Not until late November did the UK Met Office tone down its prediction by saying that there was a ’50 per cent chance’ of a mild winter.
Global warming alert! Global warming alert!
From the same nation that brought you the ClimateGate scandal comes the weather bureau that admits it’s odds of forecasting the weather correctly are the same as if it did it by flipping a coin.
The Daily Mail UK reports the wild weather story:
This is our own famous Met Office, which last September confidently predicted a warmer than average winter for Britain. Tell that to Eurostar passengers stuck in the Channel Tunnel for 18 hours before Christmas, the breakdown of their trains blamed on the coldest weather for 15 years.
Not until late November did the Met Office tone down its prediction by saying that there was a ’50 per cent chance’ of a mild winter.
Spinning a coin could have given the same result – not one you would expect from an organisation that spends nearly £170million a year, has 1,500 staff and a team of scientists operating a £30million supercomputer capable of 1,000 billion calculations every second, with a carbon footprint the size of a small town.
Yet even with this brand-new computer in action since last August, on December 10 the Met Office predicted that it was ‘more likely than not that 2010 will be the warmest year in the instrumental record, beating the previous record year which was 1998’. That prediction stands unchanged.
How could the Met Office be so wrong, both about its barbecue summer and the mild winter? And could the answer to that question have anything to do with its remarkable transformation in recent years?
To repeat the oft-asked question, why should we believe these guys can predict the weather in 100 years when they can’t predict the weather next week?
Robert Gibbs, the Smarmiest Press Secretary In History, scoffs at the president’s plunging poll numbers and warns reporters that an over-reliance on the daily polls is “unproductive.”
Robert Gibbs, the Smarmiest Press Secretary In History, scoffs at the president’s plunging poll numbers and warns reporters that an over-reliance on the daily polls is “unproductive.”
Absolutely correct. Those daily polls are just snapshots in time that prove nothing. What we should all be looking at are monthly numbers. They’re the ones that prove the real trends.
Uh-oh.
Rasmussen reports Obama’s ominous decline:
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
The president’s Approval Index ratings fell three points in December following two-point declines in both October and November.
We’re tempted to say the President is on a roller coaster ride, but roller coasters go up once in a while.
What the hell got into Ed Schultz? He actually named Sarah Palin as the year’s biggest political winner. This, of course, is doubly impressive coming from the year’s biggest political boob.
What the hell got into Ed Schultz? He actually named Sarah Palin as the year’s biggest political winner. This, of course, is doubly impressive coming from the year’s biggest political boob.
American voters want to break out the waterboard for Nigerian underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Or worse. Whatever it takes to get him to spill his guts.
We'll volunteer to conduct the waterboard interrogation. So would lots of other Americans.
American voters want to break out the waterboard for Nigerian underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Or worse. Whatever it takes to get him to spill his guts.
Rasmussen reports the demoralizing details for Democrats:
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% oppose the use of such techniques, and another 12% are not sure.
Men and younger voters are more strongly supportive of the aggressive interrogation techniques than women and those who are older. Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party favor their use more than Democrats.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters think the attempt by the Nigerian Muslim to blow up the airliner as it landed in Detroit should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act. Only 22% say it should be handled by civilian authorities as a criminal act, as is currently the case.
We’d say squeeze his nuts in a vise until he coughs up everything he knows. Unfortunately, that won’t be possible because his own pork and beans were the only thing this moron damaged in his attempted attack.
We don’t need Jack Bauer here. We need Oscar Meyer.
Displaying an inexplicable lapse of judgment, CNN brought seriously unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin back to co-anchor its New Years Eve Times Square coverage with Anderson Cooper again this year.
Displaying an inexplicable lapse of judgment, CNN brought seriously unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin back to co-anchor its New Years Eve Times Square coverage with Anderson Cooper again this year.
We actually pitied Cooper as we watched. He obviously finds Griffin as unfunny as we do and did that odd forced laugh over and over and over until he became even more annoying than Griffin. Which is really saying something.
Yeah, everyone knows Falcon Heene, the infamous Balloon Boy, but no other broadcasters were juvenile enough and unfunny enough to turn his unusual name into an obscene joke. (And we use the word joke in its broadest definition).
It’s no secret that Anderson Cooper is gay. But we’re pretty sure that’s not reason enough for Griffin to begin referring to him getting a blowjob.
