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Newsweek needs to pull out that Ice Age article from the 70s...From DailyTech.com Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

Oscars ratings slide 20% from last year...

Thats right....just keep sliming the troops, hating America and loving yourselves and your only audience will be in the Kodak theater... Likely ratings low for Oscar Preliminaries forecast significant drop All those predictions of ratings gloom and doom for the 80th annual Academy Awards came true Monday when preliminary Nielsen estimates show this year's kudocast coming in 20% below last year's. Demographic data and total-viewer estimates won't be issued by Nielsen until this afternoon, but Sunday's telecast on ABC settled for a 21.9 household rating/33 share in the 56 metered-markets monitored by Nielsen -- down sharply from last year's 27.7/42, which translated into more than 40 million viewers. The 21.9 rating is also considerably below the 25.5 rating earned by the 2003 Academy Awards telecast, which set the low-water mark for viewership when it averaged just over 33 million viewers. It would seem to be a long shot for this year's show to come in above the ...

Hollywood thanks the troop by sliming them...

Pretty amazing! After having the troops appear from Baghdad introducing the Best Documentary award the academy gives the award to "Taxi To The Dark Side" a documentary that accuses the US of using torture in the interrogation techniques. Aussie wins best doco Oscar Australian Eva Orner has won an Oscar for the documentary Taxi To The Dark Side. The 38-year-old from Melbourne produced the documentary along with Alex Gibney. The harrowing film throws the spotlight on US interrogation techniques at military facilities and investigates the death in custody of a Afghan taxi driver - Dilawar - at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in 2002. An investigation into the death later found Dilawar had been repeatedly kicked and punched and was chained to the ceiling of his cell for days. Gibney, who also produced hit documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, said in his acceptance speech that his wife had wanted him to make a romantic comedy. "But honestly after Guantanamo, Abu ...

Damage already done due to expiration of PAA

Powerline has more , this is a excerpt from a letter written to Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, from DNI Michael NcConnell and AG Michael Mukasey; In our letter to Senator Reid on February 5, 2008, we explained that: "the expiration of the authorities in the Protect America Act would plunge critical intelligence programs into a state of uncertainty which could cause us to delay the gathering of, or simply miss, critical foreign intelligence information." That is exactly what has happened since the Protect America Act expired six days ago without enactment of the bipartisan Senate bill. We have lost intelligence information this past week as a direct result of the uncertainty created by Congress' failure to act. Because of this uncertainty, some partners have reduced cooperation. In particular, they have delayed or refused compliance with our requests to initiate new surveillances of terrorist and other foreign intelligence targets under...

They were for the fence before they were against it...

From Micky Kaus ; In 2006, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both voted for the Secure Fence Act, widely understood to entail building 700 miles of fence along the Southern border. Now Hillary says There may be places where a physical barrier is appropriate. I think when both of us voted for this we were voting for the possibility that where it was appropriate and made sense it would be considered , but as with so much, the Bush administration has gone off the deep end, and they are unfortunately coming up with a plan that I think is counterproductive. [E.A.] Hmm. Isn't that a little like voting for the Iraq War and then saying you were just voting for the possibility that if it were appropriate it would be considered? In this case, though, Obama is attempting the same two-step. He says he and Clinton "almost entirely agree" regarding the fence, adding As Senator Clinton indicated, there may be areas where it makes sense to have some fencing. But for the most par...

Illegal alien arrested in Minnesota bus crash...

Here we go again ...O'Reilly and Geraldo will be screaming at each again over this; Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien. Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she’s been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias. 23-year-old Alainiss N. Morales was taken into custody on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation. She was arrested by the State Patrol Thursday afternoon and is being held in Lyon County Jail. County Attorney Rick Maes told the Marshall Independent charges could come later Thursday or Friday…The van was driven by Alianiss N. Morales, 23, of Minneota. The Fox 9 Investigator found Morales pleaded guilty in Chippewa County in 2006 to driving without a valid license. State Patrol officials said Thursday they were not immediately abl...

Joy Behar can't really be serious?

On The View today she said; "Is there any possiblity that- I'm just throwing this out, and Bill O'Reilly will call me a 'pinhead' for this. But is there any possibility that the right wing of the party, the real conservative Limbaugh, Huckabee, that group, planted this article? Like they're behind it? Because they're too trying to cut his legs off."

