FOR PAUL! FOR PAUL!

I MEAN...FOR TED!  FOR TED!

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Scopes trial for global warming?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.

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The EPA is having none of it, calling a hearing a "waste of time" and saying that a threatened lawsuit by the chamber would be "frivolous."

EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said the agency based its proposed finding that global warming is a danger to public health "on the soundest peer-reviewed science available, which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human health and welfare."

Environmentalists say the chamber's strategy is an attempt to sow political discord by challenging settled science -- and note that in the famed 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in a courtroom battle over a Tennessee science teacher accused of teaching evolution illegally, the scientists won in the end.

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This raises the question - If global warming advocates are so confident in their data why are they afraid to have it laid out and judged in an adversarial process?

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But think about the CHILDREN

It suddenly struck me while reading about more town hall meetings today that a very large number of the reports, both in the press and by attendees, make mention of doors being locked.  Now, we're usually talking about public meeting spaces, such as auditoriums and the like.  Generally, there's a passing mention of people trying to get in, only to find that they're locked out. 

Here's my random thought - isn't locking the doors a fire code violation?  I'm quite serious in asking that question.  From what I vaguely recall, some doors can be locked but there has to be some type of open emergency access.  Please note I am not in any possible way saying, implying, condoning, hoping, etc. that there's a fire at one of these events.  In fact, I'm horrified at the concept that there could be.  But fire codes are designed for exactly these situations, large numbers of people in contained spaces.  So there's my questions, in an attempt to keep people out, are the organizers improperly locking people in?

No, it's not a huge point but I think it does bring up the lack of attention to detail that's a hallmark of this entire mess. 

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Fuck You, Jim Moran

Fuck you with a magnetized piece of rusty steel. Fuck your past racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Troops statements. Fuck you for your attempts to coddle our enemies and ream us with shitty legislation. I have no fucking sympathy for you after reading about what happened at your town hall.

Inside, the scene was just as raucous. Moran -- fuming that his introduction of Dean was met with jeers -- finally lost his temper with the crowd.

"There are hundreds of people in this gymnasium who can't hear [Howard "Screaming" Dean] because of a handful of people," Moran said. "These folks are not from the 8th District {proof?-ed}, they don't really belong here, and I'm going to ask them to leave."

Moran is a supporter of the $1.6 trillion House health care bill that would create a new government health option. The bill, mired in disputes among Democratic factions, has proved a lightning rod in town hall meetings across America.

The meeting hosted by Moran contrasted sharply to a town hall in Springfield held by 11th District Democrat Gerry Connolly earlier in the day.

Connolly on Tuesday told hundreds of seniors at Springfield's Greenspring Retirement Community that he would oppose any health care measure that "in any way, shape or form does any harm to Medicare."

The more than 400-strong crowd -- made up largely of highly educated, white-collar retirees -- showed little of the outsized rage seen at other town hall meetings. Many, however, expressed deep skepticism over how a public health insurance plan would be paid for, given spiraling federal deficits, or how it would interfere with existing care.

The legislation before Congress "doesn't pass the smell test," said Katherine Featherstone, whose husband suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died last year. She worried that, under the federal program, she would have lost decision-making abilities over treatment and "some panel of bureaucrats would decide what his treatment would be and whether or not it was cost-effective."

Yeah, Congressman. Fuck you. You didn't like it that your educated district is telling you to stick that piece of shit legislation up your ass? Boo fucking hoo. I love the fact that usually docile and compliant (and reliably Democrat) voters are speaking up. And your childish reaction to your own voters is even better.

 

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I am an awful human being, part 11,746,268,001

The first thing I thought was, I'm so glad he didn't try to use guns for this.  I'm guessing he was just taking training for the zombie apocalypse a little too seriously.  When you run out of ammo, sometimes you just have to resort to the melee weapons.

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Ted Kennedy dead tonight

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment. 

Obviously we have the fact that he murdered Mary Jo Kopechne and got away with it, and then we have this, his attempts to work with the fucking USSR to undermine Reagan.  I'm supposed to demand civility from people for this guy?  Feh.  Say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't end up with the Feds wanting to have a chat with me, or you for that matter. 

