Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

The One 72 Comments

A party in power grows increasingly thuggish;

What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually spent some time fighting Nazis.
Then came the Democratic Party charge that the people at the meetings were suspiciously well-dressed, in jackets and ties from Brooks Brothers. They must be Republican rent-a-mobs. Sen. Barbara Boxer said on MSNBC’s “Hardball” that people are “storming these town hall meetings,” that they were “well dressed”, that “this is all organized,” “all planned,” to “hurt our president.” Here she was projecting. For normal people, it’s not all about Barack Obama.

“Thuggish” too strong a word?

As this column is written, there comes word that John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he’ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care’s critics.

You know what they say – you can take the politician out of Chicago….

“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”

But the One needs your help in shutting people up. David Harsanyi explains – “If you’re a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading. If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity. (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov)
There’s plenty of video of those Nazis who won’t shut up at Drudge this morning.
And these just in: dangerous mob photos smuggled out of town hall meetings…

(H/T Mario)
More – The Media Take Aim At ‘The Mob’”

Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Media 8 Comments


Earlier this month, [Associated Press] announced it would distribute “watchdog and investigative journalism” penned not by its own staff or that of member papers, but by four outside groups: the Center for Investigative Reporting in Barkeley, Calif.; New York-based ProPublica; and two D.C. outfits, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.
AP, itself a not-for-profit enterprise, identified the four organizations as “civic-minded” nonprofits. They also all have decidedly liberal sponsors. A cursory glance at the “independent” news shops reveals their reliance on left-tilting patrons such as the Knight Foundation and leftist donors such as financier Herbert Sandler and currency speculator George Soros.
h/t

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 51 Comments
 
 Two Reasons 

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Lion Tracks ¤ episode of Snagglepuss, brought to you for two reasons tonight, because, firstly, from a philosophical perspective: A Man’s Home is His Castle; and, secondly, from an engineering perspective: Heavens to Murgatroyd … (7:16).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments, even.

Blog Notes

Blogging 56 Comments

What began as roof repairs on part of my house has progressed to a room with wide open sky, ripped out walls, and partial floor replacement. As a result, much of my time has been devoted to helping that project move along as quickly as possible. .. and doing what I can myself to keep costs down.
Thus, blogging will be quite low on my list of priorities for the next week or two. If content gets a bit stale, or your excellent tips go unreported, I apologize – but there are only so many hours in a day!

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 171 Comments

Lagging just two years behind the blogosphere, the Washington Examiner reports:

Researchers who have inspected climate monitoring stations across the U.S. have found that almost 90 percent of the weather monitoring stations have failed to meet National Weather Service requirements.
Anthony Watts, a retired meteorologist, and a team of over 650 volunteers, photographically documented 1003 out of 1,221 of the climate monitoring stations managed by the U.S. Weather Service. The results of this survey show that the temperature cited as proof of man-made global warming is laced with false biases in favor of alarmism.
“We found stations located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Watts said. “We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.”
The research team also determined that 89 percent did not measure up to the National Weather Service’s requirement that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating source. This means almost 9 out of every 10 stations are reporting higher temperatures because they are badly sited.
“The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century,” Watts said.

See for yourself at Surfacestations.org

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 35 Comments

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
In the present western world, considerations of human suffering and hardship are political, to the largest extent. A public proclamation of empathy is frequently a weapon in mindful disguise, and the difficulties of others are often pruriently appropriated and then channeled into rage at government and at those with different political views. It wasn’t so very long ago, though, that there wasn’t a safety net except for that provided by family and friends and local community. While it was understood, then as now, that any individual’s life trajectory was determined in part by effort and diligence as well as by station of birth, back then there was more of a realistic understanding that the relentless corporeal fates — war, illness, economic collapse, drought, death, abandonment of the slow by the swift — that will take us out of this world are out of our hands, and that these fates, often unkind, are part of a shared condition that no one can rise above or escape.
Tonight’s song, recorded in 1929, is a lullaby of sorts, a flickering far-away light through the darkness of time that makes tangible a condition wherein elemental, matter-of-fact human empathy is natural, casual, and normal — small and familiar and human — as opposed to, say, just a force for political agitation. At the time, of course, it was just a good song. Here it is then, without further ado: the great Jimmie Rogers sings Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Y2Kyoto: When It’s Windy, It’s Climate

