Hundreds gather in protest of Global Warming. From a post by easily the hottest and most talented blogger at Ace o’ Spades, lauraw. That post is well worth your time.
More stupid stuff – no, I mean, really good stuff! – like Twitter messages. For example, “I don’t know why I can’t get this gasoline to light. Oh, wait, it’s a Pez dispenser”.
Ha-ha-ha! Good one, Jim. But on a much more serious note. There is something for which I am concerned. As explained in another post from lauraw:
Anthropogenic Continental Drift. It’s real, the science is settled, and it’s got to be stopped before the continents all coliide [sic] in a massive global cataclysm that will threaten the very existence of all of mankind.
This isn’t funny. There is a solution tho’. Read the article.
From Althouse, one of the commentors hits a bulls-eye I didn’t know was there.
Minnesota tends to elect extreme narcissist weirdos to statewide office once in awhile. Al Franken, Harold Stassen, Rudy Perpich, Jesse Ventura, Paul Wellstone, Mark Dayton…
Man, that will take some serious spin to remove that stain.
These references are all out of sync, time-wise, but they fall right in line, point-wise.
First, this:
Back in September, noting a continuing pattern of White House incompetence, I predicted: “Expect this to play out in thumbsucker columns on whether America is ‘ungovernable.’”
And, right on cue[...]
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From Hot Air:
Harry Reid likened opposition to a government takeover of the American health-care system to support of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, saying that reactionary opposition to “change” always exists.
So, for slavery, then against it, and now for it again. Got it.
From the exquisitely named Canadian blog, small dead animals, comes this report.
The windup:
It’s been 14 days since the cork was pulled from FOIA 2009.zip
And as it turns out, the concerted efforts of a protective mainstream media to ignore the scandal turned out to be worst possible course of events for the University of Anglia’s motley CRU and their supporters in the wealth distribution industry.
The pitch:
So when Peter Mansbridge went on the National tonight to admit what he had surely known for days, we didn’t watch to find out what’s contained in FOIA 2009.zip, for we’d read it for ourselves.
We only watched to see if he had.
And the swing:
For perhaps the first time in the history of mass media, the gatekeepers broke a major scandal to an audience fully 10 days ahead of them.
Outta the park.
Man. The internet – you know, the one Al Gore invented? – whatta place. No wonder The Man wants to shut it down.
All men watch porn.
Is there anything science can’t do?
According to this, The One used the word “I” more than any other word in his speech tonight about Afghanistan.
So, I’m thinking this could be Really Great New Drinking Game: every time The One says “I”, you drink. On the plus side, it sure sounds like inebriation will quickly occur. On the bad side, there is the having to listen to the speech.
Oooh. I’m thinking this might end up being a really nasty drunk.
Bad idea.
PS Just to be clear, the thought of listening to the speech of any politician, much less The One, is giving me the willies.
PPS Except Fred
PPPS Or maybe Sarah. That could actually be a hoot… nah, just Fred.
The Limey Libertarian website, Samizdata, has a post up about the Minaret vote in Switzerland. The Swiss are a’gin ‘em (ie, they voted against ‘em).
But that’s not what’s important. What’s important is to watch the give and take as intelligent people and their opinions compete over the meaning of this. For over 100 comments. An impressive display of rhetorics. I particularly like this description of libertarianism:
The upshot of this is that wheras Libertarianism is a very effective analytical tool for say, arbitrating in disputes between the desires of some to smoke and the desires of other to be in a smoke free environment (by invoking private property rights to side with the former unless they violate said rights), it is totally unequipped to make any sort of rational pronouncement when arbitrating between our interest in the long term viability of western civilization and the private property rights of Muslim citizens. Accordingly, all doctrinaire libertarians can do is either deny that there is a problem or offer glib solutions that have no bearing on reality.
I think that sums things up nicely.
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