Climate scientist and warmist Andy Pitman on Thursday:

If we could stop emissions tomorrow we would still have 20 to 30 years of warming ahead of us because of inertia of the system.

Climate Commissioner and warmist Tim Flannery on Friday:

If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years

Twenty years or 1000? One of these “experts” is hopelessly wrong

and not the bad kind of irony which isn't really irony but is something else entirely:

Headline from 3/22 on Drudge:

Russian, Bolivian leaders ask Nobel Committee to strip Obama of Peace Prize

Favorite part of the article:

Bolivian President Evo Morales echoed the call: "How is it possible that a Nobel Peace Prize winner leads a gang to attack and invade? This is not a defence of human rights or self-determination."

Morales won the Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 2006.

Don't get the ideathat I've watched 100 movies in the last three or so weeks.  Twenty?  Maybe.  But the Flickchart.com site adds a couple dozen movies every day or so and it seems I've seen one or two so I'm rating those as they become available.  And so it was that I hit 4300 and moved into the top 30 among users.

Sadly, #4300 was an unremarkable little Disney affair:  Now You See Him, Now You Don'tfrom 1972.  It was the second entry in the Dexter Riley series which started with  The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes(1969) and ended (thankfully) with  The Strongest Man in the World(1975).  I don't include the 1995 remake with Kirk Cameron in the title role.

Some GREAT late 60's early 70's names: Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus, William Windom,

and the token cute girl who didn't do much beyond this Joyce Menges as Debbie Dawson.  What IS it with alliterative girlfriend names?

A fun predictable slice of my childhood.

Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

"Partnering with the world community" means going against the Russians and Chinese, ignoring Article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution and putting together a "team" of just over a dozen, two of whom are more bankrupt than we are, the majority of whom withdrew after less than a week: France United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Greece, Germany, Poland, Jordan, Morocco and nited Arab Emirates.

You know how, if you belong to an organization and you don't attend the election meeting, you end up getting elected to some unwanted position?

Canada missed the NATO meeting for leading the Lybian war effort.

And now the Obama Administrations's wishful thinking that "How it turns out is not on our shoulders."may come true ... sort of.

If the legendary longtime manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver, were a member of the White House press corps, he might well try to illuminate Obama's Libya policy with the same question he often posed to umpires: "Are you going to get any better, or is this it?"

AFTER HER 9/11 AND HOUSING DEBACLE BACKGROUND who better for FBI Director than Jamie Gorelick?

Gorelick served as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) when the government-sponsored enterprise began bundling subprime loans into securitized financial instruments. Prior to that, she served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department under then-Attorney General Janet Reno from 1994 to 1997. . . . But Gorelick is perhaps best known for her 1995 memo, written when she was deputy attorney general, that later became known as “Gorelick’s Wall,” a policy prescription limiting the flow of information between intelligence gatherers and criminal investigators that some believe helped allow the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to go unchallenged.

Gorelick also got sweetheart loans from Countrywide. Hey, who better to be in charge of law enforcement for this administration? Did I mention her views on the Duke lacrosse false-rape accusations?

from our good friends over at http://imadramamama.wordpress.com/

Age – 52 ... until next month

Bed size – variable but currently a king .... like I'D know!

Chore you hate – The ones that involve cleaning.  Same as Thea

Dogs – None currently.  Have had a dozen over the years ... most memorable being a greyhound named Hadley V Baxendale II

Essential start of your day – Coffee.

Favorite color – Orange?

Gold or silver – I don't even understand the question but since Gold is first and Silver is second, I'll take gold.  But jewelry wise I probably prefer silver.

Height – 6'2"  And the boots help.

Instruments I play (or have played) – Sax.  Started on alto, excelled at tenor, and jammed on the bari when needed.

Job title –Professor

Kids – 1. “The boy”

Live –yes. Beats the alternative

Mom’s name – Mary Lee. Oldest of three. Sister Margaret Ann and brother Robert Louis (Bobby Lou). Gotta love rural Ohio.

Nickname – I’ll never tell. But don't call me “Bobby” unless you knew me when I WAS “Bobby.”

Overnight hospital stays – One. Tonsillectomy in 2^nd grade

Pet peeve – Too many to mention. See “age” above.

Quote from a movie – “Makes me wonder about your basis for comparison'” (Let’s see who can name the movie). Thea's was from Princess Bride. Pretty easy actually.

Right or left handed – Gauche

Siblings – Younger sister. Three years younger.

Time you wake up – About 40 minutes into my first lecture

Underwear – I occasionally wear a kilt. What do YOU think?

Vegetable you dislike – Eggplant. Reminds me of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

What makes you run late – My wife. My LOVELY wife.

X-rays you have had done – Teeth. Quite a few ankles. And a hip in high school. It was an impingement. I got better.

Yummy food you make – If I'm hungry it's ALL yummy.

Zoo animal – Polar bears. Or naked mole rats. It's kind of a toss up.