Cold Enough For You?

Yeah, me too.

I Love This Guy

Thad McCotter, MI Congressman (R-11th District) - I hope he's on someone's short list as a VP candidate. Hell, I could take him in the top spot quite nicely.

On terrorism:



On Cap & Tax:



On health care and America's innovation revolution:



On Gitmo, Health Care and Posting Bills Online:



To get the House Republican Policy Committee's Pamphlet, We the People: Wide Awake for Our Newest Birth of Freedom, go here and fill out the form (link at the top of the right margin).

Bwahahahaha

Frozen Gore returns!

Be sure to check the videos - LOL.

Stoaty Weasel on gorebal worming in Jolly Olde.

Fight Global Warming!

Make your own snowflakes!



A pretty fun timewaster, actually (click pic for link).

Official Endorsement

Be sure to watch the "new plan to revive Chrysler" video here.

Snort

Jim Treacher is teh funny.

From the 4th link above, re: the "Hollywood Pledge" to serve our reborn nation:

Have you ever spent time around children? I did, before the court order. When a little kid doesn't get what he wants, the adult who has thwarted his will is, to borrow a phrase, the Worst Person in the World. But the second that kid gets what he wants, everything is suddenly wonderful. It's like for the last 8 years, Bush was the mean babysitter who didn't let Ashton Kutcher and Ashley Judd eat ice cream for dinner and stay up past their bedtime. But now they've got a new babysitter and he's so cool and he's promising all sorts of amazing things and oh isn't everything just totally super awesome?

Spot on.

The 12 Days Of Global Warming

UPDATE: I Talk To The Trees (but they don't listen to me) Edition: Come on, somebody try to convince me that these people aren't stark raving mad....





It's not too late for a little Ho-Ho-Ho:



Put together by the blog Minnesotans For Global Warming, found via The Enlightened Redneck.


Tim Blair says, "Stop doing everything." I love the caption under the picture.


LATER: Gabe Malor has a post at AoSHQ, 2008 Was the Beginning of the End for the Global Warming Hoax. He writes:

Back in July, I wrote "I suspect that we’ll look back on this year as the tipping point when the theory of anthropogenic global warming begins to go the way of the dodo." Now that the year is almost over, it's nice to see I'm not alone in that assessment.

Check the links, as they tell the full story (a prior post by Malor, the UK Telegraph and Powerline blog). The comments are also good -- My favorite:

Having no life, one rainy day I actually read the IPCC report summary, itself a hefty document. Guess what? There never was scientific consensus, only political consensus. The written conventions of the document explain as much. Whenever there is a statement to be made about warming, they use phrases like, "likely to cause", "probably caused", "is unlikely" and the phrase used is the result of a) a review of the literature and b) the various parties to the report then wrangling over the proper phrase to use. So, the science is reviewed and a bunch of bureaucrats then wrestle over the most acceptable way to phrase a statement and when they reach agreement, consensus is achieved. The underlying science hasn't changed and if 49 studies say we're not warming and 51 say we do and the bureaucrats finally agree to say that we are "possibly" boiling fish where they swim in the Arctic, then that is what the rat-bastard, panic-inducing, crisis-of-the-moment media report as being scientific consensus. I hope a polar bear eats their asses.

Posted by: DaveyNC at December 28, 2008 10:00 AM

I hope they're right, but I don't see the warmies giving up on it easily. It's religion for people who feel a need for something, but don't like God. It has penances, indulgences, dispensation, a structured belief-system and Apocalypse! It orders their disordered lives.

*Sigh* Again With The Cars

I heard Robert Lutz (Vice Chairman of Global Product Development at GM) interviewed on the radio this morning, and was reminded what endeared him to me when he first assumed his post in 2001 -- This is the guy who said GM had too many vehicles that looked "like a whole family of angry kitchen appliances: demented toasters, furious bread machines and vengeful trash compactors.'' And sho' nuff, since his arrival the vehicles that exhibited that dubious style are either gone or nicely refined. Another fave is when he famously spoke of the idea of man-made global warming as "a crock of shit."

One of the vehicles that incurred his wrath was the (now kaput) Pontiac Aztek.



