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  1. Last weekend actor and “noted political scholar” (snork) Alex Baldwin took a nasty shot at Andrew Breitbart on Twitter, calling him “a festering boil on the anus of public discourse.”
    Breitbart, as it turns out, has a Twitter account as well:

    There’s NO REASON you should talk to me like I’m your daughter!

    Zzzzing!
    For those unfamiliar with the context, Breitbart was making reference to Baldwin’s infamous phone message to his 11 year-old daughter.

  3. The EU just announced a deal closed in next bailout with Greece. Those tuned into yesterday’s SDA-RT will recall me discussing getting ‘short’ of the market. Still a smart investment, but please please please wait until the market actually starts moving down. You will lose tons of money otherwise.
    Do not short a rising market. Do not buy into a falling market. Wait until everyone is panicking or euphoric before you make your move. Buy fear, sell Hope ‘n’ Change. So says Warren Buffet.
    Buying crude is a wise move right now. Betting on Iran being antagonistic and Obama being a fool is sure money in my mind. Results not guaranteed. Look at HOU on the TSX. I am long HOU.

  4. bull: if I happen to be like the average joe out there, then there are a whole lot of us who haven’t a clue what you are talking about. maybe that’s why everything is in such a mess.
    mike

  6. “Please sir, my family hasn’t eaten in three days. Would you be so kind as to commence to undertake actions that could potentially lower the outdoor air temperature in twenty years by one-tenth of one degree?”

    “Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by the Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad…”

  8. On this day in history – 50 years ago today.
    Feb. 20, 1962: Yank in Orbit

    1962: John Glenn isn’t the first American into space — Alan Shepard beat him by 11 months — but he is the first to orbit the planet, something he does three times aboard Friendship 7. It’s a watershed moment for the U.S. space program.

    I remember that day. Somehow I felt that something really significant happened. I tried to imagine the experience of blasting off on an untried rocket in an untried space vehicle and expecting a successful result.
    1962 was a most interesting year. Just a few short months after this day there was another very significant event involving rockets – the Cuban missile crisis.
    On a lighter note, here is someone who claims the be the US Air Force officer who has been chosen to be the first man sent into outer space. Still cracks me up.

  9. Good God EDB (11:04) that tip is brutal. Beyond belief… almost. What does it say about a government whose bureaucracy is free to promote “A project in western Kenya to help indigenous Nganyi rainmakers, who were being undermined by extreme weather conditions caused by changes in the climate, was launched in 2008 as part of a £25 million climate change adaptation programme funded by Dfid.
    The project aimed to bring the rainmakers together with Government meteorologists to produce a “consensus forecast” before relaying it back to village farmers, who were said to be losing trust in traditional methods which could not cope with the apparent changes in climate.
    It allowed forecasts to be made using a combination of satellite data and computer models and traditional techniques such as observing insects, flowers and pot blowing, where herbs are placed into a pot buried in the ground which the rainmaker blows into through a pipe, listening for coming winds.”

  10. Salty tears on the joystick:

    An animal rights organization used a small hand-controlled drone, referred to as a Mikrokopter, to try to photograph hunters shooting pigeons on private property at Broxton Bridge Plantation near Ehrhardt, South Carolina…

  12. The New Commandments on the Barn Wall
    3) Debt is a mirage. Borrowing right now has no connection with repaying eons later. At some future date, inflation, debt reduction, write-down, higher taxes on “them,” growing the economy, a computer meltdown, those not born, a few “fat cats,” or a German will somehow step in to erase what is owed — some $16 trillion in collective debt. Borrowing and spending win friends and foster admiration; cutting and repaying alienate and earn antipathy. Do we adore more the politician who enacts another entitlement with someone else’s money than we do hate the curmudgeon who wants to see how it is paid for? Close call. Just as a billion in 2009 instantly became a trillion, then why cannot a trillion in 2012 likewise become a zillion? What do a few zeros matter anyway?
    http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-new-commandments-on-the-barn-wall/

  14. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/20/statement-by-the-heartland-institute-on-gleick-confession/
    FEBRUARY 20, 2012: Earlier this evening, Peter Gleick, a prominent figure in the global warming movement, confessed to stealing electronic documents from The Heartland Institute in an attempt to discredit and embarrass a group that disagrees with his views.
    Gleick’s crime was a serious one. The documents he admits stealing contained personal information about Heartland staff members, donors, and allies, the release of which has violated their privacy and endangered their personal safety.

