What Is The Opposite Of 'Gilding The Lily'?

What phrase describes making something dreadful appear even worse than it already is?  If it comes to me, I will be sure to apply it to this article by Kim Murphy of the LA Times.

Let's back up a bit.  A Bush-appointed Federal judge in Montana showed terrible judgment and a deplorable sense of humor in forwarding an email from his brother mocking Barack Obama.  Here is the Great Falls Tribune for some facts before we see how they were mangled in LA:

HELENA — Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers.

Cebull, of Billings, was nominated by former President George W. Bush and received his commission in 2001 and has served as chief judge for the District of Montana since 2008.

The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: "A MOM'S MEMORY."

The forwarded text reads as follow:

"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

"A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?'" the email joke reads. "His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"

Har de har.

But let's see how the LA Times mangled that:

Reporting from Seattle—

Montana’s chief federal judge Wednesday admitted forwarding an email to friends about President Obama that appears to equate African Americans with dogs and raises questions about the president’s mixed racial ancestry.

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine,” Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull wrote before forwarding the email, a copy of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

No, he didn't write that "touches your heart" intro - it was part of the set-up for the joke and was forwarded with the rest.  Lest you doubt, here are some Barack-free versions of the joke (from around 2009) with a similar set-up:

A Mother's Beautiful Story

Enjoy this story, I hope it touches your heart like it did mine. This is so beautiful;

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied, "Don't even go there! From what I can remember about
that fucking party, you're lucky you don't bark!"

Or here:

Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching.

Hope it touches your heart like it did mine

This is so beautiful...

And the payoff.

As to whether the joke is racially charged and equates black men to dogs, well, this version mentioned Barack and was sent by a Republican, so the judge had to know his critics would take it there.

However, Barack-free versions of this joke are all over the internet.  I very much doubt that it was intended to have racist connotations here, here, here, here or here.  I daresay the butt of the joke is the sexually adventurous white mother.  Of course, making it a joke about Barack makes it a joke about his mother and why does someone want to be making jokes about other people's moms?

Well.  Robert Barnes of the WaPo avoids the hysteria of the LA Times:

According to the Tribune, the subject line of the e-mail Cebull sent from his official courthouse e-mail address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: “A MOM’S MEMORY.”

The forwarded text reads:

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

We are reassured that it is possible to report this story accurately.  However, I expect that by tomorrow Rachel Maddow or some media biggie of that ideological ilk will be claiming that the judge told the joke on YouTube.  In blackface.

I CAN QUIT ANYTIME (AND SOONER WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER)

You might miss these in all the links above.  First, I don't know how they happened to pick on Asians here:

A young Chinese girl going on her 1st date. Her mother warned her….”1st he kisses your cheek; then he’ll kiss your breasts, you’ll enjoy; than he want to go on top. You must not allow it so as not to disgrace our family name”.

Next day girl told Mom, “Everything happen exactly as you predicted. I didn’t allow him to go on top so I went on top and disgraced his family”.

And join me in deploring this ageism and bestiality:

An old man was sitting on a bench at the mall.  A teenager sat down next to him. He had spiked hair that was red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet. The old man stared.

Whenever the teen looked, the old man was staring.

Finally, the teenager said sarcastically : "What's the matter, old boy, never done anything wild in your life?"  Without missing a beat the old man replied :" Got drunk once and had sex with a peacock. Just wondering if you were my son."

Comments

[Threadkiller]

Treating him like a dog...

[Ignatz]

--I daresay the butt of the joke is the sexually adventurous white mother.--

Obviously. One either has to conclude the reporterette is either a closet racist herself or intentionally making a connection that is pretty clearly not there.
And I no doubt am demonstrating my questionable taste when I say I thought all those jokes were moderately funny.

[Frau Pfadfinderin]

I liked the geezer joke best. Barry's enough of a joke all by himself without bringing in his parents...

...which reminds me if the MSM begins in on Romney's polygamous grandparent, Obama's Kenyan "father" should be fair game.

[bgates]

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied, "Don't even go there!

But it was too late, and the little boy was stripped of British citizenship and deported.

[bgates]

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied,

"Because I fucked a Scottish terrier!"

See, in order to equate black men and dogs, you have to make the joke so incomprehensible it may as well be German.

[Extraneus]

Seems pretty innocent, and funnier, to add Barack to what was already a decent joke - which wasn't the judge's doing anyway.

The judge does look like a jokester, though.

