Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce is a veteran of the Vietnam war and spent 28 years in the U.S. Army. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us the story of U.S. Marine Lieutenant Andrew Kinard,
Freedom Alliance is an educational-charitable foundation that, among other things, provides college scholarships to the offspring of U.S. military personnel killed in action. Every year, coincident with the Army-Navy Game, the organization presents its “Defender of Freedom Award” to an individual whose character, courage and selfless deeds inspire virtuous service from the rest of us. This year’s recipient, U.S. Marine Lieutenant Andrew Kinard unequivocally meets these criteria.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce McQuain from QandO does an incredible job with the series every week.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce is a veteran of the Vietnam war and spent 28 years in the U.S. Army. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us the story of Marines in Afghanistan,
In their previous war with the USSR, the Taliban fought dispirited Russian conscripts. They are discovering that the warriors they’re facing now are nothing like those they fought before. These are volunteers and they’re looking for a fight. They don’t cower, they don’t cut and run, they don’t avoid the enemy; they look for him and when they find him, they kill him. What was supposed to be an ambush turned the hunters into the hunted when the Marine platoon turned the tables on them and counter-attacked. They then maintained the momentum of their attack and defeated the Taliban killing 50 without losing a single Marine. That sort of bravery, that sort of skill and that sort of will to win known as the warrior ethic is why the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment are someone you should know.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce McQuain from QandO does an incredible job with the series every week.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
James Pethokoukis is the money and politics blogger for U.S. News & World Report, where he writes the monthly Capital Commerce column. James returned to Pundit Review Radio tonight to discuss his list of The 10 Dopiest Business and Economy Leaders of 2008,
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Nothing says Merry Christmas like forcing your underlings to humiliate themselves and do things they probably rather not do. Below is a video Christmas card form First Round Capital, obviously an early stage VC firm. Their idea of spreading the Christmas cheer is to force their portfolio companies to dance for their supper. You want more funding? You want to be around in six months? Then DANCE bitches!
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I can’t decide if this is funny or cruel. What do you think?
Earlier this week, AP science “reporter” Seth Borenstein wrote what should be a career-ending propaganda piece masquerading as a straight news story.
Obama left with little time to curb global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) – When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.
Since Clinton’s inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
That is only the intro, it gets worse from there. My friend Bruce McQuain at QandO took exception and highlighted some of Borenstein’s propaganda reporting, including this gem, that global cooling is proof of global warming,
“Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.”
Wha? Cool = warm? How does one take AP seriously?
Michael R. Fox, a retired nuclear scientist and chemistry professor from the University of Idaho makes a critical, under-appreciated point about how damaging it can be when activism replaces journalism, especially when it comes from the AP,
There’s very little that’s right about it. And it’s really harmful to the United States because people like this Borenstein working for AP have an enormous impact on everyone, because AP sells their news service to a thousand news outlets. One guy like him can be very destructive and alarming. Yeah it’s freedom of speech, but its dishonest.
Can I get an amen! A geology professor at the University of Oklahoma, David Deming, agrees that Borenstein’s piece is especially awful,
He says global warming is accelerating. Not only is it continuing, it’s accelerating, and whether it’s continuing that was completely beyond the evidence. The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980….Reporters, as I understand reporters, are supposed to report facts. What he’s doing here is he’s writing a polemic and reporting it as fact, and that’s not right. It’s not reporting. It’s propaganda.
Another scientist, James O’Brien, an emeritus professor at Florida State University, a Global Warming supporter, goes on in the article to also slam the AP’s science fiction writer,
“Global climate change is occurring in many places in the world,” O’Brien said. “But everything that’s attributed to global warming, almost none of it is global warming.”
He took issue with the AP article’s assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global sea levels to rise.
“When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it’s displacing water,” O’Brien said. “When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down.
“I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it met. After the ice melts, the sea level didn’t go up in your glass of water. It’s called the Archimedes Principle.”
He called sea level changes a “major scare tactic used by the global warming people.”
It sure is. Here is my interview with Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.
Ed Morrisey at Hot Air has it exactly right,
Unfortunately, that’s been the history of the global-warming cult over the last decade. They accept no challenges, demonize those who question their science, scoff at contradictory data (such as the fact that temperatures have stopped rising), and insist on politicizing their science rather than work from facts. The AP has become the cult’s propaganda arm.
For more coverage of Global Warming Climate Change insanity, click here.
Scientists Discover New Element, the Heaviest Yet Known to Science
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of morons promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Thanks to reader Brian D. for sharing.
This is an unbelievable story.
CNBC: Madoff’s Investors Facing Billions in Potential Losses
Investors scrambled on Friday to assess potential losses from the $50 billion fraud allegedly perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, a day after the arrest of the prominent Wall Street trader.
Prosecutors and regulators accused the 70-year-old former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market of masterminding a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions through a hedge fund he ran…
…Madoff said “there is no innocent explanation’ for his activities, and that he ‘paid investors with money that wasn’t there,” according to the federal complaint. Prosecutors also alleged that Madoff wanted to distribute as much as $300 million to employees, family members and friends before turning himself in.
One of those investors was Swampscott’s Lapin Foundation, via Wicked Local,
The programs of the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation and the Robert I. Lappin 1992 Supporting Foundation are discontinued, effectively immediately. This includes Youth to Israel and Teachers to Israel, the foundations announced in a press release early Friday afternoon, Dec. 12.
The money used to fund the programs of both foundations was invested with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and all the assets have been frozen by the federal courts.
Madoff was arrested Thursday morning by the FBI and charged with criminal securities fraud by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. Click HERE to read the actual complaint.