Our Little Percussionist

Eric has been working hard getting ready for the All County Band performance
this Saturday night.

"I" x 132 = how many jobs?

Best line: "This is not about me."

Cartoon of the day from Don Surber

Cartoon of the day- Don Surber

POTUS bring TOTUS to 6th grade class speech

Photo from Getty Images

I really wish this were not true.

From Boing Boing

UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning

UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning - Times Online

They gave the panel a Nobel Peace Prize for this report:

The 2007 report, which won the panel the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”. It caused shock in Asia, where about two billion people depend on meltwater from Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water supplies during the dry seasons.

It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999. That scientist, Syed Hasnain, has now told The Times that he never made such a specific forecast in his interview with the New Scientist magazine.

I guess the facts were just too damn good to check!

An Obama Voter Laments

Mortimer B. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report who voted for The Won, had his magazine endorse him, now laments his support.

He's Done Everything Wrong

Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.

Better late than never for Zuckerman.

Playmobil Airport Security Checkpoint

Amazon.com: Playmobil Security Check Point: Toys & Games

Can't make this stuff up. Must read the comments.

Our Little Percussionist is off to All-State

Not Time's Man of the Year

Oh my.  In a vote more shocking than a Tampa Bay Buccaneer victory -- look who is not Time Magazines Man of the Year.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/why-time-passed-obama-by/article1415232/

A few choice quotes from the article:

It's an uncomfortable pivot from the audacity of hope to buyer's remorse. Very uncomfortable for those in the media who played the cheerleader for Mr. Obama, who skated by controversies that would have sunk other candidates or abandoned the ruthless investigations they would have pressed on less congenial candidates. 

The ferocity they applied to the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, in contrast with the timidity they brought to his campaign, will in time come to be seen as one of the most shameful episodes in American journalism. Not so much for what they did to Ms. Palin, but for what they neglected to do in examining the candidate for the office that really counted. In some curious way, the U.S. media's bulldogging of Ms. Palin was kind of an inverted compensation for what they weren't doing to him.