Tomorrow's New York Times Today!

 
It's a gift. I can sometimes see the future, especially as it pertains to America's Pravda. It's a blessing and a curse.


The only thing that remains fuzzy: whether the font size for Libby's sentencing will be bigger than the headline on 9/12/01.

More Google Street Views: Beltway Edition

 
Google, in partnership with Immersive Media, has augmented its mapping service with street-level views. To achieve the effect, staffers drive vans around snapping pictures using special, 11-lens cameras. I found some interesting street scenes in Washington, DC. Check it out.

Driving by William Jefferson's house, some sort of lobbying appears to be underway.

We crossed the street and examined what may be Jack Murtha's abode.

I think he lives near John Edwards.

This street is supposed to be right around where Bill Clinton lives.

This may be the river view from Ted Kennedy's condo.

Must reads: The Anchoress, Hang Right Politics, Nuke Gingrich, Rick Moran, Wizbang

The Case of the Vanishing Consensus

 
Canada's National Post features a must-read series on climate change. Put simply, Al Gore's "consensus" on anthropogenic warming is as controversial among scientists as the big-bang theory:

"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." So said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable. Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world. But the claims of a scientific consensus remain unsubstantiated...

Financial Post: They call this a consensus?

Google Maps introduces its Street View feature

 
Whoops! Google, in partnership with Immersive Media, has augmented its mapping service with street-level views. To achieve the effect, staffers drive vans around snapping pictures using special, "11-lens cameras". Problem is, some odd -- and possibly illegal -- activities have begun to show up in the candid snapshots.

This guy is either (a) imitating Spiderman, (b) escaping the wrath of an angry husband or father, or (c) preparing for a daylight robbery.

It's not an episode of the Sopranos, it's just a guy with a gasoline can and what appears to be a body wrapped in a tarp.

Hasn't it been illegal to take pictures in the New York tunnels since 9/11? Or perhaps Google and Immersive received a special dispensation from DHS.

It may look like an episode of Jackass, but Mom appears to be just one stumble away from a runaway stroller!

Dude. Taking out. Trash. Dude.

A classic San Francisco street scene: A man and his '66 Volkswagen bus.

Is that Jack Murtha in a hotel room with some Arab businessmen? Nah, I guess not.

Hat tips: BoingBoing, NYT blogs, Wired

Draining the Swamp

 
CNN reports on more hill-arious shenanigans courtesy of our favorite unindicted co-coinspirator:


Way to "drain the swamp", Nancy.

Hat tip: Macsmind

Chavez implements the Fairness Doctrine in Venezuela

 
You may have heard that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez pulled the plug on the country's most popular television station. "He's castrating free press in Venezuela," said Valter Pereira, a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and member of the government's ruling coalition. "Why should we sit back, cross our arms and watch him destroy democratic institutions?"


No wonder the "progressives" love Chavez so much. His act of shutting down opposition media is precisely the strategy that so many U.S. leftists hope to employ by reinstating the so-called "fairness doctrine". Unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas, they hope to resurrect the ill-fated doctrine in order to censor conservative viewpoints.

The Democracy Project's commentary is spot on:

The ideas that rational planning can substitute for markets and that government ought to regulate speech are failed ones. Yet, progressive/liberal bigots like my Congressman, Maurice Hinchey, continue to advocate suppression of speech, through an Orwellian-named "fairness doctrine". Throw in an inability to develop a strategy to fight terrorism and add a dash of economic illiteracy. Then you really have to wonder how anyone can be fooled by the sweet bouquet of the left's bovine imagination.

A.C. Nielsen for the Democratic Presidential Nominee!

 
The would-be triangulator-in-chief, Hillary Clinton, is an inveterate poll-watcher, according to her former advisers. Bill Clinton's administration, of course, was infamous for its use of polls as a lever for public policy.


My question for the Democrats is a simple one: why not just nominate A.C. Nielsen as your candidate for President? When it comes to polls over principle, Nielsen's as good a choice as anyone.