A Gallup Poll taken last week asked Americans what they consider to be the most important problem facing the U.S. The government came in at #1, and the economy at #2.
Notable by its absence from the 14-item list, which includes only those “most important” problems mentioned by at least 2% of respondents, is one putatively huge problem, the biggest problem on earth, supposedly, one that receives a constant drumbeat of coverage in the MSM.
Whoops:

The Kyoto treaty effectively expired a year ago. Prospects for a replacement are virtually zero. Rich nations are rejecting climate compensation for the developing world. Europe is in a coal frenzy. Germany, a former green trend-setter, is slashing unaffordable subsidies to the renewables industry. The European Parliament is losing confidence in the EU emissions trading scheme. No Asian nation has an emission trading scheme in operation…(G)overnments, most recently Japan’s, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations’ carbon footprints. Even US Democrats…won’t pass modest carbon-pricing bills in the Congress. Add to this those debunked predictions…

Buh-bye, Chicken Little. Go home to your media coverage.

Something tells me this would not fly in Quebec.
But if any of you want to come visit me in my annual South Dakota trip, I promise to take you there.

Chris Christie’s Staff Blames Bridge Closing on Anti-Islam Video:

“The information, the best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact these were not preplanned, premeditated lane closings. That what happened was a spontaneous reaction to a vile and despicable film that pokes fun at the prophet Mohammad. Let me state very clearly and I hope it is obvious, that the New Jersey Governor’s office had absolutely nothing to do with this insensitive video. We absolutely reject its content and message and call for the immediate investigation of its filmmaker.”

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AKA “why most modern art is leftist and sucks.”

10 Stories That Prove Bill Murray Really Is The Most Interesting Man In The World.
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A gesture called the “quenelle”, a sort of inverted Nazi salute invented by popular anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonné, has recently gone viral:

Pictures of people performing “quenelles”…multiplied: “quenelles” in front of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin; on the train tracks leading to the Auschwitz death camp; beside a picture of Anne Frank in Amsterdam; and in the courtyard of the school where three Jewish children and a teacher were murdered by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse.

Dieudonné, who author Natasha Lehrer describes as the man who is “making antisemitism cool again“, first gained national attention in 2003 during an appearance on French state television, when, dressed as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, he gave a nazi salute and shouted “Isra-heil!” More recently, speaking onstage about a Jewish journalist who had criticized him, he said “Gas chambers…too bad (they no longer exist).”
Sociologist Michel Wieviorka explains how it’s possible for Dieudonné to be so popular among staunchly anti-immigrant, hard-core French nationalists and members of the immigrant community:

“The paradox is resolved (via) anti-Semitism, which … brings together people that otherwise are separated by everything.”