Back to work!

US index futures are looking mighty ugly right now on the heels of an awful trading day in Europe. Seems they're ... what's the word? ... ah yes, boned.

Monty will be along with more DOOM! than you can shake a stick at shortly.

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Intrepid moron chick Melissa in Texas sent these to me today. I fussed at her for gettin out there. She told me to shut up.

In a nice way.

There are thousands of people displaced now, while fire crews try to get this shit under control. The winds are back up, unfortunately.

more, Austin, out east

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Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:39 PM | Comments (154)
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Final hours in the holiday weekend and that booze ain't gonna drink itself.

VDH: The Cheney Memoir: Hype and Reality

Is everything you've heard about it is wrong?

I’m about halfway through the new Cheney memoir, In My Time, and it does not at all resemble the media’s description of it — a highly controversial book preoccupied with scoring points against rivals — which suggests that many of those who have written about it have not read it. Every writer defends his own record, of course, but I haven’t detected any vendettas yet. On occasion, Cheney admits errors of his own, especially unwise press announcements and rash public statements. Although he is critical of Colin Powell in the lead-up to Iraq and afterward, he is more than magnanimous in prior references to the man — no “cheap shots” that I could see.

JC Penney Stops Selling ‘Too pretty for homework’ Shirt

After protests from the usual suspects.

“We agree that the ‘Too pretty’ t-shirt does not deliver an appropriate message, and we have immediately discontinued its sale,” the company wrote of the shirt, which was geared towards girls age 7 to 16.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 05:39 PM | Comments (546)
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You know, I'd have more respect for him if he'd repudiate his piece of crap healthcare law. But noooo, he doubles triples down on it.

Mitt Romney, trying to turn a political lemon into lemonade, predicted that his record of enacting a controversial Massachusetts health care law would be "one of my biggest assets" in a campaign debate against President Obama.

Right, Mitt. It's such a phenomenal success.

Oh, wait. It's not.

Five years after Gov. Mitt Romney signed Massachusetts’ groundbreaking health care legislation, it has met its chief goal of extending insurance coverage to most residents — but with costs rising faster than inflation, lawmakers face the challenge of how to pay for it all.

Although the law has extended coverage, it has done little to fundamentally change the way consumers shop for health care, which analysts say is the only lasting solution to ballooning costs.

The current occupant of the White House has proven good at ignoring reality. I don't know why we'd want to continue this, given the problems we face.

Posted by: andy at 05:12 PM | Comments (77)
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Not that there was anything wrong with the article. It was peer-reviewed, checked, and followed protocols.

Unfortunately, the science it brought light to -- that more heat was being lost from the earth than climate "models" accounted for (thus meaning they are wrong as currently configured) -- harms the cause.

So the "guilty" editor resigned, apparently in protest of his own decision.

Wolfgang Wagner, the editor of new open access science journal Remote Sensing has resigned, re-opening the debate about the politicisation of science publishing.

The August edition of Remote Sensing included a peer-reviewed paper by Spencer and Braswell [original PDF/370KB], citing satellite evidence showing that more heat energy is being lost to space than climate models account for.

Resigning is a very unusual step, notes Retraction Watch. The Spencer and Braswell paper has not been retracted, and in his statement [PDF/93KB] Wagner acknowledges protocols were followed. Standard operating procedure would be for critics to examine, and rebut if needed, the science in other journals.

But peer-reviewed publication in a journal has become a powerful propaganda weapon – the lead scientists who submit and review each others' papers are often chapter editors for the IPCC's assessment reports, the "bible" used by politicians to formulate climate policy. Several efforts where editors were pressured to keep dissenting views out of the prestigious journals have been documented.

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" vowed Dr Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Jones and Trenberth were both co-ordinating lead authors on the IPCC's Fourth Assessment report, published in 2007.

The science is settled, and here's how they did it: By simply censoring any contradictory science.

Thanks to ArthurK.

The Science Is Scuttled: Much more on the controversy at Watt's Up With That. Basically they've gone into a pack-animal frenzy to suppress the science.

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So, not only are we sons of bitches, we're barbarians. Like Fatty McFatpants Hoffa, Jr., Biden also uses the word "fight." Several times, in fact. He also says "onslaught," "attack," "assault," and "war." Unlike RolyPoly McLarge, however, he did not demand the mind-bending combination of both better access to healthcare and more jelly doughnuts.

I can't say that I like the New Tone. It does sound like tough-guy cheerleading, as Allahpundit says, but there are bound to be a few numbskulls out there who will take this as a call to violence, especially given the long history of union-sponsored violence. Let's hope not, though.

Video below the fold via HotAirPundit.

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Hooray...?

Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.

“Several forum participants have suggested that, following a transitional stage, the battle should turn against secularist rebels and members of the [rebels’] Transitional National Council,” the unclassified report stated.

Unfortunately, I don't think Obama has the will to do what is necessary here, if he is to actually finish this in an acceptable way. He'd need to seriously arm the non-jihadists, and even bomb, when needed, jihadist positions.

Civil wars are always dirty wars, and I don't know if President Theoretical Understanding Only has the grit for that.

And, of course, as many argued, replacing an unpopular former terrorist with popular current terrorists is no victory at all.

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Cold-blooded murder and hatred. 39 years ago today.

I was 13 years old, and I remember the feeling of despair and sadness when Jim McKay said "they're all gone".

Yassir Goddamn Arafat sent these monsters into Munich, to maim and kill. He got a Nobel Prize for it.

Shows you what a goddamn Nobel prize is worth.

Rot in hell you bastard.

damn.. "our worst fears". Hard to describe how that felt, but I remember it.

via Rightgirl

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It's on CNN right now.

No Perry, he had to head home and actually be a Governor.

DeMint, Steve King from Iowa and Robert P. George will be asking them questions.

Bachmann is up first. DeMint is asking about constitutional limits on the government, jobs and right to work.

Best part of this 3 questions in? Questions actual Republicans care and think about.

Posted by: DrewM at 11:05 AM | Comments (140)
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From Real Clear Politics:

"We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war," Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.

"President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong," Hoffa added.

(Emphasis mine.) So much for the Palin "reload" argument, huh? And the alleged crosshairs. And that thing about cooling down the heated rhetoric? Well. That's only for Republicans. At least, that's what the MBM tells me.

Let's be clear: This is practically an incitement to violence. Let's see if it is denounced as such in the media.

And, as @ExJon tweeted, this is a perfectly set up "Sister Souljah moment" for Obama. "Of course, he's too tone-deaf and afraid to take it."

Video at the link.

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