So are you still a global warming believer?

Then how do you explain this...........

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?

During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.

read the rest of this real science and then tell me how global warming isn't a religion.....

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Decline is a Choice

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Russian snub

Someone forgot to tell these Russians Obama was going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Brooks and Marcus

Here's two people who get all wobbly just talking about Obama discussing his Nobel Peace Prize.

Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and...

This just in

Apparently, The Downtown Athletic Club just announced that this year's Heisman will be awarded to Barack Obama for watching the Miami (FL) - Florida A&M game this weekend.

Details to come.....

Thanks to Doug Ross for the love.

Peter Beinert, racist

I didn't know Peter Beinert was a racist until I read this column ciritical of our first black president.........

George W. Bush launched a “preemptive” war. Now the Nobel Committee is trying for “preemptive” peace. I had always thought the way these things worked was that you helped bring peace or democracy to some corner of the globe first, and then you won the Nobel Prize. But this year, the Nobel Committee has turned that logic around: It clearly likes what Obama is trying to do: on nuclear disarmament, climate change and Middle East peace—and so, in a “preemptive” strike, it’s giving him the award now, in hopes that doing so will boost his chances of success later. It’s an interesting idea. Perhaps next they’ll start giving Oscars not to the people who have made the best movies of last year, but to the people who have the best chance of making the best movies next year. After all, once you’ve already made the movie, you no longer need the encouragement.

I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of “atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments.

But Obama will survive this award. The damage to the Nobel Committee itself will be greater. They’ve clearly fallen in love with celebrity, and with the idea of shaping the course of history—in other words, they’ve fallen in love with an absurdly grandiose conception of their role. The Nobel Prize Committee should be in the business of conferring celebrity on unknown human-rights and peace activists toiling in the most god-forsaken parts of the world; the people who really need the attention (and even the money). It should be in the business of angering powerful tyrants by giving their victims a moment in the sun. Choosing Barack Obama, who practically orbits the sun already, accomplishes the exact opposite of that. Let’s hope Obama eventually deserves this award. And let’s hope the Nobel Committee’s decision meets with such a deafening chorus of chortles and jeers that it never does something this stupid again.

Stealing from commenter, wow, where's Kanye West when you need him?

He must be The Messiah

So the Big O won the Nobel Peace Prize.

What's most interesting to me was that the nominations for the prize ended on February 1, 2009.
The Big O's inauguration was on January 20, 2009. Meaning that in 11 days in office the guy was able to achieve such heights.

I'm pretty sure that it took Jesus longer than 11 days to achieve immortaility.

Welcome to socialized medicine

Meet the product of socialized medicine......

Torron Eeles is a plumber in England who fell down some stairs in December and broke his left arm.

Well, that nifty free health care in England should take care of it. This happened in December. Was the arm repaired in…

A. One day.
B. One week.
C. One month.
D. One year.

The answer is D, maybe. It has been 10 months. The arm still has not been repaired.

The London Daily Mail reported:

Mr Eeles claims his first two operations at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, were canceled due to a lack of beds and operating time respectively.

His third operation in February was postponed after he was found to have high blood pressure, while the fourth, scheduled for May, was abandoned because of concerns about his smoking.

So, 10 months later, Eeles left arm still dangles uselessly at his side. No one wants a one-armed plumber. So at 50, he is out of work and he could lose his home.

That last item actually makes medical sense. Smoking complicates anesthesia.

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Kill the Golden Goose

A few weeks ago, I asked the Lovely Mrs. Gekko (my no drama mama) if she had noticed how more and more TV series we watch are done outside of LA.

Specifically, the number of shows done in Miami (Dexter, Burn Notice, CSI Miami, (we always watch Caruso's tacky intro)).

I had theorized that production had shifted due to union rules and/or tax purposes. Well, my observations appear well founded, as noted by this article.....

Is Los Angeles finally trying to become a film friendly city?

Don't hold your breath. But the city council this morning unanimously approved a series of modest recommendations aimed at slowing the disturbing migration rate of TV and film production to other cities and states.

