The Myrmidons vote

Not a brain among them!

If you think this will help the economy…

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This is for a particular commenter who has made another appearance here once more.

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

Boston (MA) - Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man’s contributions.

Oh dear, that nasty old sow, Mother Nature, is screwing with man again. Nothing like a poke in the eye with a sharp bit of manmade hubris, is there now.

Methane - powerful greenhouse gas

The two lead authors of a paper published in this week’s Geophysical Review Letters, Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, state that as a result of the increase, several million tons of new methane is present in the atmosphere. [snip]

Ohmigod! No cow can poot that much, must be Gore running that gianormous houseboat and the Hollyweird swells jetting off to Europe. All those big mouths belching CO2 and farting at those parties did it.

More study
[snip]
…Where does one even begin? And how relevant are any of the data findings at this late date? Looking back over 2007 data as it was captured may prove as ineffective if the data does not support the high resolution details such a study requires.

One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to get a handle on the big picture of global warming. Findings like these tell us it’s too early to know for sure if man’s impact is affecting things at the political cry of “alarming rates.” We may simply be going through another natural cycle of warmer and colder times - one that’s been observed through a scientific analysis of the Earth to be naturally occurring for hundreds of thousands of years. [snip]

So, that was only an acorn falling from the tree and not the sky.
Global warming BUNGHOLES.

Not often you see them this big!

No, I didn’t get the photos mixed up!

DNC centerfold porn!

Dutch abortion ship sparks controversy in Spain

A Spanish pro-life group said it plans to protest the arrival on Thursday of a Dutch boat that is offering to provide abortions that circumvent Spain’s strict laws.
The boat is due to anchor off the Mediterranean port of Valencia, the Dutch non-profit organisation Women on Waves said on its web site. [snip]
Spain decriminalised abortion in 1985 but only for certain cases: up to 12 weeks of pregnancy after a rape; up to 22 weeks in the case of malformation of the foetus; and at any point if the pregnancy represents a threat to the physical or mental health of the woman.
[snip]
The Women on Waves ship visited Ireland in 2001, Poland in 2003 and Portugal in 2004, sparking protests in each country.

I’ve always wondered why the right became upset over the issue of abortion (except for their moral position). As hard as it might be on their conscience, they should encourage the liberals to increase participation in the activity; it does hasten their extinction.
Another incongruity that exists is the law for which Obama voted, allowing babies that survive abortions to die on a table in a corner.
Yet, we prosecute a teen that births and abandons a newborn to die for manslaughter at the minimum. At least the Illinois Legislature had the good sense not to pass that inhumane bill.
Could you imagine the bark from the libs if we delivered this treatment to Pookie or Fluffy? The ACLU and the Humane Society would have collective strokes.

The latest meme being pushed by the media elite is that Republicans are angry and that this is somehow unheard of in presidential campaigns.

There were shouts of “Nobama” and “Socialist” at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee. There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday for a midday town hall gathering featuring John McCain and Sarah Palin.

[snip]

In recent days, a campaign that embraced the mantra of “Country First” but is flagging in the polls and scrambling for a way to close the gap as the nation’s economy slides into shambles has found itself at the center of an outpouring of raw emotion rare in a presidential race.

I’m shocked, absolutely shocked!

Who would have thought that McCain/Palin supporters think Obama is a socialist and that the biased mainstream media is for all intents and purposes the enemy.

Isn’t it funny how you never see media reports about all the moonbats comparing Bush to Hitler or spouting their insane September 11th conspiracies. Since the media ignores them, I’ll just repost one picture from a protest during the 2004 election.

I’ll take our angry republicans over their moonbats any day.

Right Wing Nut House has more here, including this:

I can’t tell you how much contempt I have for the Post and other media outlets who have been pushing this meme – that it is somehow dangerous, or racist, or indicative of something horribly ugly in the mindset of GOP supporters to show strong emotion at the mention of Obama. Not when similiar outbursts happen at Democratic rallies. Not when Democratic party partisans on the internet and elsewhere have whipped up a frenzy of hate against John McCain.

Has there ever been someone who screamed out about McCain “Kill him!” at an Obama rally? We don’t know because the idea that the press would report what one, lone, idiot shouts out at a rally of thousands is ludicrous – except if it is a McCain rally and then it becomes front page news.

Update: Stephen Hayes finds “unhinged democrats”. At least that is how the media would describe them if they were republicans.

