David Frum, a "Joe Clark" conservative

David Frum spends a lot of time dissing American conservatives.  At every opportunity he snottily derides, insults and dismisses Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and its boosters. At the same time, he's silent about the rabid idiocies of the lib/left.  Liberal media outlets like CNN love to consult him because he can be depended on to slam conservatives.  Then Frum wonders, and so does Barbara Kay, why they treat him like the plague.

Frum always harps that the GOP needs to compromise with the Obama Dems, reach "a consensus among [progressive] elites". Mmm, hmm. Perhaps Frum would be less detested by conservatives if he were to attempt to compromise with his (alleged) own side instead of insulting them.  But he's really not one of them.  His Canadian equivalent is the "Joe Clark" conservative.  He'd rather hob-nob and compromise with  left/libs than be associated with those nasty conservatives. 

Barbara closes with: "David, they don’t deserve you down there. Come on home where you’re understood, appreciated and respected. And where you can be a conservative and also a mensch.

Speak for yourself, Barbara.  We don't need any more Joe Clark conservatives here. They're toxic.

Poll - Trudeau's legacy

Globe poll:

Nope. Trudeau was a dilettante and is vastly overrated. Though his poll numbers seem to be dropping nicely.

If this doesn't get him fired, what will?

High level NASA bureaucrat and radical political activist, Dr. James Hansen, has been arrested for his participation in an anti-coal mining protest.

It's official - the U.S. Congress is a joke

What could go wrong?

Fox News report.

Gun registry - shameless Liberals

In the Globe the headline is:

Suicide
Scott Simms reveals heartbreaking reason for backing gun registry

and SDA fixes it for them:

We have a gun registry.
Your father still shot himself.

Scott Simms is shameless manipulator. Using his father's tragic suicide, which he admits had NOTHING to do with the gun registry, to excuse his flip-flop and whip up emotion ahead of the vote is beyond the pale. He should apologize to his family and to Parliament for his crass behaviour. Also, his Liberal colleagues should be ashamed for pumping-up Simms' bogus appeal to bleeding hearts.

As for the Globe and the likes of Jane Taber, we expect them to get sucked into this kind of emotional BS and illogic.

Ezra Levant kicks ass on CBC radio

In his excellent FP column today, Peter Foster gives high marks to Ezra Levant's new book "Ethical Oil: The case for Canada's Oil Sands".  At the end he refers to Ezra's debate on CBC last week:

Last week the CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi held a “debate” between Mr. Levant and Mr. Nikiforuk [see 'Q' past episodes, Sep 15]. Mr. Levant steamrollered both of them (it inevitably turned out to be two against one). I could almost have felt sorry for Mr. Nikiforuk if he hadn’t started out by suggesting that oil was either “The Devil’s tears” or “The Devil’s Excrement.” With imagery like that, you know that objectivity has already gone out the window. Ethical Oil provides some desperately needed perspective.

I like the CBC debating rules - the lefty host/moderator joins in to gang up on 'the enemy'. Very classy, Ghomeshi!

Rescuing climate science

A comment at WUWT points to an interesting article:

... If you're one of those people appalled by the politicization of science by celebrities, congressmen, and the Nobel Committee, I highly recommend you take a look at the work of Professors Kerry Emanuel and Daniel Rothman at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.

Kerry and Dan are neither climate change zealots nor global warming deniers. In fact, they are not even in the business of making climate predictions. In their view the wildly varying climate forecasts spit out by hugely complex black-box computer models have not only become disconnected from sound science but have drawn all the money and talent away from the critical challenge of trying to understand how basic climate mechanisms work. ...

Exactly the motivatations behind Michael Crichton's skepticism.