edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Folks, this is the original “hockey stick” graph that was so compelling in Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” This graph, and much of the other data Gore hawks, came directly from the computer models from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in eastern England.
This graph has [...]
Ever wonder what goes on when socialists get together for a conference? So did I, so I stopped by one in Los Angeles last weekend to see what I could learn. Anyone who’s familiar with my writings knows that my political views are light years away from socialism, but I was [...]
Just caught this in Fred Barnes’s WSJ piece on why Obama isn’t changing Washington
“Change must come to Washington,” Mr. Obama said in a June 2008 speech. “I have consistently said when it comes to solving problems,” he told Jake Tapper of ABC News that same month, “I don’t approach [...]
Palm Island resort, Dubai
ZeroHedge says Dubai never even remotely resembled capitalism and makes some telling points, detailing what led to the imminent Dubai default on debt:
A total discount of the importance of institutional strength
A deleterious disregard for even the most basic fixed cost [...]
1) I was struck traveling on Wednesday by how many uniformed soldiers clotted my planes and the airports, and how young they were. (A couple of reservists were carrying skateboards.) It put faces to all the TV talk about our "brave young men and women in uniform." Not in itself [...]
Salinas homicides and shootings 2009. By KSBW
The homicide rate in Salinas is three times that of L.A. and local police are clearly overwhelmed by warfare between the major and powerful Hispanic gangs of La Familia and the Mexican Mafia. So they’re [...]
It seems every now and again this idea for (what seems to be) a brilliant post on Climategate flashes across my mind and then fades before I have a chance to write it down or otherwise record it.
When I try to recall those thoughts or call them up by [...]
A telecom company in India, has launched a new service that allows farmers to operate their irrigation pumps remotely using a SMS-capable cellphone. This is extremely useful because the alternative often is for the farmers to walk many miles to the pumps, often at night because the electricity supply [...]
This is making banks and lenders across the planet quite twitchy and could be the biggest sovereign debt default since Argentina in 2001. Abu Dhabi won’t backstop the debt and the price of credit default swaps for Dubai’s debt is is now greater than that for [...]
Though the first Thanksgiving in what is now the United States was observed in 1621 by the Pilgrims and Indians at Plymouth Rock, it was not until October 3, 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln issued the first proclamation for a national day of thanksgiving for the last Thursday in November. [...]
I have two thoughts regarding this matter, one of them somewhat unkind and provocative (thus the title of this blogpost) the other a bit more subtle.
First the subtle one, and the official establishment of Cobb's Rule #23: Internet links are weak links.
Borne of personal experience [...]
I am turkducken. Fear me.
A chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. Otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken.
[...]There's no way to get around the fact that today is both my 15th wedding anniversary and Thanksgiving.
This is a big deal year and yet not. Crystal, say the doyennes, is the appropriate material for my giving. But what's crystal clear to me is that there are high elevations which [...]
As many of us mix eating with hours of football, whether on T.V. or at your local park, lets remember to give thanks to those in our Armed Forces, who protect our rights to freely engage in political banter here at Mayor Sam.I would like to wish our readers and their families & friends the most blessed and happy Thanksgiving today. We are so fortunate to live in the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. In that spirit, I would like to reprint President George Washington’s First Thanksgiving [...]
From the grumps at Clusterstock
Everything comes in pumpkin pie flavor. Even coffee. Which is sacrilege.
Aunt Flo’s nasty green bean casserole. No further explanation required. Except that you have to pretend to like it.
The family dog. Who never stops begging for food. We are having sixteen [...]
Here's what went wrong with the other 29,032 signatures, based on the sampling, according to Registrar of Voters Kari Verjill:
41.5 percent: Signers listed a San Bernardino County address but officials could find no record of their voter registration.
31.6 percent: Signers did not live in the 59th [...]
Inequitable. Unconscionable. Vexatious. Opprobrious.
These are just a few of the choice words a New York state judge used to describe the behavior of Indymac in a decision in which he wiped out the $292,500 sub-prime mortgage owed by a homeowner to the bank.
May thousands more follow.
The court found that [...]
At this point there is little sense in putting up any more gold charts. It is pretty clear what is happening: John McClane and Samuel L. Jackson are waiting for the next phone call with detailed instructions from Bernanke on how to short the dollar as [...]
Gee, where have we heard that before?
(For you youngsters out there, that’s Lyndon B. Johnson, the President who campaigned as the “peace candidate” against “war-hawk” Barry Goldwater, while escalating American troop levels from 16,000 to 550,000.)
Yes, given that sending lots of troops into Afghanistan hasn’t worked [...]
Yesterday, my gal for the race to unseat Ma’am Boxer, Carly Fiorina, took to the pixels of BigGovernment.com to take on Obamacare, calling it a “fiscal albatross for our already ballooning federal budget deficit“:
This proposal will cost taxpayers up to $2.5 trillion, create a massive new entitlement, raise taxes, [...]
We’ve fixed a location for our brunch this coming Saturday in San Francisco. Drop me a line if you’d like to attend.
[...]Well, at least, Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow’s guest host on her eponymous MSNBC show, reported that the death of Bill Sparkman was rule a suicide. He noted only that the show has reported the story, without referencing the hysterical assumptions Miss Maddow made. Wonder if she, when she returns [...]
About a year ago, somebody asked:
I enjoyed reading the post but am confused by your response to Snacks stating that you support mature, responsible gay relationships but because the motivation for gay marriage is not purely protection of the minority you are against gay marriage. My question to you is why should the [...]
Sister Toldjah took the words right out of my mouth. Discussing coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post (home base of the Democratic gusher Sally Quinn) of President Obama’s first state dinner last night, she writes, “Both pieces go in depth as to how ‘hip’ and [...]
Five Months ago here at Red County we told you Meg Whitman is writing a book. It was supposed to tell us who she is (since she won't debate and follows a script in public).
The American Spectator Caught Wind of the Eminent Release of Whitman's book:
