Author: Kate

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

Rich Galen;

Now, the Obama Administration has, by executive fiat, determined that a private company must give away its services to a class of people it (“The Administration”) has determined should get these services.
Going back to our California example, what is to stop the Federal Department of Energy from requiring auto insurers to provide no-cost insurance to anyone driving a car running on electricity, natural gas, or bio-diesel – to promote the use of those vehicles.
For that matter, what’s to prevent the U.S. Government from telling GM (which still owes us about $25 billion) they need to provide small, fuel efficient cars to people who cannot otherwise afford them, but live in areas that have limited public transportation?
I don’t understand where that authority comes from. But it worries me, very much.

This occurred to me, tooIt’s almost as if Stephanopoulos got the memo first.
h/t Dave

Those Moderate Muslims!

Guardian;

Police in Kuala Lumpur said Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained at the airport “following a request made to us by Interpol” the international police cooperation agency, on behalf of the Saudi authorities.
Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet on the prophet’s birthday that sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. The posting, which was later deleted, read: “I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don’t understand about you … I will not pray for you.”
More than 13,000 people joined a Facebook page titled “The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari”.

By Special Request

Hey dhimmi, keep it down:

A Muslim activist group with links to the Muslim Brotherhood has asked the British government to restrict the way the British media reports about Muslims and Islam…

Yeah, right, as if that would ever hap….

Lord Justice Leveson expressed sympathy for Bunglawala’s plea and said that any government regulation of the British media would have to extend to the Internet and include blogs, so as to ensure a “level playing field” between print and online media.
Lord Hunt, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines, recently said he is looking into the idea of regulating bloggers and online publications. According to him, “at the moment, it [the Internet] is like the Wild West out there. We need to appoint a sheriff.”
Lord Hunt would invite bloggers on current affairs to voluntarily agree to regulation. They would receive a seal-of-approval rating…

The article at the Stonegate Institute notes that Inayat Bunglawala, the Muslim activist who testified in favour of press restrictions, and who “strongly objects to the use of the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism'”, once described Osama bin Laden as a “freedom fighter for…Muslims in Britain” and praised the courage of Omar Abdul-Rahman, the ringleader of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Reader Tips

Years ago my brother and I were riding in the back seat of our dad’s car listening to a local radio station when a comedy routine about a pitch-and-tempo-challenged singer giving it the old college try made us laugh ourselves sick. It wasn’t until years later that we realized that what we’d thought was a world-class piece of comedic satire was in fact an actual hit song, recorded by a reluctant and insecure young non-singer who had been plucked off the streets of Philadelphia and thrust into the spotlight by talent scouts searching for an attractive teen idol, vocal talent be damned. Here it is, for your weekend listening pleasure: Fabian’s 1959 smash hit Turn Me Loose.
I know, it’s not that bad, but it still makes me laugh.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Harmonic climate model versus the IPCC general circulation climate models

The main results of this new paper are summarized in the paper’s highlights:
1) The IPCC (CMIP3) climate models fail in reproducing observed decadal and multidecadal limate cycles.
2) Equivalent cycles are found among the major oscillations of the solar system.
3) A correction for the projected anthropogenic warming for the 21st century is proposed.
4) A full empirical model is developed for forecasting climate change for a few decades since 2000.
5) The climate will likely stay steady until 2030/2040 and may warm by about 0.3-1.2 °C by 2100.

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