Yeah, I know. Our garage technicians lovingly referred to it as the Ass-Crack when it was still in production. It was actually a nice ride -- handled well; roomy, for a small vehicle; ran/accelerated nicely -- but what good is that when you had to sneak up on it in the driveway and drive with a bag over your head? Lutz once said, "We’d fire the guy who greenlighted the Aztek if we could find anyone willing to admit it.”

Anyway, Bob doesn't mince words. He's a former Marine Corps fighter pilot, and loves to fly his personal jets over the GM Proving Ground (and he flies like a crazy person). I guess I love me some cranky bastards.

"Vrroooom At The Top" -- 2002 Time mag article on Lutz.

I Love Tim Blair

Found this here:

More Blair goodness. We're still having some global warmening snow here in MI.

UPDATE: Meant to mention this, didn't want to make a whole new post: Gabe Malor prompts morons to post Thanksgiving recipes ??? at AoSHQ, and they sound excellent! (well, except the hobo stuff).

And one other highly important thing: The Weasel has landed! (See comments) The USA is down one weasel ... and one kitteh, who almost loused up the whole transfer. Best wishes for both of them (and Uncle B) in this new adventure.

AND ONE MORE THING: Heard on WJR this morning: A "virtual caravan" to support the actual caravan to Washington of the Big 3 movers and shakers. This website is to be up and running on Monday, 1 December, for interested parties.

Global Warming

YR

SUV

IS WRECKING

THE ENVIRONMENT ...

So,

cut it out.

More here.

Also, The Goracle is a fathead.

CRAP! from Tim Blair. He also says get over yourselves, warmies.

Dust My Broom (via SDA) warns of bipolar bears.

Finally, LemurKing warns of yet *another* GW danger!

Ethanol

Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

I heard David Ridenour interviewed on "On The Edge" (local radio show) on the 24th, and waited to post until the audio clips of the show went up on the website. Ridenour gave a very focused & articulate discussion of why ethanol cannot be the solution to our energy woes. He's from the National Center for Public Policy Research, and you can read a couple of his pieces here ("Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor") and here ("Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere").

Also, from the National Center blog, "America: Only Oil-Producing Nation That Severely Limits Its Production."

RELATED: Tim Blair on the profits of GW hysteria.

NOT RELATED: But I'm too time-challenged to make another post: LemurKing's Folly on "Guns and Selected Communist Humor."

GW RELATED: AoSHQ -- "Arctic Ice Receeding Because of Massive Lava-Flow From Undersea Volanoes? "

RELATED: More Tim Blair -- "Vegetation on the March."

RELATED: And excellent -- Jonah Goldberg, "Livin' in a Frosty Paradise?"

A few years back, Jimmy Carter wrote of proposed drilling in ANWR in the New York Times: “The roar alone — of road-building, trucks, drilling and generators — would pollute the wild music of the Arctic and be as out of place there as it would be in the heart of Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.”

*snip*

Even in summer, people who actually live on the north coast of Alaska, like the residents of Kaktovik (just three miles north of the coastal plain where drilling might take place) overwhelmingly think good jobs in their backyard is music to their ears.

Meanwhile, is the “music” of the Grand Canyon really so pristine? Babies crying, kids chasing lizards, campers laughing, donkeys braying, cars honking: Why does this not trouble the consciences of Carter and McCain?

Perhaps it’s because the analogy between ANWR and the Grand Canyon is spurious on its face. “Pristine,” after all, is not synonymous with beautiful (there are ugly virgins), and “well-trafficked” is not the same as ugly (millions of people have seen the Sistine Chapel).

Tim Blair

Tim Blair (who always gets it) says that Australian ex-PM John Howard gets it.

UPDATE: Hee hee, more Tim Blair: Bicycles and alternatives.


Meanwhile, Cheezburger is aware of my day (life? very SOUL??):

UPDATE: OMG! Ace blogging LOLcats !!!1!!1

Update II: I know I'm going to in Hell, but this made me laugh. Srsly.

Very Interesting

Found via AoSHQ.



Since I am bloggedly retarded and don't know how to make the embed larger, see the original here.

Interesting + amusing (found via Tim Blair) - "A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming."

I have no pleasant V-Day tales to tell, so you can try this one at "I Can Haz Cheezburger."