I also like this piece from Jonah Goldberg in 2007.

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The lunatics have taken over the asylum

So, the Obama administration admits that the budget outlook is even worse than they thought, and then...

"I know there are going to be some who say that this report proves that we can't afford health reform. I think that has it backwards," Orszag told reporters. "The fiscal gap is precisely why we must enact well-designed and fiscally responsible health reform now. . . . Given the long-term nature of that problem, we simply can't afford to wait."

That's right. The country's finances are in worse shape than even Teh Smartest Administration EVAR now admits...

In their traditional summertime budget review, administration officials acknowledged that they relied on overly optimistic assumptions about the economy when they forecast in March that Obama's budget plans would generate deficits of $7.1 trillion over the next 10 years. After factoring in the severity of the recession and the prospect of a more sluggish recovery, the White House concluded that the budget outlook is significantly worse.

Given that, "we simply can't afford to wait" to add another crippling entitlement program to our already bankrupt government...

Orszag acknowledged, however, that health-care reform alone cannot solve the nation's budget problems, and he said deficit reduction will be "a top priority" when the president presents his next budget proposal to Congress in February.

Yeah, let's ram this huge clusterfuck that's going to add trillions to the deficit through and just wait until next year, when Obama promises (pinky swear!) that he'll work on reducing the deficit. Presumably through cutting wasteful spending (i.e. your Grandma's hip replacement) and God only knows whatever other dishonest accounting tricks we're supposed to swallow.

When this "top priority" is revealed as something else that The One has failed at, what do you want to be that the words out of his piehole include "Let me be clear" and "we inherited"?

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Pizza Hut plots to kill off the human race - 646 calories per slice. Crust made out of sausage wrapped with bacon.

Mini hamburger patties on top of the mushrooms, soy beans, corn, paprika, garlic chips, green peppers, and pepperoni.   The very essence of the modern health diet.



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I know how he feels.

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He always sides with the tyrant.

7 months in and he's sided with the tyrant, or budding tyrant, every single chance he's had.
Sure, messing with Honduras is helping a budding commie dictator, but it's not just a commie thing either, it's every single time.

WTF? You know? WTFF?

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Tell Me Again Which Side Contains The Violent Ones

Yup. What a shock that these terrorists were tied to the Democrats.

 

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If the Internet wrote movies

More (and funnier) at CollegeHumor

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Fuck you, Taliban

And Fuck You, MSM for letting this take a back seat to Michael Jackson.

Afghanistan is trying to have its second democratic election since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, and the remaining Taliban is blowing shit up.  40 people are reported dead so far, including four US soldiers killed by a roadside bomb. 

The Afghan election is another case of more being hopeful that a democratic process will gradually lead to a cultural change than actually liking any of the candidates.  I think it's pretty obvious by the strong reactions against the elections that the Taliban recognizes how dangerous it will be to their survival to allow democracy to take a foothold.

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Mayor Nutter's Philly Doomsday Scenario

Over at PA Watercooler, Mayor Nutter is trying to scare the PA legislature into letting Fast Eddie's budget pass and add a 1% hike on Philly's already high 7% tax (it's 6% in the non-Commie parts of the state).  He's talking about laying off 1000 police officers (Wyatt, buddy, you may want to work on that resume), 200 firemen, setting traffic lights to blink and turning off all streetlights, collecting garbage every two weeks, and laying off scores of city workers.

It isn't going to work.  The rest of PA hopes Philly burns to the ground, it's a crime ridden, filthy Marxist hellhole, we're not impressed or intimidated by it or Fast Eddie, who was spawned by the portal to Hell.

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I love this quote

"If violence isn't your last resort, then you didn't use enough violence." -- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates

found on slashdot

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Cheney Vindicated?

Back in April Dick Cheney claimed that CIA documents specifically two memos would show that the enhanced interrogations authorized by the Bush administration authorized by the Bush administration prevented a number of follow-on terrorist attacks. He requested that the memos be declassified and was refused by the Obama administration. The Department of Justice however released highly redacted versions of the memos yesterday.

