Real Science and AGW Science

and other lying  bastards

“ Scientists abandon highly publicized claim about cosmic find Brian Keating-Real Scientist NEW YORK- Scientists who made headlines last March by announcing that they'd found long-sought evidence about the early universe are now abandoning that claim. "It's disappointing," he said in a telephone interview Friday after the European Space Agency publicized the results. "It's like finding out there's no Santa Claus. But it's important to know the truth." That signal is what the researchers claimed they had found in observations of the sky taken from the South Pole, in a project called BICEP2. But now, in a new paper submitted for publication, "we are effectively retracting the claim," said Brian Keating of the University of California, San Diego, a member of the BICEP2 team. Read more here: “ Phony climate scientists trade empirical processes for cash and communism. Phony scientist Michael Mann and another liar Climategate Files Climate Fail Files Climate Liar Files Climate Reference Files ” ”

TOILETGATE

Democrat Big Brother Follows Reporters to Bathroom “ Reporters covering the House Democrats' retreat in Philadelphia this week are having a much different experience than when they’re on their home turf on Capitol Hill. Reporters are being escorted to and from the restroom and lobby and are being barred from entering the hotel outside of scheduled events, even if they've been invited by a member of Congress. During Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks at the retreat Friday, reporters were required to have a staff member, usually a junior member of the press team, escort them when going to the bathroom or to the lobby. The filing center for reporters was at a separate hotel from where the retreat was taking place, so access was limited to members of Congress specifically made available to the press. - See more You can't make this stuff up .... ”

We're about to be Lynched

Holder's Mustache

“ Loretta Lynch & Holder’s Wife President Obama’s Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch was a charter member of an all-black Harvard sorority — and so was Eric Holder’s wife. Lynch will face the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in her first confirmation hearing in her bid to succeed Holder as the nation’s leading law enforcement official. But can Lynch as an investigator really be objective when it comes to her predecessor, who is currently in contempt of Congress over Fast and Furious scandal document obstruction and would probably warrant investigation from an unbiased successor? After all, Lynch goes way back with Holder’s wife. [etc] "... can Lynch as an investigator really be objective when it comes to her predecessor..." Get real. In this theater of the absurd  administration?  ”

“Religious Freedom Restoration Act" Amok

a major award

“ TRUTH ALA CARTE Hostility to Tradition In the nineties, the Clinton Administration formed a bipartisan coalition to pass the federal “Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” or “RFRA.” Nineteen states followed suit. The legislation came in response to a Supreme Court decision that had seen an American Indian suffer legally for having used a drug during a well established American Indian religious ceremony. Religious freedom is enshrined in the first amendment to the American constitution. The American left, increasingly hostile to any values, has made a decision to impose their lack of values on America. Dissent was patriotic when George Bush was President. Now that the left feels completely in control all dissent must be stamped out ruthlessly. RFRA’s framework was common sense. “Under RFRA the government may not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion unless it can demonstrate that the burden is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest, and it is the least restrictive means of advancing a compelling interest.” See Perez v. Paragon Contractors (2014, Dist. Ct. Utah). The standard was hailed as fair and appropriate by Democrats and by Republicans. Nineteen states followed the federal government. From Connecticut to Florida to Arizona, states found a bipartisan consensus that the sincerely held faith based beliefs of individuals deserved encroachment from the federal government. This bipartisan consensus has rapidly collapsed in the United States. It began with Hobby Lobby. The company is a closely held corporation run by a family. The family intended to run its business based on its Christian values. The employees are paid more than employees at competitors. The store hours are not as long so employees can go home to their families. The store closes on Sundays to honor the Sabbath and give employees a day off. But Hobby Lobby also designs its healthcare plans to reflect its values. It covers birth control for female employees, but its health care plan would not cover the costs of drugs classified as abortifacients, or drugs that induce an abortion. It would not cover the cost of abortions. The Obama Administration ordered the company to do so and then, as a compromise, ordered the company to give money to other organizations that would then provide the abortifacients. Hobby Lobby sued and won in the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that under RFRA, the Obama Administration had already shown through various exemptions and alternatives that it had not used the least restrictive means to accomplish its goals. Where RFRA once had bipartisan support, it is now opposed by the left. Compounding the problem is the march for gay marriage. In multiple states around the country, gay activists have tried to force Christian bakers, florists, photographers, wedding planners, and others to provide goods and services against their religious convictions to gay weddings. In states without RFRA, the Christians who have refused have been dragged before courts and punished. Some will be driven from business. Liberals were happy with religious conviction when it allowed drug use.  [continue] “Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish.” ― Stephanie Ericsson ”

