Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral No. 99

Posted on May 29, 2011 in Roundup

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. ~Abraham Lincoln

These past few weeks have seen some of the harshest weather in memory. Tornadoes hit several states — including California which is as famous for its twisters as Wyoming is for its liberals — and snow fell in New York until very recently. We’ve been having rain well into May and if more falls in June, I will not be surprised. What we can expect from previous years has been distorted beyond all recognition and yet not a single news agency has made the connection between these events and global climate change because that is not politically correct in an age where the order of the day in journalism is “controversy” — a world where nothing is proven, especially where scientific facts point to major industry practices. I’m looking to see more denial and a major depopulation of certain red states as climate-denying lemmings rush to escape the fury of pollution driven winds.

• A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never! — A very succinct discussion of the confederacy between media and big corporations in maintaining the silence.
• Disabled Abandon Wheelchairs, Protest Medicaid Cuts — No one bothers to speak of “compassionate conservatism” any more. It’s plain that they hate the disabled and they don’t care who knows. (Check out the video below) Wait, they have this kind of compassion.
• L’Affaire DSK: The Perp Walk That Demeaned Us All — The media says it is either that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is too fat and ugly to have done this woman –therefore she lies — or that he is another rapacious French sexist pig. Either take is to be condemned. We must get to the truth.
• Tennessee Court says that Islam is a religion — One of the week’s biggest eye-poppers. What else do you call a collective of people that engages in prayer and good works?
• Company Sells Gun Oil Laced with Pig Fat to Deny Muslims Paradise – And you know the guy who makes this stuff is so proud of what he did, he won’t reveal his name?
• How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory — One of the most paranoid men alive tells how he did it.
• GOP Response To Town Hall Backlash: Ban Recording Devices And Censor Citizen Journalists — Transparency my butt!
• Why “moral” people act unethically — Truly moral people see themselves as having faults that must be compensated for
• Is the extreme right pro-life? No, more like pro-control — I’ve long suspected that abortion is little more than a chit used against progressive forces wreaking good change. Also see The blessing of abortion
• Intuitions Regarding Geometry Are Universal, Study Suggests
• 8 Words That Should Never Appear in Your Twitter Bio — Not guilty of any of these, but I see plenty who are.
• Children Learn Language in Moments of Insight, Not Gradually Through Repeated Exposure, Study Shows
• Hypomania and the Culture of Western Medicine — Some nice suggestions for slowing the pace of medical appointments.

Kurt Rutzen testifies before the Minnesota Senate about the impact of the budget cuts for the disabled. He asks “What about the people who don’t have families to care for them?” Kurt lives with cerebral palsy.