  16. CBC News channel outdid itself last night with a two-hour apologia for the Earth Liberation Front, “If A Tree Falls”. It started as a legitimate documentary but soon showed its true colours with its sympathetic kid-glove handling of the eco-terrorists. And yes, in the eyes of the US Govt. they are terrorists. The organization is small, and most of the main guys are sitting in jail finking on each other while awaiting trial but, at their peak, they did millions of dollars worth of damage by burning ranger stations, a horse butchering plant, an office and a sawmill. I don’t know what else they destroyed because, after the first hour, I flipped the remote.
    The money comment, from one of the gang currently under house arrest was that they weren’t terrorists because they didn’t kill people – they only burned stuff and participated in the Seattle riot..
    They aren’t really bad people you see, just overenthusiastic in their opposition to logging and civil society.

  17. CBC News channel outdid itself last night with a two-hour apologia for the Earth Liberation Front, “If A Tree Falls”. It started as a legitimate documentary but soon showed its true colours with its sympathetic kid-glove handling of the eco-terrorists. And yes, in the eyes of the US Govt. they are terrorists. The organization is small, and most of the main guys are sitting in jail finking on each other while awaiting trial but, at their peak, they did millions of dollars worth of damage by burning ranger stations, a horse butchering plant, an office and a sawmill. I don’t know what else they destroyed because, after the first hour, I flipped the remote.
    The money comment, from a gang member who is currently under house arrest was that they weren’t terrorists because they didn’t kill people – they only burned stuff and participated in the Seattle riot..
    They aren’t really bad people you see, just overenthusiastic in their opposition to logging and civil society.

  19. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Weaver*:
    “If we want to deal with this warming problem, we have to get a handle on coal now. Not later, but now,” he said.”
    …-
    “Dozens of children die in Afghanistan cold”
    “Heaviest snowfall and coldest winter for 15 years claims the lives of more than 40 people, most of them children”
    “The deaths in camps so close to the offices of international organisations have shocked many in Kabul.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/dozens-children-die-afghanistan-cold
    *Weaver:
    http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Coal+bigger+threat+climate+change+than+oilsands+study/6183969/story.html

  20. Mohammedanism: a cannibal.
    It’s in the book*.
    …-
    “Numerous casualties in bombardment of Syria’s Homs”
    “Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said.
    The bombardment rained down as International Committee of the Red Cross officials tried to negotiate a halt to the fighting to allow them to bring aid to civilians suffering in horrendous conditions after 18 days of attacks on Homs.
    In Damascus, security forces opened fire on demonstrators overnight,”.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/us-syria-idUSL5E8DB0BH20120221
    …-
    *The book:
    “NATO apologizes as Afghans protest reported Koran burning”
    (g-m)

  21. Daniel Hannan in fine form, but appears to be talking to blocks of wood. I thought that the Polish MEP should know better.
    “The first instinct of the Euro-functionary, in any crisis, is to reach for his wallet – or, rather, to reach for your wallet, Eurocrats being exempt from national taxation.”
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100138508/whatever-the-question-the-answer-in-brussels-is-always-to-spend-more/
    Peter Gleick needs to be prosecuted and personally sued by those affected.

  23. a chilling read…from court documents…the excerpts I’ll put here don’t do it justice.
    http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2012/02/victim-impact-statement.html
    …Below is a copy of the victim impact statement I gave today at the Underwear Bomber sentencing hearing. When reading my statement, keep in mind that I am a practicing attorney in the State of Michigan. In addition, I regularly practice in the Court the hearings are taking place at and therefore, I am somewhat limited as to what I can say….
    …was further shocked that we were forced to sit on the plane for 20 minutes with powder from the so called bomb all over the cabin. The officers that boarded the plane did nothing to ensure our safety and did not check for accomplices or other explosive devices. Several passengers trampled through parts of the bomb as they exited the plane. We were then taken into the terminal with our unchecked carry on bags. Again, there was no concern for our safety even though Umar told the officers that there was another bomb on board as he exited the plane….
    …I became further saddened from this case, when Patrick Kennedy of the State Department during Congressional hearings, admitted that Umar was a known terrorist, was being followed, and the U.S. allowed him into the U.S. so that it could catch Umar’s accomplices. I was once again shocked and saddened when Michael Leiter of the National Counter terrorism Center admitted during these same hearings that intentionally letting terrorists into the U.S. was a frequent practice of the U.S. Government….
    …In late 2010, the FBI admitted to giving out intentionally defective bombs to the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber,the Wrigley Field Bomber and several others. Further, Mr. Chambers was quoted in the Free Press on January 11, 2011 when he indicated that the government’s own explosives experts had indicated that Umar’s bomb was impossibly defective. I wondered how that could be. Certainly, I thought, Al Qaeda wouldn’t go through all of the trouble to plan such an attack only to provide the terrorist with an impossibly defective bomb….
    …I am convinced that Umar was given an intentionally defective bomb by a U.S. Government agent and placed on our flight without showing a passport or going through security, to stage a false terrorist attack to be used to implement various government policies….

