Category Archives: Current Affairs

AGW Consensus Dying Hard In Germany

A long letter from more than 60 German scientists and 189 concerned German citizens, via Climate Depot Grob Glienicke 26.07.09 To the attention of the Honorable Madam Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany When one studies history, one learns that the development of societies is often determined by a zeitgeist, which at times had detrimental or even […]

Change That Doesn’t Happen: Obama Continues Bush Illegals Policies

Oh, the pain at the New York Times today. They aren’t quite sure how to spin the story, but, they give it the old Manhattan cocktail circuit try After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration’s tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an […]

In Pain? Forget Pain Killing Shots Under Government Health Care

During the August recess, I’d love to have everyone ask their Congress Critters, at least Democrat ones, as they are leading the charge to a government run single payer health – using the word “care” just doesn’t seem right - system, one question, and make them answer: “how will this plan reduce costs?” I suspect that the […]

Tax Cheat Geithner Blows A Gasket At Regulators Meeting

Very interesting story regarding what Timmy Geithner did and said last Friday. Memeorandum picked up the Wall Street Journal version, but, I’m going to use the Reuters version because the on-line version of the WSJ story is a paid for one, so you can only get the first couple paragraphs (I did real the whole thing […]

Angry Constituents Harass Lloyd Doggett

Brain Dead Progress is all up in arms about the way Rep. Lloyd  Doggett (Defeatocrat-Tx) was treated by the people who pay his salary, in a piece entitled “Angry right harasses Rep. Lloyd Doggett with anti-health care chants.” So, when it was barking moonbats screaming on the streets for America to surrender in Iraq, to legalize […]

A Tale Of Two Nemesis’ During The August Recess

Or is that “nemisi?” Regardless, let’s see how the Republicans and Democrats will handle the health destruction debate during the August recess. I’ll skip through the New York Times article to see what the GOP will do first, and then I’ll highlight the Democrat strategy. You tell me which one will have the most problems, […]

Excitable Chucky Smears Anthony Watts

Just more evidence that Charles Johnson is neither a conservative nor interested in any truth, but is basically a smear merchant (witness more Nirther, Glenn Beck hatred, and BNP posts, BNP meant to smear Robert Spencer and Pam Geller, among others.) Here’s what Kid Icarus goes with The Video Anthony Watts Doesn’t Want You to […]

Say, About That Poll Where 28% Of GOPers Believer Barry Is Not A US Citizen….

Remember how The Politico headlined their story based on a Daily Kos (snicker)/Research 2000 poll? 58 percent of GOP not sure/doubt Obama born in US And the story A whopping 58 percent of Republicans either think Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US (28 percent) or aren’t sure (30 percent). A mere 42 percent think […]

Congress Critters Afraid Of Their Screaming Constituents

I wonder what could have caused this? (h/t Dr. Melissa Clouthier) Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress. On the eve of the August recess, members […]

Say, How’s That Infrastructure Spending Working Out?

Apparently, it is shovel ready, but, not for the bridges that actually need repair (why does “shovel ready” bring a farm like conotation to mind?) Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in […]

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