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Shorter Confederate Yankee:
Still No Good Explanation for Obama’s Plan For A State Security Apparatus
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Note: If Mr. Yankee is lurking around, please see El Cid (in comments) as to why the theory is five dollars short of a foot-long — referring, if you would, to this Military Times transcript.
For her son, who comments on our silly blog.
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Watch as Laura experiences difficulties:
Hoisted from the comments:
Hoosier X said,
July 18, 2008 at 20:01
Barack Obama must denounce Creed!
And reject them.
And renounce them. (Just to be safe.)
Well, well, well. Whatever have we here:
MWAH-HAA-HAAAAA!!!! 347 17 h8rs!!!!!
Ah yes, remember a little while ago when that Michael Asher anti-global-warming piece exploded so mortifyingly for Jonah, and I mentioned that we were waiting for the next sucker to step up and be fooled?
Here’s a list from Memeorandum:
Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate— “Considerable presence” of skeptics — The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air, The Sundries Shack, Climate Progress, Pirate’s Cove, Patterico’s Pontifications, Sister Toldjah, The Strata-Sphere, Wake up America, Althouse, The News Buckit, JustOneMinute, www.redstate.com, Right Wing News, San Francisco Chronicle, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org and Dot Earth
Discussion:
Hindrocket / Power Line: RETHINKING CLIMATE CHANGE
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Consensus collapses: APS re-opens debate on global warming …
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack: Physicists Open Climate Change Debate. Will Al Gore Denounce them as “Deniers”?
Joe / Climate Progress: American Physical Society forced to reaffirm human-caused global …
William Teach / Pirate’s Cove: SM Friday: Goracle – Hey, I’m Still Relevant Here! Hello?
Patterico’s Pontifications: Global Warming/Terrorism: A Real Problem/A Manufactured Issue
Sister Toldjah: American Physical Society debates IPCC conclusion on global warming
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere: Group Representing 50,000 Scientists Says “Hold On” On Global Warming
Susan Duclos / Wake up America: American Physical Society Sponsors Debate On Validity Of Global Warming Science
Ann Althouse / Althouse: About that anthropogenic global warming consensus.
S. Lee Whitesell II / The News Buckit: Solemn Mirth: The Triumph of Science
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: How Green Was My Scientific Consensus?
Kbday / www.redstate.com: Breaking news: sunlight shines on global warming (aka climate change) skeptics
Right Wing News: AGW “Consensus” Challenged by Scientists
Zachary Coile / San Francisco Chronicle: Al Gore lays down green challenge to America
Don Surber: Global warming gored
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org: American Physical Society Opens Debate on Global Warming
Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth: The (Annotated) Gore Energy Speech
We’re hereby on notice for corrections. Who will duly correct the bizarre and factually wrong assertions that they parroted from Asher, evidently without doing a scratch of research, clicking a single link, or having any clue at all what they were typing — and who will punk out?
Let’s take bets!
Kyle-Anne Shiver, one of the calm voices of reason at The American Thinker, wants you to know that if the Negroes get the keys to the White House…
America as we now know it could completely cease to exist within a very short time. …
The reason: because the New Yorker cover is completely true!
Well, to be honest, some of what scares me about Barry and Michelle Obama in the White House does, in fact, have a little to do with the grains of truth in that now infamous New Yorker cover, showing Obama in Muslim garb and Michelle as a black militant with a machine gun, and the American flag burning in a fireplace.
Michelle’s fist bump, also shown on the cover, is of particular concern to Karl-Linda, er, Kyle-Anne. (“Oh, no,” you groan, “not the fist bump again! We thought that had been put to rest when even Faux News had to concede that the whole issue was cow-puckey.”)
So let’s now avail ourselves of this golden opportunity to take a short stroll down Wingnut Semiotics Lane with Duane-Britney, to see the vast layers of sinister meaning that she unearths in the fist bump:
The fist bump itself seems to be an adaptation of the Black Panther power salute, so prominent in the 60s and 70s.
I suppose it is an adaptation in the same sense that the handshake is an adaptation of the universal “stop-jerking-me-off” or “you’re-a-wanker” gesture, both of which involve pumping the hand up and down while holding the palm in a partly-closed semi-circle:
The rest of the world knew the fist-in-the-air salute simply as the Black Power salute, not the Black Panther salute, but, of course, that’s not scary enough for Rufus-Beth:
It might appear completely innocuous to some, but to others, it is a memorable remnant of a very explosive and, for many, frightening period of American history. There are probably not too many Americans over the age of 50, who do not remember the black power moment at the Olympics of 1968 and the fear those raised fists could evoke in the shadow of American cities inflamed by riots and uncontrolled violence
You and I may remember the civil rights era as one in which Black Americans sought to gain equal access to buses, lunch counters, swimming pools, and movie theatres; Jimbob-Cassandra remembers it as a time in which massively-schlonged black bucks streamed out of the ghetto to burn down white peoples’ houses, violate white women in their front yards, and dance around naked to the strains of jungle music by the light of the flames shooting from burning buildings.
Our friend Scott, at World O’Crap, has more, lots more, on Luke-Linda’s nonsense.
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Gavin adds: You’ve got to give him some credit, though. He added a fair correction this time, instead of the usual song and dance in which factual errors only further underscore his point.
Also, do we have to say ‘fucking’? At this very moment, there’s a panel discussion on cursing and obscenity taking place at the Netroots Nation conference — the infamous ‘fuck panel’ — and since they didn’t invite us, I think we should make their work more difficult by thinking up more clever insults and epithets.
Brad responds: No dice. This only underscores my fucking point.
Gavin redounds: I’m waiting for the next suxxor to be fooled by the Michael Asher piece that got Jonah.
As he is wont to do, Asher appended a weaselly, ambiguous correction at the very bottom of the page:
Updated 7/17/2008
After publication of this story, the APS responded with a statement that its Physics and Society Forum is merely one unit within the APS, and its views do not reflect those of the Society at large.
Except the APS did not say that the Physics and Society Forum endorsed those views. Indeed, here’s what we find when we actually look at the Physics and Society Forum newsletter:
Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered
The following article has not undergone any scientific peer review. Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article’s conclusions.
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) concluded that…
As if that weren’t enough, Lord Monckton is a British upper-class loony who, when not financing and publishing phony scientific papers, falsely claims to be a member of Parliament.
Above: Blogger of the Year, 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference
Global Warming Hoax is Slowly Coming Apart
—Gabriel Malor
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1 David Evans is a computer programmer who worked as a consultant for the Australian Greenhouse Office.
2 Cf. The Australian has a long history of publishing sloppy and mutually irreconcilable anti-global-warming editorials.
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