What kind of serious news network would put the awful Griffin on the air and team her up with one of their serious news anchors, even on something as fluffy as New Years Eve in Times Square.
In the last few weeks an avalanches of criticism of President Obama has come from formerly reliable leftwing media. Hints of doubt have come from MSNBC host Chris Matthews and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. And now even AP has jumped on top of the dog pile.
President Barack Obama, the man at the bottom of the dog pile
It has begun. In the last few weeks an avalanches of criticism of President Obama has come from formerly reliable leftwing media. Hints of doubt have come from MSNBC host Chris Matthews and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. And now even AP has jumped on top of the dog pile.
The Obama administration claim that “the system worked” after a failed aircraft bombing wasn’t quite as jolting as President George W. Bush’s “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job” when New Orleans was sinking under deadly Hurricane Katrina. But both raised disturbing questions about presidential response in a time of crisis…
Amid those questions, administration officials’ repeated statements Sunday that “the system worked” were jarring. They made it sound like the administration doesn’t get it, like it is paying too much attention to political fallout and too little to public fears…
For Obama, still short of one year in office, his narrative, critical or otherwise, isn’t set yet.
Nonetheless, rumblings keep resurfacing about emotional distance, even coldness. Whether it’s Wall Street bonuses or terrorist near-disaster, people wonder whether he feels as they do or ever acts out of passion.
Far as we can tell, this guy has only two passions – basketball and the socialization of the American economy. And there’s very little difference between the two.
In the former, he likes to dunk on old, fat white guys. In the latter, he likes to dump on old, fat white guys.
Hate has never been demonstrated more clearly than by some of the tweets left by left wing Rush Limbaugh haters upon hearing news of the talk titan’s Honolulu hospitalization.
Get well soon, Rush, and get back behind the golden EIB mic
We attack liberals and the liberal media 24/7 here at IHateTheMedia.com. And although we wish liberal policies would die, we’ve never wished that a liberal would die.
Fact is, we can’t think of any conservatives who’ve wished for the death of any liberals. Sure, there may be a whacked out lone wolf out there who’s done it, but we can’t think of any incident that has caused conservatives en masse to wish for the death of any liberal.
Liberals demonstrate a completely different kind of anger than conservatives do. In short, they hate people, but we hate policies.
This has never been demonstrated more clearly than by some of the tweets left by left wing Limbaugh haters upon hearing news of the talk titan’s Honolulu hospitalization.
It’s ugly out there in liberal land. And we’re not just talking about the women.
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: Some vile language and a lot of vile thoughts are included.
@kenneth212 Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital in Honolulu. Maybe Santa did get my letter. @tontocorazon RT @Pumpy_Beanis DIE RUSH LIMBAUGH YOU F***ING PIG MAN JUST F***ING DIE @phontigallo: I was scared of another death this year til I heard Rush Limbaugh was in the hospital. Come on 2009; don’t fail me now @amazingatheist: Ruch Limbaugh hospitalized with chest pains. Let’s all hope he dies. @heartfeltrobot YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS! RT @cnnbrk Radio host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital with chest pains. @Teevho Rush Limbaugh in serious condition in the hospital? Oh happy day! Are they sure he didn’t just ingest too much hillbilly heroin? @bbb1962 RT @MelechT: Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the Hospital. Just when I thought Christmas was over… #divinejustice #kanyeshrug *Lmfao!* @Yves_V So Rush Limbaugh in the hospital? If he dies, 2009 won’t be so bad after all #JustSayin @twofacedmonster So sad…cough. RT @cnnbrk: Radio host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital with chest pains @OTOOLEFAN: Rush Limbaugh rushed to the hospital? Are the Death Panels in place yet? @riegelracing Rush Limbaugh had a heart attack?!?! Its a late birthday present!!!!!! @stratogato Rush Limbaugh, say hello to LUCIFER when you get there my friend @margery Is Rush Limbaugh terminally sick? Yippee @ocicat_bengals Smite Rush Limbaugh in 2009! @ZSS This just in, Rush Limbaugh hospitalized. How much you want to bet the words “hookers” and “blow” aren’t too far behind? @RJ_Acosta i now heard this rush guy is an asshole,Rush Limbaugh,i hope you die in hell mother f**ker! @dingane1: if rush Limbaugh dies ill let 09 slide on taking MJ @the_condor RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR HATE CRIMES. LET HIM DIE. @dreamhampton Rush Limbaugh doesnt deserve to die the same year as MJ. Keep breathin u fat f**k #JerseyHardcore9 Btw f**k rush limbaugh hope he had a coronary and finally bit it @Mysterious_Andy In case that last tweet was unclear: I hope that hate-mongering f**k, Rush Limbaugh, dies. The world would be a better place without him. @9thwardBee Rush Limbaugh can choke on a fat dick F**k Him! @KushME Rush Limbaugh n tha hospital… Shit that fool gets no sympathy from me… he doesn’t like my kind! So f**k em! @BEZZLE “MAN F**K Rush Limbaugh TELL EM I SAID IT!” TELL HIM I CO-SIGNED THE F**K ALSO WITH A SWINE FLU INDUCED BABY LEG IN HIS ASS @iHateJeffBaker Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized in Hawaii. Guess what? Who gives a f**k? Not I.
