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Patterico (9c670f) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:20 am

there has to be a more efficient way to get all of America’s propaganda whores to where they’re speaking from the same set of talking points

maybe an email list?

happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:24 am

Yes, happyfeet, it amazes me when all these a-holes repeat the same crap over and over as if the more often they say it the more believable it becomes. Sheeh! What a bunch of dumbasses.

It makes me crazy that an actual adult would say something as blatantly foolish as “free community college”. Exactly how does one build a building, stock it with furniture, turn on its electric, hire and pay its teachers for “free”? Has every one in this country lost their collective minds? He should be booed down and pelted with rotten fruit when he even begins to say that crap.

Hoagie (4dfb34) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:31 am

Although in retrospect it is a testament to the public education establishment that they have been able to so thoroughly dumb down the population to the point they buy this BS. Mission accomplished!

Hoagie (4dfb34) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:34 am

As the country’s first black monarch, HE is immune from criticism or any other form of Les Majesty.

Bar Sinister (b48c12) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:37 am

And to think that all the good things the economy has done have happened despite Obama’s best efforts to suppress them.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:37 am

I did not watch the address, and do not feel that I have missed anything of consequence.

The Dana who didn't waste his time (f6a568) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:46 am

I also am getting really sick of all the guests the VIPs now bring. Give it a rest; Michelle had 26!

Patricia (5fc097) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:06 am

Hoagie (4dfb34) — 1/21/2015 @ 7:31 am

It makes me crazy that an actual adult would say something as blatantly foolish as “free community college”.

Obama didn’t.

He said, instead:

That’s why I am sending this Congress a bold new plan to lower the cost of community college – to zero.

Exactly how does one build a building, stock it with furniture, turn on its electric, hire and pay its teachers for “free”? Obama explained:

Tennessee, a state with Republican leadership, and Chicago, a city with Democratic leadership, are showing that free community college is possible. I want to spread that idea all across America, so that two years of college becomes as free and universal in America as high school is today.

Don’t ask him, ask Tennessee and Chicago! And if we can do it for high school, we can do it for another two grades. (and pre-kindergarten too, maybe.)

We’re rich now, now that the recession is over, and we have finally, fifteen years late, crossed that bridge into the 21st century and emerged into the light of dawn at the end of the tunnel, after having gone down a bad road, and we can party like it’s 1999 and catch up with Europe.

Incidentally, the New York Daily News, which editorialized today that Obama thinks too small, didn’t really like his call for free community college for all, because, it said, the challenge wasn’t getting more students into school, but getting them successfully through school.

I think it should be pointed out that Obama would saddle community college dropouts with big bills, but that’s not true for high school dropouts. It’s obvious the economics of this is based on there being a large number of dropouts, who will, for these purposes, be assumed to be paying back their student loans or perhaps forfeiting their Pell grants.

Otherwise there’s no reason to make success a condition. Well, you could refuse to pay for the next year, but I don’t think his plan does that, although I am almost guessing.

Understand, you’ve got to earn it – you’ve got to keep your grades up and graduate on time.

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:17 am

8. Patricia (5fc097) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:06 am

Obama didn’t mention anything about college rape, but New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, invited the well known Columbia University mattress-carrying “rape” victim.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gillibrand-defends-activist-critics-calling-fake-article-1.2086128

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:24 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/nyregion/accusers-and-the-accused-crossing-paths-at-columbia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Shes claiming that during an otherwise consensual encounter, Mr. Nungesser hit her, pinned her down and, despite her protests, raped her. He says nothing remotely like that happened. It was completely consentual. A second woman says says he followed her up the stairs at a party and he groped her. He says he never followed her up the stairs at all. A third woman says he inflicted emotional abuse and nonconsensual sex during a month long relationship. He says how could anything like that happen outside of a forced marriage or a kidnapping. All 3 charges were filed within days of each other (but didn’t suppsedly happen within days of each other) and signify collusions. The women claim they decided to take action when they heard each other’s stories.

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:39 am

Greetings:

I didn’t realize that you were that short.

11B40 (6abb5c) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:57 am

Obama said:

http://time.com/3675705/full-text-state-union-2015/

2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does – 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.

I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what – I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.

There’s so much to answer here, but do you want to know what the answer to the statement that 2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record is?

Holman W. Jenkins had the answer to that in today’s Wall Street Journal.

The average temeperature of the earth over the year has some uncertaintities in measurement, and the 2014 peak was not statistically significant!

It was smaller than the margin of error by a factor of five, and 2005 and 2010 are other contenders for the record. It is only more probable than not that it was the highest year on record (and the record doesn’t go back before 1880, and isn’t really good till much later)

More to the point, it was not such a large increase. The average global temperature has pretty much flattened out.

And yes, it is not random, but the point is there’s no one-to-one correspondence with carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas levels. There’s more CO2 in the atmosphere every year, but the temperature is going up any more like it did before 1998. Maybe a tiny fraction, but that’s all.

What’s going on doesn’t match the computer simulations! Which is just another proof that CO2 is not the only thing that could affect climate.

So therefore, we indeed don’t have enough information to act.

Not to mention, of course, the other objections:

1_ That these claims that climate change would cause massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe are absurd on their face.

2. That you can’t predict droughts.

3. That the oceans aren’t rising so much and rose a little bit less in the Twentieth Century (5 inches) than was thought till just recently (6 inches)

4. That the change is not all bad, and the case has not been made that it’s not a net benefit. More people die from cold than from heat.

5. That in any case the proposals would not do anything to significantly affect things. what’s the point of, let’s say, delaying things so that the same thing happens 6 years later?

6. That if you did want to do things, geo-engineering, like spreading sulfer disocide ove rthe Arctic, or fertilizinbg the Pacific Ocean with iron, is a better idea – and reversible if, after a year or two or three, they turn out to be wrong.

7. That in any case, mitigation and adaptation would be cheaper and more to the point.

8. And if you did want to reduce CO2 emissions, just wait till batteries get better.

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 9:28 am

Sammy – carlitos categorically dismisses Holman Jenkins and the Wall Street Journal and all the other people who say similar things.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/21/2015 @ 9:39 am

Sadly, I found something else to do last night (eat dinner) and missed the SOtU address. But today’s headlines feature the number of veto threats made by Obola, so the event transpired as expected and I didn’t miss anything. The Syrians, Iranians, Russians, and Chinese have figured out how to handle threats by Obola. Given six years of history, it is very strange that the LHMFM continues to pretend that his threats are anything more than empty words. But of course, his threats are their marching orders for the next few months, so why not play the game. It makes for good copy that their bosses appreciate.

The real puzzle is why hasn’t the Republican leadership figured this out? Whenever Obola draws a line in the sand, the evening breeze erases it. If it works for Iran and Syria, it ought to work just as well for the party that controls both houses of Congress. It will make for some great historical videos as EarLeader vetoes bill after bill, while watching his support by incumbent who hope to get reelected evaporate. It will be just a matter of time before the needed votes are found to override his silly little game, and then he can retire to Hawaii and play golf for the remainder of his term. And the country can get back to business.

bobathome (f208b6) — 1/21/2015 @ 9:47 am

well the Billy Madison clip was already taken,

narciso (ee1f88) — 1/21/2015 @ 10:09 am

14. Holman Jenkins cites a bunch of sources. Some of what he said wasn’t so good – I improved it.

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 10:16 am

Summary of Obama’s 2015 SOTU Address: “The sugar crop is doing well.” #LikeaSovietDictator

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/21/2015 @ 10:17 am

18. The closest he came to that was this:

Our manufacturers have added almost 800,000 new jobs. Some of our bedrock sectors, like our auto industry, are booming. But there are also millions of Americans who work in jobs that didn’t even exist ten or twenty years ago – jobs at companies like Google, and eBay, and Tesla.

Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 10:31 am

We have to make college more affordable so one in five women can be sexually assaulted.

That’s what I heard last night.

Steve57 (4ce020) — 1/21/2015 @ 10:39 am

Any other mass movement like AGW that had anywhere near the prevalence of fraud, data diddling, lack of data transparency and documented fraudulent behavior would have been laughed into oblivion long ago, except that the leftists need it to be true to give them a stick to use to redistribute wealth. And anything the left wants, the media and the Democrats will sell us out to give them.

Ray Van Dune (5b4fc5) — 1/21/2015 @ 4:39 pm

The women claim they decided to take action when they heard each other’s stories.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:39 am

Some more “McMartin” recovered memories.

askeptic (efcf22) — 1/21/2015 @ 4:45 pm

Increasingly underwhelmed by the messiah? (Note: This does not include numbers for network broadcast viewers.)

President Obama’s State of the Union drew just over 8 million viewers on the major cable news networks, suggesting Tuesday’s address may have been one of the least-watched in more than a decade. ….The combined 8 million viewers in the preliminary ratings is down 1.1 million from last year and 2.35 million from 2013.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/230287-ca ble-news-viewers-tune-out-obama

elissa (c04b3a) — 1/21/2015 @ 5:29 pm

People think Obama is incompetent but they want to like him. It’s hard to do anything with that. When people want to like someone, there isn’t much that can be done to change that unless the person does something terrible.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/21/2015 @ 5:39 pm

Huh
Totally unbelievable.
No way Mrs. Patterico has not found a way to make that suit the victim of a dumpster fire… I mean a second dumpster fire, the first one just burnt the edges

steveg (794291) — 1/21/2015 @ 8:19 pm

Perfect response. This is what WS meant when he said ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’.

Georganne (e37667) — 1/22/2015 @ 7:42 am

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