This evening I’m checking in from Houston, on the last leg of a grueling dog show circuit through the Lone Star State. So for tonight’s entertainment, an obvious selection – Deep In the Heart Of Texas. Your tips in the comments.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Germany wants to put one million electric cars on the road by 2020 but is falling a wee bit short – to date there are about 4500 such cars clogging up the autobahns. And maybe that’s a good thing….
h/t Rob
“You Didn’t Build That”
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
In other words, according to plan.
Obamanomics reached the bottom of the barrel last month, when more Americans went on disability than found jobs. That is, apparently, the end point of the welfare state.
The children were their future
Gaza is empirical proof that John Lennon was a buzzed out, whack job.
Kindergarten martyrs in training.
Original, Google Translated
Democratic math
So, really, that would be like 471,000 jobs created, right?
Next week’s announcement?
Will probably be how Obama shores up pensions by raiding Medicare.
Isn’t it interesting, though that Obama moved the red numbers from a plan to insure private pensions, in order to pay for private student debt.
H/T: Glenn
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
It’s Probably Nothing
In the ballpark
Modeling error due to ignoring cloud effects may be 216 times larger than the alleged effect of doubling CO2 concentrations
Okay, so it’s an inexact science…
Reader Tips
One of the reasons that conservatives have been losing ground in the cultural battle over the last forty years or so has to do with the fact that we are far less likely than those on the left to sing painfully earnest, plaintive songs while exchanging meaningful glances. In the interest of remedying this deficit, let’s watch and learn from Maggie Huang and her friends, as they nourish each other’s souls with a stirring rendition of My Name Is Palestine.
h/t
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A-Ten-HUT! By the left…QUICK MARCH!
Prince Albert MP, Randy Hoback is on the Nijmegen March.
The Twit…ter generation.
Tastefully done, Deputy Premier. #MaybeIAmAnAss
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
Death panels? What death panels?
QOTD
…the former world No. 1, was asked if had purchased any Olympic tickets or planned to attend any of the ceremonies.
“I’m going to miss the mayhem and be out of the country, so I won’t be available for security duties[with video]…”
The Sound Of Settled Science
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had “complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the world’s science academies to provide advice to international bodies.”
Hidden behind this seemingly routine update on bureaucratic processes is an astonishing and entirely unreported story. […]
The IAC reported that IPCC lead authors fail to give “due consideration … to properly documented alternative views” (p. 20), fail to “provide detailed written responses to the most significant review issues identified by the Review Editors” (p. 21), and are not “consider[ing] review comments carefully and document[ing] their responses” (p. 22). In plain English: the IPCC reports are not peer-reviewed.
The IAC found that “the IPCC has no formal process or criteria for selecting authors” and “the selection criteria seemed arbitrary to many respondents” (p. 18). Government officials appoint scientists from their countries and “do not always nominate the best scientists from among those who volunteer, either because they do not know who these scientists are or because political considerations are given more weight than scientific qualifications” (p. 18). In other words: authors are selected from a “club” of scientists and nonscientists who agree with the alarmist perspective favored by politicians.
h/t Robert, and others
Because the Left Believes in Democracy
The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.
A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.
But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, non-citizens and people already registered to vote.
It’s Probably Nothing
The World’s Agricultural Problems Are Much Bigger Than The Drought In The US
h/t Xiat
Gentleman Mitt vs. the street fighter
In a perfect world we’d be hearing this from Mitt Romney instead of John Sununu:
“It’s amazing to me that this president would introduce the word felon into the discourse. This is a president who wallowed in Chicago in the murky soup of politics and felons, a region where the politicians quite often end up as felons in jail. This is a president who cut a very snarky real estate deal with Tony Rezko, who is now in prison for trying to extort some money on a political basis. Why would the president want to give people an opportunity to raise his wallowing with felons in the past by raising that question?”
Reader Tips
Nashville native Kitty Wells, aka The Queen of Country Music, has passed away at the age of 92. Her old-timey, squarish phrasing and unglamorous, modest, everywoman voice sounds rather unhip compared to some the gaudier starlets of today’s country music, but she did have a slew of Top Ten hits: here’s one from 1955 called Making Believe.
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