Sunday Kick-Off

Away we go. Drudge is headlining this global warming skepticism:

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

I imagine there will be follow-up at Paul Homewood's blog or Watts Up With That.

Comments

[GMax]

First OH YEAH

[GMax]

Salena Zito nails this one. We have been discussing the prog war on white Democrats for awhile here but it percolating up now in lots of places where white Democrats will read it and say "Hey I resemble that remark." Yup.

http://triblive.com/opinion/salena/7722661-74/democrats-party-ryan#axzz3RA5dzUO6

[Thomas Collins]

On the tarmac at Logan International in Boston after a weekend in Miami Beach. Talk about global cooling.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I caught some lukewarm heat [segue anyone?] for dismissing Barry's prayer breakfast bloviations as unremarkable banalities.
Wretchard, as usual, finds the crux of the matter and points out the real travesty in Barry's remarks.

Yet if the president’s perspective is breathtaking in its temporal breadth, going all the way back to the European Middle Ages and the Confederacy, it is remarkably provincial in geographic scope. He seems to think of Christianity as a white man’s religion. But the facts are otherwise. Not only did Christianity originate in the Middle East, most of them live outside of Europe and North America....
.....Most attacks on Christians occur in exactly places like Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria, Philippines, Iraq and Pakistan. Given these circumstances one might politely wonder: what exactly qualifies Barack Obama or Ta-nehisi Coates to speak on their behalf? Where exactly do they get the moral standing to tell Christians — remembering where they live — to get off “their high horse” or to consider how in their pitiful illiteracy they have forgotten their origins as spawn of the Confederate devil? There aren’t many horses in the Philippines, let alone high ones.

[henry]

Ig, plus the closest parallel in terror is a bunch of democrats (Klan, Weathermen, etc.).

[Danube on iPad]

Dorothy Rabinowitz talked about the prayer breakfast remarks on the Journal Editorial Report yesterday. What appalled her the most was the "who are we to judge" tone. Heninger pointed out that, having mentioned the Crusades, he missed a golden opportunity to point out that Christianity subsequently reformed itself to accommodate the modern world, and that that is precisely what is called for now with Islam.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Re-posting from last thread...
Rick, in the quest for honesty, I am now going to write Pitzer "College."

Clarice, in reading today's Pieces, my mouth was turning down until the clip of Michelle Kowowski paddling her canoe.

Until poll numbers change to the WH's liking, the media are being hounded to flog climate change, date rape, and radical Islam as a non-existential threat. My McClatchy rag is cooperating nicely.

The usually balanced Bruce Schneier responded to Obama's statement that ISIS is *not* an existential threat to the U.S.:

On one hand, what he (Obama) said is blindingly obvious; and overinflating terrorism's risks plays into the terrorists' hands. Climate change is an existential threat. So is a comet hitting the earth, intelligent robots taking over the planet, and genetically engineered viruses. There are lots of existential threats to humanity, and we can argue about their feasibility and probability. But terrorism is not one of them. Even things that actually kill tens of thousands of people each year -- car accidents, handguns, heart disease -- are not existential threats.

LUN -some commenters are not buying it.

[sbwaters]

are not existential threats

. . . until they are.

Better to nudge, now, those so inclined to consider other gainful employment.

[Jim Miller]

Here's a question for car guys:

You probably have seen pictures of that Detroit worker, James Rpbertsson, who for years was walking to his suburban job, and just now got a car, as a gift, after people heard abut his unusual commute.

(The stories usually credit him with walking 21 miles each day, but I believe he went part of the way by bus. Whatever the actual mileage, he was walking significant distances each day.)

That reminded me of an article in the NYT -- before the cash-for-clunkers program. The car guy who wrote it asked if it was still possible to find a reasonably reliable car for $1000. And he found a few, though it was clear to me that you really wanted to be a car guy, or have the advice of one, to recognize these gems in the rough.

Now I assume that you could not do the same now, that there just aren't any reasonably reliable cars at that price.

So, how much would you have to spend, now? If, for instance, the head of a charity had come and asked you to buy a car for Robertson, how much would you ask for as a budget?

Real car guys probably even have some suggestions for cars and years to look at. (Consumer Reports does something similar, but I don't recall how far down they go.)

