt. McDonnell, his life stolen from him, at the age of 45, and his wife and children being left without a father and husband..."


"Think about these two criminals, Ayers and Dohrn, who got off on technicalities because a judge ruled that evidence against them collected by the FBI was inadmissible... Think about Ayers' statement, after the dismissal of criminal charges, when he said, 'Guilty as hell and free as a bird.' ...Think about Ayers and Dohrn and their positions, as educators, at two different prestigious universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University..."

"...Think of how they have access to the minds of impressionable young students, in the controlled environment of academia, free to spread the radical ideas that they espouse, some of which were developed and nurtured on trips to Cuba and in consultation with agents from other communist countries. Think about the role that they play as they endeavor to corrupt a whole new generation of young, impressionable people, to their radical Marxist ideas... ...Think about how Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and others of their ilk have lived and prospered in our society, a society that they had hoped to destroy..."

To illustrate just how twisted the Leftist media is, consider their silence over the terrorists who befriended Obama and helped launch his career. Then compare and contrast that protection to their treatment of Sarah Palin.

It's enough to make you sick.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: Why Obama Can't Drop Health Care Reform

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Nation

Why Obama Can't Drop Health Care Reform: AT
Palin: Out With the 'In' Crowd: PJM
Obama and the Government Employees: AT

Bill Clinton, Stents and Demcare: Malkin
Poll: We Want Feds to Do Less: AmPower
But Who Will I Have To Kick Around Any More?: Wizbang

Kudos to Garden State’s Big Fat Governor: GayPatriot
Sleazebag Schumer Seeks to Circumvent Supreme Court: JWF
NC Schools: Remove Pre-1877 US History: Riehl

Bipartisanship raspberry: Reid kills Baucus-Grassley jobs bill: Fausta
Florida schools use stimulus to purchase iPods for parents: Marathon

Economy

Dear Mr. President: Why We Are Not Hiring: AT
Obama: Taxing the Middle Class? 'All Ideas Are On The Table': Ace
Insolvent Euro vs. American States: BigPicture

'Agnostic' on Taxes?: SIGIS
Food Stamps Are Not Welfare: RWN
Government blows $50M on St. Croix park: Green Room

Amity Shlaes Warns of Skyrocketing Inflation: GWP
30 Year Treasury Auction: A Solid "F": Denninger
Obama Top Advisor Larry Summers: Most Economists Agree Higher Taxes Fuels Job Growth: GWP

Oh My -- Obama: “fierce advocate” for the free market: Fausta

Climate & Energy

Climategate: Inhofe Raises the Temperature: PJM
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, says its unpatriotic to dispute global warming: BlogProf
Hottest Decade in History? Maybe Not - Earth-Based Climate Stations Manipulated: Maggie

Record Warming in Dallas: Surber
All this, and thundersnow, too: Fausta

Media

Where is the American Media?: Ace
Rep. Charlie Wilson, RIP: Anchoress
CNN's Roland Martin: It's Time for Obama to 'Go Gangsta on GOP': NewsBusters

Obama Tied With Nobody in 2012 Race: Powers
Most People Angry And Upset With Washington? Who Knew?: RWN
Kent Conrad Goes Mum: Say Anything

The Best Quotes From Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”: RWN
Texas Gubernatorial Tea Party Candidate Implodes On Glenn Beck Show: GWP

World

Is the Voice of America Pro-Iran?: Timmerman
Stick ‘em up, or Blow ‘em up: Kesler
The Biggest Freudian Slip in History: Breath

Obama's 'Mission Accomplished': Wizbang
Stunner: Islamists Oppose Airport Body Scanners: JWF
Angela Merkel Clanks When She Walks: Denninger

SciTech

Google to carriers: 'Anything you can do, we can do better' : Network World
Here Is How Buffett's Chinese Auto Company BYD Copied Competitor Designs Piece By Piece: Insider
Adobe warns of new Reader, Flash holes: CNet

Cornucopia

The Return of Trunk Monkey: Suburban Auto Group
Overnight Open Thread: Ace
American Contrarian: iOTW


Thursday, February 11, 2010

With Oil, Natural Gas, Clean Coal and Nuclear Power Off the Table, President Obama Turns to Magic Solar Energy Beans™

Sensing the opportunity for another sizable taxpayer ripoff, renewable energy executives and President Obama have proposed a "federal standard for renewable energy".

