Friday Free-for-All!

Your reads o’ the day:

James Delingpole at the UK Telegraph: How the Climategate weasels wriggled free

Those few pieces on Climategate which HAVE appeared in the MSM tend to have consisted of the various guilty parties trying to spin their way out of it. The disgraced, FOI-breaching, email-deleting, scientific-method-abusing Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, for example, has granted tame interviews in Nature magazine and the Times presenting himself as a man far more sinned against than sinning. Michael Mann has been doing a similar auto-whitewash job in the US. But if you want to see an ecotard Houdini act at its most sublimely nuanced and slippery, I highly recommend this piece of sophistry from Mike Hulme in the Guardian.

Here’s the bit where it gets really evil:

Keep reading.

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The US civil Rights Commission is scheduled to approve the New Black Panther Case investigation report, today. Hans A. von Spakovsky has exclusive excerpts from the report at Pajamas Media. These last two paragraphs were of particular interest to me:

This report was scheduled to be approved on October 29. But former Pelosi aide Michael Yaki, one of the Democratic commissioners, walked out of that meeting to kill the quorum. He held a press conference in the Commission’s hallway denouncing the report, continuing his efforts to help the Obama administration cover up its wrongdoing at the Justice Department. Sources tell me Yaki is maneuvering behind the scenes to convince President Obama to appoint him as the new chairman of the Civil Rights Commission when the current chairman’s term expires in December. Yaki seems to believe that helping the Obama administration bury the report of the Civil Rights Commission will help achieve partisan goals.

Hopefully, enough of the other commissioners will be at the November 19 meeting to maintain a quorum even if Yaki goes through his usual delaying tactics. And this report is not necessarily the end of this investigation. The new incoming majority in the House of Representatives should take over the investigation of the Civil Rights Division and the New Black Panther case through its oversight function. The Justice Department will have a much harder time defying Congress the way it ignored the Commission on Civil Rights.

You may remember former the San Francisco lawyer, and Pelosi senior adviser, Yaki, as the contentiously critical liberal stalwart at the hearings. I think it’s safe to consider Yaki the new chairman of the  Civil Rights Commission. Bleh.

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Hot Air: Senate Democrats unload on Obama

Ben Nelson, (one of the Scarborough 7?) doesn’t seem to appreciate the toxic environment Obama’s created for Dems. Tough luck. You guys voted for his toxic agenda. You get to live with the results.

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Michelle Malkin: Ray LaHood: Obama’s Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar

Readers of Culture of Corruption already know all about this Chicago crony porker’s ties to Rahm Emanuel, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, and Tony Rezko. For a trenchant look at LaHood’s penchant for government coercion and central planning, see chapter one of Terry Jeffrey’s Control Freaks.

God help us.

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A little boy shares his visions of heaven from a near death experience when he was four.

video via The Right Scoop

Jimmie Bise at the Sundries Shack is Asking for a Small Tip Jar Miracle, But You Can Deliver It.

Help out a blog buddy in need if you can.

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Check back, I’ll be adding more as the day wears on.

Charles Krauthammer weighs in on airport security: Don’t Touch My Junk:

Don’t touch my junk is the anthem of the modern man, the Tea Party patriot, the late-life libertarian, the midterm election voter. Don’t touch my junk, Obamacare – get out of my doctor’s examining room, I’m wearing a paper-thin gown slit down the back. Don’t touch my junk, Google – Street View is cool, but get off my street. Don’t touch my junk, you airport security goon – my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I’m a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

The Hammer goes on a nice little rant, here. You definitely want to read this one in its entirety.

Erick Erickson has a  first hand account of Another TSA Outrage.

This time …American servicemen are the victims.

RWN:The 25 Best Ann Coulter Quotes About Liberals

Love this one:

20) Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left’s anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization.

The Other McCain: BREAKING: Renee Ellmers Wins Recount; Bob Etheridge to Concede; UPDATE: In Concession Speech, Dem Says He Was Victim of ‘Dirty Politics’

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