Brilliant picture of Obama thinking

Press Secretary Gibbs accuses former Vice President Dick Cheney of misrepresenting the facts, but does not challenge a single statement specifically. Now he had the press conference exactly why?

That's right; he knew, sad to say, that most of the press was either unable or unwilling to call him on the fact that he didn't actually provide any evidence for his position. The only question about the Obama White House is what to call it. Potemkin Village? All hat and no cattle?

If the world starts to run out of rare earth elements,

....it could very likely be significantly due to the Toyota Prius. Once again, if you want to destroy the planet we inhabit, you can do little better than to listen to so-called environmentalists. Your dad's 'Cuda couldn't drain the earth of oil, but the motor and batteries of the Prius could deplete accessible supplies of rare earth elements.

Good news!

It looks like they're going to bring Oldsmobile back--something that means a lot to my family, as my father-in-law built Oldsmobiles for over 30 years. His specialty was checking the springs in the seats to make sure they had that cushy Oldsmobile feel long after they left Lansing.

Now you might think this is a joke, but it's really not. Here's how I know they're going to bring Oldsmobile back: Democrats are thinking of renaming a healthcare deform bill after Ted Kennedy.

Maybe I shouldn't be so happy about this after all, now that I think of it. Let's keep it on the bridge instead.

One of Great Britain's worst polluters...

...is apparently the supercomputer they're using to model global warming. Even better; the computer predicted a roasting summer this year.

Here's my plan for combating climate change; de-fund the "researchers" who manage to throw billions after this chimera. They're polluting almost as much as Al Gore.

Yet another reason to get out of the United Nations

Here. Can we please stop pretending that it's just a place for diplomacy?

It's not certain whether the proposed program teaches about the proper way to make a waitress sandwich, or how to stay in office and avoid excommunication after innumerable moral offenses.

How not to discourage drunk driving

Put out a bunch of radio ads with threatening sounds of jail cells clanging shut, and promising that all drunk drivers will be caught, as they're doing. Of course, anyone who has ever spent significant time in a bar has talked with someone who tells stories of driving drunk X many times without being caught; they know it's a fairly hollow threat, and it simply makes police look like goons.

What they should do; play the sounds of a funeral for a drunken driver, and then the sounds of a funeral for his victim. Explain that drunken driving causes about 16000 avoidable deaths each year. Close with a picture of the gravestone of Mary Jo Kopechne.

One big reason unemployment is so high in Michigan

Apparently, the state's Democrats are trying to add an additional 26 weeks of unemployment benefits to the 79 weeks (!!!) already provided to the state's pool of jobless men and women. More or less, they're already paying people not to go on with their lives for a year and a a half, and want to extend that to a full two years--and of course charge employers for the privilege of having employees who think that they're entitled to over $20/hour with no discernable skills.

And then the Democrats wonder why businesses aren't coming to the mitten.

Talk about hot--another way to love your spouse

Some people--and regrettably many books on "how to improve your marriage"--will discuss "standard" things to do to improve your marriage. Dates, lingerie, vacations, and such all come to mind. That noted, Mrs. Bubba did something recently that puts all that to shame--she got out the weed-eater and spent some quality time cleaning up the yard.

It won't make it into the pages of the flashy magazines, but sometimes taking care of those everyday responsibilities does more than going to a restaurant with Michelin stars. Nothing against Michelin, of course, but sometimes it doesn't take a Cordon Bleu trained chef to make marriage wonderful.

Quick advice for young people in love

Here is a great way to propose to your intended. This is almost as good as KingDavid's story about how he proposed to Mocha Momma, and I bet Ben wishes he could have proposed this way to Faith. :^)

Or maybe not.

Now this is interesting....

Apparently, our Dear Leader (thanks Muckraker and others) is setting up a special interrogation team that will report directly to the White House. Apparently, the White House does not quite "get" why our nation has historically separated these functions from direct control by executive power, as this is a situation tailor made for abuse of political opponents. Or maybe he does.

Either way, I'd like to propose some names for the new team.

Geheime Staatspolizei

Staasi

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

You're welcome, "Dear Leader."

Some people are getting it,

and they're not even people I usually tend to agree with. First off, John Mackey of Whole Foods(which does not sell aragula in Iowa) gives a list of decent ideas for reforming the way we do healthcare. Next, Nat Hentoff (who probably voted for Pres. Blago) notes that this is the first White House that he has actually feared. Given that the list of Presidents he's seen includes Nixon, and the list of people he's dealt with include J. Edgar Hoover (no friend of Greenwich Village), that really says something. Hentoff also details some very real reasons that anyone over 40 ought to fear attempts to implement Castro-Care in full or part.

I'm seeing this more and more

Economists report that the drop in wholesale goods prices is three times that which was expected. Now apart from the wonderful news that prices are dropping (this is the first deflation our nation has had since 1955 or so), there is the interesting reality that more and more often, the actual shifts in our economy are quite different than what economists are predicting.

Now I don't know what the actual statistical significance is here, or whether the econometrics gurus have even come up with a method of calculating confidence ranges. It's not an easy task. However, what I do know is that our nation is using their calculations to set monetary, fiscal, and other policy. It scares me that we're apparently using models that can't reasonably predict results out a month or so to set policies whose effects will be felt for decades.

Time for them (and all of us) to read some Bastiat, I guess, and come up to speed on "that which is not seen."

Want to do some global warming research?

Good luck, at least if you're not an officially sanctioned minion of the IPCC. Why so? Apparently, the world's preeminent database of climate data has refused to share it for several years, and has even destroyed some of it. (this on top of the fact that apparently 70% of climate monitoring stations are situated improperly)

Actually, you may be in luck here. When you're told that global warming is "settled science," you can say "well, can I see the data and assumptions you used to process it?" The answer will apparently be "no", and you can then inform the so-called "scientist" you're talking to that two cardinal principles of sound science are falsifiability and reproducibility. If you can't refute or reproduce the results (two sides of the same coin, really), you can almost automatically assume that the theory is....

....false.

Did I mention, by the way, that modern evolutionists are constructing their hypothesis so that it's not falsifiable?

Breathtaking lie from President Blago

....that the unsolicited SPAM emails he's been sending out are the fault of the "third parties" who reported others to the facts@whitehouse.gov email.

Uh-huh. Now wasn't the very POINT of this to, ahem, collect email addresses and other information so that his goons could better direct their rhetorical fire and give us "Castro-Care" nationwide? Of course it was. So to blame OTHERS for the actions that he himself planned is more than a little bit duplicitous, don't ya think?

Obama; the only man I can think of who makes Bill Clinton look honest in comparison.

What do you notice?

Take a look here. It apparently is a bus leaving a "town hall" meeting filled with supporters of the Health Care Deform Bill, HR 3200. Now we know already that these people are bused in, that they are paid to protest, and that they're from government employee unions, by and large.

What else? Look closely; they are riding a school bus. So we have government employees in government unions using government property (the school buses) to get to protests to advocate government run health care.

If you wonder why it's hard to prevent government from further encroaching upon our rights and liberties, take another look at the picture. The "change" we have no is apparently that we will no longer have a level playing field in debate, and TOTUS is apparently failing to tell the President that this is a monstrous breach of ethics on many levels.