  24. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    We confess: We have been Gleicked*.
    …-
    “Russian officials feed endangered Dalmatian pelicans starving in frozen Caspian”
    “MAKHACHKALA, RUSSIA—Authorities are scrambling to save hundreds of starving and endangered Dalmatian pelicans after the Caspian Sea froze for the first time in years.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1134295–russian-officials-feed-endangered-dalmatian-pelicans-starving-in-frozen-caspian
    …-
    “Serbian Thaw”
    “Melting Danube Ice Creates Chaos in Belgrade”
    “The Arctic cold front was long and hard. Yet now that temperatures are warming up across Europe, melting snow and ice are causing chaos as well. Hundreds of boats and barges on the Danube have been crushed by huge chunks of ice and officials are concerned about flooding.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,816647,00.html
    “BREAKING: Gleick* Confesses”
    (WUWT)

  25. Interesting comment in National Post:
    “If they are going to spy on us, we should demand that all government communications be made public ………………………We want to read all government emails, listen to all government phone conversations especially in the prime minister’s office, and have them stored for easy reference. ”

  26. Leftist Google-Apple snoops/invades your privacy: “to track iPhone and iPad usage.”
    “Safarigate,” has now become ranked with the leftists’ AGW Fraud, aka Climategate.
    Where is the outrage? Why are the phony-conservatives/libertarian libertines/leftists silent?
    Where are the tweets, Sylvester?
    …-
    “Google Sued Over Safari Privacy Problem”
    “When it rains, it pours: Google has taken a bit of criticism and drawn the attention of a number of members of Congress for its role in “Safarigate,” or accusations that Google bypassed the privacy settings on Apple’s Safari web browser to track iPhone and iPad usage. But that’s not the only branch of government with which the company will soon be contending.
    According to a report from Bloomberg, a Safari user in Illinois has filed the first class-action lawsuit against Google for its role in the Safari mix-up – alleging that Google’s “willful and knowing actions” violated federal wiretapping laws, among other statutes.”
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400462,00.asp

  28. the Harper Government shytting on vets again, er, still:
    ca.news.yahoo.com/veterans-benefits-letters-slammed-ombudsman-003251769.html
    right wing all gung ho when the bullets fly, but get hit by one and tsk tsk tsk for you.

  30. Bemused, it all makes sense now. Remember the underwear bomber is what lead to the strip search machines and nut grabbing pat downs. This was just another fast and furious false flag operation. It’s hard to believe that it was merely incompetence.

  32. as for the Veteran’s ombudsman…that’s what we get for letting liebral appointed bureaucrats and ‘caseworkers’ run the VA offices…they’ve been there for a lot of years and it’s almost impossible to do anything about them…they took the gov’t job they were appointed into because their social engineering degrees won’t even get them a spot on the fry line at Burger Thing…truedough started it when he began making the military into a focus group that would carry briefcases instead of rifles…and almost succeeded…at least the Ombudsman is exposing some of their foolishness in the way they ‘interpret’ policy on behalf of their liebral masters…anything to try and make a hole for a return to power by the libranos.

  34. guess some moonbat minion was ‘offended’ by hearing the truth instead of the politicized aphorisms spewed from their mewling mouths like a clydesdale on a high fibre diet 🙂

  35. and here’s a little juxtaposition for the ages…
    21 Feb 2012
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/qurans-burned-afghanistan-reportedly-contained-extremist-messages
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – More than 2,000 angry Afghans, some firing guns in the air, protested on Tuesday against the improper disposal and burning of Qurans and other Islamic religious materials at an American air base.
    A military official with knowledge of the incident told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it appeared the Qurans and other Islamic readings were being used to fuel extremism, and that detainees apparently were leaving notes for one another inside them.
    The official, who did not want his nationality disclosed, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident. The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says the books were inadvertently given to troops for burning.
    22 May 2009
    http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/
    (CNN) — Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
    Afghan workers enter a walkway on March 3, 2009, at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
    Afghan workers enter a walkway on March 3, 2009, at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
    The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said.
    Such religious outreach can endanger American troops and civilians in the devoutly Muslim nation, Wright said.
    “The decision was made that it was a ‘force protection’ measure to throw them away, because, if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslims,” Wright told CNN on Tuesday.
    and just for the kicker….they weren’t ‘Qurans’, they were actual terrorist handbooks after all…
    Update: A military official says Muslim holy books that were burned in a pile of garbage at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan had been removed from a library at a nearby detention center because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions.
    A military official with knowledge of the incident told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it appeared the Qurans and other Islamic readings were being used to fuel extremism, and that detainees apparently were leaving notes for one another inside them.
    The official, who did not want his nationality disclosed, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident. The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says the books were inadvertently given to troops for burning.

