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The Democrats' Assault On Seniors: Wrecking Medicare To Save Obamacare

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Are We Tiring Of Obama?  In short,  taken together, after nearly a year, these fissures have nearly ruined the once pretty texture of the Obama administration, and almost rendered it incapable of effective governance.

 

44% OF AMERICANS WOULD LIKE BUSH BACK AS PRESIDENT. “You miss him now that he’s gone, huh, America? You kicked him when you had him, and now…” From the comments: “I think the point of the comparison is this: Bush endured 8 years of wall-to-wall, 24/7 liberal bashing from multiple networks. Meanwhile, Obama was coronated and has enjoyed wall-to-wall adoration from the same multiple networks. If Obama’s numbers, 11 months in, already approach Bush’s after EIGHT years, then, baby, you’ve got serious problems.”

 

Vietnam II... wait for the Boat People...

Obama: US Will Begin Withdrawing From Afghanistan in 2011

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:16 AM

Jim Hoft

“His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency. What President Bush and Senator McCain don’t understand is that the central front in the War on Terror is not in Iraq and never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the terrorists who hit us on 9-11 are still plotting attacks seven years later.”

Barack Obama
Campaign Speech
September 9, 2008

But, that was just a campaign speech.
Today Barack Obama announced that the US will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in 2011.
He didn’t mention anything about “victory” or “urgency” in his speech:

The AP reported: Prior to getting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, President Barack Obama met with the Prime Minister of Norway. The President said once again that he plans to start drawing down U.S. Forces in Afghanistan in July of 2011. (Dec. 10)

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People really do get
the kind of government they want...
...and deserve.

"You asked for it,
you got it!
0-Merica..."

 

Well, well, well look who's behind the curtain.

 

Fistgate VI: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s Teen Conference Literature Pushed Anal S*x in Parks With Strangers

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:50 PM

Jim Hoft

In March 2000 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and some of the presenters even received federal money. During the 2000 conference, workshop leaders led a “youth only, ages 14-21″ session that offered lessons in “fisting” a dangerous sexual practice. During the same workshop an activist asked 14 year-old students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?” The unbelievable audio clip is posted here. Barack Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings is the founder of GLSEN. He was paid $273,573.96 as its executive director in 2007. Jennings was the keynote speaker at the 2000 GLSEN conference.

Unfortunately for GLSEN, undercover journalists with Mass Resistance recorded these outrageous sessions at Tufts University. The audio was later leaked to a local radio station. This created such an uproar that GLSEN leaders were forced to apologize for their disgusting behavior.

Despite the controversy, Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization did nothing to clean up their act. In fact in 2001 activists handed out “fisting kits” to the children and teachers who attended the GLSEN conference.

But that’s not all. The children who attended Kevin Jennnings’ GLSEN 2005 Conference also left with their own “Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century”.
Here’s one page from that Black Book for teens:

The entire Little Black Book is posted here.

And, here’s the transcript from item #3 above:

“No Dookie On Your Noodle! Nobody knows better than queer men that shit happens. It’s just a fact of life…and buttsex. While there are steps to take to avoid a mess, they’re not always practical for the boy on the go. Condoms allow you a certain freedom that can be a great selling point if you’re cruising the park and don’t want stray spunk on your new polyester shirt…”

So, basically, in the crudest language imaginable, GLSEN recommended that “boys” go out cruising for anonymous anal sex in public parks with strangers.
Thanks to a reader for pointing this out.

Today Kevin Jennings, the founder of GLSEN, is Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar.

There’s more to come.

UPDATE: Grassroots Nation has started a petition to fire Kevin Jennings.
—Please think of your kids and go sign it now!

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Fistgate V: Youth Fisting Instructor Claims Kevin Jennings Knew About Class Content in Advance

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:21 AM

Jim Hoft

In March 2000 Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the keynote speaker at a controversial youth conference at Tuft’s University . This conference sponsored by the  Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and some of the presenters even received federal money.

An undercover journalist with Mass Resistance was at the conference and recorded a couple of the workshops. During one of the conference workshops an activist asks 14 year-old students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?” This audio clip segment is posted here.

But that’s not all. The adult leaders also promoted fisting during the “youth only, ages 14-21″ session.

Margot Abels led the workshop, “What They Didn’t Tell You About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class: Workshop for Youth Only, Ages 14-21. “During the session she praised the homosexual practice of ‘fisting’”–widely condemned by medical authorities as dangerous–saying that, “It often gets a bad rap.” (Wolcott)

Here is the shocking clip where the GLSEN activists promoted “fisting” at the teen workshop:

After the tapes made their way into the local news Margot Abels was fired. She later said that she was disappointed that she became the Fistgate scapegoat. She also said that the organizers knew beforehand what the “sexuality educators” would discuss with children at the “fisting” workshop. Kevin Jennings, as co-chair of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth education committee, was one of the organizers of the “educational” material at the state level.

Mass Resistance blog reported:

Jennings, after all, worked hand in hand with the Mass. Department of Education from the beginning, as co-chair of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth education committee, which set up the statewide program, “Safe Schools for Gay and Lesbian Students” in the DOE. That is the program the fisting workshop instructors worked for…

Rod Dreher wrote in the Weekly Standard (July 2000):

The [Fistgate] tapes went out anyway [despite GLSEN's threat of a lawsuit for "illegal wiretapping"] and became a talk radio sensation. On May 19, state education chief David Driscoll canned Abels and Netherland and terminated Gaucher’s contract. But Driscoll also insisted that the controversial workshop was an aberration that shouldn’t be allowed to derail the entire program. Abels fumed to the press that the education department had known perfectly well what she had been doing for years and hadn’t cared until the tapes had surfaced. Camenker, ironically, agreed.

The Mass News website also confirmed this in 2001, via Mass Resistance:

“[W]e flew sort of below the radar screen for a long time,” Margot Abels told Boston’s homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows.

She taught them sex because she thought she knew better than the parents what should be taught to the children. She says she had the support of state officials during her seven years at the state Department of Education.

“We always knew that we were working in an area that in certain places was considered really controversial and we also knew that we were doing cutting edge work and that there are plenty of people that don’t support doing work with gay kids. But I think that we flew sort of below the radar screen for a long time and were able to, and had the complete support of our agency. Maybe David Driscoll [Commissioner of Education] didn’t always know everything that we did, but certainly our supervisors did,” said Abels.

And, in an interview in Ocotber 2001 with Massachusetts News Brian Camenker from Mass Resistance also confirmed that the DOE leadership knew exactly what was being promoted at the GLSEN meetings:

Camenker: Well you see the DOE tried to paint her as this anomaly, someone who just came in and did something bad. The department is made up of people just as radical as she is and in many cases more radical. And so, when Driscoll, the Commissioner, and the others tried to say that what she had done was unusual and said it would never happen again, they were a bunch of liars. In fact, they weren’t shocked at all. They knew what was going on. They helped her plan it and they approved it at every level. When the people there heard about what she was doing when we first told them about it, they weren’t surprised. This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the DOE knew about it and planned it and was actually very comfortable with what she did. The only reason that they fired her was because of the immense public outrage.

Kevin Jennings, as co-chair of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth education committee and founder of GLSEN, helped plan and organize the “educational material” at the conference.

Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s National Safe School Czar.

By the way… Apparently, the Soros-funded left does not appreciate these reports. Founding Bloggers responds.

There’s more to come.

Related Posts:
** Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List
** Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List (Part II)
** Breaking: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s Question to 14 Year Olds: “Spit vs. Swallow?… Is it Rude?” (audio-video)
** Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Promoted “Fisting” to Children (Video)
** Fistgate II: High School Students Given “Fisting Kits” At Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN Conference (Photo)
** Fistgate III: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s “Black Book” For Kids Included Tips on Fisting & Pi$$ing on Your Partner
** Fistgate IV: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens at GLSEN Events

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Dems Vote Again to Fund Corrupt ACORN With Taxpayer Dollars

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:03 AM

Jim Hoft

In March Senate Democrats voted to fund ACORN in their National Service Act by a part line vote of 53-43.

ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today.
This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election. But, the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election:

One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He has been working along side ACORN since before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.
And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama last year.

Yesterday, Democrats voted again to fund the corrupt leftist organization ACORN.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) reported at Big Government:

Last night, defying the will of a bipartisan majority of the House and Senate, Democrats voted to allow the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to receive federal taxpayer dollars.

In September, large Congressional majorities in both houses voted to sever all ties between the federal government and ACORN. The Senate vote was 85-11; the House vote was 345-75. You’d think that those votes, which USA Today described as prohibiting “any federal funding for the community organizing group,” would have settled the matter. You’d be wrong.

Months later, with the country’s focus on jobs, healthcare, and the Global War on Terror, Democrats are moving to restore funding to ACORN. Last night, Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) offered an amendment during deliberations on the Democrats’ massive year-end appropriations bill to clarify the prohibition on federal funds going to ACORN or its subsidiaries. That amendment was shot down on a 5-9 party line vote as Republicans sided with taxpayers while Democrats stood with ACORN.

Rep. Latham’s amendment is necessary to prevent taxpayer money from going to ACORN because the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice has taken advantage of a legal loophole to allow ACORN to continue to receive federal funds – despite the passage of the House GOP’s Defund ACORN Act in the fall.

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Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue' Goes Discount On Kindle (AMZN)

Martin Gross, Obama is the master of Deceit

- does that sound familiar or what? Here's what I've said about this in my Fourth of July 2009 Tea Party Speech:

Hijacking dry run testimony mounts (Airtran Flight 297)

Tea Party Protesters Plan to "Storm Senate"

It’s official: no one learned anything from Fannie/Freddie collapse

More of the Same Will Not Lead to Change

MUSLIMS’ BRIT RAPE JIHAD

ANDREW BOLT: ClimateGate: Gore Falsifies The Record.

Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start With The Intellectuals

Diane Francis;

The only fix is if all countries drastically reduce their populations, clean up their messes and impose mandatory conservation measures.

Or let's just line everyone up, pull out every third person and shoot them? We could start by alphabet.

A - B - BANG!

D - E - BANG!

It's how these grand social experiments always end, anyway, and so much more efficient than freezing to death under windmills.

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Soros scheming at Copenhagen: Eco-redistribution of wealth

December 10, 2009 05:27 PM by Michelle Malkin

Hmmmm. Left-wing radical billionaire George Soros has injected himself into the Copenhagen climate change talks. He is riding to the “rescue” of negotiators at loggerheads over the pricetag of global regulatory intervention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Look:

The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is “not sufficient” and the gap between what’s offered and what’s needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday…

Soros, one in a line of international notables visiting the 192-nation Copenhagen meeting, told reporters he had developed a partial solution on funding. The investor-philanthropist suggested shifting some International Monetary Fund resources from providing liquidity to stressed global financial systems to a new mission of financing projects in developing countries for clean energy and adapting to climate change. About $100 billion in a one-time infusion could be generated, said Soros, a major supporter of causes in the developing world. But he acknowledged a major roadblock in Washington.

