Now that Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter has demonstrated her climatological qualifications on the Washington Post’s op-ed page, Michael Steele wants some of that sweet denialist action:

Q: Global warming, you say the earth is cooling. Michael how do you know for sure?

STEELE: I don’t! I don’t! But apparently neither does anybody else! Ok? I don’t. All i know is every morning I come on, I turn on channel 13 and I’ll see what the weather man tells me okay?

Steele knows from snow jobs, of course. Although he might want to get his story straight with James Inhofe, who says global warming is a Weather Channel conspiracy.

Asked How He Knows The Earth Is Cooling, Michael Steele Says ‘I Don’t!’ [Think Progress]

They send Inhofe and Coburn to the Senate, and then they wonder why this happens?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOUUlEzhYV4

More here.

John J. Jingleheimer Schmidt Pitney Jr. at the Corner:

The text of the president’s speech to schoolchildren is largely inoffensive. But it contains at least one political gaffe. If you quit school, he tells the kids, “You’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” Among Americans between ages 65 and 74, 20.7 percent quit before finishing high school. For those 75 and older, the figure is 27.4 percent. The latter group includes some who quit in order to enlist in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor. And yet the president seems to be calling them unpatriotic.

At first we thought this was yet another example of high school debaters taking over the conservative movement. But then we realized: the cynical intellectuals at NRO are all highly educated. In saying it’s okay to drop out, they’re really trying to eliminate their competition. After all, somebody has to clean their drains.

Obama in the Classroom [NRO, via Sully]

Say, did you hear that President Obama is going to speak directly to classrooms via the Internet on September 8? What a wonderful idea!

• Free Republic: “He’s recruiting his civilian army. His ‘Hitler’ youth brigade.”
• All American Blogger: “Hitler knew that if you control the youth, you control the future. I wrote about him in ‘The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA.'”
• AmericanElephant: “Totalitarian regimes around the world have sought to spread their propaganda and entrench their power by brainwashing the children. I guess it’s easier to indoctrinate a six-year-old instead of fighting a 26-year-old or being challenged by a 46-year-old in the voting booth”

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From an email message forwarded by a North Canton, Ohio, police dispatcher, who received it from a fellow dispatcher in Uniontown:

“New ‘Air Force One’ Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really, really tried not to laugh, but …………………..!”

Next time, try harder. The keg’s running low.

Rogue Dispatcher Endangers Lives of North Canton Police [OhioDaily, via Think Progress]

Update: Two North Canton dispatchers were suspended Friday because of the email. There’s still hope.

Example 1. Study this photo closely, for as Thomas Lifson of the — wait for it — American Thinker explains, it tells us all we need to know about Barack Obama:

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

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Dunno what made me think of this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-2dqd1h3I

Dr. Frank C. Baxter. One of my childhood heroes.