got up at 0430 to go and check cattle, but we had a thunderstorm last night and the road was impassable. It took twenty minutes and a fire hose to blast the mud from under the Hilux.

“There is no liberty, if the power of judgment be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of the oppressor.”

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws  1748

‘Life on GLAAD’s Blacklist’

‘…I can’t stress this enough. Contrary to what you hear, we’re already in an economic collapse, except that most people haven’t a clue. The ‘big bang’ comes at the end, when people wake up one morning and can’t log in to their bank accounts, can’t use their ATM cards, and find out that their private pension funds and other assets have been confiscated,” …’
source
True or false? We have no way of knowing. But something evil this way comes, regardless.

Thanks to Michael for the tip and the link:
‘So much sea ice in Antarctica that a research vessel gets stuck, in summer!
…The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
….It seems they found out what the “environmental changes taking place in the south.” are.
….Turns out this “research” vessel was mostly a taxpayer funded junket for getting video stories to BBC in the UK and ABC in Australia….’  (bold mine)
This is delicious…a warmy scammer with egg on his face, a major expensive fuck-up and what ought to be severe embarrassment for two of the prime warmy propaganda outlets. Paging Al Gore..come in Al..are you there, Al?

Masquerading as “Journalism”……
‘Websites clamp down on nasty comments’
‘….The Huffington Post is also clamping down on vicious comments. In addition to employing 40 human moderators who sift through readers’ posts for racism, homophobia, hate speech and the like, the AOL-owned news site is also chipping away at anonymous commenting…’
Nowhere in this litany of bullshit, propaganda and outright lies does this ignorant cow mention the other side of the story. No mention of the rights to privacy and free speech. No mention of the threat to privacy. I wouldn’t employ her to clean my lavatory. Of course free speech–when employed on somebody else’s property–is subject to the owner’s preferences. But the bolded categories are no more than the imposition of PC speech. And one wonders what the qualifications of the Huffpost moderators are. Well no, one doesn’t really. The qualification will be a willingness to toe the Party line. Just as Ortutay is doing.

UPDATE:   Another odious, dishonest cow cops a well-deserved broadside.

“…the current TV landscape where, aside from occasional eruptions of unerotic twerking by sexless skanks, every other show seems to involve snippy little Pajama Boys sitting around snarking at each other in the antiseptic eunuch pose that now passes for “ironic.” It’s “irony” as the last circle of Dante’s cultural drain; it’s why every show advertised as “edgy” and “transgressive” offers the same pitiful combination of attitude and impotence as a spayed cat humping.”
And then he gives his gutless editor at The Corner a glorious serve..

from NZ: ‘Spike in serious crime in Western Bay’.  So far, so normal. But read the article and note the whiny, limp-wristed pleas of the cop…..
It sounds like a social worker has been stuffed into a blue uniform and appointed area commander over the holidays.

Obama Tried to Sign Up for Obamacare But “System Couldn’t Verify His Identity”
‘We learned today from the White House… initially, they said he signed up for what they called a bronze plan, paying about four hundred dollars a month in premiums. But, then they came back to us and said – Wait, he didn’t actually enroll. They said his staff did it and that’s because of his unique circumstance [obviously] as Commander in Chief. That his personal information is not in particular government data bases. So healthcare.gov could not actually verify his identity, oddly enough… So his staff did it.”..’
So, how did his staff do it, if healthcare.gov couldn’t verify his identity when he allegedly tried to sign up?

‘…Imagine a million people walking in a circle and shouting, “WE’RE SMART AND WE’RE RIGHT. WE’RE RIGHT BECAUSE WE’RE SMART. WE’RE SMART BECAUSE WE’RE RIGHT.” Now imagine that these marching morons dominate academia, the government bureaucracy and the entertainment industry allowing them to spend billions yelling their idiot message until it outshouts everyone else while ignoring the disasters in their wake because they are too smart to fail.

That is liberalism.’
and:
“Intelligence to a modern liberal isn’t depth, it’s appearance. It isn’t even an intellectual quality, but a spiritual quality. Compassionate people who care about others are always “smarter”, no matter how stupid they might be, because they care about the world around them.”
The rest of it