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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
 
Right Is Right

Barbara Boxer is right about this:

Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon.

Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.


This really is not even debatable. Data was stolen and then misrepresented in order to slander specific individuals, even to accuse them of criminal wrongdoing: this is what happened.

"ClimateGate" is about the contemptible methodology of powerful interests cheering on mass human suffering for narrow financial gain, full stop. It's about theft and libel. Period.

 
Wednesday Night

Rock on.


 
More Like This

I don't have strong feelings about the Bernanke confirmation, but I think a little lefty obstructionism of it has utility regardless. If nothing else it'll cause the Villagers to rediscover the evils of obstructionism, which is only okay if you're a Republican.

 
Matthews Apologizes

Good.

 
Evening Thread

enjoy

 
Short Motion

I get that in thinking about a quick jobs bill, the speed at which money can be spent is important. Still if they'd had plan 'B' a year ago and said, "we think this will work but just in case get some plans together for next year" there would be more potential projects.

A year seems like a long time, but here we are...already almost a year later.

 
Afternoon Thread

enjoy.

 
Well That's Depressing

New York Senate doesn't pass marriage equality.

 
Philly Doesn't Get Any Transit Nerd Love Either

Hey, Ray, I'm all for PortlandAndDenver and the rest of them, but we're one of those few cities that didn't scrap all of our trolley lines. How about kicking in some cash to restart a couple more lines that my local transit authority promised to restart...

 
Not Shrinking!!

Maybe all those New York Times articles about how Philly is Brooklyn or whatever finally worked!

After decades of population loss, the city has stopped shrinking, according to revised Census Bureau estimates delivered to the city earlier this week.

On Monday, the city received a letter from the Census Bureau raising the 2008 population estimate by about 93,000.


My urban hellhole is far from perfect, and there are neighborhoods which live up to the hellhole name, but there is a slowly increasing portion of the city which provides something which is in pretty short supply in this country, decent and relatively affordable walkable urban living.

 
Marriage Equality

Hopefully once New York does the right thing, its neighbor, New Jersey follows suit.

Though I wouldn't recommend anyone in Pennsylvania start holding their breath waiting for it to happen here.

 
There Is A Sliver Of A Story Here

Forgive my contribution to Tiger's Penis Week, but it is worth reading Charlie Pierce on how journalists and PR people collude to maintain images and celebrity brands. Until they stop.

 
Volt

Plug-in hybrid car goes on sale next year. I don't think "pure" electric vehicles will really be viable until the range goes up a bit and fast charging stations are more widely available, though an exception would be for certain government and business fleets. Obviously some people might want one!

 
They Know Even Less Than What They Say

And more importantly, less than know-nothing John McCain.

 
Allies Serving Up Shit Sandwiches

No, CAP, religion is not morality and health care reform which doesn't cover uteruses isn't "comprehensive health care reform" which meets "basic human needs."

 
FHA

When Wall Street stopped eating Big Shitpile, all the action just went to the FHA.

Too much policy has been about propping up home prices, instead of letting people keep their homes.

 
Huzzah!

President John McCain will be on my teevee this weekend!!

 
Tommy Friedman's War

Accountability free pundit world. Little Tommy Friedman today:

To me, the most important reason for the Iraq war was never W.M.D. It was to see if we could partner with Iraqis to help them build something that does not exist in the modern Arab world: a state, a context, where the constituent communities — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — write their own social contract for how to live together without an iron fist from above.


Little Tommy Friedman back then.

I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.

...

We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big state right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.

...


What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"

You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow?

Well, Suck. On. This.

Okay.

That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.


Suck on this Tommy you sick fuck.

 
Jobs

Actualy report comes out Friday, but the private estimate comes out today. -169k!

Less scary than some recent numbers, but need +140k or so per month just to keep up with increase in working age population...

 
Morning

Just thread.


Tuesday, December 01, 2009
 
Late Night

Rock on.


 
"Enemy Camp"

Gotta love the Villagers.







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