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Nev. Senator Hairy Reed is now going after - a fellow Democrat.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has launched a blistering verbal assault against William Magwood, a Democratic member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission nominated by President Obama, calling him a “liar,” a “first-class rat,” and a “s**t-stirrer.”

Reid, in an interview with The Huffington Post, also calls Magwood a “tool of the nuclear industry” and says he’s “unethical” and “incompetent.”

It's always interesting when they start eating their own. Magwood, after all, sounds from Reed's description like the ideal Democrat: "unethical" and "incompetent". What more can Hairy ask?

On the other hand, there's Mike Johanns (Rino-Neb.), who continues to back conversion of food into biofool despite the toll of drought in the heartland. It's probably time to move the Senator out to pasture.

The Nebraska Cattlemen want the ethanol mandate removed to create what its members see as fairer competition for tight corn supplies.

But Johanns’ Democratic counterpart, Ben Nelson, also issued a statement Thursday afternoon calling EPA adjustment of the Renewable Fuels Standard “the wrong approach.”

 

The Gutless Wonder

According to a new book by Richard Minter that leans heavily upon inside sources, we elected a woman as President: Valerie Jarrett prevailed upon Barky to cancel kill missions targeting Osama bin Laden in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. When SEAL Team 6 was finally given the go, it was lauded (and is still in some circles today) as a "gutsy move".

Also, when it came to his "signature health care bill" Barky had other things to do - the main impetus reportedly came from Nanny Pelosi.

Our media are busy, however: busy portraying Mittens as a bumbling fool who pissed off the Brits by mentioning security issues at the Olympics and then pissed off the Palestinians by mentioning that their cultural differences make them less successful than the Israelis.

On the Palestinians: who cares? Even their fellow Arabs don't like them, and Mitt's statement happens to be on the mark.

On the Brit security issues: even American media showed a woman marching with the India team - a woman who wasn't supposed to be there. And today, it's been reported that somebody lost a set of keys to Wembley Stadium, which hosts the soccer Games.

For those keeping score: Mittens - 2, US media and Democrats - 0.

Jealous And Ironic

While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers, found guilty on ten counts and sentenced to five years in prison for each count, is being permitted to serve the sentences concurrently - so, only five years in prison. Remarkably, the lamestream media has not devoted so much as a second of air-time nor a word in print to the story, despite the implications of the woman's conduct. Oh, right - to do so would be racist. Can't have that, so political correctness trumps truth.

She was previously sentenced to prison for check fraud, and during that hearing, she claimed that she was a victim of "powerful whites trying to silence her". She's a piece of work, and her latest terms should have required consecutive prison time. Fifty years sounds about right.

Local "Science Writer" Suffers Head Explosion

Anthony Watts et al have distributed a paper, presently to be submitted for publication, which discredits much of the temperature data gathered via the USGHCN and BEST networks as a result of station location and upward "adjustment" of those data by NOAA. Although the results bring finally reconciles land data with ocean data and satellite data, it makes local "science writer", David Afpel's head explode.

Afpel obviously knows far more about climate science than fools like Anthony Watts of California, Evan Jones of New York, Stephen McIntyre of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. John R. Christy from the Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama, Huntsville. Afpel, after all,is one of the local high priests of the Religion of Man-Made Global Warming. That these fools would dare release contradictory data is a grievance of the same order of magnitude as a relative of L. Ron Hubbard referring to him as a con man and referring to Scientology as rubbish.

It simply can't be tolerated, and Afpel is quick to denounce Watts et al as hypocrites, and the science as dead wrong:

Satellite measurements almost completely avoid the urban heat island problem. 

Then, of course, there is the rank hypocrisy.

Afpel has never been able to deal in facts, and has been banned from blogs throughout the Northwest for his inability to discuss issues intelligently, without resort to personal attacks.

David Appell says:
June 29, 2011 at 6:44 pm

Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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Nailed it. As Anthony points out, this is what he  

does…as do most alarmists.

