Hysteria? Nonsense. Don’t forget, Царь наш, that we’ve already scientifically documented that Global Warming causes a whole lotta stuff. Via Jonah Goldberg. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ready for another easy prediction? You will soon be seeing a helluva lot more of news, pseudo-news, and quasi-news reports like this. Every flood, every hurricane, every rain possibility that jumps from 20% to 40%, will be written up to … Continue reading →
Now headlines are saying that the Large Hadron Collider is smashing records. And they spent $4.6 billion on that thing? For that???? Pshaw, the stupid drunks. The Czar can shatter records with a $200 shotgun. If you can hit a … Continue reading →
Without wading into the philosophical weeds, Karl Popper’s famous principle that a theory, hypothesis, or principle is metaphysical, not scientific if it is not, in some way, falsifiable (i.e., testable), seems to apply here. Whether it’s a Kuhnian paradigm or … Continue reading →
The pro-AGW folks are in a tizzy trying to spin and explain the Hadley CRU incident. To their credit, they are making some fair and even good arguments; unfortunately, the anti-AGW crowd is making vastly better ones. Sure, everybody jumped … Continue reading →
…meet Mike Dukakis. Huckabee? Huckhasbeen. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →EC, a long-standing Gormogon operative in charge (this week) of our Australian, New Zealand, and Latvian region (the travel pattern is weird, yes, but makes sense in a way, and EC seems to be managing it quite well), writes in … Continue reading →
You’ll have flashbacks. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →I’m going to cut through the chaff and get right to the core of the issue with the East Anglia / Hadley CRU emails: the corruption of the scientific process. I’m not sure where these “scientists”* were in grade school, … Continue reading →
…these crappy bootlegs back to the Castle. Oddly, we have two copies of this one, but upon inspection, the other one comes from Ghettoputer’s “special” collection, and the Gormogons aren’t about to risk prosecution in many countries (and civil suits … Continue reading →
Hey Czar, I want you to know that like a good American, I recycle. As a point of pride, I sort my recycling from trash, wash out my metal cans and glass bottles, and separate the plastics by their number. … Continue reading →
An attention-seeking New York trial court judge decided this week that the rule of law is for suckers. You know, like creditors seeking to recover obligations voluntarily entered into by borrowers. It seems OneWest, a privately held bank, acquired a … Continue reading →
Jeremy Greenstock, whom you all remember—actually, no one remembers him. He was Britain’s ambassador to the UN back in 2003, so transfer this information only to your short-term memory because his irrelevence will resume after this post—continues to blame the … Continue reading →
Global stock markets yesterday, and the U.S. stock market today plunged on the news that the Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill. This crisis has sparked even greater fears that investors owed money by other countries … Continue reading →
“Cap and Trade is dead,” this spake Sen Jim Inhofe (R-OK). Not quite. The Wall Street Journal is concluding, quite prematurely (yet delightfully) that the Hadley CRU scandal is a death blow to global warming. Yes, the GOP is launching … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons Claire Berlinski writes: After the Second World War, the United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour government resolved to build of Britain a New Jerusalem. It nationalized the commanding heights of the economy and inaugurated the cradle-to-grave welfare … Continue reading →
…from the Gormogons! (from left to right, the Mandarin, GorTechie, the Œcumenical Volgi (id est, 孔夫子, The Notorious ŒV), the Czar of Muscovy, and Ghettoputer Gormogon. Taking the photo, and not in the picture, is Sleestak (one of the few … Continue reading →
The Czar heard complaints, which he will not cite for obvious reasons, that the Obama-era Secret Service is poorly run and handled, often with “upstairs” getting in the way and ignoring their recommendations. Great agents, all, but processes are a … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s a little late to the party, as he’s been making Thanksgiving preparations around Castle Gormogon. You know, hanging festive garlands of severed ears, brining the emu, preparing the hearts of palm and pig intesting casserole. The usual stuff. But … Continue reading →
“He keeps calling the junction boxes ‘bunions’ and icing them down. I’m beginning to have my doubts.” Or so might we be entitled to think when the government keeps telling us they’re creating (“or,” they add hilariously, “saving”) jobs and … Continue reading →
At first, they all laughed at what was called the world’s worst police sketch ever. Shown to the right, this is the actual sketch drawn by a police sketch artist in an unnamed Bolivian city. Really funny. Gormogons Spotlight On: … Continue reading →
Courtesy who else? The amazing Dr. Boli. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control … Continue reading →
Says Jules Crittenden. Great article. Grazie, Borepatch. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →You read it here first. I know, contain your astonishment that libertarians aren’t out hanging census workers from trees: A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look … Continue reading →
And here’s the best tribute you’ll see all year. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →LONDON — Nuclear power — long considered environmentally hazardous — is emerging as perhaps the world’s most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it. Says the WaPo. Considered by … Continue reading →
