I hate when I see that

I'm Just Axing ..

On the other hand ...

“ America, you hire Newt Gingrich, if you run Newt Gingrich R A, you’re going to lose the election. But if you if you go for Newt Gingrich and he strangely does win the election, come what may. It’s on your head. It’s on your head. ....But I’m telling you this guy is a progressive. ... Do you remember when I told you that there’s going to come a time when the progressives, somebody’s going to want to grab the pendulum. Well, we have the conditions that are being sown right now. And the pendulum is going to stop, possibly... [Glenn Beck]

GREEN CRAP The verdict is in on climate change You're a close minded sod if you deny it

“ In a LAT op-ed piece Naomi Oreskes, professor of history at UC San Diego  (hey. it could have been gender studies) had an epiphany.  Recently I had jury duty, and during jury selection something remarkable occurred. Early in the proceedings, the judge posed a hypothetical question to the 60 or so potential jurors in the room: "If I were to send you out now and ask you to render a verdict, what would it be? How many of you would vote not guilty?" A few raised their hands. "How many would vote guilty?" A few more raised their hands. ... That, of course, was the wrong answer, and the judge proceeded to explain why. Baby steps.  But the light bulb (CFL, natch) lit.  In my travels, I have met many, many people who have told me that they are not in denial about climate change; they simply don't know enough to decide. It strikes me that these people aren't unlike my fellow jurors at the start of jury selection. They are trying to keep an open mind, something that we are routinely enjoined to do in many other aspects of daily life. But .. Since the mid-1990s, there has been clear-cut evidence that the climate is changing because of human activities: burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For the last decade or so it has been increasingly clear that these changes are accelerating, and worrisome. I think we've heard enough.  At this point I wanted to yell "show us your tits!"  I Googled "Naomi Oreskes nude," hoping  she had some redeeming quality, but  no. Awk!   I then checked her out at Watts Up With That.  Anthony Watts's  climate change possee  lumps  her (Naomi Oreskes ... suggested that scientists should study history...." ) with the  gaggle of  “new AGU” climate clowns who amuse real climatologists with their buffoonery. “ I cannot begin to describe the delicious sense of irony I felt when I listened to a panel of people who have no demonstrated skill or expertise in selling messages to the public, trying to tell scientists how they should sell a message to the public. And the questioners were also entertaining. ” Clown or no, this nincompoop is teaching minds full of mush to think like her.  The woman is carrying a plague for chrisake! Treat her as such.        (→ lopped tenure) ”

Cancer cure via a teenaged mind?

The Bright Future - it's out there*

MoSup called me in to watch this.  Great story of a 17-year-old California student who got to thinking.  About cancer.  And, a cure. “ ”   * unless she's a Chicom spy sent to infiltrate America's infrastructure.

Newt, Reagan, and Spiro

Newt - My Take

Ugh (Roll Over Horrid Newt) I'm not sure how I feel about Newt winning South Carolina, but it's not terrible.  What I find most gratifying is how and why he won it.  By energizing  the conservative base when he slammed John King for opening the last debate with a question about his wife.  The crowd went wild; the video went viral.  Sarah Palin immediately sensed it, saying his performance would help him" “soar even more”   It was Ronald Reagan asserting  "This is my microphone, I paid for it" during the Nashua primary debate in 1980, (a line  purloined from Spencer Tracy in "State Of The Union," when his character was about to be cut off in debate.  A defining moment for Reagan.   It was Vice President Spiro Agnew during a televised speech in 1969, calling  the press "nattering nabobs of negativism" and war critics  "an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as 'intellectuals.'"  America went nuts, and the press ducked for cover.  This is vintage 1992 Newt, going for the throat of a corrupt Democrat House of Representatives.  He was unparalleled.  I only hope he, if elected, doesn't become 1994 Newt, all coiffed, gushy, and wanting to be loved by everyone.Or, God forbid, 2010 Newt, who promoted man caused global warming with Nancy Pelosi (stab me in the liver). Aside- Speaking of the movie "State of the Union," here's the speech every politician could, and should, make tomorrow. We'd all be better for it.

Whatcha thinkin' about?

Oh My Roll Over

What were their names - Shashesques? Ceausescus?

FOIA Documents Show Obama Justice Department Coordinating Voter Registration Drives With ACORN’s Project Vote…

Readers will also recall that ACORN activists have long been involved in voter registration fraud, either directly or through its Project Vote affiliate. At least 70 ACORN/Project Vote employees have been convicted of voter registration fraud in a dozen states since 2006. According to a 2009 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report, approximately a third of the 1.2 million new registrations turned in by the two groups in 2008 were fraudulent. Despite all this, documents obtained recently by Judicial Watch via the Freedom of Information Act suggest that President Obama -- who was employed by Project Vote as a community organizer early in his career -- and Attorney General Eric Holder have no qualms about working closely with present and former ACORN and Project Vote operatives on voter registration drives aimed at people on public assistance. Read more at the Washington Examiner: Given ACORN/Project Vote's extensive links to voter registration fraud schemes across the country, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California might want to ask Holder about these matters on Feb. 2 when the attorney general appears before the panel. In the meanwhile— Arizona strikes back: State investigates feds over gun-running Arizona's state legislature will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, known as "Fast and Furious," the speaker of the state House said Friday. Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any state laws — raising the possibility of state penalties against those responsible for the operation. It's a turnaround from the rest of the immigration issue, where the federal government has sued to block the state's own set of laws.

