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Monday, December 21. 2009

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Pethokoukis: The political blowback from healthcare reform


Kimball via Insty:



Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the next two year are unpleasant for Sen. Nelson and 2) that he loses in 2012 by a landslide.



WSJ: Change Nobody Believes In - A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.



Prepare for a new term: "climate instability"


What is "settled science"? From Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney at Am Thinker:



While not faulting journalists and politicians for their stupendous ignorance when discussing most scientific subjects, I do condemn their utter lack of coherence concerning basic scientific definitions, processes, and principles. 

Specifically, the chattering classes have no appreciation of the following truisms: settled science comes only in the form of physical laws while the causes behind specific phenomena are sometimes never definitively settled.  And the more complex the system being observed, the longer it takes to reach a consensus about the causal mechanisms.



Palin blasts 'arrogance of man' in Copenhagen.


Communists March in Copenhagen to Support Destroying World Economy


When glaciers melt, sea levels drop


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h/t, Instapundit, and important piece followed by important comments. brought to mind that a "moral victory" is commonly something that the losing party awards itself.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/20/the-healthier-response-to-o-care-in-defense-of-rightwing-leninism/
#1 buddy larsen on 2009-12-21 09:15 (Reply)
If you really want to get high blood pressure, read this article by Bloomberg's Christine Harper on Goldman Sachs' true cost to the taxpayers...at least, as has been determined so far.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaLwI2SKYQJg

2009 has been a feeding frenzy on taxpayers with the politicians and their buddies coming in as big winners. The international banking industry is out of control once again.

And I am not paying for Nebraska's Medicare costs (thank you very kindly, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Reid)! What a disaster!
#2 jma on 2009-12-21 11:01 (Reply)
Re climate instability and plans to address it: the climate is naturally responsive to a lot of forcings or signals. It is almost certain to be unstable as long as the planet holds out. The only known stable climates in the solar system are all impossible for humans to occupy anyway.
Upending our financial system and forcing penance on the industrial affluent world will crimp me if it happens. I'll be annoyed and constrained by high costs and petty regulation. It is the genuinely poor who will suffer the most because of the watermelons: every effort to develop their own lives will be blocked and the resources to aid them from outside (a bad idea anyway) will dry up. Instead of transferring aid to developing nations, we should transfer technology to those nations which are liberating their economies and their people. We have poured trillions into the kleptocrats, whose people remain miserable, ignorant and oppressed.
#3 Geoff Brown on 2009-12-21 12:23 (Reply)

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