Think you’re having a bad day? Not as bad as this guy’s. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Lawmakers in US, law enforcement in UK, looking at Hadley CRU issue. Fortunately, on our side of the Atlantic, it’s the GOP starting an investigation into the impact of the emails. Hooray—in addition to harming Copenhagen, this could also be … Continue reading →
Here’s an actual comment from Filmdrunk concerning the eminently lame New Moon film. (Sorry to crush your illusions, Tweeny Boppers). “ChinoMoreno says: If you are seeking to be bitten by Edward Cullen, you had better dress up as a pillow.” … Continue reading →
President Obama announced today that we will be a surprise attack across Afghanistan next week. “I want to be very clear to our enemies…that we are really going to surprise them,” the President said on the 11th hole at Chantilly … Continue reading →
Lost Family of Three Found After Night In Forest. We celebrate their safe return from their routine expedition. Their little monkey friends did not make the journey. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Regular readers here will not be surprised that The Day the Earth Stood Still is a popular Friday night popcorn throwing event here at the Castle. GorT even stars in it, and his knowledge of time travel allows us to … Continue reading →
One of the things we Gormogons are most proud of is that we aren’t all just griping and accusations. Sometimes, when someone does something sensible, we point it out. For example, President Obama seems to finally be making good on … Continue reading →
Reuel Gerecht on Hasan, the FBI, the Muslim world, and foreign policy. (Gerecht is a former CIA agent who worked on Iran. He knows this stuff much more deeply than your average “expert,” even if he’s occasionally a tad biased … Continue reading →
…that this is just a commercial, they got the idea from spending some time up at the field behind Castle Gormogon. h/t Borepatch GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from … Continue reading →
Are you kidding me? A German company has built a .50 BMG “pistol.” It apparently weighs as much as a B.A.R. This is not a joke. 正 H. 名! Once again, the Gormogons’ operational security has been breached. The .50 … Continue reading →
And the hits just keep on coming. The Japanese were, to say the least, unimpressed with President Obama’s supplicating bow. Want to know why protocol requires the President to offer a handshake in lieu of a bow? Subtleties, dammit. Instead … Continue reading →
Dallas News reports that Democratic candidate Tom Schieffer is dropping out of the governor’s race due to lack of support. His departure would leave humorist Kinky Friedman, hair-care magnate Farouk Shami, schoolteacher Felix Alvarado and rancher Hank Gilbert as announced … Continue reading →
Two items from the current issue of Scientific American caught the Czar’s attention this weekend. The second is Michael Shermer’s discussion of the conservative mind and the liberal mind. The first is here. UV psychologist Jonathan Haidt identified five universal … Continue reading →
Two items from the current issue of Scientific American caught the Czar’s attention this weekend. The first is Lawrence M. Krauss’s opinion piece that the Internet has given voice to no shortage of lunatic nonsense. The second is here. Krauss … Continue reading →
Once the Mandarin and GorT get the satellite uplinks working and we can start directly controlling TV programming, the Gormogons will have whole channels devoted to the BET issues program What Up With That? You will either be baffled and … Continue reading →
The Czar is correct in pointing to Bob Wright’s fatuity. Wright errs profoundly in pointing to U.S. foreign policy as the malign demiurge that made Nidal Hasan a murderer. His argument is a textbook example of the fallacy of foreign-policy … Continue reading →
Given the good weather here in the DC area, GorT and family decided it was time to hang up the Christmas lights. Mind you, we’re not turning them on until after Thanksgiving (a family rule – 1 holiday at a … Continue reading →
Somewhere in the distant past, the breakfast committee decided they needed a way to make breakfast sausage more dangerous. Someone in the back nervously coughed, and a tentative hand rose. “Yes?” Another cough. “Well…we could crumble up the sausage into … Continue reading →
Robert Wright, in the New York Times, writes that conservative writers like Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg are right that the liberal media are trying to cover up Hasan’s crimes by dismissing them as a mere medical issue. An important … Continue reading →
Well, for some reason the big conservative guys are shying away from the Hadley CRU story. Not sure why: even the New York Times picked it up. And nothing says the corrupt data is genuine like the vomit-like spin the … Continue reading →
Everything happens for a reason. Gormogon operatve MC—and quite frankly, if this guy keeps this excellent work up, he’s going to be in charge of a whole conspiracy division here at the Castle—sent the Czar an urgent message last night … Continue reading →
Welcome to Fantasy Island, or in Secretary Tim Geithner’s case, Fantasy Economy. Item the First: Geithner stated that the economy is “substantially stronger today than when the president took office” as determined by “any measure.” Item the Second: After this, … Continue reading →
And it’s starting to worry the kids. With the problems with the Stimulus plan and it’s über-transparent recovery.gov site, the bribery-induced healthcare bill (if you don’t believe me, go look at Sen. Reid’s 2,000+ page bill where it elaborately lays … Continue reading →
