1 Pres Spanier's office assures me the FIRST phase of the Mann investigation is finished. Dear Mr. Moron: Thank you for your email. In accordance with policy RA-10 under which Penn State has been reviewing allegations against Professor Mann, the inquiry period ended on Saturday, January 30. It is expected that a statement on this phase of the process will be issued within the next few days. Sincerely, Tom Poole Thomas G. Poole, Ph.D Vice President for Administration

2

I want to Nominate Rip Torn for AOSHQ's new Honorary Mascot.

Sure, he's been down on his luck a little lately, but you gotta love this about him:

"It doesn't help that he likes guns almost as much as he likes booze, the source said."

You gotta love a guy who thinks like that, even if he can't tell the difference between his house and a bank.

http://tinyurl.com/y8p5rc3

3 And the beat goes on. They defend this trash talk by saying that a very small error has happenrd, but nothing has changed on climate warming.

4

http://tinyurl.com/y8p5rc3

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2010 07:52 PM (T1boi)

Seconded, I also move to establish the Rip Torn award for Awesome Drunkeness to be awarded to people who do awesome things when awesomely drunk such as killing Hobos.

5 I believe there are also some connections between the grad student's family and some Swiss green outfit. Old money and UN letters of support for his work, it goes deeper then cherrypicking a starving student's work.

6

Another blow struck for the side of truth.  Ehhxcellent...  I wonder if there is any element of the religion of AGW that will not be proven to be total hokery before this year is out?  

The fact that all this is coming out during a bitterly cold year helps to drive the point.  To me, it's proof enough of divine intervention in the matter. 

I hope these blows pummeling the UN's body of lies keep piling up, hopefully to the point of causing massive hemorraging.  Eventually the masses will see that they've been duped, and the US can finally put foolish anti-carbon policy behind us.

 

7 Almost everyone I actually talk to, have no idea that global warming is  linked to Cap & Trade. Which= way higher taxes.  They really don't believe me!

8 I can just hear Charles Johnson screaming "Nontroversy! Nontroversy!" - just like Quasimodo yelling "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" in the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney).

9 As noted at http://wattsupwiththat.com/
the original paper is here : http://www.adventure.ch/news/climatch.htm

Note that the paper concludes that economic issues, including exchange rates, are more important than climate issues ("They attribute this decrease in the first place to the recession and the high exchange rate of the Swiss franc in relation to the German mark"), and to the extent that climate issues may be relevant, they rely on the IPCC ("Based on the climate scenarios of the IPCC"), so they aren't an independent corroboration of IPCC conclusions.

10 I stumbled across some global warming this weekend. I was sitting comfortably in my living room when all of a sudden I got real hot. After some carefully measured scientific observations I came to the conclusion that I was wearing a fleece and sweats and the heater had kicked on. Since those effects were clearly man caused effects I concluded that global warming is in fact anthropogenic. I'm calling the UN tomorrow to report my findings.

11 What we have is the wrong approach.   We shouldn't be arguing that it isn't proven, or that global warming occurs but is not necessarily man-made.

We need a total counter-scare.   Ask them what they are doing if there is an Ice Age coming?  Gin up the scare to an Earth completely covered by ice (which has happened twice in earth's history).  Ask them what the plans are to keep all of us from freezing to death,  or starving because the crops fail.

Do it now,  while everyone is so cold and there's 8 inches of snow in the Carolinas.

Fight fire with fire. 

12 STOP THE PRESSES!:

I saw an ice cube melt on the table while eating lunch today.  WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

"Scientists" please feel free to use this EVIDENCE to support Global Warming.
Your Welcome!

13 7 Almost everyone I actually talk to, have no idea that global warming is  linked to Cap & Trade. Which= way higher taxes.  They really don't believe me!

Posted by: mystry at February 01, 2010 08:03 PM (kmgIE)

Wow...  Do they even understand what cap and trade is all about??  On the rare occasions I still talk to people about politics I'm usually shocked by the level of ignorance out there.  A lot of people still aren't even trying to inform themselves.  Yet they vote.  Sigh...

 

14 "Remember, pointing out the unscientific nature of this stuff just proves that you are, um, anti-science. Or something. Now shut up and pay more for everything go to jail for thinking that way."

FIFY

15 Cereal?

Is that some cool young person slang I missed?

16 The Swiss Franc is still good currency. If you own a German Mark, then it is useless; as the Euro is the official currency for most of Europe. England is still a holdout with the Pound.

17 Cereal?

Is that some cool young person slang I missed?

Posted by: ParisParamus at February 01, 2010 08:07 PM (GgR+e)

Oh stop and B. cereus.

18 Dammit here is the link.

Need more valu-rite......

19

Posted by: TXMarko at February 01, 2010 08:07 PM (0nX59)

TX - I couldn't get your link to work.  Are they actually wanting to jail us now?  Or rather, are they finally admitting it?