With China moving ahead of the pack in alternative energy production, executives from the US wind, solar, biomass and geothermal sectors are pushing for a federal standard for renewable energy that could create more jobs and economic growth for the nation. [Ed: Are those the fabled "green collar" jobs we heard so much about during the Obama campaign? Is there an APB out for those?]


With a federal standard, a larger percentage of power generation would need to come from sustainable resources in the US. [Ed: and with a federal standard in place, we could also demand fat-free doughnuts and singing unicorns for all of the children.]

At present, more than 30 countries including China and members of the EU have established renewable energy standards. Within the US, 29 states have established renewable energy standards, however, there has yet to be a national regulation. President Barack Obama has been urging Congress to approve one that would require 25 percent clean power by 2025. [Why not 99% percent clean power by 2025? Let's put a stake in the ground if we're going to kill the economy, dammit!]

Fortunately, President Obama has promised that, by the time he leaves office in 2017, government will provide each American with a plentiful supply of Magic Solar Energy Beans™.


The economy must be even worse than we thought

They're selling discount motivational posters, for heaven's sake!


Thank Eric Holder for Your New Neighbor

The subdivision is really going to hell in a hand-basket.



 

Ameri-Corpse: President Obama Redistributes $1.4 Billion of Your Money to His Radical Community Organizing Pals

You wouldn't know there's a deep recession on by looking at President Obama's 2011 budget.

One of his most outrageous line-items directs $1.4 billion of taxpayers money to "community organizers" whose mission is to spread divisiveness and misery. To encourage dependency. To spur poverty. Because those dependent upon the government's largess tend to vote Democrat. So the more poverty, the better.

The budget calls for a massive 59 percent increase in spending for AmeriCorps. An enlistee in the program receives grants, allowances, repayment of student-loans, day care, and other taxpayer-funded subsidies. On average, each "volunteer" costs $10,752.

The nuance may have escaped me, but I always thought a "volunteer" would run less than five-figures.

Founded in 1993 by Bill Clinton, AmeriCorps has recruited over 20,000 individuals. President Obama's goal, though, is to raise that number to 250,000 by 2017. His motivation is political and not the least bit charitable.

Last year Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) attempted to prohibit groups "engaged in political or legislative advocacy" from receiving funding from AmeriCorps. Democrats viewed the effort as blocking their access to the taxpayer's wallet and crushed Foxx's proposal.

This freed the state of Oregon to offer jobs as AmeriCorps "volunteers", who work full-time at Planned Parenthood offices compensated at $15,825 each.

The position requires the ability to advocate for and support the mission of Planned Parenthood, which translates to maximizing the number of abortions performed at each office. ACORN and homosexual advocacy groups have also received taxpayer funding through AmeriCorps as well.

Because of these twisted wealth redistribution schemes, thousands of worthy charities will have difficulty recruiting real volunteers. Instead of learning the true work of a charity, a quarter of a million young "government volunteers" will instead wean themselves onto a culture of dependency.

Compounding the waste, the Obama administration fired AmeriCorps' Inspector General last year after he began investigating the use of "volunteers" to do personal favors for friends of the president.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

AmeriCorps is an anachronism that needs to be killed off at the earliest opportunity. Not only will it help the federal budget -- it will also shut down taxpayer funding for blatantly partisan activities.

It's time to make it "Ameri-Corpse".


Based upon: Rotten to the AmeriCorps.

Larwyn's Linx: Iran Now a Nuclear State?

