Climate Change
No, I’m not talking about “climate change”, though President Obama’s speech to the UN on the subject had some glaring and easily verifiable falsehoods. Instead, I’m talking about “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS), a well-known and well-established form of child death that results in about 200 murder/manslaughter convictions each year here in the United States. I [...]
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It’s been cold and drizzling all morning. Now it’s snowing. Heavily. For well over an hour now. I’ll post photos and videos as soon as I can. Mind you, we don’t live up in the Rockies — we live south and east of Denver. We are, however, several hundred feet higher than downtown Denver. ..bruce [...]
Sandra and I are sitting here in the DC Armory, a venerable (not aging well) structure out by RFK Stadium. This is where this morning’s kickoff meeting for the 9/12 Taxpayer March on the Capitol is taking place. This meeting is only for the truly committed. First, it’s taking place Thursday morning, even though the [...]
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The Obama/Joker image (above) was just the start. Combined with the “fishy e-mail” snitching request on the White House blog — a request of dubious legality and unquestionable bad taste — there are more images and videos coming out of the woodwork. The Obama/Joker poster above may have been inspired by this one from last [...]
Scientific minds will note that there are some interesting things going on at the intersection of climate science and economics. With an ongoing global recession, industrial production and output is down between 5% and 15% across the developed and industrialized world. For example United States: -6.3% Canada: -5.4% Russia: -7.9% Germany: -3.8% United Kingdom: -4.9% [...]
Hat tip to my long time friend Wayne de Geere for sharing this one. It sums up my outlook on people’s fear of climate change. For more entertainment on this subject, you can check out their blog, Minnesotans For Global Warming.
MORNING LINKS — such as they are ITEM: Warmists are realizing that when you’re losing the data debate, the scientific debate and the popular debate — you should just change the terms of the debate! The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.” The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired [...]
MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low [...]
[For those coming in from Ace of Spaces, here's the link to the "Atlas Shrugged" review] MORNING LINKS Item: I swapped e-mails this week with “S. Weasel” who runs one of my favorite blogs. She and her significant other (now husband) recently moved to England; she loves it there, but in her e-mail to me, [...]
[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit): MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a [...]