You know it has to have gotten pretty bad when you feel the need to stick one of these on the breakroom microwave at work.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Always follow the money
The sneer quotes around “scientist” are mine, as he’d appear to be just another grifter among the Grünsturmabteilung:
Leader of 20 scientist effort to prosecute climate skeptics under RICO revealed as ‘Climate Profiteer’! ‘From 2012-2014, the Leader of RICO 20 climate scientists paid himself and his wife $1.5 million from government climate grants for part-time work.
George Mason University Professor Jagadish Shukla ( jshukla@gmu.edu) a Lead Author with the UN IPCC, reportedly made lavish profits off the global warming industry while accusing climate skeptics of deceiving the public. Shukla is leader of 20 scientists who are demanding RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges be used against skeptics for disagreeing with their view on climate change.
Shukla reportedly moved his government grants through a ‘non-profit’. The group “pays Shukla and wife Anne $500,000 per year for part-time work,” Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. revealed.
“The $350,000-$400,000 per year paid leader of the RICO20 from his ‘non-profit’ was presumably on top of his $250,000 per year academic salary,” Pielke wrote. “That totals to $750,000 per year to the leader of the RICO20 from public money for climate work and going after skeptics. Good work if you can get it,” Pielke Jr. added.
Scott Alfter
6 Oct 2015
Was watching Back to the Future II a few days ago with Jessica and realized that the future is now, or close enough: less than three weeks from now! Where’s my fusion-powered flying DeLorean?
October 21, 2015 – Back to the Future Day
Use the real-time calculation on www.October212015.com to determine how far we are from Back To The Future Day, October 21, 2015.
Scott Alfter
6 Oct 2015
The view outside this morning on the way to work
Μολών λαβέ, bitches
The Mask Falls: Left Calling for “Gun-Free Society”
I have a better idea: how about a gun-grabbing-liberal-free society? Whether they realize it or not, that will be the end result of any attempt at undermining the 2nd Amendment:
They had previously lied about their goals, claiming to be in favor of “sensible gun safety measures” or other rot.
But now they’re becoming more honest: a Washington Post editor just explicitly called for a “gun free society.
A Gun Free Society.By Fred Hiatt
Washington Post EditorMaybe it’s time to start using the words that the NRA has turned into unmentionables.
Prohibition.
Mass buyback.
A gun-free society.
Let’s say that one again: A gun-free society.
Doesn’t it sound logical? Doesn’t it sound safe? Wouldn’t it make sense to learn from other developed nations, which believe that only the military and law enforcers, when necessary, should be armed — and which as a result lose far, far fewer innocent people than die every year in the United States?
Yes, even saying these words makes the NRA happy. It fuels the slippery-slope argument the gun lobby uses to oppose even the most modest, common-sense reforms. You see? Background checks today, confiscation tomorrow.
And yes, I understand how difficult it would be. This is a matter of changing the culture and norms of an entire society. It would take time.
Note that he claims that using these words is dangerous, because the NRA would interpret them as a slippery slope argument to claim that the left wants a gun free society.
But that is precisely what Hiatt wants.
It’s not just the bedwetters in the press, either. 0bama has nothing left to lose at this point, and his domestic and foreign policy “legacy,” such as it ever was, is a total shambles. He’s already threatened to use his pen and his phone if the feckless weasels in Congress won’t bend to his will. If you’re already set on destroying America, why not just go for the brass ring and make sure it’s “blown up real good?”
Scott Alfter
5 Oct 2015
Definite improvement: the redness is gone, and while the e-collar keeps her from scratching, she isn’t even trying much anymore. That’d suggest that the itchiness or whatever it was is mostly gone.
Scott Alfter
5 Oct 2015
Kinda weird to have the sun out while it’s raining. (Weird color effects are from having HDR enabled.)
The Weak in Pictures: Putin Clocks Obama Edition
“Be ready! Uncle Volodya strong!” (So says Google Translate, anyway.)
The Weak in Pictures: Putin Clocks Obama Edition
Lots more at the link.
Scott Alfter
4 Oct 2015
Scott Alfter
4 Oct 2015
Eine Maß Pale-Ale, bitte! (Near as I can tell, that’s what they’d call pale ale…there’s no shame in importing foreign words into German.)