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Wednesday, May 22. 2013Political Operative Says the Politicization of Politics Has Become Hopelessly Political
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NGC Update: The 'We've got 10 years left' edition Pic: This week's issue of Time also covers the subject in depth
So that's about as sobering as it gets, folks. Ten years really isn't a very long time. I originally spotted this alarming article on a very cool AGW site called Real Science. The original article is here. Newsweek. April 28. 1975. Even the NYT is upset
New York Times: Obama Leak Investigations 'Chilling,' 'Threatening'
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Weds. morning linksMy photo: student detritus in dorm hallway after the kids have decamped in their parents' vehicles. The Average Salary of a Military Helicopter Pilot I'd pay them to do it Sperry Topsiders: Made in Maine Nearly 19 feet! Longest Burmese python captured in Florida Remarkable footage of the big tornado Wallace Stegner is a wonderful wordsmith Homeownership, Unemployment and Economic Growth: Looking at the Trends Obama and Elizabeth Warren Feed the College Beast Cost of Coverage – The Real Measure of Health Reform Impact Rand Paul Stands Up Against Government Greed Blue State CT: State Revenue Surge A Bad Reason To Spend More Unions break ranks on ObamaCare Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program Time for a team huddle: Lefty bloggers/journos head to the White House Why is the White House Having a Secret Meeting with a Bevy of Lefty Columnists? The Arab collapse - Middle East a vulture’s feast Driscoll's Quote of the Day:
Russia: Playing a Losing Hand like a Winner Tuesday, May 21. 2013Krauthammer On IRS Scandal: "This Is Going To Go On And It Could Be Fatal"A Crisis of Authority
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Finally! Equality comes to women in NYC (rest of country sure to follow) I have tremendously good news. It must be awful constantly being treated as a second-class citizen in a male-dominated society. We all know about the inequalities in the job market, corporate structure and politics, but it's exceptionally cruel when even something as simple as sports needs an official Act of Congress (Title IX) just so a college can have a girls softball team. But perhaps the biggest reminder of your lowly status is that even your clothes are regulated. Wear this, don't wear that. Do you see men going through any such restrictions? Of course not. Your being told what to wear based on your gender is the moral equivalent of being told which bathroom you can use based on the color of your skin. And the great progressive city of New York has decided to address this hideous injustice, once and for all. No longer will you be castigated and restricted and confined merely because of your gender. No longer will you be forced to wear the shackles that the male-dominated society has placed upon you. Because of the grand farsightedness of the great city of New York, you no longer have to wear the shackles at all. Topless Women in Public Not Breaking the Law, Says NYPD See, guys? Progressivism isn't always bad. Tuesday morning linksCool reconstruction of von Richthofen's death Fixed - how to sell a boat to the guys Harvard students denounce academic freedom Israel’s Other Enemy: The Blue Social Model Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely' But they insist that someday it will be terrible...maybe. Loneliness and social isolation are bad That's news? But is it cause, or effect? The danger of asking a gal for a date, on campus:
Three FoxNews Reporters Spied on by DoJ It keeps getting worser and worser A Do-Nothing Congress Won’t Surprise These Beltway Insiders Good. The White House’s shifting IRS account Andy Borowitz writes satirical columns for The New Yorker, His point of view is reliably liberal. But... BACKGROUNDER: Palestinian Arab and Jewish Refugees The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences Monday, May 20. 2013It can happen here
Government has become a sort of malignant metasisizing tumor, growing on its own, parasitical on healthy cells, always searching for new sources of nourishment, its purpose nothing other than growing bigger and faster and more powerful—until the exhausted host collapses. We have a sunshine king and our government has become a sort of virtual Versailles palace.
