Sorry I’m Late

Do You Suppose He’ll Do It With a Straight Face?

Timmy “TurboTax” Geithner will tell the ChiComs

“No one is going to be more concerned about future deficits than we are.”

I hope the Chinese have a sense of humor.*

Meanwhile, did these fawning sycophants type with straight faces?

The president gallantly guided his wife to their orchestra seats with his hand on the small of her back, while shaking hands with fellow theatergoers and smiling broadly. Due to security screenings, the curtain rose an hour late.

Nice that High School newspapers get published on the web now. This guy, though, goes straight to the nub of the problem with the Cult of The One:

“I’m nervous, excited, honored,” said Andre Holland, who plays character Jeremy Furlow, before the show. “It’s like in Shakespearean times, when the king would come to the show.”

Yes. It’s just like that.

*Update:

Apparently they do.

His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.

Going Down

Jay Nordlinger:

Have you read this article in Pravda? It avers that “the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed.” You know what I really appreciate about that statement? The word “descent.”

Whod’a thunk in 1989 that by now we’d be approvingly quoting Pravda on the progress of our Marxism?

Do read the article.

Barocky Road

Baskin-Robbins celebrates the Era of the Messiah with a new flavor.

Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised, and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $100.00 per scoop.

When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you. You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream.

Wave-Off

Mark Alexander reports on a Memorial Day SNAFU and contrasts the POTUS with the Real Deal.

For the record, while James Arthur McGinn was serving his country and flying Crusaders for the Marine Corps, Ann Dunham was giving birth to her son, BHO, Jr., somewhere between Nyanza Province, Kenya, and Honolulu, Hawaii. As Capt. McGinn was preparing for combat in Vietnam, young Barry O was on his way to Indonesia with his mother and her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. As Maj. McGinn was earning his DFC, BO was converting to Islam, even though his mother was an avowed atheist. As Maj. McGinn was returning from Vietnam, BO was returning from Indonesia for an elite private school education in Honolulu, where he was mentored by Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. As Col. McGinn was completing his Marine billets, BO was attending Occidental College and then Columbia University; a period of Obama’s life that to this day remains shrouded in mystery and devoid of college transcripts.

In 1994, as Mike McGinn was launching in his F/A-18 for combat tours over Bosnia, Obama was in Chicago, being mentored by Jeremiah Wright, and Marxist Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were, in turn, launching BO’s political career. In 2003, when Mike was flying missions over Iraq, the “community organizer” was on a mission to be elected to the U.S. Senate with the help of John Kerry and other treasonous Leftists. The rest is, as they say, history…

So, as combat veteran Mike McGinn was in line to visit the gravesite of his heroic father this week, a wastrel and hard-left community organizer was having lanes cleared for his presidential motorcade.

Celbratory Ode

John Derbyshire, poet laureate.

All hail the brave and wise Latina!
Compelling is her story!
And jurisprudent her demeanor —
She’s on the path to glory!

At SCOTUS she’ll make policy
(What need for legislators?)
More jobs! More opportunity!
For twofer second-raters.

Latina wisdom, egged on by
La Raza mischief-makers,
With fill her soul with empathy
(Though not for white test-takers).

Teleprompter In Chief

Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving.

Newspaper Recycling

I don’t mean the paper. I mean the business.

Outrage in Pittsburgh

Just when you think that Orwell’s 1984 might be hyperbole, along come some jackboots to remind us that thoughtcrime is alive and well.

A student who wants to form a gun-rights group at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) has been threatened with disciplinary action for her efforts. Student Christine Brashier has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help after reporting that administrators banned her informational pamphlets, ordered her to destroy all copies of them, and told her that further “academic misconduct” would not be tolerated.

I hope that a lot of Pennsylvania taxpayers give these CCAC creeps an earful.

Tea Party Caution

A lot of people are trying to hijack the Tea Party movement, including some White Supremacists. If you attend a tea party on July 4th, which is a fine idea, just make sure these creeps aren’t welcome.

It’s a Dangerous World for Kids

On the one hand there are the abusive religious caretakers like those Priests and Nuns in Ireland. Then there are the preachers of woo like that moron Jenny McCarthy making kids sick by lowering herd immunity.

And then there’s the atrocity being committed by some anti-vax woo-meisters.

In essence, chemical castration using a powerful anti-sex hormone drug called Lupron.

