AP: Who are you going to believe, us or your freezing ass?!?

According to AP, these record cold temperatures mean nothing and the earth is still warming; and women and minorities will suffer the most. [I may have made that last part up but it seems to be standard practice in the old media].

Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches.

Whatever happened to global warming?

Such weather doesn't seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all — it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend.

Get that?? A cold snap is a blip and doesn't disprove global warming. But a warming period, despite natural cycles of warming and cooling is irrefutable, "the science-is-settled" proof of doom.

And what period of time constitutes a "blip"; especially when dealing with a planet that has been around for at least billions of years ??

Gibbs: Defending the indefensible

It's what a good toady does:

You lie !!

Candidate Obama in his own words, courtesy of Breitbart.



UPDATED:
That whole "no new taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year; not one dime" also seem to have expired as well. AP is reporting that the Alderman-in-chief will approve a tax on "high-end" health plans.

Another one bites the dust

Now it's Dodd retiring.

The departure of Mr. Dodd, first elected to the Senate in 1980, carried the most symbolic value because of his seniority and his close association with the financial system bailout and other economic policies. Mr. Dodd, is one of the highest profile Democratic casualties of the financial crisis and its political fallout.

In the past two years, after a failed run for president, he has come under increasing fire, most recently for backing a measure that allowed the embattled insurance giant AIG to dole out bonuses to its executives, and for receiving what critics charged was a sweetheart mortgage from mortgage giant Countrywide Financial.

Mr. Dodd, 65, had been losing in polls to his potential Republican challengers, including former Rep. Rob Simmons and wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who has said she would spend tens of millions of her own money to win the seat.

Who is to blame for Dodd's fall ?? C'mon folks, this is easy --BUSH!!

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs didn't deny President Obama's agenda has worsened the party's difficult political environment. He said Mr. Obama did what was necessary to tackle the troubles he inherited.

So one less snout at the trough but I am sure as we speak the golden parachute is being packed for Dodd since he was a good soldier and took one for the party.

And of course, since both Dodd and Teddy (4 months sober) are gone, waitresses across DC can breathe a sigh of relief.

U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A !!!

Team USA beats Team Canada 6-5 in OT to win the gold medal at the IIHF World Junior Championship. It was far from a conventional win as Team USA blew a 5-3 lead late in the third period. But the boys re-grouped and John Carlson scored the game winner at 4:21.

Maybe some of this good luck will carry over to the Olympic team in Vancouver.

And yes I know, I am probably one of about six people here in the States that watched the game. But it was great entertainment.

Question of the day

If Chris Matthews, NPR and their ilk can continue to use the pejorative,"tea bagger" -- can we call them cocksuckers?

Behold, the TSA -- from the people who want to run health care !!

First, it looks like the security cameras at Newark International were not working on Sunday; helping create chaos.

It's a tale of shocking ineptitude: CBS 2 has learned a series of missteps unnecessarily added to the mayhem at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday. The six-hour delay stranded thousands of people, creating extreme crowding and chaos.

The mistakes made at the airport give new meaning to the term "domino effect." It was a cascading series of missteps that cry out for action.

The sign at the Transportation Security Administration screening post at Newark read: "Premises Under Constant Video Surveillance."

What is should add is: "If We're Lucky."

That's because CBS 2 has learned that when an unidentified man breached a secure area at Newark on Sunday night, delaying thousands of passengers for hours, the TSA cameras weren't working.

That's right – they weren't even recording, sources said, and needed a reboot, which the agency apparently didn't ask for. That set off a chain reaction of even more missteps that caused needless chaos and inconvenience for several thousand hapless passengers.

With the cameras inoperable, the TSA tried to get a second set of surveillance video from Continental Airlines. But the TSA apparently didn't know the correct telephone number and the specific procedures to get the footage. That caused a two hour delay in identifying the intruder and closing the airport to look for him.

When they finally got the footage, they couldn't find the intruder, discovering later that he had slipped out another entrance 20 minutes after he arrived.