Today, top scientists at Gormogon University released the results of a study thought up and funded by Czar and ‘Puter. It turns out that drinking up to NINE DRINKS A DAY is good for men’s heart health. ‘Puter and Czar … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s pretty sure this is how he’s going to die. Except ‘Puter’s wife won’t offer up the excuse that she left him to die because ‘Puter “was ready to go to heaven and see Jesus [Jeebus].” Mrs. ‘Puter would simply … Continue reading →
From today’s appropriately named Universe Today: Recently, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey put the finishing touches on a new collection of mapped images covering the entire land surface of the Earth. However, if you want the entire full-size version, … Continue reading →
The Gormogons are happy to provide you the following live video link of Harry Reid. Maybe he’s thinking about healthcare reform. Or his near-zero chances of re-election. Or the upcoming ‘Skins game this weekend. Perhaps he wants to eat string … Continue reading →
I’ve been meaning to post a story on the further woes of the Obama Administration’s stimulus activity but I’ve been tied up time traveling again. The Czar dropped a note from operative MB in my inbox at the castle pointing … Continue reading →
A drug that can prolong the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer has been rejected for use in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said the cost of … Continue reading →
The Czar’s least-favorite game is connect-the-dots. Yet he plays so often. 1. Barack Obama becomes President of the US, to the delight of the morally derelict United Nations. 2. Jeremiah Wright, spiritual advisor to Barack Obama, confirms that he is … Continue reading →
As you know, terrorists involved with the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks are evidently heading to New York City for a criminal trial. The press has dubbed this the KSM Trial, after the self-confessed mastermind Khālid … Continue reading →
A young girl with Down Syndrome has her feelings hurt at school because kids use “retarded” as a synonym for “stupid.” What’s the solution? You guessed it: pass a law. Don’t talk to the offending kids. Don’t try to, you … Continue reading →
A self-described “ninja” impaled himself on a fence in hippie-infested Seattle, thereby earning him a stealthy trip by ambulance to the nearest intensive care unit. Shockingly, police report the unidentified ninja (isn’t that always the case?) was “‘overconfident in his … Continue reading →
It’s a two-fer today! A Georgia high school teacher has been accused of ordering an assassination on a 16-year-old student whom he suspected was gay. The kid’s mom: “A teacher threatens to kill your child; that’s the most disturbing. It … Continue reading →
Our long national nightmare is over! Or at least our Upstate nightmare. Goodbye, Coach Dick Jauron. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. And, too bad for the Redskins that owners can’t be fired. 'PuterAlways right, unless … Continue reading →
Today’s teachers are no longer satisfied with statutorily raping their charges. That’s so last year, said an unidentified local Montessori school principal. Enterprising teacher Brendon F. Friedman of Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools (former stomping ground of no fewer than … Continue reading →
Hell hath no fury like a Union scorned. According to this article from WorldNetDaily the Service Employees International Union is threatening action against Allentown, PA, for allowing an Eagle Scout candidate to build a park trail for his Eagle Scout … Continue reading →
Women of America, you don’t need those pesky mammograms! Heck, odds are most of you will die of heart-disease anyway. Wait until you’re 50, at least, before getting that annual mammogram. That fact that early detection frequently increases your odds … Continue reading →
Well it was bad enough when corporations decided to ship manufacturing jobs overseas to take advantage of lower labor rates and benefit from lax environmental standards, but now according to this report from ABC news, we the tax payers get … Continue reading →
Why is Barney Frank, architect of the housing melt down and current financial crisis, still giving press conferences, when, in a just world, he should be stripped naked, locked up in a cargo container, and eating cold spam out of … Continue reading →
Notice that none of the major news outlets except CBS is covering that Doug Hoffman has “unconceded” the NY-23 election, now that a rash of late count votes has moved him well within striking distance of Owens? Wouldn’t that just … Continue reading →
The Czar likes this slightly goofy reporting. If all you read are headlines, you might think that Sarah Palin has no plan to run for President right now, but has not ruled out 2012. This is why it pays to … Continue reading →
The Czar wishes not to be an insensitive ass, but he is alas just as God made him. So, Mayor Daley… with your comprehensive handgun ban in the City of Chicago, how did your close friend and Chicago resident Michael … Continue reading →
Hah hah hah! Silly Sarah Palin! The Washington Post finds it necessary to mock Ms. Palin over her religious beliefs. Want to know what the WaPo finds so wacky? – She thanks God for her successes! Silly Sarah, this is … Continue reading →
…more free trade! One boggles. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Take a look at this photgraph. Study it for a second. Do you see power lines? Transformers? Pedestals? Step downs? Transmission lines? No, you don’t. But you’re going to pay to put them in. And they’ll all be green, green, … Continue reading →