The Geiers even called it their “Lupron protocol,” and a disturbing number of parents not only fell for this disturbing abuse of autistic children, but they even paid big bucks for it. Even after the revelations of what the Geiers did, I could never figure out, though, since 2006, more than three years ago, is just how. How did they manage to keep subjecting children to a treatment with science so bad that it doesn’t even qualify as junk science? And why didn’t the mainstream media ever notice, even though a small cadre of skeptical bloggers wrote about it repeatedly?

I don’t know, but I do know that finally a major newspaper noticed the Geiers, who operate a makeshift laboratory in the basement of Dr. Geier’s house, complete with a tissue culture hood. Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune ran companion stories entitled ‘Miracle drug’ called junk science and Physician team’s crusade shows cracks.

Why these vile excuses for human beings are not in jail is beyond me.

Beyond Chutzpah

“I’ve bankrupted the nation, so now your only hope is to pass my healthcare plan.”

A Bigger Deal than Ida

While the “missing link” guys are generating and getting all the attention, a quieter development in abiogenesis research may have made a giant step toward understanding how life on earth got started. Steve Novella writes:

The chemical details are spelled out in the paper, for those who are interested (there is no link to the full paper, as you need a subscription to download it, but I will give the full reference below).

What this all means is that it is plausible that RNA could have arisen in a prebiotic environment  – without the machinery of life already in place.

Researchers are slowly putting the pieces of life origins together – mainly by exploring what plausibly could have happened. The argument from creationists that life arising from non-life is not possible was never credible – it was nothing more than confusing unexplained with unexplainable. They would have thrown up their hands and given up on this question, so that they could just assume a supernatural explanation.

The Protest of a Patriot

Peter Robinson on the climate of fear created by the One from Chicago.

The last exchange took place a couple of days later at a business school. Lately, a professor explained, students and faculty had begun quietly approaching him. “Everything’s on the hush-hush,” said the professor, a senior member of the faculty. “But they’re looking for support. We’ve been thinking of starting a group like AA, only for people who believe in capitalism.”

“How do they know that?”

A question that can be asked two different ways, as QualiaSoup explains.

No Corner in Hell Would Be Hot Enough

The Catholic Church ran, in Ireland, some hell holes for kids up from about the 1930s through the 1990s, when the facilities were mercifully shut down.

This story is hard to read.

“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from,” the report concluded.

This report is even harder.

Sexual abuse was endemic in boys’ institutions. The situation in girls’ institutions was different. Although girls were subjected to predatory sexual abuse by male employees or visitors or in outside placements, sexual abuse was not systemic in girls’ schools.

It is impossible to determine the full extent of sexual abuse committed in boys’ schools. The schools investigated revealed a substantial level of sexual abuse of boys in care that extended over a range from improper touching and fondling to rape with violence. Perpetrators of abuse were able to operate undetected for long periods at the core of institutions.

Those pull quotes are the tip of the iceberg. The damage done to these kids, many now in their 50’s and 80’s, is incalculable.

The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.

Update (and bumped):

And if this is its answer, it’s a sorry excuse for one. It boils down to, “Hey, it was a long time ago, lots of people did it, and only a little over one in ten kids got raped.” What a comfort to know that only 12% of the priests were sexual abusers. I’d let my kid face those odds, wouldn’t you? Hardly calls for “hysteria”.

The Catholic Legue is not the Catholic Church, but the church better come up with something better than this. Or everybody can just stop whining about how priests get treated in the press.

Another Update:

This response by an Archbishop is a little more like it.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin slammed Irish Catholic orders Monday for concealing their culpability in decades of child abuse, and said they needed to come up with much more money to compensate victims.
The comments from Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat, were the harshest yet by a Roman Catholic leader following last week’s report detailing widespread abuse in scores of church-run industrial schools from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Martin said the orders of nuns and Catholic brothers who ran the workhouse-style schools must drop their refusal to renegotiate an intensely criticized 2002 agreement with the Irish government over compensation for victims.

The Obama Three-Step

Krauthammer with your Messiah-Induced Chuckle OTD:

(a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy.

The Science News Cycle

The Word “Groovy” in a 1944 Music Video?

That’s quite a stretch.

Why Newspapers Are Dying

When you’re a Left-wing newspaper (but I repeat myself) in Sacramento and your customers readers rubes rebel at the ballot box, what do you do?

Scold them.

The point is that you’re sick and tired of all this political mumbo-jumbo. So you showed those politicians who’s in charge. You. You’re now officially in charge – of a state that will be something like $25 billion in the hole for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

So, now that you’ve put those irksome politicians in their place, maybe it’s time to think about this: Since you’re in charge, exactly what do you intend to do about that pesky $25 billion hole in the budget?

