TO THE HORROR OF GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, global cooling is here. That damned real world keeps refusing to cooperate with the alarmists.

"GOVERNMENT is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers."

Read it all.

CICADAS: 17-year lawn aeration specialists.



And for your added interest, an albino cicada.



I've never seen one of them before.

CALIFORNIA BANS FIRE. Just not forest fire.

NEWT GINGRICH is On The Record: the IRS scandal, government bureaucracy, big government run amok, and more. Long, but well worth watching.

RON RADOSH: Obama’s Confused and Contradictory Defense Speech.

Speech translated: We'll do nothing in every way possible.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS:

[T]he primary basis for global-warming alarmism is unfounded. The Met Office has been making false claims about the significance of climatic changes to Parliament — as well as to the government, the media, and others — claims which have seriously affected both policies and opinions. When questioned about those claims in Parliament, the Met Office did everything feasible to avoid telling the truth.

The title is explained in the text.

TO THE SLAUGHTER: British lions come up lambs in Woolwich. That's the problem with statism; the populace is encouraged -- no, coerced -- into passivism.

DIVERSITY: We are of almost every race and gender, and we think exactly alike.

Linked from PowerLine.

DOES SEAWATER cause stupidity?

A FINAL MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT:

All those people whose sacrifices we celebrate on Memorial Day are watching us, not to mention the extraordinary Mr. Franklin, who famously challenged us after the Constitutional Convention with the words “A republic — if you can keep it.”

It’s Memorial Day. Let’s have a few burgers and beers, in the cold or the sunshine, and then get a move on. With the Benghazi lies, the blatant misuse of our Internal Revenue Service for political goals, and the chilling suppression of freedom of the press, we can do no less. In fact, we have no choice, if we want to keep it.

Courtesy of Roger L. Simon.

HO-HUM. Just another gun manufacturer leaving Connecticut.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Honoring the fallen.

SILENCE AND RESPECT. Read the comments.

OOPS! Anthony Weiner’s campaign website accidentally features the Pittsburgh skyline.

Competence. It's what Democrat campaigns are made of....

ROLLING THUNDER 2013:











Yesterday's ride seemed ... well, subdued compared to the last time we attended in 2010. While the ride certainly lasted several hours, it seemed to us that there were fewer motorcycles, and fewer riders. In 2010 it seemed that nearly every motorcycle capable of carrying two riders did carry two riders; this year, it appeared the majority of riders were solo. Pity.

It's also striking that President Obama was not here. While he was in Oklahoma witnessing the tornado disaster (a good thing), I think he had his priorities reversed.

REMINDER: It was not the Declaration of Independence that gave us freedom but the Continental Army.

JUST WHAT I NEED



Perfect for retirees. It is Monday ... isn't it?

SOME THOUGHTS for Memorial Day:

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: At Arlington National Cemetary.





Every grave in the cemetery has a U.S. flag placed on it. This photo is from section 33. The graves appear to be mostly from World War I.



Naval Construction Brigade ("Sea Bees") Memorial: "The difficult we do at once. The impossible takes a bit longer."



Civil War Memorial

"Beneath this stone repose the bones of two thousand one hundred and eleven unknown gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths are recorded in the archives of their country; and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace. September, A.D. 1866."

And finally, a view from Arlington House looking down to the Memorial Bridge crossing the Potomac with the Lincoln Memorial at its end. Rolling Thunder motorcycles are still crossing the bridge to the Viet Nam memorial 2-1/2 hours after it began.