20 I discovered the longer I dangle my sac in the pudding, the warmer the pudding gets.  I'm blame that on global warming and possibly the intense heat eminating from my sac, but mostly global warming.

21

yay taxing rich people!  I'm certain that will bring in the jobs! 

22 OT, Here's a great story.

 Haiti wants the USA to rebuild the country.  Think these folks would vote for "The One"?  My bet, ACORN's already registered half of them.

http://tinyurl.com/ycx369z

23 Given Chucky Johnson's "scientific" training, it is no wonder he "examined" the evidence and came to the conclusion it was AGW was real.

All you Christian haters refuse to see the truth.

24 All of these scientists are banned!

25 @20 - You owe me a new keyboard . . . and a new pudding cup.

26 Out, out, damned sockpuppet!

27

Typical.  To save a couple bucks you are willing to risk our future, yeah, OUR future since we all share the planet.

Cheap asses.  When the world ends because of us screwing the planet over, you'll have your big guns and your trailers.  Oh boy!!

28 When can we start arresting them? BTW, where is albore? has he been arrested?

29 15 Cereal? Is that some cool young person slang I missed? Posted by: ParisParamus at February 01, 2010 08:07 PM (GgR+e) I think it has to do with Twitter this weekend. Purple Avenger knew a little too much about how serial killers think. Then amended his twitter to how "cereal killers" think.

30 You people need to follow these guys on Twitter to keep up. It gets fun when Jake Tapper return tweets one of the cobloggers or Ace, I feel like I am one of the cool kids 'cause I follow the best blog on the tubes.

31

Opens wallet..

     How much do I need to pay ?

     Couple hundred ?

 

32 I'm a cheap ass and the world is gonna end. Oh crap. What will I do?

33 I want Al Gore to hire two strippers to drop to my house and rub my feet. It's cold in here and he PROMISED me global warming.

34 I want Al Gore to hire two Brasilian strippers to drop to my house and rub my feet. It's cold in here and he PROMISED me global warming.

35 I'm more worried about global darkness. Even as I sit here typing it's getting darker outside. That big orange thingy in the sky has disappeared. And I fear it will not return. I need to start a movement or something.

36 19 - Reactionary - I reposted the correct link, sorry. 

It has been rumored that Hansen @ NASA wanted Climate Deniers jailed, but the link above was written to debunk that very idea.  

These "scientists" are in this scam up to their eyeballs, and as story after story of fraud continue to roll in, you can expect to see some Scientific & Academia meltdowns as everyone involved starts Operation CYA.

37 31  depends, how many trillions has your country stolen from the earth polluting it?

38 Um, I did not mean to double post. @#$% browser. Sorry.

39 @33 - And when they're done with your feet . . .

40

Posted by: deny ya dumbass at February 01, 2010 08:17 PM (qW1Bp)

Hmmm... troll, or sock? 

Read through the commentary following the article TX linked to.  The moonbattery of some folks is amazing.  I wonder if a single one of them has the integrity to reassess his buffoonery in light of the many revelations leaked over the last few months?  I assume not - I never met a Libtard that could be coverted by facts and reason.

41 #29 Cereal science killers...

42 I'm torn btw wanting to throw in the towel, quit the rat race and go on the dole to hasten the collapse so we can rise from the ashes, like a phoenix or doubling down and trying harder so I can give more to Zero. I hate my choices.

43

@37

Hey were all in this together. Why pit one country against another?

44 I heard a few guys talk about their beers getting warm - IT MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING!  QUICK TELL THE IPCC

45 Well, look. We read this paper by some guy who talked to some boulder scramblers, and they told him the ice was all melty. And then there was this other paper by a guy in a dorm, who talked to some guys that like hiking in the snow and stuff, and they told him the ice was melty too. So, like, the science is settled, 'cause we have two sources, and we're the IPCC, okay? Hey! We read some stuff. We're all sciency and sometimes we wear lab coats to boost the image.

46

socky troll, i'm bored.

more fun with trolls here but i think they all ate cyanide after the brown election

back to baiting

47

Chucky Johnson is a savant.  Honest, I asked him and here's what he said:

Yeah, I'm an excellent bicycle rider. Uh oh, fifteen minutes until I ban someone.  Of course I don't have my underewear.  I'm definitely not wearing my underwear.

48

I want Al Gore to hire two Brasilian strippers to drop to my house...

Posted by: Zimriel at February 01, 2010 08:21 PM (sVzRC)

Actually Zimriel I thought the 2nd post (the double) was appropriate - if you're going to ask for something it's good to be specific.  Imagine if he'd brought in a lesser variety of foot warming strippers?  It might have been disappointing.  Global freezing is bad enough without having the wrong variety of chicks to lend their warmth.

49 Paging Ed Begley jr.! Paging Ed Begley jr.! Peer reviewed clean up needed at IPCC...

50 It's a peer-reviewed feature article, people!1!1!!!111eleventy!

51 @48 - You forgot the "idiot" there.

