Ramirez does it again . . .
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Media
Make Mine Freedom
I found this buried in comments on a post on Facebook. The animated cartoon was made in 1948 and features voice impressions of Daws Butler who did voice overs for Beanie and Cecil, Yogi Bear and many others. This was produced back in the era when some of the colleges and media were still sane.
Breaking News
The local (Los Angeles) TV stations are all breathlessly covering the Dorner case. This is a very important news story, especially for people in the immediate San Bernardino County area where the manhunt continues.
At this time, they believe the suspect is still inside a cabin near Big Bear. The cabin appears to be on fire and the law enforcement resources are said to have the cabin surrounded.
They are not sure Dorner is still inside the burning structure.
As I write this. it is a half hour before the SOTU. If the drama in the mountains continues into the next hour, I hope that Fox LA has enough sense to stay with the breaking news rather than switching coverage to some bloviating, gun-grabbing socialist inside the beltway.
UPDATE: No way of knowing for sure until forensics clears the scene, but it appears Dorner is probably dead.
Acuña Cacti – Endangered Species Or Hype?
According to the Associated Press, the acuña cactus is endangered by – get this – “drought and climate change and could be harmed by illegal immigration and border enforcement efforts.” (Via AZCENTRAL.COM.)
Pima County fact sheet for Acuña Cactus (Echinomastus erectocentrus var. acunensis) lists this species status as:
The Acuña cactus is a candidate species for the Threatened and Endangered list. The plant is protected by the Arizona Native Plant Law, and is protected for international trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The population may be threatened by illegal take and natural causes such as parasitism.
There is reference to neither border enforcement, drought nor climate change by the Pima County fact sheet. They do mention illegal taking of the cacti. I note that the “protection” by laws and international agreements do little to protect anything.
It seems to me that the greenbat and open-borders (so-called) journalists at AP insist on injecting their own guidelines as to what could be causing the population decline. Damsel suggested that illegal aliens cross the border, steal the cacti and put them in little pots for sale to tourists or for export to landscape and garden shops in the US.
The lone comment on the article in AZCENTRAL said “more bull …from the agenda 21 extremist crowd.” I cannot disagree with that.
Local Signage and Liberal Media Bias
One of the local merchants puts up a slogan outside his shop weekly. He must have been thinking about liberal media bias when this one went up:
And then, there is Ramirez’ take on fat-ass Crowley being in the debate on the president’s side . . .
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An Actual Weatherman Debunks NOAA Claims
TV Weatherman Joe Bastardi, best known for his AccuWeather reports, has penned an article at The Patriot Post dealing with “Data Deception.” Joe starts out with a few links to debunk NOAA’s assertion that July, 2012 was the hottest July on record, which of course is more of NOAA and NASA’s chronic misinformation. Joe then continues with these thoughts on current conditions and how the gullible media stokes the non-existent fire with their brand of Chicken Little hysteria:
It is true that it is very warm off the Northeast Coast, which is part of the reason I am so concerned that like the 1950s, the northeast is vulnerable to hurricane landfalls. However, it’s very cold off the West Coast. That should be relevant also when talking about how warm the waters are off our coasts. (It’s part of the cold cycle of the Pacific we have entered.)
One can read the debunking [at this link], but I wish to make a few other points. There seems to be a common thread with people who believe their idea of absolute truth means they can say and do whatever they want to get to that truth. The result is a series of loud announcements that grab the attention of a gullible media, and when debunked, do not have near the coverage as the original pronouncement.
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Emphasis mine.