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Monday morning linksGot home too late last nite to accumulate the usual stack or to peruse all the links sent to my inbox. Mechanical flight delays. Isn't air travel fun? Try amusing yourself sometime for 8 hours in the Columbus airport while remaining sober in a cigar-free zone with nothing but fat women to look at and no laptop. Like jail. Got frisked, too. The rest of my family drove home quicker than I flew home to Yankeeland. I have always hated swimming pools, but here's another reason. What will really happen when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts? Not too bad really. Fluoride Fight Cracks Portland's Left It's not from The Onion EU bureaucrats clearly have too little to do and too much time on their hands The challenge for bureaucrats everywhere is to justify their existence and their jobs and their pensions by creating rules for others. "I recall one university president who, when asked if he had read The Bell Curve, said that not only had he not read the book, but he would not even think about reading it." IRS To Pro-Life Groups: You Know You’re Gonna Have To Give Up This Whole Protest Thing, Right? Obama admits he’s a socialist - What his ‘Bulworth’ fantasy reveals IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way What the Obama Scandals Reveal About Progressive Ideology Fund: Three Signs There’s a Cover-Up - “Mistakes were made….I don’t recall” and other surefire clues. Art Laffer: Obama scandals are phenomenal for stocks Saturday, May 18. 2013Sat. Morning Links Interesting News In the old days, an article on how to avoid an IRS audit would be titled, "How To Avoid An IRS Audit". But in light of recent events, we have... How to Tell If the IRS Is Eyeing You
No problem! Simply follow these five easy steps and you'll be rolling in clover before the day is done! How I 'Stole' $14 Million from a Bank: A Security Tester's Tale
Google Glass: Limited and Clunky, but the Future Much like drone technology and printed guns, Glass will be used in both directions, good and bad. A number of casinos and bars have already banned them — and they're not even on the market yet. At some point, sure enough some Congressman is going to have his career ruined because someone innocently wearing Glass accidentally caught him using a hideous, derogatory word like macaca. It was on YouTube a minute later and that was that. On the other hand, picture a fireman fighting inside a massive blaze and having his Glass direct him to the room the children are cowering in. So it'll be interesting to see what springs forth.
Individual states like the one D.C. Congress is actually in: Marijuana Movement Plants Flag on Capitol Hill
Which isn't to say that D.C. is the only one joining in the fun: ‘High’ Tolerance: NYC on the Road to Decriminalizing Pot And back to those numerous health benefits (lumbago, gout, heart disease, athlete's foot, cancer) we keep hearing about... Smoking Marijuana Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk in Study
'Scientific' Liberals Should Accept Results of Science
Uh-yup. We've shown this over and over again on this site. Even when these same great scientific minds claim that global colding is the real menace here, they turn a blind eye and continue their hearty endeavors. Cicadas Swarming U.S. East Coast Are Climate Change Veterans (1 week ago) On the Brink: Climate Change Endangers Common Species (4 days ago) How Climate Change Could Affect Seasonal Allergies (yesterday) Under the heading of "Damn!", I was hoping the new Star Trek 'prequel' would be as good as the first. But it ain't worth dogshit according to this reviewer: Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ On the other end of the spectrum, I thought 'Django Unchained' was the best movie I'd seen in a year. I'll do a review on it sometime. There's an interesting connection to make between it and 'Blazing Saddles'. Any guesses? On the 'NCIS' front, I watched the last five episodes of the season the other day. I sat there petrified the entire time, worrying that they'd dig up (not literally this time) good ol' Pedro Hernandez — Gibbs' nemesis from his NIS past. They did, but thankfully moved on, and I was left just as bewildered at the end as anyone. 'NCIS' Season Finale Post-Mortem: Gary Glasberg Answers Burning Questions! One thing I didn't think through were the other three team members. I would have half-figured they'd picked their badges back up when Gibbs went rogue (?), but the article indicates that they held true and resigned en masse, so we should get some interesting background stories about their 4-month escapades this fall. There's a recent interview with Mark Harmon here. I have a number of articles about this great show here. Political News Politically, I thought the most touchingly poignant moment of the week was when renown historian James Douglas Muir Leno recalled the Obama early years and our fondness for Joe Biden at the time, and how sad it is how V.P. Biden's glory has faded over the years. Friday, May 17. 2013The Jobs Question: Where will they be?