[bgates]

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied,

"For the scholarship money."

[bgates]

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied,

"Mommy can't answer right now, because she has to leave you again. Mommy can't stay in America because it's so awful, just like Daddy had to leave America because it's a terrible, terrible place. Remember, America took your Mommy and Daddy away. Uncle Frank can tell you all about it, but word to the wise - loose pants and a tight belt when you visit Uncle Frank. Just saying."

[Dave (in MA)]

Apparently reading comprehension isn't in the skill set required to "write" for the LAT.

[Extraneus]

word to the wise - loose pants and a tight belt when you visit Uncle Frank

lol

[centralcal]

sigh. The peacock joke made me think of PUK. Sounds like something he would have said in earnest.

[Frau Pfadfinderin]

Anyone else remember all the ugly jokes told about FDR and his FLOTUS? Even Fala was dragged into some.

[Threadkiller]

Little Johnny waited for his mom to pick him up from school but she never showed.

It was a long walk home and Johnny arrived very tired. He walked into the house calling “mom, mom!” to no reply.

He finally walked upstairs, after hearing some noise from his mother’s room. He peeked in and saw his mom lying on the bed. She was completely naked. She lay there rubbing herself, her hands running from her breasts down to her crotch, moaning “God I need a man. God I need a man!!”

Little Johnny was scared. He ran to his room, closed his door, hopped in his bed, and cried.

He did not tell his mom what he saw.

The next day, the same thing happened. His mom did not get him from school, he made the long walk home, and arrived very tired. “Mom, mom”, he said to no reply.

Johnny headed upstairs and peeked into his mom’s room. Again, she lay naked, rubbing herself, moaning “God I need a man, God I need a man!”

Johnny ran even faster to his room, closed his door, hopped in his bed and cried.

The next day was the same. His mom did not pick him up; he walked home, and was exhausted.

This time he did not call to his mom. Instead, he went to her room to confront her.

When he opened the door what he saw was quite a shock. On top of his naked mom was the biggest nakedest black man he had ever seen. He was doing things to his mom that Johnny had never seen or heard of before.

Johnny ran to his room, faster than ever before. He slammed the door! He hopped into the bed, took off his clothes, started rubbing himself, saying “God I need a bicycle! God I need a bicycle!!”

[Ben Franklin]

Barry Soetero=Keyser Soze....lol

Maguire. Stop dippin yer toes. How's that instep when supported with suspenders AND a belt,... or two?

[lyle]

A little boy says to his mother, "Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?" His mother replied,

Don't worry, honey, we're both commie red on the inside.

[Ben Franklin]

TK; I'm glad you didn't post that on the Breitbart thread.

*drawn and quartered*

[Rosemary's Taddler.]

The Bird of Paradise flew up her.....
==============

[lyle]

OT, but Taranto links to one his own BOTW columns from Sept. '08. Guess who makes a cameo? TM. Well done, sir.

[narciso]

It's a stupid joke, that shouldn't have been forwarded by the judge, it's not a hanging offense, but it is a lapse in judgement,

[Jack is Back!]

Well there is a bark in Barack.

This joke wouldn't even quaify for my email friends weekly prize (name withheld to protect the guilty). We specialize in groaners and this is just a run of the mill recycled inanity.

I read somewhere once that 90% of the jokes are written by prisioners. The other 10% are written by Joe Biden.

[AliceH]

So glad we managed to fire all the government emps using their work computers to watch internet porn all day that we have time to be outraged about this. /sarc

[Young Barry Soetero]

Little Johnny's father asked him, "Do you know about the birds and the bees?"

"I don't want to know!" little Johnny said, bursting into tears.

Confused, the father asked little Johnny what was wrong.

"Oh dad," Little Johnny sobbed, "At age six I got the 'there's no Santa' speech. At age seven I got the 'there's no Easter bunny' speech. Then at age 8 you hit me with the 'there's no tooth fairy' speech! If you're going to tell me now that grown-ups don't really fuck, I've got nothing left to live for!"

[Jack is Back!]

OT: Another 2 US soldiers gunned down in Afghanistan during the "calmed down" period there.

[Rick Ballard]

Democrats Continue to Close Ranks

Per Rasmussen

They tightened up by 262,500 this month. Total Democrat rank closing since the 2008 election stands at 11,682,000. BOzo's margin was 9,522,00 in 2008.