Finally, it is possible to pay the entire state of Vermont a livable wage and pay for it. Some rather sharp changes will be necessary, but nothing that cannot be accomplished and all of it good for the community’s social structure.

We have this assessment which I’ll use as Colin Robinson toiled over it for some time:

…Colin Robinson, director of the Vermont Livable Wage Campaign, struggled to pinpoint an income level that made someone rich.

‘Splains it about right!

North Texas school district will let teachers carry guns

HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.

Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.

In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.

Superintendent David Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. (emphasis added) [snip]

Harrold Independent School District, http://harroldisd.net/

Doesn’t this sound as if the district had a bowl of smarts for breakfast. This school now moves to the list of places that are very very low on the shoot-em-up list: gun stores, shooting ranges, police stations and my house.

…government started making schools gun-free zones… Yeah, sacrifice a few kids, then start screaming for gun control. More kids shot, start frothing at the mouth, the moonbat pols join in the fray. No means to an end is too extreme; ask Putin, Soros or Kos. Logic never rules an argument on that side.

First on Drudge on Aug 15^th, let us see if the MSM reports this anywhere.

Barack Obama held a Boston birthday bash.  At $15,000 a head, I hope the champagne wasn’t Korbel.  But just incase you had the wrong idea about the man of the people, he provided a nice area for the rest of us:

The Carbon Curtain

What we really need from the climate modelers is an accurate 50-year projection of global politics.

[snip]
A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun’s output and currents in the Pacific Ocean. Their theory leaves true believers in carbon catastrophe livid.

To judge by actions, not words, the carbon-warming view hasn’t come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe’s coal consumption is rising, not falling, and the Continent won’t come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. [snip]

Not by coincidence, the carbon curtain tracks a schism between stagnation and growth. The lethargy side includes the American Northeast and upper Midwest, the European Union, Japan and eastern Canada. The high-growth states, provinces and nations are the ones embracing the development of domestic fuels, the construction of power plants and transmission lines, the import of fuels and technologies needed for enterprise and economic growth and the export of fuels and technologies to like-minded partners. They have nothing against energy efficiency and renewables; they just don’t focus on them much.

Uranium is the only carbon-free fuel liked by fast-growing nations. Some 439 nuclear power plants are currently operating in 31 countries. China plans to build another 100 for itself in the next 20 years. By 2020 or so a new reactor will be starting up somewhere in the world every five to six days, compared with one every 17 days in the 1980s. China is building coal and nuclear plants in Pakistan, and Russia in Iran, Bulgaria and India.

No serious student of global politics can accept the notion that the world will soon join ranks behind Brussels, Washington and the gloomy computer and its minders. Dar is surely right when he says, “The U.S. and Japan will not tell Asia and Africa to choose poverty, disease, hunger and illiteracy over electricity.” [snip]

So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another bag lady muttering away to herself in a lonely corner of the intellectual park? That the computer is heard in Hollywood, Stockholm, Brussels and even some parts of Washington is quite beside the point–they have far less global power and influence than they vainly imagine. Vinod Dar is right: “Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris.” (emphasis added)

This gets the BIG AMEN.

Question: If China has a nuclear meltdown, will they call it “The American Syndrome?” Do you think they care? LMAO

You have to hand it to the MA state legislature.  The boys and girls on Beacon Hill have their finger on the pulse of critical issues affecting the electorate.  Praise be that pet rentals are now outlawed in the Commonwealth.  Let’s celebrate with another round of business killing, job slowing “loophole” closures, so more people can move out of state.

For those to young, the youtube will give you the original depiction by Ernie Kovacs. The art is really…

Gore sets ‘moon shot’ goal on climate change

[snip]…Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. [snip]

Here Gore peers out at his small gathering of moonbats as he drones on about his megalomania.

Rarefied atmosphere in which he lives.

One-year-old racists are the scourge of civilization.

Claim: Kids who say ‘yuck’ may be racist

Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.

The London-based National Children’s Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.

[snip]

The bureau says to be aware of children who “react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying ‘yuck’.”

[snip]

Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.

Kind of hard to respond to this level of moronic thought, isn’t it. The planet is in more danger from the oxygen use by this bunch than any global threat.

Who are these speculators?

All those speculators getting the blame for driving up the price of oil these days — just who are they? [snip]

You!

The retirement savings of workers across the country, entrusted to pension fund managers, are being plowed into one of the few investments that has delivered phenomenal returns in recent years. [snip]

This provides a tremendous return on investment, but it contains a great risk too. At the moment, it is all upside.