eapsta: F**k I hope rush limbaugh is really dead @SaidInTexas “All I want to hear is that Rush Limbaugh is dead! I got up early. I’ve watched all day. Just DIE already.” woman on phone in Odessa sbux @beauessai You know, I think I could have forgiven this decade for all its bullshit if it had ended with a dead Limbaugh.
This is more than vaguely reminiscent of a story we did on a British website called MaggiesDead.com. It celebrates the “imminent” death of former British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher. Sick, sick, sick.
The 21st Century has been unkind to all the cable news networks. Except Fox, that is. The conservative news network has bucked the trend and grown a remarkable 570% in the decade.
The 21st Century has been unkind to all the cable news networks. Except Fox, that is. The conservative news network has bucked the trend and grown a remarkable 570% in the decade.
This chart shows each network’s Nielsen average year-by-year ratings for the last 10 years (12-27-99 thru 12-23-09).
There’s only one solution for the other guys. Get Michael Mann to do the next ratings chart.
Hugo Chavez: “Let’s not kid ourselves: the Obama illusion has finished, and the shameless interventionism of the American administration shows that.”
Hugo Chavez looks past the illusion and doesn't like what he sees.
As if to prove the old saying that “Even a blind sow occasionally finds an acorn”, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has stumbled upon a truth that the American people having been discovering over the last eleven months.
Reuters reports this comment from Chavez’ year end message to the Venezuelan people:
“Let’s not kid ourselves: the Obama illusion has finished, and the shameless interventionism of the American administration shows that.”
In related news, Rasmussen reports that American voters no longer buy the illusion, either:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.
Luckily, the people of the United States have much greater ability to oust unpopular leaders than the people of Venezuela.
In the final pre-count estimate just released by the Census Bureau, we already have a broad idea of where the results are headed and what they will mean politically. The numbers are cause for alarm for Democrats.
Attention: 2010 Census Crossing Ahead
The Democrats are counting on their friends at ACORN to “help out” with the 2010 census. And if this analysis is correct, they need all the help they can get.
The Washington Times reports the depressing details for Democrats:
… in the final pre-count estimate just released by the Census Bureau, we already have a broad idea of where the results are headed and what they will mean politically.
The numbers are cause for alarm for Democrats.
Of the states gaining House seats — Texas (three) and Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington — only Washington is reliably Democratic, having last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1984.
Of the states losing seats and electors — Ohio (two), Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — only Louisiana is reliably Republican. And the fact that there are 170,000 fewer residents of New Orleans than before Hurricane Katrina has made the state even more reliably red.
But the real shocker is California. After a consistently large gains in the second half of the 20th century, California is on track for only 9 percent growth in the first decade of the 21st. Compare that to 14 percent growth in the ’90s, 26 percent growth in the ’80s, 19 percent in the ’70s and 27 percent in the ’60s.
9% growth in California? Build a wall on the Mexican border and the population won’t increase at all. Of course, you’d also have to build a wall along the Nevada border to retain the legal residents.
Danny Glover: “I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don’t see anything different.”
Rumor has it that Danny Glover has replaced Barack Obama with an unidentified, hot-blooded Latino hunk
It’s not surprising, really. It was one of those typical May-December Hollywood romances. Barack was young and eager to please. Danny was older and jaded.
Big Hollywood reports the sordid details:
“I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don’t see anything different,” the activist movie actor said of Obama’s policies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. “On the domestic side, look here: What’s so clear is that this country from the outset is projecting the interests of wealth and property. Look at the bailout of Wall Street. Why not the bailout of Main Street?”