This List Speaks For Itself

But if you’d like to pare it down to things which are legitimate government functions, have fun. Or see who can find the most absurd and put them in the comments.

1. California Academic Performance Index (API)
2. California Access for Infants and Mothers
3. California Acupuncture Board
4. California Administrative Office of the Courts
5. California Adoptions Branch
6. California African American Museum
7. California Agricultural Export Program
8. California Agricultural Labor Relations Board
9. California Agricultural Statistics Service
10. California Air Resources Board (CARB)
11. California Allocation Board
12. California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority
13. California Animal Health and Food Safety Services
14. California Anti-Terrorism Information Center
15. California Apprenticeship Council
16. California Arbitration Certification Program
17. California Architects Board
18. California Area VI Developmental Disabilities Board
19. California Arts Council
20. California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus
21. California Assembly Democratic Caucus
22. California Assembly Republican Caucus
23. California Athletic Commission
24. California Attorney General
25. California Bay Conservation and Development Commission
26. California Bay-Delta Authority
27. California Bay-Delta Office
28. California Biodiversity Council
29. California Board for Geologists and Geophysicists
30. California Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
31. California Board of Accountancy
32. California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology
33. California Board of Behavioral Sciences
34. California Board of Chiropractic Examiners
35. California Board of Equalization (BOE)
36. California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
37. California Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind
38. California Board of Occupational Therapy
39. California Board of Optometry
40. California Board of Pharmacy
41. California Board of Podiatric Medicine
42. California Board of Prison Terms
43. California Board of Psychology
44. California Board of Registered Nursing
45. California Board of Trustees
46. California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians
47. California Braille and Talking Book Library
48. California Building Standards Commission
49. California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
50. California Bureau of Automotive Repair
51. California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair
52. California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation
53. California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine
54. California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services
55. California Bureau of State Audits
56. California Business Agency
57. California Business Investment Services (CalBIS)
58. California Business Permit Information (CalGOLD)
59. California Business Portal
60. California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
61. California Cal Grants
62. California CalJOBS
63. California Cal-Learn Program
64. California CalVet Home Loan Program
65. California Career Resource Network
66. California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
67. California Center for Analytical Chemistry
68. California Center for Distributed Learning
69. California Center for Teaching Careers (Teach California)
70. California Chancellor’s Office
71. California Charter Schools
72. California Children and Families Commission
73. California Children and Family Services Division
74. California Citizens Compensation Commission
75. California Civil Rights Bureau
76. California Coastal Commission
77. California Coastal Conservancy
78. California Code of Regulations
79. California Collaborative Projects with UC Davis
80. California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth
81. California Commission on Aging
82. California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation
83. California Commission on Judicial Performance
84. California Commission on State Mandates
85. California Commission on Status of Women
86. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
87. California Commission on the Status of Women
88. California Committee on Dental Auxiliaries
89. California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, Junior Colleges
90. California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
91. California Complaint Mediation Program
92. California Conservation Corps
93. California Constitution Revision Commission
94. California Consumer Hotline
95. California Consumer Information Center
96. California Consumer Information
97. California Consumer Services Division
98. California Consumers and Families Agency
99. California Contractors State License Board
100. California Corrections Standards Authority
101. California Council for the Humanities
102. California Council on Criminal Justice
103. California Council on Developmental Disabilities
104. California Court Reporters Board
105. California Courts of Appeal
106. California Crime and Violence Prevention Center
107. California Criminal Justice Statistics Center
108. California Criminalistic Institute Forensic Library
109. California CSGnet Network Management
110. California Cultural and Historical Endowment
111. California Cultural Resources Division
112. California Curriculum and Instructional Leadership Branch
113. California Data Exchange Center
114. California Data Management Division
115. California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission
116. California Delta Protection Commission
117. California Democratic Caucus
118. California Demographic Research Unit
119. California Dental Auxiliaries
120. California Department of Aging
121. California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
122. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board
123. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
124. California Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating)
125. California Department of Child Support Services (CDCSS)
126. California Department of Community Services and Development
127. California Department of Conservation
128. California Department of Consumer Affairs
129. California Department of Corporations
130. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
131. California Department of Developmental Services
132. California Department of Education
133. California Department of Fair Employment and Housing
134. California Department of Finance
135. California Department of Financial Institutions
136. California Department of Fish and Game
137. California Department of Food and Agriculture
138. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF)
139. California Department of General Services
140. California Department of General Services, Office of State Publishing
141. California Department of Health Care Services
142. California Department of Housing and Community Development
143. California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
144. California Department of Insurance
145. California Department of Justice Firearms Division
146. California Department of Justice Opinion Unit
147. California Department of Justice, Consumer Information, Public Inquiry Unit
148. California Department of Justice
149. California Department of Managed Health Care
150. California Department of Mental Health
151. California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
152. California Department of Personnel Administration
153. California Department of Pesticide Regulation
154. California Department of Public Health
155. California Department of Real Estate
156. California Department of Rehabilitation
157. California Department of Social Services Adoptions Branch
158. California Department of Social Services
159. California Department of Technology Services Training Center (DTSTC)
