Roll your own post about campus follies.

Discovered on a local campus.  No matter how I read it, I’m still not sure that top one makes a damn bit of sense…

(My apologies for the bad photography.  It’s a phone camera; what are you gonna do?)

Because  I like to fish, and I am just now hearing about this:

The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account.
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As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008.

What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper, according to Morlock.

In late summer, just after the administration created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.
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Also, recreational angling and commercial fishing have been lumped together as harmful to the resource, despite protests by the angling industry.

Which makes me wonder how many other things like this have been hiding in the shadows of ObamaCare, the Stimulus, et al?

Morlock’s evidence of collusion — the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February.

On Feb. 12, the New York Times reported on that “President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.”

Morlock fears that “what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.

“Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water.”

Which party was it that was anti-science?  I keep forgetting.  If and when this  actually gets enacted the uproar will not be small.  The Democrats really have lost their fucking minds.

Ever since the whole kerfuffle over the hacked E-mails at E. Anglia and the subsequent fallout from the IPCC Report I’ve been anticipating some kind of a creative response from the hardcore AGW science community. How would they elect to answer what has become a mini-tsunami of questions over faulty data? One would think that the calls from some for a re-examination of the data sets with full transparency would create an atmosphere where real debate would be engaged on the science of AGW  rather than continued harlequin whimpering about Global Armageddon. Al Gore’s editorial can be dismissed as the fading gravitas of a blinkered idealist hopelessly entrapped in his own alarm bell and burgeoning bank account.

But along comes Nature Magazine, billing itself as “The International weekly journal of science,” to frame the narrative as … a public relations problem, with climate scientists/true believers as the victims. The first two paragraphs are stunning (emphasis mine:) (more…)

Oh well.

It’s a picture of Mao Xedong rolling around on the floor laughing hysterically, with the caption: ROFLMAO

and textbook charlatanism.

And some textbook libertarianism, just to try to stir things up a bit.

The prohibitionists say their rules are necessary for either the public’s or the particular individual’s own good. I’m skeptical. I think of what Albert Camus said: “The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.” Prohibition is force. I prefer persuasion. Government force has nasty unintended consequences.

Both via Maggie’s Farm, which is even better than usual this morning.

“We’re one of the largest economies in the world, and we can’t fund the basics,” said Mike Scullin, 29, a graduate student in education who plans to become a high school teacher. “We’re throwing away a generation of students by defunding education.”

Short of a sudden world wide demand for irony, I don’t see any way out.

…he’s incandescently, terrifyingly right. Fax or mail snippets of these articles to your GOP critters. They have GOT to wise up.

Yeah, I know. I’ll be over here holding my breath.

Transformation

I think our side is analyzing this all wrong: Today’s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that. I think they’re right.

…let’s not be under any illusions about what that means. In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you’ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state.

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Srsly.

When Glenn Beck was in L.A. a couple weeks ago, he rooted through some film archives and found all kinds of interesting footage. He shows some in the 4 of 5 segment of his Tuesday show.

Nazi rallies in the Hamptons and in Madison Square Garden in 1939, the latter with an enormous poster of George Washington behind the dais, in the Hitler position.

Breitbart also gave him a tape from April 2009 of Andy Stern talking about the “new American economic plan” that he’s helping cook up (4 of 5 segment for today). Not that we didn’t know this is what they’re up to: it’s just a bit strange to see them admit it in so many words.

Go Glenn, go.

…or the typical blog troll, or of Our President; take your pick.

Joanna M. Ashmun makes these observations about people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Sorry, George Will, the PDs are real enough). I’ve put in my own paragraphs and omitted lots of stuff; go to the original to see what.

The most telling thing that narcissists do is contradict themselves. They will do this virtually in the same sentence, without even stopping to take a breath. It can be trivial (e.g., about what they want for lunch) or it can be serious (e.g., about whether or not they love you).

When you ask them which one they mean, they’ll deny ever saying the first one, though it may literally have been only seconds since they said it—really, how could you think they’d ever have said that? You need to have your head examined!

They will contradict FACTS. They will lie to you about things that you did together. They will misquote you to yourself. If you disagree with them, they’ll say you’re lying, making stuff up, or are crazy.
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