“It is possible to substantially increase the amount available to fight global warming in the developing world,” he said. “All that is lacking is the political will. Unfortunately the political will will be difficult to gather because of the mere fact that it requires congressional approval in the United States.” Soros said he had “informal discussions” with Obama administration officials and they recognized the difficulty of getting congressional approval. But he said the issue was too important to sweep aside.

Soros is crusading for expansion of “Special Drawing Rights” — a financial instrument that would essentially divert foreign aid to global warming special interests.

Soros said the $10 billion-a-year short-term plan is “more than nothing, but not much, it’s not sufficient.” He suggested climate financing be boosted with some $100 billion in Special Drawing Rights, the artificial “currency” of the International Monetary Fund, formulated as a basket of major currency values and held in reserve for lending in financial emergencies. In response to the recent global financial crisis, the IMF created more than $200 billion in new Special Drawing Rights. But Soros noted that the Obama administration had difficulty getting U.S. approval for that through Congress. He had found “quite widespread support” from other governments, but “other countries are reluctant to do something that is uncomfortable for the United States,” Soros said.

A key European negotiator was wary of Soros’ idea.

“We have to be very careful in the way we use the Special Drawing Rights,” said Artur Runge-Metzger of the European Commission.

Indeed. Soros has been lobbying for SDRs for years. Here’s a paper he wrote in 2002. He has a rather vested interest in the subject:

I am in the international assistance business. I give away nearly $500m a year. I am more aware than most people of the pitfalls. I have seen, particularly in the Balkans, how ineffective donor conferences are. The mechanism I am proposing is not perfect – nothing is – and it would not eliminate all of the shortcomings of international assistance, but it would be a great improvement over what we have now.

I propose that the IMF should set up an independent jury of eminent personalities- independent of the IMF and of the governments that appoint them. The jury would recommend which projects should qualify for donations; but the jury would not be in charge of actually allocating the funds; that function would remain with the donors. The donor countries would be presented with a menu from which they can choose and the menu would be properly prepared. A jury of eminent persons would take a personal interest in the quality of the projects they approve and there would be a separate body to audit and evaluate the projects so that the donors would have all the information they need to make their allocations. There would be a market-like interaction between donors and projects with checks and balances and quality control.

Reasons to worry? Let us count the ways:

In March, I remind you, Soros was slapped with a record fine in Hungary for illegal market manipulation.

In May, I remind you, Soros was fined by the state of California for failing to disclose a $350,000 campaign contribution funneled through one of his drug policy non-profits to an initiative intended to undermine the state’s 3 Strikes law.

There’s the Petrobras shadiness. And his boast of “having a very good crisis” this year after breaking the bank of England a decade ago.

We know Soros has the ear of the White House.

But who in Washington has their eyes on Soros and his scheming eco-redistributionists? Anyone?

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On December 10th, 2009 at 5:48 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

In March, I remind you, Soros was slapped with a record fine in Hungary for illegal market manipulation.

…
And his boast of “having a very good crisis” this year after breaking the bank of England a decade ago.

I believe Soros was directly responsible for the “tightening of credit” that manufactured the “crisis” that led to TARP.

And I believe that TARP was fully intended to make Republicans look bad and influence the November elections.

In August 2008, with gas over $4/gallon, the mantra was “Drill Here! Drill NOW!!!”, and Republicans were gaining on Democrats.

Then, with 2 months, the price of gas fell nearly 50% and TARP was passed. Those two events were game changers.

And I believe Soros had his hand in both of them.

Obama’s Top Climate Advisers Can’t Get Doomsday Story Straight While Testifying Before Same.....

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Cruising gay bars with the 'safe schools czar'

JOHN BOEHNER: "WE'RE BROKE. AMERICA'S BROKE"

Speaker Pelosi: We would do 'almost anything' to pass healthcare this year (Robust to EPIC bust?)

Fine then don't give it to him: Norwegians Incensed over Nobel Protocol Snubs  What a laugh.  Those stupid twits gave b ho their precious prize, basically for being our 1st black president.

 Snubbed Norwegians replace absent Obama at event with … cardboard cutout.

 

 Why Black Americans Think That the Federal Government is Our Friend.  ...offered them jobs and money... "Lack of proper education/information, pure and simple. If you aren't taught the proper role of the American government or the principle underlying the Constitution, you'll back whoever is "nicest" to you, gives you the most stuff and does the most things for you."

 

"Rush had an interesting point of view on the Tiger flapadoodle. His point was that the public perceptions of Tiger and Obama have largely been manufactured by MSM. What we behold when the facades collapse is new to us only because this is the first time that be are seeing the reality. Tiger and Obama have not changed. They have simply been exposed."

 

The Obamas are the King and Queen in the Universe of Lies

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Actually, I'm glad it happened. I am glad that that happened over there. I was just watching an unbelievable sight. President and Mrs. Obama on the balcony of their hotel room in Oslo, it's nighttime over there, and there is a torchlight parade reception, and the street is just filled, it's teeming with people, with their candles and torches, with the Obamas standing high above and looking down upon them, President Obama in his tuxedo, and I kid you not, Michelle (My Belle) looked like she was dressed in a way to make people think she was royalty, a queen. Make no mistake about it, it was on purpose. But the reason I'm glad it happened, cause, you know, Snerdley is saying, "Gosh, they just have to be eating this up, they just have to love this, they think of themselves as royalty." That's right. Let 'em think of that. Let them stay so out of touch with how they are perceived by people in this country. Let 'em go over there, get all these accolades and let them continue to live in the Universe of Lies. I think it's much better than if he went over there and got booed out of the place. Give that another year and that will happen. This is good. This is good that it happened because it allows them to continue to live this delusion that they are special, unlike any others who have come before them.

(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...

More:

...we've been taken over financially, economically, politically, scientifically. Without firing a shot the left has seized the press, they have taken control of the banks, they're about to take control of the insurance companies and wipe them out, much of the auto industry, the left is now setting a salary scale for people.

They've taken over our currency, and they're preparing to seize health care. We're being occupied by the left. This country, we need to be liberated. We, the people of this country need to be liberated. We are oppressed now.

...the things that our Founding Fathers considered tyranny wouldn't rate a quarter page in a newspaper today, that the tyranny that we live under in this country already dwarfs the kind of tyranny that caused this country to be founded or inspired it to be founded in the first place. Now, the left, I look at them as the occupiers, they have labeled the word "dissent" as racism.

"Dissent" is now racism, to try to quash any dissent whatsoever. Protest has been labeled teabagging.

So, in addition, without firing a shot, being taken over financially, economically, politically, and scientifically, the language is being reset. Individual wealth is set to be taxed away. Schools are teaching the words of the left, the occupier. And we're given bread and circus distractions: Tiger Woods, the White House party crashers, to keep us entertained while the occupation goes on.

And this picture. The King and Queen waving to the throngs in the street from their perch high up above the masses.

 

Even this lefty POS Robert Fisk says Obama is a disaster:

Robert Fisk - Obama is a Disaster

Obama and Tiger Woods Picture Open Thread

by Rodan ( 193 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Caption This, Open thread at December 10th, 2009 - 4:48 pm

Barack Hussein Obama and Tiger Woods are 2 pathetic examples of human beings. The below is from Golf Digest and is perfect to symbolize our times.

They are both liars and beloved by our media.

(Hat Tip: Urban Infidel)

Tags: Open thread, Tiger Woods
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"Even though tiger is a philandering sob, at least he understands enough to appreciate this country.
Zero , no matter what he does with his junk, just wants to bring Amerikkka down."

"I have to say that I’m a bit disappointed in Tiger; he had it all and threw it away. Obama? He had nothing and he’s living up to his lack of promise. In Tiger’s case it was a monumental personal failure, in Obama’s case, it was a monumental national failure."

"If I had to chose btw Zero and Tiger as POTUS, I’d pick Tiger. He has human failings, that’s hardly a problem considering we have a commie in office who hates this county. We’d be better off with a pro-America philanderer."

 

 

 Newsweek - "If Gore Had Won"

 

NewSpeak... ahem! I mean "Newsweak" magazine, continues its race to the bottom of pandering and irrelevance...Get a clue, Morans...

Newsweek: "Unemployed Familes Need to Man Up"

—Ace

Yes, really, but it's not quite that bad. Under the headline:

The Recession's Sliver Lining

Ah. Yet another silver lining.

The headline is decidedly insensitive, but the article is slightly less so. I assume.

To be honest I don't know what the hell it's about; it's a typically confused feminist screed about something or other. I don't really know. Ask this guy, maybe he does. I assume the headline was just intended to be a catchy, provocative little "pun" or something, probably about how men can really help working moms in these tough economic times. (What does that have to do with unemployed families then, I wonder?)

But notice how aggressive and insensitive they were willing to be to the unemployed to sell their story.

The headline has since been changed, apparently -- now it's Families Need to Man Up.

Isn't it funny that Newsweek takes this position when the unemployed are not a club to be used against a president they disfavor, but instead a source of problems for a president they do favor.

Notice how quickly their view of such people shifts from sympathetic to hostile.

Again, I have no idea really what this article says. I did in fact attempt to read it and saw a great amount of whining by a woman about balancing job and family.

What is she talking about? Look, you guys pay me a salary, but you don't pay me enough to figure out what this addledpated harpy is going on about.

The key thing for me is the headline -- Man Up, Losers -- and of course that silver-lining subhed.

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31 Ah. Yet another silver lining.

You bet. During the Bush years, the MSM was quick to find the downside of every economic upturn, the classic being "low unemployment is bad because it means that less people are looking for work." Now in the age of Prof. HopenChange, his media acolytes are sifting through the turds for stray corn kernels.

 

69 So let's see.

A year ago, Newsweek had an aneurysm over Phil Gramm talking about "whiners" and how we were in a "mental recession", reaching new rhetorical heights and synonym levels for "insensitive" and "stupid".

http://tinyurl.com/yk4qkxr

And now that Teleprompter Jesus is demonstrating that his only knowledge or capability in regard to the economy is Being Black, suddenly calling people whiners and saying they need to snap out of it is suddenly the highest wisdom.

