[Daily Caller] Washington, D.C. reporters sleep with their sources just like in the fact-based Netflix series House of Cards. This according to House of Cards actress Robin Wright.
In an upcoming interview with Capitol File magazine, Wright says that a senior person in the Obama administration told her that reporters frequently go to bed with their sources, à la Zoe Barnes and Frank Underwood, according to The Washington Post.
Wright said that the senior person thought the series was fairly accurate. Please someone, tell me it just isn't so.
[Mark Steyn Online] As non-British TV viewers may have discerned, the whole of the United Kingdom is presently underwater. Something to do with that rising of the oceans that Barack Obama promised to reverse?
Why, yes!
Mr Miliband says: "This winter is a one-in-250-year event" (yet it's nothing like as wet as 1929-30 if you count the whole of England and Wales, let alone Britain) and that "the science is clear". The chief scientist of the Met Office, Dame Julia Slingo, tells us "all the evidence" suggests that climate change is contributing to this winter's wetness. (Why, then, did she allow the Met Office to forecast in November that a dry winter was almost twice as likely as a wet winter?) Lord Stern, an economist, claimed that the recent weather is evidence "we are already experiencing the impact of climate change".
In fact, before the prophets of doom drowned out everyone else, the "consensus" was that flooding was nothing to do with "climate change":
Here's what the IPCC's latest report actually says: "There continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale." Here's what a paper published by 17 senior IPCC scientists from five different countries said last month: "It has not been possible to attribute rain-generated peak streamflow trends to anthropogenic climate change over the past several decades..."
As for the organization Julia Slingo represents:
In 2012, the Met Office agreed: "There continues to be little evidence that the recent increase in storminess over the UK is related to man-made climate change." So please will Lord Stern, Dame Julia and Mr Miliband explain why they are misleading the public about the science?
Perhaps the best single rant I've read about the man and his complete utter lack of seriousness about being the President. Mandatory reading for everyone at Rantburg.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