[Jim Miller]

The man's name is James Robertson, of course.

(I can spell, mostly. But I am proof that years of practice at, for instance, typing, does not always make perfect.)

[Jane]

TC,

You will get a foot of snow tonite to welcome you home. WE are getting 2. (Run back to Miami while you can)

[GMax]

For $342K, I believe Mr Robertson can buy himself a brand spankin' new Maserati, courtesy of his fellow Americans...

[rse]

GMax-better hold some back for the insurance.

[CR]

Janet - thanks for the link on Jane Austen yesterday. How nice to find something to laugh at today!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--are not existential threats

. . . until they are.--

There's no better measure of the unchanging, overpowering collective stupidity of man than that, regardless of the thousands of examples of foreseeable and preventable, catastrophic, extinction-event wars from history, every generation is full to the brim with idiot leaders who assure us all is well under their gentle wings of favor and paternalistic pats on our noggins even as the approaching asteroid of some horde of savages is already apparent to anyone willing to open their eyes.

[Jack is Back]

Want to understand Obama throwing Christianity under the bus so ISIS has easier access to the nice seats? Maybe this Bill Moyers intellectual garbage is how the left all thinks. As I understand it they (the left) are orgasimatic over it.

http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/05/isis-brutality-burning-lynching/

[clarice]

DoT, I cannot think of a single instance when I did not agree with Dorothy Rabinowitz.

[henry]

The left is easy to understand. White = Guilty. Anything else is something white men did to set off the poor noble savages.

[Ben]

And I thought Monday was a slow news day. Cruz learning the pitfalls of genuine political ambitions by parsing with alacrity. Other than that and Brian Williams, nothing going on.

[DrJ]

JimM,

I don't know the answer to your question. I've always sought to get the most bang for my buck, and that tends to be in high-end (not Ferrari high-end) luxury cars that have been driven by little old ladies on Sunday. Those really do exist, metaphorically, and you can get a lot of car for about $10K.

I bought my 1987 Benz 14 years ago, when it had 90K miles on it, with all service records, for $9K including all taxes. Unless I get into an accident, I expect it to last another 10 years.

But value is a different metric than being inexpensive.

[Captain Hate]

I cannot think of a single instance when I did not agree with Dorothy Rabinowitz.

I think she once took what I thought was an unfair shot at Sarah Palin; it stuck with me because I thought it was so unlike what I was used to from her.

[Jesse Ward, my Daddy is sick. #Pitzer]

Hey the Pitzer Hot shot is posing as Ben again.
Why Daddy why?? Why do you pretend to be Frau??? And why do you call yourself Ben Daddy??

[Ben]

Gus is mentally ill.

[Ben]

Although absent 'shouting' it could be some other sockmeister.

No. It's GUStavo.

[sbwaters]

Trolls seem uniformly bitter.

[alumni@pitzer.edu THEY LOVE E-MAIL]

Dance Ward. You've allowed your family to be ridiculed, you've allowed the college that fired you to be ridiculed, and you cannot stop.
You have no idea who I am, but I know who you are where you live and who your family is. Keep playing Ward. You can't stop. Proof that you are sick. I've exposed you.
Why do you harass Frau? You're sick, that's why.

[Miss Marple]

sb,

I have long believed that the goal of the left is to make everyone as uniformly unhappy as they are.

I refuse.

[Dylan. Absolutely Sweet Marie Ward]

Why Daddy, why do you drag the family into your sickness?? Is that why Pitzer fired you? And why did you name me after a pot smoking hippy?
To live outside the law you must be honest.

[Ben]

Definitely GUStavo. The idiocy is the tell.

[Ben]

It wouldn't be too difficult to check the Frau sock on sitemeter.

Even she has an intelligence difficult for a sock like GUS to imitate.

Did I say intelligence? Edit per opinion.

[Fired from Pitzer]

Can't stop can you Ward. You have allowed your ex-wife, and your children to be made part of your sick games, and you continue.
You don't even have the balls to defend your family. I own you Ward. You can call me Gus all day long. You have no idea. But this blog knows who you are. I own you.

[Fired from Pitzer]

Ward, your con game doesn't work. Everyone here knows you are the one attacking Frau.
You can't stop. Are you an alcoholic too Ward?
You'll answer, because you are Dana Gilbert Ward, your family is, Julia-ex, Jessie, Dylan and Maya. I have plenty more Hot Shot.

