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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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."

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...

"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!

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

"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.

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!"

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

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.