Oh wait I didn't mean warming I meant weirdening.

Or, as Instapundit says, we actually just mean "weather."

I think that's originally a @jimgeraghty observation: "'Climate' is what we used to call 'the weather.'"

Anything that deviates a degree or two from the mean is "global weirdening," because it's extremely strange that the weather in any one year could vary by a degree or more from any other year.

I mean, that just doesn't happen.

Not until we invented Carbon Dioxide in a CIA laboratory in 1978.

Meanwhile, it's thirty-three degrees Farenheit in Amarillo, Texas.

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Indeed. Corrected: The slain officer's name is Collier, not Collins, as I mistook it to be.

Giuliani argues that by obstructing justice they were not just aiding and abetting Jahar after the fact, because the shooting of Collier would come later. He thinks they can and should be charged as accessories to murder.

The federal code has a seldom-charged law, "misprison of a felony," that makes it illegal to actively conceal knowledge of a felony. I'm not sure how that's much different than obstruction of justice, and, in addition, it only carries a sentence of three years. (Although the law itself states that it's illegal to merely not report a felony, a limitation imposed by a court in 1977 adds the requirement of active concealment. But that wouldn't help Jahar's buddies. But I think the law, as the courts have refashioned it, is now basically just obstruction of justice by another name.)

As for Giuliani's argument that the buddies can be charged as murders, I'm not sure the law of aiding and abetting can be pushed that far. The language seems vague enough to allow a prosecution, but as in the case of misprison of a felony, judicial rulings have almost certainly limited that broad language. The aid the buddies rendered did not have a direct relationship to the crime Giuliani suggests they be charged as principals in; an indirect relationship, yes, but nothing direct like providing them with a gun or ammo or keys to a getaway vehicle.

I don't know if such a direct relationship is required, but I'd bet money that something like that is in the law on this. Giuliani's theory is too broad-- I don't think the law can hold you responsible for all the crimes someone commits if you offer aid to them that isn't foreseeably connected to those crimes.

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Another interesting statement is that Thomas himself doesn't like politics and doesn't "understand" politics, either. Judges typically are political, but his career was not that of a typical higher-court-seeking judge.

Q: Did you ever expect to see an African American president during your lifetime?

THOMAS: Oh yeah, I guess I’ve always thought there would be black coaches, heads of universities -- maybe again as I said I’m naïve but the thing I always knew is that it would have to be a black president who was approved by the elites and the media because anybody that they didn’t agree with, they would take apart. And that will happen with virtually -- you pick your person, any black person who says something that is not the prescribed things that they expect from a black person will be picked apart. You can pick anybody, don’t pick me, pick anyone who has decided not to go along with it; there’s a price to pay. So, I always assumed it would be somebody the media had to agree with.

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They held their local off year elections in the UK and conservatives won big. Note that's small "c" conservatives, the UKIP, not the big "C" Conservative Party.

What issues drove voters to the only party that represented a choice and not an echo?

The pollsters asked Ukip voters to tick the reasons why they back the eurosceptic party. They said:

Want immigration reduced (76pc)
Want Britain to leave the EU (59pc)
Unhappy with the major parties (47pc)
Unhappy with David Cameron and his Government (25pc)
Ukip reflects my personal values and beliefs (20pc)
Positive impression of Nigel Farage (15pc)
"Sends a message" (14pc)
Unhappy over gay marriage (12pc)
New party deserves a chance (9pc)
Ukip would run the country well (8pc)

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• Obama And Democrats Are Comfortable With Sudafed, Cigarettes, Alcohol, 16 Oz Sodas, Plan B For 15 Year Olds
  
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Whew. It's Friday. Grab a drink, depants and hop on in to the ONT.

And please, if you are a beer drinker, you should really double up on your rations as the current beer crisis could trigger the next Ice Age.

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Happy Friday.

So, how 'bout that Gomez vs. Markey race? It's got Democrats nervous enough they've dispatched FLOTUS.

There's a new Obamacare lawsuit to keep an eye on.

The Boston bombers originally considered a Fourth of July attack.

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Because right this moment is as good a time as any.

You Are All Going To Be Reported

And I think you can guess why.

The Great 'One in Four' College Rape Lie

Best and Brightest: America's Favorite Retard Uncle Makes Deliverance Jokes at Domestic Abuse Dinner

Miltown: The First Fashionable Psychiatric Drug

Slate: Online Sales (But Not Catalog Sales) Are Unfair To Brick and Mortar Stores

The Last Office Taboo For Women

The Latest Sin in Academia: "Doubt Mongering."

An Australian Bus Story

"Hated For Being Beautiful" Writer Now Says Husbands Should Divorce Wives Who Get Fat

Heh: Personal photos helped solve the Boston Marathon case, so cameras will be banned at Kentucky Derby for security reasons.

Great Marketing Failures: New Coke

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Finally, the Tea Party connection the Leftist Propaganda Organ has been looking for.

The accused Boston Marathon bombers originally planned to target a Fourth of July celebration in Boston, one of the suspects said according to ABC News sources.

The sources said the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told authorities after his capture that he and his older brother, Tamerlan, only changed their plan and hit the marathon because they were surprised at how quickly they were able to build functioning explosives.

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The American Media isn't interested at all in institutional failures or a culture of looking the other way, because this is a Friendly Power Institution, not a Hostile Power Institution, such as Penn State's football program or the Catholic Church.

There are no Enemies to the Left.

His victims ranged in age from nine to 17, and the offences date from between 1968 and 1986.

However, he entered the guilty pleas at Preston Crown Court on April 16.

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A brief outline of the abuse suffered by three of his victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was outlined at an earlier hearing at Preston Magistrates' Court.

In the 1980s Hall molested a nine-year-old girl by putting his hand up her clothing.

He also kissed a 13-year-old girl on the lips after he said to her: "People need to show thanks in other ways."

On another occasion in the 1970s he fondled the breast of a girl aged 16 or 17.

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He was later charged with historic sex offences against another 10 girls.

This is another one-- not that obvious pedophile Jimmy Saville. This is a second serial pedophilic molester/rapist with a big corner office on a high floor at the BBC.

And no one knew, supposedly.

I guess not a single complaint was ever heard in all this time.

BBC's Home Page: See if you can find it.

I'll help you-- near the bottom, on the left, "Arts & Entertainment," bottom of the list of minor news stories.

One of the stories deemed more major was "Fires shut down famous California highway."

[Update JohnE.]: Meanwhile, the leftist entertainment industry is handing out awards.

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