Kim Du Toit and Connie are back, this time doing internet radio.

If their show is half as good as his prose was, then it will be worth “tuning in”

But not here. Here, socialism is good.

“I don’t think Socialism in Europe has a future; and given that it is a core constitutive part of the European democratic consensus, that’s bad news.”

The US democrats can’t seem to learn, nor can they veer from the course that they have set, even though their European ideal is moving ever farther right….

Socialism is fading…..Everywhere but here in the US.

You’d think that they would learn from their European socialist brothers.

But no.

Look
I understand too little too late…
I realize there are things you say and do
You can never take back.
But what would you be if you didn’t even try
You have to try….
So after a lot of thought
I’d like to reconsider,
Please,
If it’s not too late….
Make it a cheeseburger

L.L.

I’m just sayin’

Under “this is just cool” comes THIS…..a 180 H.P. siren!

Everyone should have a hobby….some folks restore cold war era sirens.

HT: AMCGLTD

Nuclear disarmament is a great idea.
In theory.
But then all it takes is one who won’t.

Mr. Obama shows his naivete in his remarks.

Still stuck in the 60’s mindset, apparently.

“Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.”

Even French President Sarkozy agrees that Obama is foolish.

Realistic assessment on ones opponents does not seem to be a strong point of liberals.

Via WRSF, comes this tidbit, looking at the Obama administration with a different viewpoint.

Hard to argue with.

Read it, decide.

Sad, ain’t it?

Michael Hammer:

Why I am an Anthropogenic Global Warming Sceptic:

This is worth a read, it is long as hell, but worth reading nonetheless. It breaks down the issues with the global warming climate change fallacies better than any other argument than I have ever seen.

Excerps:

The AGW hypothesis is based on temperature rises between about 1975 and 1998 or about 25 years worth of data. This is claimed to be definitive yet the last 10 years worth of data shows falling global temperatures. This is claimed to be a short term aberration and of no consequence. I do not see how 25 years can be considered definitive beyond dispute while 10 years of data is a short term aberration, too short to be significant. I would have thought at least a 10:1 ratio would be necessary to make such a claim.

AND:

For the last 10 years the global temperature data shows either no atmospheric temperature rise or indeed a falling global temperature. Recently this has been claimed to be due to a combination of a quiet sun and changes in ocean circulation superimposed on the underlying warming trend. The further claim is that when these effects reverse, warming will start again with a vengeance.

If these natural processes can cancel out the impact of AGW then they are as powerful as AGW. If they can overwhelm the impact of AGW to cause cooling they are more powerful, yet IPCC and other AGW proponents have claimed in previous assessment reports that solar influences are only a minor contributor compared to CO2.

Take the time to read the whole thing. It pretty well trashes the “logic” that is used in the AGW arguments.

Update:

It seems that all of the original data about surface temps seems to have vanished in a sorta/kinda tragic accidents or something….

So Yosi Sergent (NEA communications director), has “resigned”. It would seem that his complicit promotion of the Obama agenda has led to his shame….Enough shame that he felt it necessary to tender his resignation. Said resignation was, of course, enthusiastically accepted. He will be sacrificed so that the political careers of others higher up in the food chain might live on.

Wonder what plum assignment they have in mind for him (in about 6 months)?

It is another facet of the “Chicago Way”.

So everyone is up in arms about the telephone conference between the White House (via Buffy Wicks…who works for Obama via Valerie Jarret) and the NEA…

DUH.

Did anyone expect that the true colors of a Chicago politician and his Chicago Staff would not eventually shine through? Strongarming those whose funds you control is a good old Chicago method of control. It’s not like this sort of tactic is a new idea. The art has been polished and refined for many years. (see also: Mayor Daley….Both of them) Lets face it. Mr B. Obama is a product of his environment. It’s how he got where he is today, via the power structure that works by twisting arms. If you are surprised, then you are either not paying attention to who he is, have spent the last few years in an alcoholic or drug induced haze, or you have the intelligence of limp broccoli.

The fact that they thought that they could get away with it is the real issue. Not so much that fact that they tried….Or the fact that we know about it.

Lets forget about the fact that the government has no mission to (nor mandate either) fund what some artist might call art. (nah, lets talk about it) IMNSHO that should be left to the rich…Let them decide what “art” they would like to endow with funds. Let other foundations choose (or not) to promote artists. It is not for the government to choose what to fund.

The fact is that the transcripts show that the NEA has failed in its mission. It has betrayed those who created and supported it. It has, while not necessarily offered money to those who are funded by NEA grants, at least threatened and coerced them to be pro-Obama in their “art” endeavors. NEA is supposed to be there because “art and humanities is for everyone” (actually it is colossal waste of taxpayer money for a bunch of liberal weenies who congratulate each other’s work in a never ending circle jerk, all funded with someone elses money.

We should, IMO, immediately de-fund the NEA, for the same reasons we defunded Acorn.

(Personally, I’d burn the administrators of the NEA at the stake, but then again, I am like that for people who betray the trust ….)

But then again, perhaps we can get more posters like THIS.

The left thinks (at least their elite “intelligentsia” do) that they know better than the rest of us how to take care of ourselves. If we would only take their advice, and live the way “they” say, we, as society at least, will be better off. Of course, we, as individuals might not be better off, but society as a whole will be better. (hint, that’s why they call them socialists….)

Instead, they feel that we “act like teenagers“…Unruly teenagers at that. Unable to make decisions without guidance from a parent-like government. How condescending, how paternalistic….how elitist.

They have no idea, however, how unruly people can be when a socialist begins to tell them how hot or cold they can make their house. The people of this country can only be pushed, can only take so much. We are, after all, used to freedom, and will only brook so much interference in their lives. Even though they are trying to “boil the frog slowly”, the frog will only take so much heat.

Willing to let the government turn back your thermostat or your water heater because they think that they have a better use for the electricity that you would use for heating you hot water or heating or cooling your house? That’s what the elitists think they should be able to do with the “smart grid” at your house. You gonna let them decide how hot or cold you must be? Gonna sit idly by as they choose who gets power and who doesn’t?

Betcha that they find out what truly unruly children we can be, should they decide to try to implement this scheme…..

But that is another topic for another day.

ETA: Midwest Chick has another slightly different view.