Hobnobbing With Tex!

Welcome to yet another incredibly enlightening edition of the only op/ed column in America that has been telling you there has been no global warming since 1995 since…well, since 1995, Hobnobbing With Tex!


Item: Dr. Phil is a phraud.

No, not that Dr. Phil (although he’s a fraud as well) – we’re talking about Dr. Phil Jones of London’s East Anglia University. After years of trying to convince the world that the last 50 years constitute the warmest climate period in recorded history, Dr. Phil turned the world of the Church of Global Warming on its collective head over the weekend when he publicly admitted for the first time that the so-called Medieval Warm Period may well have been warmer than current times, and that there has likely been no global warming at all since 1995.

Dr. Jones, of course, is the very same fake “scientist” who for the last decade falsified data in what has now been rendered a failed attempt to literally erase the 500 year Medieval Warm Period from history in his now-infamous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show steadily and moderately fluctuating temperatures for 2000 years leading to a rapid spike upwards since 1950. Real scientists have over the last seven years repeatedly demonstrated not only that the Medieval Warm Period did indeed exist, but also that Dr. Jones’s claim of a recent spike in global temperatures in excess of ordinary historic fluctuations is a fantasy.

But still, Jones was able to persist in propping up his fraud – which formed the very foundation of Church of Global Warming religious dogma – with the help of a compliant, lapdog media until thousands of emails exchanged between himself and a group of fellow fake “scientists” were made public last November. These emails clearly demonstrated a cooperative effort among the global warming alarmist fake scientist community to include fabricated data in their studies, hide real data from the public, and smear real scientists who attempted to publish studies refuting the alarmist claims.

Since then, Jones has found himself under increasing fire from the British news media, and under intensifying scrutiny from his bosses at East Anglia for his obvious academic fraud,  and from the British government for his blatant violations of the British Freedom of Information Act. It appears the warmest place in London these days is Dr. Jones’s office, and he’s attempting to cool things off by finally weaving a little reality into the fantasy world he has made millions of dollars concocting.

One can only hope this latest ruse by Dr. Jones will not have the effect of convincing his bosses and the British government to call off the dogs. Dr. Jones has, along with Al Gore and many others, played a major role in the execution of the most massive fraud in the history of mankind, a fraud that has convinced developed nations around the world to implement wasteful, enormously expensive policies that have cost taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars, and led directly to millions of deaths due to starvation, malaria and other needless causes.

Prison is where such people belong, and the sooner sanity arrives and governments begin the process of putting them there, the better.

Item: Bayh, Bayh, Evan.

It's like deja vu all over again:  The similarities between the first two years of the Barack Obama Administration and the first two years of the Bill Clinton Administration continue to accumulate. Throughout late 1993 and early 1994, the country witnessed a rash of retirements by Democrat members of congress, as those members began to wake up to the mess Slick Willie had made of his first year in office, and realized that Clinton’s then-fading public approval rating was going to harm their own chances at re-election.

Fast forward to late 2009, and over the last five months or so, we have seen the same phenomenon rising among current congressional Democrats, and for the same reason: President Obama, by dramatically misreading the results of the 2008 elections and pursuing a radical leftist policy agenda, has made a hash of his first year in office, and shows no signs of any willingness to moderate his worst impulses. This has placed the Democrats’ significant congressional majorities in real peril, and many of these senators and congressmen, seeing the handwriting on the wall, are opting for retirement rather than defeat the polls.

Last Friday, Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy announced he would not seek re-election in the wake of polls showing his potential for success in November increasingly unlikely.  Liberals across the country and in the media engaged  in hand-wringing that this would leave congress without a single Kennedy for the first time in half a century.  The rest of the country realized that, given the horrid performance of congress over the last 50 years, this can only be a good thing.
But the latest, and highest-profile retirement came on Monday, when Indiana Senator and former presidential candidate Evan Bayh announced he would not seek re-election to his senate seat this year. Bayh couched his decision in personal terms, claiming it was not motivated by any fear of losing in November. But the truth is that he has been running behind in recent polls to a couple of potential Republican challengers, and has had a difficult time raising campaign funds. With the President obviously intent upon continuing to pursue his radical agenda, it’s pretty apparent that Senator Bayh read the handwriting on the wall and decided to try to preserve his viability for a future presidential run rather than end his career with a loss this November.