 

 

A Small-Biz Killer

U.N. Bodies Want Up to $60 Billion to Monitor ... Everything

John Coleman on the “six legged monster”

10 12 2009

Guest post by John Coleman – KUSI-TV, Weather Channel Founder

December 7, 2009

David and Goliath

The 21st century Goliath is Global Warming. It is a powerful six-legged monster. In no order of strength, those legs are:

(1) The big money climate change scientists and their powerful institutions from governmental centers to Universities,

(2) The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which is a Geneva-based, highly funded bureaucracy controlled by one-world government political activists,

(3) Environmentalists who seek to use threats of climate chaos to stop the use of fossil fuels and return to a simpler, more “natural”, primitive lifestyle,

(4) Government at all levels whose political leaders find dealing with global warming is their opportunity to save us all from disaster cementing their status and success,

(5) The media populated by people who love to warn us of impending disaster and give us the advice we need to cope, who believe in Al Gore and his political party and who know that “the sky is falling” is the best headline of them all,

(6) Al Gore, who uses his status as a successful former Senator and Vice President to provide a platform to promote his message of doom and gloom, a message he learned in his only college science class and must have truly believed for many years but should see now is only an empty threat.

The total financial resources and power structure behind Goliath are staggering.

Goliath now occupies Copenhagen. For the 15th time, Goliath is meeting to publicize his long list of threatened consequences if do not head his demands. The ice will melt, the coasts and islands will flood displacing millions and killing tens of thousands; the polar bears and eventually thousands of other species will die as habitats are destroyed; hurricanes will become superstorms wrecking havoc on the coastal cities killing tens of thousands; heat waves will kill more hundreds of thousands as they grip the planet; drought and heat will destroy our agriculture starving untold millions more. He tells us this is because of our carbon footprints left by our burning of fossil fuels emitting exhaust of carbon dioxide. Read the rest of this entry »

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Very nice. Although I would add the agenda-driven Nobel commitee to the list, maybe as a tail. But then again, it’s possible that the Nobel clowns are being paid by powerful interests within government.

It’s good to see that public opinion is turning around on this issue. Wired is getting their butts whipped by their readers at the moment after posting an article titled “The Psychology of Climate Change Denial”. First, they disabled commenting on the article and, after a few people complained, they changed their minds and opened the article to a flood of complaints and negative reactions. Check it out.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/climate-psychology/

"Here In Australia we have been bombarding our politicians so they know in no uncertain terms that anyone who supports the lie of global warming will not be re-elected. Whilst the media tries to spin that most of the population do support it the reality is most do not."

They want to destroy growth…
http://www.infowars.com/enviroment-eugenics-quotes/

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

"

Good post to point out that this is nothing to do with science and very little to do with politics. This is a plain and simple grab for power.

How does it effect me and my family? IF it gets warmer as predicted we will survive the winters and not need coal, gas or electricity. The new powers imposed on my government mandates such swinging cost increases on these utilities that we will not be able to afford to use them. We will be reduced to a wood stove for heat and cooking.
IF it gets cold we face almost certain death."

"Average person has no time to think about AGW. When they do have time, it sure is cold and money is short. If something comes up for vote, the big question will be “Will this cost me money?”. The answer is always yes. It will be pointed out cap and trade will double your utility bill and raise gasoline to about $5 per gallon.

Voting for any sort of carbon constraining taxes will be the new third rail of politics."

I Pledge Allegiance to Global Warming (Scientists sign loyalty oath)

Read more at online.wsj.com ...

THE EPA'S CARBON BOMB FIZZLES

"...President Obama, having failed to get climate legislation, didn't want to show up to the Copenhagen climate talks with a big, fat nothing. So the EPA pulled the pin. In doing so, it exploded its own threat.

Far from alarm, the feeling sweeping through many quarters of the Democratic Congress is relief. Voters know cap-and-trade is Washington code for painful new energy taxes. With a recession on, the subject has become poisonous in congressional districts. Blue Dogs and swing-state senators watched in alarm as local Democrats in the recent Virginia and New Jersey elections were pounded on the issue, and lost their seats.

But now? Hurrah! It's the administration's problem! No one can say Washington isn't doing something; the EPA has it under control. The agency's move gives Congress a further excuse not to act.

"The Obama administration now owns this political hot potato," says one industry source. "If I'm [Nebraska Senator] Ben Nelson or [North Dakota Senator] Kent Conrad, why would I ever want to take it back?"

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

 

Cut in Carbon Emissions May Have Dire Consequences on Vacation Plans

Drill Now: Page 122 Copenhagen Climate Treaty catalyst for One World Order headed by Soros/Obama

Copenhagen climate summit: George Soros urges use of IMF gold for green loans

Sarah Palin: The climate crowd, exposed

An e-mail scandal demonstrates that matters are uncertain. The issue is, however, politicized. No president should make deals in an environment like that.

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate-change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

"Climategate," exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate-change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. What's more, the documents show that there was no real consensus even within the climate-research crowd. Some scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of estimates of temperatures from centuries ago, estimates used to back claims that more recent temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.

I've always believed that policy should be based on sound science, not politics. Our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policymaking is about weighing real-world costs and benefits -- not pursuing a political agenda.

That's not to say I deny the reality of some changes in climate -- far from it. I saw the impact of changing weather patterns firsthand while serving as governor of our only Arctic state.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...

VIDEOS - John Stossel's First FOX Show. He Covers Global Warming And Climate Fearmongering.

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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Obama's Latest Big Brother Plan(Zer0 purging non-believers in him)

Government Should Fear You...

ObamaCare Keeps Falling in the Polls; A business ad campaign could turn the tide even in the House

Do safe schools require an iron fisting?

The Fistgate Buck Stops with Kevin Jennings

House Passes Sweeping Financial Oversight Bill (lets feds break up big risky companies)

Can you say

"Fascism," Kidz?

ALERT! Bachmann: STOP Barney Frank’s POWER GRAB in the financial sector - AUDIO

Recession for a Whopping 20 Years

Number of federal workers getting 6-figure salaries explodes during recession

A Shining Anomaly on a Hill (Stimulus Spending Turns Washington DC into Boomtown !)

(10 Videos) Sarah Palin: Lots Of Photos From Book Tour (TX, VA, IA, SD & MN)

What is White House Covering Up in “GateCrashers” Scandal? - Special Report

 

 

Did Michael Ramirez draw this? [Darleen Click]

I’m not saying he is a racist …

… I’m not saying he isn’t. I don’t know. But the imagery … it makes me feel….

Posted by Darleen @ 8:17 pm
Comments (14)

"...it would have been better to have mastas obama and reid and missy pelosi on the veranda directing the multicolored slaves"

 

VIDEO: Tunneling Into The United States

JIHAD U? America's First Muslim University's Islamist Connections

The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act (Comprehensive Immigration Reform)

Obama’s Wheel of Fortune. The president’s luck has changed — and he doesn’t seem to have noticed

New Obama TWAP Poster Deconstructed as it Spreads Further

TWAP=The Worst American President.

 

 

 

Watching the 0-gasm gushing over my former country, and seeing the Baked Wind and Monkey Doodle ( P.J.O'Rourke ) emanating from the Sock Puppets, the following sums up my thoughts and feelings quite well:

 

"You can all go to Hell. I'm going to Texas."

 

Not Yours to Give! Speech before the House of Representatives by Davy Crockett

 

We found some rather interesting records a few years ago HERE:

Not Yours to Give - Colonel David Crockett [DOCUMENTATION from 1828]

 

Colonel David Crockett: "Not Yours To Give"

Source: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul Website
Published: Unknown Author: David Crockett
Posted on 03/06/2000 10:27:40 PST The Office of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
203 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2831

Not Yours To Give
Col. David Crockett
US Representative from Tennessee

---

Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.

---

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.

"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly.

"I began: 'Well friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates and---

"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."

"This was a sockdolger...I begged him tell me what was the matter.

"Well Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting you or wounding you.'

"I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.

But an understanding of the constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the honest he is.'

" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by fire in Georgetown. Is that true?

"Well my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just the same as I did.'

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he.

If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.'

"'Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have Thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.'

"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'

"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'

"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:

"Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'

"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'

"If I don't, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'

"No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. 'This Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.

"'Well I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name."

"'My name is Bunce.'

"'Not Horatio Bunce?'

"'Yes

"'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'

"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence, and for a heart brim-full and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.

"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.

"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."

"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.

"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.

"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:

"Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only."

"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:

"And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.

"It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'

"He came up to the stand and said:

"Fellow-citizens - it affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'

"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'

"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'

"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday. "There is one thing which I will call your attention, "you remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $20,000 when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."

389 posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1252275/posts

 

EXCERPTS FROM NAKED COMMUNIST Former FBI agent, Cleon Skoussen, in 1958, in his book, THE NAKED COMMUNIST, revealed among other things, these long term goals of the communist agenda. The information is in the Congressional Record August 1963 and in the Communist Manifesto:

U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of moral strength.

Permit free trade between all nations regardless of communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

Provide American aid to all nations regardless of communist domination.

Set up East West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.S.

Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the United Nations.

Promote the United Nations as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

Do away with loyalty oaths.

Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda.

Get control of the teachers associations.

Gain control of all student newspapers.

Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.

Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.

Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures and TV.

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy.

Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch.

Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principles of separation of church and state.

Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part in the big picture.

Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the communist apparatus.

Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.

Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American traditions; that students and special interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political and social problems.

Ask a Question About Climategate At Conference, Get a Response From Armed Security (Video)

Classy Dems Compare Climate Change Deniers to “Teabaggers”

The ClimateGate Virus - The collateral damage from the emails is large

 

Deprogramming Children After Global Warming Scam

Narcissists And Madmen (Caroline Glick On The Climate Change Scam And Iran Alert)

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/09/hockey-stick-observed-in-noaa-ice-core-data/

 

Hockey stick observed in NOAA ice core data

9 12 2009

At the Foresight Institute, J. Storrs Hall had some interesting graphs made from NOAA ice core data (Alley, R.B. 2000. The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 19:213-226.) It sure seems to mirror other hockey sticks this past century. Dr. Mann will be thrilled to see this I’m sure.

J. Storrs Hall writes:

One thing that Climategate does is give us an opportunity to step back from the details of the AGW argument and say, maybe these are heat-of-the-moment stuff, and in the long run will look as silly as the Durants’ allergy to Eisenhower. And perhaps, if we can put climate arguments in perspective, it will allow us to put the much smaller nano arguments (pun intended) into perspective too.

So let’s look at some ice.

I’m looking at the temperature record as read from this central Greenland ice core. It gives us about as close as we can come to a direct, experimental measurement of temperature at that one spot for the past 50,000 years.  As far as I know, the data are not adjusted according to any fancy computer climate model or anything else like that.

So what does it tell us about, say, the past 500 years? (the youngest datum is age=0.0951409 (thousand years before present) — perhaps younger snow doesn’t work so well?):

Well, whaddaya know — a hockey stick.  In fact, the “blade” continues up in the 20th century at least another half a degree.  But how long is the handle? How unprecedented is the current warming trend?

