WHAT THE WEATHER'S LIKE IN DARWIN, AUSTRALIA
American Thinker chooses today to link to the graphs that say it all about "homogenized" data on the Global Warmitude Hoax. I feel so special.
See two versions of what you feel when you stick your finger into the wind, depending on whether you are motivated to "Hide the Decline".
EPA (Environmental Poppycock Agency)
DECLARES CARBON DIOXIDE TO BE A POLLUTANT
Americans (and sheep everywhere), get ready for your new National Anthem [as composed and performed -- irony alert -- by the Police]:
EXHAUSTIVE COVERAGE OF HOLLYWOOD'S SELF-LOATHING PSEUDO-HISTORIAN-OF-CHOICE
-- HOWARD ZINN'S PEOPLE'S HISTORY, COMING TO A CLASSROOM NEAR YOU
Andrew Breitbart at Big Hollywood covers this wall-to-wall. (Especially pertinent: "Stage Right's" observation about A Nation of Starf%*#kers).
Is our children learning?
We report, you decide.
Dear Leader Zinn's Department of Education:
American Thinker has more on the subject of worship of vacuuous Hollywood glam-bams (yes, that's the Viggo up there, flipping the peace sign like a 50-year-old undergraduate, with scholastic luminaries like Matt Damon and Josh Brolin) and other high-profile clouds of liberal vapor, in George Joyce's comment on a new essay by philosopher Roger Scruton.
Scruton's name came up on a 2007 American Thinker essay, as one who has distilled the phenomenon of modern self-loathing -- the seminal ingredient in the Howard Zinn pedagogy. Scruton coined a Greek neologism, "oikophobia", and defined it for all our use in this speech to the Vlaams Belang, a large Belgian political party contemplating Flemish secession.
I once watched a tv biography of Howard Zinn, and my predominant reaction was how close in circumstances was his father's arrival in America compared to my grandfather's -- and I just kept scratching my head as to how by the next generation the achievements of immigrant parents managed, in the Zinn family, to translate into such profound loathing and slander of the land that gave them a home. True enough, most of my grandfather's sons and descendants grew up to take a liberal view of politics and society (my dad was the exception), but in this Zinn boy we see a genuine pathological obsession. It's just so odd.
I don't know if Howard Zinn has ever enthusiastically praised anything, but his approach to American history was neatly distilled by W.S. Gilbert, in the voice of his Lord High Executioner, about "the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone/ all centuries but this, and every country but his own."
EXHAUSTIVE COVERAGE OF OBAMA'S LATEST CZAR FAIL
KEVIN JENNINGS: SO-FIST-ICATED LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE
I don't really even want to write anything specific about this guy, because the words and the facts and the damage make cringe and feel queasy. I'll leave it to the Czar-Toppling Whistleblower-in-Chief, Jim Hoft over at the indispensible Gateway Pundit. Read it and weep.
Gateway also give us our laugh of the day: in an interview with Foreign Policy Magazine, former Czech President Vaclav Havel sees Barack Obama's "wee-wee'd up" and raises him poop-in-the-pants, on the subject of standing one's ground on the international political stage. Read it and wet.
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