Thus proving that, even in the Liberal Zoo, discretion often remains the better part of valor.

The Friday Fix

After November, there will be one less chronic drug abuser in the House of Representatives.  Patrick Kennedy has announced he will not seek re-election.  The fewer Kennedys around abusing everything and everyone in sight, the better.

John Mayer, after bragging in an interview with Playboy Magazine about his "racist penis", and using the vaunted "n-word" in the process, obviously decided a simple apology was not enough , and that crying was in fact required here.  I have to admit I had no idea until this morning that it was even possible for a penis to possess racist thought. Go figure.

The erstwhile liberals over at the Politico assure us that, all the mountain of evidence to the contrary aside, the leftists in the mainstream media love Sarah Palin, they really, really do.  Whew.

As if the poor folks in Haiti didn't have it bad enough, this morning they must frantically hide their women, children and wallets, because Nancy Pelosi is coming to town along with a contingent of her fellow leftist thieves.  God help Haiti.

You know it's getting bad for President Obama when even the fake polls conducted by CBS and the NY Times feel the need to accurately show his public approval rating diving below 50% into the mid-40s.  They dummied it up just enough to keep the 46% approval hovering 1 percentage point above the 45% disapproval, but nobody's really buying that nonsense anymore.  This guy is on a free fall into the high 30s by summer.

Finally, I leave you today with a link to the the coolest of all the cool webites in the Internet: this site chronicles everything that was ever blamed on "global warming".  It's well worth taking a little time to browse through some of the most absurd claims.  Of course, we now know that most of those claims were thrown into the IPCC report without any fact-checking at all.

Have a great Friday, folks.

The Friday Morning Fright Fest

Let's dig right in with one of my favorite pet peeves, the worthless, feckless, wimped-out, pretend-to-be-conservative Democrat "Blue Dog" Caucus in the House of Representatives.  These 42 or so members of the House constitute the most over-hyped and under-accomplished caucus in the history of American government.

Take a look at this story. Yesterday, the Democrats raised the U.S. debt ceiling by a whopping $1.9 trillion, the largest such hike in U.S. history, by far.  The story really plays up the role the Blue Dogs played in ensuring the bill also invoked "pay as you go" budgeting rules in the house for 2010, making them seem to be these intrepid protectors of taxpayer dollars.  Well, bullshit, as we like to say down here in Texas.

First of all, these "pay as  you go" rules have been in effect for the vast majority of the last 12 years, as the federal debt has literally exploded.  This Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since the mid-1990s, as the federal debt has literally exploded.  Am I repeating myself here?  Well, sorry, I'm a little pissed.

The Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since around 1995, and has yet to take a single vote as a group against any huge spending bill proposed by their Party's leadership.  They caved on the fake stimulus bill last year, most of them caved on a cap and trade bill that would have added yet another $2 trillion to the national debt, and most of them have been feverishly negotiating special deals for their districts in exchange for their votes on the healthcare nationalization bill.

The only way this worthless collection of fake fiscal conservatives could ever make themselves a truly relevant caucus would be to oppose some huge spending bill - any huge spending bill - favored by their leadership as a bloc.  But because they are fake fiscal conservatives who only assume that posture as a means of getting elected in what are otherwise Republican districts, they never do that.  These are the very worst people in the U.S. House of Representatives, because they give the Democrat Party a patina of ideological diversity it does not in fact possess.   A pox on all their Blue dog houses.

Ok, let me take a deep breath here before moving on...