52

Hey were all in this together. Why pit one country against another?

olympic year and the world cup is coming up, duh

53 Reactionary: "The fact that all this is coming out during a bitterly cold year helps to drive the point. To me, it's proof enough of divine intervention in the matter."

As an agnostic, I may need to recategorize myself because I agree. The insider document release was the most perfectly timed miracle to history's greatest transnational fraud that I'm gobsmacked. Followed up with the miraculous Massachusetts election for the Seat of Kennedy the people and the political winds post-Obama and you almost have to believe.

I hope the unknown usurper(s) get rewards both on Earth and in Heaven.

54 To save a couple bucks you are willing to risk our future, yeah, OUR future since we all share the planet.

Nice of you to take the time to post from your yurt.  I know that hand-cranked PC is a workout.

55 #37

Read "The Chilling Stars" by Henrik Svenmark.   The earth's temperature varies according to the cloud cover.  Cloud cover is governed by the amount of cosmic rays which hit the upper atmosphere.  When the sun is inactive (as now) more cosmic rays hit the earth, cloud cover is greater, and the temperature is colder.

When the earth passes through extremely heavy bands of star activity in the Milky Way, we have heavy cosmic rays and end up with an ice age.

Read the book.  Then ask yourself what we will do if we forget how to mine coal and an ice age hits.

56

Bitterly cold year my ass, it's 83 degrees here and i'm sweating my butt off!

(oops, there's an id giveaway)

57 Holy Shit, has anyone mentioned that Ace's blog made Fark's list today???

Story of "The One's" bowing to Tampa mayor.

58 Cereal? Never heard of it...

59 Cereal?  I eat 10 bowls a day.

60 Look, if it gets really, globally hot, we all put on our air conditioners and open our refrigerators.  If it gets really, globally cold, we all turn up the thermostat ad crank up the oven and the toaster.  How f'ng hard can this be, people?

61 42 I always liked the cut of John Galt's jib.

62 Today I actually heard some prick on a podcast, supposedly devoted to advice on using Apple and OS X, preen himself when noting the unusually cold weather back east... this John Braun prick muttered that he wasn't "sure" what this weather does to the "climate change denialists" but gosh, he's never seen weather like this, guess "climate change" must be real. So is diaper change, Braun. Yours is soiled. Adventures in cluelessness.

63

Today I noticed that there seemed to be less snow on the sidewalk at work than yesterday.

The IPCC can quote me on that.

64

more fun with trolls here but i think they all ate cyanide after the brown election

Posted by: deny ya dumbass at February 01, 2010 08:25 PM (qW1Bp)

Heh heh - a lovely image.  I can just picture some long haired hippy dumbass face down on his keyboard, foam oozing from his mouth, his face frozen in a rictus of despair...  >  

I hope the unknown usurper(s) get rewards both on Earth and in Heaven.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 01, 2010 08:27 PM (swuwV)

Amen, brother Anon.

65 27

Typical.  To save a couple bucks you are willing to risk our future, yeah, OUR future since we all share the planet.

Cheap asses.  When the world ends because of us screwing the planet over, you'll have your big guns and your trailers.  Oh boy!!

Posted by: deny ya dumbass at February 01, 2010 08:17 PM (qW1Bp)

That's right asswipe.  And if you get near us, yeah, any of us, you'll have an ass full of lead...now go back home to your mama.

66

Miss Marple~

I have been thinking along the same lines, except I have been trying to develop a new cash cow that will become the next" Super Science-y Crisis That's Going To Kill Us All!!" I'm leaning toward the shifting of tectonic plates.  Now, you may be saying, "Aren't the tectonic plates already shifting?" To which I would answer, "Not like THIS, sweetheart!"

Then I would come up with some bizarre graphs and muddled statistics showing increased movement due to an imbalance of population weight on each continent. I will come up with a complex system of continuous, forced migration of populations based on BMI ratings.

I am going to be RICH! I just know it.

67 IPCC is redfining "peer reviewed" to include anything somebody, somewhere might have read.  This includes posts by Greenie the Treehugger on the Haight-Ashbury Sierra Club's blog with titles like "Dude, globel warmings gonna kill us."

68 I saw that NASA photo on the web, of the entire British Isles covered in white; frost, ice and snow. Therefore we must shackle the entire world economy, because the evidence of rising heat is getting intolerable. In related news, up is down.

69 66  Tell me that shit in Vegas, and leave my fine, fine ass out of it.  Wierdo

70 69 I saw that NASA photo on the web, of the entire British Isles covered in white; frost, ice and snow. Therefore we must shackle the entire world economy, because the evidence of rising heat is getting intolerable.

But that photo wasn't peer-reviewed.  Therefore it's just propaganda from the planet-haters.

71 Hey, I made the journals!

72 Oh dear Berni Goldberg is being all concerny on Ocreilly

73 Z the problem is, when the earth is socked in w/clouds and the windmills are frozen or broken, no more electricity. Oil and coal will still be in the ground. If the enviro's have their way, all the hydroelectric dams will be torn down. It's all about the fish ya know.

74 The best evidence of the decline of the Global Warming movement will come in the stories the media uses to scare us.

For years now, old standbys like shark attacks and Killer Bees have been held back behind "monster" hurricanes, 20 foot sea level rises, the polar melt and the rest of the AGW hype.

This has been a good tie-in for them because it impacts favored species like the whale, the polar bear and the manatee.  This love for selected species is never going away.

But "We're all going to die" is never going away either, it just changes form.

Signs that the worm has started to turn include "Giant Squid Attacks California" and "Fear drives Toyota owners to seek therapy."

75 @72 Hey, me too!

76 74  What gives you more rights than the earth's fish?  Are we not all of God's creatures?

77 fool at 27 - if the world ends 0.0000000000000000001 nanoseconds sooner because we in America have had Z06 Corvettes and Beechcraft Barons and the gas to fuel them, I'll consider it to have been an excellent trade.

Now, stop worrying about how we live our lives and go back to figuring out your own.

78 We're waiting for the watermelons, the greentard chicken littles to discard their cars, tear up their passports, recycle their clothes and wear hemp, and eat a diet of flaxseed and mung beans. We're waiting. Until they begin living in reed huts, get sterilized, and give away their laptops to the recycling plant, we don't have much to discuss.

79

HEY, no sockpuppeting the sock troll!!!

DON'T MAKE ME GO GUS ON YOU!!!!

80 deny ya dumbass - What gives us more rights than the earth's fish? 

200HP Mercury outboards?

Sonar?

Hand grenades?

Seriously, I want a happy fish population.  My wife is much happier when the hamachi's good.

81

Listen.  You know it's a fraud.  I know it's a fraud.  About half the country knows it's a fraud.  But our knowledge doesn't seem to bother Ear Leader, who keeps talking about it as if he's never heard any of the scuttlebutt. 

Progressives write budgets with imaginary crap-and-tax revenue streams as if "the science were settled," and FOX, yes, FOX reporters talk about greenhouse emissions as if they had all the credence in the world.  So now what?  Is another Alinsky tactic:  If you don't like the facts, ignore them?

82

I saw a special on Discovery (or some such channel) showing that the human body burns slow and steady, consuming almost the entire corpse, if wrapped in a material that can act as a wick for the melting fat. 

I bring this up because it suggests to me a good use for the greenies when the heating bills get to be intolerable.

83 77 74  What gives you more rights than the earth's fish?  Are we not all of God's creatures?

Clearly this claim has been disproven by your very presence.

84 #67  daisy:

Brilliant idea!  My undergrad degree is in geology.  Sign me on and I will give you lots of scary stories and statistics to help your cause!!

I foresee forced migration from the coasts inland.  Resettlement in Kansas.  Then we can form a foundation to buy up beach-front property for pennies on the dollar, to be "held in trust."  Then we can re-sell the Hotel Coronado to our friends and bask in the sun while all of the crowds are freezing in Kansas!

Works for me!

85 By the way, if Barry wanted to score some real points, he would give NASA a new mission, courtesy Frank J. of IMAO.... Nuke the Moon!

86

79  and give away their laptops to the recycling plant,

Ha, greenies all use Apple macbooks, therefore they are of the earth.  I'll take my apology in writing please.

87 #83 Sign me up for a cord of greentard logs.

88 79 We're waiting for the watermelons, the greentard chicken littles to discard their cars, tear up their passports, recycle their clothes and wear hemp, and eat a diet of flaxseed and mung beans.

We're waiting. Until they begin living in reed huts, get sterilized, and give away their laptops to the recycling plant, we don't have much to discuss.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 01, 2010 08:41 PM (AZGONz0

Excellent!  Maybe the pussy troll "deny ya dumbass" can make the initial sacrifice and lead the movement. Like you said, he can start with his laptop and do us all a favor.

89 Sign me up for a cord of greentard logs.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 01, 2010 08:45 PM (AZGON)

Regular or pine scented?  I suggest the pine scent - otherwise you're place will stink of patchouli.

90 @68 Why such a strict standard? Must someone actually have read it? I propose permitting IPCC researchers to reference thoughts, ruminations, and imaginary friends. BTW, what's MLA format for citing a daydream?

91 err, "your" place.  I hate when I do that...

92 Is this a make up day for missing obvious stories from the weekend?  It's like watching Fox News, where all the stories are two days behind the blogosphere.

93 The fact that Otzi who had been iced over in the Alps since 3300BC and for the first time had gone ice free is just anecdotal type info and has no meaning to the scientific community

94 deny ya, don't unsock. this is getting funny.

95 Think of the mountains of waste generated by the computer business. And think of the greentards enabling this Planetary Rape, buying and lusting after more and more electronic toys for their tiny nerve stems. The heavy metals. The toxic reagents. The carcinogenic compounds, the solder, the circuit boards, the energy consumed in creating these Evil Devices of Technological Terrorism directed at polluting Mommy Gaia. Cadmium, lithium, lead, tin, mercury, halogen compounds... all produced in greater and greater quantities with each greentard iPod or Zune or Dell or Apple or Sony or huge HDTV equipped with the Sundance Channel and BBC America. Green for everyone else, not for them. It's almost as if greentards hate the planet. Strike the "almost."

96

@94

Pull that towel off your eyes so you can see.

97

According to one source, Torn figured he had made significant progress by cutting back from four pints of alcohol a day to a single pint.

On topic:  GW people don't mind if a billion people in India and a billion in China forgo the industrial revolution.  They're Nth generation peasants and should be happy with that.

98 87

79  and give away their laptops to the recycling plant,

Ha, greenies all use Apple macbooks, therefore they are of the earth.  I'll take my apology in writing please.

Posted by: deny ya dumbass at February 01, 2010 08:44 PM (qW1Bp)

Oh please, now you're really showing your ignorance.  Google how semiconductors are made and what chemicals and gases are used in the process and then get back to us about how fucking green they are.  And hey, don't try to be slick and lay some bullshit on us.  I worked for a semiconductor corporation and purchased the chemicals and gases, so I know exactly how green they are.  Nice try with your green Apple macbook horseshit.

99

Excellent!  Maybe the pussy troll "deny ya dumbass" can make the initial sacrifice and lead the movement. Like you said, he can start with his laptop and do us all a favor.

89  First amendment, google is your friend

100 NASA faked the moon landings !! My ancestors were not monkeys !! That theory about the earth being round was just a lucky guess and probably untrue in the flat flyover sttates

101 Seriously, I want a happy fish population.  My wife is much happier when the hamachi's good.

Posted by: mrkwong at February 01, 2010 08:42 PM (G8Eo0)

"Hamachi is called by different names, depending on its maturity. Older hamachi is referred to as amberjack."
And one of the names is....bait.

102 Reactionary: "I saw a special on Discovery (or some such channel) showing that the human body burns slow and steady, consuming almost the entire corpse, if wrapped in a material that can act as a wick for the melting fat."

That's either a lie or a breach of our restricted, proprietary research. They'll be hearing from our legal department.

103

99   Nice try with your green Apple macbook horseshit.

Oh bullshit, that was one of the wittiest retorts ever, I should be getting +10 or jib ....  newsletter with that one.

104 That's either a lie or a breach of our restricted, proprietary research. They'll be hearing from our legal department. Posted by: Soylent, Inc. at February 01, 2010 08:55 PM (swuwV) I'm excited... Tuesday is Soylent Green Day!

105

If you are wondering how you or your children will earn a living in the liberal world, the answer is: Study creative writing with an emphasis on fiction.

That should qualify them for just about anything.

106

I tell ya..... it's been a long cold winter so far.. even by NYC standards, and it ain't over yet.

I can't wait untill summer to crank up the Weber Performa charcoal grill... do some low slow Texas barbeque just like the BBQ Pit Boys.... Carolina & Memphis style BBQ is equally as good.... make sure I make me allot of big cut's of Pork & Beef like Brisket and Butt... cook those bad boy's at least 12 hours... Ribs too... lot's of them. Probably go through a half a bag of Kingsford over the weekend alone. If an animal doesn't fart allot, then I probably don't eat it.

Make sure the AC is set just right in the house both day and night... I'll probably run the pool motor/filter a little longer, just to make shure the water is real clean and clear. Lots of cold beers on Ice all day... refrigiration is the greatest invention... nice high carbon footprint as well... I love it.

Climate scientists can kiss my ass... it's my fucking backyard, my fucking house, my fucking electric bill... go fuck yourself

107

Typical.  To save a couple bucks you are willing to risk our future, yeah, OUR future since we all share the planet.

Cheap asses.  When the world ends because of us screwing the planet over, you'll have your big guns and your trailers.  Oh boy!!

Hey dumbass,

I'm about to go kill the earth so more and I will get *the biggest* kick out of it.

Right now, I'm running a load of laundry with only two shirts. Why? Because I can. I'm also running the dishwasher that's only half-full because I don't like a messy kitchen. But why? Because I can.  Next up on the list, a very long shower, where I'll shampoo and condition, rinse and repeat perhaps. Hell I may even give myself a mani/pedi beforehand with the water running. Why? Because I can.

I'm a selfish, selfish bitch that way. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

108

Posted by: George Orwell at February 01, 2010 08:52 PM (AZGON)

Well said George Orwell.  You never hear Libtards/Enviro-whackos going off about the fact that China's rivers regularly catch fire.  Nor that their water supply in general is diminishing and heavily poisoned. 

109 'Cuda attack! She just ripped Ballerina Boy and new asshole:

Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?

The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans. Never has it been possible to spend your way out of debt. So... let the debate begin.

Included in the debate process will be opportunities for our president to deliberate internally the wisdom of this debt explosion, along with other economic, military and social issues facing our country. Our president will discuss these important issues with Democrat leaders and those within his inner circle. I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow RahmÂ’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone RahmÂ’s recent sick and offensive tactic.

