Reflections From a Murky Pond

Is the economy broken? I keep hearing – and hearing, and hearing, and hearing – how the US economy is broken, but is this really true or is the truth that the US economy has been broken for decades and what we’re painfully experiencing is it fixing itself?

It seems to me that latter possibility is far more likely true than the former.

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The Democrats have a problem. They got drunk on class warfare, ended up in bed – or up against a wall in a piss-stinking alley – with the anti-American, criminal slackers of OWS, and are now faced with the problem of a “coyote ugly” morning after.

Gnaw Off Arm And Crawl Away…

Now it’s up to Americans to make sure that, come the 2012 elections, the Dems have to make that “walk of shame” right out of office and right out of history – except as a footnote on failure. 😉

Truth be told though, I’m not sure that “shame” can play a part in this. Democrats don’t seem to have the capacity for shame and whored themselves out to OWS knowingly. Now it’s not shame that drive them; it’s morning after regrets and the fear of what diseases or vermin they may have contracted.

As there Arab Spring inevitably turns into the Islamist Winter it’s interesting to see the specifics of the fallout from Obama’s recent illegal war in Libya.

Don’t Mention It, Habibi

Fortunately for Obama, the lamestream media won’t mention it and, even if they did, his core base “knows what hoes are for” and won’t be particularly bothered by this. 😉

The true test of one’s devotion to a principle or set of principles is how one reacts when the principle(s) in question is applied to one’s self. Truly, this test is an effective measure of a person, though it can have some “interesting” effects…

A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels. When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, ‘Is this a union house?’

“No,” she replied, “I’m sorry it isn’t.”

“Well, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?”

“The house gets $80 and the girls get $20,” she answered.

Offended at such unfair dealings, the union man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable, hopefully unionized shop. His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the Madam responded, “Why yes sir, this is a union house. We observe all union rules.”

The man asked, “And if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?”

“The girls get $80 and the house gets $20.”

“That’s more like it!” the union man said.

He handed the Madam $100, looked around the room, and pointed to a stunningly attractive blond.

“I’d like her,” he said.

“I’m sure you would, sir,” said the Madam.

Then she gestured to a 92-year old woman in the corner, “but Ethel here has 67 years seniority and according to union rules, she’s next.”

The shop steward was more than a little shopworn. Definitely a case of the Teamster being hoist upon his own – or his union’s own – petard.

I’m guessing his continued support for his union’s seniority policies might be a little limp. 😆

Climate changes; we can all accept that fact. It runs in an unknown number of nested cycles varying in length from a few years to many millennia and is impacted by an equally unknown number of inputs of unknown strength and synergy.

Cryptoclimatology – The “Search” For AGW

Some who claim the title of scientist want to simplify that system though for their own agendas and, as Climategate 1.0 and Climategate 2.0 showed the world, what they’ve done bears more resemblance to cryptozoology than hard science.

What they’ve done is to create Cryptoclimatology, the search for a way to coerce people into believing anthropogenic climatic changes that the existence thereof has not been proven are both real and dire.