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Nation

The Stonewallers at DOJ: Malkin
UC Irvine - Jenin’s Free Speech Problem: PJM
Crib Notes Technology Cost Analysis: Zombie

Pelosi aide admits health 'summit' is a sham: GWP
No. Hell No: Red State
Recess Appointments and 'Damaged Goods': Verum Serum

Obama’s Big Plans for Radical Leftist Dawn Johnsen: BigGovt
Intellectuals and the new 'P'-word: Cold Fury

Economy

Porkulus II: Return of the Phony Jobs Boondoggle: Malkin
Maryland's Toxic Teachers' Unions: RWN
Oh My: Obama Meets with Sharpton on 'Jobs Creation': GWP

Economics in Four Dimensions: Doc Zero
Unions hide slush fund behind anti-Tea Party site: AnBlCon
Pension Liabilities Crushing the Big Three: BlogProf

The Breathtaking Stupidity of Paul Krugman: IBD
Armey whitewashes McCain’s fiscal irresponsibility record: Malkin
Gummint Closes Down: Denny

Bus Drivers Earn Six Figures as Others Lose Jobs: RWN

Climate & Energy

The Great Data Migration: Driscoll
Enough already: Snow smothers capital region: WashExam
PSU Students To Rally For Independent Mann Inquiry: CBullitt

Our National No-Energy Policy: AT
Global Warming Snow Job: Times

Media

“With Absolute Power, Team Obama Grows Stupid”: Driscoll
Anti-Palin Faux-troversy of the Day: The Black Bracelet: LegalIns
Soros Matters Suggests Rusty is a Violent Anti-Obama Extremist or Something: Jawa

And Newspaper Articles Are Too Damned Long: Althouse
Obama’s 'Academically Approved' Approach to Health Care: PJM
Michelle Obama has her "blame Bush" talking points down pat: BlogProf

Captain Un-American: Marvel Comics’ Idea of Heroism — Fighting ‘Teabaggers’: Big Hollywood
'R' for Ridiculous: Equalizer

World

Iran now a nuclear state?: Wizbang
Chatting up the Taliban: Power Line
Who Is Behind the Persecution of Geert Wilders?

Putin Orders Obama Not to Defend America: Big Lizards
Anti-semitic Thuggery Hits Canadian Campuses: AT
Roger Simon interviews Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren: InstaPundit

Ahmadinejad warns Israel against any military move: Reuters

SciTech

Revising the DSM: Pundette
Google to offer 'ultra high-speed' broadband in US: BBC

Cornucopia

Newly Released Photos of 9/11: ABC
Sunday Metal: Denny
Actress Produces Lord of the Rings Prequel for $40K: Verum Serum

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Building a Culture of Dependency: Start 'Em Young Says Tom Vilsack

The Associated Press obtained portions of a speech that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was to deliver yesterday at the National Press Club. 50 inches of warmal colding prevented the speech, but Vilsack's Statist message is crystal clear.

The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids... the administration will seek changes when Congress overhauls the Childhood Nutrition Act.

...Child nutrition and obesity have emerged as key issues for the Obama administration. First Lady Michelle Obama plans to launch a campaign against childhood obesity on Tuesday.

Vilsack outlined changes that include a push to jettison cookies, cakes, pastries and salty food from school vending machines and cafeteria lines. Vilsack says schools need to help kids eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables.

...The administration also wants to enroll more kids in school lunch programs and boost the number of schools offering breakfast. Vilsack said the administration would also push for bigger reimbursements for schools serving breakfast.

Questions, so many questions come to mind:

• Under what authority does the federal government claim the right to regulate vending machines?

• How many new regulatory bodies will try to enforce -- and then screw up -- these attempts?

• Are private schools eligible for the program? Or is this simply a way to limit school choice in a blatant attempt to repay the teachers' unions for their staunch support?

When you're dependent upon the government for your food, you're essentially a slave.

To put these plans into context, consider the recent headlines that demonstrate the scale of the federal government's failures in running the current school lunch program.

