But a powerful agreement was reached, no? Depends on whom you ask.

BBC News reports that a meaningful agreement has been reached at Copenhagen! Read on, because only the US, China, India, and South Africa made the agreement, and the agreement consisted only of a method of verifying how much a country reduces its emissions.

In essence, if the goal of a conference were to, say, make the perfect pound cake, and had 200 bakers around the world, the only thing agreed among four bakers was to use a measuring cup.

How nice that the US just spent millions of dollars to fly the President, Speaker of the House, and other high-ranking liberals to a two-day European jaunt on our dime so that nothing could be done. No, the Czar doesn’t mean about the environment; he is referring to the total lack of progress on the domestic needs of Americans which could hardly be more neglected at this point.

Greenpeace’s UK Executive Director sneered at the non-result of Copenhagen, saying “It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen.” Agreed. And US voters will begin that process in 2010 by voting out liberals.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.