Yes, Virginia, there was a Medieval Warm Period, in central Greenland at any rate.  But we knew that — that’s when the Vikings were naming it Greenland, after all.  And the following Little Ice Age is what killed them off, and caused widespread crop failures (and the consequent burning of witches) across Europe.  But was the MWP itself unusual?

Well, no — over the period of recorded history, the average temperature was about equal to the height of the MWP.  Rises not only as high, but as rapid, as the current hockey stick blade have been the rule, not the exception.

In fact for the entire Holocene — the period over which, by some odd coincidence, humanity developed agriculture and civilization — the temperature has been higher than now, and the trend over the past 4000 years is a marked decline.  From this perspective, it’s the LIA that was unusual, and the current warming trend simply represents a return to the mean.  If it lasts.

From the perspective of the Holocene as a whole, our current hockeystick is beginning to look pretty dinky. By far the possibility I would worry about, if I were the worrying sort, would be the return to an ice age — since interglacials, over the past half million years or so, have tended to last only 10,000 years or so.  And Ice ages are not conducive to agriculture.

… and ice ages have a better claim on being the natural state of Earth’s climate than interglacials.  This next graph, for the longest period, we have to go to an Antarctic core (Vostok):

In other words, we’re pretty lucky to be here during this rare, warm period in climate history.  But the broader lesson is, climate doesn’t stand still.  It doesn’t even stay on the relatively constrained range of the last 10,000 years for more than about 10,000 years at a time.

Does this mean that CO2 isn’t a greenhouse gas? No.

Does it mean that it isn’t warming? No.

Does it mean that we shouldn’t develop clean, efficient technology that gets its energy elsewhere than burning fossil fuels?  Of course not.  We should do all those things for many reasons — but there’s plenty of time to do them the right way, by developing nanotech.  (There’s plenty of money, too, but it’s all going to climate science at the moment. ) And that will be a very good thing to have done if we do fall back into an ice age, believe me.

For climate science it means that the Hockey Team climatologists’ insistence that human-emitted CO2 is the only thing that could account for the recent warming trend is probably poppycock.

h/t to Kate at SDA

Never forget, Climate Change is what you call Global Warming when your Global Warming Conference is snowed out.

55. joe buzz:

The Dog ate my Data blog feature a nice Flashing gif of raw v. adjusted Brisbane temp anomaly

"This is getting good! I can smell a danRather!"

Dr Roy Spencer Ph. D., Climatologist

 

U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon

Climate change: do we really want to join this insanity? (Common sense from Malaysia)

 

Physics Group Splinters Over Global Warming Review

Problems with surface station climate records easy to find - even for a sixth grader

Obama Tells GOP Not to Scare People with the Truth

Meanwhile, his comrades in Copenhagen want to give kids nightmares with LIES!

Obama told Republicans at a White House meeting to "stop trying to frighten the American people" on the shape of the economy when any of us can see with out own eyes what a mess it is in.

What a shame he doesn't tell his comrades in Copenhagen to do the same as they portray climate change as a child's nightmare with this scare-o-rama playing at the Copenhagen Conference:

[VIDEO AT SITE]

This is as vile a propaganda effort as the attempt by world socialists to sow nightmares in the minds of children with the fear of a nuclear winter if the United States didn't disarm and stand down from confronting Soviet aggression in the 1980's.

I guess the tactics are no coincidence since today's warmers are yesterday's communist appeasers. Charles Krauthammer picks up on that theme:

The Environmental Shakedown
By Charles Krauthammer
Real Clear Politics
December 11, 2009

...The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

The Copenhagen Scam

MUST SEE: Lord Monckton confronts climate protesters call them "Hitler Youth"

“ClimateGate” a PR Disaster That Will Be “Taught in University Communications Courses” 

(Gulp)...UK Taxpayers Group Works Out Copenhagen Cost....$215 Million...

Rest assured that's so wrong and low, you won't believe it- can you say

 

$8.00 a gallon gas and heating oil?

Copenhagen climate summit: Carbon trading fraudsters in Europe pocket €5bn

Global Warming as a Political Tool

Watching the 0-gasm gushing over my former country, and seeing the Baked Wind and Monkey Doodle ( P.J.O'Rourke ) emanating from the Sock Puppets, the following sums up my thoughts and feelings quite well:

 

"You can all go to Hell. I'm going to Texas."

 

Not Yours to Give! Speech before the House of Representatives by Davy Crockett

 

We found some rather interesting records a few years ago HERE:

Not Yours to Give - Colonel David Crockett [DOCUMENTATION from 1828]

 

Colonel David Crockett: "Not Yours To Give"

Source: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul Website
Published: Unknown Author: David Crockett
Posted on 03/06/2000 10:27:40 PST The Office of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
203 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2831

Not Yours To Give
Col. David Crockett
US Representative from Tennessee

---

Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.

---

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.

"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly.

"I began: 'Well friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates and---

"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."

"This was a sockdolger...I begged him tell me what was the matter.

"Well Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting you or wounding you.'

"I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.

But an understanding of the constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the honest he is.'

" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by fire in Georgetown. Is that true?

"Well my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just the same as I did.'

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he.

If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.'

"'Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have Thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.'

"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'

"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'

"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:

"Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'

"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'

"If I don't, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'

"No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. 'This Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.

"'Well I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name."

"'My name is Bunce.'

"'Not Horatio Bunce?'

"'Yes

"'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'

"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence, and for a heart brim-full and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.

"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.

"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."

"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.

"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.

"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:

"Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only."

"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:

"And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.

"It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'

"He came up to the stand and said:

"Fellow-citizens - it affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'

"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'

"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'

"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday. "There is one thing which I will call your attention, "you remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $20,000 when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."

 

Physics Group Splinters Over Global Warming Review

Problems with surface station climate records easy to find - even for a sixth grader

Obama Tells GOP Not to Scare People with the Truth

Meanwhile, his comrades in Copenhagen want to give kids nightmares with LIES!

Obama told Republicans at a White House meeting to "stop trying to frighten the American people" on the shape of the economy when any of us can see with out own eyes what a mess it is in.

What a shame he doesn't tell his comrades in Copenhagen to do the same as they portray climate change as a child's nightmare with this scare-o-rama playing at the Copenhagen Conference:

[VIDEO AT SITE]

This is as vile a propaganda effort as the attempt by world socialists to sow nightmares in the minds of children with the fear of a nuclear winter if the United States didn't disarm and stand down from confronting Soviet aggression in the 1980's.

I guess the tactics are no coincidence since today's warmers are yesterday's communist appeasers. Charles Krauthammer picks up on that theme:

The Environmental Shakedown
By Charles Krauthammer
Real Clear Politics
December 11, 2009

...The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

The Copenhagen Scam

MUST SEE: Lord Monckton confronts climate protesters call them "Hitler Youth"

“ClimateGate” a PR Disaster That Will Be “Taught in University Communications Courses” 

(Gulp)...UK Taxpayers Group Works Out Copenhagen Cost....$215 Million...

Rest assured that's so wrong and low, you won't believe it- can you say

 

$8.00 a gallon gas and heating oil?

Copenhagen climate summit: Carbon trading fraudsters in Europe pocket €5bn

Global Warming as a Political Tool

[backhoe]

Hillary Was Right: Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president, and he better figure out what he’s doing before it’s too late.

 

CNN: 61% Oppose Senate Health Care Plan.

 

Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 11, 2009 09:46 AM

Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America’s most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of “social justice.” Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you.

On Sunday, December 13, the History Channel will air “The People Speak” – a documentary based on Marxist academic Howard Zinn’s capitalism-bashing, America-dissing, grievance-mongering history textbook, “A People’s History of the United States.” The film was co-produced/written/bankrolled by Zinn’s Boston neighbor and mentee Matt Damon. An all-star cast of Bush-bashing liberals including Danny Glover, Josh Brolin, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, and Eddie Vedder, will appear. Zinn’s work is a self-proclaimed “biased account” of American history that rails against white oppressors, the free market, and the military.

Zinn’s objective is not to impart knowledge, but to instigate “change” and nurture a political “counterforce” (an echo of fellow radical academic and Hugo Chavez admirer Bill Ayers’ proclamation of education as the “motorforce of revolution.”) Teachers are not supposed to teach facts in the school of Zinn. “There is no such thing as pure fact,” Zinn asserts. Educators are not supposed to emphasize individual academic achievement. They are supposed to “empower” student collectivism by emphasizing “the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements.” School officials are not facilitators of intellectual inquiry, but leaders of “social struggle.”

Zinn and company have launched a nationwide education project in conjunction with the documentary. “A people’s history requires a people’s pedagogy to match,” Zinn preaches. The project is a collaboration between two “social justice” activist groups, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Rethinking Schools recently boasted of killing a social studies textbook series in the Milwaukee school system because it “failed to teach social responsibility.” A Rethinking Schools guide on the September 11 jihadi attacks instructs teachers to “nurture student empathy” for our enemies and dissuade students from identifying as Americans. “It’s our job to reach beyond this chauvinism.” And a Rethinking Schools guide to early childhood education written by Ann Pelo disparages “a too-heavy focus on academic skills” in favor of “social justice and ecological teaching” for preschoolers.

Teaching for Change’s objective, in Obama-esque fashion, is to train students not to achieve actual proficiency in core academic subjects, but to inspire them to “become active global citizens.” Today’s non-achieving aspirants are tomorrow’s Nobel Peace Prize winners, after all.

No part of the school curriculum is immune from the social justice makeover crew. Zinn’s partners at Rethinking Schools have even issued teaching guides to “Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers” – which rejects the traditional white male patriarchal methods of teaching computation and statistics in favor of p.c.-ified number-crunching:

“Rethinking Mathematics is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to a broad view of mathematics that includes historical and cultural implications. Part Two includes nine classroom narratives in which teachers describe lessons they have used that infuse social justice issues into their mathematics curriculum. Included here…an AP calculus lesson on income distribution. The third part contains three detailed classroom experiences/lessons. These include a physical depiction of the inequitable distribution of the world’s wealth, the results of a student investigation into how many U.S. Presidents owned slaves, and a wonderful classroom game called ‘Transnational Capital Auction’ in which students take on the role of leaders of Third World countries bidding competitively for new factories from a multinational corporation.

Short lessons, provocative cartoons, and snippets of statistics are scattered throughout Rethinking Mathematics. A partial list of topics includes racial profiling, unemployment rate calculation, the war in Iraq, environmental racism, globalization, wealth distribution and poverty, wheelchair ramps, urban density, HIV/AIDS, deconstructing Barbie, junk food advertising to children, and lotteries.”

Our students will continue to come in dead last in international testing. But no worries. With Howard Zinn and Hollywood leftists in charge, empty-headed young global citizens will have heavier guilt, wider social consciences, and more hatred for America than any other students in the world.

Posted in: Education, Hollyweird, Kevin Jennings

 

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The New Socialism. This time, without Reagan and Thatcher to beat it back. “One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World. . . . Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale, too. . . . Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green.”

I’d take them more seriously if they had any proposals that didn’t transfer wealth and power to . . . them.

Physics Group Splinters Over Global Warming Review. “As the science scandal known as ClimateGate grows, the largest U.S. physicists’ association is finding itself roiled by internal dissent and allegations of conflict of interest over a forthcoming review of its position statement on man-made global warming.”

IF ONLY THE U.N. WERE THIS TOUGH ON TERRORISTS: Journalist question about ClimateGate gets armed response.

SEN. JAMES INHOFE ON CLIMATEGATE. And talk of potential criminal liability.

Payoff! U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon scheme

BYRON YORK: A green, sustainable future that doesn’t work.

 

Hide The Decline: From Orland To Calgary

Update 2 - I pulled down part of the original content of this post for a few hours, while Anthony Watts checked it for accuracy. I've now updated it with excerpts of his corrected version.

I’ve been following this issue a few days and looking at a number of stations and had planned to make a detailed post about my findings, but WUWT commenter Steven Douglas posted in comments about this curious change in GISS data recently, and it got picked up by Kate at SDA, which necessitated me commenting on it now. [And he didn't give the "what for" I deserved for that - ED]. This goes back to the beginning days of surfacestations.org in June 2007 and the second station I surveyed. "Remember Orland? That nicely sited station with a long record?" Note the graph I put in place in June 2007 on that image.

Orland, CA station

Now look at the graph in a blink comparator showing June 2007 and today:

And it is not just Orland, I’m seeing this issue at other stations too. [...] The timing could not be worse for public confidence in climate data.

Continue reading here....

Now, take a look at this

"Chalk up another for the flattening the past theme. Here’s what Calgary Int’l looks like:"

(Click to enlarge)

"I added a 15 year moving average to both the raw (in blue) and adjusted (in red) data and what they’ve done is quite striking. The warm “blip” between roughly 1915-40 has been adjusted down by as much as a full degree C while leaving the cold years in the late 1800’s and warm years post 1970’s more or less alone. Niiiiiiice."

Who's the minister in charge of Environment Canada? I bet he'd be a great interview.

Posted by Kate at 3:45 PM| Comments (51)

All the better to justify global skimming operations like Enron type cap n trade operations which are now having their cover blown!!

http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr091209.htm

Carbon Credit fraud causes more than 5 billion euros damage for European Taxpayer

[backhoe]

VIDEO Health Care Shocker: Special Democratic Voting Counties Would Get Protected Medicare Benefits

Passion Fades for Barack Obama, The Perfect Poster Boy [Disappointment to EuroFools}

 

 

Flashback: Obama Criticizes Bush on the Economy(March 2008)

Barack Obama Ensures a Long Depression

Kindly note the quote, from our new First Lady, err, female black Bigot...

Can't Hide the Decline: Obama Hits New Polling Lows (RCP Average 48.9%)

 

 

Soros: Will No One Rid Me Of This Troublesome Congress?

George Soros, the billionaire left-wing philanthropist and convicted inside trader, joined the caravan of elites at the international climate summit in Copenhagen this week. He used the opportunity to explain that he had a solution to financing the fight against global warming. It would require about $100 billion to pay for projects in the developing world. There was just one barrier: The U.S. Congress.

"It is possible to substantially increase the amount available to fight global warming in the developing world,” he said. “All that is lacking is the political will. Unfortunately the political will will be difficult to gather because of the mere fact that it requires congressional approval in the United States."

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...

Copenhagen Framework Demands Huge Amounts of Spending, But Allows Enron-Style Accounting Tricks

[backhoe]

Is Obama Really Preparing for Civil War? (Chuck Baldwin)

The Obama 4 year plan to re-make America

1. The complete restructuring of our economy in accordance with Obama's socialist construct.

2. The establishment of a federally run Health Care System

3. The reshaping of our military prowess into an obsolete commodity.

4. A gradual consolidation, under the Executive branch, of authority commonly delegated to the Judicial and the Legislative branches.

5. The legal prohibition of aired dissent

 

I keep telling you all what it is...

 

Kevin Jennings' Own Lesson Plan on Harry Hay: Doing It in the Bushes as "Civil Right"

...look again at Kevin Jennings' very own high school LESSON PLAN presenting anonymous an*l sex in the bushes as a "civil right" to fight for...

(Excerpt) Read more at massresistance.blogspot.com

KEVIN JENNINGS, "UN-SAFE" SCHOOLS, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND THE OBAMA ADMIN

What Has Obama Accomplished?

The New Deal ( Obama's Plagiaristic New Deal )

Remember this creepy little moment?

Now Time Tells Us: Obama The New FDR

 

 

Democrats To GOP: Keep Out And Shut Up

Loyal Opposition: The president has called on Republicans to "stop trying to frighten the American people." But telling the truth about the never-ending expansion of government is not scaremongering.

First, Democrats in Congress kept their colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle from a place at the table on health reform because Republicans "aren't offering a plan." The truth is that they aren't offering a big government plan, and Democratic leaders are blind to solutions that focus on the private sector.

Now, adding insult to injury, the president told Republicans during a White House meeting Wednesday with leaders of both parties to quit scaring the public, as recounted to reporters by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Let's see if we've got this right. Republicans are allowed to take part in decisions like the most sweeping changes in health care law in history, and rescuing the economy from the worst downturn since the Great Depression — but only if their ideas mirror liberals' trillion-dollar statist wish list.

And if they refuse to get on board the Democrats' juggernaut, they'd better not just get out of the way of it; they also don't have any business telling the American people about its size or its speed, or the havoc it will wreak on its journey.

As House Minority Leader John Boehner said, there's pretty much a hiring freeze going on in the country as businesses wait to see how bad Congress' dictates will be on the health insurance they provide to their workers. "And the president wants to blame us for informing the American people about what's happening here and how it will affect them."

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

Making Nightmare Out Of Health Care

Health Care: IBD recently ran an extensive series of pieces by economist Thomas Sowell highlighting government's involvement in the financial meltdown. We did it both to correct the historical record and to warn about future interventions of the same kind.

The most important warning is over current plans by Democrats in Congress and the White House to "reform" the U.S. health care system in a way that will end up hamstringing private insurers, bankrupting doctors and adding trillions of dollars to U.S. debt — while not improving health care in America one jot.

As the sagacious Sowell has noted many times and in many places, government action such as taking over 17% of our $14 trillion economy may sound like a good idea — and may even have the best of intentions — but is in fact dangerous to our health. Literally.

And when, would we add, has government ever taken on a large domestic program that has worked well or stayed within its budget? Medicare, when considered in the mid-1960s, was projected to cost $10 billion by 1990. Actual outlays 25 years later came to $107 billion. And now Democrats want to expand it.

Entire books have been written debunking the idea of government-run health care. The idea of an overhaul is wildly unpopular among Americans, especially once they find out what's contained in the "reforms" Congress wants.

The latest polls show strong opposition to government-run health care. And it's growing. Just Thursday, a CNN survey showed 61% of Americans oppose the idea. Other major polls — Gallup, Rasmussen, you name it — show similar opposition.

The latest IBD/TIPP Poll, taken in early December, suggests it's affecting President Obama's ability to govern, with 47% giving him a poor grade on health care.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

Guns, Crime, and the Swiss

From the Vault of Old Posts?

Swiss Gun Laws- and some rebuttal to HCI "spin"-- Thread II

Posted on 05/23/2001 16:20:13 PDT by backhoe

( Took me 11 "reload" or F5's to get it, but it's still there... )

Green Fail: LED Traffic Lights Causing Accidents In Wisconsin (Photos + Video)

 

 

It's Happend Again: UA Flight 227  1 2

These bastards are getting old....really old.

One report found on 9News in Denver quoted John Sloan, a passenger aboard that flight:
“I have never seen flight attendants so scared in my life. Everything turned out OK, but it was not a very good feeling..”

Following the removal of the passengers...

 

I've seen the future. It's dark and goes 'beep'

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The

Anchoress:

Go Home Congress! – UPDATED

Friday, December 11, 2009, 2:24 PM

The_Anchoress

Dear Congress:

After watching the absurd kabuki theater going on in Washington, where Harry Reid spends half his time crowing, “we’ve got the votes!” and the other half bullying people to get the votes, and Nancy Pelosi walks around like a smiling set of brass knuckles, offering anything, hourly, to anyone who will help her pass their healthcare plan “by Christmas,” I have a message for all of you in both houses of the US Congress:

GO HOME. Drop what you are doing, right now, and go home. Put the 2000 page healthcare bill that you haven’t read into the trash can as you turn out the lights and head for the airport.

When you come back in 2010, you can start again, from scratch, and you can try to put together a sensible healthcare bill that comes in under 250 pages. But when you come back from your vacation, you must be cognizant of the fact that your past methods have failed, so consider the following:

1) Declare “no more closed doors” and try some of that “transparency” you like to squawk about. Allow Moderate Democrats and the GOP to actually have a hand in crafting the bill. That requires some growing up, I know; it requires Mrs. Pelosi to actually act like a stateswoman instead of Olivia Soprano, but that’s what she is paid to be; one assumes she would not want Olivia’s legacy.

2) Gather a contingent of Americans from each state, comprised of a few doctors, a few lawyers, a few nurses, a few patients and a few average, politically-unconnected people, and listen to them. Listen to what they think we need, what they think is wasteful, what they think is best left to their discretion. They won’t have all the answers; this is not magic. But the American people are by-and-large pragmatic and they can be very sensible on serious issues. Regardless of how much you believe it to be so, Americans are not idiots meant to be ruled.

In case you have forgotten, you were elected to serve them, not to dictate.

3) Take a look at the forbidden issue of tort reform. Yes, the lawyers give you a lot of money to ignore it, just as the teachers unions give you a lot of money to look away from their failings and abuses while shoveling more taxpayer funds into their bottomless hole, but take a look at tort reform anyway. It needn’t be drastic; no one is saying we must put a limited value on human life and human suffering; we should not do that, not in the courtrooms, and not in the hospitals, either.

But perhaps there should be inserted into the process some local oversights -panels that examine suits, to see whether a case actually has some merit to its charge of malpractice or ineptitude. They might, for instance, tell someone who was stupid enough to put a hot cup of coffee in her lap while she’s driving that her vapidity did not entitle her to two million dollars. They might tell the guy who decided to paint a wall too soon after surgery that his doctor is not at fault for the consequences of his own decision, and the case would simply not happen.