USA Today: 26,500 school cafeterias lack required inspections

USA Today: Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches

Oh, that one looks interesting. Let's check it out:

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found.

...McDonald's, Burger King and Costco, for instance, are far more rigorous in checking for bacteria and dangerous pathogens. They test the ground beef they buy five to 10 times more often than the USDA tests beef made for schools during a typical production day.

And the limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school beef.

For chicken, the USDA has supplied schools with thousands of tons of meat from old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food. Called "spent hens" because they're past their egg-laying prime, the chickens don't pass muster with Colonel Sanders— KFC won't buy them — and they don't pass the soup test, either. The Campbell Soup Company says it stopped using them a decade ago based on "quality considerations."

Yesterday, after the story broke, Food Product Design Magazine described Vilsack's simple, elegant structure that husbands taxpayer funds and ensures rock-solid safety for students:

The combined effort of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) include the following:

● AMS will implement new food-safety purchasing requirements for its beef suppliers as a result of a review of the beef purchase program conducted by FSIS and ARS...

● ARS and FSIS will provide technical assistance to AMS...

● National Academy of Sciences will review the ground beef purchasing program... will conduct a thorough evaluation of the scientific validity of the current AMS technical requirements...

● AMS will increase information sharing with other agencies...

● FSIS will work with AMS to review and evaluate meat, poultry and processed egg vendors as part of the AMS vendor eligibility process.

● FNS will review and evaluate methods currently being used by state agencies to communicate with schools and school districts regarding product recalls... FNS will provide financial assistance to states to allow them to upgrade the speed and accuracy of their food-safety messages.

● FNS will establish a Center of Excellence devoted to research on school food-safety issues in FNS child nutrition programs...

● FSA is evaluating and strengthening current requirements and will amend those requirements to better reflect compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and use of a verified Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points program...

What could possibly go wrong?

In short, everything this administration touches turns to crap. And everything they're after is politically, not Constitutionally, motivated. The true rationale for Vilsack's announcement is consistent with the Statist agenda in every way: more government; more unionization; more taxpayer money stolen and wasted; and more dependency.


The Tragedy of Macbama

The Tragedy of Macbama


By Anonymous

SCENE I. A desert place.

Thunder and lightning. Enter three EDITORs


FIRST EDITOR

When shall we three print again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?


SECOND EDITOR

When the election campaign's arranged,

When the battle's won for hope and change.


THIRD EDITOR

We will stand firm rank on rank,

For the new king, be in the tank.


FIRST EDITOR

In the studio we will swarming

To heat things up like global warming

Now rampant bias is the norm

For stimulus and health reform.


SECOND EDITOR

Already I feel a quivering up my leg!


THIRD EDITOR

There to meet with Macbama,

Then begins our great drama!


FIRST EDITOR

I come, CNN!


SECOND EDITOR

MSNBC calls.


THIRD EDITOR

And the Times, too.


ALL

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

To fix this election we will dare!

Exeunt


SCENE II. A heath near Lake Forrest.

Thunder. Enter the three EDITORs


FIRST EDITOR

Where hast thou been?


SECOND EDITOR

I have been in quite a push

Blaming everything on Bush.


THIRD EDITOR

Sister, where thou?


FIRST EDITOR

I have been gathering dirt

Such stuff as will really hurt.

And imprecations by the score

For those who block the candidate we adore

When one critiques his beloved face

I attribute it to race.


THIRD EDITOR

My effort has been to the contrary

All the dirt on him I did bury.

Trumpets Sound


THIRD EDITOR

A drum, a drum!

Macbama doth come.


ALL

The weird sisters, hand in hand,

Republicans we will all brand

As too far right for this fair land.

And those who back them as not too bright.

Whether that is wrong or Wright.

We gather up the poisoned Ayres

To bring up Macbama’s record no one dares

Its hid away in great big sacks

Along with other inconvenent facts.


FIRST EDITOR

Round about the cauldron go;

In the poison'd stories throw.


