VIDEO: "How do you know the earth is cooling?" Michael Steele: "I don't!"

By GottaLaff



At about 7:17, you'll see the relevant segment.

Embarrass yourself much, Mikey?

Oh wait. I've answered that question for him in about 813943998 posts. But this was new and improved, refreshingly minty fresh humiliation. Hey genius, here are the facts:

Climate experts and scientists reject the idea that a number of relatively cool years in the last decade are any indication of “global cooling.” “It is a misinterpretation of the data and of scientific knowledge to point to one year as the warmest on record…and then to extrapolate that cooler subsequent years invalidate the reality of global warming and its effects,” U.N. World Meteorological Organization secretary-general Michael Jarraud said. In fact, independent statisticians have called the global cooling myth “not scientifically legitimate.”

Of course, the actual science is clear. This has been the hottest decade in recorded history. Climate change is real. The earth is warming, and it is man-made.

If you can't back up what you put out there with facts, Mr. RNC, then know when to zip it.

As I type this, I'm watching Hardball, and the guest is an expert, one of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who is giving us a global warming reality check. One guess on who she agrees with.

Hint: Mikey isn't one of the "forward thinking" types to whom she has referred.

Bush wants to prove he was right; yeah, far right

By GottaLaff

As far as I'm concerned, he can try to prove anything he wants, as long as he does it in a court of law:

As George W. Bush continues to pen the book on his presidency, friends say that his goal is to focus on 10 to 12 of his most controversial decisions and provide the background that will prove he was right at the time. "As he researches and reviews meeting notes, he plans to provide the context of what was happening when he was deciding," says a friend. Take the deficit as an example. Yes, he expanded it. But the prez wants to explain that 9/11 and the wars that followed required it and that he wasn't on some drunken spending binge. The book is due out in the fall of 2010.

Key words: "9/11" and "drunken."