Now, they detain and handcuff blogger, Michael Yon at Sea-Tac. His offense, he refused to tell them how much money he makes.

Good thing "the system works." Bet your all feeling safer already !!

ObamaCare claims another victim

This time it's Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND). He announced his retirement at the conclusion of his term this year. Seems he wants to spend more time with the family. Sure.

Like rats off a sinking ship. Problem is the rest of us are stuck on board.

Is this hope or change ??

Pending home sale drop 16% in November.

According to the industry group, November pending home sales activity dropped by 16% to a reading of 96.0, compared with the previous month’s reading of 114.3. The drop was much larger than expected by Wall Street, which was looking for a dip of 2% for the indicator for November.

It was the largest drop, point-wise, since the industry group started the index in 2001, dragging the indicator to its lowest level since June.

Better late than never

Obama, the 3-dimensional chess master, far superior to those of us of weaker intellect, has finally come to the conclusion that releasing Yemeni terrorists from Gitmo to Yemen is probably not the smartest idea.

The U.S. will not transfer any detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Yemen right now, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

But that decision does not rule out future idiocy.

More than a dozen detainees transferred to Yemen reportedly have returned to fight with Al Qaeda. But Deputy National Security Adviser for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan did not rule out sending Yemeni detainees back to that country.

Transparency = behind closed doors ???

Where the ObamaCare bill will stay during House-Senate deliberations.

Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed, the two congressional leaders intend to keep the deliberations secret as they try to merge the House and Senate versions of the legislation into something that will pass both chambers.

The Talking Points Memo website reported Monday that Democrats in both the House and Senate are saying the process will likely follow the path of the House taking up the Senate-passed legislation, amending it and sending it back to the Senate, which will have to pass it again. "This process cuts out the Republicans," a House Democratic aide told TPM, indicating the congressional majority intended to make sure the Republican minority would "not have a motion to recommit opportunity."
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According to Waxman, the process for moving will not include the standard House/Senate conference committee, because the motions to select and instruct conferees in the Senate "would need 60 votes all over again." Instead, whatever agreements made could be packaged in an amendment to the bills passed by the House and Senate.

By blocking out the Republicans—not to mention House Democrats who object to what the Senate passed—Pelosi and Reid are setting up a protracted game of "ping-pong," in which the legislation goes back and forth from the Senate to the House and back to the Senate again. They may be able to prevail as far as the legislation goes, ultimately, but at enormous cost to their majorities. And that may be the biggest secret of all as far as the healthcare debate is concerned, or at least the one Pelosi and Reid are most concerned about.

Would we expect anything less from the "most ethical Congress, ever !!" or President HopeNChange ?? Guess that bit about the debates being on C-Span were nothing more than empty campaign promises.

World ignores Obama again

This time on airline passenger screening.

On the first day of what was supposed to be tighter screening ordered by the U.S. for airline passengers from certain countries, some airports around the world conceded Monday they had not cracked down.

The United States demanded more careful screening for people who are citizens of, or are flying from, 14 nations deemed security risks. But enforcement of the U.S. rules appeared spotty.

Shocking as it may be to believe, countries considered hostile to U.S. interests aren't jumping through hoops to be cooperative.

But at international airports in Lebanon, Syria and Libya, all on the list, there were no visible changes in screening.

No surprise really. But now even the European who were all caught up in Obamania a year ago are turning a deaf ear to Obama's requests.

And several European governments, including Germany, France and Spain, said they were still studying the rules before tightening security any further than the steps they took after the failed Christmas attack.

So next time you are shuffling shoeless through the security check points and having your bags searched or not allowed to use the potty on the last hour of a flight -- the real threats are boarding with little inconvenience. Hope and change !!

What I want for Christmas next year...

.... why, the SU-27 Flanker, of course !!

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HR at Fenway

Kudos to the NHL, Flyers and Bruins for a helluva show !!! A true
classic". The only room for improvement would be if the Flyers won.

FoxSports.com has more photos of the event.

Happy New Year Slackers !!!

Welcome to 2010 !!!