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Finally! Transparency in government arrives Well, while there have been a few instances in recent years where it could be argued that total transparency was not forthcoming, here we are on the edge of three major political scandals where transparency must be forthcoming: the IRS targeting the Tea Party and specific Republican donors, the Justice Department illegally wiretapping AP reporters, and the shame of Benghazi and claiming the violence was merely a YouTube video review gone bad, a story they perpetrated for three weeks. But there's good news on the horizon. Because, with the incredible public scrutiny these stories are garnering — at least, after the press, itself, was targeted — it seems fairly obvious that key players like Department of Justice head Eric Holder and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney will open up to the American public and finally tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God. Here's Mr. Holder finally putting to rest some of the key questions that arose at the recent congressional hearing: Mr. Carney also elaborated on a number of details in a stalwart effort to clean the slate: What's that? You think they seemed a bit "evasive"? You're obviously missing the point. Compared to the past five years, this is being transparent! Friday morning link dump3-D printed dress, with Dita How about a 3-D printed Dita? The dress can wait. 25-Year-Old Woman's Biggest Dream - Still Being Popular High School Student Kai, the Famous Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker, is Wanted for Murder He talks like a sociopath. Gift of gab. The 10 Most Horribly Racist Ads That Aren’t Even Remotely Racist Minnesotans For Global Warming The EPA spent 40,000 of our tax dollars on this oil painting Brain Rewires Itself After Damage or Injury, Life Scientists Discover Advice endorsed by Insty: Get her drunk US windfarms avoiding prosecution for eagle deaths AVI discusses some of the keys to success, and where IQ fits in The Hank Greenberg Story That '42' Forgot - Remembering Day Jackie Robinson Met the Hebrew Hammer Students Should Be Able to Borrow More Cheaply! That is economically insane Study Suggests That Wimpier Men Hold Liberal Views What We Lose In Our Child-free Culture What happens when idiots don't get their kids vaccinated
Sexual assault scandal becomes a Pentagon test False reports outpace sex assaults in the military Did the Internet destroy the Middle Class? The case that the 2nd Amendment has already "evolved" Krauthammer: Obama “Understands He’s Losing His Constituency – The Media” WaPo: The "scandals" have no substance Axelrod: It’s Not Obama’s Fault; Government Is Too Big No kidding This is comforting: IRS Official in Targeting Scandal Now Overseeing Obamacare Unit Thursday, May 16. 2013Obamacare takes the old way, enshrines it in law, subsidizes it, and freezes it in place
Government programs like this inhibit change, innovation, flexibility, and creativity, and hand control to government bureaucrats. When Prof. Mead discusses evolving alternatives to the old fee-for-service model of primary care, he might be forgetting that Obamacare has set it in stone just as Medicare did for the over-65. Left alone, medical care would evolve according to markets and peoples' choices. As we have surmised before, Obamacare was designed to fail and to bring in single payer, also a blast from the past which would inhibit innovation.
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The Chicago Way
For some reason, these guys never followed up on all the stories about Obama hanging out in gay bars in Chicago. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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Thursday morning linksShould You Express Your Anger? IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo A Small Business Owner Explains the Hard Facts of Obamacare to Employees He does a good job explaining it Your Next IRS Political Audit - The tax agency is getting vast new power in health care. Breaking: Holder Justice Department Also Tapped House of Representatives Cloak Room A degree of malevolence in the Administration The (501(c)3) Media Matters Distributes Talking Points to Defend DOJ Spying on AP Reporters I do not understand why any political 501(c)(3)s are legal. Jon Stewart is angry at Obama for proving us right Things Obama didn't know about Chris Matthews: “White supremacy” is a pretty big part of all of this opposition to Obama Race card = desperation. Matthews doesn't believe it for a minute. The reason for (at least 2 parties) is to hold eachother to account. Wednesday, May 15. 2013It gets even worse
IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
A horrible idea
By the way, what is Rubio's name doing on this idea? It gets worse
This from a piece at Politico: For five years, this president has been making the case that a growing and activist government has good intentions and can carry these intentions out with competence. Conservatives have warned that government is dangerous, and even good intentions get bungled in the execution. In different ways, the IRS uproar, the Justice Department leak investigations, the Benghazi tragedy and the misleading attempts to explain it, and the growing problems with implementation of health care reform all bolster the conservative worldview.