ALL

Double, double ratings and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.


SECOND EDITOR

Mobilize all MSNBC

For those who watch on their TV

Promise all a bigger slice of cake,

In the cauldron the rich we’ll boil and bake;

Eye of Newt so as we live,

To purge all that’s conservative;

Toe of frog as we do dance,

So the US becomes just like France.

For a charm of powerful trouble,

To give stimulus to a hell-broth’s bubble.


ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


THIRD EDITOR

Withered mummy dipped in bran,

And engagement with Iran.


ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Trumpets sound closer

Enter MACBAMA


MACBAMA

These are some I must highly rate

Leaders of the Fourth Estate.

Them I must so careful woo

With stuff that simply is not true.

I will need them in this fight

So my paltry record they’ll rewrite.


FIRST EDITOR

All hail, Macbama! hail to thee, thane of Chi-town!


SECOND EDITOR

All hail, Macbama, hail to thee, thane of Illinois!


THIRD EDITOR

All hail, Macbama, thou shalt be king hereafter!


MACBAMA

Speak then to me, and of the future tell

I conjure you, by that which you profess,

To make real sure I don’t land in a mess.

The truth is—whatever you are stewing—

I have absolutely no idea of what I’m doing.

I’ve never run a business or a state,

As for the Senate I was absent or just plain late.

My background’s strewn with mines that must be hid

And I’ll be sunk if you lift off the lid.

Without a teleprompter I’d be sunk

You can see why I'm in such a funk!

So please tell me what is to be

The future is something I would dearly see.


FIRST EDITOR

Pour in Bush's blood,

Let lots of apologies join the flood

Like dry wood we will use lots of blame

The passions of the people to enflame.


ALL

Come, spirits from Hell or from high Heaven;

To wipe out the lessons of September 11!

Thunder. The first Apparition appears: a hick carrying a gun and a Bible


FIRST Apparition

Macbama! Macbama! Macbama! beware Rush;

Beware the thane of Beck.

But let your fear be light

They will bark but ridiculed enough they will not bite!

Disappears

Thunder. Second Apparition: A bimbo carrying a cigar


SECOND Apparition

Macbama! Macbama! Macbama!

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn

The power of Clinton, for none of woman, born

Shall harm Macbama.

Disappears

Thunder. THIRD Apparition: a yuppie crowned, with a cup of latte in his hand


THIRD Apparition

Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care

Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:

Macbama shall never vanquish'd be until

A lot of teabags to high Capitol Hill

Shall come against him.

Disappears

MACBAMA

This news is good

Since that will never be

Who can wake up the masses, bid the rubes,

Turn away from their idiot and u-tubes?

Rebellion's head, rise never till the teabags

Rise, and our high-placed Macbama

Shall have an eight-year lease on White House

And transform America.



For the First Time the Main Road of Jerusalem, from 1,500 Years Ago, is Exposed

Very, very cool. The Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed proof that a description on an ancient map is accurate. Gee, it would appear that screws up a few Arab memes of an "occupied territory" and all.

Madaba Map – an ancient mosaic map in a church in Jordan from the sixth-seventh century CE, which depicted the Land of Israel in the Byzantine period, explicitly showed: the entrance to Jerusalem from the west was via a very large gate that led to a single, central thoroughfare on that side of the city.

Various evidence of the important buildings in Jerusalem that appear on the map has been uncovered over the years or has survived to this day – for example the Church of the Holy Sepulcher – but the large bustling street from the period when Jerusalem became a Christian city has not been discovered until now. The reason for this is that no archaeological excavations took place in the region due to the inconvenience it would cause in stopping traffic in such a busy central location.

Now, because of the need for a thorough treatment of the infrastructure in the region, the Jerusalem Development Authority has initiated rehabilitation work and is renewing the infrastructure in this area in general, and next to the entrance to David Street (known to tourists as the stepped-street with the shops) in particular. Thus it is possible for both archaeologists and the public to catch a rare glimpse of what is going on beneath the flagstone pavement that is so familiar to us all.

