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Monday, December 21. 2009Monday evening elf-enhanced linksMilbank: An ugly finale for health-care reform Hot Air: Don’t despair about ObamaCare Classy: RI Dem Senator Calls ObamaCare Opponents Part of 'Aryan Support Groups' Cash for Cloture: Harry Reid’s Vote Buying Cost Taxpayers $1.2 Billion Trial lawyers get payoff in Dem medical bill Democrats Risk Another Jacksonian MomentGordon Brown calls for new group to police global environment issues. Related: There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government
Dems Break It, They Own ItFrom Driscoll:
Birthers and Aryan groups? Sounds like us. Along with over 60% of Americans, I guess, who oppose this fascistic, ie government-controlled - monstrosity. Betsy: Ben Nelson's selling price Powerline: Who's Meaner, Insurance Bureaucrats or Government Bureaucrats? Healthcare Pork: Senate Bill Laden with Favors, Pet Projects for Democrats Related, they did not omit the slacker kids, I mean, the adult children Riehl remains an optimist.
Quote of the dayAn email from our Aliyah doctor friend in Israel:
Beats a tramp stamp, in my book. Monday morning linksPhoto on loan from Moonbattery - Pethokoukis: The political blowback from healthcare reform Kimball via Insty:
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:
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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Saturday, December 19. 2009Saturday linksBegin your Christmas shopping yet? I thought I'd begin today or tomorrow. Did everybody know that Wikipedia is a non-profit? FAQs about Wikipedia What would they do to me today if they saw the pictures I drew in Kindergarten? (h/t, Tiger) California as a failed state Is health care reform a gift or lump of coal? Above the law? SEIU and the MA Senate race From Michael Feinstein in the NYT:
Libertarians and Conservatives, at Ace. One quote:
h/t Gateway - An interview with one of our favorites, Thaddeus McCotter, plus the Republican Policy Committee Principles (listed below on cont. page) Continue reading "Saturday links"
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Friday, December 18. 2009We will try not to bore our readersSince "the time for talking is over," we will try not to post further about the joke that is Copenhagen for the rest of this pre-Christmas weekend - except to note these observations: Obama sez 'Time for talk is over.' China and India Say, "O Shut the F Up Bozo!" Obama braves blizzard to preach at the Church of Climate Scientology and, of course, big early blizzard predicted from DC to New England. Great! Somebody needs to remind me again: "Weather isn't climate." The Copenhagen FiascoFrom Warner in The Telegraph:
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From Hoven in Who Needs Data?, which begins:
What do the EVIL WARMISTS want? Global domination! It's called the Belgrade Process. Ya can't make this stuff up. Update: Is this for real? Give China and India a pass, and give away more of our $. Just to get a piece of paper signed. What a joke. Photo is Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, during the summer. Nice place to drink some beer.
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Friday morning links
Too logical? Climate Change Is Nature's Way: It's our good luck one of Earth's many ice ages ended 12,000 years ago. Yes, He Can: President Obama’s Power to Make an International Climate Commitment Without Waiting for Congress Meanwhile, in this insanity, billions of taxpayer's $ to Third World countries to cope with an AGW which doesn't exist. Video of no fuel, no emissions, no brains He lives in a different world from that of Bernie Sanders Hot Air: Merry Christmas: Senate ObamaCare vote may come on December 24th Americans Souring on Democrats Real global warming, at Insty The atmosphere is cooling. Cold as hell in the Northeast now. And to our continued amusement, Copenhagen remains in a deepening deep freeze Yes, Al Gore caught again lying like a Polar Bear-skin rug Also via Lucianne: President Obama’s allies try to shield him from a potential climate catastrophe Powerline on Pawlenty in NH. Right message. Walker: Obama the America denier
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Thursday, December 17. 2009God's in His heaven, all's right with the worldBad scienceFrom A Jacksonian, trained as a geologist, on how science works and doesn't work:
Poetic justicevia Drudge, Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming. Indeed, the entire circus is farcical. Enter, the O-man on the heels of the snowman. And, with perfect timing, Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming Today's must-readOn the Brink, at American Thinker. One quote:
Wednesday, December 16. 2009Weds. evening heavy-duty linksTom Sowell's Christmas reading How about a doppelganger for Christmas? Militant Theophobes Illegals, yes. Anatolie, no. Climategate: Something’s Rotten in Denmark … and East Anglia, Asheville, and New York City Copenhagen: 'This Guy's Just Showing Up to Collect His Check' A good post with good links re Paul Samuelson Good comments on our sexual addiction post A book: Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law. Interesting reviews there at Amazon. Ann Applebaum: Some climate-changers are anti-human. The 2009 Obama Achievement List Climate Scientists and Ethics: Some Advice from a Finance Professor How would the Reid bill affect the middle class? Protecting Investors or Prosecuting Innocents? The Dangers of Vagueness in Financial Fraud Laws
And via Insty:
The hockey stick, over time
Too bad the warmists don't want the truth.
