IT’S COME TO THIS: Van Jones: I Won’t ‘Defend All of the Bureaucratic Shenanigans at the IRS.’

NOT EVEN A SMIDGEN? IRS Admits Wrongdoing, to Pay $50,000 in Leaking of Marriage Group’s Tax Return.

VIDEO: Obama’s Foreign Policy, Explained in Under a Minute.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT: Greenpeace executive flies 250 miles to work: Environmental group campaigns to curb growth in air travel but defends paying a senior executive to commute 250 miles to work by plane.

The disagreement over what defines ‘endorsment of AGW’ by Cook et al. is revealed in raters remarks, and it sure isn’t a 97% consensus

Another excuse for ‘the pause’ – it’s ‘not so unusual’

or just plain get it wrong.

On CNN, National Journal's Fournier: Obama Admin Either 'Incredibly Incompetent' or 'Crooked'

for fun: Souvenir Company Features U.S. President As Soccer Player On World Cup Mugs For English Team

for real: Thom Hartmann Claims Reagan Invaded Grenada (1983) to Deflect Attention From Stock Market Crash ... in 1987

doing some soul searching and delving into some VERY difficuly stuff.  The kinda stuff we all should deal with but we usually keep buried.  And in dealing with THAT stuff OTHER stuff gets amplified.

And so it is that everytme I read something stupid, offensive, hypocrticial, hurtful that someone on the left says or does I attribute it to some/all/most of my left wing friends.  And the resentment is building.  And something's gonna blow soon.

I truly fear for my country.  And for myself.

Also thinking of switching blogging platforms (YIPEE!)  But don't wanna lose five years of stuff so migratability is a must.

Thought:  College is a place people go to study and learn why they shouldn't have gone to college.

I've been following these two biz's for over 18 months.  I LOVE the idea.  MAy get involved financially in the future as a driver.  The first apps I signed up for on my smartphone were these. 

Forthose who are worried about them putting "poor taxi drivers" out of business ... try this: Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years. Now Uber may be changing that. “In New York, taxi medallions have topped $1 million. In Boston, $700,000. In Philadelphia, $400,000. In Miami, $300,000. Where medallions exist, they have outperformed even the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index. In Chicago, their value has doubled since 2009. . . . Deep pockets run this market. The system in Chicago and elsewhere is dominated by large investors who rely on brokers to sell medallions, specialty banks to finance them and middle men to manage and lease them to drivers who own nothing at all.” And their value comes solely from excluding competition. Interesting that the big fear of the medallion owners isn’t losing passengers to Uber, but losing the drivers they gouge. Hey guys, just wait for the self-driving cars. . . .

from the Blogfather

Yesterday I posted an essay from Enviro-apostate Caleb Rossiter.  Not everyone was as welcoming to him as they might have been.  Caleb Rossiter – Missing In Action, Johnny-Come-Lately, Faux Victim, Political Tunnel Vision, or All-Of-The-Above?  Worth reading.

Second, the co-founder of Greenpeace is now on our side: Moore’s Law: CO2 Good; Climate Change Bunk; Greens Follow Religious Fundamentalism

and third:  Matt Ridley: Climate Cure Worse Than Thought breaks down some of the assumptions the left is making to get to the disaster of thier viewpoint.

Remember the left wing eugenics movement?

Remember Carrie Buck?

They're back.  Report: California Illegally Sterilized Dozens of Female Inmates