160. California Department of Technology Services (DTS)
161. California Department of Toxic Substances Control
162. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
163. California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVets)
164. California Department of Water Resources
165. California Departmento de Vehiculos Motorizados
166. California Digital Library
167. California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program
168. California Division of Apprenticeship Standards
169. California Division of Codes and Standards
170. California Division of Communicable Disease Control
171. California Division of Engineering
172. California Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control
173. California Division of Gambling Control
174. California Division of Housing Policy Development
175. California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement
176. California Division of Labor Statistics and Research
177. California Division of Land and Right of Way
178. California Division of Land Resource Protection
179. California Division of Law Enforcement General Library
180. California Division of Measurement Standards
181. California Division of Mines and Geology
182. California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)
183. California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources
184. California Division of Planning and Local Assistance
185. California Division of Recycling
186. California Division of Safety of Dams
187. California Division of the State Architect
188. California Division of Tourism
189. California Division of Workers’ Compensation Medical Unit
190. California Division of Workers’ Compensation
191. California Economic Assistance, Business and Community Resources
192. California Economic Strategy Panel
193. California Education and Training Agency
194. California Education Audit Appeals Panel
195. California Educational Facilities Authority
196. California Elections Division
197. California Electricity Oversight Board
198. California Emergency Management Agency
199. California Emergency Medical Services Authority
200. California Employment Development Department (EDD)
201. California Employment Information State Jobs
202. California Employment Training Panel
203. California Energy Commission
204. California Environment and Natural Resources Agency
205. California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA)
206. California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
207. California Executive Office
208. California Export Laboratory Services
209. California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo)
210. California Fair Political Practices Commission
211. California Fairs and Expositions Division
212. California Film Commission
213. California Fire and Resource Assessment Program
214. California Firearms Division
215. California Fiscal Services
216. California Fish and Game Commission
217. California Fisheries Program Branch
218. California Floodplain Management
219. California Foster Youth Help
220. California Franchise Tax Board (FTB)
221. California Fraud Division
222. California Gambling Control Commission
223. California Geographic Information Systems Council (GIS)
224. California Geological Survey
225. California Government Claims and Victim Compensation Board
226. California Governor’s Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons
227. California Governor’s Mentoring Partnership
228. California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
229. California Governor’s Office of Homeland Security
230. California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
231. California Governor’s Office
232. California Grant and Enterprise Zone Programs HCD Loan
233. California Health and Human Services Agency
234. California Health and Safety Agency
235. California Healthy Families Program
236. California Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau
237. California High-Speed Rail Authority
238. California Highway Patrol (CHP)
239. California History and Culture Agency
240. California Horse Racing Board
241. California Housing Finance Agency
242. California Indoor Air Quality Program
243. California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission
244. California Industrial Welfare Commission
245. California InFoPeople
246. California Information Center for the Environment
247. California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank)
248. California Inspection Services
249. California Institute for County Government
250. California Institute for Education Reform
251. California Integrated Waste Management Board
252. California Interagency Ecological Program
253. California Job Service
254. California Junta Estatal de Personal
255. California Labor and Employment Agency
256. California Labor and Workforce Development Agency
257. California Labor Market Information Division
258. California Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)
259. California Lands Commission
260. California Landscape Architects Technical Committee
261. California Latino Legislative Caucus
262. California Law Enforcement Branch
263. California Law Enforcement General Library
264. California Law Revision Commission
265. California Legislative Analyst’s Office
266. California Legislative Black Caucus
267. California Legislative Counsel
268. California Legislative Division
269. California Legislative Information
270. California Legislative Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Caucus
271. California Legislature Internet Caucus
272. California Library Development Services
273. California License and Revenue Branch
274. California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program
275. California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board
276. California Maritime Academy
277. California Marketing Services
278. California Measurement Standards
279. California Medical Assistance Commission
280. California Medical Care Services
281. California Military Department
282. California Mining and Geology Board
283. California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts
284. California Museum Resource Center
285. California National Guard
286. California Native American Heritage Commission
287. California Natural Community Conservation Planning Program
288. California New Motor Vehicle Board
289. California Nursing Home Administrator Program
290. California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board
291. California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board
292. California Ocean Resources Management Program
293. California Office of Administrative Hearings
294. California Office of Administrative Law
295. California Office of AIDS
296. California Office of Binational Border Health
297. California Office of Child Abuse Prevention
298. California Office of Deaf Access
299. California Office of Emergency Services (OES)
300. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
301. California Office of Fiscal Services
302. California Office of Fleet Administration
303. California Office of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Implementation (CalOHI)
304. California Office of Historic Preservation
305. California Office of Homeland Security
306. California Office of Human Resources
307. California Office of Legal Services
308. California Office of Legislation
309. California Office of Lieutenant Governor
310. California Office of Military and Aerospace Support
311. California Office of Mine Reclamation
312. California Office of Natural Resource Education
313. California Office of Privacy Protection
314. California Office of Public School Construction
315. California Office of Real Estate Appraisers
316. California Office of Risk and Insurance Management
317. California Office of Services to the Blind
318. California Office of Spill Prevention and Response
319. California Office of State Publishing (OSP)
