Are. You. Kidding. Me.

In the wake of a scandal in which Ohio Agency Director Helen Jones Kelley and two staff members were fingered for releasing personal information on Sam (Joe the Plumber) Wurzelbacher from state databases, Jones-Kelley stated that she won't allow her reputation to be disparaged and that she is concerned for her family's safety."

Really. That sucks, dude.

In related news, Joe the Plumber never had an accusation against him that he beat his kids or girlfriends or ex-wife. We know this because, if he had, Helen Jones-Kelley of the Reputation Anti-Disparagement League, would have leaked it to the press.

Thanks to Mick.

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Nice position he finds himself in, eh?

A big-spending redistributionist liberal comes to office with a pretext to utterly ignore the deficit and spend, spend, spend -- to save the Republic itself.

This will not be Clinton II. Clinton had to worry about he deficit, and limit his ambitions accordingly. Especially as it was the central issue of the 1992 campaign.

And now? Not.

Prediction: The media will not be terribly troubled by Obama's huge deficits to quite the same degree they were bothered by Bush's relatively-smallish ones.

And in case icus or seattle want to say "But there was no crisis precipitating such deficits" --

Okay. No crisis whatsoever.

Of course, George W. Bush and his complacent "conservative" Congress did us no favors on this score. It'll be like that anti-pot commecial--

Father, finding his son's pot: "Where did you learn to smoke this?!"

Son: "I learned it from you! From you, Dad!"

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Not really a big deal, as he just offers a series of assertions when asked about it while he gives a weather report.

I'll note it as significant when CNN actually does an hour long documentary examining the case for, and against, GW. more...

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Not a surprise.

Last week, when the body was discovered, some talking head said that Casey Anthony kept saying to her parents, in recorded jailhouse conversations, that she felt Caylee "must be close." She kept on repeating this, I gather.

It seems likely this was an attempt at a coded message, trying to clue the parents in to the body's general location while avoiding making it too obvious for those listening to her conversation.

The body was found blocks from Casey Anthony's house. "I just feel that Caylee must be close by" was probably a shit-for-brains attempt to get her parents looking for the body, in order to dispose of it properly, and spare her the needle. (This is not to suggest the parents would have participated in such a plan. Just that it seems this was Casey Anthony's intent.)

In related news, Florida is sorta surrounded by ocean and gulf. And has huge swamps and many lakes.

Casey Anthony's idea of a good place for a body dump was in a bit of woods in a suburban subdivision blocks from her house. She would have taken more time to better dispose of the body, but she was late for a bikini wax.

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"I am dying to show you how innocent I am."

"I am absolutely certain I will be vindicated."

He quotes Kipling's If... Now, am I wrong, or did Nixon quote If... during his troubles as well?

Asks for the presumption of innocence -- the "same rights you and your children enjoy."

Will "fight, fight, fight" until his last breath.

Gives thanks to "all those" who have expressed support for himself and Patti. A Fox chyron notes that Blago's approval rating stands at 4%.

He didn't need a press conference to thank those people. He just needed to rent out a Chucky Cheese, throw a party for them, and thank them personally.

No questions.

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Gee, those 100 Franken ballots suddenly discovered turn out to be crucial, eh?

This all turns now on what happens with the challenged ballots as they're resolved. Most will go to the candidate for whom they originally were credited to. We're going through challenged Franken ballots, almost all of which will go Franken's way; then we'll get to challenged Coleman ballots, again, almost all of which will go Coleman's way.

Problem? Franken is estimated to pick up 430 from the challenged pile and Coleman only 385.

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Link.

I'll put the picture below the fold, as it bothers too many people to see this. more...

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Levi's mom.

Were Sarah Palin another politician, this would have nothing to do with her, as it, you know, doesn't.

But this is Sarah Palin we're talking about. The media will go ballistic. The sins of the daughter's boyfriend's mother will be visited upon her.

Oh, PS, Obama did coke. No big deal, though.

Thanks to Jenny.

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As Johnny Mac would say: You have got to be kidding me.

"Between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago, both methane and carbon dioxide started an upward trend, unlike during previous interglacial periods," explains Kutzbach. Indeed, Ruddiman has shown that during the latter stages of six previous interglacials, greenhouse gases trended downward, not upward. Thus, the accumulation of greenhouse gases over the past few thousands of years, the Wisconsin-Virginia team argue, is very likely forestalling the onset of a new glacial cycle, such as have occurred at regular 100,000-year intervals during the last million years. Each glacial period has been paced by regular and predictable changes in the orbit of the Earth known as Milankovitch cycles, a mechanism thought to kick start glacial cycles.

"We're at a very favorable state right now for increased glaciation," says Kutzbach. "Nature is favoring it at this time in orbital cycles, and if humans weren't in the picture it would probably be happening today."

Sound silly? But they have computer models. You know, like the Sims.

Using three different climate models and removing the amount of greenhouse gases humans have injected into the atmosphere during the past 5,000 to 8,000 years, Vavrus and Kutzbach observed more permanent snow and ice cover in regions of Canada, Siberia, Greenland and the Rocky Mountains, all known to be seed regions for glaciers from previous ice ages. Vavrus notes: "With every feedback we've included, it seems to support the hypothesis (of a forestalled ice age) even more. We keep getting the same answer."

What was the entire human population 5-8,000 years ago in the stone age? When agriculture was just beginning? What? 100 million, tops? (I'm guessing a fraction of that, like 30 million, but I confess I don't know.)

If a stone age, non-industrial, non-petroleum burning population of several dozen millions could have so radically altered the earths' climate so as to forestall an ice age, then there is no point making any efforts whatsoever to mitigate "climate change" now that we number in the billions.

The earth is a fragile little bitch, it turns out, and there's really no use trying to molly-coddle it. We might as well just get used to the earth throwing periodic hissy-fits and get on with business as usual.

No one likes a whiner. Butch up, Planetwad. Life isn't all rainbows and unicorns, no matter what Obama tells you.

That's just the way we humans roll.

Thanks to Instapundit.

I Guessed Too High: Actually, I suspected it was lower, but I didn't want to go too low. Anyway, DrewM checked the numbers:

A quick scan of google returns show the population was anywhere between 5 and 15 million over that 3,000 year period.

You know, less than NYC is today and yet it changed the world's climate. Yeah, I'm gonna pass on that level of eco-communist shit.

Between 5 and 15 million people so changed the earth as to forestall an ice age.

Computer models prove it.

Obama's Science Advisor to the Rescue! Obama's head scientist wants to eliminate all population growth (China-style? How does one accomplish this?). He's still citing Paul Erlich's book from the seventies, The Population Bomb, predicting mass starvation on earth as our population oustripped our food supplies.

I got news for this cat -- stopping population growth isn't nearly enough. Apparently we have to kill all but a fraction of humanity to get us below the 5 million global population tipping point.

Before we destroyed the world.

Erlich, by the way, was also predicting a new ice age based on 40s through 70s global cooling. This was, of course, just a scant 5-10 years before he began predicting global warming, and became in fact one of global warming's most prominent adherents.

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