OTOH - Republicans were forced to open ranks to make room for an additional 131,257 folks, raising the total to 2,887,661 since McCain tossed in the towel.

[Jane]

Thank God our president wrote that letter JIB, otherwise the total would have been many more.

[Threadkiller]

I wonder how Mark Latrine will handle the news that his favorite patriot is a birther?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef9SQVrNOQQ

I predict Mark punting on this, just like he did with Rubio.

[Threadkiller]

Oops. Wrong thread

[daddy]

Jane,

"his strength, (Obama's) his surprising strength, has been in international affairs." David Gergen last week.

[Neo]

The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present Monthly Fee of

$96.40, rising to:

$104.20 in 2012

$120.20 in 2013

And

$247.00 in 2014."

Thank You Pres**ent Obama !!

[Gmax]

Rick

You seen any polls with +3.6 Republicans? Even RAS does not use that since he lags his polls by averaging the last three months of self ID.

How good would Zero be looking if all polls were normed to +3.6% Republicans versus Democrats? Is CBS still putting out D + 11 polls? I stopped looking at their work, its just a poor joke... ( to keep this onthread ).

[narciso]

Speaking of jokes from Minitrue;

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daniel-gross/limited-gas-pains-why-u-better-able-handle-153416885.html

[pagar]

Neo, wait till the Tricare fee is added to that.

"Barack Obama sent to Congress today his bill that triples the premiums service people, their families, and retirees will have to pay for TRICARE medical coverage."

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/obama-thanks-the-military-sends-bill-to-congress-to-triple-their-healthcare-costs/

I'm pretty sure that the rules say that one can not be covered by Tricare if you are eligible but not enrolled in Medicare Part A and B.

[Extraneus]

Rush: If we’re gonna pay for birth control, we want something in return

“If we’re going to have to pay for this — then we want something in return, Ms. Fluke,” Limbaugh said. “And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we’re getting for our money.”

Limbaugh attempted to clarify his comments and explain the rationale for his derisive labeling of Fluke.

“Now what did I say?” Limbaugh asked. “I said if we’re paying for this, it makes these women sluts, prostitutes. What else could it be? We are buying it.”

[Jane]

"his strength, (Obama's) his surprising strength, has been in international affairs." David Gergen last week.

Ahhhh yes, he really is a savior.

[Gmax]

Can we get Gergen to go away like Olympia Snowe? I dont want to hear anything either of them has to say, every again.

[Extraneus]

“Ms. Fluke, who bought your condoms in junior high?” Limbaugh said. “Who bought your condoms in the sixth grade, your contraception? Who bought your contraceptive pills in high school? Wouldn’t you be just as likely to go broke in high school and junior high as you would be in college? Who paid for them then? Ms. Fluke, because of ObamaCare, you are still on your parents’ insurance coverage. Why don’t your parents’ policy provide your contraception? Why do we have to? You are still a child according to ObamaCare.”

Heh. Isn't it something that they're standing firm on this idea that we need to mandate that insurance companies provide free birth control so that women have "access" to birth control?

Rush also noted, after doing some research, that she could get 3,000 condoms a year at Amazon.com with free shipping for the $1,000 that's breaking these poor Georgetown law girls ($45,000 tuition + $20,000 room and board, per year).

[Extraneus]

He continued with something along the lines of "And what about the men? Won't they even chip in to have sex with a Georgetown law student?" Heh.

[Jane]

Weekly Standard went around to the drug stores near GW yesterday and found you could get birth control pills for 9 dollars a month.

[Rick Ballard]

Gmax,

I'm still working out the horrific impact of this incredibly divisive primary season upon partisan identification. Would the +6% GOP edge since September have been +10% without it? Would the Democrats have lost more than 4% if we could all just get along?

RAS has buried the historical trend on Partisan ID for over six months now. Gallup swapped their top bar to a side bar. It's almost as if both can hear Don Meridith singing Turn Out the Lights from the great beyond.

[Jane]

BTW, does "free birth control" include condoms?

[Ben Franklin]

"Posted by: Extraneus | March 01, 2012 at 06:56 PM"

What are you saying, without saying?

[narciso]

At first I thought Rasmussen has been in Mittens pocket, that still may be true, but
Gallup and other polls suggest that they've
lost the plot entirely,

As for Ms. Fluke, where does she find the time, mind you Rush pointed out that the Post showed she picked Georgetown for that particular feature,

[clarice feldman]

$300-$3,000 big deal. Math is so hard.
Ms Fluke, another Dem dog and pony act artiste, will end up with a job offer from some ersatz feminist group of the Senate equivalent of Prizzi's daughter.

