Ed Begley, Jr., says we shouldn’t listen to “weathermen,” but should focus on “peer reviewed” studies. Watch it here.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t one of the problems revealed by the climate emails an attempt to game the peer review process?
(H/T: Big Swede)
[...]I first thought Glenn Beck a poseur when I saw him on a talk show last spring predicting a Depression, then a revolution. While I think those are unlikely, but possible, alternatives for our near term future, Beck was laughing and giggling when he said it. That means either a) [...]
The Policy can be found here. Apropos to the current discussion:
5. If at any time it appears that a Board Member or Officer of GFIAA may have a possible conflict of interest in a matter being considered by the Board of GFIAA, the Board Member or Officer should bring [...]
In a nakedly transparent effort to save her $152,500.00 position as Director of the Great Falls International Airport, Cynthia Schultz elected to publicly accuse the Board of acting in a way that she terms “dysfunctional,” and ineffective. (Personally, I know that if I ever plan to fire an employee, [...]
The Tribune had a piece this weekend on a rift that is developing between various leaders of the medical marijuana movement.
Mike Smith, a ‘caregiver,’ commenting on the fact that the Tribune carried photos of two girls smoking a bowl in a park, and another fellow smoking a bowl on [...]
It is rumored on Drudge that Senate Majority Leader plans another Saturday night vote on the Senate’s version of the healthcare trainwreck.
I just imagine Congressman Rehberg in a dark office, glued to C-span, waiting for Senator Jon Tester to cast his vote, “Oh please…oh please…”
[...]I guess is where that whole ‘reap what you sow’ thing comes into play.
[...]The Tribune offers an apologia for Senator Max Baucus today telling us he “doesn’t deserve ratings plunge over health care.” Showing they are as tone deaf as recently defeated local politicians who blame the “national economy” for their defeat, the Trib’s editorial writers tell us that a) Senator Baucus’ [...]
Business Week has picked Great Falls, Montana, as the best Montana city in which to raise your kids.
I agree!
Although, in fairness to rest of my great state, I like the whole state. In fact, I got to travel to Butte yesterday, and the more time I spend in that [...]
Pat Buchanan makes a great point about what America’s U-turn on the treatment of terrorists really means. If we now assert that these inviduals are entitled to the right to a jury trial and other Constitutional protections, what does that say about what we have done until now? Further, if [...]
Wes Pruden on ‘the bow’:
Some of the president’s critics are giving him a hard time, and it’s true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence [...]
Congressman Rehberg stayed strong in the latest MSU-B, Day One Poll, marking his second highest approval rating since taking office at 54%:
Approval
2001 49.2
2003 52.9
2005 48.9
2007 58.6
2009 54
Senator Baucus, on the other hand, is having a little trouble with that health care [...]
This is an open thread designed to allow Craig Moore and Mark Tokarski to continue to debate the Iraq casualty numbers and the Lancet study.
[...]Contra: The Missoulian:
[...]Maybe we need to turn the whole environmental movement on its ear. James at Second Hand Bike Rack tipped me to these photos of pollution in China.
If we truly wish to protect the world’s environment, we should be inviting more construction here.
You tell me what is going to [...]
Travis posted a piece earlier this week about a pit bull that attacked a yorkshire terrier.
By pure happenstance, I ran into the owner of the yorkshire terrier. He asked me if I was the Gregg Smith from the Electric City Weblog and, when I said yes, he said he [...]
To follow up on my earlier post about Missoula’s loss of a “progressive” talk radio station, here is a piece from the Missoula Independent, on the same topic. The indy found an advertiser who says he will only advertise on progressive formats, so he’s pulled his ads:
“There’s certainly [...]
In honor of next weekend’s Cat-Griz game, I offer two football links.
One article suggests we should eliminate the kicking game.
Another article suggests we should eliminate helmets.
[...]A comment posted by MarkT yesterday was, I thought, amazing even for him. In it he called the US the “world champion terrorist” and the “most efficient killer on the planet,” comparing our nation’s activities since the Vietnam war to the Third Reich’s Holocaust.
I consider his comparisons at once [...]
Here is the Great Falls Tribune’s take on the Sheriff funding issue.
Reading the comments thus far, I am once again reminded how the strength of one’s convictions are often inversely proportionate to the amount of time one spends studying an issue.