The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F---ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.

A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?

As my friend in North Andover says, “This isn’t about politics; it’s about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better... Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.

- Sarah Palin

110 @94 Yeah, it's true, read his article in the IPCC Journal of Really Real Climate Research: A Novel Statistical Trick Linking Alpine Ice Loss to Some Other Un-Anecdotal Evidence of AGW by Greenie the Treehugger, sheik Yamani, and deny ya dumbass* *To whom correspondence should be addressed.

111

it's my fucking backyard, my fucking house, my fucking electric bill...

And when drought kills all the cattle and your meat is $400/lb, then what will you do?  Catfood?

112 @113 Good question. I don't know, ask the guy who wrote 103. He might have an idea.

113 I have developed a computer algorithm that predicts the future climate. Unlike the GIGO systems used by the IPCC, this algorithm can actually be tested and validated with one simple experiment.

It predicts that if all the windbags who pray to the Climate Crisis god just held their breath for 30 minutes, the "C02 problem" would be resolved. Permanently.

114

Climate scientists can kiss my ass... it's my fucking backyard, my fucking house, my fucking electric bill... go fuck yourself

Posted by: Last Conservative In Brooklyn at February 01, 2010 08:57 PM (7uAeI)

Preach on, Brookyn.

This has been a long cold winter here in Michigan, too.  To top it off, this morning I woke and noticed that it was damn cold in the house.  My furnace motor broke down in the night.  Brr.  Happily it was fixed by this afternoon, but my house is still in the process of warming back up to 68 degrees.  Brrr....

115 Some varieties of greentard stupidity are so dense they actually reflect gamma rays and neutrons. Currently, Stanford University is collaborating with CERN on a fusion reactor of a new design. In place of the conventional magnetic bottle, the containment vessel is lined with greentard hippies. They anticipate a modestly sized model will be able to generate 500 MW, but relining the vessel will require replacing the spent and ablated hippies twice a month. Unfortunately Stanford does not believe there are enough hippies in the San Francisco area to supply the needs of the reactor for more than two years. CERN and the DoE are investigating the prospect of harvesting hippies from college towns across the state of California to make up the shortfall.

116 #113

Give it a rest.   Droughts occur periodically over the world and have since the beginning of recorded history.  (See Genesis, Roman history accounts, geologic evidence). 

What are you going to do when we only have 2 months of winter and you can't find food?  And how will you stay warm through the winter?  (See "The CLoud Mystery" documentary on YouTube.)

117 I saw a special on Discovery (or some such channel) showing that the human body burns slow and steady, consuming almost the entire corpse, if wrapped in a material that can act as a wick for the melting fat.

This is common knowledge among those of us without infinite crawl spaces.

118

ugggh, gotta go get the little one from singing lessons, see ya'll on the ont

special apology to conscious

damn, i really wanted to mess with lacey too

119 Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 01, 2010 08:58 PM (1FPOn)

In. Love.

120

AnonymousDrivel at February 01, 2010 08:27 PM (swuwV)

You know I was thinking the same thing. Although, I am already a believer.  When one takes into acount all the "coincidences " battering the left, how can one not believe in a higher power?

121 @115 "it's my mom's fucking backyard, my mom's fucking house, my mom's fucking electric bill..." FIFY

122 Oops, I meant @113

123 Ack!  I meant 2 months of SUMMER in reply #118.  I make too many typos when pissed off.

124 Listen.  You know it's a fraud.  I know it's a fraud.  About half the country knows it's a fraud.  But our knowledge doesn't seem to bother Ear Leader, who keeps talking about it as if he's never heard any of the scuttlebutt.
In the same manner that His O-Ness insists that health care reform must - must - pass, no matter that no damn body wants it except him and San Fran Nan.  It's an agenda - and, as such, not subject to review or discussion. 

125

125  i live in hawaii, we have 12 months of summer HAH!!  (that was for wtr if she's lurking)

okay, off i go

126

I'm a selfish, selfish bitch that way. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 01, 2010 08:58 PM (1FPOn)

Lacy, dear, you are my queen. 

127 Thankfully, I have the Swedish Twins to keep me warm.  Al Gore, eat your heart out!

128 CERN and the DoE are investigating the prospect of harvesting hippies from college towns across the state of California to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 01, 2010 09:03 PM (AZGON)

Ah, but I know for a fact that there is a large stand of old growth hippies in Chapel Hill, NC.  No need to clear cut California.

129

Miss Marple-

Welcome to The Cause!

Two immediate agenda items:

1)An adorable animal which I will STRONGLY infer will be endangered by the sudden, unpredictable movement of tectonic plates (along with a mass-produced image of said animal looking frightened).

2) A catchy slogan. I'm playing with "Tectonic Plates - the free ride is OVER!"

130 It's been said many times & many ways, "To all you Liberals, Democrats, Communists, etc, practice what you preach. You want what I have, you just don't want to work or pay for it."

131 What are you going to do when we only have 2 months of (summer) and you can't find food?  And how will you stay warm through the winter?  (See "The CLoud Mystery" documentary on YouTube.)

Posted by: Miss Marple at February 01, 2010 09:03 PM (4DwVn)

At that stage I'm pretty sure that eating a shotgun is the most appropriate response.  Michigan has what feels like 6 months of winter and by February I'm about ready to hang myself.

132

Now they've lost the data on where 42 Chinese weather stations are located, but they'd concluded that the effect of the growth of cities on the temperature data from those stations was "negligible" and we're just supposed to believe it.  Yet another case of "the dog ate my homework", but we're just supposed to take their word for it.

They aren't doing science; they're doing bullshit.  Science can be replicated; these people are just frauds.

133 Ah, but I know for a fact that there is a large stand of old growth hippies in Chapel Hill, NC. No need to clear cut California. I am all for a program of planting young hippie striplings in vacant head shops and razed urban centers to provide hippie stock for the future. They should be managed and cultivated carefully, and not allowed to overgrow or interfere with neighboring businesses. Chainsaws have proven the ideal means of harvest.

134 just like Quasimodo yelling "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" in the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney). Posted by: wooga at February 01, 2010 08:04 PM (2p0e3) Charles Laughton (as Quasimodo) yelled that in the 1939 version too. Fuck Unca Walt.

135 98:  Don't forget the happy smiling children.  With the distended bellies.

136

Remember when the US media used to look sort of respectable compared to the trashy  rags?  What happened?  The Brit media is all over the Globaloney crap, while our "watchdogs" are actually government lapdogs.

C'mon National Inquirer - step up to the plate, and hit one out of the park for us!

137

They aren't doing science; they're doing bullshit.  Science can be replicated; these people are just frauds.

Now that Obama has tasked NASA to start monitoring climate change, I wonder what type of high-tech scientific slight-of-hand is going to be used to try and bullshit the public?

I don't know the details but I assume Obama wants to use NASA to launch a whole slew of costly satellites into orbit so they can make their false data seem more genuine. It's like a shovel-ready project for fraudulent "climate experts."

138 Don't forget the happy smiling children.  With the distended bellies.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 01, 2010 09:22 PM (btzPD)

Yep - another group of people who are useful tools of the Left one day (when begging for alms) and inconvenient non-entities the next.  Like when they illustrate the need for development and the squalid poverty of "authentic" living that the Leftists claim to adore.  Of course, as pointed out so eloquently earlier in the thread, the Lefties never seem keen to live in mud huts themselves.

139 @94:  You do know that the Otzi site has consistently been covered with 3 to 9 meters of snow ever since he was found?  And that studies of his body showed it had been partially exposed and re-covered at least three times before he was disinterred?  Just so ya know.

We've got a long way to go to kill the AGW cult.  Despite all that's happened since ClimateGate, Mr Hockeystick Mann just got $500,000 in personal funding, and his department got $1.9 million.

And turning up facts that show AGW is often based on garbage data is no new thing.  Just for one example, the CO₂ greenhouse effect calculations used for all the computer models until very recently were based on atmospheric physics calculations worked out back in the 1940s.  However, not having access to nuclear-powered supercomputers back then, the physicist did what physicists do, and simplified the calculations by assuming the atmosphere was infinitely thick.  I assume (hope) at least some of the recent computer models have corrected for this, but we don't know, do we, because they won't release the code.

140 If I told you guys that the IPCC. cited a guide to boot cleaning you might say you've gone too far. But just slip over to WWWT and see for yourself

141

You clearly have no concept of what "Peer Reviewed" means.

At least as far as us climate scientists are concerned. 

142

"Tectonic Plates - the free ride is OVER!"

How about "Yellowstone - only human sacrifice on a vast scale will appease it!  Or Al Gore."

143 #139  Is it NASA, or the military that has to take away their primary role of survailance. I thought that we can no longer track the bad guys, and had to move assets to "verify" global warming. I saw this on Fox News about a week ago.

144
I'm getting some inspiration from this docu about the Donner Party on PBS right now.  Hippies might taste ok with enough seasoning.

145
Making the GWC scam NASA's focus just means we need to cut every bit of funding in the current budget.  Let Hansen and the rest go flip burgers somewhere.

146 Hippies might taste ok with enough seasoning.

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 01, 2010 09:33 PM (k30Fr)

Huh - they can provide both heat AND food.  Who knew they could have so many practical uses?

Sadly, I doubt that they would really make good rations.  First, they're liable to be contaminated with carinogens and psychotropic substances.  Second, I dunno if there's anything that can take away hippie stink.   And finally, most have so little muscle mass that they would be unable to provide a suitable volume of protein.

147

Posted by: mystry at February 01, 2010 09:31 PM (kmgIE)

I'm not sure about the military aspect but I think I heard that the ARES Project was cancelled by Obama so that NASA could fund some sort of global warming monitoring project.

148 And what Dang said. NASA should be completely defunded.

149 OT, but I thought that this week should be remembered for the gallant Astronauts of NASA. This is "Dark Week" or "Remembrance Week" that honors the crews lost on... Apollo 1, January 27.....  Challenger, January 28....and Columbia, February 1....

150 It's a shame what NASA has become. It used to be THE symbol of our greatest endeavour and now it's the front business of a mafia operation.

151 #151  Wow,  I didn't realize all of those dates were so close.   Thanks for the reminder!

152 When the glaciers start advancing, this FL crib of mine is going to be worth a mint.

153 This is "Dark Week" or "Remembrance Week" that honors the crews lost on... Apollo 1, January 27.....  Challenger, January 28....and Columbia, February 1....

I think I detect a pattern than can be avoided through scheduling.....

154

Anyone with a working set of neurons would question how the thin air at high altitudes, and the resulting low concentrations of CO2 ( a relatively heavy molecule to begin with)  could possibly lead to  ice at sub-freezing temperatures to melt.  

Do ANY of these fuckwits understand the term "latent heat of fusion"?  Do they not know how much energy it takes (a lot) to turn ice at 32 degrees F to water at 32 degrees F?  Do they have any idea that solar radiation at high altitudes has 100 times the intensity of trace amounts of CO2 re- emitting IR?

I guarantee you that "deny ya dumbass" hasn't the slightest idea what I'm talking about.

I doubt he'll be back.  He's already flounced off to Kos by now.

But I found a pic of him:  he's the one on the left:

http://tinyurl.com/2gl8qp

 

 

155 Solar radiation? Latent heat? The Sun? Too bloggy.

156 Iowahawk needs to do a Nigeria email scam parody of this.

"Helo. I see you work for the IPCC. My familee is in desperate nede of rescu. Fortunates, I have found evidence of global worming wirtten on the ground outsyde my tent. Plese contact me urgent."

157 "P.s. I am weeling to sign ovr inteleckual propirty rights."

158 I am still trying to determine the subliminal global warming messages in Dr. Pachauri's latest materpiece novel.

159 This reminds me of Mishandled Data Ice Cram: HereÂ’s the recipe for Mishandled Data Ice Cream: One gallon of golden vanilla, the best you can find in the whole world, mixed thoroughly with one pint of human diarrhea effluvium. You can guess what it will taste like.

160

Memo:

The disappearance trope has grown old. We need something to appear as the result  of global warming  AGW, something really nasty and more sinister than a slowly rising sea level, which ultimately makes something disappear anyhow. I recently came across an article in a farmers magazine about how higher temperatures have caused fire ants to move into the Tennessee Valley, but that fucking place just got slammed with about a foot of snow. But you get the idea.

----M

Re the above:

You can bet your Brit ass something has appeared, reappeared to be precise, as the result of AGW. It is my erection. You can read about it or actually see it if you happen to be a dark-skinned nubile who inhabits the subcontinent.

Your point is taken, though. Some undergrads reminded me recently about the correlation between bong hits and alien sightings. We don't need Spielberg aliens but mean, nasty bastards like the ones who took Travis Walton in the last reel of Fire in the Sky. The hot undergrad I nailed claimed there were fewer aliens now that AGW has Mother Gaia in its grip but we could just flip that theory. On the other hand, to use your insect example, cockroaches live in all weather extremes and would fit an appearance theory regardless of the temp. And if this freaking cold keeps up we can continue to claim it too is the result of AGW and will draw polar bears south into Harvard Commons. We are talking about real flesh eating bears now, not the cute cuddly Coke commercial ones drowning and all. I can hear your mind clicking: same thing as the alien approach but more plausible.

I'll scour some term papers I graded a few years back for more ideas.

 

----R

 

 

 

 

161 @158
Do ANY of these fuckwits understand the term "latent heat of fusion"?  Do they not know how much energy it takes (a lot) to turn ice at 32 degrees F to water at 32 degrees F?

Damn right!  I've been pointing this out to the "AIEEE all the ice in the world is melting tomorrow!" idiots for nearly a decade.  All you ever get is what I call "the chicken eyes."  Like getting the attention of a chicken.

162

Argghhhh!  Global Warming!!  Global Cooling!!!  CLIMATE CHANGE!  WE ARE DOOMED....

Just drove through 60 miles of Global Cooling.

Climate Change?  Isn't that what Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring are all about?

Guess we've been "doomed" since man first stepped on the planet, but the first ones to walk upright didn't really care...all those open fire pits.

 

163

My bet is on Al Gore hiding in his underground bunker (someone parody Hitler on this one).  I would if I had sold the entire world and gotten filthy rich on a lie. 

In fact, I'm sharpening the pitchfork now.  Can anybody bring the matches for the torches? 

164

I love the advice from the Peoples Cube: "Be progressive, stop breathing"

 

http://tinyurl.com/ygy5uev

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