SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET:

NOT A GOOD SHOW – From Newsbusters:  "According to retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton, Barack Obama launches into 'profanity-laced' tirades against the press in off-the-record meetings with reporters. In a C-SPAN interview, Compton also derided the President for leading 'the most opaque' administration of 'any I have covered.' The journalist, who retired in August after a 40-year career, revealed to C-SPAN's Brian Lamb: 'I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice. Both were off-the-record times. One, profanity-laced where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he did not think were scandals.'"  Incredible that the president would behave that way in front of journalists.  Maybe they're onto him.  Amateur.

OH, I'M SO RELIEVED – From USA Today:  "Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists. 'It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state,' said Richard Seager, the report's lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.  'In fact, multiyear droughts appear regularly in the state's climate record, and it's a safe bet that a similar event will happen again,' he said."  Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

FANATICS – The big event coming up tomorrow (Tuesday) is the release by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee of a report detailing "torture" of terrorists by the Bush administration.  It is being made public despite repeated warnings that its release could trigger the murder of Americans around the world.  Hey, what's a few deaths when compared to a chance to attack BUSH (!!) and CHENEY (!!!!)?  We'll have more on this after the release.   The intelligence community is furious, and it has a right to be.  We are at war with terror groups, and since when do you release reports like this in the middle of a war?  The main inquiry into Pearl Harbor occurred after World War II.

OBLIVION – From Breitbart:  "Despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lawrence, two big family films, some horrible bosses, and The Mighty Christopher Nolan, according to Deadline, the weekend's box office collapsed to a 16-year-low.  Box Office Mojo reports the weekend earned just $70.4 million, which Deadline says is the worst post-Thanksgiving weekend, going all the way back to 1998. Mojo adds that this weekend was the second-worst of the year and somewhere around a 20% drop over this same weekend last year."  Why is it surprising?  The movie industry (it's not Hollywood anymore) has done everything possible to drive away its audience.  Nice to see it succeeding at something.

December 8, 2014