Category Archives: Scribbles

Faulty climate models

Al Gore, call your office. Seems those allegedly "indisputable" climate forecast models lack a reliable estimate of the soil’s significant (but very slow) contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide. Meaning global warming predictions are overestimated.

Via Hot Air.

MORE GLOBAL WARMING DEBUNKING: From, of all places, the U.S. Senate. 

The first crook

Or, rather, the first facillitator of crooks: Barry’s apparent nominee for attorney general. Eric Holder, Slick Willie’s pardon-adviser. Well, he is black, and all that.

Eco-liar

"The Governor of California has just said that the US is the greatest polluter in the world, which is manifestly untrue on any level."

In politics, distraction is always good. For the politician. Keep your eye on the moving pea.

Diversity run amok

Folks who think today’s politics are particularly vicious should read up on their American history. For instance, once upon a time, especially during slavery days, a speech-giving white politician might suddenly be interrupted by a handful of black children paid by his opponent to rush at him yelling "Daddy! Daddy!"

Nowadays the old slanders are being put to new use. Diversity Inc. magazine is giving away a poster (for a $19.99 one-year subscription) claiming that Barry isn’t the first black president but merely joins Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge in the distinction. The proof? Black People and Their Place in World History, a littleknown self-published 2002 book by an amateur historian and professional eye doctor named Leroy Vaughn. Vaughn uses hearsay, mostly from the aforementioned presidents’ enemies, to claim they were of mixed race.

Which leads me to the inevitable comment: that Vaughn’s and Diversity Inc.’s claim is an obvious case of eyewash.

Possum up de Gum Tree

This traditional fiddler’s ditty is described as a "wild melody" in H.W. Brand’s 2005 book Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times, which I’m enjoying. It was apparently played for Jackson and his wife, Rachel, to dance to at one of several dinners held in their honor after the defeat of the British at New Orleans in 1814 1815.

Why a Detroit bailout will fail

"Total compensation per hour for the big-three carmakers is $73.20. That’s a 52 percent differential from Toyota’s $48 compensation (wages + health and retirement benefits). In fact, the oversized UAW-driven pay package for Detroit is 132 percent higher than that of the entire manufacturing sector of the U.S., which comes in at $31.59."
Not that a Democrat congress will be deterred from a bailout when their union voters are at stake.
Meanwhile, there are no less than ten new automaking startups daring the current economy. Wow.
UPDATE: What one Ford Focus drove its owner to do to save almost two thousand dollars in repairs.

Barack atah Illinois

Time for a little fractured Jewish prayer via Miss Celenia.