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NGC Update: The horror revealed Here's the latest on this impending horror:
Here, now, is the peril that you, too, will one day face. It's not for the squeamish.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Weds. morning linksThe Top Five Hiring Mistakes Every Startup Makes Stunning college degree gap: Women have earned almost 10 million more college degrees than men since 1982 Kevin Drum on why the robots will rise up and take all our jobs Warmists in retreat on sea level rise, climate sensitivity MSNBC Discovers Cure for Poverty Klavan: You Can’t Report in Here! This Is the News Room! Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs Spring is in the air, which means that it’s time for another insane moral panic regarding the Great Egalitarian Unmentionable... Another Example of Editorial-Page Fiction at the New York Times Times defends IRS But if the shoe were on the other foot? Why does Megan assert that these scandals "are not as bad as Watergate"? Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats IRS Told Pro-Life Group It Must Promote Abortion BOMBSHELL… ABC Analyst: West Wing Of White House Authorized IRS-Gate Targeting Tuesday, May 14. 2013The 3-D Printed Gun Story
Yep, it's looking more and more like Your Future Will Be Manufactured on a 3-D Printer. As you might expect, until things get sorted out, the State Department Orders Firm to Remove 3D-Printed Guns Web Blueprints. After all, this could be a pretty big deal if you understood How 3D-Printed Guns Violate International Arms Controls.
Because, as everyone knows, anyone who opposes any aspect of guns is a dirty, rotten, scumdog liberal.
Because, as everyone knows, what the Second Amendment is really saying is that every American has an equal right to kill any other American.
In other words, if I want to post plans on how to produce a dirty nuclear bomb in the comfort of your own kitchen, that's a First Amendment issue?? John in the comments enhanced the point:
Which is how the bloggers are viewing it, as just another gun control issue. But it's clearly not. As long-time readers of this site know, I'm 1. Would you trust your family's health to a printed plastic gun? — Common criminals, because the store owner they're trying to rob would just laugh in their face. So, it's kind of a sticky wicket, isn't it? It appears to boil down to that old confrontation, principle versus practicality. If we assume this is, by far, a bigger boon to airline hijackers than common homeowners, then the right-wing bloggers are standing by the principle that all guns, no matter what the situation, are good. My question is, is that really what conservatism is all about? All guns, no matter what the situation, are good. That's how it is? Something has changed
Big storms are on the horizon, headed towards Washington DC. The mainstream media, after over five years of protecting, insulating, glorifying, romanticizing Obama and his administration, is beginning to realize that, if they continue on that same path, they will be left behind. With the MSM running interference for the admin., perhaps they felt invulnerable in Washington. I recall Michelle Obama once bragging about that. No longer. Now the election is over. I suspect the MSM and talking heads feel torn between doing their job and protecting their political hero and Leftist ambitions in general. Probably many Dems in Washington are feeling the same way this week. This administration is dead in the water, will need to be towed to harbor, will not recover even with MSM help. Too many problems, with maybe more to come, and the MSM has already focused on constructing a Hillary narrative as the next savior. But how likely is it that Americans would elect two Chicago Alinskyites in a row?
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Tuesday morning linksUN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger Ford previews the new F-150 The national pastime may be past its time. But those who think it’s boring need to think again. Author uncovers surprising secrets of female sexuality, including monogamy and fantasies He says women are hornier than men Govt killing striped owls to save spotted. Only gummint could be this stupid. Last I heard, Spotted Owl is just a subspecies of Barred Owl. So they are killing the Barred Owls? I like Barred Owls. Primary school forced to turn off wind turbine after bird deaths Ted Dalrymple says he's enjoying retirement. He's not really retired - he just switched careers. Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe Watergate Was For Amateurs: Justice Department Spied For Months On Associated Press Reporters The lies pile up and the president goes silent "Employee Wellness" programs do no good Detroit insolvent, EM Kevyn Orr says Mead on Detroit:
American Dream v. Israeli Dream: Jennifer Rubin and Mickey Kaus debate The Weekly Winston: IRS Scandal Edition After IRS, Benghazi, should I trust government? Not before, not after. Never. Attorney for Tea Party group: IRS told me a year ago about ‘secret working group’ Non-citizens voting? With little comment from conservative media, President Obama last week appointed James Dobbins as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the high-profile job long occupied by the late Richard Holbrooke. From Benghazi to Boston: The government evades the truth about terror The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Romerstein Stunning: The NYT refers to them as "babies"
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