[clarice feldman]

**group oR the Senate***

[Extraneus]

What's left to say? That nobody "needs" birth control, never mind "access" to it, which everyone including kids have? It's not a medical necessity, or even a medical issue.

Nobody "needs" to have sex, and anyone can get condoms for free.

If this is the stand they're taking in order to usher in socialized medicine, they're obviously playing a pretty weak hand.

Why not whine about access to acupuncture, podiatry, chiropractic, hypnotism or massage therapy? Oh wait, those are probably already mandated.

[henry]

Ext, chiropractic coverage is mandated (at least in WI for the last 15 years).

[Extraneus]

Don't the Georgetown ladies also need access to breast enhancement and labiaplasty? Come on, wingnuts, have a heart!

[Gmax]

When the post mortem is written on this election, I think you are going to find the Senate Democrats votes today to be incredibly signifcant to their being removed from the majority. They could have defused the issue but instead they dug in their heels. The only path besides the courts, is to remove them from office. That is what Cardinal Dolen et al intend to do. Watch.

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

I believe Ranger hit the nail on the head. Rasmussen is underweight on the <$100K demographic in his sample. The Michigan exit polling bears it out and we'll have a chance on Tuesday in Ohio to get further confirmation.

[clarice feldman]

If they aren't they will be, ext. And we've only scraped the surface of the cost of leftist Congress' deciding helath care issues. Britain's NHS which cannot provide timely, good medical care to Brits who've paid into the system all their lives, learned this week that NHS will now be providing free health care to anyone afflicted with HIV who lands on their fair shores for any reason whatsoever.

[narciso]

The Mittbrand juggernaut, was basically to standoff at the Battle of Grand Rapids, for
practical purposes, same with the battle of
Sioux Falls some months back.

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

Governor Romney will knock'em dead in the major Blue Hells though. He won't carry them in the general but he'll have their delegates at the convention.

[Frau Pfadfinderin]

News from Marlene's neck of the woods. They're alive!!!!!:

The progressive movement has already coalesced around Pingree. Less than 24 hours after Snowe made her announcement, more than 2,000 individuals had signed a petition the Progressive Change Campaign Committee circulated in hopes of drafting the congresswoman. MoveOn had a similar petition, which more than 2,500 Mainers signed.

[bgates]

Neo, do you have a link? The only one I found is to snopes, debunking your post.

[Frau Pfadfinderin]

Thomas Sowell has come out recommending Newt. Sowell wants someone to get in Obama's face, and he doesn't care about Newt's baggage -- enough to fill a train.

[Gmax]

Listen just doing the math, if there are 3.6% more Republicans than Democrats and about 31.6% of the voters are independents, if you just assume all Republicans and all Democrats vote their party, the Republican could lose 55% of indys and still have a narrow victory.

Now consider that most polls show more Democrat defectors than Republican crossovers and nearly every indy poll has been close to 60/40 against the Democrats and you can see why I see no path to reelection for Zero. Shame really.

[Gmax]

And then as if she was reading my mail, Jen Rubin pours cold water on the meme of the week, that Republican are unenthused. She quotes Gallup's finding and then says "OOPS":

By 53% to 45%, Republicans, including independents who lean Republican, are slightly more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to say they are “more enthusiastic than usual about voting” this year. Republicans have consistently led Democrats in voting enthusiasm since last fall, but to varying degrees.

Oops. So maybe all that cable TV news chatter about how the GOP is turning off its voters and is risking a depressed turnout in the fall is not very compelling after all. In fact, enthusiasm is up among Republicans since December 2011. Perhaps the primaries aren’t such a downer for Republicans after all? (“The 53% of Republicans who feel more enthusiastic about voting today — as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are engaged in a pitched nomination battle — is greater than the 44% found in February 2008 when John McCain and Mike Huckabee were still dueling in the primaries.”)

But there is more. You see, President Obama has some enthusiasm problems of his own: “At this time four years ago, 62% of Americans, overall, were more enthusiastic about voting and 30% were less enthusiastic. That eagerness was mainly the result of heightened enthusiasm among Democrats, with 79% ‘more enthusiastic,’ as noted above. However, corresponding with their Democratic leanings, nonwhites and 18- to 29-year-olds also showed exceptionally high enthusiasm about voting in 2008, with more than 70% of each group saying they were ‘more enthusiastic.’ Today, by contrast, these groups’ mood is on par with that of whites and older adults.” In other words, the Obama girls aren’t going to get giddy with excitement this time around.