[...]Due to my kid’s end of season sports banquet, I was a little late to Sheriff Castle’s public budget meeting. Then I made it for about an hour and twenty minutes of his meeting before I nearly conked out and had to go home for the night, since I [...]
Could Congressman Denny Rehberg Beat Incumbent Sen. Jon Tester in 2012?
I clicked “Yes.”
And he will!
[...]
Michael Noyes at the Montana Policy Institute has a great investigative piece up about government secrets. You might recall that Governor Schweitzer was touting the Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Manufacturing Facility as an economic boon for Butte-Silverbow. I’ve got no beef with the Governor there; it would [...]
Missoula had a liberal progressive talk radio station. A manager for the station said “said the station under-performed in a progressive format, and they had to either ‘turn it off,’ sell it or change formats. The station considered changing to an all-sports format, but after looking at ratings from independent [...]
I remember that when I was younger it was always about the “microfilm.” Johnny Quest, Mission Impossible, you name it: it was the microfilm.
Whether the good guy was trying to hide it from the bad guy, or whether the dastardly villain had stolen it and the good guy was trying [...]
It had to have been the teleprompter:
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president [...]
Which do you prefer?
[...]Wow. Just wow.
Those of you who know me know that I spend almost every lunch hour in the gym. That’s where I do most of my socializing and I have many friends there.
Today I was approached by 4, count ‘em, 4 separate businesspeople from our community to ask me about [...]
I was talking with a fellow yesterday when I still believed that it was likely that the incumbents would win out in the local election. He made a comment about the fact that he thought the people in Great Falls were basically uninterested in local politics, and would take the [...]
I have to give kudos to Tribune reporter, Rich Ecke, for reminding the voters about the down side of the City’s failed or failing involvement in Electric City Power in this morning’s paper. It was really all he could do since the details of the project, which could easily [...]
The Tribune had a piece today about the differences of opinion between Commissioner Mary Jolley and Commissioner Bill Beecher. You will recall that Commissoner Beecher ran a guest editorial, and Commissioner Jolley sent a response, both reprinted here. Jolley asked some very pointed questions in a very pointed way. [...]
The City has canceled future pot clinics for various rule and policy violations, some of which were noted here.
[...]Heads up to all you Keynesians. The stimulus package was a giant boondoggle.
Now we are learning that it didn’t even save or create the paltry 30,000 jobs previously reported:
An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or [...]
I apologize to the Great Falls Tribune. In a post I put up last week, I included a photo. I don’t own the rights to that photo and I should know better. I was stupid and wasn’t thinking.
For a newspaper that puts up with an awful lot of crap [...]
What would you do if you had an employee that spoke with a newspaper reporter and said that what you “have been doing the last two years is not appropriate?”
Just sayin…
[...]The Airport Authority has apparently elected not to renew the current Director, Cynthia Schultz’s, contract, although this article indicates that she can apply for the position under the new process.
Longtime readers will recall that I served on the Airport Authority a few years ago. Based on that, I got [...]
Last weekend, I questioned the Tribune’s discretion in running an approving story about medical marijuana, complete with a front page photo of two young women smoking a bowl in the park next to the Civic Center. (The hard copy included another photo of a gentleman smoking a [...]
Soon to retire City Commissioner, Bill Beecher, wrote a guest editorial defending the City Commission’s actions in today’s Tribune. It is not online that I can see, so here goes:
Commissioner weighs in on city electricity and financial issues
By BILL BEECHER
During the last four years of my 12-year tenure as a [...]
Last week I gave the Tribune heck for its “he said, he said” style of reporting on the ongoing issues between the Cascade County Commission and the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office. My concern was that, other than each side suggesting that the other was wrong, nothing in the [...]
When Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) had his turn to question Sebelus, he raised the issue of whether the [...]
When I got the paper this morning, I was treated to the following image on the front page of the Tribune, leading a story about a pot-smoking clinic:
Personally, I don’t really care about the whole “medical marijuana” movement. I think that if we are going to [...]
First, we must consider the factual background. In response to a question at a City Commission Forum, a candidate, Fred Burows, stated that City tax receipts have increased by 44% in the last 5 years. The two incumbent Commissioners, Bill Bronson and John Rosenbaum, took issue with this [...]
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