Just the existence of such a panel could act as a serious deterrent to the frivolous lawsuits that have tied up our courts and contributed to such litigation-phobia that children can no long climb on monkey bars and ride teeter-totters and corporations are afraid to sponsor student-events.

And, Dear Congress, after you have actually bothered to listen to each other (a rare thing) and then listened to Americans (an almost-unknown thing), perhaps you can admit how unworkable all of your recent “solutions” have been. Pay attention to the fact that you could not handle paperwork for 700,000 home owners, and consider that maybe if you couldn’t do that, you are not ready to handle the health concerns of 350 million.

I know, it might be a humbling thing for you to realize that you have fallen down on so many jobs, regardless of whether they were created or saved. But maybe a little humbling is what you need, in order to actually, you know…govern effectively.

Go home, and work in a soup kitchen, or watch a church teach people how to write job resumes in hopes that you will step off the necks of businesses to allow job-creation. Go out and stand before the doors of a local grocery store for a little while, or a local K-mart, or even the local mall, and just watch America walk by you. Don’t say a word. Don’t greet anyone. Don’t extend your hand and ask for anyone’s support. Just shut up -pretend you’re invisible- stop being a politician and watch people as they go by, and listen to what they are saying. You’ll find that you’re not the center of the universe, anymore, and that people are scrappy, and trying to hang on to their lives and their ways with a bit of pride, even if they don’t always seem dignified. You might hear what they really think of your universe, too, as they remark to each other, in disgust, about how you and your fellow “representatives” have long-ceased to represent them.

Go home, and read Shakespeare, and consider what “sound and fury, signifying nothing” really means. Read Chesterton; “It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged,” and wonder if there might be a rope ready for you, someday. Read Virgil, “I sing of arms and the man,” and consider what presidents and parliamentarians are supposed to be doing for their nation and the world. Listen to Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey; “In this world, you must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. Well, for years, I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

Go home and read George Washington;

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquent – it is a force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

Consider, then, how irresponsibly you have been attempting to craft legislation by means of bullying, and braying, and scheming and swaying, while not listening to the people you are meant to serve; not listening at all.

Go home, Congress, and -even if you are not especially religious- find a bible and read about a government that forces people to travel to them, that the people may be counted and then held accountable. Read about a scheming king who seeks to abuse the good will of others for intelligence meant to destroy, not build up. Read about the slaughter of innocents and the land full of grief that results from the rank ambition of those who govern. And consider who you might be in any part of that story. Read about the powerful insiders and the lowly outsiders, and choose which side you wish to join.

Go home, Congress, and give America a break from your freakish certainties, your falsities, frailties and your folly. Turn off your blackberries and stay off the television and try to find whatever scraps of humanity still remain buried beneath the crust of stinking, corrupt ambition you’ve allowed to grow on you.

Perhaps when you come back, you can be humans again, and sane, and willing to actually serve your nation, instead of yourselves.

If not, you will be served eviction notices, soon enough.

“Remaking America,” indeed.

UPDATE: James Taranto writes: America Says: DO NOTHING

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Greta Van Susteren on Obama: He’s a Liar (Video)

Friday, December 11, 2009, 10:50 PM

Jim Hoft

Greta Van Susteren played a number of clips tonight from the 2008 campaign where Barack Obama told supporters that he was going to hold his health care talks on CSPAN. Obviously, that never happened. After playing the video Greta looked at Karl Rove and said, “It was a lie.”

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Sarah Palin Stole the Show Tonight–
The former Alaskan Governor made a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show and went rogue on William Shatner.
Sarah was excellent—

Sarah turned the tables on Palin-basher William Shatner.
The AP reported on the surprise appearance:

Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” on Friday — and turned the tables on actor William Shatner.

In recent appearances on the late-night television show, Shatner has adopted a serious pose and recited some of Palin’s less serious observations.

He was brought out again Friday to read passages from Palin’s blockbuster “Going Rogue.” The carefully selected passages included ones about rapper Kid Rock and stalking sheep.

Afterward, it was Palin’s turn to read from Shatner’s autobiography, “Up Till Now.” The former Alaska governor’s selections included one in which Shatner talks about visiting an African elephant “in my underwear.”

After the readings, there appeared to be no hard feelings. The two left the stage arm-in-arm.

Mediaite has the full video clip.

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Yep, She’s a Natural!

Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:04 PM

The_Anchoress

H/T

As Camille Paglia said – Palin is a natural.

Which is one reason why -for some- she must be destroyed.

A politician who has the ability to laugh at himself, and to convey a sense of being completely comfortable in his own skin, is a politician who brings with him the intangible, unmeasurable gift of touching people where they live, in their gut. And that makes people feel safe, and reassured. As we saw in the last election, marketing and PR can certainly persuade. But if people have a choice between slick-but-cool enigma, or a something warm and safe, they’ll take warm and safe, every time.

That’s the other reason Palin must be destroyed.

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"It’s moments like these that will quickly ( I think) undo the damage the Leftist smear campaign did to her reputation."

Going Rogue On Captain Kirk….

Fox news: federal judge rules that it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL to cut funding to ACORN

Breaking: Judge Enjoins Congress from Cutting Off ACORN's Supply of Shakedown Money
Updated: Judge's Claims Analyzed A Bit

—Ace

A Clinton-appointed judge, I'm told. Here is a PDF of the decision.

ACORN has claimed the cutoff constitutes a Bill of Attainder, which is frankly silly, I think (although I think the Volokh guys argued, somewhat persuasively, this was a plausible finding).

The judge claims, weirdly, that there is a separation of powers issue that somehow restrains Congress from exercising its constitutionally-specified power to raise and spend money. Huh? The judge claims some sort of finding of guilt by a court or an executive administrative magistrate is required before Congress can exercise its major constitutionally-specified power. Odd, it seems, but I suppose not so odd if you start out with the idea this is a Bill of Attainder.

I'll get some quotes but for now I'm just posting it.

Interesting quote:

At first blush, the idea that the deprivation of the ability to apply for discretionary federal funds is "punitive" within the meaning of the bill of attainder clause seems implausible.

With all due respect, Geinus: It seems that way at first blush, at second blush, at seventh blush, and at eighty-eighth blush too.

This judge is effectively stating that Congress has no right to decide how it directs discretionary funding to organizations, and that once an organization is on the federal teat, it has the right to continue suckling in perpetuity until some finding of "guilty" is made against it by some other branch of the government.

By the Way: If you don't know, an injunction is not, in theory, the court's last word on the matter. Rather it is is a form of temporary relief, a temporary injunction against the action until the court can consider the matter fully.

But the bases for granting injunctive relief includes the idea that "the plaintiff is likely to win on the merits at full trial," so very often, a granting of injunctive relief indicates how the judge is going to come down in the end.

Link Problems: I was sent the PDF of the decision. I just stupidly "linked" that, which doesn't work, since you can't read a PDF in my email. I will try to find the decision somewhere on the web.

LINK: Okay, here is the file. PDF of Order on Injunction.

Judge Nina Gershon... about whom Rep. Darryl Issa says:

This left-wing activist Judge is setting a dangerous precedent that left-wing political organizations plagued by criminal accusations have a constitutional entitlement to taxpayer dollars. The Obama Administration should immediately move to appeal this injunction.

You know what's ridiculous here? Obama is pressing this suit, supposedly, against his ally, his creature, ACORN. It is entirely within his power to tank the case and deliberately lose it.

Weak: The judge relies on a previous case in which Congress had stripped funding from 39 specified federal employees. The court there found the stripping of funding for their jobs to be a bill of attainder because the workers already had a vested property interest in their jobs.

Plus, and this isn't mentioned, but let's face it, those are individuals. A corporation is legally, fictively a "person" too, but not really. I don't know what principle of law this is, but surely there's Oh come on with that nonsense caveat somewhere.

Anyway, this particular judge looks at that case and relies on it. She notes the problem -- in that case, the employees were already found to have a vested right in their jobs, which could not be stripped away without some due-process type finding of guilt. But in this case, ACORN has "no right" (emphasis in original) to these funds.

So doesn't that mean, immediately, the two cases are different?

No, the judge claims, because ACORN is being denied the right to offer its services to the government in the future.

Um: So what? They also have "no right" to demand the government do business with them in the future. They simply have no right to demand any money at all. It is entirely an at-will employment situation, and the government has fired ACORN.

But the judge spins this into a cotton-candy confection that's really tasty for ACORN. Apparently you can't prohibit any organization from receiving federal funds -- and that means the KKK can start petitioning the government for its own "community outreach" efforts.

It cannot be stressed enough that these funds are entirely discretionary, entirely by whim of Congress. This is not a case of someone who qualifies for some federal cash according to the letter of the law spelling out the entitlement being wrongly denied the money -- in that case, the person can point to the law and say "According to that law, I qualify; give me that money."

In that sort of case, there exists -- if only arguably -- a right of the person to claim the money and thus a right to challenge the government's refusal to pay it.

In this case, ACORN has the same right to millions of dollars from the government that I do: Namely, none whatsoever. And yet Congress' finding that it may exercise its discretion and end funding of ACORN is treated as if, well, not within its discretion at all.

If the government cannot deny millions to ACORN, then it cannot also simply deny the money to me, and I too would like to enjoin the government from its continuing refusal to pay me money.

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27 time to break out the impeach a judge hammer.

Congress directs where money goes.  Power to fund=power to stop.

 

Get Global Warming Out of Our Schools (Start calling it the name it deserves - Warmageddon!)

Indulgences: Study Shows Good Little Eco-Ninnies Who Buy Organic 'n Stuff More Likely to Lie and Cheat in Experiments That Test Ethics

—Ace

Pretty interesting. Two possible conclusions:

1) Eco-ninnies just suck.

2) Eco-ninnies are effectively buying post-modern papal indulgences, they believe, by paying for their sins with minor changes in their consumer purchasing patterns. By buying this supposedly eco-friendly soup, they've saved the environment a little, and satisfied their own (apparently low) threshold of moral and upright behavior, and have a great deal of wiggle room when it comes to other areas of their lives.

I sort of buy both but especially that Number Two. I have long, and long-windedly, argued that liberals indulge themselves with a great many of Ostentatious, Conspicuous Pseudo-Moral Gestures, no different than the judgmental prig they take as representative of a "Christian," a stereotype they know almost exclusively from movies like Footloose.

The gestures are directed both outward and inward, outward to convince others of one's superior morality, but more importantly inward, to convince themselves.

Anyone who's ever talked to such a person comes away thinking, "Good Lord, you have fashioned yourself a real crazy-quilt of ad hoc, made-up, superstitious neo-pagan rules to live by! How do you keep up with all these restrictions and blather?"