Create a strawman, and then set out to 

show how wrong people are by 

inadequately responding to the strawman. 

 

Nanny Bloomie Goes After Moms

This idiot just won't stop. He's an expert on everything. He knows breast, so shut up.

Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed.

Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation.

Bureaucratese

Most public agencies these days, prior to throwing your money into one pet project or another, bray about the importance of "public input" with "stakeholders". What this means is that somebody holds a stake while bureaucrats pound it into your wallet.

"Public input" is something to be carefully managed, in order to achieve the outcome desired by the bureaucrats, and so months of strategy sessions are held prior to implementation of the "public input" cycle. Questions to be used in "surveys" to assess "public input" are carefully phrased in order to direct the rubes to the desired outcome. Following is a typical example of the "public input process":

Once everyone is gathered into the meeting, they often hand out "surveys" with questions grouped under several categories. Rubes answer by indicating importance on a scale of 1 to 5, or perhaps 1 to ten, where higher numbers are indicative of greater support.

Category: "People":

1) How important to you is it for your community to have education and training opportunities?

2) How important to you is it for your community to have transportation options, including walking, biking, transit and driving?

3) How important to you is it for your community to have clean and plentiful water, air, soil, and food?

4) How important to you is it is it that people in your community are able to lead physically and mentally healthy lifestyles?

 

Next Category: "Places"

1) How important to you is it that infrastructure, housing and transportation investments in your community are coordinated?

2) How important to you is it that ecosystems, working landscapes, parks, and open spaces are preserved in your community?

3) How important to you is it that your community has a range of quality housing choices that meet the needs and preferences of all residents?

4) How important to you is it that natural resources in your community are efficiently used, reused, and conserved?

 

Next Category: "Prosperity"

1) How important to you is it that your community has a skilled workforce and an adaptable, resilient, and diverse economy?

2) How important to you is it that your community has job opportunities that support a good quality of life and financial stability?

3) How important to you is it that your community's transportation infrastructure can move goods and connect the region to other global destinations?

4) How important to you is it that your community retains its unique character by embracing its multicultural, historical and natural assets?

 

Now, the rubes are broken into small groups, each steered by a "facilitator" who may ask each rube for a single-word description of what sustainability means to him or her. Generally, they'll have a definition printed up on a dry-erase board, just in case one of the rubes gets the idea of straying off the reservation.

The above is an accurate depiction of the process of "gathering public input". It's part of the Twit 101 curriculum as taught at Portland State University and other development agencies around the country. Rubes are to be drawn into the correct path by constant repetition of the mantra "your community" - when in fact the plan is to wrest control away from the rubes and re-make "their community" to an "acceptable" bureaucratic standard.

An important aspect of this propaganda effort involves failure to define terms. Who could be against educational opportunities, transportation options, or clean water? What, exactly, is a "physically and mentally healthy lifestyle"? Who, exactly, does the "investments" and who "coordinates" them? What is a "working landscape"? Why should you "embrace multiculturalism"? 

Gee, that latter has really worked out well in, say, France.

It's worth noting that the Portland-area regional government now known as Metro - which conducts a lot of these guided "public input" meetings for the rubes - featured for many years the tagline, "People. Places. Open Spaces." Look above, and see if any of that strikes you as familiar.

Don't fall for it.

 

The Little City That Works (You Over)

Increasingly, it appears that the little city of Astoria, at the nortwestern coast of Oregon, is trying to channel its larger cousin, Little Beruit (Portland). There's alway's something happening there, from turf brawls with the Clatsop County D.A. to efforts to ban legitimate activities. They even have a smallish streetcar! Doubtless, it won't be long before the city fathers and mothers are clamoring for their very own light rail line.

Immediately upon taking office, each public official there should be awarded one of these, to be worn at all times for the duration of their "service". They could probably use some pixie dust, as well.