Scott Walker's Roosting

Scott Walker, Presumptive 2016 Favorite

“ Forget what the polls say. Polls this far out are notoriously worthless in predicting Presidential nominees. Right now Scott Walker is sitting in the catbird’s seat for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination. Virtually everyone who is contemplating running for President in 2016 or who has ever contemplated running for President in their life went to Iowa last weekend but unless you were a regular reader of RedState you would have no idea that anyone other than Scott Walker delivered a speech. This is just one indication of how thoroughly and completely Walker has stolen the early show from the other nominees and sucked all the oxygen from the room. But Walker’s domination of the first 2016 cattle call isn’t the reason that he has to be considered the favorite right now. The simple fact is that Walker is the only candidate in the field who has already won what could be considered two national elections. Much has been made of the fact that Walker has already won essentially three tough elections. This is true, but it undersells how Walker’s electoral experience differs even from other candidates in the field who have successfully won bruising statewide elections like Chris Christie or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)82%. Running for elective office involves successive levels of difficulty – and more importantly, scrutiny – especially in terms of the media. A hard fought state legislature race involves less media poking and prodding than a tough U.S. House race, which involves less than a Senate race, and so on. As Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich so ably demonstrated in 2012, no one who hasn’t won office at least statewide should really attempt to run for President because the increased glare of a national race tends to wilt those who are not prepared for it. Walker, on the other hand, has not just won statewide races in a blue state. He has already been through the gauntlet, at least twice, of being the number one national target of the Democrat apparatus. He has already felt the full fury of having Democrat and union operatives trail him around to every campaign stop, recording every word, and digging up every detail on his life possible. His recall election was especially impressive because he was, nationwide, the only Republican target on the ballot at the time it occurred. He has already faced bogus prosecutions by politically motivated prosecutors and every other government hack under the sun. [Full] Of course it's not a question of good versus evil, because evil in this instance believe they have a moral imperative to be evil, which in their minds make them the good.  And, of course, there are the GOP cross-dressers to contend with, but for now I'm exultant that Walker is  cock of the walk.  ”

Sharyl Attkisson:Enemy of the State

Police State          ENEMY OF THE STATE

Word Salad

MSNBC ALL-STARS and ilk ... is worth 1000 words

“ "This ‘toon neatly take his acolytes to task on his insistence in calling a spade an excavation tool:" Parsing of words.   Like a buncha fledgling linguist professors with their brandy-new degrees.  Sheeesh!  Watching Earnest and Schultz (not me, the shithead on MSNBC- Ed) tapdance their way out of calling Taliban terrorists terrorists is like watching a wannabe-engineer explain to a kindergartner the basic difference between a rock and a stone.  All I could think of is what the rest of the world must think of us when the human delivery system for PotUSthink gets his merds all wixed and strumbles over the semaphoric features of his anatomy while making absolutely certain not to call a terrorist organization a terrorist organization.  Schultz was carefully prepped by close advisors to Soetoro and made to memorize the euphemism du jour for terrorist groups.   But his humanity and common sense almost got the better of him when he tried desperately to say that the Taliban is an armed insurgency which merely performs acts similar to terrorism and only in Afghanistan while a true terror group such as Al Qaeda performs precisely the same acts but on wider scale, those acts being killing children, bombing buses, murdering innocent civilians, persecuting Christians, hating Jews, and so on.   Poor guy’s gag reflex almost got the better of him, but he finally managed to re-swallow the mouthful of vurp and chant the mantra, like a 3rd grader reciting his lines on stage in the obligatory Thanksgiving skit.  I got to thinking what derogatory nouns and adjectives I can use to describe the incumbent quack.  Came up with some doozies, too, such as poltroon, dastard, libertine, miscreant, enfant terrible, and two I’ve used before that for some reason don’t get much attention, even from FoxNews:  jackanape and popinjay.  The creep is indeed a bête noir, a dabbler, even after 6 years of on-the-job training.  He’s a trifler, a stagnant neophyte, a still-rank amateur, a business buffoon, a diplomatic dud, and a domestic debacle.  Aside from the standard descriptors I’ve used on him for several years now, such as arrogant, incompetent, unqualified, inept, intransigent, ineligible, and all those, he’s also pompous, pretentious, insolent, vengeful, bombastic, obdurate, disdainful, and downright supercilious.  He’s a proselyte, a dilettante, a jerk, and a klutz.  He’s a liar, a menace, and a Muslim dressed up in taqiyyah.   Metzger ”

Home Runs

Battered Bastards of Baseball

“ When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell-who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career-bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks-the only independent team in America-started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work. But Bing understood a ballplayer's dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks-a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them-brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game. (C) Netflix Rotten Tomatoes Rating 5 STARS This is a real gem.  As an aside; Bing Russell's son is actor Kurt Russell who is married to Goldie Hawn, both of whose movies I like.  When all of Hollywood was dumping on Bush 43 after 9/11, he and Goldie had the guts to appear on O'Relly's show in debate.  Both came across as honestly concerned, and both were amenable to considering other points of view.  Later I discovered that Kurt is (or became?) a Libertarian who, he said,  was "told by people that there are people who wouldn't work with me because they were afraid of my politics."  All that aside—boy, girl, man or woman—you will really like this film. ”

Baby Killers and Consequences

Liberal Culture

“ The Elimination of Christianity in the West Brings Disrespect for Life Warner Todd Huston  Abortion activists are taking the next, logical step in their justification of abortion by agreeing that, yes, abortion kills a human baby, but… “so what?” It is just the next logical step in abortion apologia that results from the end of the Christian philosophical influence in society. But we don’t see that end affecting just abortion. We see it throughout society. Whether leftists like the idea or not, the United States of America was conceived as a Christian nation. Not a Catholic one, not a Muslim one, not a Jewish one and not a secular one, but a Christian nation built solidly on the Christian ethos. Every state initially formed with a particular flavor of Protestantism as a state sanctioned religion and our entire culture was fueled by the twin influences of Christian philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. It is certainly true that our form of government is essentially secular in that it is not guided or controlled by any particular religion, but the ethics underlying those governments where heavily informed by Christian ethics. The left, though, has been angling to destroy the underlying Christian ethos since the turn of the last century as academia and the left became imbued with communist and socialist propaganda. The efforts to destroy the bedrock principles upon which the nation was built began under the destroyer of our education system, John Dewey, who, along with famed “History” professor Charles Beard, worked to tear down America’s founding principles and replace them with socialist-inspired anti-American ideals. (And they succeeded, by the way.) [Continued] A regular theme of mine.  It is, or ought be, a no brainer that nations which share a common language and religion are more stable.  In our case it was English and Christianity.  Din't matter if you were agnostic, atheist or just going along to get along; everyone gained by the common dialectic and guardrails by osmosis.  Agent provocateurs like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, to name just one,  who argued "tyranny of the majority" have won.  So now it's tyranny of the minority.  How's that working?  ”

Looks promising

Sons of Liberty: A Review

VIDEO PICK DOOMS ADOBE?

GOOGLE TRUMPS ADOBE

Mount Holyoke Progressives At Work

Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because It Excludes Women Without Vaginas

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MISSING VAGINA? Tommy Lee Smith

THE PROGRESSIVE MONEY PIE- It's us.

