Not a flyin' car, but delivering, maybe, one day, on a childhood dream.

Here's Jetman (skip to 3:50):
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Posted by: Ace at 04:38 PM | Comments (56)
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Cat's out of the bag.

I feel kind of pathetic that the only way a fact is established to exist is if a Democrat says so; obviously I can't quote Boehner or McCain or whoever. They don't count. They are self-discredited simply due to the fact they're the wrong party.

Well, fine, that's the media's game. Here's a Democrat saying so then:

Democrats, having defeated a Republican attempt to block proposed Medicare cuts, now face an even bigger headache: concern among members of their own party over the programÂ’s future funding.

President Barack Obama wants to cut spending on the federal insurance plan for the elderly to help fund his health-care overhaul. Part of that proposal would cut more than $100 billion from Medicare Advantage, through which the government hires private insurers such as Humana Inc. to deliver Medicare benefits to 11 million seniors, including extras like reduced co-payments and even gym memberships.

Should Congress scale back the program, “We’re not going to be able to say ‘if you like what you have, you can keep it,’” said Senator Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat. “And that basic commitment that a lot of us around here have made will be called into question.”

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It also threatens to stoke opposition from the elderly, many of whom are already skeptical about ObamaÂ’s plans, and to reduce earnings for some of the 200 private insurers participating in Medicare Advantage.

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released last month found that 60 percent of seniors said they would be better off if Congress didnÂ’t change the health-care system; 39 percent of those younger than 65 said they prefer the status quo.

And check this out: Blue states -- or at least Obama states -- seem to be somehow getting protection from these cuts:

Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Bill Nelson of Florida and Ron Wyden of Oregon are among those who secured special provisions shielding constituents from cuts.

Casey says he wants “very comparable” protections for his state, where more than one-third of Medicare beneficiaries participate in Medicare Advantage. “It’s the kind of thing that will likely be addressed on the floor,” he said.

How filthy-dirty is that?

Meanwhile, Blanche Lincoln is trails all four of her possible Republican opponents in Arkansas, which means, you know, this isn't about any of her opponents. It's about voting Lincoln out of office, pure and simple.

Which, again, oddly enough, frees her up commit suicide, because the voters are going to kill her anyhow.

Lincoln trails four possible Republican challengers in the latest Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey. In fact, support for the incumbent ranges from only 39% to 41% in these match-ups.

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[A]mong those who Strongly Oppose the health care plan, Lincoln trails every potential Republican challenger by more than 50 percentage points.
The really bad news for Lincoln is that 56% of Arkansas voters Strongly Oppose the congressional health care plan. Just 18% Strongly Favor it.

When those with less intense opinions are included, 32% of Arkansas voters support the proposed health care legislation and 65% oppose it.

Can I remind everyone that Obama wanted to ram this thing down our throats without people even finding out the costs, or finding out how much it was going to cost them personally to float health insurance for a stranger, like six months ago?

Bonus: An angry, red-faced John McCain asks of Reid, "Is this the same Senator Reid that said the last time we tried to reduce Medicare payments that it was immoral? Is this the same one?"

Yup. Same one.

Posted by: Ace at 04:28 PM | Comments (58)
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This researcher has been pressing FOIA claims since 2007.

The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s.

“I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” Mr. Horner said. “These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.”

The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler.

He wants not just the data and the corrections but the discussions that led to the "corrections." He wants, in other words, a record of the believed conspiracy, here.

He should have it, of course. If there's nothing to see there's nothing to see. But as far as I know NASA is taxpayer funded, and we all own their workproduct, and everything that goes into it.

Posted by: Ace at 02:05 PM | Comments (178)
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The thing is, this is so odd, I think we can take this out of the category of "doesn't know the snap-count" and safely put it in the category of "is suffering from delirium due to concussion or heat stroke."

Still... weird to watch.

Old? And Deliberate? Moron #321451 says...

FSU's been doing the freeze all year.

It's to draw attention to defensive encroachment

Usually the whole front line stays still. This guy was doing EXACTLY what he was told.

Lorien says so too. Something like, if the defense jumps offsides, but you're all just standing there stone-still, the refs can't possibly call the false start on you.

Kind of seems odd to be still standing there when a live play is unfolding and people are hunting your quarterback like it's The Most Dangerous Game on astroturf.

