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The March Of The Penguin

AlGore has emerged to pontificate once again upon the critical emergency that threatens his bank account our idyllic planet.  As noted over at Newsbusters, the world will end, and Fox News is to blame.

• Record winter storms and revelations of warmist fraud notwithstanding, we "face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

• Unfortunately, "television" has replaced newspapers as the dominant medium.  And "television" serves as the tool of powerful forces favoring "unrestrained markets" and opposing regulatory "reform." 

This is why AlGore took his song and dance to dvd - which, after all, requires a television, monitor, or similar carbon-spewing device in order to view the content.  He certainly wouldn't have won any awards by publishing in a print medium.

But while he pontificates now in the pages of The New York Times, glossing over the multiple instances of fraud pushed by Warmists, The Telegraph notes that the errors of the IPCC's report - which AlGore defends as insignificant - are not incidental, but fundamental.

Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.

All these alarms were given special prominence in the IPCC's 2007 report and each of them has now been shown to be based, not on hard evidence, but on scare stories, derived not from proper scientists but from environmental activists. Those glaciers are not vanishing; the damage to the rainforest is not from climate change but logging and agriculture; African crop yields are more likely to increase than diminish; the modest rise in sea levels is slowing not accelerating; hurricane activity is lower than it was 60 years ago; droughts were more frequent in the past; there has been no increase in floods or heatwaves.

Bipartisanship!

Nanny Pelosi said today that Republicans have had plenty of opportunities to make their voices heard on the health care bill, and noted that a bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes.  We're living in the world described in the short book, "Animal Farm". 

 These folks are so used to lying that they believe they're being honest.

Obamanation

The Organizing for America unit that BO assembled has launched a new tactic: since liberal talk radio doesn't work, they're going to try to flood conservative talk radio.  They've recognized that Airhead America and other lib-talk venues fail miserably, so they're trying to organize call-ins to conservative radio, with talking points provided.  That won't work either, but it's no surprise.  Nothing (aside from campaigning) that BO does ever works.

Can You Not Get Rid Of This Guy?

Really, Washingtonians, Jim is a stain on the US Congress.  When do you finally get around to saying enough is enough, and vote this dork out of office?  Most folks would be embarrassed to have this idiot as a Representative.

Republicans stopped a provision that establishes criminal penalties for CIA officers that use cruel, inhuman or degrading interrogation methods from making it into the Intelligence bill passed Friday — but the leading Republican on the House intelligence committee said that provision is hardly dead.

“This is not the last time we’ll see the McDermott stuff,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra told The Daily Caller of the legislation authored by Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott. “It will come back. They will find every way that they can to make it law.”

Hoekstra said Pelosi and Reyes are “politically tone deaf to the concerns of career CIA and intelligence folks,” even though they say, “We support the CIA, we support the people on the field.”

“It’s kinda like no you don’t. If you did, you wouldn’t put this crap in there,” Hoekstra said.

Hoekstra said he can see some problems with the legislation that stipulates that interrogators can’t do anything offensive to the suspect’s religion.

“If you’re a Muslim terrorist being interrogated by a woman who’s not veiled, maybe that’s offensive to their religion,” he said. “If you’re a Jew interrogating a Muslim terrorist, they may be offensive. Muslims do not see Christians and Jews as being their equivalent. They see them as being inferior. So being questioned by someone who is inferior may be offensive to them.”

 

The Most Ethical Congress in the History of the Country

That's what Nanny claims, and she's darn proud of it.  Never mind Charlie.

When a reporter prefaced a question about Rangel by noting that Pelosi had promised to run the "most ethical and honest Congress in history" she interrupted him to say: "And we are." 

Yep.  Transparency, and all that.

Latest Ally in the War On Terror

Oh, right.  We don't call it that any more.  I forget what the latest name is.

  Anyway, the idea is to use cockroaches.  No, really.  Remote-controlled cockroaches armed with sensors capable of transmitting findings back using a small low-voltage communications system.  “Cockroaches really are the perfect medium for this,” says William Charlton, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the university and a principal investigator on the project. “They can go for extraordinarily long periods of time without food. They exist on every continent except Antarctica. They’re very radiation resistant, and they can carry extremely large amounts of weight compared to their body mass.”

Bad Gardener!

A nine-year-old kid, working with her mother in the garden, uncovered a coin.  Not just any coin.  This one is around 700 years old, as any nine-year-old girl should have known.  She kept it as a memento.  This was Very Bad.

Now 23, she has become the first person convicted of failing to hand over "treasure" to the British government.  Don't the Brits understand the whole "finders keepers" concept?  It's nice to see that the Brits have solved all of their other problems, and can now devote their efforts to such noble pursuits.

Emotional Orca Show

According to ABC, Emotional Orca Show Marks 1st since Trainer Killed. That must have been interesting, as Orcas are generally pretty unemotional.  As predicted, however, SeaWorld was really quick to restart the shows, and they have announced that the animal now responsible for two deaths will continue to perform.  It's worth noting again that following the death of a "trainer" in Canada, SeaWorld was able to purchase the whale on the cheap, with the understanding that he would be used strictly for breeding purposes. That SeaWorld clearly failed to abide by the terms of the purchase agreement, leading directly to the death of a second "trainer", indicates where the priorities of management lie: lives are simply less important than dollars.

At SeaWorld, management is no more emotional than the Orcas themselves.  Naturally, blame for the death is now being placed upon the "trainer".  And while in part, that is clearly true, the fact remains that managers at SeaWorld made several deliberate decisions in order to enhance the bottom line:  they insisted upon incorporating an animal with known behavior issues into their entertainment lineup.  Moreover, a cursory glance at the video demonstrates that "trainers" are little more than actors:  they are bubbly, lively entertainers.  Ms. Brancheau shakes her upper body from side to side, ponytail flying. and prances about the platform prior to being yanked into the water and shaken from side to side.

She's not reading the animal; indeed, she seems only peripherally aware of it.  She's busy putting on a show, which is what management at SeaWorld not only expect, but demand.  An actual animal trainer reads the animal, step by step - and if something isn't quite right, a trainer backs off and implements a backup strategy.  A performer lacks that set of skills, and at SeaWorld, we see the result of labeling a performer as a trainer.

Not only was Ms. Brancheau's death needless, it was precipitated by decisions enacted by the brain-trust that is SeaWorld management. 

Unlike BoJack, Jim Puts On Running Shoes

How interesting!  Lewis and Clark law professor Jim Huffman plans to officially announce his candidacy for Ron Wyden's U.S. Senate seat in just a few days.  While the tax law perfesser Bogdanski sits on his butt and blogs, one of his peers at the hallowed institution is lacing up.

And Huffman brings some great baggage to the race (rummaging around) - like credibility.  The Ron Wyden/Gordon Smith tag-team was fairly effective, because both are "progressives".  The Wyden/Merkeley team hasn't managed much. 

Wyden, of course, has a significant advantage due to name recognition.  At present, he holds a 14% lead over a candidate who hasn't officially announced his bid.  Suddenly, that advantage seems somewhat less significant.

I like Huffman's view:  “The Jim Huffman campaign will be about the PEOPLE OF OREGON who are struggling while an out of touch political class uses the economic crisis to grab power and enrich their special interest patrons. The grass roots will be a huge part of this campaign, and so it is vital that we show up in force to support Jim in his kickoff,”.

Fools!

Do you not realize that the planet is in danger and It's All Your Fault?