The 17 recommendations include having the city evaluate a business tax credit for building owners that make their properties available for filming at "reasonable rate," and a sales tax refund for purchases made for filming when at least 75 percent of the shooting is done within the city. The council also agreed to offer city parking lots for free to film crews that shoot after hours or on weekends to increase the availability of power nodes downtown that film production companies could use in lieu of generators.

The steps come amid mounting evidence that LA is losing jobs in film and TV to other cheaper locales. More than 40 states offer tax credits and rebates. The city's wake-up came last year when ABC moved its sitcom "Ugly Betty" from LA to New York, to take advantage of tax credits there. Earlier this year, California adopted its first ever film tax credits, which have helped keep some productions from leaving but are considered too narrow in scope to compete with what other states offer.

Wow, when you leave LA for NY because of "tax reasons", what does that say about your tax structure?

But hey, what happened to all those "I love taxes" California liberals? Surely they would change locales for a few dollars, would they?

Where is John Galt?

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Who did they vote for? #918

A slight twist to this one.

Below is a list of people who signed the set Roman Polanski free petition along with campaign contributions they made this past election cycle.

Ariel Dorfman: $4,100

Martin Scorsese: $3,300

Larry Levine: $2,500

Darren Aronofsky: $2,300

Brett Ratner: $2,300

Richard Pena: $1,000

So who do you think these contributions went to; The Messiah or The Maverick?

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Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) Caught Off-Mike Swearing !!!

Civil discourse democratic style

Quote of the day

"In my wildest dreams, I never thought it [stimulus] would work this well,"

Joe Biden

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'Peace Prize to Obama - big mistake by Nobel committee'

How conservative think tanks kill conservatism

This is really a must read piece for any conservative.......

Hayward joins the conventional wisdom of Washington in missing the real story about the Right’s struggles in recent years — missing it in a profound way which exemplifies the inside-the-beltway thinking that continues to cripple conservatism. As my colleague Pejman Yousefzadeh summarizes it, Hayward “points out that there is a serious imbalance between intellectuals on the Right, and activists on the Right. There are plenty of the latter, but not nearly enough of the former.”

This strikes me as exactly the opposite of the truth. When one surveys the organization lists and attendees inside the Beltway and in most states outside it, you find scads of policy experts and think tank scholars. While state activist organizations have struggled on small budgets, and while conservative writers and pro-market bloggers can barely keep the lights on, national-level opinionmakers and opinionsharers remain plentiful, saturating the market, the panel circuit, and the cable news with their wisdom — which can be had for pennies, and if it’s a wannabe intellectual, for even less.

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A must watch

You tell me. Which one sounds reasonable and which one sounds like an ex-wife?

For some reason the code won't copy so link here.....

Who did he vote for? #16

Meet Mark Korb. Why is Mr Korb in the news?

There might be tears in the beers of a Sayler Park man who has interesting facial tattoos on display during his recent arrest mug shot.

Mark Korb, 25, was arrested after he allegedly broke into the same car twice in the same week.

Cincinnati police say he broke into the car on Revere Avenue on September 28 and stole a credit card. On Monday, police say he attempted to use the stolen credit card but it was declined. After that, according to police, he went back and broke into the same car.

On Tuesday, Korb, who has beer bottle tattoos under each eye, was arrested and charged with two counts of theft and one count of misuse of a credit card.

So last November did Mr. Korb vote for Hope and Change or four more years of Bush?

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Kill Bush

You know how so many libs have their panties in a bunch because some wackos show up at tea parties with kill Obama signs and such.

That never happened at liberal rallies now did it?

For the record, I'm not a proponent of these ding dongs but I find ignoring them rather than giving them an audience is the best policy.

Here's a link to all the Bush assassination and Bush = Hitler photos.

We want these guys to run health care

From taxprof.......

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday released Evaluation of the Planning, Computation, and Issuance of the Recovery Rebate Credit (2009-40-129), reporting that:

• The IRS issued more than $96 billion in advanced economic stimulus payments (up to $1,2000 for married couples filing jointly) to more than 119 million taxpayers in Calendar Year 2008 and approximately $8.5 billion in payments to almost 21 million taxpayers as of April 17, 2009.
• 259,000 taxpayers did not receive $84.6 million in payments due to various IRS errors.
• 141,000 taxpayers received $60.6 million in payments for which they were ineligible due to various IRS errors.