It is telling how a widespread media meme — Republicans have an enthusiasm problem — can be based on an entirely one-sided view of the electorate and lack any polling data. It’s almost as if the media are trying to make things look as gloomy as possible for the GOP.

[Chubby]

Frau, I've been wondering/hoping if Sarah Palin is working behind the scenes with Newt. He seems to echo her talking points rather consistently.

[Gmax]

Wrong Palin. he has Todd's endorsement.

[Jane]

Frau,

That's a hell of an endorsement.

[narciso]

True, but I think he has served as more of a proxy for her, then even with that instance.

[Chubby]

((Wrong Palin. he has Todd's endorsement))

that doesn't exclude the possibility of Sarah working with him behind the scenes, does it?

[pagar]

"It’s almost as if the media are trying to make things look as gloomy as possible for the GOP."

IMO, it is best to remember there is no real media. It is simply leftist propaganda promoters.

[Gmax]

If I heard the panelists on Fox Business tonight correctly, Zero has $140 MM on hand and has a very significant burn rate. One of the panelists cracked that he is managing that like he is managing federal spending!

Anyway, it would appear to me with only 8 months left, that the BS about raising $1 B is now exposed for the laughable exaggeration that it was and is.

[Pops]

Well, according to Kathleen Sebilius, he was just one more expense that poor women didn't need.

Isn't it funny the Lamestream media doesn't ever question why Planned Parenthood, Sebilius, Pelosi and the rest of the abortion left SPECIFICALLY TARGET poor, single women having black babies to have abortions. Baby B would have been a direct target of the abortion mafia, yet none of the media ever mention it.

[Pops]

Using the Obama abortion logic to save money, insurance comapnies should stop offering heart bypass surgeries. If the guy just dies, the insurance company saves tons of money.

[Captain Hate]

...which reminds me if the MSM begins in on Romney's polygamous grandparent, Obama's Kenyan "father" should be fair game.

I don't see why not because by any definition of the word, B+ Hussein is the product of polygamy.

[Porchlight]

Sowell wants someone to get in Obama's face, and he doesn't care about Newt's baggage -- enough to fill a train.

I don't think 'doesn't care' is quite a fair characterization. More like "these are the choices we have, and Newt is far from perfect, but we need a fighter."

[Porchlight]

that doesn't exclude the possibility of Sarah working with him behind the scenes, does it?

No, it doesn't. But I don't think Palin would interfere with the process. More likely, Newt wants her endorsement and is tailoring his message accordingly.

[Jack is Back!]

Been lurking.

Nothing to share but niters to all the good folks at JOM.

Still getting over the untimely death of Breitbart. Some times God can be disappointing but then he knows more about what he is doing than we do. That's for sure.

[marlene]

Congressman Michaud has decided not to run for the Senate,clearing the way for Pingree.The DNC probably didn't want both representatives to run,Michaud has a strong Republican challenger.

[narciso]

Of course our 'favorite jukeboxer' had to carry the torch;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/meet-sandra-fluke-the-woman-you-didnt-hear-at-congress-contraceptives-hearing/2012/02/16/gIQAJh57HR_blog.html

[mockmook]

God can be disappointing but then he knows more about what he is doing than we do. That's for sure.

Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 01, 2012 at 09:51 PM

----------------

That's not what he told me.

[daddy]

Carp,

I missed John Bolton because I was transcribing Lindsay Graham's words from his earlier segment on Greta.

About the released hostages and the ransom etc, Lindsay just said:

"that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt bears watching, they've got a pretty radical past, but they distanced themselves from this prosecution. They said the NGO Law that they (the Americans) were being prosecuted under was unfair and unjust and they wanted to change it, that's a little bit encouraging."

Just passing Lindsay's insight along in case any of you guys were worried about the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Jim,MtnView,Ca,USA]

"BTW, does "free birth control" include condoms?"
I am guessing it is the only way you can get the cost to be significant.
A diaphragm or IUD is a one time cost, even birth control pills are no more than one per day.
If you assume rampant sex and expensive condoms you can get the price tag up to where people don't laugh in your face when you claim a financial hardship.

[Melinda Romanoff]

G'night all.

Busy morning ahead.