Well, he actually came out and said it: President Obama supports a one-China government, in response to whether he believes Taiwan has sovereignty. Given a choice between a free, Democracy-loving Taiwan and brutal Communist Chinese oppression, the President has made … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Let us see if we understand this: Quoted from Reuters, “Widening agreement that next month’s Copenhagen summit will likely fall short of a legally binding treaty runs the risk of a longer-term stalemate, which at worst could drag on like … Continue reading →
Jeepers, Geep, but you are not imaginging this. The Czar has not read the current mutation of the bill, but the original HR 3200 specifically mentioned that government minders could enter the home of any parents participating in the program … Continue reading →
Under the guise of protecting children, government scolds in Britain (formerly Great) will now be entering citizens’ houses to make certain that safety precautions have been taken. “What the heck’s that got to do with ObamaCare, ‘Puter?”, you query. Check … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s second to no man in his schadenfreude at the New York Times’ self-destruction the Czar aptly cites below. However, the NYT actually hits one out of the park today, calling the state legislature dysfunctional, and blaming New York’s financial … Continue reading →
This New York Times opinion piece is so bizarre that the Czar had to make sure the Volgi did not write it. Irony! Print is dying, but it is crap like this which killed it. Let us hope they did … Continue reading →
President Obama, addressing 500 Chinese students, announced that he is against censorship, and personally welcomes criticism. It strengthens democracy. Well, good to know. Game on, then. He can expect us here to continue strengthening democracy. Irony the First: The President … Continue reading →
Even though this trial seems like an ad for Bad Idea Jeans® (vide infra), this headline is money. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Volgi pointed me at this article as he knows that I somewhat buy into broad generational patterns. To set some parameters around this (and for more details, go check out “The Fourth Turning” by Pete Peterson), let me outline … Continue reading →
Nidal Hasan has no feeling in his legs. The Czar would like to add that the unborn baby of PVT Francheska Velez does not either. Nor do 13 others who will never walk, or breathe, again. The media can pull … Continue reading →
So if you wondered whether the President was lying when he said his healthcare reform concepts would not provide free medical services to illegal aliens, he evidently was telling the truth. Because they may be legalized according to a new … Continue reading →
Having the terrorists tried in the US as American citizens is going to backfire badly. The question remains whether it will merely backfire politically for the Obama administration, or whether actual American lives will be extinguished in the long run. … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s already introduced readers to the joy of modern, post Vatican II Catholic music, with an assist from the Baptists. As a result of that thread, ‘Puter wondered whether modern Christian art was equally poor. Wonder no more, dear reader. … Continue reading →
Final Fantasy… XIII? Is anyone else reminded of a notorious Simpsons joke about the false advertisting inherent in the film title Neverending Story? Wouldn’t Final Fantasy XIII make XII more lke Penultimate Fantasy? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
Read the whole, glorious thing here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Tip to the Bad Astronomer. Check this out. How small are things? Starting with a coffee bean, you can zoom down–at your own pace–to a carbon atom, seeing other neat things along the way. Requires Flash, but is totally worth … Continue reading →
The President is en route to his madcap Asia tour. We wish him luck on his massive agenda. The President will have Air Force One land in Elmendorf AFB for a two-hour layover. He will be the first Democratic president … Continue reading →
Achtung, teleprompter typists. Maybe leave a blank line between paragraphs, eh? (And let this be a lesson to anyone who takes news readers seriously.) Via Warming Glow. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Czar and ‘Puter were having a grand old time last evening in Castle Gormogon’s rumpus room creating a life-sized balloon sculpture of Rachel Maddow. Their revelry was broken, however, by an unexpected phone call. Sleestak was calling from the local … Continue reading →
Expect to see more of this sort of pushback from the religious community. And expect significant backlash from BigGay. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no … Continue reading →
‘Puter makes sport of the New York Times for being myopic and intellectually lazy. However, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again. And today, blind squirrel, your name is the New York Times editorial board! ‘Puter … Continue reading →
What a weird way to kill some time. Not that this is not valuable for its rich historical content, but it is weird to the Czar because he spent way more time here than he intended. The Czar first touched … Continue reading →
So Lou Dobbs is fed up with the horrific leftward tilt of CNN. He asked to be released from his contract in order to avoid reading the party line to the world, and CNN (happy to be rid of him) … Continue reading →
Say, did you know that there has been an official military skirmish between North Korea and South Korea? Did you know it is escalating? Clashes between the two countries are not uncommon, but there has been an uneasy cease fire … Continue reading →
The Czar believes he has identified a situation no one else has. Let us suppose that the public option takes hold of the Senate, and that there is a government takeover of healthcare. What happens to the lollipops handed to … Continue reading →
