Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Cost Of Global Warming? $515 Billion. Per Year

Time to pony up, True Believers. If you want it, you need to buy it Clean energy investments of $515 billion per year is needed between now and 2030 or carbon emissions will reach levels deemed unsustainable by scientists. That is at least the conclusion participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland make. […]

Obama Wants Pentagon Budget Cut 10%

This should make America’s enemies happy, including the American Left: Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent — about $55 billion — a senior U.S. defense official […]

Michael Steele New RNC Chairman, Complete With Moonbattery

Unsurprisingly, CNN only found this to be a minor sidebar story, part of their Political Ticker, encompassing a whopping 6 paragraphs Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first-ever African-American party chief on Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six rounds of tumultuous balloting. I roused myself […]

Famous Paintings Get The Star Wars Treatment

Cool Click it for full size, and check the rest in the photoshop contest.

AGW Today: What’s The Punch Line?

From the world of AGW, Even left now laughing at global warming So-called “global warming” has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It’s hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won’t cooperate: Nearly four inches of snow blanketed the […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: Forced To be Bipartisan?

The Surrender Monkey is quite sure that Jonah Goldberg is feeling quite vindicated at this moment Senator Judd Gregg awoke to the bad news on Thursday morning that a coalition of Democratic groups had planned to run television advertisements in his state to pressure him to support President Obama’s economic recovery plan. Mr. Gregg, a […]

Are You Ready For The Obama Sex Doll?

Hot on the heels of the Obama dildo, here it comes!!!! (probably not safe for coworkers to see. No nudity, but, yeah, the corporate IT admins might have a fit.) OK, that one is a joke, but, um, this one isn’t Topco Sales introduces an inflatable sex doll dubbed ‘This is Not Sarah Palin Inflatable […]

Obama: Do As I Say, Not As I Do, On The Climate Crisis

‘Memba this? “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added. Yeah, well, that was back in […]

Illegal Immigration Today: Remittance and The Fence

Good news all around For the first time in more than a decade, the amount of money sent back to Mexico from migrants living in the U.S. has dropped. Remittances are Mexico’s second largest source of foreign income after oil. They fell off by more than 3.5% in 2008 to $25 billion. Still too much, […]

Nanny City Declares War On Salt

Let’s see. Liberals complain about calling the War on Terror the War on Terror because terror is just too esoteric an idea. But, I suppose having a War on Salt is A-OK Singer Jimmy Buffett will never find his “lost shaker of salt” in New York City or any other place in the country if […]

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