1. Health Care Reform 6 hours ago   permalink

Health Care Reform
Www.rasmussenreports.com

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

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2. ABC’s Bill Weir: Voters Sent Senator Landrieu to Washington to ‘Get as Much Sausage’ as Possible 33 minutes ago   permalink

ABC’s Bill Weir: Voters Sent Senator Landrieu to Washington to ‘Get as Much Sausage’ as Possible
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs

Good Morning America’s Bill Weir on Sunday defended the $300 million in pork that Senator Mary Landrieu acquired for her state, spinning, " The people of Louisiana sent her to Washington to get as much sausage as they could, you know, she could." Landrieu provided the 60th vote on Saturday to bring the Senate’s health care bill up ...

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ABC’s Bill Weir: Voters Sent Senator Landrieu to Washington to ‘Get as Much Sausage’ as Possible Facing Criticism, Goldman Sachs Cancels Plan to Dance Around Bonfire of Thousand Dollar Bills   —  NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Facing mounting criticism from the public and the media, Goldman Sachs announced today that they would cancel plans to dance around a bonfire of thousand-dollar bills.

3. Nontroversy Watch: CRU-Gate 1 hour ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman interviewed science historian Spencer Weart about the stolen climate science emails (known at the more hysterical blogs as the “ scandal of the century ”); Weart has a good perspective on the nontroversy . Andrew Freedman: What effects do you think this will have on public perceptions of ...

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The CRU hack: Context   —  This is a continuation of the last thread which is getting a little unwieldy. The emails cover a 13 year period in which many things happened, and very few people are up to speed on some of the long-buried issues. So to save some time, I’ve pulled a few bits out of the comment thread that shed some light on some of the context which is ...

4. Boomershoot Picture of the Day 44 minutes ago   permalink

Boomershoot Picture of the Day
Davidwhitewolf / Random Nuclear Strikes

The Random Nuclear Strikes tent. From Boomershoot 2009. Photo copyright © 2009 Xenia Joy . Click to embiggen.

5. Special Captionfest: Dance, Katie, Dance 2 hours ago   permalink

Special Captionfest: Dance, Katie, Dance
NB Staff / NewsBusters.org blogs

A special Captionfest, inspired by Gawker , which today published photos it says are of Katie Couric from a September 5, 2006 party celebrating Couric's first spin behind the anchor desk for the CBS "Evening News." Click here and here for the Gawker stories.(h/t Jim Trotter)

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Special Captionfest: Dance, Katie, Dance Katie Couric's Forbidden Dance of Gin   —  When CBS News anchor Katie Couric isn't asking Sarah Palin gotcha questions, she's doin' Da Butt, or the Lambada, or whatever white ladies do when the Black Eyed Peas are on the sound system. More unbelievable images after the jump.

6. Who Cares? 56 minutes ago   permalink

Jay Tea / Wizbang

With the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few other high-ranking Al Qaeda members in New York City, I've been reading and listening to the arguments in favor...

7. White House Announces New Science Education Initiatives 4 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

President Obama’s scheme to indoctrinate America’s children is proceeding apace, with new initiatives to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics: White House Pushes Science and Math Education . To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video ...

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White House Announces New Science Education Initiatives White House Pushes Science and Math Education   —  To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists.

Gary Gross / California Conservative
Obama’s Undeniable Incompetence   —  There are times when I watch President Obama when I’m forced to wonder question President Obama’s competence. I’m forced to question his competence because he hasn’t done a thing to increase entrepreneurial activity. Just as I’m certain that there’s a certain amount of incompetence involved, I’m also ...

8. A Perpetually Pending Crisis 2 hours ago   permalink

Rodney Graves / Wizbang

Politicians, particularly those of the green and left bent, have been consistently exploiting false crises to work against our economic benefit.

9. The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Pt. 7 4 hours ago   permalink

Kate / Small dead animals

The HARRY_READ_ME.txt file: So, come with me on a wonderful journey as the CRU team realise that not only have they lost great chunks of data but also that their application suites and algorithms are total crap; join your humble Devil and Asimov as we dive into the HARRY_READ_ME.txt (thanks to The Englishman ) file and follow the trials and ...