Finn Stoves and Driving School

The Finnish Fire Stove How come I didn't learn this in Boy Scouts? Or in Capture and Evasion class?

1 1 Pictures And this— What Finns must do to get a driver's licence.  This is 'sposed to be USA-USA-USA stuff, not Finns vitun Rule!  (I wonder if I might have some claim to the Finnish throne? )

Pet Carrier

Perfect Gizmos and Gadgets Handy Pet and Deer-Kill Carrier No Carbon Footprint

F-35 FAIL

Who's In Charge Here?!? July 22, 2009 Obama Wins Crucial Senate Vote on F-22 Strips funding But Robert M. Gates, the defense secretary, has said that the Pentagon needs to accelerate a new plane, the F-35, and that doing so would offset the job losses. ”

Navy's £5bn Harrier jet replacement 'unable to land on aircraft carriers' ... the entire JSF programme in jeopardy amid fears it could be axed all together despite billions  of pounds spent by the British and American governments and other “partner nations”. NOW Leaked Pentagon documents claim a design flaw in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has caused eight simulated landings to fail. The “F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Concurrency Quick Look Review” claimed the flaw meant that the “arrestor” hook, used to stop the plane during landing, was too close to the plane’s wheels. When a fighter lands on an aircraft carrier an arrestor cable catches the hook on the back of the aircraft, preventing it from overshooting and ditching into the sea. The documents warn of "major consequences" to the aircraft’s structure and cast doubt on the readiness of the JSF to provide close-air support, which is seen as critical to a carrier’s role in providing amphibious landings. The review further suggests the planes will be unable to fire the British Asraam air-to-air missile. Asraam air-to-air missile. SNAFU STORY ”

Obama's rope-a-dope

Obama argues against appearing at eligibility hearing

“ Barack Obama has outlined a defense strategy for a multitude of state-level challenges to his candidacy on the 2012 presidential ballot in a Georgia case that is scheduled to come before a judge later this month – simply explain that states have nothing to do with the eligibility of presidential candidates. ” And Obama's argument?  Add it to the long list of curious, fraudulent, or plain stupid behavior Obama has exhibited in his eligibility fight. “ Presidential electors and Congress, not the state of Georgia, hold the constitutional responsibility for determining the qualifications of presidential candidates, Obama’s lawyer argues in a motion to quash a subpoena for him to appear at the hearings Jan. 26. ” It is states, usually through the office of secretary of state, that run elections, not the federal government. The national election is simply a compilation of the results of the individual elections within states.  State law also grants the secretary of state and any “elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate” in the state the authority to raise a challenge to a candidate’s qualifications, the judge determined.  His lawyers ought be fined by the judges for willfully employing rope-a-dope in this, by now, farcical effort to save Obama's ass.

Man sues people he kidnapped

Bad Judges Dimmick sues couple he kidnapped

“ The Cause The Effect                   Warren Court &  Liberal Successors Two years ago, fugitive murder suspect Jesse Dimmick kidnapped newlyweds Jared and Lindsay Rowley after bursting into their home on a Saturday morning. Now, he’s suing them for $235,000. Dimmick contends in the breach of contract suit that after he entered the couple’s home in September 2009, they reached a legally binding, oral contract that they would hide him for an unspecified amount of money. “Later, the Rowleys reneged on said oral contract, resulting in my being shot in the back by authorities,” Dimmick wrote in a notarized legal document, which said he was filing the counterclaim in response to a suit the Rowleys filed against him in September. [Full] ”

PeTA v. American Fitness

Culture CHOICES

“ Your choice ”

Groundhog Speech

Culture Strange alignments, convergences, penumbras and emanations

“ In the coming New Year, 2012,  both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same  day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of  events. One  involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of  little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a  groundhog... ”   franknevvy

SOPA WEASELS

Weasels

Durex

DUREX targeting .008% of the market

Are there any lines left uncrossed?

Caption Granny

CAPTION

Doug M Wins “                                                                                                                 ”

Limiting cash withdrawals

Chatter

“ 20120119 20:16 Anonymoose Dale: Of possible interest, Ann Barnhardt (second story) says that she has been getting calls and emails from people whose banks have been haggling over their cash withdrawals, not citing any laws or regulations, but wanting to limit withdrawals. "Limiting cash withdrawals is a sign of an insolvent or failing banking system. These sorts of limits are happening in Italy as we speak. It is very telling that banks in the U.S. are now lying and dissimulating in order to avoid and thwart cash withdrawals by their customers." ”

Brits - The Whole Lot

Cracking Good Stuff

“ It started with Top Gear (working on second viewing of all episodes).  That led to James May's Wine Adventures (13 episodes), then Wheeler Dealers (all episodes) all things Gordon Ramsey, then  Blackadder, then In Search of Shakespeare (4 episodes),  then  Monarchy (11 parts) and now The Tudors (on episode 8 of about 58), a slew of Brit films like Nana, Lamp in Assassin Mews, and The War Bride. All of this has me with fork in the right hand (which is the left- like my Granny did), and learning proper English.  I am convinced that I am The Real King of England. So, this American Digest deal immediately caught my eyes. Maurice Franklin, Wood Turner When rooms at Windsor Castle burnt out a few years ago, the Queen asked Maurice .... ”

Einstein Says ...

Political Physics

“ ”   Tim