By way of WUWT, an article on the excesses of Copenhagen.

The who's who of the church of AGW are embarking on their pilgrimage, and you don't actually expect their eminences to fly with the peons do you?

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Or carpool?

"We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," [Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company] says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

Well, at least they'll drive hybrid or electric limos, right? You've got to have dozens of those yes?

"Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

More fun stuff at the article, including the free sex for card-carrying delegates, while protesters get climbing walls, bowling alleys, temporary jail cells & a shiny new water cannon!

And Yurts. Very Danish indeed.

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Just a short speech to get your juices flowing this morning as you prepare for the start of a new week. Lt. Colonel Allen West is running for Congress in Florida's 22nd district. H/T patriotroom.com

UPDATE: Just realized that this had been previously posted on AoSHQ. My bad! Sorry!

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No, really.

One begins to suspect that astronomers are bored by Hubbel by now and are just publishing papers to amuse themselves with ass jokes.

In related news, astronomers have discovered a new moon of Jupiter, which they promptly named "Skullfucker."

Thanks to rdbrewer.

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This one not hacked, but sent to a hostile party. Who promptly published it.

Andrew Revkin is so beloved by the CRU warmists they fondly call him "Andy" in their emails. He's also the guy who refused to publish these disgusting hacked emails on his... um, climate blog, which you'd think could at least print a few so that his readers would understand the hottest climate story in the world.

So he's on the team. Bought and paid for, but not bought and paid for; just owned, by personal choice.

But in a blog post, he mentioned Copenhagen prostitutes offering "green" conference-goers free sex (once again, the dime drops that maybe we're on the wrong team here: nothin' but fondue and sodomy over on that side), and also mentioned a bit of the ClimateGate controversy, including the "tribalism" some of the CRU crew stand accused of.

So: This guy is on the team. He'd basically offer Al Gore a free hand release himself, except that he doesn't want to be sweated on by a husky hick. But he mentioned ClimateGate.

And for that, he gets this blistering rebuke and threat from cultist professor Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois.

Andy:

Copenhagen prostitutes?

Climate prostitutes?

Shame on you for this gutter reportage. [Emphasis added.]

This is the second time this week I have written you thereon, the first about giving space in your blog to the Pielkes.

The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists.

Of course, your blog is your blog.

But, I sense that you are about to experience the 'Big Cutoff' from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included. [Emphasis added.]

Copenhagen prostitutes?

Unbelievable and unacceptable.

What are you doing and why?

Michael

What is he doing? He's reporting facts. Professor Schlesinger ought to give it a try and see if it suits him.

"The Big Cutoff" refers, of course, to an end of the tips, free quotes, free background stuff, etc., that the climate-mongers have been offering Revkin. In other words, they're threatening to blacklist him from their rolodexes and no longer return his calls, leaving him a reporter without sources in the field he's supposed to be covering. (And doing a poor job of it even with those sources, note.)

Glad to see there's none of that "tribalism" among this claque! Good to put that particular false rumor to bed!

Meanwhile, this article at American Thinker by Marc Sheppard explains the "hide the decline" and the Medieval Warm Period and why thew warmists are so determined to kill it, and, well, lots of stuff. Another must-read piece.

The piece LauraW. linked earlier exposes a whole new area of shenanigans, too.

Update: Via Hot Air, Hmmmm...: Did Russian spies hack and leak the HARRY_READ_ME file to sabotage Copenhagen?

Note: I originally wrote the email was "leaked" but realize now that is inaccurate and misleading: Steven Hayward is on the circulation list, and published it on his blog, stating that he was doing so. This doesn't seem to be a "leak," as that implies a stealthy, anonymous revealer, so that word seems wrong.

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Welcome to the weekend countdown. Get those last few hours of football, grilling, and drinking in while you still can.

Chicks Are Gullible Too Part XII: Making Out With Chimps
Well sometimes you do have to kiss a few chimps to find an actual man.

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Commenter logprof suggested this in the open NFL thread below, and I like good suggestions. BCS Announcements tonight, I'll give you a rundown against my predictions, which were predictably predictable and stuff.

Dave's BS leads, actual results follow.

Dave's BS: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Iowa vs. Boise State. Don't miss the halftime knitting extravaganza. Either Iowa or BS wins by 3, who cares cause you won't be watching it.

THE WORD: Nope. Boise State vs. TCU. This might be the best game of the year. FrankJ noted this is a repeat of last year's Poinsettia Bowl, TCU won it by a point, 17-16. Also, that's the lamest name for a bowl since the old Bluebonnet here in Texas.

Dave's BS: Allstate Sugar Bowl: Cincinnati will meet up with Florida, and take em by a touchdown. Which will suck, beating the team ranked one all season long, and placing 3rd.

THE WORD: Ok, yep. Note my brilliant call on Florida.

Dave's BS: Fedex Orange: Ga. Tech vs. TCU. I gotta say about TCU, wow, for a school with "Christian" in the name, whose mascot is a lizard that fire ants damn near killed off in Texas, ok I forget where I was going, but helluva season for the Horned Frogs. This is the one team I really didn't want Texas to play, no glory in whippin them (per se), but hella shame to lose to em. Horny Frogs by 12 over the Wreck.

THE WORD: Substitute in Iowa for TCU. Another good game I think.