Weds. morning linksAlex Massie in Spectator: American Exceptionalism & the Decline of Limited Government Re health care, the O says we're "on the precipice." Truth, for once. No wonder he uses a teleprompter most of the time. DOE sends a “litigation hold notice” regarding CRU York: Why Democrats push health care, even if it kills them City Journal: Teachers’ Unions vs. Progress—Again. New York resists reforms that would bring in millions and improve teacher quality. Faster? Please. Yet another proclamation that global warming is "accelerating, much faster than we anticipated," as activists have been telling us since the late '90s. I think that was shortly after the decade of global cooling scares. Tiger on what Jamie Dimon should have said to the O, including this comment: "...it is hard to see how anybody smarter than a reporter would be fooled by such silliness."
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Tuesday, December 15. 2009100 reasons why our climate is naturalTalking points and debating points, at Daily Express. Not that facts matter any more. Related: Al Gore's mosquito story is pure BS. Malaria is only a tropical disease due to public health advances, DDT, and drainage of marshes in the developed world. At the turn of the last century, malaria was endemic in New England. Russia, too. Related: It's all about the $. A quote:
Related: Copenhagen summit carbon footprint biggest ever. Why not? Who cares? Live it up with the Danish hos and the limos and the grand hotel rooms and the smorgasbord and the aquavit. It's all for Gaia, after all. Related, via Dino from some psychotic, self-aggrandizing moron at Copenhagen:
And, via Driscoll's It Was Necessary To Destroy The Carbon In Order To Save It:
Christian Louboutin
Since we're doing sort-of fancy Christmas stuff, I am telling Santa that I like Christian Louboutin. Our gentlemen readers' wives or girlfriends might like that stuff too.
Tuesday morning linksFeeding the ego by going green Terrible poll numbers for the O. Why? Gimme money. That's what Copenhagen is all about. WSJ: The 'Cost Control' Bill of Goods - How Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion. Didn't they say the polar ice would be gone in five years, three years ago? They are moving the goalpost. Pick just one thermometer Good political advice from Newt (video) h/t, reader Thompson: The wrong kind of rich 30% of Dems believe in astrology. Good grief. Explains a lot. Powerline: Are the wheels coming off healthcare?
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Monday, December 14. 2009View from VDHSend a thank-you emailSend a thanks, if you agree with him, to my independent and independent-minded Senator Joe Lieberman (with whom I agree about 30-40% of the time), for his strong stand against government-controlled medical care. Here's his email. I just sent him one. "Thank you, Sen. Joe." Monday morning linksOopsie daisy. Story at Dr. X. Luckily, it wasn't occupied yet. Only 1 guy was killed. Government vs. Markets: Q&O Vanderleun defuses Gore's lethal poem Diversity Infects Medical School. Brilliant! Heather Mac Donald: The Bilingual Ban That Worked Thomas Sowell dissects intellectuals How Mossad hacked the Syrian computers for their raid on the mysterious facility Teddy Kennedy From The Grave: Medicare As A Path To Single Payer Jimmy Carter: Abuse of Women Including Genital Mutilation is the Fault of Catholics & Southern Baptists.Everybody knew that. Mark Steyn: Obama goes from dazzle to drone. A quote:
David Horowitz on Better Red than Dead. Related, from Michelle: Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project. Good grief. Why docs and hospitals are wary of government medicine, via Marginal Rev:
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Sunday, December 13. 2009Monckton interviews a warmisth/t, Insty. How do you discuss things with somebody like that?
