Monthly Archives: November 2011

More Fuel Efficient, Hybrid, And Electric Vehicles Reduces Money For Roads….Wait, What?

The obvious solution is for everyone to drive a big gas burner (CNN) Drivers often forget that they pay for highway construction and maintenance through federal fuel taxes: 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. “The notion that the road has ever been free is sort of a self-delusion,” […]

Most Transparent Administration Eveh! Pushed To Change Jobs Loss Numbers From Mining Rule

Hey, remember when the media and liberals excoriated the Bush administration for pressing the EPA to soften its climate change (hoax) reports? The resulting freakout? What happens when the guy who proclaimed that he would change the way business was done in Washington does something similar? Well, pretty much only Fox News bothers to cover […]

Yet Another Occupy Sexual Assault, This One In St. Louis

Sheesh, what is it about Lefties that brings out the inner beast as soon as they are camping in a park? (KMOV) A 20-year-old woman participating in the OccupySTL protest reported to police that a man sexually assaulted her while she was in her tent on November 8, three days before tents were removed by […]

Astroturfed “Grassroots” Occupy To Occupy Congress?

So they say (Washington Post) One of the enduring questions about Occupy Wall Street has been this: Can the energy unleashed by the movement be leveraged behind a concrete political agenda and push for change that will constitute a meaningful challenge to the inequality and excessive Wall Street influence highlighted by the protests? A coalition […]

If All You See…

…is clothes being washed naturally, saving Gaia, you might just be a Warmist

San Fran Occupiers Welcome Lice And Fleas

I’d compare them to cats and dogs, but, cats and dogs don’t continuously tell us how they are uber smart (CBS San Fran) Poor sanitation and evidence of lice and fleas at the Occupy San Francisco encampment endanger the health of everyone in the overcrowded, makeshift tent city at Justin Herman Plaza, public health officials […]

Bummer: UN IPCC Fails To Support AGW Caused “Extreme Weather”

In the past, it used to simply be called weather. Now, every tornado is due to Donald Douglas using electricity to tell us Britney Spears wore a hot green bikini. Every weather event, or lack thereof (3rd straight year with no hurricane strikes on the US mainland. Irene was not a hurricane when it came […]

OWS: What Better Way To Get People On Your Side Than Tick Them Off?

Thursday’s two month anniversary of liberals squatting in squalor, avoiding showers, banging on drums, doing drugs, raping other Occupiers, exposing themselves to children, and ruining the local businesses profits, among others, was a perfect show of liberalism. For some reason, they think the best way to achieve their objectives is to use vinegar instead of […]

Manbearpig Gets All Sciencey In Explaining Globull Warming

Al Gore digs deep into the science as he writes in his journal “When I talk with people who are skeptical about climate change science, I’m often asked: “I know global warming is happening, but how do we know humans are causing the change?” “Broadly, this question requires a two-part explanation:” “1. We know that […]

College Grads Moving Back Home Damages Trickle Down Economics

(A little bit of serendipity. I wrote this one earlier in the morning, and just heard Rush talking about it as I was headed home from the gym.) And, if you are a woman, you are in big trouble, because you aren’t buying all sorts of womanly stuff (NY Times) Like most of her friends, […]

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