Monthly Archives: December 2009

Oh No Ho Ho

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Gaius

We presume he iced up over the Midwest and augered in. Tweet

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Cannibal Boomers

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Gaius

A truly disturbing opinion piece by Bill Frezza over at Real Clear Politics. The boomers are eating their young. My 26 year old son got the most extraordinary letter from the Social Security Administration last week. In plain English it … Continue reading →

Posted in Bad Ideas, Medicine, Politics | 7 Comments

The Copenhagen Effect

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Gaius

Much of the United States is reeling from a powerful winter storm that has already caused at least three deaths – and a lot worse is coming in the next couple of days. However, the worst may be yet to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authoritarians, Environment | 4 Comments

Cold Hearted Care

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Gaius

The cold heart of ObamaCare: To call the dangers of this legislation “death panels” obscures the real-life consequences to Americans, not only the elderly, of a federal government-run health care bureaucracy. In the Senate bill, for instance, Medicare doctors whose … Continue reading →

Posted in Medicine, Obamantics | 2 Comments

Limos, Private Jets, Caviar, Hookers

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Gaius

Check, check, check, check. Everything’s ready for the big shindig in Copenhagen. Or Gropenhagen. Or Copenhooker. Whatever: Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Obamantics, World news | 4 Comments

Global Heating

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Gaius

So, recent revelations indicate that the “science” behind global warming is more than a bit less than settled. What’s a true believer to do? Why, drop into profanity on live television, of course! A professor who is accusing global warming … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Obamantics | 8 Comments

Losing The Left

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Gaius

Dana Milbank points out the obvious – and probably inevitable. Obama is now losing even the left. Yet Moore is surely right about the disillusionment of Obama’s supporters. Even before the surge announcement, support among liberals for Obama’s Afghanistan policy … Continue reading →

Posted in Obamantics, Politics | 4 Comments

Falling Flat

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Gaius

Mark Steyn: “The Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again.” The Grand Young Duke of Hope has 30,000 men. He’ll march … Continue reading →

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Marching To And Fro

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Gaius

Charles Krauthammer sees what I saw. Go read the whole thing. Tweet

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The Out Of Touch Summit

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Gaius

The Wizard of O and his munchkin chorus convened a sing along today where they all got together to belt out their list of old hits: You’re Out of the Woods, We’re Into Your Pockets, Happy Days Are Here Again … Continue reading →

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The Real Climate Disaster

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Gaius

Charles Moore in The Telegraph, reviewing a book by Lord Lawson: Lord Lawson then notes that the IPCC predicts that, at this level of temperature rise, global food production will actually increase. He takes the IPCC’s gloomiest prediction of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authoritarians, Environment | 1 Comment

And When The Omagic Goes Away

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Gaius

Or how the latest Super-Gigantic, Historical, Bestest-Evah, Self-Referential Speech is playing in Europe. That would be very, very badly, indeed. Just in Time for the Campaign For each troop movement, Obama had a number to match. US strength in Afghanistan … Continue reading →

Posted in Obamantics, World news | 5 Comments

When It Starts Unraveling

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Gaius

James Delingpole posts a roundup of the beginning of the unraveling of the carefully knitted global “consensus”. 2. Danes caught fiddling their carbon credits. (Hat tip: Philip Stott) Carbon trading is the Emperor’s New Clothes of international finance. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Authoritarians, Economy | 1 Comment