“He may be just a different face, and that face may happen to be black—and if it were Hillary Clinton, it would happen to be a woman,” says Danny Glover. “But what choices do they have within the structure?”
Think of it as Washington, DC’s answer to Hollywood’s casting couch, President Obama. You looked good in the auditions, but couldn’t deliver once the director hollered, “Action.”
President Barack Obama is snuggy safe from any terrorism in his $4,000/day Hawaiian estate. A maritime security zone has even been established around the estate.
Hawaiian estate, $4000. 18 holes of golf, free. Protective fleet of gunboats, priceless.
American citizens, especially travelers, are feeling more uneasy after a near miss by an Islamic terrorist who tried to blow up an airliner on Christmas.
But don’t worry, President Barack Obama is snuggy safe in his $4,000 a day Hawaiian estate. A maritime security zone has even been established around the estate.
“According to the Coast Guard, the maritime security zone includes a portion of Kailua Bay, beginning at Kapoho Point and extending westward to the shoreline at Namala Place, near the Castles surf spot. The zone also includes the adjacent Kawainui Channel beginning at Kapoho Point to a point 85 yards mauka of the North Kalaheo Avenue Bridge.”
By the looks of the gunboats and Coast Guard craft in the area, they mean business, too.
If someone gets caught trying to break that security zone, they’ll be looking at a prison term up to 10 years.
Unless they’re suspected members of Al Qaeda or Taliban. They’ll be released immediately and issued an official presidential apology.
Reality slapped the Associated Press up the side of the head this week. They finally noticed that MSNBC isn’t really much of a news network.
Next thing you know, the Associated Press will notice that Keith Olbermann isn't really a newsman.
Reality slapped the Associated Press up the side of the head this week. They finally noticed that MSNBC isn’t really much of a news network.
AP explains what lead them to this overdue conclusion:
MSNBC spent considerable time Monday reporting on the aftermath of an attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, but its executives didn’t want to talk about why the story received little attention as it was breaking.
Competitors CNN and Fox News Channel gave much more extensive attention to the story on Christmas night as MSNBC stuck with taped programs on a murder mystery and environmental issues, along with an “undercover” report on the teenage sex trade.
MSNBC has been criticized in the past for failing to respond quickly to breaking news during off-hours, a choice that may complicate its efforts to be seen as a go-to news source. The network is revamping its daytime schedule to be more news-oriented than personality-driven, since the latter approach has proven to be a ratings failure.
On Christmas, an anchor did live cut-ins about once an hour to pass on news of the attempted terrorism, said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman.
Fox mixed live coverage of the story Friday night with a taped year-end retrospective show with Bill O’Reilly. CNN devoted virtually all of its prime-time hours to the incident, its coverage anchored by Ali Velshi.
Neither Gaines nor Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s top executive, would discuss the judgment call on Monday.
MSNBC’s choice was noted by Rachel Sklar, a blogger for the Mediaite Web site: “If you’re going to call yourself a news network, then cover the news,” she wrote.
As a result of this actual reporting, Keith Olbermann is expected to name Associated Press the World’s Worst Wire Service of the Day.
Both of MSNBC’s remaining viewers will think it’s the funniest damn thing they’ve ever seen.
Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee says it’s “appalled” because NBC News chartered a plane for David Goldman and his son, Sean, to fly from Brazil to the United States.
Admittedly, we didn’t have a lot of interest in the case of David Goldman, the American father who was battling to get his son back from the kid’s adopted stepfather in Brazil. But when we saw that Goldman was flying back and forth from New Jersey to Brazil in a private jet, we briefly thought to ourselves, “Jeez, that guy must have a ton of money.”
We were wrong. Turns out NBC has a ton of money and they spent it like Barack Obama on speed to become the exclusive David Goldman network.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that NBC’s actions have earned the network a scathing rebuke from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee:
The panel says it’s “appalled” because NBC News chartered a plane for Goldman and his son, Sean, to fly from Brazil to the United States. They were reunited after a five-year custody battle, and they arrived in Orlando on Christmas Eve. In paying for the plane, NBC News engaged in “checkbook journalism,” the Ethics Committee says.
The journalists’ group has a code of ethics that urges reporters to refrain from bidding for news.
“The public could rightly assume that NBC News bought exclusive interviews and images, as well as the family’s loyalty, with an extravagant gift,” Ethics Committee Chairman Andy Schotz said.
