Solid Gold Telephone

It looks like someone has finally brought technology to Leonard BOZO-well.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Washington Free Beacon reports BOZO-well has raked in more than $50,000 since 2002 for hosting a cell phone tower on his property, while sponsoring a number of bills designed to boost rural telecommunications.

Apparently conflict of interest is not in the CONgressman's vocabulary.

Who are we kidding, the word vocabulary isn't in BOZO-well's vocabulary.

I'm thinking the CONgressman will say the story is based on faulty, misleading misinformation,even though it comes from his own financial disclosure filings.

Bare?

On Sunday, Nancy Pelosi was discussing the debt ceiling and stated --

The cupboard is bare. There’s no more cuts to make. It’s really important that people understand that.

I'd call her Old Mother Hubbard, but that would be an insult to a beloved nursery rhyme and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Wicked Witch of the West continued --

We cannot have cuts just for the sake of cuts

As noted by The Washington Free Beacon -- The last three GAO reports have identified over $200 billion of overlap and redundancy in federal expenditures.

Idiot Wind

President Obama blows, and the scientific community is united in that fact, into Central Iowa today to tout the benefits of tax incentives and government investments for wind energy.

Obama will be in Newton, at TPI Composites.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that TPI has some notable connections to the White House through Element Partners, one of its key investors. 

One of Element’s operating partners is former Pennsylvania Governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell.

(Ed Rendell is pictured with Obama).

During his tenure as governor, Rendell appointed Kathleen McGinty as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. McGinty is also an operating partner at Element. …

Dr. Karl Hausker, McGinty’s husband, is a former deputy assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also represented the EPA on the White House Climate Change Task Force.

Cozy, but even more concerning is, despite tens of billions in subsidies, wind turbines still generate less than 3% of US electricity.

Wind has never been able to compete economically with traditional energy, and there is no credible evidence that it will be able to in the foreseeable future.

Pay For It?

Earlier this week, The Washington Free Beacon found that Female employees of Obama for America earned less on average than male employees during the months of May and June.

Nobody should be surprised, and the scientific community is united in that fact, in 2008 we noted that Senator SNOBama pays the women on his Senate staff less than the men on staff.

Also reported at that time, In John McCain's Senate office, the average pay for women is $2,500 more than men.

Think Twice

An Associate Editor of the The Washington Free Beacon fumbles the facts in an argument of “Who is the greatest quarterback selected No. 1 overall?”.

Robert Charette is not happy that 30 percent of the respondents in an ESPN poll chose Peyton Manning over John Elway.

According to Charette -- At least Elway made the Super Bowl more than once.

BUZZ--WRONG!

OFFsides and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Manning is pictured in Super Bowl XLIV, his second, a 31-17 loss to the New Orleans Saints.