Dave's BS: Citi BCS: Alabama vs. Texas for the National Championship. True story, couple of years after we moved to Texas (from Alabama) my dad (Auburn grad) took me to the Cotton Bowl to watch Texas beat Alabama 17-13. I was the only kid on our side of the field with pimples and an Alabama pennant. Not this year. Texas by 13.

THE WORD: Yep. Alabama meets Texas again in the title game in Pasadena. Texas better figure out some stuff between now and then. I have never seen Mack Brown look as confused as he did last night. Outcoached from the first kick. Right now I'd say Alabama by 14.

I'm mostly right. I'm like a BCS computer, with hair.

UPDATE: HAH! Comparisons in the comments.

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Texas: Champ Kind

Alabama: Dorothy Mantooth

Posted by: tachyonshuggy at December 06, 2009 09:29 PM (YRjsF)

Dorothy Mantooth is a SAINT! A Saint I tell you!

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Oh dear. THIS is bad. Really bad. Even if you think Gordon Brown and his merry band of mental defectives deserve every bit of the ass chewing they got from a bunch of pissed off soldiers, its never good when a military force has this level of contempt for their political leaders.

I know its hard to be shocked by anything coming out of Britain these days, what with the Islamicization & their authorities having a hard-on for anyone who dares defend their lives & property from drunken yobs or "YOUEE"*, but even during the darkest days of "the Blitz" or during the wasteful offensives in 1916 you never saw this sort of thing happening.

(h/t Instapundit, and extended entry inspired by commenter "Michael Eagen" at the original Times Online article)

* - YOUEE = Youth Of Undetermined Ethnic Extraction.

more...

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The California Health and Human Services Agency is ending mammogram subsidies for low-income women under age 50. Under the old rules, women unable to pay could get a subsidy for annual breast-cancer screening starting at 40.

"More than 50 percent of the women we give breast exams and mammograms to are in their 40s," Riley said. "The majority of our current breast cancer survivors are women in their 40s."

The state's decision, announced Dec. 1 and effective Jan. 1, follows a controversial federal recommendation last month that mammograms before the age of 50 are generally not needed.

However, the public health department also linked the change to California's budget woes.

The federal recommendation, made Nov. 16 by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, has encountered strong opposition.

The task force later retreated a bit, adjusting its recommendation to state that mammograms for women ages 40 to 49 should be considered by their doctors on an individual basis.

Lessons:

(1) Put your healthcare in the government's hands and there's nothing to stop it from deciding you shouldn't have as much care as you'd like.

(2) There is no appeal from the government's decision, except to make a political ruckus. This works fine if you have a high-profile problem like breast cancer. If you have something nobody else ever heard of, you're SOL.

(3) Governments don't know the first thing about budgeting or controlling costs.

(4) Democrats are lying when they say they'll step up preventive care to bring down costs. The California death panel is just kicking the can ten years down the road. Breast cancers caught early are more treatable and inexpensive than breast cancers caught late. Somehow I doubt that a woman unable to pay for a mammogram this year is somehow gonna get the dough to pay for cancer treatments ten years from now. Guess who she's gonna ask for help? Not to mention, there's an enormous cost saving if she happens to drop dead before she's diagnosed. Just saying...

*Headline shamelessly stolen from GatewayPundit.

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If you're on Twitter, you probably saw something about this last night being tweeted and retweeted like crazy.

Sarah Palin was at the Gridiron Club winter dinner, where big-time Washington journalists rub elbows. Ordinarily, comments at the dinner are off the record, but this year they loosened the rules to allow Twittering. And jeebus, did they Twitter the ever-lovin' crap out of Palin's speech.

The appearance was a family affair. Todd Palin sat at the head table, and during her talk Palin called out to her parents who stood at the back of the ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel and waved to the crowd. Palin quipped that her mom and dad “crashed the party.”

On the political front, Palin said that “if the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book “Going Rogaine.”

[...]

Much of PalinÂ’s gentle political humor was aimed at the media.

“Sometimes you’ve got to trust your instincts, and when you don’t you end up in a place like this,” she said. Palin also tweaked journalists for buying books and turning immediately to the index to see if they are mentioned. Her book does not have an index but she made up index entries during her speech including: “A. Alaska, media not understanding it, page 1 to 432.”

One other comment about the media: “It is good to be here though, really, in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals or, as I like to call it, a death panel,” she said.

Palin’s book notes the sometimes troubled relationship she had with McCain campaign staffers. Talking about her bus tour for her book, “Going Rogue,” she said, “the view is so much better inside the bus than under the bus.”

In a reference to the rocky relations she had with Steve Schmidt, McCain’s bald campaign manager, Palin said that if she needed a bald campaign manager, “all that I am left with is James Carville.”

More over at CSMonitor.

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Warren Meyer of CoyoteBlog and Climate Skeptic has the must-read of the day. It starts:

LetÂ’s say you had two compasses to help you find north, but the compasses are reading incorrectly. After some investigation, you find that one of the compasses is located next to a strong magnet, which you have good reason to believe is strongly biasing that compassÂ’s readings. In response, would you

1. Average the results of the two compasses and use this mean to guide you, or
2. Ignore the output of the poorly sited compass and rely solely on the other unbiased compass?

Most of us would quite rationally choose #2. However, Steve McIntyre shows us a situation involving two temperature stations in the USHCN network in which government researchers apparently have gone with solution #1.

As the man says, click over and read the whole thing.

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