Posted on 08/12/2007 4:33:36 AM PDT by Laverne
Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA's Web site and look at the "U.S. surface air temperature" rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that something has changed.
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Thanks for the link, there’s a good review at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1879848/posts?page=76
ROFL
Classic Steyn! Thx for posting.
That's an awfully good label for the idea that criticism is superior to performance:Socialism is nothing but criticism and second guessing of those who actually do things. Theodore RooseveltThere is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.Why Broadcast Journalism isIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
BSB (Big Steyn Bump)
Cheeseburger Imperialists.
Here’s how it will play, if it hits the MSM:
“Global Warming Coverup: NASA Changes Climate Data Under Pressure From Bush Administration”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Global Warming ping
Margaret Drabble sounds like a piece of trash.
Mark Steyn—was there ever a more brilliant wordsmith in the history of political commentary? This article has supplied a new tagline (below).
Plenty more examples of bad data collection at surfacestations.org
Barbara Boxer said it all when she complained about the Iraq war budget and all the money we can’t spend. She sounded like she wants to shop til she drops.
In order to avoid duplicates, please use the original article headline (not the hyperlink headline).
Weird. I just looked at a cached copy. Your original post was correct. Never mind.
I hope the Soldiers from Beauchamp’s unit sue the hell out of the New Republic.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Somebody should stune your beeber.
Some of the Left cynically use mendacity to manipulate people and information to achieve their purposes. Some, who probably mean well, think that they can improve on truth. Some naively or wantonly depend upon cynical, mendacious leaders. Some are in denial about non-truth for various reasons. Leftists vary, but the foundation of the Left and of its propaganda is mendacity.
It is this mendacity that enables the enemies of all that is good and decent in this world and threatens to destroy Western Civilization.
No. One can't.
The Big-Mouths of the Left who relish in condemning and distorting the truth about the United States are a combination of evil side-show barkers and Medieval flagellants--
A few centuries ago, they would have been parading through European villages, scourging themselves and chanting: "The plague is the fault of the Jewish people!"
Today, they on television, scourging everything American and chanting: "It's all the fault of the American people!"
The chants are different--slightly!--but the people are the same, and the message is the same.
Don't even get me started with federal and state budgets. It drives me crazy to hear my superivisors tell me how money not spent in the School district where I work has to be spent, or we lose it.
What kind of fiscal responsibility is that?!
Steyn is dead on in this article.
Don't you love those that live in this country, on their own free will, continue to demonize this country?
Why haven't they packed their bags?
That is interesting. The new flagellants. Except do they beat up on themselves or us?
? This is warm-mongers and cheeseburger imperialists, not war-mongers and cheeseburger generals. LOL!
How sadly true are your comments. The American Education Complex started this denigration of America in the revolutionary days of the ‘sixties. We have now reached the stage where the only teachers not exposed to this ideology during their student years are at retirement age. Few are left in the classroom, so the entire current teaching force has grown up with a certain worldview that started like the frog/water metaphor —
we were no better than any other nation in any way
morphing to
we are an oppressor nation
to
we are the worst oppressor mation causing damage to our entire PLANET!!!
Now, that's quotable!
My mother has just returned from an extended vizit to Europe. She says they hate George Bush and wish Bill Clinton was still president. She had someone ask her to send him a copy of Michael Moore’s book. She says Europe is lost.
On a trip to Britain last year with my English-born wife, I was assailed by one of my brothers-in-law concerning Bush. The bro-in-law, after a few drinks, revealed himself to be rabidly anti-Bush. He believed every twisted lie and distorted rumor that was spread by leftist journalists down to the one about Bush discouraging Black voters in Florida in 2000. I asked him where he got his info, and of course he quoted Moore. He was also very anti-Israel and pro terrorist uh I mean "Palestinian".
There is a willingness in Europe to believe the worst about the U.S. The media, at least in Britain, is very much anti-American. Add that to decades of leftist indoctrination in the schools, and you have people who have a very poor grasp of what is going on in the world.
They do that in big business as well - blame it on bureaucratic structure that mindlessly accepts sameness and opposes change.
The majority of my mother’s trip was spent with longtime friends in England. When she was asked about the Moore book, she told the person, “almost no-one in the US takes Michael Moore seriously. we think he’s a crackpot”. She said the young man was deflated to hear that. She was finally reduced to telling people I support our President and I don’t discuss the war becasue my son is an officer in the Army and I support the military and my son.
People were quite rude about it she said.
My step-father, who worked for the DEA, always said the same thing with their government budgets. It drove him nuts to be fiscal responsible, only to be told he needed to spend all monies not encumbered.
What a way to run a government. SNAFU indeed!
bttt
Both. Just like the Medieval flagellants. They scourged themselves but launched particularly viscious attacks on their designated perpetrators. Like today's flagellants, they were casual about truth.
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