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Captain Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather. He lives with his wife Marcia, also known as the First Mate, their two dogs, and frequently watch their granddaughter Kayla, whom Captain Ed calls The Little Admiral.
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The Crows Nest
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Bush Going After Palestinian Terror Financing?
George Bush's new orders to USAID forces them to review the executive management of all NGOs to ensure that they have no terrorist connections. Carl in Jerusalem says at Israel Matzav that the order specifically intends to target Palestinian front groups for terrorists. Let's hope he's right.
Slow Start!
Yes, I'm off to a slow start today, thanks to some scripting issues, a bad back, and an alarm clock that needs replacing. Bear with me -- I'm ramping up, I promise...
And Now, In Little League Action Last Night ...
I once played in a Little League game where we lost, 30-1, obviously before mercy rules came into being. The only comfort during that shellacking was that 13-year-olds don't have to justify their salaries for being on the field. You have to wonder what the Baltimore Orioles have to feel without that caveat today, after losing 30-3 to the Texas Rangers. Sixteen of the runs came in the last two innings .... (via TMV)
Bush Speech On Iraq
I got a couple of e-mails wondering why I haven't linked to George Bush's speech today. I liked it; I just didn't have much to add. Rush Limbaugh covered it well on his site, and Power Line also links approvingly but has nothing much more to say. Michael Goldfarb notes that the Weekly Standard had made a similar argument regarding Vietnam a year ago.
Rove Fears Me -- No, Really!
Hot Air notes the latest fundraising letter from John Edwards. No longer content to indulge his paranoia when Ann Coulter mentions him, now he wants to indulge it when Karl Rove doesn't. Has any candidate seemed this desperate before now?
Racism Or Hard Truth?
Angela Winters looks at an editorial cartoon and the controvery it has caused in Jacksonville, Florida, especially in the black community. Truth or racism? When rap artists tell young listeners not to cooperate with the police, how much responsibility do they have for the victimization that follows? Read all of the essay at The Moderate Voice.
Support Citizen Journalism
Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal reminds us that there is a reporter shortage on the front lines. The best way to solve that problem? Donate to Public Multimedia, the citizen-journalist organization that supports Bill Roggio, Bill Ardolino, and others. (And a direct donation to Michael Yon would be much appreciated as well.)
Comments (6)
Posted by onlineanalyst | June 8, 2007 9:42 AM
CE: Your "Heading Right" observations concur with what Kim Strassel noted this morning at WSJ's online opinionjournal.
The US has exceeded the achievements of Kyoto signers in reducing carbon emissions.. and has done so without damaging our economy.
One paragraph of the synopsis of Bush's success:
There's been a capitulation on global warming, but it hasn't happened in the Oval Office. The Kyoto cheerleaders at the United Nations and the European Union are realizing their government-run experiment in climate control is a mess, one that's incidentally failed to reduce carbon emissions. They've also understood that if they want the biggest players on board--the U.S., China, India--they need an approach that balances economic growth with feel-good environmentalism. Yesterday's G-8 agreement acknowledged those realities and tolled Kyoto's death knell. Mr. Bush, 1; sanctimonious greens, 0.
The article points out the forward-looking Asia-Pacific Partnership, the value of nuclear energy, the advancing technology of clean coal, and so forth-- all part of Bush's plan for addressing climate change. None of these ideas foster deceitful methods of cap and trade or equally rife-for-abuse carbon-credit shell games pushed by Gore's acolytes.
Nice work by both of you for setting the record straight!
Posted by GeneB | June 8, 2007 11:22 AM
Wouldn't it be ironic if Bush's legacy turned out to be international kudos for effective policy in the environmental arena.
Posted by Joe Doe | June 8, 2007 11:33 AM
He's still searching for a LEGACY - may the continental fart be the one to meet his royal ways. Although after the constipation caused on hearing the temprary failure of his amnesty, he might be in no mood to talk just about that.
May he find a LEGACY that can be reversed - the amnesty is the only one that cannot be rolled back. Money, taxes, hospitals, hot gases - all can be fixed in time - culture is a one-way street though. Once gone is never to return.
Posted by Project Vote Smart | June 8, 2007 5:24 PM
President Bush’s history of speeches on global climate change can be found at: http://www.votesmart.org/speech.php?keyword=&daterange=&begin=&end=&phrase=climate+change&contain=&without=&type=search&can_id=22369&go2.x=0&go2.y=0#Results
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Posted by Carol Herman | June 8, 2007 8:35 PM
The other day, Glenn Reynolds, over at InstaPundit, linked to FREEMAN DYSON. On this very subject.
Did you know GLOBAL WARMING really means we know something about ground temperature all over the world?
That's the BIG error, said Dyson. Because of the big oceans; we do not know, at any given point in time, what the temperature is on the GROUND. All over this world.
The other thing? This is done with hokus-pocus COMPUTER MODELING, folks! It's not sexy science to actually measure stuff. So, the computer is "asked a bunch of questions." Sort'a like getting your horoscope from astrology.
Just because a lot of people believe its true. Doesn't make it true.
As to Algore. He got a "D" in science at Harvard. So neither Bush nor Algore actually have "credentials."
Which also speaks to the boobs in Hollywood, who have also "glammed onto" this limosine liberal agenda.
The whole idea? To give the UN an ability to tax us all. And, with freaks on the Supreme-O's bench, like Anthony Kennedy; the Constitution can be trumped by "world opinion."
On the other hand, Bush has two more years to go. And, except for the course GOING DOWNHILL; I do not know what's gonna stop him.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure on 9/11 he got Bandar on the phone. And, he gave the Saud's more information than he should have.
Does Bush talk a good game? Well, "talking" isn't one of his strong suits.
And, while his popularity has plunged, so, too, has the numbers for the congress critters. It's not as if they're going home as heroes.
And, in this mix? Guiliani continues to do well.
As to science, I hate it when idiots turn it into malarky. Because nothing good happens in science from "concensus." But the opposite. Heck, even the poliio vaccines came from two men who couldn't get a dime from the March of Dimes.
Meanwhile, the media swamp does own the hysteria.
At least there's the Internet.
And, the FREEMAN DYSON link from InstaPundit was time well spent.
Posted by Kevin Doyle | June 9, 2007 10:10 AM
Carol Herman is correct, this issue is bogus.
Facts ignored by Al Gore, et al:
1) The primary cooling mechanism of the earth is not radiation, but convection. Winds cool the earth over twice as much as radiational cooling. Greenhouse gases are only relevant to radiational cooling.
2) The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 380 ppm (parts per million).
3) The amount of water vapor (H2O) varies from 10,000-20,000 ppm on average.
4) Water vapor is more than twice as powerful as a 'greenhouse gas'.
If one does the math here, CO2 is a laughable minor footnote in the atmosphere equation.
4) Water vapor