[jimmyk]

As I said in the last thread, since when does a President get to punt on anything that's not an "existential threats" anyway? Obama spends a lot of his time inflicting costly policies to deal with things far less consequential. Is inequality an "existential threat"?

[henry]

Jimmy, for Obama and his ilk, the Tea Party is the only existential threat.

[I lived in Viet nam, with my ex-Julia]

Like all liberals, Ward is a coward.

[Ben]

You're late for your gig at Chucky Cheese. Tune your guitar with that tin-ear for your tribute to the Cowsills.

[I lived in Viet nam, with my ex-Julia]

Ward, why did you delete your link to Julia's page? We all know why. You're sweating son.

[sbwaters]

[Neither the disease nor the medicine is palatable.]

[Jane]

Stop talking to the ass.

Snow starting in 7 minutes.

[Ben]

"Stop talking to the ass."

I see it as a public service message, but I'll stop.

[Jane]

Snow starting in 3 minutes.

[RickB]

No one who understands profligate mendacity is a prerequisite for tenure at Pitzer College could ever believe an utterance by someone awarded emeritus status for continuous demonstration of the prerequisite.

[Jane]

The eagle has landed.

[Dana Gilbert Ward exposed.]

So Ben (Dana Gilbert Ward) defends the person attacking Frau. Then when he is confronted with his attacks, he denies it and attempts to blame Gus. Even a liberal would recognize who this fruitcake is He can't help himself. Jane asks me to stop talking to the "ass", and Ward makes a further fool of himself.
Seriously, it's sad, this "man" taught 18 year old kids at a "college". How sad.

[Rick Ballard]

Hmmm... Typhuspad is requiring a sign on for each thread to maintain identity.

JOM Poll

Which tenured credentialed moron has done the most damage to the United States in the past ten years through profligate mendacity:

1) Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University

2) Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School

3) Jonathan Gruber of MIT

4) Paul Krugman of Princeton University

5) Write in

[DrJ]

Rick,

(5) Bill Ayers.

[Ben]

5) Glenn Reynolds with a h/t to Mankiw.

[henry]

That is a difficult question. How about the head gal at UVa?

[Extraneus]

I don't think Ben was sock-puppeting anyone, Gus.

[GUS]

Henry, Tim Geithner.

[Extraneus]

As for existential threats, jihad is certainly one. It has virtually wiped out Christianity in the ME, as we have discussed, and is transforming Europe.

Everyone doesn't need to die in order for the threat to have been existential. What came before it simply needs to cease existing.

Political correctness, which is successfully overturning freedom of speech, is an existential threat.

[Rick Ballard]

DrJ,

Could Ayers and Sunstein have successfully promulgated their pernicious idiocy without Krugman's continuously babbling Keynesian fantasy?

I don't discount the damage Ayers has done and continues to do but reality is putting a grim end to the pseudo-Keynesian perpetual motion machine so dearly loved by the progressive fascists. Those who buy today's indoctrination will be provided with continuous solid evidence of the lies they've been sold for the rest of their very frugal lives.

[Danube on iPad]

"I cannot think of a single instance when I did not agree with Dorothy Rabinowitz."

I can't either. The woman is a treasure, as I first learned when she took on the Amirault atrocity. She was a vox clamantis in deserto at the time, and should have got a Pulitzer.

[DrJ]

Rick,

In addition to Ayers' education atrocities, I doubt Obama would have floated to the top of the Chicago cesspool without his assistance.

[narciso]

afternoon all, great pieces clarice, I linked a piece from John Sexton, yesterday,
debunking Zakaria, an easy task, but tying
ISIS behavior re Kassabeah, using the practice of quisas, which is 'eye for an eye'

[Rick Ballard]

DrJ,

Then we have to compare the effect of Tribe's mendacity with that of Ayers. Tribe was the one who covered for Obama's inability to perform relatively simple 1L tasks by asserting the brilliance of what will never be more than a 15W bulb. Ayer's initiated the parasitic affliction but Tribe gave it an incredible boost with his quite obvious lie.

