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Twenty-nine Years Ago Today

John Lennon was shot dead outside The Dakota in Manhattan.

The Gray Lady Begins Newsroom Layoffs

MC doesn't wish unemployment on anyone; we know too many people who are un or under-employed. Still, it's remarkable that the fatuous "paper of record" has come to the sorry state it has. Blame hubris, liberal ideology and contempt for its readers. Yes, the internets play a large part as well across the newspaper industry. But, weirdly, when it comes to the NYTimes' current trouble these layoffs most likely would take place even in a healthy economy. MC has empathy for the individuals involved; none for the institution.

Click on the title of this post to read about the layoffs that begin today.

Remembering Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

MC would be remiss not to observe this day for that which it has become: one that lives in infamy. Click on the image above to enlarge (the USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack). Despite MC's best internets research, we could find no example after the attack of anyone in America asking why they hated us. How times have changed.

Send A Message To Copenhagen Warmists

The farce of the century opens today in Copenhagen and will be with us for two long, painful weeks, the second of which will include an appearance by President Obama. MC isn't sure it can bear both his acceptance of the laughable Nobel Peace Prize and his preening moralizing about a hoax he takes (too) seriously. We'll do our best as will our readers.

That said, click on the title of this post, or click HERE, to send a brief message to the global bureaucrats gathering to eat caviar wedges (wedges?) in Copenhagen. The format limits you to 150 characters, Twitter-like. Say whatever you like ("Climategate!" is succinct) but please say it politely. Rudeness is a hallmark of liberals. Oh, and enjoy yourselves while you are sending your message. Aren't the internets great?

The Lines Cross & In Less Than A Year

No, we could not have predicted this. Anyone who says they could or did isn't being honest. Click on the title of this post for more information from Pollster.com.

Click on the image above to enlarge it.

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MC previously wondered about the suddenly short hair. Now we know.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Sun

Climategate is all the rage and well deserves to be. Scientific fraud on a scale unseen in our lifetimes. MC hasn't posted on it because of wall to wall coverage on other blogs and some media. Sunspots, however, receive less coverage but ought not to. True, Al Gore and CRU won't talk about them but there appears to be a great deal of (credible) science correlating sunspots or their absence with the earth's temperatures. The fewer sunspots, the chillier here on earth.

The sun has a role in climate change? Simply too intuitive for the climate frauds and impossible to tax and manipulate whole societies around the world. Click on the title of this post to read possibly more than you might want to on the subject (but thank God someone with sense is keeping watch).

Today's Circus: White House Jobs Summit

Not to worry: Obama has already said it won't actually create, you know, jobs! Click on the image above to enlarge his house of cards.

On The One Hand, On The Other

Tevye seems to be the dominant analytical prism through which most conservative commentators viewed President Obama's strange, in Krauthammer's word, speech last night at West Point announcing deployment of another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. On the one hand, most agreed, he was defensive, uninspiring, graceless and put some of the cadets literally to sleep. On the other, he did announce a troop increase and in numbers close to what General McChrystal requested. Is MC churlish to ask for a slightly higher bar for the Commander in Chief?

Yes, the Left is in high dudgeon about the troop increase but when is it never not when it comes to things military? Liberal intellectual icon Gary Wills positively threw a fit in print by declaring that he will never praise Obama again nor give him any money. Take that. Demogogic Chris Matthews suggested outloud that the venue of the speech was an enemy camp. Rep. Maxine Waters was saddened (she of two modes: sad or angry). Senior senator from Illinois Dick Durban was positively acidic when he responded with a two sentence reaction, to the effect that Obama had said he wanted time to make this decision and Durbin was going to take his time to think through what was offered in the speech. Can this marriage survive?

The always lugubrious Joan Walsh of Salon declared herself to be deeply disappointed, "saddened even" but in the end not feeling betrayed. Such a big girl! She then closes out what passes for analysis but reads more like a therapy session in print, that the whole sordid affair is Bush's fault and takes comfort from the fact that Obama isn't Cheney. Well, one squish's riches is another conservative's poverty.

Rachel Maddow fretted that Obama has embraced the fundamentals of the Bush Doctrine (which one she didn't say and there are many formulations of it although sneering Charlie Gibson would deny it) while Glenn Greenberg said the speech was "a mishmash of political calculations bereft of principle and plagued by numerous internal contradictions that make it impossible to understand, let alone defend." Really, who on earth would have thought that an inexperienced community organizer would fail to make an effective Commander in Chief? Tom Friedman, reflecting upon Afghanistan, was positively incoherent. Again.

Rich Lowry, in a piece for the New York Post, had possibly the most Tevye of all the Tevye analyses on the Right. That was fine, as far as it went. Yet he did end with a wonderful flourish, looking at Obama's poor performace and, a la Don Rumsfeld, observed that one goes to war with the President they have.

Finally, Der Spiegel sent the Tevye prism packing and thoroughly panned the speech from both sides of the political spectrum. Read the article here. It ended on a merciless note: "The American president doesn't need any opponents at the moment. He's already got himself."

Click on the title of this post to be taken to Real Clear Politics from which the views of the usual suspects Left and Right can be accessed.