320. California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
321. California Office of Systems Integration
322. California Office of the Inspector General
323. California Office of the Ombudsman
324. California Office of the Patient Advocate
325. California Office of the President
326. California Office of the Secretary for Education
327. California Office of the State Fire Marshal
328. California Office of the State Public Defender
329. California Office of Traffic Safety
330. California Office of Vital Records
331. California Online Directory
332. California Operations Control Office
333. California Opinion Unit
334. California Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN)
335. California Park and Recreation Commission
336. California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
337. California Performance Review (CPR)
338. California Permit Information for Business (CalGOLD)
339. California Physical Therapy Board
340. California Physician Assistant Committee
341. California Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
342. California Policy and Evaluation Division
343. California Political Reform Division
344. California Pollution Control Financing Authority
345. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
346. California Postsecondary Education Commission
347. California Prevention Services
348. California Primary Care and Family Health
349. California Prison Industry Authority
350. California Procurement Division
351. California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
352. California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)
353. California Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
354. California Real Estate Services Division
355. California Refugee Programs Branch
356. California Regional Water Quality Control Boards
357. California Registered Veterinary Technician Committee
358. California Registrar of Charitable Trusts
359. California Republican Caucus
360. California Research and Development Division
361. California Research Bureau
362. California Resources Agency
363. California Respiratory Care Board
364. California Rivers Assessment
365. California Rural Health Policy Council
366. California Safe Schools
367. California San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
368. California San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
369. California San Joaquin River Conservancy
370. California School to Career
371. California Science Center
372. California Scripps Institution of Oceanography
373. California Secretary of State Business Portal
374. California Secretary of State
375. California Seismic Safety Commission
376. California Self Insurance Plans (SIP)
377. California Senate Office of Research
378. California Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program
379. California Small Business Development Center Program
380. California Smart Growth Caucus
381. California Smog Check Information Center
382. California Spatial Information Library
383. California Special Education Division
384. California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board
385. California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
386. California Standards and Assessment Division
387. California State Administrative Manual (SAM)
388. California State Allocation Board
389. California State and Consumer Services Agency
390. California State Architect
391. California State Archives
392. California State Assembly
393. California State Association of Counties (CSAC)
394. California State Board of Education
395. California State Board of Food and Agriculture
396. California Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
397. California State Children’s Trust Fund
398. California State Compensation Insurance Fund
399. California State Contracts Register Program
400. California State Contracts Register
401. California State Controller
402. California State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD)
403. California State Disability Insurance (SDI)
404. California State Fair (Cal Expo)
405. California State Jobs Employment Information
406. California State Lands Commission
407. California State Legislative Portal
408. California State Legislature
409. California State Library Catalog
410. California State Library Services Bureau
411. California State Library
412. California State Lottery
413. California State Mediation and Conciliation Service
414. California State Mining and Geology Board
415. California State Park and Recreation Commission
416. California State Parks
417. California State Personnel Board
418. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
419. California State Railroad Museum
420. California State Science Fair
421. California State Senate
422. California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS)
423. California State Summer School for the Arts
424. California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
425. California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)
426. California State Treasurer
427. California State University Center for Distributed Learning
428. California State Water Project Analysis Office
429. California State Water Project
430. California State Water Resources Control Board
431. California Structural Pest Control Board
432. California Student Aid Commission
433. California Superintendent of Public Instruction
434. California Superior Courts
435. California Tahoe Conservancy
436. California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists
437. California Tax Information Center
438. California Technology and Administration Branch Finance
439. California Telecommunications Division
440. California Telephone Medical Advice Services (TMAS)
441. California Transportation Commission
442. California Travel and Transportation Agency
443. California Unclaimed Property Program
444. California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
445. California Unemployment Insurance Program
446. California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission
447. California Veterans Board
448. California Veterans Memorial
449. California Veterinary Medical Board and Registered Veterinary Technician Examining Committee
450. California Veterinary Medical Board
451. California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
452. CaliforniaVolunteers
453. California Voter Registration
454. California Water Commission
455. California Water Environment Association (CWEA)
456. California Water Resources Control Board
457. California Welfare to Work Division
458. California Wetlands Information System
459. California Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch
460. California Wildlife Conservation Board
461. California Wildlife Programs Branch
462. California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
463. California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board
464. California Workforce and Labor Development Agency
465. California Workforce Investment Board
466. California Youth Authority (CYA)
467. Central Valley Flood Protection Board
468. Center for California Studies
469. Colorado River Board of California
470. Counting California
471. Dental Board of California
472. Health Insurance Plan of California (PacAdvantage)
473. Humboldt State University
474. Jobs with the State of California
475. Judicial Council of California
476. Learn California
477. Library of California
478. Lieutenant Governor’s Commission for One California
479. Little Hoover Commission (on California State Government Organization and Economy)
480. Medical Board of California
481. Medi-Cal
482. Osteopathic Medical Board of California
483. Physical Therapy Board of California
484. Regents of the University of California
485. Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
486. State Bar of California
487. Supreme Court of California
488. Teach California
489. Veterans Home of California

