Politick

Hillary Jumps The Shark

In the debate last night, Hillary jumped the shark, meaning her show has stretched too far and is about to be cancelled. (The phrase comes from the last days of Happy Days, where to keep a dying audience they had Fonzy jump a shark on water skis.  Ludicrous.)  Hillary went for the colorful rejoinder ("You're no JFK" like) over the substantive response.  Someone must have advised her to be more dramatic, more colorful.  She raised the plagiarism issue, Obama nailed it in his response (the guy whose line he used works in his campaign and gave it to him) and she then threw in her prepared line: "that isn't change you can believe in, it's change you can xerox." It was met with scattered booing, and seems a bit inappropriate after his strong reply.  She missed other chances to rebut his vacuous statements with facts and substance, and at the end seemed to give her Valedictorial speech when she said how proud she was to share a stage with Obama.  Does she know it is over?

Polar Bears Safe - Arctic Ice Back to Normal

We have come through a very cold January. Indeed, record cold has broken out all over, especially in China and Alaska. In the Arctic, the ice is back to the same level as a year ago.  Polar bears are at record levels, and can swim 100 miles; they were never at risk.  Nevertheless there has been a movement to put them on the endangered species list!  The idiocy continues. But this foolishness will soon be over - the sunspot cycle is showing almost no spots, which means the sun is cooling off.  Also, a La Nina has hit the Pacific, and they produce colder weather. The GW advocates will claim that cold is due to global warming (now called 'climate change') but their pretenses will seem shallow if the world noticeably cools for a few years.

PS - the report that the Antarctic is melting is bogus.  It appears that there is an active volcano under the ice.  Surface temperatures and water temperatures are not warmer. 

McCain's Silent Coup

An amazing political event is happening under the radar.  The Times broke the story of McCain's Amazing Bloodless Coup but it hasn't been picked up by the mainstream media over here.  Instead, the conservative talk show community has begun to discuss it - I first heard it on Rush Limbaugh late last week. 

John McCain has aligned with the Republican Governor's Association (as indicated by the long list of Governors who have endorsed McCain, from Georgia, California, Florida etc.) to take back the Republican Party from Rush Limbaugh and the talk-radio conservatives.

The battle lines are clear.  Conservative talk radio is venting hatred at McCain.  Mac is not inclined to go see Rush and make peace.  This is a huge fight for the future of the party.  And the mainstream media is clueless!  More below the fold.