Richard North provides some very strong arguments that the inclusion of "dodgy" research in the Working Group II report of the IPCC on the impacts of global warming was deliberate and that the attempts to distract from this amount to little more than 'shroud waving.' To my mind this is a far more important indictment of the IPCC than the initial Climategate revelations.
Oh, and lest you think O'Donnell's outburst rose up from some deeply-seated conviction, witness this tweet from Scarborough:The best part of Lawrence O' Donnell's. rant is that when we went to break, Lawrence broke out in a huge smile. "It's what I do best."
It is a travesty that in the 21st century so many people are forced to rely on the outdated technology of stairs. The only way to solve the ongoing disparity between those with access to elevators and those without is for the Federal Government to institute a National Elevator Plan now. Wayne Crews outlines such a plan here. The government must do something now before it is too late!
In today's Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty reviews some of the responses to Joe Biden's assertion that Iraq is one of the great achievements of the Obama administration.
Most of the commentators, including Rush, are astounded. But relatively speaking, the administration's achievement is no more astounding than Bull Connor's passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Kruschev's reunification of Germany, or Jefferson Davis's preservation of the Union.
Consequently, a bit of perspective is in order.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy's decision not to seek re-election will leave Washington without a Kennedy in political office for the first time in more than 60 years.Nine terms as a US Representative is 18 years. Since the man is only 42, that means he's been in office since he was 24 and clearly has NEVER held a REAL job. Good riddance. We need people who've truly worked for a living, not rich-kid dilettantes living off their ancestors' legacies.
The Rhode Island Democrat's term ends early next year but he says in a television message viewed by The Associated Press on Thursday that his life is "taking a new direction" and he will not seek a ninth term. The video was provided to the AP by Kennedy's congressional office.
He has been in and out of treatment for substance abuse since crashing his car outside the U.S Capitol in 2006. Still, he has been comfortably re-elected twice since then, after making mental health care his signature issue in Washington.At least when he crashed his car, he didn't kill a woman at the same time. So that's a step up from his father.
While half of Americans want some kind of health reform in the next two years, nearly 40 percent say it would be a good thing if the legislation proposed by the Democrats and President Barack Obama never materializes. And one-quarter aren't sure if health reform would be good or bad for the country, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.Reform could have started a year ago with a few simple changes (interstate purchasing, tort reform, etc.), but nooooo, the liberals wanted to make a massive power grab because they misinterpreted the election as a mandate for free-wheeling corruption and power. They forgot that, thanks to journalists epically failing at their job of reporting, the American people had to take Obama at his word when he said he was going to listen to everyone, be "bi-partisan", and make nice.
"Essentially what they're saying is we want reform but we don't trust or like what we're seeing now," said Humphrey Taylor, chairman of The Harris Poll, a service of Harris Interactive.
While reforming health care is still important for many Americans, the most pressing issue is fixing the troubled economy, the poll found.
When asked to pick two top priorities for the President and Congress, about 8 out of 10 of respondents, regardless of their political persuasion, picked reducing unemployment and creating new jobs as a top priority over the next few months. Among Democrats, health reform came next (59 percent), while among Republicans preventing a terrorist attack in the United States (64 percent) took second place.
At the World Cup meet in Heerenveen last November, Davis knew one of his most ardent supporters was celebrating a birthday. So, after winning a race, he walked over to give the fan a most unexpected present.
“He took off his medal and said, ‘That’s for you.’” Wicher Soek recalled recently in a telephone interview. “It totally swept me off my feet.”
Soek has been following Davis for years and has always loved his struggle against the odds - an African-American from the south side of Chicago growing up to become a world-class speedskater - as much as his sublime skating style.
“He is total elegance,” Soek said. “Just look the way he holds his hand on his back. No other skater does it like him.”
In Europe, they see a winning personality who just doesn’t know how to score points in the United States.
“It is the simplicity of the man,” Soek said. “He looks you up after the race, always for a chat.”
Bakker still remembers a night after a big race when Kleintje Pils was playing at a hotel close to the oval. Suddenly, he saw Davis in the crowd.
“He hung the big sousaphone around his neck, and he was all laughs,” Bakker said. “And the next day, he wins a race.”
For the Dutch, it’s a total mystery why Davis is not a hot marketing property in the U.S. The small Dutch advertising agency BKB was pleasantly surprised to find out in December that parts of Davis’ suit were still available for sponsorship.
His Dutch manager, Wietze Jongsma, knows that conventional wisdom means little to Davis. In the run-up to Vancouver, he was approached to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s blockbuster show and a children’s program in the Netherlands.
Guess which one he picked?
Yep, the children got the nod over Oprah’s couch.
MORE ON THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS: “A Feb. 2 letter from Glenn A. Fine, inspector general for the Justice Department, to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, ought to give pause to lawmakers of any party. In effect, the letter says there is no independent authority that can investigate any decision by the department to stonewall congressional inquiries. If the department refuses to answer congressional questions by asserting legal privileges that have never been recognized in U.S. history, the IG is powerless to assess allegations of certain sorts of departmental misconduct.” They told me if I voted for McCain we’d have a rogue Justice Department that worried about politics more than law. And they were right!
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