Monday, November 21, 2011

Think Things Are Bad Now ? Just Wait: Climate Reports

FATAL FUTURES? - Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny

A new report suggests that global warming will open up the floodgates to infrastructure and economic chaos in NYC here 

International Energy Agency suggests the world has a mere five years before irreversible climate damage occurs here

Richard Muller, a scientist funded by the notoriously Conservative Koch Brothers, states that global warming is real, here  

--Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

I Know, I Know...



...Call me Johnny-Come-lately but sometimes I can't get this song out of my head...Brian Jonestown Massacre's original "Straight Up and Down" which was re-done by Dominick Hauser as the theme for "Boardwalk Empire"

Monday Morning Going Down

Monday roundup:


NYC Controller John Liu - New York City's first Asian-American citywide elected official may be under fire for shoddy fundraising practices in his political campaign operation but don't count him out yet -- John Liu is "a bad ass"  reports City Hall News here

NYC Mayor  announces 'Loan wolf terrorist' arrest - part alert and part distraction from NYPD's recent miserable showing with beatings of OWS demonstrators, ticket quashing scams, etc?  NYC's crimefighting team under long-time Commissioner Ray Kelly is great - -make that awesome-- with intel/counterterrorism, but maybe not so great lately on the nuts and bolts of local policing. Reading between the lines, AP here and NY Mag's Chris Smith here

Breitbart reports that MSNBC's Dem pundit Chris Matthews rhetorically asks President Obama what he intends to do with a second term -- "I hear stories you wouldn't believe" -- doesn't talk to Congress; over-reliance on "virtual campaigning" not enough one-on-one meetings, gatherings - "I'm sick of those emails"... here

Dem pollsters Caddell and Shoen - President should abandon campaign, turn party over to Hillary, here

Egypt sees worst clashes since Mubarak; 35 protesters dead following clashes with military, here

Secretive North Korea opens up to cell phone here

U.S. Congress's Supercommittee -- Super failure here

GOP Strategist - 'GOP campaign will go on and on and on and on..." here

GOP's David Frum on "The GOPs Gone Mad-- gee, taht's too bad' here

When did liberals become So Unreasonable? here

--Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn