She maxes out on the Pinocchios. She probably can’t count them, though. By her own admission, she’s not that great at math.
Mike Hammer
Noire made hilarious. By Lileks, of course.
James Rosen
He was apparently being tracked and spied on by the Justice Department, and has been accused of crimes for simply being a reporter. But I guess it’s all right — after all, it’s not like he works for a “legitimate news operation.” As they said over at Twitchy, when you’ve lost Glenn Greenwald…
[Update a couple minutes later]
Heh.
Spoiler Alert: @presssec knows nothing about DoJ spying on @jamesrosenfnc. @barackobama only just learned of it today, while surfing the Web
— Tim Wells (@RightWingNerd) May 20, 2013
[Update mid morning]
Even though it’s that “illegitimate news organization,” Fox News, other “journalists” are taking notice:
Justice accuses @jamesrosenfnc, a v good reporter, of being “an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator” for reporting?? washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-p…
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) May 20, 2013
Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism.
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) May 20, 2013
Let’s hope that it’s the end of the slobbering love affair
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, one more:
These abuses of the First Amendment wouldn’t be happening if we had a constitutional law professor as president.
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 20, 2013
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aaaaannnd, it wasn’t just James Rosen. Megyn Kelly is hot (an evergreen statement). But now, she’s also steamed.
Apparently the War on Fox News never ended. It just went guerrilla.
IRS Abuse
It’s just the Chicago Way:
“Are you in your good senses?” said my father. “We have lives here. We have businesses. If we get involved in politics, they will ruin us.”
And no one, not the Roosevelt Democrats or the Reagan Republicans, disagreed. The socialists, the communists, the royalists, everyone nodded their heads.
This was Chicago. And for a business owner to get involved meant one thing: It would cost you money and somebody from government could destroy you.
The health inspectors would come, and the revenue department, the building inspectors, the fire inspectors, on and on. The city code books aren’t thick because politicians like to write new laws and regulations. The codes are thick because when government swings them at a citizen, they hurt.
And who swings the codes and regulations at those who’d open their mouths? A government worker. That government worker owes his or her job to the political boss. And that boss has a boss.
The worker doesn’t have to be told. The worker wants a promotion. If an irritant rises, it is erased. The hack gets a promotion. This is government.
So everybody kept their mouths shut, and Chicago was hailed by national political reporters as the city that works.
We have to take our country back from these thugs.
[Update a while later]
It wasn’t just the IRS. A Tea Party group was also harassed by the FBI, BATF and OSHA. It’s the Chicago Way.
“Anomolous Heat Energy Production”
Looks like LENR may have been replicated in Europe. Something seems to be going on here.
“Mistakes Were Made”
Three ways to tell there’s a cover up going on.
The Most Extreme Temperature Predictions
…are “looking less likely.” The climbdown begins, at least at the BBC.
But remember, we’re still doomed:
Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?
“None. No comfort whatsoever,” he said.
Well. All right then.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Guardian says we can’t let our guard down:
Otto said that this most recent pattern could not be taken as evidence that climate change has stopped. “Given the noise in the climate and temperature system, you would need to see a much longer period of any pause in order to draw the conclusion that global warming was not occurring,” he said. Such a period could be as long as 40 years of the climate record, he said.
Got that? Only warming trends are important. Cooling is irrelevant.
And their unjustified self confidence never flags:
Richard Allan, reader in climate at the University of Reading, said: “This work has used observations to estimate Earth’s current heating rate and demonstrate that simulations of climate change far in the future seem to be pretty accurate. However, the research also indicates that a minority of simulations may be responding more rapidly towards this overall warming than the observations indicate.”
He said the effect of pollutants in the atmosphere, which reflect the sun’s heat back into space, was particularly hard to measure.
He noted the inferred sensitivity of climate to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations based on this new study, suggesting a rise of 1.2C to 3.9C, was consistent with the range from climate simulations of 2.2C to 4.7C. He said: “With work like this our predictions become ever better.”
Onward, comrades!
“Everything Comes From The Top”
The “lower-level” scapegoats are starting to sing.
This was inevitable. And since these people follow the Clinton playbook (they are, after all, many of the same people), you can expect vicious attacks on their character and credibility once they come forward.
Ten To Twenty More Years Of War
OK, so, ignoring the fact that this goes against the president’s reelection narrative, please explain how it ends.
A Heartbreaking Short Film About Loss
…set in an asteroid mine.