It seems like a patchwork super-structure of ersatz, faddish morality designed with only one conceivable purpose: To supplant the conventional morality taught by traditional institutions. Apparently the soul still craves the feeling of living a just and righteous life, even after traditional notions of the just and righteous have been abandoned. The entire code of forbidden foods and rituals of eating in Leviticus is overwritten, line by line and jot by tittle, by some new equally oddball code: Pork is not precisely forbidden, but you can't eat pork that was acquired from a farm more than 60 miles away; and Thou Shall Not Eat Chilean Sea Bass, at least not if it has been caught by a commercial net.

In some cases it might make a lick of sense (okay, maybe the sea bass is being overfished and we hardly want that) and in other cases it's purely a neo-pagan gesture to the new gods. I really do not believe the trivial "carbon costs" of shipping some pork in by railway car are anything more than a rounding error in the carbon costs of feeding that pig and sustaining a farm in the first place.

Oh, and carbon costs are jive in the first place.

Net result? One's sense of place in the universe is affirmed, and one is given the fulfillment of knowing one is doing Gods' work (plural intended) in making rather trivial shopping adjustments. And, even better than that: One gets that crucially-important rush of feeling superior to someone else.

And one more bonus: If you're doing right by Mother Earth, it frees you up to cut corners with your fellow man.

. In their study (described in a paper now in press at Psychological Science), subjects who made simulated eco-friendly purchases ended up less likely to exhibit altruism in a laboratory game and more likely to cheat and steal.

In an experiment, participants were randomly assigned to select items they wanted to buy in one of two online stores. One store sold predominantly green products, the other mostly conventional items. Then, in a supposedly unrelated game, all of the participants were allocated $6, to share as they saw fit with an anonymous (and unbeknownst to them, imaginary) recipient. Subjects who had chosen items from the green store coughed up less money, on average, than their counterparts. In a second experiment, participants were again assigned to shop in either a green or conventional store. Then they performed a computer task that involved earning small sums of cash. The setup offered the opportunity to cheat and steal with impunity. The eco-shoppers were more likely to do both.

It would be foolish to draw conclusions about the real world from just one paper and from such an artificial scenario. But the findings add to a growing body of research into a phenomenon known among social psychologists as "moral credentials" or "moral licensing.

Yeah I just said that before reading it so shut up, I don't need social psychologists to give it a name for me. "Indulgences" works fine.

A few years ago (or ten years ago -- how the years flash by) I read some magazine article about "compassion fatigue," liberals basically growing fatigued by the long list of restrictions urged upon them, grapes this week, apples the next, coffee now, now sea bass. And it discussed just a general weariness about the whole regime.

It is probably the case that people only have a limited capacity to restrict their wants and desires according to moral stricture. And that you can not simply keep adding and adding to the pile of requirements and forbiddances. Because at some point, someone just gives up on it, and starts observing rules more sporadically, or not at all, because he's overwhelmed by the sheer number of demands for self-denial and cannot deny himself any further.

And if that's the case -- which seems rather plausible -- it is in fact dangerous to continuously add to this list of moral strictures, clogging up one's limited self-denial machinery with trivial matter, because the ultimate effect may be that the truly important stuff starts getting ignored in favor of the meaningless, or frankly, the flat-out idiotic.

Afterthought: Religions impose a lot of rules about two broad areas: Sex, and food.

It seems that a lot of liberals are getting their religion in at Whole Foods. Sure, they have generally shed some of the rules about sex they find arbitrary and too restrictive, but day-um, are they ever making up for that additional freedom in the Sex Sector by adding a huge list of Thou Shall Nots in the Food Sector.

I don't know -- if you've shed the guilt for a licentious blow-jay you're going to get maybe twice a year if you're lucky, but on the other hand, you have to worry and gnash your teeth every single meal fretting that your pastrami-on-rye isn't free range enough to be eco-kosher, what have you really gained as far as freedom of action?

Seems to me you'd be better served to just chuck your worries about the sinful sandwiches and just feel guilty twice a year when you hook up with someone.

Corrected: The study was about the eco-conscious, not liberals, exactly; liberalish pseudo-conservatives like David Brooks and Rod "Captain Crunch" Dreher fall into this category too, I guess. So do some readers, who aren't liberal (and who I just realized I insulted with whatever term I use; sorry).

So, in the beginning of the post, I've changed liberals to "eco-ninnies." After that I let stand the slip into "liberals," because while the studies may be about eco-ninnies, the rest of my post is about liberals who buy into eco-ninnyhood.

Thanks to Artorious.

Posted by Ace at 09:14 PM New Comments Thingy

 

And

Again:

RTA:

Christmas Climate: Lie down and die

Friday, December 11, 2009, 8:09 PM

The_Anchoress

Source

The Christmas season is domestic; and for that reason most people now prepare for it by struggling in tramcars, standing in queues, rushing away in trains, crowding despairingly into teashops, and wondering when or whether they will ever get home. I do not know whether some of them disappear forever in the toy department or simply lie down and die in the tea-rooms; but by the look of them, it is quite likely. Just before the great festival of the home [Christmas], the whole population seems to have become homeless.
– Chesterton on Christmas Shopping & Home
(The Thing: Why I am a Catholic)

Tea-partiers and the classless left: “Pretend to die; because they’re pussies and won’t die for real

Climatefakes and Forced Abortion: It has always really been about the suppression of humanity and of human life. I wrote the other day:

How the Evil must dance when a new life is disallowed, shredded in utero, and the [Christ] flash, the “yes” snuffed out. How Evil must smile in content when the means by which God permits us to assist in creation are waylaid, or purposely directed toward what is only decaying, and corrupted and utterly dead.

It all reminds me of the moment I knew I could never vote for Al Gore for president, even though I had never voted for a Republican for that office, before. I watched Gore work a crowd; he was sweaty and nearly hysterical and he said, “this is a contest between good and evil.” And my flesh crawled. I didn’t know why, exactly, but I wrote to my Li’l Bro Thom, adding a quote from Gore that sounded all-too-much like the old enticing promise, “all of this will be yours…”

Thom, center-left, wrote back that his flesh, too, crawled. “Too familiar,” he wrote.

The is a profoundly anti-life and anti-liberty subtext beneath the heady rhetoric of “planetary salvation” we get from the proponents of Climatefraud. We need to control your procreation, to save the planet. We need to control your options, to save the planet. We’re saving you, don’t you see?

The illusion of material salvation through the disruption of life perhaps began with the sexual revoltion; back then, the fakery was about so-called “freedom”.

Indeed, times DOES prove where wisdom lies. Some forty or more years after widespread acceptance of contraception set in how have we done? Perhaps it is best to review some of the “promises” that contraceptive advocates made, then review the [warnings] of Paul VI. Then lets review the record . . .

It is an enduring irony that one of the most prophetic and wise teachings coming from the papal throne made the error of not proclaiming itself “infallible.” In fact, Humanae Vitae, which almost everyone scoffs at, but few have ever read, told us we would end up precisely where we have, with powerful people and movements working diligently to suppress life, which comes from God.

Since life comes from God, then an effort to suppress life is an effort to suppress God.

An effort that will fail, of course.

It is evil to not want life, or to want only limited and acceptable “versions” of life; it serves evil to create a giant illusion meant, finally, to do away with as much life as possible.

That’s what the terrorists did on 9/11: they did away with as much life as possible. If they had been able to kill 30,000 or 300,000 on that day, they’ve have been just as happy. The Climate-alarmists are not going to kill us outright, they’re just going to embrace not-living until only the “best” are still alive.

Somehow, it is always at Christmastime that these Death-Crusaders are at their busiest, trying to shut things down, and explain things away. And that makes sense, actually. For as long as the notion of God Incarnating -becoming “one of us” in joy and suffering, and in death, and in new life- can be internalized and held on to, they can never really rule. We will always be too free.

“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
–C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Related:
These people are dead serious: Leftists Crash Stage to shut down Opposition

Scientists: Yes, I felt pressured to sign

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A NEW SMOKING GUN FOR CLIMATEGATE - CRU's JONES ADMITS COOLING SINCE 1998.

AccuWeather Forecaster on Climate Change: 'It's Ice not Fire You're Going to Be Worried About'

Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott's view on climate change (Australian conservative leader)

By the time he left, flush with the energy of farmers such as David "Rocky" George -- whom he calls "practical environmentalists" -- he had dismissed the science underpinning climate change as "crap".

It's a global con job: 'Warming' science collapsing

Leaked Copenhagen Summit Document

KEVIN JENNINGS, "UN-SAFE" SCHOOLS, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND THE OBAMA ADMIN

[backhoe]

The VAT is back!

The VAT is a separate, additional tax which is hidden in the price of goods and services. It is paid by the entity that makes the product, and everyone in between down to the ultimate consumer of the product. It is not a replacement for the income tax or any other currently mandated tax. It is an addition to them.

Kevin Jennings: Teaching Your Kids to Live the Porn Life

Harry Reid to Cancer Patients: Wait Until Next Year

New Tape Shows Paramilitary Training in "Islamberg," Hancock, NY

I spent years on this site, trying to wake Americans up to the threat militant Islam poses to the entire West:

For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

 

 Last Exit to Utopia

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240504574585881108040134.html The Siren Call Of Tyranny
The hard-left former groupies of totalitarianism keep searching for new murderous ideologies to defend.

 

 

Why Johnny Can't Work

Yet....In contrast there are the homeschoolers.

My husband and I owned a health clinic. (My husband managed it and I was one of the doctors.) We had children in the office every day. The contrast between the homeschoolers and those who attended government school was astonishing.

The homeschoolers looked me in the eye when speaking. They were enthusiastic about their studies and hobbies, and were excelling in developing their talents. Many were running small businesses of their own even though they were just kids. All dressed modestly. I can't think of one exeception where the child was not years ahead academically. And...I have never met a homeschooler who was obese if they were homeschooled from the beginning. In fact, I don't recall even having known a chubby one.

In contrast, the government schooled kids had that 20 degree off centered stare when I spoke to them. Their responses were sullen nods or monosyllabic grunts. The teens were covered with tats and piercings. Although there were a few exceptions to this, there were not many.

Is it in the best interest of the “education-industrial-complex” to have medicated and infantile children who lack self confidence, or independent self assured children? Which will lead to more jobs, more money for the unions, and more security for the Marxist government teachers who run the system? Which set of children is more easily indoctrinated in the dialectics of Marxism?

By the way,...My three homeschoolers were finished all college general requirements and Calculus III by 15. By that age two were earning their own spending money by tutoring. Another covered all his personal expenses by coaching in his sport. The two younger earned B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18. At 18 one was teaching college students as part of her graduate degree program. The oldest was **proud** to be fully independent financially and living on his own ( except for tuition) at the age of 16 through his coaching business.

