Monthly Archives: June 2015

Paul Ryan channels Nancy Pelosi

drudge…because “we have to pass it before you can see it” worked out so well with 404care. And this idiot was once a vice-presidential candidate:

Paul Ryan’s Pelosi-Esque Obamatrade Moment: ‘It’s Declassified And Made Public Once It’s Agreed To’

Chief Obamatrade proponent House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted during Congressional testimony on Wednesday evening that despite tons of claims from him and other Obamatrade supporters to the contrary, the process is highly secretive.

He also made a gaffe in his House Rules Committee testimony on par with former Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)’s push to pass Obamacare, in which she said infamously said: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

“It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to,” Ryan said of Obamatrade in Rules Committee testimony on Wednesday during questioning from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX).

Han shot first!  Proof discovered!

star-warsOriginal Star Wars Script Found, Solves Long-Running Mystery

A newly discovered Star Wars script solves one of the longest-running disputes in the franchise’s history: who shot first, Han Solo or Greedo?

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According to CBC, a recently discovered early draft of the Star Wars script makes it clear that Solo was the trigger-happy aggressor in the fight. The script, which Lucasfilm Publicity said looked to be a “fan-made” replica version of the real early script, was unearthed in the University of New Brunswick Library’s science-fiction collection. It is marked as a “fourth draft” and dated March 15, 1976, well ahead of the film’s 1977 release date. It is such an early draft of the script that the film is called Star Wars: Saga I instead of its eventual title of Star Wars: A New Hope and Luke Skywalker’s character has the much more ominous name of “Luke Starkiller.”

Sign of the times for our college campuses

FullSizeRender-1024x768Maybe they still have a few of these stashed away in some warehouse in Berlin that they could send over, as they haven’t needed them since 1989:

Checkpoint, Charlie

Consider, to take just one example, our institutions of so-called higher education.  You know as well as I how thoroughly that “so-called” is merited by sodden, politically correct swamps that our colleges and universities have occupied in recent years.  Those scenes of spurious “micro aggressions” and  “trigger warnings,” of mephiticrievance mongering, sexual inversion, and infantile political posturing: is there any aspect of American society more distaste, more pampered, more epicene?  I doubt it. Kinglake’s wry observation might be justly applied to those portals of inanity, but a friend who recently visited Berlin had an even more appropriate label.  It is this advisory from Checkpoint Charlie, which divided the American from the totalitarian zone of Berlin.  Really, is there any more pertinent sign for most colleges and universities?

Remind me again who’s “anti-science”

motherfucking_scienceThe EPA (of all possible agencies) finds no evidence to back up claims that hydraulic fracturing is tainting drinking-water supplies:

EPA: Remember all that horrible stuff we said about fracking? Yeah… never mind

The Environmental Protection Agency’s long-awaited report on fracking dismayed liberal green groups Thursday while pleasing the oil and gas industry — the latest episode in both sides’ fraught relationship with President Barack Obama.

The study, more than four years in the making, said the EPA has found no signs of “widespread, systemic” drinking water pollution from hydraulic fracturing. That conclusion dramatically runs afoul of one of the great green crusades of the past half-decade, which has portrayed the oil- and gas-extraction technique as a creator of fouled drinking water wells and flame-shooting faucets.

Thursday’s congressionally mandated EPA report, a compilation of past studies, found isolated incidents in which water pollution was attributable to the use of fracking. But it failed to back up the idea that fracking poses a major threat to water supplies, contradicting years of activists’ warnings dramatized by images of burning tap water in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland.”

You’d think this is a Good Thing, but if you’re an environmentalist wacko, you’re most likely in full freak-out mode right now:

Of course, the people who constantly remind us that the Republicans are the anti-science party were quick to make it clear that they have zero interest in any science which doesn’t agree with their predefined narrative.

“This study’s main finding flies in the face of fracking’s dangerous reality,” Rachel Richardson, director of Environment America’s Stop Drilling program, said in a statement. “The fact is, dirty drilling has caused documented, widespread water contamination across the country.”

…and they say we are “anti-science.”

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Silly buggers :-)

So I woke up one morning a couple of weeks ago, down in California to visit my nieces.  Zoe & Naomi came downstairs to watch some TV.  I broke out the camera, started taking pictures…and all hell broke loose.  They thought the flash was all sorts of funny.  Red-eye reduction was on, so it fires a few times rapidly at reduced power before firing at full power to take the picture.  They’d giggle and run away, then run back toward me.  I’d take another picture, they’d giggle and run away again, then run back again.  Eventually I just pressed the shutter down halfway to trigger the preflash without taking a picture.  They still giggled, ran away, and ran back.  It’s amusing, what three-year-olds will find funny. :-)