  36. make that first part of the juxtaposition this article…it’s late.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/us-afghanistan-korans-idUSTRE81K09T20120221
    (Reuters) – About 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign soldiers improperly disposed of copies of the Koran.
    U.S. helicopters fired flares to try to break up as many as 2,000 demonstrators who massed outside several gates to the base, chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones.
    Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor’s spokeswoman, said copies of the Muslim holy book had been burnt inside Bagram airbase, an hour’s drive north of the capital Kabul, citing accounts from local laborers.
    “The laborers normally take the garbage outside and they found the remains of Korans,” Khalid said.
    NATO’s top general in Afghanistan attempted to contain fury over the incident, which could be a public relations disaster for the U.S. military as it tries to pacify the country ahead of the withdrawal of foreign combat troops in 2014.
    “When we learned of these actions, we immediately intervened and stopped them. The materials recovered will be properly handled by appropriate religious authorities,” said General John Allen, head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in a written statement, as well as in a video released on a U.S. military website.
    “This was NOT intentional in any way.”
    Reuters reporters at the scene said there were about 2,000 protesters.
    “We Afghans don’t want these Christians and infidels, they are the enemy of our soil, our honor and our Koran,” said Haji Shirin, one of the protesters.
    “I urge all Muslims to sacrifice themselves in order to pull out these troops from this soil.”

  37. I wonder how many taliban are carrying satellite phones to set up ambushes and call in troop movements or spot for mortars/rockets ? maybe they should get the same treatment ? after all, the taliban have shown repeatedly that it’s their preferred method for dealing with prisoners or anyone else they decide is expendable…which is anyone except them…maybe it’s time to issue our troops swords.
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban militants have beheaded four men for allegedly spying for the government in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday.
    The bodies of the men were discovered in Washer district of volatile Helmand province late on Sunday.
    “The four men were civilians who were beheaded by Taliban for allegedly spying for government,” provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP.
    The Taliban had found satellite phones in the men’s possession and thought they were spies, he said, adding that mobile phones do not work in that district and it is normal for people to use satellite phones.
    The militants, who have in the past used beheading as a punishment on alleged spies and traitors, were not immediately available for comment.

  38. ‘Nother AGW Warmista Gleicked.
    Gleicked & peered: by his “peers” after a peer review.
    …-
    “Global warming propagandist slapped down”
    William Connolley, arguably the world’s most influential global warming advocate after Al Gore, has lost his bully pulpit. Connolley did not wield his influence by the quality of his research or the force of his argument but through his administrative position at Wikipedia, the most popular reference source on the planet.
    Through his position, Connolley for years kept dissenting views on global warming out of Wikipedia, allowing only those that promoted the view that global warming represented a threat to mankind. As a result, Wikipedia became a leading source of global warming propaganda, with Connolley its chief propagandist.
    His career as a global warming propagandist has now been stopped, following a unanimous verdict that came down today through an arbitration proceeding conducted by Wikipedia. In the decision, a slap-down for the once-powerful Connolley by his peers, he has been barred from participating in any article, discussion or forum dealing with global warming. In addition, because he rewrote biographies of scientists and others he disagreed with, to either belittle their accomplishments or make them appear to be frauds, Wikipedia barred him — again unanimously — from editing biographies of those in the climate change field.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/10/14/global-warming-propagandist-slapped-down/

  39. maz2, the news about William Connolley getting the boot is great, but I will continue to be wary of Wikipedia especially when it comes to sourcing information that might be political in any way.

  40. Ken: Watch this on Wiki (if you want to waste time going there).
    MSM has this somewhat garbled report re AGW’s Gleickgate.
    Peter H. Gleick is the name.
    BTW, AGW (climate science) kills.
    …-
    “Climate scientist admits stealing docs from conservative think tank”
    “Theft, deceit and outright lies: How ugly can climate science get?”
    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/21/climate-scientist-admits-stealing-docs-from-conservative-think-tank/?test=latestnews#
    …-
    “Snowbound in. . . Africa?”
    “The severe winter cold and snow that killed hundreds of people while disrupting the lives of millions in Europe over three weeks also left a heavy mark on residents of neighboring northern Africa.
    Hardest hit in Africa was the eastern Atlas Mountain region of northeastern Algeria into northwestern Tunisia, where snow has piled up by the foot, multiple news outlets have said.
    Deep snow reportedly isolated villages, forcing authorities to airdrop supplies to the snowbound residents.
    The embedded video shows a rugged landscape smothered in snow in Jijel, a district that reaches from Mediterranean beaches to 4,000-foot mountain tops.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/video-snowbound-in-africa/61865

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