1. Remains of the 1,500 year old street. Photograph: Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

From his knowledge of the Madaba Map, Dr. Ofer Sion, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, surmised that the place where the infrastructure will be replaced is where a main road passes that is known from the map. “And indeed, after removing a number of archaeological strata, at a depth of c. 4.5 m below today’s street level, much to our excitement we discovered the large flagstones that paved the street”. The flagstones, more than a meter long, were found cracked from the burden of centuries. A foundation built of stone was unearthed alongside the street on which a sidewalk and a row of columns, which have not yet been revealed, were founded. According to Dr. Sion, “It is wonderful to see that David Street, which is teeming with so much life today, actually preserved the route of the noisy street from 1,500 years ago”.

2. The cistern that was exposed below the street, between David’s Citadel and David Street. Photograph: Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

During the Middle Ages a very large building that faced the street was constructed on the stone foundation of the Byzantine period. In a later phase, during the Mamluk period (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries CE) elongated rooms were built inside this structure, some of which are vaulted; these were apparently used as shops and storerooms. It turns out that beneath this building – right below the street that runs between David’s Citadel and David Street and leads to the Armenian Quarter – is an enormous cistern, 8 x 12 meters and 5 meters deep, which supplied water to its occupants.

3. The region of Jerusalem as it appears on the Madaba Map (both sides of the street are marked in red).

The Madaba Map is an 8 x 16 meter mosaic map that was built in a church in Madaba, Jordan and described the Land of Israel through the intimate knowledge the mosaic’s builder had of the country. The map depicts schematically all of the Land of Israel, with an emphasis on the Christian sites in it. Among other things that appear on the map are many of the churches they began to erect at this time when the city underwent a religious change from paganism to Christianity. The churches can be identified by the red roofs that are portrayed on the map.

The artifacts that were discovered in the excavations include an abundance of pottery vessels and coins and five small square bronze weights that the shopkeepers used for weighing precious metals.

Absolutely amazing.


Hat tip: Dan from New York.

Time Magazine: Uproarious Laughter Forces Headline Change as Ice Age Threatens the Magazine's Global Warming Agitprop

Time Magazine sported its Statist regalia earlier today with a truly funny article entitled "Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate Change".

After the laughter subsided, visitors to its website noticed that the headline had changed to "Another Blizzard: What Happened to Global Warming?.

I emailed Time with a suggestion for a new headline -- "Serial Blizzards That Resemble a New Ice Age Prove Global Warming Is Real" -- but have not yet heard back.

In all seriousness, the text of the article is something out of a rejected SNL skit: it's just too preposterous. Some of my favorite quotes?

• "There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm." And there's also evidence that eating five bags of pork rinds a day could cause you to lose weight, but I can't quite prove that yet.

• "While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming — hotter air can hold more moisture..." And stupid people can hold more crap, but I digress.

• "But as far as winter storms go, shouldn't climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen — but probably not for a while." Or at least not until we've passed Cap-and-Trade and the new Lightbulb Bill.

• "As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the Great Lakes has shrunk, which has led to even more moisture in the atmosphere and more snow in the already hard-hit Great Lakes region." See, it's easy to follow: warming has shrunk ice cover in that region while greatly increasing the snow cover!

No mention of ClimateGate. No mention of missing weather stations. No mention of corrupted or intentionally destroyed data. No mention of the glaciers that were supposed to melt next week.

Just the Democrat-Statist talking points, recited to an audience that's disappearing faster than a gallon of ice cream in front of Michael Moore's pie hole.

