Union of Concerned* Scientists says "Welcome Your Freshman Class of Climate Deniers"

* But keep in mind that "concerned" is generally a euphemism for "commie."

The freshman class in their own words (from a UCS e-mail):

"With the possible exception of Tiger Woods, nothing has had a worse year than global warming. We have discovered that a good portion of the science used to justify 'climate change' was a hoax perpetrated by leftist ideologues with an agenda." —Todd Young, new congressperson from Indiana

"I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate." —Ron Johnson, new senator from Wisconsin

"I think we ought to take a look at whatever the group is that measures all this, the IPCC, they don't even believe the crap." —Steve Pearce, new congressperson from New Mexico

"It's a bigger issue, we need to watch 'em. Not only because it may or may not be true, but they're making up their facts to fit their conclusions. They've already caught 'em doing this." —Rand Paul, new senator from Kentucky

"There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth." —Roy Blunt, new senator from Missouri

To which you could add:

Bobby Schilling, IL-17 - "He doesn’t believe in global warming, putting him at odds with almost every major climate change expert in the world but in good standing with his base." (But with a name like Schilling, what could possibly go wrong? Ed.)

Randy Hultgren, IL-14 - "So, I don’t believe we have a significant impact on climate change. Now that said, I do think we have great responsibility as humans for stewardship of our world, and so there are things that we can do to make sure that our environment is well preserved for and I think that is really where we need to get to. So much of this effort dealing with climate change is literally billions and trillions of dollars that’s being spent to affect maybe tenths of a degree or hundredths of a degree of temperature. So we might be able, by spending trillions of dollars to lower our temperature by one one-hundreths of a degree, but that’s so minor and one blip of the sun could completely change it back by so much more. So, just a variation of a sun-spot or whatever that could have that kind of impact. So, again, I’m concerned with the amount of money and the impact on our productivity that we’re having focused on climate change when really I think we have very little direct impact on that." (Again with the sunspots? Ed.)

FUNG'S HAND-PICKED CANDIDATE???

Illinois Candidate's Name Misspelled As 'Rich Whitey' On Electronic-Voting Machines

There are typos and then there are complete and utter catastrophes.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled "Rich Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards -- "about half in predominantly African-American areas." The error only occurs on screens voters would see when they are reviewing their choices (Whitney's name appears correctly on the initial screens), but officials say the error cannot be corrected before election day.

Jim Allen, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, told the Sun-Times he expects 90% of votes on election day to be cast on paper ballots -- minimizing the number of voters who would see the misspelling.

"I don't want to be identified as 'Whitey.' If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that's an even bigger concern," Whitney told the Sun-Times. The paper says he's considering legal action. "I don't know if this is machine politics at play or why this happened."

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Whitney drawing just 2% of the vote.

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I'm not a witch!

Bill Maher just dressed me up as one!

Has it really been a year?

Since this happened?

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Your beer and bacon tasting opportunities are limited to six hours a week, so use them well

$20 Beer and Bacon Tasting at Paddy Long's Pub ($35 Value)

This two-hour tasting event will feature a seasonally rotating spread of five bacons and five brews on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays; the schedule is updated regularly, so check back for future dates.
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Really, is anyone named Cheney entitled to an opinion on anything?

"Americans expect our president to do everything possible to defend the nation from attack ... We expect him to use every tool at his disposal to find, defeat, capture and kill terrorists. We expect him to deter attacks by making clear to our adversaries that an attack on the United States will carry devastating consequences."

Well, except for that one time. We all agreed to let that one pass, right?

Empty seats in Chicago this week

Sox vs. first-place Twins
Tuesday: 11,000 empty seats
Wednesday: 10,000 empty seats
Thursday: 13,000 empty seats

Blackhawks practice (not exhibition game, just practice)
Saturday: sold out

Finally, a Christian Google

bacon cupcakes

Chicago Bacon Takedown
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BREAKING SHOCKING NEWS: Mayor Daley will not run again

City Hall just got a lot less interesting...

reality imitates idiocracy (cont'd)

Whitey to Darky - Your culture is not welcome here

BBC Sport - Football - Uefa bans vuvuzelas from European matches

Blago's World: So Much Better Than Reality

ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) ― It sounds like the start to a bad joke; Captain Kirk, Batman, the Bionic Woman and Rod Blagojevich. They were among the stars at this year's Wizard World Chicago Comic Con.

I will leave learned comparisons between Chicago Comic Con (Da Comic Con Dat Works) and dat udder Comic-Con to others, but any situation in which Ian Ziering is the grown-up, and gets off the best line, is pretty phokked up.

"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt."
-- Studs Terkel
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Cubs blow annuder one today

Rev. Franklin Graham - born a jackass

Rev. Franklin Graham: President Obama 'born a Muslim'

His problem is that his father was a jackass, and the seed of jackassery is passed through the father. But he says he has renounced jackassery and become a Christian, so I guess we'll just have to accept it as that.

Mmmm. Triple Bypass. Aaaaargh

KFC's New Skinwich -- A Skin Sandwich

Phightin' Phils Phans Rephuse to Yield White Trafh Title to Soxfs Phanf

Man jailed for vomiting on baseball fan

Our Boy's a boxer now!

BBC Sport - Briggs announces fight with Klitschko

YA THINK?!

Cubs Make Carlos Zambrano Available

Aramis Ramirez, Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome, etc. and their AWFUL contracts are also probably very available. Call Jimbo at Pizza Hut...

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Movie night

Exactly half of the Lattice "staff" at opening night of Inception together last night. Turns out this blog is just a dream.