The full memos are available here and are embedded below.

Do they back Cheney's claims?

I hate to say it but as released they don't. Unquestionably they show that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a valuable source of information but I saw no mention of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques so I can't honestly say that the memos back Cheney's claims. That said who knows what's in the the redacted areas and Cheney would have been able to read that information as the Vice-President so he still has a leg to stand on.

It should be noted that according to the New York Times the CIA Inspector General report, which I have not read yet, does note that enhanced interrogation did work in some cases:

The report found that the interrogations obtained critical information to identify terrorists and stop potential plots and said some imprisoned terrorists provided more information after being exposed to brutal treatment.

But the inspector general’s review raised broad questions about the legality, political acceptability and effectiveness of the harshest of the C.I.A.’s methods, including some not authorized by the Justice Department and others that were approved, like the near-drowning technique of waterboarding.

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Moron of the Day: That Brett Favre Really Gets My Goat

Well, get's painted on my goat:

Auto repairman James Prusci has seen some unusual things left in the cars he works on, but nothing quite like what he found Friday in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu.

A woman came into the Tires Plus in Winona just before noon, asking if the shop had time to replace a belt.

Prusci started the paperwork.

"Oh, by the way," the woman said. "I have a goat in my trunk."

Prusci didn't think he heard her right.

"A what?"

"Yes, a goat," the woman said. "And it's alive."

She planned to butcher the animal later but was passing through Winona on her way to St. Paul when the car broke down, Prusci remembered her saying.

The woman, and a man and child who were waiting for her outside, left while Prusci and other workers began the repairs.

After about 10 minutes, they could hear the goat crying.

"We cracked open the trunk, you know, so it could breathe," Prusci said. "And sure enough, there it was. It kind of poked its head up."

The goat had been painted purple and gold - the colors for the Minnesota Vikings. Shaved into its side was the No. 4 - the number of Brett Favre, who made his Vikings debut Friday night in a preseason game in the Twin Cities.

Wow.   You could also file this under WTF Is Wrong With Wisconsin, I guess.  As far as Brett Favre goes, a whole lot if you ask me.

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The Toyota Prius Needs To Be Destroyed For The Good Of The Planet

Well, at least if you pay attention to this video, which shows it is worse for the planet than a BMW M3.

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Hog Whitman: Bitch

Seems we've got another Michael Barrett (with a bit of Chuck Adkins mixed in), 'cept this one has an attitude problem, or did. 

So it all starts with Demure Jen posting a rant a few days ago, okay, we all do that.  Well, some guy going by Hog Whitman at a no name site called I Am Deeply Concerned decides to copypasta her post, posts Jen's profile pic from her sidebar, and creates a "Rants by Jen" category, no permission sought, naturally.  The kicker of course is that Slobs The Hog Whitman had a disclaimer in his post declaring Jen had graciously given the twat the go-ahead to post her stuff. 

She hadn't of course, and Gauges Down Nightly On A Large Hog Whitman of course has a fucking attitude about it when he gets called on it.  He also seems to have a thing for calling women bitches, but we'll see soon enough who the real bitch is in this whole scenario.  Our very own Alice leaves a comment, which is of course edited, because Chokes On The Throbbing Hog Whitman edits comments like a bitch.  Sorta like DJ Drummond, who, like Whitman, likes the Hog, but in Drummond's case only if it comes from a Bush (43, to be specific). Normally, I'd shred this little bastard, particularly for editing Alice's comment, but Jen and Alice did a good enough job on their own,

twat pretty much scrubbed his site of everything, which takes a bunch of fun out of it for me and makes this a bit anticlimactic, so consider this an after-action report. 

Did you really think you could step to moronbloggers?  Bitch, please.

Update:  So, apparently this guy is a country singer who makes dumb "comedy" songs, and was a guest on Imus once in the 90's.  The fact that he was on Imus ought to be damning enough on its own.  That said, you'd think that a foulmouthed, ornery ol' country fella like Hog Whitman wouldn't go and scrub his site like such a bitch...

There's only one Whitman in country, motherfucker, and it ain't you,

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