In a statement, NBC News said: “The Goldmans were invited on a jet NBC News chartered to fly home to the U.S. on Thursday, December 24. NBC News has followed this story since the Goldmans’ story first ran on Dateline nearly one year ago — David Goldman since has appeared on Today seventeen times. NBC News has not and will not pay for an interview.”
With its lavish gesture to the Goldmans, NBC News helped create the news and jeopardized its credibility, the SPJ Ethics Committee said.
“Mixing financial and promotional motives with an impartial search for truth stains honest, ethical reporting,” Schotz said. “Checkbook journalism has no place in the news business.”
Close, Schotz, but no cigar.
What you should have said is that NBC has no place in the new business.
Might we humbly offer a suggestion, Mr. President? If you’re really as tired as you say, take a nap every afternoon. Lay off the golf. And the photo shoots for all those magazine covers. And the appearances on all those TV shows. And the bowing to foreign dignitaries. Especially the bowing to foreign dignitaries.
Poor little baby, don't you cry. Daddy's gonna sing you a lullaby.
Sometimes stories just write themselves. Or in this case, sometimes the Associated Press writes them.
This cloying AP story explains that being the so-called leader of the so-called free world is tiring. Very tiring, indeed.
CAPITAL CULTURE: Big first year leaves Obama tired
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency – the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.
Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.
Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”
“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”
That weight was particularly striking during the president’s exhaustive, three-month review of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Images of a visibly tired Obama, his black hair now flecked with gray, greeting the bodies of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base and walking through rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery sparked rumors that he was skipping meals and losing weight.
Why that poor, tired man. Who would have thought that socializing the American economy could be such hard work?
Might we humbly offer a suggestion, Mr. President? If you’re really as tired as you say, take a nap every afternoon. Lay off the golf. And the photo shoots for all those magazine covers. And the appearances on all those TV shows. And the bowing to foreign dignitaries. Especially the bowing to foreign dignitaries.
Come with us now on a guided tour of the gallery and be dazzled by the wide array of artists’ who were inspired by The Greatest President In History, Barack Hussein Obama.
We ran across a hilarious website called BadPaintingsOfBarackObama.com. Come with us now on a guided tour of the gallery and be dazzled by the wide array of artists’ who were inspired by The Greatest President In History, Barack Hussein Obama.
It’s somehow fitting that the JibJab guys should use the theme from “The Sting” as the basis for their 2009 year in review video. Don’t you kind of feel like you’ve been part of an elaborate sting ever since January 20?
It’s somehow fitting that the JibJab guys should use the theme from “The Sting” as the basis for their 2009 year in review video. Don’t you kind of feel like you’ve been part of an elaborate sting ever since January 20?
How successful do you think you’d be rehabilitating Muslim fanatics with something called the “art therapy rehabilitation program”? You are correct. Whatever it is, it was obviously an abysmal failure.
The Art Therapy Rehab program changed Muhamad al-Awfi from a cold-blooded killer to a cold-blooded attempted mass murderer
We’d like to pose a question. A hypothetical question, to be sure.
How successful do you think you’d be rehabilitating Muslim fanatics with something called the “art therapy rehabilitation program”?
You are correct. Whatever it is, it was obviously an abysmal failure. ABC News reports the ludicrous details:
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.
Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.
The Art Therapy Rehabilitation Program. Or as it’s known in Waziristan, finger painting for fanatics.
President Obama channeled O.J. Simpson today when he said, “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.” Then he hit the golf course in Hawaii.
"Ssssssh. I think the al-Qaeda terrorists are hiding in the sand traps surrounding the 14th green."
President Obama channeled O.J. Simpson today when he said, “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.”
Then, according to Politico, “A half-hour after President Obama vowed to catch the terrorists behind a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas, he arrived at 10:40 a.m. at the Luana Hills Country Club, where a golf course winds through a rain forest, the pool reports. The club is below inland cliffs and the towering Mt. Olomana.”
Apparently, golf courses are now the preferred choice of hideouts for bloodthirsty killers. After erroneously being found not guilty of killing his wife, O.J. Simpson also declared that he would spend the rest of his life searching for the real killers, then went out and played 18 holes.
The president reportedly spent a lot of time in the sand traps looking for the al-Qaeda terrorists in their native habitat.