Climate Cult 29 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
USA Today, Oct.13, 2008 – Through July, 1,390 tornadoes were officially recorded in the first seven months of a year — the most ever. […] a warning was sounded in 2007, when two separate studies predicted there would be an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the USA due to global warming by the year 2100.
Associated Press, Aug. 3, 2009 – During a remarkable 17-day lull from mid-May through early June, there were no tornado watches issued anywhere in the United States. And that is typically the height of the season in Tornado Alley. […] Meteorologists are attributing the relative calm not to anything dire, like global warming, but to the shifts in the jet stream that happen from time to time. When the jet stream runs south to north in the spring over the central states, there are usually plenty of tornadoes. When it’s more west to east, as it is this year, tornadoes are less common.

Not Waiting For The Asteroid (Bumped)

Political Animal 86 Comments

…the newspaper reporter never asked me about an election or about anything else related to the Prime Minister. She had no, repeat, no questions, so, at least not of the national scene. She asked something about a local community college. But that was it. And then I wake up this morning and here they’ve got me singing the praises, great rhetoric. Well, let me tell you, as much as I like to think that every speech is a good one, they’ve obviously never heard me when I’ve gotten going as we have. And so, they put it, all this great rhetoric. I was reading a grocery list of, of projects for the island. So anyway, this whole thing is manufactured. And I was thinking so much about you today as I read the paper and the brilliant column you wrote in last week’s Sun about wafergate in New Brunswick, where the editors made it up. It had nothing to do with what the reporter said. And so, I’m saying to myself, my God, this is like the virus or something. It’s creeping across provincial borders. Now all of a sudden the Charlottetown paper can’t just report the news. They’ve got to make it up.

A commentor asks “I wonder if the editors at the Guardian have seen this?” – Teresa Wright – “fairywriter”!
Update – SDA gets results! Her Twitter page is gone. But never fear, I grabbed a shot…
(Google cache)

If Gore’s The Guy With The Peace Prize

Baiting The Left 62 Comments

How come they sent Bill Clinton?
Update!

The report said Clinton then conveyed a message from President Obama “…expressing profound thanks for this and reflecting views on ways of improving the relations between the two countries.” It added, “The measure taken to release the American journalists is a manifestation of the DPRK’s humanitarian and peace-loving policy. The DPRK visit of Clinton and his party will contribute to deepening the understanding between the DPRK and the U.S. and building the bilateral confidence.”

I smell Nobel !

Searched Leaving The US

The One 66 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Financial Times, July 23rd, 2009 – Barack Obama has restored America’s global standing to where it was before the Bush era […] The Pew Research Center’s annual global attitudes survey indicated that people polled in 25 countries now had a more positive attitude towards the US.
100 yds south of US-Can border, August 2nd, 2009 – Armed US Border Patrol Agent: “How long were you in the US? Where where you visit? Do you have more than $10,000 American in cash on you? Do you have any drugs with you other than prescription drugs? Did you leave anything in the US? Did you buy any ammunition? Do you have any pepper spray, tazers? Unlock your doors please…..”

Help Rename The NDP

Political Animal 143 Comments

Really, why stop at “New”?

Nearly 50 years after the New Democratic Party was founded, its members are soon to decide whether to lop “new” from their name.
The question is whether to do it abruptly in two weeks at a convention in Halifax or to put it to a consultation process and make the decision in two years at the half-century mark.
Whether the NDP should be renamed the “Democratic Party” promises a lively debate and vote by about 1,000 delegates at the party’s national biennial convention in Halifax Aug. 14-16th.

Yes, it’s a contest!

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