The question being asked by Big Government’s Larry O’Conner is: “Who is THIS guy?”

Not an n-word to be heard. Rep. Andre Carson’s charge against the Tea Partiers that day — the lyin’ sack o’ . . . well, you know!

[H/t: Patterico]

Verrrrrrrrrrrry Interesting, this! Kelsey Grammer’s Right Network — coming to cable this Summer. Not sure if it’ll be on DirectTV, but I’m sure I’ll be able to watch online.

I like the guy that’s trying to take down Henry Waxman, that rat-faced Lefty nanny-state promoting representative from my district. Probably a Quixotic quest, but who knows. Maybe the La La Land Westsiders will finally realize that their taxes are about to go sky high, too.

Eh . . . probably not — too much to ask for in one election cycle.

And one thought that Monty Python was merely “comedy” — one would have thought wrong.

Gotta remember that these guys really HATE each other, both side have nukes, and would just love to fry the other into glass.

Still, good handshake at the end. As Ace remarked, “Indian and Pakistani Border Guards Take Turns Trying to Out-Lunatic Each Other” — ain’t that the truth!

Out here in the most western part of La La Land, they are all agog over Earth Day — with lots o’ Gaia lovin’ goin’ on and such.

SMC is also hosting an Earth Day Festival on Earth Day, April 22. There will be an open mic, performance art, vegetarian food and drinks, as well as educational activities. The educational activities will include a game show wheel, treasure hunt, eco-themed music, art, and a raffle for eco-prizes.

Poster contests, awards ceremonies . . . be still my fluttering heart — not! From a link over at Jammie Wearing Fool comes the story of how big business has jumped on the GREEN bandwagon and is particularly slick at fleecing these go-green fanatics of their filthy-hard-earned lucre:

Josephson’s gung-ho green attitude is echoed by millions of others willing to pay extra for everything from green coffee to eco-friendly coffins. Overall spending in the green marketplace is tough to measure because there are so many products and so many terms that fit the description. Yet, sales in the healthy product market, which includes green products as well as those promoting personal health or benefiting the environment, totaled $722 billion in 2009, up 41% from 2004, according to Mintel International Group. The market is expected to hit $992 billion by 2014.

More than half of consumers say they would pay more for a product if they knew it was better for the environment, according to a national poll conducted this month by ad agency Venables Bell & Partners.

Yet, some of the spending is misplaced: Overhyped and overpriced enviro-friendly impostors share shelves with the truly planet- and human-friendly products. Misleading claims are so rampant, there is actually a term for it: greenwashing.

Of course it just wouldn’t be Earth Day without the LA Times printing an eleventh-hour-wild-assertion-filled opinion piece about how Global Warming is going to kill us all:

According to the NASA data, we have just experienced the hottest 12-month period in more than 100 years, which means that the past 12 months have been the hottest in at least the past 1,000 years.

What does this mean? Well, if global temperatures continue to rise at the rate that they have risen for the past generation, then the world of 2100 will see a world 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the world of the 1970s. New York will get the climate of Washington. Los Angeles will get the climate of Tijuana.

But global warming might accelerate, especially if China, India and other industrializing powers continue to increase the amount of carbon dioxide they pour out. Perhaps the world by 2100 will be 9 degrees hotter than the world of the 1970s. That would give Washington the climate of Miami and Los Angeles the climate of Cabo San Lucas.

So, what’s this U.C. Berkeley economics professor’s solution? Why, “a climate council made up of the seven governments that have the biggest power to influence the climate and the most at stake: the United States and the European Union, along with Japan, China, India, Indonesia and Brazil” of course.

He even acknowledges that this is essentially an impossibility:

Utopian? Yes. Impractical? Probably. But what is the practical and realistic alternative that it would be better to push for?

Uh . . . like, look at the overall climate record of this grand ol’ planet — glaciation, non-glaciation, over and over again and realize that we humans just don’t have all that much influence on global climate.

Then again, when you are talking a religion, not a science, faith trumps reason. That’s why these guys castigate any conflicting opinions and brand those that disagree as global-warming-denying heretics.

For those on the other side, our eyes are a bit more open. There’s a Climate Change Believer descriptor for ya: Eyes wide shut! LOL!!!

Go out and love ya some Earth today in a very special way . . . ask for both paper AND plastic and watch a greenie’s head explode — I double-dog dare ya!

My ol’ bloggin’ buddy Laer Pearce is working on a book, Crazifornia, about all the wrong-headed political and regulatory stuff that happens in this crazy state. Today he has an Op/Ed in the Washington Times where he releases a wee bit o’ info that will make the Democratic candidate for Governor, former CA Governor Jerry Brown, just a wee bit nervous.

When Jerry Brown recently held his first fundraiser as an official candidate for governor, he chose as the venue the Sacramento apartment where he lived the last time he held that office, after famously declining to live in the governor’s mansion. Faced with multimillionaire Republican opponents, Mr. Brown wants to be seen as just a regular public employee, trying to hold his own against tycoons at the top of America’s wealth disparity. While politically expedient, the image of Jerry Brown as everyman is patently false.

Mr. Brown has a lot of money – how much exactly is not public – and unhappily for his environmentalist and global-warming-alarmist supporters, it’s oil money. Even more unhappily for his campaign managers, it’s money that may have led him to an attack against California’s largest employer and a rewriting of state regulations to feather the family nest.

Like we always say, “Read it all!”

[H/t: Chicks on the Right]