Flying Blind: Dems Private Plane Hubris | NBC Washington

...the jet fiasco is a perfect example of how Democrats have become their own worst enemies. There's no more perfect a symbol of an out-of-touch politician than one using the public purse to gain even greater social distance from the people that they purport to represent. Appropos of Leona Helmsley who famously said that, "Only the little people pay taxes," House Democrats now must believe that commercial air travel is also only for "the little people."

Another mission for Obama: Corral the members of his own party before they help drive him over a cliff -- or fly him directly into the sun.

Crew Log 57 - [Northwest Passage]

Considering that Franklin and the 128 chaps with him were never seen or heard from again, and that we're currently, you know, more or less encircled by ice in the Arctic, some might question the choice of Resolute for comforting bedtime reading...even though we try hard not to judge at Casa Herb.)
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It's cold, a brisk 33-degrees, and after the deck is tidied up the crew happily retreats to the confines of our enclosed cockpit.

At last, man-made climate change is a threat - engineered by the global-warming fanatics themselves - Telegraph Blogs

As always, scientific lunacy marches hand-in-hand with entrepreneurial opportunism: people are already making vast fortunes out of the climate change hysteria and the environmental wideboys and complicit scientists have realised this is a dripping roast of billions, even trillions, of dollars and pounds to be extracted from gullible taxpayers. Global warming will not kill us, but the fanatics and know-all scientists could well do so.