HEZBOLLAH is taking credit for sending that drone over Israeli airspace. The Israelis also send drones over Hezbollah airspace, and they’re a lot better at it.
Archive for 2012
October 11, 2012
GLOBAL WARMING: IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO? “Actual AP Headline: ‘Experts: Global Warming Means More Antarctic Ice,’” as spotted by Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters.
Which sounds remarkably reminiscent of this actual L. A. Times headline from 2010: “Why cleaner air could speed global warming.”
Or this Reuters lede from last year:
Smoke belching from Asia’s rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur’s cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
(Paging the Dr. Stranglove-esque John Holdren who suggested launching rockets full of pollution into the upper atmosphere in the early days of the Obama administration — you’re wanted in the Moral Equivalent of War Room.)
Given that global warming causes everything, no wonder, as Steve Hayward wrote last year at Power Line, “Climate Change Has Become the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch’ of American Politics.”
But when will Washington’s Joke Warfare against the American public finally come to an end?
THE PERFECT SITE FOR TONIGHT: PoliticalDrinkingGames.com.
HOW MANY OTHER UNDERCOVER REPORTERS DOES O’KEEFE HAVE? DNC fires Obama campaign staffer for assisting voter fraud attempt. “The Democratic National Committee has terminated the employment of Houston, Texas, Organizing For America Regional Field Director Stephanie Caballero after she was caught on camera calling voter fraud ‘cool’ and ‘so funny’ while advising a presumably-liberal voter how to vote twice.”
I’m sure the Justice Department will be right on top of this, too . . . .
AT AMAZON, markdowns in Snow Removal Gear. Winter is coming.
Also, Generators and Portable Power.
And, today only: Waste King Legend Series Continuous-Feed 1 HP Garbage Disposal, $87.97.
I WONDER IF MARTHA RADDATZ WILL ASK HIM ABOUT THIS TONIGHT? Joe Biden Voted For A Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Roe v. Wade.
NO WORD ON WHETHER THEY CAN SEW BALLGOWNS: Mice can ‘sing’, scientists discover. Of course Disney has known that for decades.
UPDATE (From Ed): Well, we know they can sing “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” at least…
JOHN HINDERAKER POSTS A REPORT from last night’s Duranty Award dinner. “One of the persistent phenomena of modern times is the Left’s ability to engage in the most dishonest and shameful conduct imaginable, while simultaneously assuming a pose of moral superiority. Walter Duranty was a case in point, as are last night’s honorees. The Left’s pretensions can best be deflated with mockery, and toward that end, the Duranty Prize makes a valuable contribution. May it be presented every year, until the business of journalism is reformed to the point where we no longer have need of it.”
CONSTITUTIONAL DEFICIT DISORDER: Seems our current President suffers from a bad case of CDD. Primary symptoms: disdain for constitutional limitations on power, disgust over the text’s original meaning, constipation, and dry mouth. George Will explains one recent CDD attack suffered by President Obama and his Article II power to “fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.”
READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Erik Nelson writes to ask a plug for his steampunk novel The Mechanist. Done!
FREAKY FLIER: A naturalized US citizen of Chinese descent was discovered by LAX authorities to have some rather odd items in his suitcase, including a smoke grenade as well as “three leather-coated billy clubs, a collapsible baton, a full-face respirator, various knives, a hatchet, body bags, a biohazard suit, handcuffs, leg irons, and a device to repel dogs.”
Oh, and he was also wearing a bullet proof vest and flame retardant pants under his trench coat.
Wouldn’t want to sit next to that guy.
Oh, and in a wonderful example of 21st century technology, I am presently at 39,000 feet, en route from Miami to D.C., blogging via WiFi on a 737. Awesometown.
BEWARE OF counterfeit airbags. “The NHTSA suspects that in the past three years, bags that look identical to the real thing but don’t work properly may have been installed in nearly 0.1 percent of all U.S. vehicles (which works out to about 250,000 cars). So far no deaths have been linked to the bags, but federal testing has found them to consistently fail to deploy or even explode in a burst of shrapnel.”
NOW OUT: From Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.
THE STATE AND ITS MINIONS WILL DECIDE WHAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT: Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression. “A state licensing board in North Carolina tried to suppress a blogger who talked up and advised people on the health benefits of the ‘paleo’ diet (that is, eating as we think cavement ate, no grains or processed foods), telling him directly what he could or could not say about his belief that the high-meat, low-carb diet helped him with his diabetes. The case was dismissed by a federal court late last week.” Disgraceful.
AT LEAST THEY’RE TRYING: Engulfed by the global economic crisis, Portugal continues to fail in its bid to profit from its ‘good student’ billing. This probably doesn’t help: Portugal has second highest tax rate in the world, just behind Argentina. It’s been a long time and I was young when I moved over here. I have no idea how one says Laffer curve in Portuguese.
ROMNEY CALLS GIRL who was abused by teacher for wearing a Romney T-Shirt to school. But students and staff of “Democratic school” double down on abuse. And during national Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, too.
Remember what I said about the folly of relying on the professionalism of “unfirables” like teachers? Another reason to privatize — and another reason the lefty apparat is against privatization.
UPDATE: School Bus Driver Tells 12 Year-Old He Should Have Been Aborted Because of Romney Yard Sign. Bus drivers, however, aren’t unfirable, as the driver has learned.
I THINK I’LL STICK WITH MY KEURIG, BUT MAYBE YOUR POCKETS ARE DEEPER: Former Apple, NASA Engineers Make $11,111 Coffee Maker.
SOON TO BE EXTINCT: The Mouse.
BEN AFFLECK’S ARGO, about the rescue of six Americans from Tehran after Khomeini’s Islamists seized the American Embassy in 1979, opens tomorrow. I haven’t seen it yet, but it looks absolutely fantastic and has a score of 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. If it’s as good as the extended cut of his last film, The Town
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OUCH: Obama’s Big Bird ad sure was dumb, says… Jon Stewart?? “Hey, it’s a start. Jon Stewart might not be saying the emperor has no clothes, but at least he realizes they’re way out of style.”
I MADE IT A POINT TO NEVER PRAISE THE KIDS TOO MUCH: but to be realistic about how great an achievement things were in relation to their abilities. Other mommies thought I was mean. Apparently I was right. Praising the school of hard knocks.
AT LEAST HE WON FIRST: Florida Man Dies After Winning Cockroach-Eating Contest.