[narciso]

struck with a cluebat:

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/02/08/prince-charles-to-british-muslims-if-you-come-here-to-live-you-must-abide-by-our-values/

[narciso]

General Flynn, was pointing out how there was no Kennan in this stillborn strategy,
re the link of the Islamist staffer in the pentagon, we note that Major Coughlin, the preeminent military expert on Sharia, is being cashiered,

[narciso]

this was the link

http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/questions-for-the-pentagon-who-is-hesham-islam/

all the while, those who are proponents of rapprochement to Salafism, are promoted upwards.

[narciso]

I guess this is what the Kramerica intern was on about:

http://therightscoop.com/the-question-about-the-dream-act-from-dana-bash-that-ted-cruz-called-ridiculous/

[Danube on iPad]

Interesting stuff on the fraud Williams:

http://nypost.com/2015/02/08/we-shouldnt-believe-williams-lie-was-an-innocent-mistake/

[Danube on iPad]

Rick, could you elaborate on Obama's "inability to perform simple 1L tasks?" I have often suspected something along those lines (I'd love to see his property exam), but haven't seen anything in the press.

[Captain Hate]

She was a vox clamantis in deserto at the time, and should have got a Pulitzer.

She got a Pulitzer in large part because of those articles.

[narciso]

well there was that Jodi Cantor piece that included his sample syllabi and exam questions, that revealed he was peddling Alinsky power relationships, in lieu of actual legal scholarship

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Rabinowitz has been great on many issues. She does have a bit of the GOPe in her when it comes to R political strategy, as I recall.

[Danube on iPad]

I would say Gruber has done the most harm, because he persuaded a lot of people who counted that a lot of Obamacare lies were not lies.

Unaware DR got the Prize. Richly deserved.

[narciso]

a fairly smart fellow, yet he indulges in some foolish notions, which long should have made clear:

http://20committee.com/2015/02/07/obamas-faith/

[narciso]

Charles McCarry was very prophetic about this, nearly 40 years ago,

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/24/children-of-the-caliphate/

[Extraneus]

Soon the whole subject of Obama's education will give way to that of a guy who didn't get a bachelor's degree.

And you can bet someone already has his grades.

Hope he did ok on the SAT.

[narciso]

well the whole skydragon netting which includes Mann, and Schneider, clearly have the largest aggregate impact,

[Miss Marple]

henry, Gus, all:

I see Bret Baier will have a special on tonight on the Fox News Channel about Scott Walker. It is the first of several they are doing on the GOP potential field.

I am going to watch it, since I have heard him interviewed very little. I also think that other than his speech in Iowa, this will be the first national exposure he gets.

[Rick Ballard]

DoT,

Here's the source for the most egregious lie.

“There are those in whom challenge stirs greatness, those who rise to challenge rather than letting it break their stride or spin their compass,” said Tribe about Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, whom he called “the most impressive and talented of the thousands of students I have been privileged to teach in nearly 40 years on the Harvard faculty.”

I can't find the quote pertaining to failure to perform relatively simple tasks but I believe it was exemption from having to perform basic research. IIRC, the quote was made in response to a question concerning actual evidence regarding Obama's "brilliance".

[narciso]

well dread pirate Roberts,@ MarkOwas also a student of Tribe,

[Danube on iPad]

Nicely worded by Tribe. Of course, a student can be both impressive and talented without being particularly smart.

[clarice]

I don't think he did much in HLS except independent studies with the likes of Gates and Tribe. You know--sit around and b.s. with the professor instead of taking real courses.

[Extraneus]

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe's calendar for March 31, 1989, marks his first meeting with future President Barack Obama. The exclamation point was to remind Tribe how impressed he was with the first-year law student.

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/22/153214284/obamas-harvard-days-began-with-exclamation-point

[Extraneus]

From the same link:

Tribe recalls that his research assistant tried to find a way out of deeply entrenched lines of the abortion debate, focusing instead on education and access to birth control. "It's as though he was looking not just for a point in the middle of a spectrum, but for a line that was perpendicular, so that one could get outside the tragic choice."

Seems more like political "science" than law.

[Mad Jack]

Keep in mind that Tribe knew he would be competing with some world class ass kissers(his fellow HLS buds) for a Supreme's gig.