[Joan]

I've always wondered about the common sense of many judges; but I will say, most of the ones I'm talking about were on Law & Order. :)

[Captain Hate]

Great daddy; I was just at LI watching a clip of Breitbart facing down a mob and then I come here to read a transcript from Mince-meat Goober Graham. I don't even think his friend McRINO would make such a daft statement.

[narciso]

Don't tempt him, Captain, his comments about
'a greek tragedy' are disturbing enough. You
know when gets that St. Crispin's day feeling
when you come across any of Andrew's appearances with the precious few exceptions (like Col. West)they might as well be reading
the 'crop report'

[daddy]

"Ms Fluke... Who bought your contraceptive pills in high school? Wouldn’t you be just as likely to go broke in high school and junior high as you would be in college?"

Carp,

All that time in College wasted on hitting on gals in the Art School Department, when I should have been over at Law School:(

[Neo]

I’ve always had great respect for the field of ethics that is grounded in the works of Thomas Aquinas and Thomas More, but I must say the James Garvey piece in the UK’s Guardian newspaper on “Peter Gleick lied, but was it justified by the wider good?” lowers the bar considerably.

What always seem to punctuate these sort of discussions is that in a field, such as climate science, which, much like religion, is filled with so many known unknowns, clarity can only be achieved through “belief.”

Instead of a clear headed view of ethics, Garvey acts like a “religious minister for hire,” selling his services to the presumably highest bidder, which I guess in this case is to whomever issues the largest government research grants or probably more correct .. the Church of Climate Science. Had this been a discussion of the ethics of WWII, his logic would work for equally for both the “Axis” or the “Allies.” What is missing is the discussion of why the Church of Climate Science is in “the right.” That it is the "wider good."

Unfortunately for the Church of Climate Science, which unlike the Roman Church which has had two millenia to wander in the wilderness and hone it’s ethical “beliefs,” climate science is a new “belief system” which will have it’s share of saints, sinners and more than a few persecuted Galileo-types. Eventually, even Garvey may come to realize that even the “beliefs” of Climate Science will and should encounter campaigns against teaching it in schools, especially when the “science” hasn’t held up to critical review.

But currently, he rallies with much the same line as Medieval crusaders that “God is on my side” with the familiar twist that “science is on my side” even when it no longer holds true. When the cracks in it's foundation have been replaced with mere “belief.”

For science has no moral clarity. It's clarity comes only from the last test of it's hypothesis.

Let us hope that the science isn’t blotted out by the religion.

[daddy]

Well said Neo.

Reading the comments at your link it is disturbing to see how many of the AGW partisans excuse Gleick's behavior because the ends justify the means. Anything is permitted when one is acting for the greater good.

These folks are but a couple demagogues away from entering the mental territory of Final Solution's.

[daddy]

Reading Sibelius's comments today about how much money would be saved by the Taxpayer funding of contraceptives, caused me to think of how much poorer this world would have been if there had been no adopted Andrew Breitbart and no adopted Steve Jobs.

I don't know enough about Steve Jobs, but it is obvious that he improved the life of virtually every human on this planet. From observations today, it is also obvious that Breitbart positively affected millions by courageously contributing to keeping this nation the last best hope on planet earth.

If only their birth parents had had the pill though, just think of how much money we'd have saved.

[Porchlight]

If only their birth parents had had the pill though, just think of how much money we'd have saved.

Or if they had been conceived post-Roe.

[Threadkiller]

http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/03/01/u-s-attorney-fitzgerald-has-known-of-frawleys-obama-bribe-accusation/

[Captain Hate]

If only their birth parents had had the pill though, just think of how much money we'd have saved.

If only Stanley Ann hadn't been punished with a brat.

[Thomas Collins]

In the WSJ this morning is an editorial discussing supposed rescissions to parent petitions to force changes to Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, California (under California law, parents can "trigger" changes at failing schools). The people harassing the parents used pressure, lies about the effects of the trigger program, and other fraudulent misrepresentations to the parents to induce them to rescind their petitions. In addition, at least three parents have signed affidavits swearing that rescission documents were doctored before being delivered.

As I was reading this editorial (page A-12 of the print edition and behind Rupert's subscription wall online), my thoughts went to some in MSM's dismissing outright the possibility that Obama's supposed birth certificate had been forged. It may turn out that the certificate is legit. However, voter fraud, voter intimidation, misrepresentations to parents, document forgery and document alteration are inherent parts of the prog playbook.

[Sandy Daze]

Happy B-D, J. !

