Monthly Archives: January 2010

UN’s proof of warming? Anecdotes

Is the science settled? What science? The IPCC proof of melting ice in the Alps, Andes and Africa was a magazine article and a student dissertation. Both relied on interviews with mountaineers and their unscientific opinions. This global warming hoax just keeps getting plainer and plainer.

Via Drudge.

First Class Piper

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Jimmy Mitchell, of Forney, east of Dallas, available for weddings, funerals, birthday parties, Celtic festivals, even Bar Mitzvahs. Oy!

Via Google AdWords at Texas History Page.

When reporters play dressup

I enjoyed James O’Keefe’s undercover reports on ACORN’s willingness (in its offices coast to coast) to assist a pimp and his chippy in acquiring a business location. But, despite the 60 Minutes example, undercover reporting can quickly lead to problems that undermine the pursuit of truth.

Thus, despite big media’s retractions of late on details of O’Keefe’s investigation of a Louisiana senator, the fact remains that he dressed up as a telephone repairman. As Ed Morrisey says, he apparently didn’t need to do that if he wasn’t planning to break the law. It logically led to suspicion that was what he was about and his arrest.

The Wind Power Shuck

Blast from the past. 2010:

Barry and his party would have us believe they can tax coal power plants out of business and we’ll all get by on wind and solar power. Uh, huh. Except for people in the snow belt:

“Minnesota invested itself in alternative energy sources years ago, and so the revelation that the state spent $3.3 million on eleven wind turbines hardly qualifies as news. However, the fact that they don’t work in cold weather does.”

Well, the state can always sue the manufacturer. Hee. And Minnesotans can be thankful they still have coal-power electricity to keep them warm. So far, anyhow.

Via Hot Air.

Science Fair winner

Mr. B. won third place at his school’s Science Fair with his experiment to test the common schoolteacher-instructed notion that sneezing or coughing into the inside of your elbow helps prevent the spread of germs. We used colored paper hole punches inside balloons to simulate germs and “elbows” cut out of index cards to surround the balloon. The experiment more or less proved the usefulness of the idea. Mr. B.  said there was more than one third place. About ten he thinks.

Heh

hope change 75 perecent off

Let the ridicule begin. Hope-n-change is declining in value. No surprise.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  VDH scores some ridicule hits with his “Obamarang” essay:

“Obama assures on eight occasions he will televise all health-care deliberations on C-SPAN. This [was] clear proof that nothing [would] be televised [and, indeed] debate occurr[ed] behind closed doors, punctuated by votes purchased through $300 million bribes and state exemptions from federal statutes.”

Barry’s Kryptonite: Ridicule

Barry beclowned himself with his SOTU. The least we can do is return the favor:

“…we’d better get busy with the ridiculing, mocking, derision, scorn, belittling, shaming, parodying, satirizing and lampooning toot sweet like our lives, homes, families, nation and the world depend on it. (Because they do.)”

Worth a full read. Although I think the military still is capable of obliterating any enemy. So weak president or no, we’re not in much danger.