Today's Hoot!

Presbyterians. I bet it’s those damn Presbyterians. Well, even if the Presbyterians are acting up, there some swell news from those usually pesky Lutherans - Midwest Lutherans Largely Reject Violence:

By an almost two-to-one margin, Midwest Lutherans voiced solid opposition to decapitation, suicide bombing, and chemical warfare in a new comprehensive survey of their social attitudes.

The Pew Research survey, conducted May 13-19, queried nearly 2,500 randomly selected Lutherans at flea markets and convenience stores across the Midwest. Interviews were conducted in High Plains Twang, Great Lakes Nasal and Flat Ohio Valley Bland.

"If there is one headline here, it's how remarkably moderate the Lutheran community is," said Pew director Andrew Kohut of the survey, which was co-sponsored by the Council on American-Yooper Relations. "It really paints a picture of a dynamic culture in or somewhere near the American mainstream."

Kohut pointed to one of the study's key findings that only 29% of all respondents agreed that "bloody, random violence against infidels" was "always" or "frequently" justified, versus 56% who said such violence was "seldom" or "never" justified.
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Further bolstering the findings, Kohut noted that fewer than 6% of respondents physically attacked field interviewers during the survey.

Ole Andy Kohut is sure a genius.

Some of us are already laughing

Over in New Zealand, someone "Speaks Truth to Stupidity" - Global warming debunked:

Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
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A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it.

"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.

Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.

"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time."

The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.

However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively.

"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then," he said.

Not when the delusional hook up with the power hungry.

Today's Hoot!

Jonah Goldberg on Jihadi Chic:

At the annual Cairo antiwar conference in Egypt, the hot panel discussion this year was “Bridge-Building Between the Left and Islam.” John Rees, a British Trotskyite, observed: “Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”

Gosh, it sounds great. I’m just sorry I missed the rollicking game of Pictionary between the Castroites and the jihadis afterwards.

Now the Leftoids have always been willing to jump in the sack with just about anyone in the hopes of gaining power (see Hitler-Stalin pact), but doesn't swapping spit with Islamic terrorists put a crimp in all the gay and women's lib rhetoric? Apparently not.

There's more fun in the full article including:

Now, it’s way too early to start talking about the “Taliban wing of the Democratic party” or anything like that, but this is a fascinating and largely ignored phenomenon.

Heck, I thought that "Leader of the Democrat Taliban Wing" was Nancy Pelosi's job title!

She must have mislaid her broom

It was scandalous how all the "earth friendly" Donk candidates showed up for their South Carolina debate in chartered private jets, but Her Heinous Hillary Clinton showed them who really has the biggest carbon footprint:

After flying from D.C. to the Thursday Orangeburg debate aboard a chartered Gulfstream II aircraft, Mrs. Clinton was then flown back to D.C. Thursday night after the debate concluded, aboard the same aircraft. After dropping-off Mrs. Clinton, the Gulfstream II was then sent back to Greenville - - with no passengers in it - - to await her return to South Carolina the next day.

After a Friday morning speaking engagement in D.C., Mrs. Clinton boarded a private Hawker 800 jet, flew to Greenville, climbed back on board the Gulfstream II that had been waiting for her in Greenville since the night before, and took a short flight from Greenville to Columbia. Upon arriving in Columbia, Mrs. Clinton then boarded a Gulfstream III aircraft that she had ordered as an upgrade (“she didn’t like the configuration of the cabin” of the Gulfstream II), and flew from Columbia to California, while the Gulfstream II that she didn't like returned to D.C. - - again without passengers.

Maybe the Gulfstream II didn't have big enough seats to accomodate her wide load?

Al Gore improves his carbon footprint

Al Gore, stung by the reports of the immense quantities of green house gas-producing energy he uses to run his vast Tennessee mansion, is spiffing up his green credentials by harnessing some of his own personal greenhouse gas emissions for transportation. Gore's personal jet powered outhouse was revealed in an article in Popular Science and you have to give Big Weird Al credit for lots of thought on this baby and for making use of that which he has in such ample supply.

Stinkfingers says it's all a joke

It looks like the PR folks vigourously applied the clue bat to Sheryl "Stinkfingers" Crow and she now claims her "one sheet wipe" comments were just a joke, but all her other airbrained global warming rantings are for real. Yeah, right.

She also opines that the White House Correspondents Association dinner where she and wacko pal Laurie David tried to mug Karl Rove was somehow "a dinner designed specifically to encourage conversations between people from different worlds." When Stinkfingers says "different worlds," she really means different planets. Anyhow, Fake Steve Jobs again gets the best line:

I'm no fan of Karl Rove, but honestly if this ditz and Larry David's greentard wife started hassling me during dinner and lecturing me about "science," I'd tell them to get stuffed too.

Today's Hoot!

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs comments on Sheryl Crow's "one sheet wipe" in Look, there's hardly any on my hand!

Now I understand why Lance Armstrong ditched her. I wouldn't go near that coochie either. I'm trying to remember if I shook her hand when I met her. I'm pretty sure I did. Oh God. I just threw up in my mouth.

Who let the crazy bimbos in?

When Barbra Streisand isn't in the room, it's sort of a tough choice as to who's the dumbest ecoweenie in show biz, but two prime contenders have to be Sheryl Crow and Laurie David. Last week they took their act to the White House Correspondents Dinner and tried to mug Karl Rove who thankfully delivered the requisite spanking. They really look like they rode their bicycles over don't they?

I don't know about you, but I sure think it's swell that a couple of high maintenance bimbos like these two are touring the country telling folks that using only one sheet of toilet paper and wiping their mouths on their sleeves during dinner will prevent global warming. Aside from the novelty of their bizarre nostrums, there's a lot of unintended humor as well:

David (4/20, Charlottesville): Sheryl couldn't be with me tonight because of a previous commitment [Crow traveled to New York for a show that wasn't part of the tour] but luckily rock stars have rock star friends

I guess it makes sense to her and I'm sure ole Sheryl rode her bicycle up to New York and back. Lear jet anyone? Continuing for the best part:

Tonight, I spoke outside the gorgeous Charlottesville pavilion, in front of a couple of thousand slightly inebriated college men (there to see the wonderful Robert Randolph and the Family Band) who were forced to sit through the opening act . . . me. Truly, it was one of the most challenging 20 minutes of my life. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw guys yawning, I heard kids saying "where's the music?" and I think I heard the "b" word. I rushed through the speech and when I walked off the stage I immediately burst into tears. Not because I took anything personally but because it was so clear how much work is still to be done. Tonight served as a stark reminder that social change is a journey and I learned tonight that not every stop is going to be easy.

Don't let the door hit your unwiped global warmer on the way out, biatch.

Chuckie Schumer gets in touch with his nutroots

Watch out Chuck, if you lay down with the nutroots, you'll get up with a STD!

It's always nice to know what organized crime thinks

The head of the Reid crime family of Las Vegas took time out from his busy schedule of graft and corruption to opine that we ought to surrender to terrorists. I guess they never blew up anything in Las Vegas. Yet.