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Anniversary of Chappaquiddick

WMD Maker reminded me that today marks the 39th anniversary of Ted Kennedrunk getting away with vehicular manslaughter (and worse).

Mary Ko Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | Kennedrunk | 6 Comments

NPR: Bad economy starves morbidly obese folks

If this had been on NPR’s subsidized TV sister PBS, the hilarity factor would have been off the charts!  Instead, their listeners (both of them) had endure this tear-jerker (hat tip Moonbattery):

A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez’s family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver’s education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

Nunez’s van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.

Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.
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The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

I hate to sound like a heartless jerk , but does it look like these two are going to die of malnutrition anytime soon?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 18, 2008 Posted by | media bias | 11 Comments

“Proved: There is no climate crisis”

That’s the title of a report by the Science and Public Policy Institute, a title that merely confirms what we’ve known all along.  Excerpt:

Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports.

Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.

Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. …

Gore and his cronies on the IPCC won their Nobel “Peace” Prize under fraudulent circumstances.  Normally, a little anti-Americanism is enough to win that formerly prestigious award.  He could have done like Jimmah and merely spouted a little anti-American drivel, and saved himself the trouble of peddling discredited junk science fads.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 3 Comments

California’s economic ignorance exacerbates its fiscal problem, leads to humiliation

Californiastan, the socialist mecca on the Left Coast, seems to come up with a brilliant plan every year when they face a budget shortfall: raise taxes on the rich.  As a result, the “rich” (i.e. those earning more than $100k) are fleeing CA by the droves.

This WSJ column points out how CA’s Marxist approach is exacerbating its problems in the real estate sector, government sector, etc.  But how about adding this insult to injury?

Then last week Toyota announced it is canceling plans to build its new Prius hybrid at its plant in the San Francisco Bay area because of the high tax and regulatory costs. Adding to the humiliation is that Toyota will now take this investment and about 1,000 jobs to a more progressive and pro-business state: Mississippi.

Ouch!  Let that sink in for a moment.  The granola-eating, treehugging, burlap-wearing, incense-burning, unemployable, Gaia-worshipping earth muffins from Californiastan just saw a cause near and dear to their hearts get outsourced to Mississippi…because in terms of business, Mississippi is more progressive!  :lol:

Alas, the citizens of CA won’t learn their lessons anytime soon.  They will continue to keep putting class envy economic illiterates in power, until their state finally collapses under the weight of horrid fiscal management policies.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | California, economic ignorance, socialism, taxes | 8 Comments

UPDATE: Gore’s solution to energy crisis is…to create an economic crisis

UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM.

To think that this numbnuts came within a gnat’s rump of getting into the Oval Office!  From his sycophants at the Guardian:

He shied away from specifics during the speech, not mentioning the trillion-dollar price tag of ending carbon-based electricity. Instead, Gore urged the US to institute a carbon tax that could be offset by reducing the payroll tax on employers.

“We should tax what we burn, not what we earn,” he said.  (So he’s in favor of ending the income tax?  Somehow, I doubt it. – Ed.)

Move over, Jesse, because a new slogan master is emerging…minus the castration threats and N-bombs, of course!

If Gore wants a carbon tax, someone needs to break it to him that his big #ss carbon footprint is going to net him a gi-normous tax bill.  I’m pretty sure that limousine liberal hypocritical windbag will have no trouble affording it, though.

UPDATE (07/18/2008 – 07:37 AM EST):  Americans for Prosperity were there at Big Al’s “let’s trash the economy and go back to Mother Gaia’s preferred mode of travel, rikshaws, for public transportation” speech.  They have a video here of the Goron and his entourage driving Priuses and bikes…NOT!  Try two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV…leaving the engine running (and the AC cranked up) for over 20 minutes!

July 18, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, global warming, Gore, hypocrisy, taxes | 7 Comments

Quote of the day

Read this excellent column by Charles Krauthammer about Barry O, entitled “The Audacity of Vanity”.  Here’s my favorite excerpt:

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

Indeed…and his groupies in the MSM are eating it up.  I haven’t seen this kind of MSM love since Bubba ran back in 1992.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | Obama, quote of the day | 3 Comments

AP: McCain a hypocrite for blasting Social Security, yet gets paid from it

This news “story” reads more like an editorial from their leftist writers.  From AP:

Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security “a disgrace,” he still cashes his own retirement check every month.

The dude has paid into the system from Day One, so why in the world shouldn’t he receive it?  Does the AP really want to run with that line of thinking?  OK.  Game on.

From NRO’s Media Blog:

Although Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama calls Washington broken, he still cashes his own Senate check every month. 

From Allah:

If you’re looking for financial interests that contradict reform rhetoric, forget his congressional salary, which is a mere few hundred thousand. Let’s talk about a few hundred million. 

Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 18, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Social Security | Leave a Comment

   

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