Contributed by: filbert Saturday, March 06 2010 @ 11:06 AM CST
I get a solid A- for effort today, on the Obama curve . . .
Simians and other aminals*:
Exotic Flowers Help Bees Stay Busy in Winter [*1]
*Yes, I know it’s “animals,” it’s just that I always found the childhood mispronunciation really, really cute . . .
Travel:
Update: Gastrointestinal Outbreaks Strike Several Cruise Ships [*2]
West Africa: The Next Big Cruise Destination? [*3]
Sports:
KC-based sports architect Labinski to receive prestigious honor [*4]
Sam Mellinger: Mayor’s logic gets in the way of the games [*5] — Yeah, we wouldn’t want a little thing like fiscal responsibility come between us and our Bread and Circuses . . .
Griner’s punch gives the Big 12 a black eye
South Dakota State still major contender amid balanced field [*6]
Oakland eager for title after crushing defeat at 2009 tournament [*7]
Summit Stuff [*8]
No. 3 Huskers still perfect at 28-0; 1 game left [*9]
Science Fiction and Writing:
What Writing and Lying Have in Common [*10]
Your Military Science Fiction Isn’t Really Military Science Fiction [*11]
Science, technology, and space:
Study: Net Neutrality Bad for Innovation, Investment and Consumers [*12]
Straight News–Stuff sufficiently serious to deserve a serious treatment:
Shooting at Pentagon: Two cops injured; Update: Suspect identified [*13]
2 Officers Shot at Pentagon Metro Entrance …Update: Shooter Identified As Crazy Anti-Bush Truther- Photos …Update: Shooter Dead — Sometimes, an insane psychpathic wacko is just an insane psychpathic wacko . . .
Pentagon Shooter Was a Truther, Anti-Bush Loon [*14]
Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
Man unharmed after crashing his car into barn after steering wheel pops off [*15]
U.S. recalls common flavoring after contamination [*16]
The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh [*17]
SECTION THREE: Politics: The neverending battle against blithering idiocy:
People doing potentially good things (including sightings of politicians doing something less than totally idiotic):
More Evidence that Palin’s Tonight Show Appearance Went Well (UPDATED) [*18]
Texas-Sized Lesson: The New Tone Era Is Over [*19] — Here’s the New New Tone: Quit spending our money, you dolts!
Climate change skepticism urged in S.D. classrooms [*20] — Although I’d be happier if skepticism in general was more strongly taught and promoted in schools. Question Authority. Question them A LOT. Because you can’t implicitly trust authority. The Founding Fathers understood that. Many today have forgotten that fundamental fact of human nature.
State polls show gathering storm [*21] — The people who pay the taxes are starting to get really, really upset. The people who don’t pay taxes should probably take appropriate notice . . .
The cure for blithering idiocy: freedom and individual liberty (yeah, I know–ooh, ick, philosophy!):
A Curious Dalliance with Nullification [*22]
The reality of President Obama and his entire Administration as blithering idiots:
Obama to Leftwing Democrats: Please Save My Presidency! [*23]
White House bars media from event, puts out own video instead [*24] — Most! Transparent! Presidency! EVER!!!
Fiscal Responsibility, A Trillion Dollars Worth [*25]
So, How’s That Pivot to Jobs Going? [*26]
The Obama way: Bluster, bully, bribe [*27]
The President’s Bipartisan Outreach: Doesn’t Meet the Laugh Test [*28]
The reality of Washington Democrats (and Independents, and Socialists) as blithering idiots:
Texas Dem Candidate: “I will take our troops out of the war zone and put them into space” [*29] – And, considering most of the current Washington Democrats are Really Out There, she’d actually fit right in . . .
Senate Rejects Spending Caps, and Reality [*30]
Surprise! Byrd endorses reconciliation [*31]
The reality of Washington Republicans as blithering idiots:
Corker, Bailouts and a New Federal Bureaucracy: One Indisputable Fact [*32]
Lindsey Graham Meets With Obama White House to Plan Next Amnesty Bill [*33]
Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
Shut Up, They Explained [*34]
Which came first? The narrative or the nut? [*35]
The Hypocrisy of the Women’s Media Center [*36]
Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Lying About Bush’s Tax Cuts [*37] — “The Bush tax cuts were intended to increase market incentives to work, save, and invest and thus create jobs and increase economic growth. An analysis of the six quarters before and after the 2003 tax cuts shows that this is exactly what happened.” Democrats lie. It’s what they do.
Astroturfed “Coffee Party” Extremists Hold First Meeting In St. Louis [*38] — Laughably pathetic . . .
I’m Not Among the Faithful [*39] — There are no saviors among the politicians . . .
Government Workers Are Earning More than You. Sucker. [*40]
Tides Foundation: General Support, Major Concern [*41]
The Keith Olbermann Memorial “Special Comment” on blithering idiots in the Media:
Politico Freaks Out Over RNC Fundraising Material [*42]
MSNBC’s Alternative Reality [*43]
Ranting And Raving [*44]
Does anyone in the media remember the “Weather Underground”? [*45] — Actually, probably not. Most of the “media” weren’t alive when the Weathermen were bombing buildinga around the U.S.A.
SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
Population Bomb Author Giving Advice to Global Warming Nuts [*46]
Climategate: ‘The Science is Settled,’ They Told Copernicus[*47]
Baltic sea ice traps ships [*48]
Met Office ends season forecasts – no more “BBQ summers” [*49]
Health care “reform” aka health insurance “reform” — or should that be health care “change?” Perhaps “Global healthing?:
Obama’s Vietnam: “This is the last helicopter out of Saigon.” [*50]
Frank Luntz on Obamacare: You Will See Democrats Defeated in Places That Haven’t Elected a Republican Since 1994 (Video) [*51] — And, re: Scott Brown, possibly even before that . . .
The Antitrust Trap for Health Care Insurance [*52] — Because the people don’t really matter to the Democrats. Only the Policy matters. They don’t care how many people actually get hurt in the process.
Dems Race to Pass Health Care Bill as Tea Partiers Plan Town Hall Wave[*53]
The Economy (Can the blithering idiots bring down the most productive economy the world has ever seen? Yes, They Can! Will they?):
Is the Recovery Losing Steam? [*54] — Did it ever really get steam up in the first place?
Foreign affairs and National Security (Will blithering idiots get us all killed, or make us all speak Spanish–or Chinese–or Arabic–or all three?):
Sometimes You Just Have to Shoot People[*55]
The Morning Whip is a (mostly) daily review of what’s out there that caught my attention, sometimes but not always posted before 11 am Central time in the U. S. of A., unless I just don’t feel like it that day, am out doing something more important or more fun, or I’ve been abducted, detained, arrested, or otherwise flummoxed by the agents of blithering idiotry.
I surf the Web, so you don’t have to! (which would be a trademark, but come on, who am I kidding?)