The greens are distraught over the circus that was Copenhagen. As the Brisbane Courier-Mail reports, Aussie greens have resorted to lynching polar bears
The greens are distraught over the circus that was Copenhagen. As the Brisbane Courier-Mail reports, Aussie greens have resorted to lynching polar bears:
Copenhagen was the anti-climax of the century and the feeling of disappointment, anger and frustration from those who wanted more is palpable. In Brisbane, campaigners tied nooses around the necks of giant soft toy polar bears and threw them off balconies and bridges.
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Centre for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland, said the political leaders were putting a “brave face on total failure”, declaring it “a triumph for the fossil fuel lobby.” The usually understated Dr John Church, principle research scientist in CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and a world authority on sea-level rise, said: “Continued failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions commits the world to metres of sea-level rise, with severe consequences for many millions of people and the natural environment.”
Damn, these people are hilarious. Who the hell are we going to laugh at when they are finally forced to abandon the global warming scam?
Delusional Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano thinks the Christmas airline bomber proves that they system worked. Seriously. That’s what she said.
Delusional Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano thinks the Christmas airline bomber proves that they system worked. Seriously. That’s what she said.
Dutchman Jasper Schuringa poured water on the bomber's balls and simultaneously rained on Janet Napolitano's parade
Politico reports that even CNN choked on the comment:
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that “the system worked.”
Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions.”
Napolitano added that there was “no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened.”
For god’s sake, Jan, disaster was averted only because one brave passenger tackled the guy, poured water on his burning balls, stripped him naked to make sure he had no additional explosives, and tied him up.
News flash for Janet Napolitano: that guy didn’t work for the DHS.
Watch Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) debating ObamaCare on the floor of the senate. Then make up your own mind. We can’t actually verify that he’s drunk, but it’s been reported that he began chanting ”Toga, toga, toga” immediately after his speech.
Watch Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) debating ObamaCare on the floor of the senate. Then make up your own mind.
We can’t actually verify that he’s drunk, but it’s been reported that he began chanting ”Toga, toga, toga” immediately after his speech.
We’d guess that Baucus checked the bill and discovered that rehab is covered.
Rachel Maddow can't quite put a finger on where her former viewers went
Things are not going well for MSNBC. Not for the network in general nor for Rachel Maddow in particular.
While the poor dear used to routinely and handily top 1,000,000 total viewers per night, she’s reached that lofty level only once in the last five weeks.
We’re very sad to report that this is her third week of record low ratings within that same five week period (it probably would have been four out of five, but we won’t hold the disrupted Thanksgiving week against her).
And just to make things even worse, her total viewers for the most recent five night period has reached an all-time low, clinging precariously just above the 4,000,000 level. Here are the grim details:
Date
Total Viewers
Mon, Dec 14
755,000
Tues, Dec 15
857,000
Wed, Dec 16
915,000
Thur, Dec 17
-806,000
Fri, Dec 18
745,000
Total
4,078,000
It will be interesting to see what Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), MSNBC’s new owners, decide to do with the also-ran cable news network.
MSNBC is, of course, the network that once billed itself as the Obama Network. Apparently,“The Cartoon Network” was already taken.
If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, you’ve come to the right place. Hell’s bells, it’s not even winter yet and the northern hemisphere is covered with unprecedented snow. Damn that global warming.
Snow on the beaches of Southern France on December 19, 2009
If you’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas, you’ve come to the right place. Hell’s bells, it’s not even winter yet and the northern hemisphere is covered with unprecedented snow. Damn that global warming.
Alaska sees record snow: Five feet, 8 inches deep!
Source: Alaska Dispatch
Let It Snow: NYC Preps for the White Stuff
Source: NBCNewYork.com
Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
Source: Bloomberg
Washington, DC expecting up to 20-inches of snow
Source: Weather Underground
What would the sky look like from your house if earth had rings like Saturn? This is an oddball post. We admit it. Not the kind of story and not the kind of video we normally run. But it’s pretty damn cool. And it’s our blog, so we’ll run what we damn well please.
This is an oddball post. We admit it. Not the kind of story and not the kind of video we normally run. But it’s pretty damn cool. And it’s our blog, so we’ll run what we damn well please.
Consider this proof that we are not a one trick pony here at IHateTheMedia.com. Yes, in addition to being media mavens and political scientists, we are also highly-trained astronomers.
The greens are distraught over the circus that was Copenhagen. As the Brisbane Courier-Mail reports, Aussie greens have resorted to lynching polar bears:
