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Global warming flatlining?
So say the Europeans.
In fact, one goes further, commenting, “There can be no argument about that. We have to face that fact.”
Strange that the undeniable consensus now seems to have turned the other way in the global warming debate that we were told is no debate.
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Will this Harvard prof get a beer summit?
The dean of the Harvard School of Medicine, not that he would know anything, has opined that the cure for health care so far appears to be worse than the disease, which he judges to be plenty serious.
Where, wonders the White House, are Cambridge cops when you need ‘em?
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He was for tribunals before he was …
you know the rest …against them.
That’s the senator from Illinois saying he was happy that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed should “a full military trial with all the bells and whistles.”
That was then, though.
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Save money, do fewer mammograms
What happened to all the stuff about how preventive care was going to save billions of dollars?
Now it looks as though the savings are in elimination of just the kinds of preventive measures we’ve been told are the key to making the system work.
Sort of like saying that mail delivery will be cheaper without those funky little mail-mobiles tooling about the streets.
After all, this is just like the postal service, right?
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Global warming frying brains
We know this because members of the reality-based community tell us to do silly things like remove our socks to feel the globe warming.
Where would we be without such penetrating insight, such a distillation of good sense from a guy in a crisp, white T-shirt?
Darned, perhaps?
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Some people never will get it
Bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York City is an idea roughly on a par with capturing Yamamoto and hauling him to Honolulu to stand trial.
It’s a an epic fail on so many levels. If KSM, as we like to refer to him, stands trial and is found guilty, what are the chances that the conviction stands on appeal? Does no one know that changes of venue are sought for cases of just this local magnitude? You don’t change venue to the scene of the crime, but away from it. That alone is enough to overturn any conviction.
Then there is the question of whether the evidence against him will be disallowed because it was obtained via waterboard.
And then there’s the Jack Ruby factor.
What if KSM is acquitted? Does he stroll a free man out of the courthouse? Does the Obama administration offer reparations? What happens? Is there an exit strategy here?
Isoroku Yamamoto, a onetime Harvard student, was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He played the same role as KSM in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. American P-38 Lightnings shot his plane down in 1943.
The killing of Yamamoto was a blow to imperiaI Japan. Had he been captured and brought to civilian trial, the justice system would have been reduced to a mockery, as it is about to be here.
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This can’t be good
The UN has asked, nicely, that Iran explain how it is that the country seems to be experimenting with advanced nuclear-weapon designs deemed “jaw-dropping.”
And that’s not in a good way.
What are the odds that Iran will explain itself?
Sub-atomic, most likely.
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File a return, have identity stolen?
The odds are not comforting.
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Geithner burned billions
on the CIT bailout that didn’t, says a former bank regulator.
Hey, it’s not as though Geithner was handing out his own money.
It’s always easier to pay with someone else’s money.
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How long before this yuppie affliction
arrives in western Colorado?
Can we call it “swine flew?”
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Forced purchase?
Here’s a different look at the future of the health-care debate.
By the logic of the individual mandate for health insurance, can we be forced to buy life insurance?
Perhaps more to the point, can people who don’t drive be required to buy car insurance?
If so, what can’t we be required to buy?
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Who you callin’ a clunker?
Taxpayers shelled out $24,000 per vehicle traded in for a cash-for-clunker credit whereas the most a clunker owner could get was $4,500. Someone made out nicely, thank you, and it wasn’t the taxpayers.
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Uh, wasn’t Kyoto universally popular?
Now it’s as though Kyoto was associated with something else and no one wants near it.
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There is no Easter bunny
But the Energizer Bunny is very, very real.
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Break out violin
preferably the world’s smallest one.
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Do not look Al Gore in the eye
or question him. If you do, you’ll get cut off.
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Cold shoulder for global warming?
Earth’s temperature has been flat now for 11 years and the early signs are that the cooling trend is continuing, despite the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Somehow, it’s hard to discern a causal relationship between rising carbon dioxide and rising temperatures when temperatures stubbornly refuse to rise.
Does that mean more of this?
One thing is certain, if the current trend continues, catchers will have to change their equipment.
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We don’t care about no stinkin’
Even, or maybe especially, if they happen in Iran.
After all, if you don’t track them, then they really don’t happen and no one gets upset about them.
It’s all very calming that way.
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We don’t care about no stinkin’
Even, or maybe especially, if they happen in Iran.
After all, if you don’t track them, then they really don’t happen and no one gets upset about them.
It’s all very calming that way.
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Save Tibet? Not at my pay grade
It didn’t take a genius to figure out that “Save Tibet” was just a bumper sticker. But who saw “Screw Tibet” coming?
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Not exactly Truman and not exactly MacArthur
Certainly no one would accuse the president of being Trumanlike and contemplate firing the general — that’s reserved for others, like the head of General Motors — and no one compares McChrystal with MacArthur. Yet, anyway.
But MacArthur had the temerity to advocate for victory in Korea and McChrystal wants to win in Afghanistan.
Will Obama find himself declaring that McChrystal “is unable to give his wholehearted support to the policies of the United States Government” and relieve him of command, as well?
And how will that fly with the “Listen to the generals” twosome?
Well, if they were students of history, warning bells would go off. But they’re not and they won’t.
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