Monthly Archives: June 2013

If All You See…

…is unsustainable fishing because slight increases of CO2 means that life won’t reproduce, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is The Other McCain (smitty), with a post on #OccupyResoluteDesk

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day to remember the America where we didn’t have our government spying on citizens. Not sure who did this pinup, which is a painting, figured it didn’t need anything added. What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15 The Jawa Report highlights dhimmitude at a Paris museum Jo Nova […]

Lawmakers: Nope, We Haven’t All Been Briefed On NSA Spying Programs

As the UK Guardian continues to release information on the NSA programs (such as Boundless Informant), Obama and his team attempt to deflect attention away, including say “hey, they’re just modest encroachments on privacy, liberty, your 4th Amendment rights”. DNI James Clapper whined about the “rush to publish“. And then there was the notion that […]

The Arctic Death Spiral Is Apparently The Biggest Story Of Our Time

Not spying on Americans, not Islamist terrorism, not governments spending way more than they take in, not the tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities, nope. Here’s Joe Romm (Climate Progress) The biggest story of our time is the collapse of Arctic sea ice and its impact on our extreme weather (see “CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice […]

If All You See…

…is a flooded world thanks to Other People refusing to install smart meters, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is All American Blogger, with a post on Ted Cruz’s response to the NSA spying

Obama Wants Cyber-Attacks List Created

This is horrible, horrible, terrible news, a massive scandal…um, wait (Guardian) Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals. The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year […]

Oh, Noes, Earth’s Alarm Bells Are Ringing!!!!!!

Unsurprisingly, the two op-ed authors, Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth…you remember, Kevin, right? He’s the one who wrote the email which said “we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”, among others…start out by forgetting to actually mention science. But, you know, alarm bells […]

NY Times: Congress Can Stop The Privacy Abuse

The question is, will Mr. Obama and his team go along with any plans to stop the over-broad fishnet surveillance of the US citizenry? Here’s the Times’ editorial board Over the last three years, several measures were introduced in Congress that would have helped reduce or eliminate the abuses of communications surveillance revealed this week. […]

Hey, Are Enviroweenies Annoying?

Even enviros might notice that they are (via Tom Nelson) (Bloomberg) For an answer, Dumb Question visited with Mark Tercek, president of the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who has embraced “natural capital.” It’s the concept in environmental economics that natural systems, such as storm-blocking coastal wetlands or water collection, […]

Photo-shopping For Anti-Obesity Campaign: It’s For The Kids Or Something

These sure are some happy looking horizontally challenged kids (hat tip to Ashley Helms) (MSN News) Sponsors of a campaign that’s drawing ire say it’s meant to educate parents and create change since pictures of healthy, smiling kids don’t really work in targeting obesity. This is one before and after Photoshop job that’s not going […]

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