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The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Pt. 7 The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Pt. 6   —  "Then came Friday's bombshell." Lorne Gunter, Edmonton Journal; This had been a disappointing fall for climate alarmists, even before Friday's revelation that for years some of the world's most prominent climate scientists may have been doctoring the evidence for global warming in order to sustain their thesis that man-made carbon emissions are ...

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The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Pt. 7 Data horribilia: the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file   —  With the CRU emails having been examined, it seems that some people—mainly techies—are really starting to dig into the data files. These files are, as far as we can tell, temperature data, modelling results and other such useful files, i.e. these are the files produced and worked on by the CRU teams, as well as considerable amounts of ...

10. WaPo: Climate Schemers 'Under Attack' By Skeptics Who Dare to Question 2 hours ago   permalink

WaPo: Climate Schemers 'Under Attack' By Skeptics Who Dare to Question
Lachlan Markay / NewsBusters.org blogs

The release of internal emails from Britain's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit shows scientists plotting to ostracize and marginalize other researchers who question their assumptions on anthropogenic global warming. Yet the Washington Post finds that such a strategy is but a natural reaction to attacks on these scientists by ...

11. Rasmussen: ObamaCare support plunges to new low 6 hours ago   permalink

Hotair.com

The more people see of ObamaCare and the way Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have to force it through Congress, the less they like it.  Rasmussen’s latest survey on the legislation shows support for the bill reaching its nadir, 38%, with an 18-point deficit from public opposition,  which is 56%.  It’s the first time in Rasmussen’ ...

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12. Your Choice 3 hours ago   permalink

Jay Tea / Wizbang

Let's play a little hypothetical game. You're the government official in charge of granting or denying funding requests for new medical treatments. You have twenty million dollars to allot, and...

13. CRU Emails “may” be open to interpretation, but commented code by the programmer tells the real story 5 hours ago   permalink

CRU Emails “may” be open to interpretation, but commented code by the programmer tells the real story
Wattsupwiththat.com

In one leaked e-mail, the research center’s director, Phil Jones, writes to colleagues about graphs showing climate statistics over the last millennium. He alludes to a technique used by a fellow scientist to “hide the decline” in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures ...

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14. In Conversation With Tom Friedman's House, A Continuing Series .... 5 hours ago   permalink

In Conversation With Tom Friedman's House, A Continuing Series ....
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15. Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet 14 hours ago   permalink

Www.thememriblog.org

An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan ...

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Whispers of Surrender in Afghanistan?   —  It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi al-Watan in Arabic that - according to an Afghan source - the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5 provinces in exchange for the cessation of attacks on US bases. MEMRI summarizes:

16. Positivity: Science proves adult stem cells more promising than embryonic, says Vatican official 7 hours ago   permalink

TBlumer / BizzyBlog

From Rome (related video is here and at link): Nov 22, 2009 / 06:05 pm The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, said this week that the work by two scientists has shown adult stem cells to be much more promising for medical treatment than embryonic stem cells. The use of adult stem cells poses no ethical ...

17. Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too 14 hours ago   permalink

Www.timesonline.co.uk

Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference opens in Copenhagen. Its purpose is (or was) clear: to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

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18. Every home a daycare? 10 hours ago   permalink

Phil / Random Nuclear Strikes

It sure seems as though the poor folks in the UK are being told to act as though each of their homes may soon be considered a licensed child care facility . Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents. New guidance drawn up at the ...

19. RNS Quote of the Day: 10 hours ago   permalink

Phil / Random Nuclear Strikes

Well now. May I continue this sentiment across the Atlantic? They are all scum. I am not prepared (for legal reasons) to say in public what I really want to see done to them but it would be Chinese in it’s ingenuity and Afghan in it’s brutality. Nick M. @ CCinZ Nick made that statement earlier this year about the Labor dweebies and their ...

20. Captain Sully Getting 'Rock Star Sex' 14 hours ago   permalink

Jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com

Too much information. Although this no doubt will conjure up all sorts of cockpit jokes.He's a hero in the sack, too. The wife of Pilot Chesley Sullenberger let slip that all the hosannas her hubby got for safely landing a US Airways plane in the Hudson River gave their sex life a big boost.

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