RED OCTOBER

Will "Red October" sink the U.S.S. Obama in November?

YUPPIE 911

From Don Surber:

The quote of the day has to go to Matt Scharper, head of California’s Search and Rescue operation, who spoke of On-Star and other GPS devices: “With the Yuppie 911, you send a message to a satellite and the government pulls your butt out of something you shouldn’t have been in in the first place.”

Rescuers are a tad peeved at people who take on the wilderness but still want someone to save them at the first sign of trouble.

The least we can do is to let these people pay for their own rescues.

A SMOKING WAFFLE

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai's top challenger called for a 'dramatic increase' in troops to ensure security in his country, suggesting a failure to send in reinforcements could put Afghanistan 'at risk' of falling to insurgents."

"President Obama pledged on Monday not to "rush the solemn decision" to send more troops to battle in Afghanistan as he weighs military options on what to do next in the troubled war."

The President's waffle has been on the griddle for so long that by now it must surely be burned to a crisp.

BROKEBANK MOUNTAIN

To be released in time for Halloween ....

A BENEFIT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

According to a radio advertisement by Kaiser Permanente, electronic health records will prevent global warming ....

By saving more trees.

Well, that's something, I guess.

ECOLOGICAL INSANITY

But it's for Gaia, of course.

David Thompson mocks an article by Alex Renton, which can be summarized quite succintly:

Poor societies - like Bangladesh - produce very little C02 per capita; rich societies - like us - produce large amounts of C02 per capita. Therefore a cull of rich societies would be at least 60 times as productive (for Gaia) as one of poor societies.

So Gaia is best served by a poverty-striken, disease-ridden , pollution-filled society, where life is brutal, hellish, and short? This is the progressive vision for Gaia?

I think not.

Original link via Hot Air.

GLOBAL WHATEVER

Dan Miller on the unknowable results of climate alarmism. Key grafs:

The only thing to be said with certainty is that there has been an increase in studies. “In 2008 alone, there were some 4000-odd peer-reviewed papers published on the topic.”

Despite the vast self-importance of humans, changes in the Sun seem to have a substantially greater impact on the Earth’s climate than we do, and there is nothing much we can do about that.

[Global waming alarmists] seem to have taken to heart the old poem “When in danger and in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout” without knowing whether there is a danger.

A lesson in systems engineering: “The law of unintended consequences puts their proposals in the realm of madness.”