“ Follow the Money: Center for American Progress The last time you filled up your cart at Walmart or checked your balance with your account at Bank of America you were likely making a decision based on the cost benefits and convenience of doing business.  You probably weren’t thinking, “I’m supporting the ‘official Hillary Clinton think tank’ today,” but you were. The corporate money that funds CAP directly supports an overtly liberal agenda. Conservatives should take notices and contact companies like Apple, CitiGroup, Google, Mars, Microsoft, Walmart, Bank of America, Daimler, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, Time Warner, Visa, American Express, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coca-Cola, CVS, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Pearson, PG&E, Samsung, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo and ask some simple questions: Why did your company give to the Center for American Progress? What issues or values does the Center for American Progress share with your company? Will your company continue donating to this partisan/liberal group in 2015? These companies are just two of many that you’ll likely recognize which were listed last week in the Center for American Progress’s (CAP) release of their 2014 corporate donors.  This marks the second year that CAP has publicly released the names of its major corporate donors and throughout the list, you’ll find household names like CVS, Wells Fargo, PepsiCo, and Mars Incorporated. The corporate money that funds CAP directly supports an overtly liberal agenda. Conservatives should take notices and contact companies like Apple, CitiGroup, Google, Mars, Microsoft, Walmart, Bank of America, Daimler, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, Time Warner, Visa, American Express, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coca-Cola, CVS, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Pearson, PG&E, Samsung, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo and ask some simple questions: Why did your company give to the Center for American Progress? These corporate relationships with CAP should disturb conservatives for a number of reasons.  After all, this is an organization established to promote issues that appear on every liberal wish list imaginable, ranging from Obamacare to the carbon tax to sweeping new restrictions on firearms. They also have been criticized for promoting anti-Israel language on their affiliated web sites. If you need any additional proof of CAP’s left-leaning nature and influence, look no further than the administration of our current president. While soon leaving to join Hillary Clinton’s team, John Podesta, the founder of CAP, has relied on the organization while serving as a senior advisor to President Obama.  In fact, the president even thanked CAP “for giving me a lot of good policy ideas, but also giving me a lot of staff.” Recently, further light has been shed on CAP’s close ties to Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations. Just last week, The Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay compiled a report on other significant CAP donors who are some of Clinton’s top funders and recent reports have speculated that Podesta himself will be running Clinton’s nascent presidential campaign. [FULL] BONUS INFO Center for American Progress (CAP) The Center for American Progress (CAP) describes itself as “an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of Americans ... www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6709 CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS BACKGROUNDER MEET THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS. April 2005. CAP's Liberal Leadership: Former Clinton Chief Of Staff John Podesta Launched “Liberal Policy  ... www.discoverthenetworks.org/.../ Meet%20the%20Center%20for%20Amer%20Progress.htm John Podesta - Discover the Networks President and CEO of the Center for American Progress; Former Clinton Chief of Staff; Former antiwar activist of the New Left; Worked on the Eugene McCarthy ... www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=1626 Organizations Funded by George Soros and His Open Society Institute America Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose .... Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former ... www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237 Center for American Progress Fellows and Senior Staffers with Left ... CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS FELLOWS AND SENIOR ... Eric Alterman is a media critic who claims that American media outlets are largely ... ”

Oh Shit! Soros Has an Heir

Police State          TEX “ Soros-funded plan champions 'North American Union' NEW YORK – A Soros-funded group arguing to replace the U.S. passport with a North American passport appears ready to take up the mantle of championing the concept of a European Union-style regional government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, Mexico and Canada, fulfilling the dream of the late American University professor Robert Pastor. The future of the U.S. lies in North America, not in the United States as a sovereign nation, contends the New America Foundation, a Washington-based leftist think-tank with ties to Jonathan Soros, son of famed leftist billionaire George Soros. Appropriately named “New America,” the foundation believes the U.S. passport should soon become obsolete and replaced with a European Union-style passport issued for all citizens of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Citizens would be redefined by their regional identity as “North Americans,” echoing President Obama’s claim in Spanish in his Dec. 17, 2014, announcement of his executive actions to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, “Todos Somos Americanos,” or, “We are all Americans. [Full] ” T

FOYLE'S WAR WINS AWARD

Major Award

I previously mentioned that we were enjoying Foyle's War and it appears I was dead on.  The Department of Major Awards has named  it the "Best Scripted, Acted, and Genearally Delicious Television Series Ever Made For All Audiences."  I am not making that up.