Cringe inducing!

Name that party...

No where in this front page article is Harriette Walters party affiliation noted...she's a Dem. Tab in Scam At Tax Office In D.C. Nears $50 Million By Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 20, 2008; Page A01 Federal authorities think that nearly $50 million was stolen in an embezzlement scheme run out of the D.C. tax office, more than double the amount they had previously uncovered, four sources close to the investigation said. The corruption at the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue went undetected much longer than initially thought, the sources said, extending back almost 20 years. In addition to tracking the missing money, authorities are looking into gifts suspected of being provided to co-workers and others by the woman accused of leading the scam, former tax office manager Harriette Walters. The scheme is the largest corruption case in the city's history. Witnesses have told investigators that Walters, who is accused of issuing larger and larger b...

Michelle Obama proud of America for the first time in her adult lifetime?

"What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud." Oh my goodness!

How to be sure the surge is working?

None of the networks (except ABC) have noted its one-year anniversary. See here .

Obama corners the communist mass-murdering block

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Nicaraguan leader calls Obama's campaign 'revolutionary' The Associated Press Published: February 14, 2008 MANAGUA, Nicaragua: President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon in the United States. "It's not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change," the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university. Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box. And from Captains Quarters ; No, that's not a Texas state flag with a picture of Obama on it. It's the flag of the Castro-led Cuba regime, with Che Guevara's face superimposed on the side. A Fox report from Houston captured this ...

Aretha Franklin is not happy!

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Frankly I though the same thing when Beyonce said that Tina Turner was "the queen" during her intro on the Grammys; Franklin slams Beyonce Grammy intro Tue Feb 12, 11:52 PM ET LOS ANGELES - When Aretha Franklin is unhappy, she does not mince words. On Tuesday, the longtime Queen of Soul slammed Beyonce Knowles' intro to Tina Turner at Sunday's Grammy Awards, in which Knowles called Turner, not Franklin, "the queen." ` "I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce," Franklin said in a statement issued by her publicist. "However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy." E-mails to Knowles' publicist Yvette Noel-Schure and calls and e-mails to Recording Academy spokeswomen Jaime Sarachit and Barb Deghan were not immediately returned. In the first few seconds of Knowles' intro to Turner's performance, she name-dropped Franklin and a long list of fa...

Jason Stark Live Blogs the Clemens hearing...

Jason Stark is live blogging the Roger Clemens hearing today....

Shuster comment

Shuster makes disgusting and outrageous comments about conservatives on a regular basis but it takes one comment about a Democrat to get the media's attention; MSNBC's Chelsea Comment Angers Clinton Feb 8 02:28 PM US/Eastern By BETH FOUHY Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) - A distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor Thursday could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton's participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said. In a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson Friday excoriated MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" 27-year old Chelsea by having her place phone calls to Democratic Party superdelegates on her mother's behalf. Wolfson called the comment "beneath contempt" and disgusting. "I, at this point, can't envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network," he adde...

Sounds like the Writers strike is over...

Looks like its over... Ex-Disney chief says Writers Guild strike is over BY VERNE GAY | verne.gay@newsday.com February 8, 2008 The former chief of Disney, Michael Eisner, declared Thursday night that the writers' strike was "over" and that a deal had been reached last weekend. During a CNBC interview, Eisner -- who now runs his own investment company and hosts an occasional talk show on the network -- told "Fast Company" anchor Dylan Rattigan: "They [studios and writers] made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general" for agreement. Eisner was apparently referring to scheduled meetings here and in Los Angeles between writers and the Writers Guild scheduled for tomorrow. He added, "A deal has been made. They'll be back to work very soon. I know it's over." Eisner's declaration is the first by an industry leader affirming widespread reports over the weekend that a deal had been ...

Wille Nelson joins the Truthers

"I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas -- there's too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn't get hit by nothing," added Nelson, referring to WTC Building 7, which collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11.

Interesting stat

Via Instapundit : "Just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!"

How in the world does this happen?

Drudge has this flash up... The board of elections failed to deliver voting equipment to polling places ALL OVER LOS ANGELES...

Predatory lenders?

Not quite... from the NY Post ; From the current hand-wringing, you'd think that the banks came up with the idea of looser underwriting standards on their own, with regulators just asleep on the job. In fact, it was the regulators who relaxed these standards - at the behest of community groups and "progressive" political forces. Read the whole thing...basically it was all government mandated political correctness that forced these non-standards on the financial industry.

Writer Strike Finally Almost Over

Thanks goodness ....now get those Lost writers back to working on the best show on TV! Hollywood on verge of deal to end writers strike By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Negotiators for Hollywood studios and striking writers have agreed to terms of a new contract that could be presented to union leaders in days and, if approved, end their three-month-old labor clash later this week, two sources told Reuters on Monday. While the outlines of an accord were reached over the weekend, the two sides still need to hammer out contract language before a deal is submitted for approval to the governing boards the East and West Coast branches of the Writers Guild of America, they said. Those sources, who were briefed on the status of talks but were not authorized to speak publicly about them under a media blackout, said negotiators hoped action by the WGA boards on a deal could come as early as Friday. An endorsement by WGA leaders presumably would be accompanied by a decision to call...

Not again!

Hillary has turned on the water works yet again. Well it worked the first time her candidacy looked to be in trouble so there's no reason to believe that she can't trick a bunch of gullible democrats again! Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s. A doctor, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton’s eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, the doctor was saying how proud he was that sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president. “Well, I said I would not tear up; already we’re not exactly on the path,” Clinton said with emotion after the introduction. Clinton is holding a roundtable discussion with Connecticut women to talk about childcare and healthcare.

Why she may lose...

Wouldn't this qualify as a personal attack? Top of the Ticket Questioner calls Bush 'the bastard,' Hillary Clinton smiles Over the weekend there was an as yet little-noticed incident in Bridgeton, Mo., just outside St. Louis. Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed a town hall meeting there and was taking questions from the audience. One elderly woman rose and was asking the Democratic candidate about a rumored economic union among the United States, Canada and Mexico that is widely-discussed, feared and abhorred among conspiracy fanciers. The woman said the president planned to implement the secret agreement in 2010. Then the woman called the president "Bush the bastard." The Democratic crowd immediately roared its approval. Sen. Clinton nodded her head slightly and smiled. Then, she proceeded to.... answer the question, saying "there's not a lot of truth to it." Our colleagues over at the Swamp have posted Glenn Thrush's detailed account of the incident...

Pretty good weekend in New York sports...

First... Mets give Johan $150 million By MARK HALE and JOEL SHERMAN It took an extension to get the extension done. But it got done, and now Feb. 1, 2008 will go down as one of the most glorious days in Mets history. Because that is the day the Mets overcame the last significant hurdle to assure Johan Santana would be their ace. Given a two-hour extension after the initial 72-hour window closed, the Mets and Santana reached accord on the largest pitching contract ever. The two-time Cy Young winner receives a six-year extension for $137.5 million to go along with the $13.25 million he already was owed for 2008. The total package is for $150.75 million over seven years. And then... Eli, monster defense power Giants to shocking Super Bowl victory By Greg Garber ESPN.com GLENDALE, Ariz. -- There was a palpable expectation of history here on a chilly night in the Arizona desert. Super Bowl XLII delivered on that score, but history of a different sort than predicted was made Sunday. The Gian...

Romeny and Obama both surge...

Obama expands lead on Clinton in California Mon Feb 4, 2008 7:36am EST By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama opened narrow leads on Hillary Clinton in California and Missouri one day before crucial "Super Tuesday" nominating contests in 24 states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Monday. In the Republican race, Arizona Sen. John McCain solidified his double-digit leads over Mitt Romney in New York and New Jersey, but Romney expanded his lead in California, the biggest prize on "Super Tuesday." Obama and Clinton were deadlocked in New Jersey, and Obama enjoyed a double-digit advantage over Clinton in Georgia in two other Democratic contests on the biggest single day of voting ever in a U.S. presidential nominating campaign. Obama, an Illinois senator, and Clinton, a New York senator, have waged a bitter duel for the Democratic presidential nomination, competing for votes f...

Romney-Santorum 3rd party ticket?

Now that would be interesting....

So why do Republicans keep voting for McCain?

McCain was going to jump to the Dems in 2001 according to The Hill ; Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP By Bob Cusack Posted: 03/28/07 07:39 PM [ET] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions. In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist. Democrats had contacted Jeffords and then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) in the early months of 2001 about switching parties, but in McCain’s case, they said, it was McCain’s top strategist who came to them .