Obama was surrounded by the lunatic death-to-Americans left, his friends and social circle all come from those crazies, which led to widespread suspicion he was and is one of them – that he is a crazed commie nazi muslim who seeks to destroy America and reduce Americans to poverty and slavery. Birds of a feather flock together. On the other hand, a lot of people believe he is a moderate centrist. He is now surrounded by the pillars of the …
Category: politics
Obama lashes out at the innocent to protect the guilty
Immediately after losing a senate seat to a Republican populist, Obama the next day proceeded to go populist. He, is, he tells us, going to punish those unregulated wall street fat cats who caused the crisis. He is going to tax the banks, and restrict proprietary trading by banks. But proprietary trading had little to do with the crisis. All the things that caused the crisis are still going: the continuing misbehavior of Fannie, Freddie, and the FHA, the continuing …
Mencius and Kling agree
Mencius Moldbug has long argued that we live in a theocracy. The priesthood teach that the state deserves authority, the schools teach the official religion, and the state funds the schools and the priesthood. Now Arnold Kling gives the same analysis,
Google still evil
Despite an announcement that it has stopped censoring in China, google.com.cn still censored Correction: A commentor points out that if we search for Tiananmen+Square+massacre instead of just Tiananmen+Square, we get uncensored results. Nonetheless, there is something smelly about that page rank. Also, google continues to censor right here: Type “Christianity is†into the search box, and it will drop down the following suggestions wrong a lie bullshit not a religion a cult a joke Type “Islam is†and see what …
What the Tea Party stands for
There is a risk that the Tea Party movement is sufficiently vague and unspecific to enable everyone to read into what they want, so that people with fundamentally irreconcilable views believe they’re part of the same movement, which is a good way to get people into power so that they can start scooping up some of the gravy, and a bad way to accomplish any political objective. The original Tea Party was a violent eruption against British Mercantilism. They threw …
Warmism for politicians
If Sarah Palin is so amazingly dumb, how come she gets everything right on a complex issue, and explains it in language that the average voter can understand? Sarah Palin explains climate change, covering every issue, except for the documents directory of the climategate files, in clear, easy to understand language. She makes one minor error, describing “hide the decline†as hiding the decline of temperature, when in fact they were hiding the decline of a proxy for temperature, but …
How bloggers saved the world
The Air Vent tells us that China saved the world, which is true, but China saved the world because of what bloggers did. The enemy plan was to use global warming to roll back science, technology and western civilization.  Copenhagen was to have established a “world climate treaty organization†which would exercise centralized control over all the worlds economies, thereby avoiding that inconvenient embarrassment that ensues whenever socialist economies face comparison with capitalist economies. Someone released the Climategate files. I …
Tony Abbot takes aim at Copenhagen
Tony Abbot made news around the world, by unseating Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Australian opposition over Climategate, and then stalling the carbon tax.  By stalling the tax, Abbot challenged the Prime Minister to a double dissolution election, which would have been a referendum on the carbon tax. By backing down from that challenge, the Prime Minister finds himself empty handed in Copenhagen, making it much harder to reach agreement. Abbot concludes that global warming alarmism is not, …
Provenance of the surface temperature graph of doom.
“So what the hell did Tim do?!! As I keep asking.†The IPCC blessed the results of Hadley-CRU. Hadley-CRU blessed the results of the religous fanatic PhD student Tim Mitchell, and, as is clear from the Harry Readme file, no one checked how Tim produced these remarkable results. Harry, in what is now the world’s most studied document on global warming, the Harry_Read_Me.txt file, asks “So what the hell did Tim do?!! As I keep asking.†How then did a …
The Cathedral loses
Honduras wins, Cathedral loses. It was a “coup†because it was not the kind of process that the Cathedral could manipulate without anyone understanding what was going on.