Global Warming Update: Blizzard Edition

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Chattanooga gets its first White Christmas in more than 40 years:

We don’t get a lot of snow where I live, but today we’re getting blanketed. The last time we had a white Christmas (with any accumulation) was in 1969. That was several years before I was born.
So naturally, that got me thinking about the looming global warming crisis.

CNN reports on your holiday Gore-cast:

Snow fell in parts of the southeast Saturday, the leading edge of a powerful storm system that has prompted blizzard warnings in New York City and Boston and threatened to cause major travel headaches at the tail end of the holiday week.
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for the New York City metropolitan area, from northeast New Jersey through Newark and New York, and including the entirety of both the Long Island and Connecticut coasts of the Long Island Sound. That warning is in effect between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 p.m. Monday.
Forecasters predict between 11 to 16 inches of blowing snow in much of that region, bringing visibility to near zero at times. Sustained winds as strong as 30 miles per hour could hit Sunday night, with gusts up to 55 mph in parts of central and eastern Long Island.
And, starting at noon Sunday and extending through 6 p.m. Monday, a similar warning is out for all of Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts.

Y’know, when liberals decided to politicize the weather, we should have seen this coming. Jammie Wearing Fool catches liberals arguing that the snowstorm is somehow the result of man-made environmental damage:

The gulf stream is blocked with the oil spill that BP created. This has been confirmed by several scientist here in the US. It will have a devastating effect on the US east coast and parts of Europe, including the UK for years to come.

What special kind of stupid is required to believe that an oil spill could “block” the Gulf Stream? In any controversy, you’ll seldom be wrong if you’ll follow this two-step plan:

  1. Find out what side the liberals are on; and
  2. Get on the other side.

Related: “Top 10 Bad Developments for Global Warming Alarmists.”

If You Were Asked to Name a Two-Word Phrase You Never Want to Read …

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. . . I’m pretty sure “anal cancer” would be near the top of your list:

U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Gardasil (human papillomavirus vaccine) has been widened to include prevention of anal cancer and associated precancerous lesions, the agency said in a news release.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with about 90% of the estimated 5,300 cases of anal cancer diagnosed in the United States each year, the FDA said, citing statistics from the American Cancer Society. More women are diagnosed than men.
The latest approval for Gardasil covers people aged 9 to 26. The vaccine was previously approved for the same age group to prevent cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers in females, and for genital warts among both sexes …

Hmmm. The story said nothing about how people get this nasty carcinogenic virus in their anuses. It’s just so mysterious . . .

WikiLeaks: The Movie?

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“How long will it be before Hollywood makes a movie glorifying Wikileaks ringleader Julian Assange?
“Not long! Hollywood, after all, has a long and sordid history of making movie heroes out of left-wing villains, con men and charlatans.”
— John Guardiano, “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Assange, The Movie”

What we need is an Army of Photoshoppers to do movie posters for the Assange biopic, perhaps cleverly parodying various other movies.

How Narcissists Govern: Obama Bans Word ‘Triangulation’ at White House

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As if, by banning this Clinton-era phrase, he can avoid the political necessity of imitating Clintonism:

Despite all his time studying the Clinton administration, Mr. Obama told his aides that he had no intention of following the precise path of Mr. Clinton, who after the Democratic midterm election defeats of 1994 ordered a clearing of the decks inside the White House, installed competing teams of advisers and employed a centrist policy of triangulation. In fact, several advisers confirmed, the word “triangulation” has been banned by Mr. Obama because he does not believe it accurately describes his approach.

Obama’s correct. To accurately describe his approach would require three words: “One-term president.”

(Via Greg Sargent; thanks to Richard W. for the e-mail tip.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

‘Good Tidings of Great Joy’

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
— Luke 2:8-14 (KJV)

That Was Crazier Than A Stacy McCain Road Trip

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by Smitty

I got no business being online, having arisen yesterday morning around 0800. Got all the duffel bags loaded into the truck (old school working party-style) around 1300 Christmas Eve and bussed over to the Air Force Base in Kuwait. Another working party unloaded truck, and whisked the duffel bags onto three pallets for for shipment. We boarded the C-17 in late afternoon, and got it underway for Bagram.

A little motivation hanging within the C-17

The load of sailors occupied rows of seats five abreast facing forward, and seats along the sides facing the centerline.

The bag pallets live in the back of the cargo bay

We arrived in Bagram around 0100 Christmas morning. We had to break down the baggage pallets and get the bags moved to another staging area. Slightly below freezing temperatures. In a briefing room, the NAVCENT forward staff collected our official orders and welcomed us to the area.
“Are you sick of hearing ‘huuu-aw’?” asked the Master Chief. (‘Hurry Up And Wait’, the Army mantra.) A chorus of agreement from the room. “Tough shit. You’re going to hear it a lot more.”
The briefings died down around 0230, and we took time to applaud one of our own, who, it turns out, was arriving to be the new NAVCENT Admin Officer.
Oh, and we had a 0700 muster for our brief flight southeast to Kabul proper. No point in trying to locate a place to sleep. So we went to the USO, where the WiFi was notional, the computer room a sauna, and an atrocious Eminem flick was playing.
The galley (dining facility or DFAC in Army-speak) opened at 0530, so I wandered through the dim, weird world of Conex boxes and temporary shelters for some entirely predictable military chow.
Seven o’clock rolled around, and we were moving the duffel bags to a new staging pallet for a trip on a Kentucky ANG C-130.
I called my sponsor on DSN, and he allowed that getting a ride across town from Kabul International to our current location on Christmas was going to be tough.
We got in around 0830, and the joint nature of the area was brought home by a company of French infrantry occupying the terminal. It later turned out that they were standing by to greet the French SECDEF.
A supply corps Lieutenant, possessed of nearly Stacy McCain-esque persistence, managed to finagle a couple of cars to fetch him, me, two others, and our crap. Details are murky, and I’m not sure I want to know.
Thus, after a solid 24 hours of travel, we made it to Kabul.
I would like to thank a special someone who really made all this possible:

Talking Points? What Talking Points?

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Breitbart via The Vail Spot via Instapundit:

Worst. Congress. Evah!

UPDATE: Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

To give readers an idea just how parroted this concept was, a Google News search of “most productive Congress” yields over one thousand results. . . .
Obama was sworn in with the unemployment rate at 7.4 percent and 11.4 million Americans out of work.
Today, as the President and his fellow Democrats pat themselves on the back – with the assistance of the media, of course! – unemployment stands at 9.8 percent with 15.1 million people jobless.

Now a Memeorandum thread.