Category Archives: Obsessions

The chopper whopper

Posted on February 8, 2015 | 7 comments

The whole hullabaloo about NBC’s just-another-pretty-face talking head is a bit confusing. As a commenter I read somewhere I forget said in response to a post about why Lyin’ Brian would tell whoppers about his supposed war heroics:

“The question is not why he would feel compelled to lie but why he would ever feel compelled to tell the truth, in a business where lies pass for truth every day.”

Works for me. The only other idea I have is that he’s another Democrat wannabee, a fellow who despises the military and would never serve but who nevertheless wants to be thought tough and heroic. And so he phoned it in.

You know, like the Lizard Queen. Another Democrat who was under fire in her own mind, as you may remember.

Williams is what they called in the Civil War “a parlor soldier.” Or the 16th century commedia dell’arte stock type of the Italian theater known as Il Capitano (the braggart soldier). Neither of them were real soldiers. Like Bri.

He’s probably toast now. I mean when even Mad Cow Dowd is joining the pile-on…

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Rule 5: Ellie Roe

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Posted on February 1, 2015 in Obsessions, Rule 5, The Culture

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Bluebonnets 2014

Posted on January 28, 2015 | 2 comments

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This is what we’re waiting for, spring in Texas, due in a few weeks, while the northeast digs out of its latest blizzard. After all the rain we’ve had this winter this is what we should be able to expect. I think this was taken out near Inks Lake in the Hill Country a year ago. I’ve driven this road before when it was just like this. But I’m not sure. The Internet provides but it doesn’t always clarify.

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Banning “Jihad” at Al Jiz

Posted on January 28, 2015 | 2 comments

Looks like an Al Jiz story finally is going to get traction.

Make that a National Review story about Al Jazeera English, the Quatari network that is, as Breitbart News puts it “the proverbial tree in a forest no one hears fall.”

Until now. Al Jiz America has lately been leaking internal emails like the Titanic did seawater. A new one shows management has banned its reporters’ use of the words terrorist, Islamist and jihad in most cases.

Banning words is a characteristic of a third-rate news organization. Nice to have that cleared up.

Via National Review Online.

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Toonophobia

Posted on January 24, 2015 | 3 comments

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Mockery is one of the best weapons against these creeps. This one is eight years old. Obviously nothing has changed on this score. They’re still insane.

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Peas meet pod: State of the Union and Oscars

Posted on January 20, 2015 | 4 comments

“In Hollywood, people who can’t stand each other pretend to like each other. In Washington, people who like each other pretend they can’t stand each other. In both cases, the goal is to keep the public in the dark about what’s really going on.”

Via Gay Patriot

UPDATE:  Our one-trick pony president wants “more entitlements, taxes and unemployment” while setting the table for the Hildabeast in 2016. One of every six men unemployed ain’t enough for them.

As the WSJ puts it (behind a firewall): “The President has suddenly discovered that middle-class incomes have plunged on his watch, and he’s demanding that Congress address this with more of the same policies that have done so much to reduce middle-class incomes.”

This time a Republican congress may thwart him. May thwart him. Too many of them are just like him. There’s hope, however, in the likes of  Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. The Democrat media already is trying to turn her into a joke.

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That federal warmest evah claim

Posted on January 16, 2015 | 2 comments

2014, we’re told today by NASA and NOAA, was the planet’s warmest year evah. (Er, make that “evah” since record-keeping began in—get this—1880.)

What we’re not told by the trumpets of the snooze media is that 2014 was the warmest year evah by the teeny-tiny measure of four one-hundredths of a degree.

Whoppingly warm, eh? Truly toasty, for sure.

And, at that tiny amount, very likely a measurement error.

Via Watts Up With That.

UPDATE:  From Joe D’Aleo at WeatherBell:  “We know there are significant differences urban versus rural, mountain versus valley, land versus water, forest versus grassland, etc.. Trying to create a dataset with one number representing the Global Average Temperatures is a daunting task…”

But not necessarily so hard when your aim is political to begin with.

Indeed, as Judith Curry at Climate Etc. put it on Jan. 20: “Naive scientist that I am, it didn’t occur to me until last night that the timing of the NASA/NOAA [news release] on warmest year was motivated by the timing of the President’s SOTU address…”

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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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