Friday, December 4, 2009

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A great example of compassionate conservatism

Right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh sat down with William Shatner for an interview this week...and that’s not the weird part. The talk veered into the subject of health care, at which point Rush said poor people don’t deserve to get health care, saying they “should have no more right to quality healthcare than they have to purchase ‘a house on the beach’.”

The evidence for global warming is still conclusive

From Talking Points Memo, on the hacked British climate-change emails: “As for the larger issue, supporters of action on global warming might be well-advised, for the sake of argument, to concede more than they should. OK, they might say to the deniers, we’ll treat all of CRU’s data as irrevocably compromised, and never refer to it again. From now on, we’ll rely only on information from NASA, NOAA, and the Japan Meteorological Agency, as well as the affirmation of the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The consensus that warming is happening would be unaffected.”

We don't need any foreigners asking Palin questions

The Mall of American put out an internal statement before former Gov. Sarah Palin’s book tour visit on Dec 7th saying that “only English speaking press” were permitted. That’s not exactly a common requirement for the Mall, and as soon as the communique was made public, the Mall apologized saying that it was “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.”

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Mothers don't raise your children to grow up to be fisherman

According to an international research team of top scientists, in about 50 years, we’ll be out of fishable seas. “Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.”