O M G A B O
Sandy

[Captain Hate]

TC, in the editorial it points out that the only reason that 2 of the people found out about the altered recission documents was whoever did it was dumb enough to submit 2 of them; one with the boxes checked and one without (which makes me wonder if everybody had to submit these to verify their previous vote as the ed bureaucracy spares no effort to cancel a vote they're not happy with). They also point out that the disputed forms are photocopies rather than originals.

Btw on the election front there are lots of ads by all candidates with Romney having by far the largest number. Most of them are much better than the initial ones, which were boilerplate negative ads that are insulting to the intelligence of the viewer.

[Thomas Collins]

Happy day before your birthday, Jane!

[Jack is Back!]

Obama: I don't bluff!

Listen up Iran and Israel, you. have. been. warned.

[pagar]

"However, voter fraud, voter intimidation, misrepresentations to parents, document forgery and document alteration are inherent parts of the prog playbook."

Outright lies are the major portion of the prog playbook.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-40-per-paycheck-and-other-payroll-tax-cut-fibs/

No mention of the Obama Regime BS garbage occurs on a daily basis in the leftist Propaganda sites.

How can it be that it did not occur to a single one of the best and brightest of America's major news media journalists that it might be interesting to ask Barack Obama if, in light of an Iranian court's ordering a death sentence for the crime of converting to Christianity, he still stands by his assertion that Islam shows us "the possibilities of religious tolerance"?

How can it be that it did not occur to a single one of the best and brightest of America's major news media journalists that it might be interesting to ask Barack Obama if, in light of an Iranian court's ordering a death sentence for the crime of converting to Christianity, he still stands by his assertion that Islam shows us "the possibilities of religious tolerance"?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/why_no_coverage_of_this_odd_obama_remark_about_religion.html#ixzz1nxkium9R

Religious tolerance is against the law in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. How the Obama regime and their leftist propaganda sites believe that it is not is beyond belief. It is simply lies.

[Jack is Back!]

Do you believe in coincidences?

Breitbart: "Wait until you see what happens on March 1st!"

[pagar]

Coffee must not be strong enough.

There should be quotation marks before "How can it be---and the quote ends after religious tolerance" Apolize also for the doubling of the quoted paragraph.

[Melinda Romanoff]

TC-

WSJ opinion pieces are always outside the paywall.

Parent Trigger Warfare.

[Janet]

A video of the nurses from the Kennedy brouha on the Today Show.
After he knocked down the nurses he went down the stairwell & was stopped by security.

[Threadkiller]

The Prophet tells a tale of two profits:

" And now, three years later -- three years later, that bet is paying off -- not just paying off for you, it’s paying off for America. Three years later, the American auto industry is back. (Applause.) GM is back on top as the number-one automaker in the world -- (applause) -- highest profits in its 100-year history. Chrysler is growing faster in America than any other car company. (Applause.) Ford is investing billions in American plants, American factories -- plans to bring thousands of jobs back to America. (Applause.)"

http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/28/remarks-president-uaw-conference

And now?

" [Oil] companies are making record profits right now -- tens of billions of dollars a year. Every time you go to the gas tank or fill up your gas tank, they’re making money. Every time. Now, does anyone really think that Congress should give them another $4 billion this year? Of course not. It’s outrageous. It’s inexcusable. And I am asking Congress -- eliminate this oil industry giveaway right away. I want them to vote on this in the next few weeks."

http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/01/president-obama-gas-prices-and-oil-subsidies

Cars good, fuel bad.

[Janet]

Here is video of Occupy Tucson.
They are like a pack of drunken hobos. They need to sober up & have some Ben & Jerry's OccuPie ice cream...

[GMAX]

An economic site I frequent has this. Building inventory that just sits in a warehouse is a problem since soon you run out of warehouse space:

The headline number of 2.98% has finally made it to the bottom of the economic growth range (3%-4%) that we might historically expect 11 quarters into a "recovery." That said, nearly two thirds of the "growth" comes from increasing inventory valuations -- while "real final sales" remains sluggish at a 1.10% annualized growth rate and "real" per-capita disposable income is growing at only about half that rate.

FYI

[Jack is Back!]

TK,

Just another play on a "enemies list":

Banks
Millionaires
Business Jets
Coal
Oil
Bishops
Universities
Fox News
Israel
Great Britain
Pipelines
The American Military
Private Health Care

This is an incomplete list and a work in progress.