Trader Joe's Is Best

If I lived across the street from a Trader Joe's I wouldn't need a refrigerator or a pantry and only need a convection plate and a toaster oven and I would buy every meal ala carte and it would be delicious.

Like Minded Douchebaggery

major awards

Three Things That Are Actually The Same (via Tim W)

They Don't Have The Balls!

Double Dog Dare! Do, and we'll turn the Arab world into a sheet of glass!

Scott Walker v. Institutional Media Bias

Democrat Media Monkeys “ Gov. Scott Walker (R, Wisconsin) and the Washington Post’s institutional bias. You’ve no doubt already heard that Scott Walker is, yea, indeed, running for President – with a hundred ‘Throne of Skulls’ jokes already blossoming on Twitter* – but I don’t want to hit that.  I want to hit a problem that I have with the Washington Post’s reporting on the subject.  This passage, in particular: [Scott Walker's] decision to take on public employee unions in Wisconsin in early 2009 created huge protests around the state Capitol building in Madison and left the state deeply polarized around his leadership…. That anger resulted in a recall election in 2012, which Walker survived. He went on to win his reelection campaign last November by a comfortable margin, and his three victories in four years have made him a hero among many conservatives. Bolding mine.  Here’s the thing.  In the 2012 recall election, Scott Walker beat Tom Barrett, 53/46. According to the Washington Post, that’s ‘surviving.’ And in the 2014 general election Scott Walker beat Mary Burke, 52/47.  According to the, erm, Washington Post, that’s ‘comfortable.’  Presumably the Washington Post would also concede that Scott Walker’s 2010 general election 52/46 win over Barrett was also ‘comfortable?’ …The point is, strictly speaking either all three elections were won by ‘comfortable’ margins, or none of them were. Particularly since Walker did better in the recall than in the general elections, if only by a hair. And that’s media bias in action.  It might even be unconscious media bias, at that.  Here is the basic reality of the Wisconsin public union fight: from beginning to ignominious end Democratic and progressive activists conducted themselves as if they were spoiled, vicious children.  The electorate spanked them for it: there is no credible way that any anti-Walker fanatic can presume to speak for Wisconsin. Wisconsin refused to let the anti-Walker fanatics win.  It’s not that Scott Walker was the hero of that particular story (although most conservatives would happily call him one) as he was the protagonist.  Walker, from start to finish, had all the agency in that conflict. Scott Walker did not ‘survive’ his recall election. He smashed the recall movement to the floor and walked away, whistling. [full] There seems to have been no highborn political reason behind Jeff Bezo's purchase of the WaPost, but one hoped.  Getting rid of the Graham's was a nice first step, but "institutional bias" seems indeed to be the operative word.  At any rate, if Scott Walker is to become the first honest conservative person since Reagan to thwart the GOP machine, he will, like Reagan, have to undergo trial by GOP fire.  If he succeeds, we win. I think he's a 35-65 chance in that regard, which all things considered is the best chance we've had in 30 years.   (Saying Hail Mary 10 times).  ”

Loretta Lynch's Mustache

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell." TRKOF

Attorney General Nominee to Say She Wants Better Relations With Congress

Birdgod

Catharsis

JUNCOS It was just about 7 years ago they showed up.  Didn't know what they were, where they came from, nor whether you could eat them.  We liked them because they (according to MoSup, who never spent 1000 hours on a gun range before ear protectors were invented)  had a nice song.  They had a nice mat black and snow white color scheme, and a yellow beak.   Moved around the snow knowing just where to claw down to the covered seeds that spilled over from the hanging feeders.  Went to the bird store and found out they were Dark Eyed Juncos.  Sold me a bag of white millet which I threw onto the snow covered deck and they've been back every winter since.  I don't know whether they spend summers in the arctic and fly south to warmer climes in winter, or if they summer in Miami and fly north for the ski season.  Anyway, this morning I was up early; dusk;  and threw a cup of seed out.  A minute later they were all over it.  They must be watching for me.  Like, I'm their god.  I'm a good person.   Yes. Squirrels would disagree, but squirrels are rats.