Time Magazine thinks its readers are really, really dumb. Perhaps the few that remain are truly stupid. But I kinda doubt it. They'd be working for Time if they were that dumb.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin and Ed Driscoll. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: A practicing psychiatrist analyzes Barack Obama

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Nation

Blaming Rahm Emanuel for the failure of Obamacare: Pundette
The Four Horsemen of the Obamacalypse: Corner
Beware 'Statisticians' Bearing Advice: LegalIns

Brennan Disgraces Himself: Corner
Brennan Has to Go: Corner
State of Emergency in NC? No Guns for You: RWN

A practicing psychiatrist analyzes Barack Obama: Kismet
Moments after call for bipartisanship, Gibbs mocks Palin: Toldjah
Killing School Choice: What Democrats Knew: BlogProf

Economy

How’s That Obamanomics Going For You?: FlAces
Capitalism is worst system - except for all the rest: Arabian
Chinese see U.S. debt as weapon in Taiwan dispute: Times

Dems join GOP in blocking SEIU hack: GWP
Fudging Jobless Stats: Times
Uh, Who's Paying for this Obesity Task Force, Honey? : JWF

Climate & Energy

DrillGate: Palin
Climategate: MorOn.org's Triple Whopper: PJM

Media

Obama chooses snow day for unannounced press conference, first in six months: Patterico
Turnabout is (hilarious) fair play: Corner
Brennan's Op-Ed: An AOSHQ Response: Ace

How Media Chooses Words Adds to Bias: RWN
Get Over It: ‘Birtherism’ Is Not Journalism: BigJournalism
Gibbs Takes Swipe At Palin With Hand Note: Riehl

O'Reilly Slams Politico Hack for Tea Party Bias: Malkin
‘Teabaggers’: Roger Ebert Trashes His Own Fans (and Palin) on Twitter: Big Hollywood
Breitbart: 'There are more tapes': Founding Bloggers

Post mortems of Obama's first-year failures: Pundette
Captain America Takes On The Tea-Partiers: Nice Deb
Press Corpse: Jawa

World

What is Iran Planning for Thursday?: Ledeen
CBN Reporter Interviews al-Qaeda Operative Living Openly in the UK: Weasel Zippers
Islam's Child Martyrs In America: FrontPage

Iran's Two-Edged Bomb: Breath of the Beast
The Intellectuals What Ain’t: RWN
Evans Muncie Alive after 28 Days Under Haiti Rubble: Maggie

How London Became a Terrorist Hotbed: GoV

Cornucopia

Let’s Moo-ve On.org: Mirror
A better “Miss Me Yet?” billboard: Malkin


Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The Sublime, Timeless Wisdom of Arianna Huffington Somehow Reduced to Ashes By Anonymous Commenter at Green Room

A bruising retort to Arianna Huffington ("Laissez-Faire Capitalism Should Be as Dead as Soviet Communism") appeared in a comment at Hot Air's Green Room. Suffice it to say that Arianna loses the debate with our anonymous commenter -- badly.

The free market did not cause this crisis, the government did.

The free market did not create Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae and Sallie Mae, the government did.

The free market did not pass laws that forced banks to lend to those who do not qualify for a loan, the government did.

The free market did not take us off the gold standard, the government did.

The free market did not dump trillions of dollars of cheap money into the system causing the largest asset bubble in history, the government did.

The free market did not create multiple multi-trillion-dollar unfunded entitlement programs, the government did.

The free market did not write a 60,000+ page tax code that punishes work, rewards sloth and buys the votes of special interest groups, the government did.

The free market did not destroy public schools with forced unionization of teachers and a systematic failure to teach generations of students civics and financial literacy, the government did.

The free market did not drive our jobs overseas and kill our entrepreneurial spirit with over-taxation, over-regulation and frivolous lawsuits, the government did.

The free market did not ban drilling for oil, vilify coal and block the building of nuclear power plants in the United States, thereby transferring hundred of billions of dollars of American wealth and many thousands of energy-industry jobs to foreign countries, the government did.

This crisis is the result of a giant social engineering experiment and vote-buying scheme gone tragically wrong.

The free market does not try to engineer society or buy votes, the government does.

The government caused this crisis, the free market did not.

The government cannot fix the crisis, the free market can.

Word.

Only the free market can.