[narciso]

among other parallels to the Kassabeah incineration, that didn't occur to Moyers,
was Nebuchannezzar's treatment of Daniel,
and the other martyrs, the brutality in that land, long precedes Islam's rise,

[Extraneus]

Is there any doubt that Tribe would have been equally impressed with a half-white student than he was with a half-black one?

[narciso]

those with real discernment, like Dr, Carson or Ted Cruz, are disdained no matter what their credentials,

[Miss Marple]

http://twitchy.com/2015/02/08/what-a-douche-boston-herald-reports-lyin-brian-williams-blew-off-medal-of-honor-society-convention-for-snl/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

[narciso]

brian Williams was long thought a fool, now we know he's a knave

[Miss Marple]

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/02/06/seismologist-say-a-fault-is-at-fault-for-irving-earthquakes/

Not fracking; a previously undiscovered fault.

[Extraneus]

"as he was"

A rare rule violation.

[Miss Marple]

Brian Williams has cancelled his scheduled appearance on Letterman (Thursday).

[Extraneus]

Tribe on Obama:

“He displayed the ability to see a multifaceted problem in all of its complexity – and you want presidents to do that. The separate question of decision-making style, of managerial style, how somebody handles himself or herself on the world stage – I obviously had no [foreknowledge of that]. He certainly saw every side of everything – and deeply. He really has deep insight into a number of things, including physics, and history, and political science, and seemingly a lot of law, though this was before he [finished] law school.”

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/07/09/How-Barack-Obama-Amazed-His-Harvard-Law-Professor

Anyone ever hear of Obama studying physics? Did he take calculus?

[Miss Marple]

Extraneus, I have seen no hint of him having even basic arithmetic skills.

[Jane]

DOt, did you find HLS a real challenge? I was at BC when Obama was at Harvard, and we were shocked that Harvard students took 3 courses a semester to our five. The other gossip was always that the only trick to Harvard was getting in, because once you did it was easy peasy.

Of course this was from kids at a law school who didn't get into Harvard and were not ranked anywhere near them. I can attest that I did not even apply.

[narciso]

I think this was the link they were referring to from last night:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/lying-isnt-what-it-used-to-be.php

[Mad Jack]

Physics? He can't even handle Phys Ed.

[narciso]

Tribe, De Unger, Ogletree, Bell, really is there any indication of any real scholarship on his part

[MarkO]

Obama? He's just not that smart. He is certainly uneducated and barely literate.

"who are we to judge?"

"who are we to judge?"
This is an insidious and harmful misapplication of an important religious tenant. When those who rule us demand that we not judge them or their actions or the actions of those who harm us, it is only an invitation to submissiveness.

I am reminded of the slightly impious joke (trigger warning) about the woman caught in the act of adultery. When Jesus suggests that the first stone be thrown by anyone without sin, to His shock a rock comes out of the crowd. Jesus says, “Mother!?”

I offer that apocryphal tale to prove this point. While we may not be morally worthy to judge the sins of others (a proposition that depends heavily on one’s doctrine), we are more than worthy to judge the actions of killers and shiftless, lying politicians. Indeed, such judging is our civic duty.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Billy the Bomber has a private circle in hades reserved just for him.

Trollus Biggus went after AliceH before I returned to post. If I were looking for victim-hood, I'd say it's because I'm short. In stature.

[clarice]

Tribe and Obama worked together on that preposterous article comparing law with Einstein's Theory of Relativity,Luftmenshen on Parade.

I think Obama snowed Tribe--b.s'r extraordinaire /

[Rick Ballard]

Clarice,

Today's Pieces was my inspiration for the poll. Identifying those most responsible for the idiocies being fed to the gullible seems a reasonable act for those committed to cognitive dissidence as a viable response to the lies of mendacious credentialed morons.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Can you imagine the awkward silence if Letterperv had to act like Brian Williams hadn't done anything worthy of mentioning recently? Because there's no way he'd call him out.

[Frau Rechtsverdreher]

Tribe is a baby step up from CA's Erwin Chemerinsky who is *never, never* wrong.

[narciso]

the problem is the peanut gallery, that layers hosannahs on Zaphod, and some who are just too clueless for words:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pc-helps-careerism/

even Pinette is showing more signs of selfawareness,

[narciso]

he does have a way with words:

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/02/06/williams-wiener-wankers/