Sunday morning linksLowry: Is health care bill tottering? Via Lucianne, It's going from awful to worse. Smith at Am Thinker:
Is it degrading to look for a job? Douthat: The Conscience of a Social Democrat. He is responding to Judt's October defence of social democracy in the widely-unread NYR of Books: What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? Astroturf in Copenhagen Duke at Am Thinker: The Pathology of the Rich Socialist. He asks
Cool: Sarah Palin on The Tonight Show w/Conan O'Brien & William Shatner 12/11/09
What's in the Senate h/c bill? Via Betsy:
Saturday, December 12. 2009Global Warming AgnosticismI’ve stayed away from the subject of global warming before. The primary reason is that I’m somewhat of an agnostic. It is in defense of reasonable agnosticism, or the scientific method, that I finally speak. A thinking person will see the subject as so vast and so ultimately unknowable or predictable and the costs of global warming advocates’ proposed actions so apparently unsettling – even disastrous -- to human progress as we know it (particularly in the West where technology’s benefits are manifest compared to any prior or current alternative) that a thinking person cannot blithely go forth with global warming warnings. Yet the possible (versus what advocates say is probable) consequences of rejection are presented as so dire that I hesitate at taking a position that may doom us to climate purgatory or worse. That’s why the scientific method, the thinking person’s agnosticism, is most needed. A hypothesis is disproven by failure to predict, replicate, and be simpler than alternatives. The scientific bases of global warming advocates’ forecasts is now largely exposed as severely lacking in scientific rigor and reeking of manipulative deception. Global warming advocates’ “proofs” are invented vapors. But, this is not per se a definitive disproof of the hypothesis. It is a clarion call for any of the hypothesis’ advocates who have any integrity or deserve repute to come clean and propose new, transparent, tested and testable scientific work. Otherwise, and until, none of their severe remedies can be tolerated. At the same time, it is a repeat lesson in exposure of the destructive consequences of the past 100+ years of anti-modernist, anti-Western utopianism pursued by leftists who seek power over the rest of us. Their prior “gods” – socialism, communism, fascism, for example – failed in every way. Their fears of an inability to compete, and their seeking of power and position, impels them to new utopian schemes that again reek of self-aggrandizement, now with global warming mania, regardless of the prices and burdens imposed on the masses yearning for improved living conditions and more freedoms of choice. This, as usual, fits neatly with the self-preserving enrichment and entrenchment of faux populists in the underdeveloped countries. We do know that reasonable emission controls on engines, smokestacks and chemical discharges are beneficial to the quality of life we require in the We, also, know that domestic substitutes for producing energy – whether wind or geothermal or shale or nuclear, along with conservation efficiencies -- are preferable to imports of oil that fund foes and deplete our wealth. As with more honest scientists, we need more honest politicians. They must be willing to take strong stands, lead, and persuade based on the highest empiricism – instead of sneakily impose -- in pursuit of reasonable environmental and self-sufficiency goals rather than in pursuit of personal profiteering and election contributions. Otherwise, as with those who fail to live up to scientific standards, politicians who fail to live up to democracy’s standards should be rejected. The established measures are clear.
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Saturday morning linksDynamite from Krauthammer: The new socialism Forget CO2 - now it's nitrogen! Dino on climategate: Something’s (probably) got to give SISU on Scott Brown About time: Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws More on the Minnesota Teacher Brainwashing Program High Premiums in Senate Democrats’ Health Plan Climategate’s Harry_Read_Me.txt: We All Really Should Get a Government Job, Series #4,291 John Derbyshire CNN: 61% Oppose Senate Health Care Plan The Nobel speech is getting good reviews. Bainbridge: Is Medicare Really "Big Government at its Best"? Trying to rewrite history:
Study Shows Good Little Eco-Ninnies Who Buy Organic 'n Stuff More Likely to Lie and Cheat in Experiments That Test Ethics I do not understand this: ACORN wins in federal court 15 reasons why they fell for the hoax No Pasaran: "It's the same old leftist playbook: Approach every desired major policy change as a crisis, and demand immediate action."
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Friday, December 11. 2009An hypothesis only"Carl Pham" replies in the comment thread of a post at McArdle:
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