The Saturday Situation

I swear, this presidency just becomes more and more absurd with each passing day.  Wait, did I say "passing"?  That's a football term, right?  How appropo, as they say in all the right cocktail parties in the nation's capital.

The big news this morning is that your President, Barack (the Hussein is silent) Obama, has his Justice Department studying ways to tinker with major college football's means of determining a national champion. That's right:  In the middle of the Great Recession, with a 10% rate of unemployment and a 17% rate of underemployment, with foreign policiy crises popping up all over the world and Islamic terrorists bringing incendiary devices onto our jetliners in their underpants, your President continues to have a laser-like focus on the trivial and the absurd.  This guy is quickly making me long for the days of the Carter Administration.

In Church of Global Warming news, it now turns out that the head of the UN's IPCC knew the information regarding melting Himalayan glaciers contained in his organization's "scholarly" report was false before December's climate summit in Copenhagen, but chose to wait two months before releasing the information.  Golly, a Global Warmist is a liar?  Man, that is shocking.

But it gets worse for the IPCC:  Two days ago, we learned that Greenpeace was the sole source of information for the IPCC claims that the world's coral reefs would be negatively impacted by "global warming".  The day before that, we learned that the ultra-leftist World Wildlife Federation was the sole source for IPCC claims of negative impacts to South American rain forests.  And on Friday, NASA and NOAA released a study that shows that much of the "global warming" experienced in the 1990s was attributable not to human emissions or cattle farts, but to a natural rise in water vapor.

All of which would lead any thoughtful person to wonder if any part of the IPCC report - and by extension, the sensationalist claims of Pope Al Gore, who used the IPCC report as the basis for his film - is actually true in any way, shape or form?  Of course, thoughtful people were already skeptical of this nonsense - now we have to figure out a way to work on members of congress and the news media and our educators.  Good luck with that.

There was actually, believe it or not, some good economic news released yesterday:  The Commerce Department estimates that the economy grew at a rate of 5.7% in the 4th quarter of 2009.  Now, before you go out and buy a new BMW, realize that the initial Commerce Dept. estimate of growth for the 3rd quarter of 2009 was a healthy 4.6%.  That was revised downwards not once, but twice, ultimately to a very anemic 2.2%.  So this Administration has already proved it really cannot be trusted where these initial growth estimates are concerned.

Get back to me in a few weeks and we'll see what the number really was.