I continue to be baffled, myself.
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Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM | Comments (103)
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In this case the climate study was peer-reviewed -- after being published; not usually the preferred order of doing things -- and was found to be completely bogus.

But good enough for government work.

Rather than blurb it I will say read the whole thing -- it's short and it won't cost you nothin'.

Point is, yet another "scientist" had no idea what the hell he was doing when he ran his software, made lots of errors, concealed those errors, and deliberately choose arbitrary data to give him the scare-scenario he wanted.

And yet Govahnah Shortbus of California is still using it to push his "green" nonsense anyhow. As someone said about California's own multibillion climate studies program -- perhaps California decided it wasn't bankrupt enough.

And here's Ed Begley from last week telling us we can trust the science because it's peer-reviewed.

I know it's old. It's still good.

Peer review doesn't mean much when your peers are all in on the game, too.

It's amazing. They've all been doing this. All along.

Via Hot Air.

Posted by: Ace at 01:28 PM | Comments (72)
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I guess we should have expected this.

Is the media still blacking out this story? As far as I know (and I don't know much) they are.

One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails that suggest scientists did not want the IPCC, the UN body charged with monitoring climate change, to consider studies that challenged the view global warming was genuine and man-made.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, Prof Mann said: "I can't put myself in the mind of the person who wrote that email and sent it. I in no way endorse what was in that email."

Prof Mann also said he could not "justify" a request from Prof Jones that he should delete some of his own emails to prevent them from being seen by outsiders.

"I can't justify the action, I can only speculate that he was feeling so under attack that he made some poor decisions frankly and I think that's clear."
Prof Mann then argued however that there was "absolutely no evidence" that he too had manipulated data, while he also said "I don't believe that any of my colleagues have done that".

The Wall Street Journal notes that all of science's credibility is at risk, should scientists attempt to cover this up. And not merely the credibility of climate scientists. Hell, Rasmussen says 59% already suspect these "scientists" are making their shit up, Venkman-style.

Take a look in the sidebar headlines for green -- Krak and other open-bloggers are really filling it up with ClimateGate stuff.

Posted by: Ace at 01:01 PM | Comments (154)
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The only good thing to come out of the Tiger Woods brouhaha.

But Laura Said... [ace]: Silver linings, plural.

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Posted by: LauraW at 12:36 PM | Comments (43)
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I don't know if too much can be read into this, because... once you're suspicious of someone, everything that person does seems suspicious. Anyone who's been cheated on can attest to that.

I'm not seeing this in Big Media (of course) so I have to go with the reportage of a guy I've never heard of and a blog posting.

On AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston Hobby, on November 17 this past month, a group of Muslim men began to act oddly. Oddly enough that passengers became directly involved -- deputizing themselves as security agents of last resort -- and a stewardress refused to fly further with the men.

I didn't hear about this, but apparently it was reported on Fox. but not with much oomph; apparently they said just that a man refused to get off his cellphone and a flight was delayed.

There seems to be a lot more to it than that.

Here's a journalist's account after talking, he says, to seven witnesses.

On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet. The reasons, I have been told, is fear of predatory lawsuits, negative publicity from accusations of religious profiling, and the obligatory subjugation to mindless mandatory Muslim sensitivity training that make a mockery of our American system of values. Interestingly, one airline official told me “we don’t want to become another flight 300,” which is a reference to a very similar scenario that took place aboard US AirwaysFlight 300 exactly three years ago.

The incident referred to is the "Flyin' Imams" incident, I guess, recounted here. I say "I guess" because I think I remember this... but was it really only three years ago?

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Posted by: Ace at 11:43 AM | Comments (134)
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Sweden. Where else.

The Swedish dad who's spent the last few months attempting to squeeze milk from his breasts has thrown in the towel, with nothing more than "sore breasts" to show for his efforts.

Student Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, said that male lactation "could prove very important for men's ability to get much closer to their children at an early stage".

Child Welfare Services just emailed me to say male lactation could be very important for men's ability to have their children taken from that at an early stage.

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His efforts, which involved "stimulating his breasts with a pump" at three-hour intervals, were followed by a television crew...

Assuming he's not just punking the media: Some people take this "gender is just a state of mind" thing kind of literally, eh?

Why didn't he also endeavor to grow a detachable tail like a salamander? Maybe species is a state of mind too. Don't impose you speciesist categories on me, man.

Thanks to ArthurK.

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