‘Default, Dear Brutus, Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves’
(thanks to K2 for the tip)

‘Reflections on the Impossibility of Government
God it’s wonderful—really diverting in a macabre sort of way, at least if you have a diseased sense of humor and enough Padre Kino red. Which I do. As I write the world’s only delusional superflower, perennially in love with itself, navel-gazing as narcissistically as ever, ignorant, self-indulgent, gurbling like an insane relative in the attic and fondling electro-trinkets from Japan, is broke. Yes, we see a beautiful dive from the high board, two somersaults and a half-twist, into the Third World. And so richly deserved.
Congress, a collection of whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East Jesus, Nebraska, ponders the Great Question: Default now, and admit manfully to being the economic lepers everyone else already knows we are? Or raise the debt ceiling, keep spending like a spoiled Swarthmore sophomore with daddy’s credit card, and collapse a bit later?..’  Fred on Everything

this is the way to ride a ‘bike!
I take that back..Darin71 has a better link.

‘The Left- History Warns That They Will Kill Us All’

And to kick it off, here’s a demonstration that both “sides” of politics stink. They’re both anti-liberty. Richard Fernandez (Belmont Club) has something to say on this.

This item, “Inside Europe’s network of race hate ”
this morning by someone describing himself as an “independent freelance journalist” contains at least one flat-out lie and numerous distortions of the truth. And of course, Europe’s “network of race hate” doesn’t appear to include islamist preachers and islamist hate sites. Nossir!  Billy Briggs looks like..well, go take a look at his site and tell me what you think he looks like.
This is nothing less than a hit job and the Herald ought to be shamed for publishing it.

Paul Weston, writing in Gates of Vienna:
‘The BBC, Breivik, the EDL and Islam
‘…Were Prime Minister David Cameron a proper Conservative, he would order his top policeman to take a long and detailed look into the bank accounts and holidaying habits of high-level BBC executives. That they have betrayed their country is unarguable, but it would be nice to know whether they had done it for money rather than through an adolescent and wholly misguided revolutionary fervour…’
I know where I’d put my money…

‘New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed…’

‘Arctic scientist under investigation
A US Federal wildlife biologist whose observation that polar bears likely drowned in the Arctic helped galvanise the global warming movement seven years ago was placed on administrative leave as officials investigate scientific misconduct allegations…’

And Tim Flannery, head of the Oz Climate Commission, owns a house just a few feet from the seas he claims will rise by as much as seven stories! These pricks have no shame.