Extreme Barbie jeep racing. (h/t Warren Z)
King Cavalier
None of this would have happened if he was President of Zimbabwe:
DC District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle yesterday ordered the Obama Administration to release a copy of an unclassified presidential directive, and she said the attempt to withhold it represented an improper exercise of “secret law.”
The Obama White House has a “limitless” view of its authority to withhold presidential communications from the public, she wrote, but that view is wrong.
“The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight- to engage in what is in effect governance by ‘secret law’,” Judge Huvelle wrote in her December 17 opinion.
Well, he is a very special president, and he’s been clear about that right from the beginning.
We So Ronery
Small Dead Animals has been denounced.
The Children Are Our Future
Rait My Professer. (h/t Manny)
70
And still the sexiest man in Rock n Roll.
The Green Police
In 2008 Logan City, Utah decided to install a micro-hydro project in its culinary water system. The city’s assistant engineer recognized the opportunity to generate clean, low-cost electricity for the city by installing a turbine in the city’s culinary water pipeline.
Logan City’s project would power 185 homes, and would not require any new construction. At the same time, it would also help reduce excess water pressure in the system. Because the project was so small, and would not affect anything outside of an existing pipeline, city officials thought the permitting process would be a breeze. […]
As project managers in Logan City learned firsthand, a complex regulatory nexus surrounds all hydropower projects, no matter how small. As far as regulatory requirements are concerned, it didn’t matter that the project would have little to no environmental impacts.
The city still had to go through an intensive permitting process overseen by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Logan City’s project began in 2008. By 2012 the city’s project had finally been completed after four years of delays and almost 3 million dollars of total costs.
h/t Larry
#graveyardofpoliticians
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
A report released on Tuesday by the Center for Public Integrity says Chinese hackers attacked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website that contains records of donations received and spent by federal candidates. […]
The Chinese hacking of the FEC website occurred nearly a year after the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released its explosive 108-page report–“America The Vulnerable: Are Foreign And Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?” –which revealed that Obama.com is not owned by the Obama campaign but rather by Obama bundler Robert Roche, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, China with ties to state-controlled banks.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Anthony Watts: It has not been a good week for the EPA. After wide media coverage yesterday put sunlight on the massive fraud of one of their top climate officials, now today, there is a challenge filed in SCOTUS. Read it here.
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The great bio-fuels scandal: “Why do biofuels persist? The simple answer is Big Green.”
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, along with vocal group The Pied Pipers (whose members at that time included a young Jo Stafford) perform a swinging tune about the delights of Winter Weather.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
If Women Ran The World
We’d still live in caves, but with really fancy curtains.
And How Was Your Day?
More here.
Heh
The Sound Of Settled Science
Previous growth-rate studies covering 14 dinosaur taxa, as represented by 31 data sets, are critically examined and reanalyzed by using improved statistical techniques. The examination reveals that some previously reported results cannot be replicated by using the methods originally reported; results from new methods are in many cases different, in both the quantitative rates and the qualitative nature of the growth, from results in the prior literature. Asymptotic growth curves, which have been hypothesized to be ubiquitous, are shown to provide best fits for only four of the 14 taxa.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Chinese Admiral: “You can sail freely and we can too, but your freedom to sail cannot impact our freedom to sail,” he said, according to the article. “The instant you interfere with our sailing, sorry, but we will block you.”
h/t Mark Collins
Operation Empty Chair
Rob Ford is news, and you’re not: Nato troops forced to risk dilapidated tunnel to get out of Afghanistan
h/t peterj
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Move along folks – nothing here to see.
Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said – That’s the headline of the Denver Post news story about Denver high school murderer Karl Pierson.
OK. He had strong political beliefs. Given that that’s the headline, wouldn’t a good reporter tell us up front what those political beliefs were?
Forward!
Because their real purpose is to “navigate” the flow of public dollars into Democrat-supporting groups: Ill-Trained Obamacare Navigators Encouraging Fraud, Jeopardizing Private Info