Speaking of dust, the latest dust-up involves not a dirty cop, but a dirty fireman. Just like Portland! Although much more poorly executed than Portland's fireman Randy's shenanigans, as Randy hasn't yet been caught forging documents - as Astoria's deputy fire chief, Steve Straily, is alleged to have done. He resigned, though it will likely preclude him from obtaining similar work for the duration of his life.

He should move to Portland, where he can see first-hand how corruption is really done. Actually, he should have done that beforehand - if he'd taken a bit of time to learn from the masters, chances are that he'd still have his job.

The Great Drought

There's some good news coming out of the drought-stricken heartland: the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico is way smaller than normal; in fact, it's the fourth-smallest since measurements of the zones began in 1985. With not much growing going on, less fertilizer residues are leaching into the Mississippi River, which means less food for algae and other micro-critters out in the Gulf That means more oxygen for fish, crabs, shrimp, and other commercially-valuable species.

The drought will also likely cut into biofool production, much to the dismay of government geniuses who think it's a good idea to turn food into fuel.

Dichotomies

When Obama campaigned in Portland four years ago, it was claimed that 75,000 adoring fans jammed Waterfront Park for the event (most were probably just there to hear the free music, but hey). 

By contrast, Glenn Beck held an event in Arlington, TX. yesterday, and here's how CBS reported it:

ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM)- More than 65,000 people filled Cowboys Stadium to see one of the most polarizing figures in America: Glenn Beck.

One of the most polarizing figures? What, exactly, does that mean? Is Beck more "polarizing" than professional race-baiters like Jesse, Jeremiah, Al, and Big Louis? More polarizing than Barky and MO? Consider their repetitious messages of bigotry and envy, and contrast them with Beck's:

Back inside the stadium, Beck supporters did the wave, sang the Star-Spangled Banner and cheered when Beck welcomed them all to the “Republic of Texas.”

In his welcoming message, he encouraged his supporters to have faith, hope and perform charity.

“The courage to stand up for what you believe in and to stand in support of those things we find dear and sacred,” he said.

Ominous Horizons

"Homeland Security" is rushing to gear up for "civil unrest" ahead of the elections - now 100 days off. They're in such a hurry to procure riot helmets, thigh and groin protectors, hard-shell shin guards and other riot gear that they're giving suppliers one day to respond to the RFP and requiring delivery in 15 days.

They also have ordered 450 million .40 cal. hollowpoint rounds. In view of the fact that we have the military to deal with external threats and that DHS exists solely to address internal threats, it appears as though they view essentially everyone in the country as a potential threat.

Last Wednesday, DHS head Big Sis Napolitano revealed plans to deploy spy drones for "public safety", dsepite public concerns over privacy and the growing flap over EPA's alleged use of drones to spy on farmers and ranchers.

And this morning, one of our most conservative Supreme Court Justices stated that the Second Amendment is not inviolable:

Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the Supreme Court's most vocal and conservative justices, said on Sunday that the Second Amendment leaves room for U.S. legislatures to regulate guns, including menacing hand-held weapons.

"It will have to be decided in future cases," Scalia said on Fox News Sunday. But there were legal precedents from the days of the Founding Fathers that banned frightening weapons which a constitutional originalist like himself must recognize. There were also "locational limitations" on where weapons could be carried, the justice noted.

And all the while, the U.N.'s Agenda 21 is being gleefully implemented by "progressive" politicians and their hordes of bureaucrats. Their LOST treaty may have been stopped in its tracks this time around by bipartisan Senate refusal to ratify, but it will - as Arnold famously said in the movie, Terminator - be back.

The level of corruption and arrogance within the Obama administration and its myriad agencies is breath-taking in its scope: who would ever have thought that a US Attorney General would participate in a murderous gun-running operation - and two years after its discovery, remain unincarcerated? Given what we know about DoJ, it seems overly optimistic to believe that, in light of recent events, the intentions of the folks at DHS are pure.