John on September 1, 2010
Here is Max Fisher deploring the politicization of the hostage taking: Lee, who police say may have explosives, has long protested the Discovery Channel building and has posted a crazed, rambling Internet “manifesto“, calling the human species the “most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around” and insisting that the Discovery Channel air his views. Though Lee is clearly sick, and though the hostage crisis is still ongoing as of this writing, [...]
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John on September 1, 2010
Update 2PM PST: It’s over. Police report that James Lee has been shot and his 3 hostages are free. They believe his explosive device may have gone off when he was shot. Update 2:55PM PST (Morgen): Lee’s Meetup page confirms he was an atheist: Hello. I’ve been in DC-MD for a few years now looking for some of that ‘change.’ I’m an Atheist and am extremely proud and open about [...]
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John on July 14, 2010
I wrote a post a couple days ago about a new DNC effort to tie Republicans to the BP oil spill using faux-pop posters with fake slogans. Eric at Free State Revolution saw the post and agreed that what was missing from the DNC’s rogues gallery was a poster for President Obama who is, after all, the #1 recipient of BP’s largesse. Since he does graphic arts work for a [...]
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John on July 2, 2010
I’m stealing this from Allahpundit at Hot Air because it’s a perfect follow up to yesterday’s post on this topic: Nice of CNN to notice though I will say that, given that this is the worst oil spill in world history, this issue isn’t getting half the play that Bush’s refusal to allow filming of coffins returning from Iraq got. It’s also very interesting to me that the media has [...]
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John on July 1, 2010
Rep. Issa’s report is here. Below are a few highlights… First, remember the “from day one” meme the White House tried to spread viat talk shows? Local officials strongly dispute President Obama’s insistence that the federal government – and not BP – has been in control since day one. One Coast Guard Admiral told congressional investigators that decisions on the ground are made through a “consensus-based” process with BP. In [...]
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John on June 30, 2010
This is one of those stories that seems to encapsulate a lot: Environmentalists will ask a judge Wednesday to issue a temporary restraining order in hopes of stopping the annual July 4th fireworks show in La Jolla.The Encinitas-based Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation sued the organizers of the La Jolla fireworks spectacle and others, saying it wants to reduce water pollution caused by pyrotechnics. Expect this to spread.
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Morgen on June 22, 2010
While the White House really, really wants you believe that they have their boot on the neck of BP, it turns out that a key Administration official had his head inserted somewhere else just three short years ago. Do you think NOBEL LAUREATE (and Secretary of Energy) Steven Chu still thinks BP is going to help save the world? This is one of the ironies of the disaster in the [...]
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John on June 20, 2010
It’s almost like they’re the same guy: BP’s chief executive went sailing in a glitzy race around the Isle of Wight, 4,500 miles away from the site of the spill off America’s south coast. [...] But at the same time, Mr Obama, who famously announced that he wanted to ‘kick ass’ over the disaster, was also accused of taking his eye off the ball by indulging in a leisurely five-hour [...]
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John on June 15, 2010
Moon-walking is a clever illusion in which a person appears to be moving forward while actually backsliding in the other direction. It was made famous (though not invented) by Michael Jackson. Last night as I listened to Obama’s 17 minute speech I heard a lot of verbal moon-walking. There were lots of vague platitudes and reassurance about a brighter day ahead even as the effort to collect oil in the [...]
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John on June 15, 2010
Anne Applebaum has a piece up today at the Washington Post headlined The Oil Spill Isn’t Obama’s Katrina. Here’s a sample: In the Gulf of Mexico, plumes of black oil are gushing into the ocean, coating the wings of seabirds, poisoning shellfish, sending tar balls rolling onto white Florida beaches. It is an ecological disaster. It is a economic nightmare. And there is absolutely nothing that the American president can [...]
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John on June 14, 2010
This is a presidential facepalm of the first order. From Roger Simon at Politico: The president also implied that anti-big government types such as tea party activists were being hypocritical on the issue. “Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some [...]
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John on June 11, 2010
From yesterday’s American Prospect: Once you consider the costs of extraction, depending on energy supplies from faraway sounds like a pretty good idea. Let someone else poison his country while you get to enjoy the finished products someplace not ruined by fossil fuels. Personally, I thought the flypaper strategy made sense. And I’ll just note that the NY Times, in a moment of weakness, agreed that it probably worked. But [...]
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John on June 8, 2010
From Der Spiegel, the Gulf spill is already double the size of the Valdez disaster with the end still probably months off: According to new estimates, more than twice as much oil has flowed into the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 days than was spilled from the oil tanker Exxon Valdez into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989. But where has all the oil gone? Relatively little has [...]
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John on May 4, 2010
Doug Ross has photos of Al Gore’s new $9 million dollar mansion. Here’s one: Click over for several more shots, including the interior. Let’s just say that Gore’s carbon footprint just became almost as ginormous as eco-crusader Sting’s.
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Morgen on March 16, 2010
From Bloomberg: The existing Clean Air Act “could enable us to include emissions trading” within agency regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists have linked to climate change, Anna Marie Wood, a senior policy analyst at the EPA, said at an event in Washington hosted by the American Bar Association. “We’re considering all that right now and thinking about what might make sense,” Wood said. While [...]
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John on March 4, 2010
NPR does a story on new research into ice loss in Antarctica. Lead scientist Jane Ferrigno had this to say: [audio:http://www.verumserum.com/media/2010/03/NPR-interview.mp3|titles=npr reports on Antarctic ice loss] RAZ: Give us a sense of how much ice has been lost over the past, say, 10 years. Ms. FERRIGNO: I think I’ll go back 20 years, and in the last 20 years, I would say at least 20,000 square kilometers of ice has [...]
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Morgen on February 23, 2010
I am not exactly sure why it took Van Jones longer than Tiger Woods to re-surface on the national stage, but he is in the news today. The NACCP has decided to award Van Jones with its highest honor, the President’s Award at their upcoming Image Awards ceremony. From an editorial today by Benjamin Todd Jealous, the President and CEO of the NAACP: Van Jones also may be the most [...]
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John on February 16, 2010
AJ Strata points me to this list in the OC Register. Since the CRU e-mails were published, at least 19 serious problems have been uncovered with the claims of climate change fanatics. Here are a few choice ones: ChinaGate – An investigation by the U.K.’s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn’t be located. “Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring [...]
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John on February 11, 2010
Government offices in Washington are closed again today, but Sen. Inhofe and his family are having some satirical fun on Capitol Hill: The sign planted atop the igloo reads: Al Gore’s New Home.
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John on February 7, 2010
From the Telegraph, a brief history of the IPCC report’s collision with reality: Last month, the panel was forced to issue a humiliating retraction after it emerged statements about the melting of Himalayan glaciers were inaccurate. Last weekend, this paper revealed that the panel had based claims about disappearing mountain ice on anecdotal evidence in a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. And on Friday, it emerged [...]
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