“Arctic ice hits near record low, Threatening Wildlife†Since we have been observing the total ice area for thirty years, on average, assuming that there is no long term warming trend, arctic ice will hit a near record low one year out of ten. But, of course, there are two poles, so in one year out of five either arctic or antarctic ice will hit a near record low. And …
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Herman Cain is front runner for Republican Presidential nomination
Governor Romneycare is, or was, the establishment Republican nominee. When his campaign turned out to be dead on arrival, Rick Perry was the emergency backup establishment republican nominee. But Herman Cain now leads 28% to 17% Herman Cain has from the beginning been the main Republican Republican nominee. Back in May I said “It is a long, long way to the 2012 presidential elections, but they are Herman Cain’s to …
The astroturf arrives to “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
Until yesterday, the movement to occupy Wall Street was genuine, with a handful of lunatics and a few homeless hippies who had lost their way to the 1969 San Francisco love in. The hilariously tiny turnout, and the general level of idiocy, was an embarrassment to the left, revealing that the left is not a mass movement, but an elite movement, that the left is merely the voice of the …
No enemies to the left, no friends to the right
“What if” is a right wing/libertarian blog. Yet strangely, is incapable of seeing evil – when evil is on the left. When however alleged evil is on the right, has not the slightest difficulty in seeing evil. Those who kiss upwards, can usually be relied on to spit downwards.
Palin surges
Palin’s poll numbers are shooting up. Although her speech on crony capitalism seemed to go right over the audience’s heads, since then the party faithful have been banging away on message, and it looks like it is penetrating. Zombie’s cartoon should explain crony capitalism to anyone. Maybe democracy can work against crony capitalism. Democracy tends to self destruct in massive vote buying, as tax consumers outnumber taxpayers, but should not …
No enemies to the left, no friends to the right
Everyone, including most on the right, wants to kiss up and brown nose leftwards, while condemning and denigrating rightwards, for the left has the power, delivers the gravy, and punishes its enemies.
Zombie reports the day of rage
Zombie reports the day of rage. All the pictures showing them marching down the street, symbolically confronting capitalist institutions, and so forth, show a group of less than twenty, but there is also a photograph of hundreds of people gathered in a park listening to a speech, which gathering looked genuine enough, not much indication of astroturfing.
Vice Provost for Diversity & Climate
And what, you may ask, connects these two fields?
“hundreds of protestorsâ€
ABC news tell us that “hundreds of protestors†showed up to occupy Wall Street, yet their photo shows only nineteen, count them, nineteen protestors, twenty one if we suppose the two well dressed men mingling with police are also protestors, twenty two if we suppose the guy in the distance is also a protestor.
No one shows up for Day of rage.
Less than a dozen protestors showed up for the promised day of rage at wall street. Either people are not enraged, or, more likely, they decline to swallow the story that Fanny, Freddie, the FHA, and the rest of the government alphabet soup now merged into FHFA were poor innocent victims led astray by the manipulations of their evil wall street partners.