"My time is almost expired completely"

Like Barbara Boxer within her Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on climate change this afternoon, Baby makes the rules.

Two of our heroes in one day are fighting the good fight:

1. Senator James Inhofe -- blogged here --  is not letting Barbara Boxer and Al [Big Sigh] Gore get away with grandstanding at today's "global-warming" hearings, as the Lord of Longwindedness tries to use up all of Inhofe's airtime by blowing hot air. 'Will watch the whole thing in reruns during the wee hours for the thrill of it all. Meanwhile, here's what  the Committee Chair had to say, to much snickering from the peanut gallery:

Elections have consequences, so I make the rules.

Touché. Inhofe parries:

When people don't want to talk about science in a debate format, they just say it's settled . . . My time is almost expired completely. Are you [Gaseous Gore] aware of that?

Here's the follow-up to our teaser post a couple of days back about Tuck's bolster project. He figured out how to do it through a combination of checking things out online, consulting with his upholstery man (the one who made the gorgeous cushion underneath the bolsters above) and a huge bunch of common sense. The biggest nut to crack was how to get a thread through the center of the foam cylinders to pull the buttons front and aft together. The solution was to slash through the fome with a serrated knife from our own kithcen. Ain't they beautiful?

2. "Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a 'religion' that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms" -- check out our own take on the divine Mr. Klaus here:

The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S. Congress that adopting tough environmental policies to fight climate change would have destructive impact on national economies.

'Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism,' Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The most beautiful boy in the world. Baby Cakes, being a pussycat, doesn't pose, of course, but sometimes our digital cam lucks out and catches him in the perfect moment as above in the countdown to supper.

Meanwhile, the hearing continues. Bernie Sanders [Socialist, VT] opines that Fellow Traveler Albert has given the new generation "the hope that it can become the new Greatest Generation," able to overcome dependency upon fossil fuel. Can you say inspiring? Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation -- the armed forces and their homefire burners stateside during WW II who defeated the fascist enemy overseas -- gives way to Bernie Sanders's and Al Gore's Greatest Generation, who will exchange "carbon credits" to neutralize their "carbon footprint." It doesn't get any sweeter than VP Gore's response:

I think this generation is becoming involved in this as a moral issue.

What hath God wrought?

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

Albert Gore Jr. wouldn't know a moral issue if it bit him on the butt!

Meanwhile, Tuck has done an absolutely splendiferous job on those bolster cushions. I AM impressed with his ingenuity and persistent common sense.

As to Tiny and Baby and how beautiful they are, as soon as I figure out my new digital camera, I will be posting their equal - my amazingly gorgeous Sam. Tim, you've already seen in all his quirky glory.

[Tara]

My eyes glazed over as I heard Gore compare the fight to stop Global Warming to the Spartans fighting the Persians in the movie " 300 ".

I would have listened more to this insanity Gore was spewing on C-Span but projectile vomiting is something I want to avoid.

[goomp]

Global Warming. A new route to a fascist society. Heil Gore. The desire to rule others is one of nature's evils. Tuck's bolsters are superb.

[hnav]

bolsters look amazing!

great color and pattern as well.

i am with Goomp, as usual.

Gore's Green Swindle is just like Stalin's Communism, with the elite getting to pollute, while profiting and growing control over others.

perhaps the saddest, a one time, considered somewhat credible Senator named Al, returns as some loony demagog...

the Democrat run Congress has invited Gore, Plame, fired US Attorneys, etc...

will they only use Congress for exploitating their partisan political agenda?

or will they actually attend to the business of our Nation...

if only they paid as much attention to fighting the light bulb, as they did monstrous terrorism.

Democrats have proven themselves again, to be unworthy of having power.

Nancy's campaign promises, prior to NOV. 2006, are an even bigger joke today...

[Gayle Miller]

What hath God wrought? I suspect Satan would be the more likely culprit!

[no.apology]

Czech Vaclav Klaus is perhaps the clearest voice denouncing all forms of totalitarian government in Eastern Europe, and for decades has been a champion of individual liberties for the rest of the world.

Too bad more people don't take him seriously