Obama Man!

Well, he can’t be right about everything

I’ve had minor disagreements with Rush Limbaugh in the past. Anybody would, of course. And there have been many times I wished he’d been wrong, like when he predicted that the Left would try to reclassify carbon dioxide as a pollutant. (I remember scoffing back at the radio.)

But now I can say that Rush is just flat out wrong about something.

RUSH: Drudge had as a lead item up there this morning on his page a story from the UK, Sky News: “Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution.” It’s all about how Darwin would be thrilled to be alive today. “Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.” It’s a one-foot, nine-inch-tall monkey, and it’s a lemur monkey described as the eighth wonder of the world. “The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today —” So I guess this is settled science. We now officially came from a monkey, 47 million years ago. Well, that’s how it’s being presented here. It’s settled science. You know, this is all BS, as far as I’m concerned. Cross species evolution, I don’t think anybody’s ever proven that. They’re going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can’t do, but I’m more interested in some other missing link. And that is the missing link between our failing economy and prosperity.

I think Rush has been a powerful force for good over the years. This stunningly ignorant statement, however, blows a giant hole in his credibility.

Rush has been filling in the vacuum left by absentee leadership at the party level. The Republican Party is in serious need of leaders who can see reality.

We’re Doomed

DOOOOOMED!

This Dr. Utopia Fellow Rings a Bell

Where have I heard his arguments lately?

Too bad the guy who bundled up this fine old cartoon bookended it with kind of lame commentary and defaced it with YouTube comments. It really speaks for itself rather well.

?siht si gnos tahW

The Link

This is really big news. Ida’s discovery was announced recently, but now you can go to a slick web site, www.revealingthelink.com, and learn a lot about what may be the most important fossil discovery of my lifetime.

I’m still not clear on why they call her our “earliest ancestor” when it seems she’s our “earliest common ancestor” with other primates. In any case, how wonderful for this prediction of Darwin’s to come true this year when we celebrate his 200th birthday.

Just Wondering

If, hypothetically speaking, Obama were a narcissistic, power-mad, America-hating fascist, what would He be doing differently?

Update:

He really is the Parody-Proof President. Good thing he isn’t a Republican or he’d get endless ribbing in the press for saying something this inane:

Appearing in the Rose Garden today to announce his plan to cap auto emissions, President Obama opened by saying, “What an extraordinary day. The sun is out, because good things are happening.”

Not Only as Ugly as a Prius

but the Honda Insight is a much worse car.

It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.

Read the whole thing. It’s a hoot.

It’s “Laugh or Cry” Time Again With Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s mouth got behind his brain’s power curve. Again.

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.

Update:

And when his boss tries to be funny…