11 posted on Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:18:18 AM by wintertime

 

Birth Certificate Submitted by Obama's Grandmother

Where are the Damn Records? All of them?

 

“Why does Florida need a special exception?” (Sen Bill Nelson's payola"

Exclusive: IRS hires "hundreds" for new wealth unit (Drudge)

Obama's Approval Levels Hits New LOW/Harry Reid In BIG Trouble

 

 

'Obamaville' sign posted near homeless camp

Roach: The Fed Is Going To Blow The Exit, Get Ready For Another Massive Bubble

Bachmann Warns Of Imminent Takeover Of Entire Economy

Prechter: We’re Going To Have Another Leg Down

According to Karl Denninger, the insiders are selling - big time versus buying...

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1711-See-How-They-Lie-Again-Biz-Sentiment.html

WANT JOBS? FIRE CONGRESS AND OBAMA!

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-16!)

 

Why they fell for the global warming hoax

U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon

Copenhagen — Mis-Leading By Example

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Fables of the Reconstruction (Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)

The Hitlerettes of “SustainUS”

Here in Copenhagen, the “global warming” conference is hotting up despite the freezing weather. A couple of nights ago, a peaceful meeting of Americans for Prosperity was broken up by several dozen chanting preppie goons from SustainUS, a Hitlerian environmental pressure-group largely funded by US taxpayers.

 

An in-depth study is “National Security: Not a Good Argument for Global Warming Legislation,” October 28, 2009, by Dr. James Carafano, Testimony before the Environment and Public Works Committee, Unites States Senate, October 28, 2009, at http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/tst102709a.cfm

 

Fox News poll: 94% of Americans think global warming a hoax [ 1, 2 ]

 

Vindicating climate change skeptics ( Freeman Dyson, ' Told Ya!' )

ClimateGate Interviews - YouTube

Wow, talk about denial.

Those people are all simply true believers. They don’t give a damn about facts, only their belief. One  basically said that the end justifies the means.

VIDEO: Massive Cap-and-Trade Fraud

Why Johnny Can't Work

Yet....In contrast there are the homeschoolers.

My husband and I owned a health clinic. (My husband managed it and I was one of the doctors.) We had children in the office every day. The contrast between the homeschoolers and those who attended government school was astonishing.

The homeschoolers looked me in the eye when speaking. They were enthusiastic about their studies and hobbies, and were excelling in developing their talents. Many were running small businesses of their own even though they were just kids. All dressed modestly. I can't think of one exeception where the child was not years ahead academically. And...I have never met a homeschooler who was obese if they were homeschooled from the beginning. In fact, I don't recall even having known a chubby one.

In contrast, the government schooled kids had that 20 degree off centered stare when I spoke to them. Their responses were sullen nods or monosyllabic grunts. The teens were covered with tats and piercings. Although there were a few exceptions to this, there were not many.

Is it in the best interest of the “education-industrial-complex” to have medicated and infantile children who lack self confidence, or independent self assured children? Which will lead to more jobs, more money for the unions, and more security for the Marxist government teachers who run the system? Which set of children is more easily indoctrinated in the dialectics of Marxism?

By the way,...My three homeschoolers were finished all college general requirements and Calculus III by 15. By that age two were earning their own spending money by tutoring. Another covered all his personal expenses by coaching in his sport. The two younger earned B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18. At 18 one was teaching college students as part of her graduate degree program. The oldest was **proud** to be fully independent financially and living on his own ( except for tuition) at the age of 16 through his coaching business.

[backhoe]

JAMES TARANTO: Do Nothing, Majority Says: ObamaCare is now almost as unpopular as it is monstrous.

 

ERICK ERICKSON HAS THOUGHTS on What the GOP could be doing to fight Obamacare.

 

CAN I CALL ‘EM, OR WHAT? Back in September, noting a continuing pattern of White House incompetence, I predicted: “Expect this to play out in thumbsucker columns on whether America is ‘ungovernable.’”

And, right on cue, here’s Matthew Yglesias: “The smarter elements in Washington DC are starting to pick up on the fact that it’s not tactical errors on the part of the president that make it hard to get things done, it’s the fact that the country has become ungovernable.”

Funny, that dumb cowboy Bush seemed to get a lot done with fewer votes in Congress. . . .

Plus, from the comments: “There have been no major institutional changes in the United States government in recent history that have caused it to ‘become ungovernable.’ There just isn’t enough political support to enact various news laws and policies that you favor. Tough. If you hadn’t become seduced by the delusion that Obama is a ‘progressive’ and that last year’s election represented some kind of historic realignment in favor of ‘progressive’ policies you might have seen this coming.”

Or, as Ed Morrissey noted a while ago: “Who could have warned us that a man who served seven years in the state legislature and three years in the Senate would not have been prepared for the toughest executive position in the Free World? We did. Repeatedly. So did John McCain, and for that matter, so did Hillary Clinton.”

UPDATE: Moe Lane says Matt and I are both right. “The country is indeed ungovernable. …By Democrats.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: “What I appreciate especially is how Matthew notes that the smarter elements are starting to pick up on some observation of his…”

MORE: Ed Morrissey offers some fresh thoughts.

Plus, reader Zachary Terry writes: “That silly, silly Constitution. It always seems to get in the way. In all seriousness, though, wasn’t the United States intended to be relatively ‘ungoverned?’ Why is it not surprising that blatant deviation from the intended structure and function of our national government has led to this quandary?”

Can we get a T-Shirt that says Proudly Ungovernable Since 1776?

 

Palin vs. Shatner: Revenge is a Dish Best Served on the Tonight Show, With A Little Good Humor

—Dave In Texas

Heh.

MORE: Commenters bantering back and forth on whether Shatner was genuinely suprised or not (well, that and whether a Bird of Prey a Klingon or a Romulan warship). I can't really tell, Shatner's response looks genuine to me but he is a pretty talented actor.

Sarah comes off really well in this, funny, attractive (and by attractive I mean totally hot), and her timing is good. Smart play on her part.

More please.

AH: While I was writing you morons put me some f'n knowledge. Ok, he knew. Good acting. Funny stuff.

Posted by Dave In Texas at 10:19 AM New Comments Thingy

 

4
Look at the end of the tape: the band was applauding. They know a couple of pros when they see them.

Me, I can hardly wait until Palin debates Teleprompter Jesus. He'll end up like the moose: next to the mashed potatoes.

 

336 I am beginning to like the cut of her jib.  Ronald Reagan was often called a happy warrior.  Sarah is also deserving of that appellation.  That is what it will take to put the country back together after Obama is through trying to tear it down while only succeeding in tearing it asunder. 

The fact that the media loathes her and thinks she is barely fit to live outside of an assisted living environment makes me think she might be up to taking Reagan's mantle.  We will have to see what her policy prescriptions are in detail before knowing for sure but she certainly has the leadership qualities and she is a much deeper thinker than Obama.  Obama's one defining characteristic is that he thinks and thinks about everything but understands nothing.  He is basically too stupid to form a coherent opinion so he ends up voting present or trying to split the difference.

Sarah says a lot in a few words.  Obama says nothing in many, many words.  All socialists have that disease because it takes longer to tell a convincing lie than it does to tell the truth.

 

 

MEGAN MCARDLE: The New Breed Of Deadbeats.

 

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT WHOLE “War For Oil” thing, anyway?

Palin up, Obama down [Dear Leader at lowest ranking at this point in presidency since Gallup began]

The Best Kept Secret in Radio Communication

This is a good read from a new (to me) blog.
http://www.itstactical.com/2009/08/26/the-best-kept-secret-in-radio-communication/
Quote:

MURS stands for Multi User Radio Service, and is one of the best kept secrets in personal and family radio communications.

Formerly available only for business communications, the FCC has kept five MURS frequencies license-free and open for public use since 2000.

Handheld radios broadcasting on MURS frequencies will experience a range of two miles to eight miles depending on terrain and obstructions, while MURS Base Stations can reach up to 20 miles.

The stipulations for MURS use provided by the FCC restrict any transmitter in excess of two watts, but any type of antenna is allowed as long as the tower height (with antenna) is no greater than 60 feet high.

  read the rest

Soros climate change activity benefits his hedge fund investments

Tens of thousands march for climate change action

RE:

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Are the Polar Caps Really Melting Due To Global Warming?

Spot the real denier

A denier has many tactics to stop people talking about evidence. The real deniers here are those pushing a fake crisis. More »

Lots more here:

 

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/

 

And here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

 

Use their sidebar links, dagnabbit!

 

 

Warmers Demand Free Energy, More $$$

December 12th, 2009

From the Agence France-Presse:

Global protests demand action on climate change

by Richard Ingham

December 12, 2009

COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of activists across the world on Saturday cranked up the heat on the problem-plagued UN climate talks in a bid to press for action instead of words.

With the main rally in Copenhagen, the centre of the Danish capital was in virtual lockdown for the six-kilometer (four-mile) march that would take green and anti-capitalist demonstrators to the UN conference venue.

Police said around 30,000 people had gathered for the rally, many wearing sky blue or carrying blue umbrellas to represent the ‘wave of people power’ at the call of environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth.

Nigerian Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International, said: "We cannot allow carbon traders to damage the world. There is no such thing as clean coal or clean crude. Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

"To those who want to pollute at home and plant a tree somewhere we say no," he added.

Within the Bella Center congress hall, Nobel prizewinner Archbishop Desmond Tutu was to lead children in creating "a sea of candles" representing a call from generations imperilled [sic] by climate change.

The head of the Nobel-winning UN panel of climate scientists warned on Saturday that failure would deal a heavy blow to the nation-state system.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the talks were "an important test" of whether nations could join together to fight a common threat…

If all goes well, the 194-nation conference under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will wrap up on Friday with a historic deal sealed by more than 110 heads of state and government.

It would commit major economies to actions that would curb their carbon emissions and set up a financial machine to generate hundreds of billions in dollars for poor countries most exposed to the ravages of climate change…

Isn’t it nice to see objective journalism at work?

The way we see it, “if all goes well” Copenhagen will be a complete failure. But the AFP has a different agenda from us.

And speaking of agendas, look at this cast of characters.

They are the usual anti-capitalist malcontents and shakedown artists. Some of them have the Nobel Peace Prizes to prove it.

‘Climate Change’ is just the latest hobby horse they will ride to their communist utopia – and, of course, untold riches.

Here is a little background on Friends of the Earth from Discover The Networks:

Friends Of The Earth

… Friends of the Earth has opposed, for ecological reasons, a variety of projects that would have benefited the economic and social development of Third World countries. For example, FOE blocked the construction of the Arun Dam in Nepal, a poor nation whose inhabitants still live without electricity.  FOE blocked Shell’s efforts to build gas and pipeline facilities in Nigeria, where increasing poverty has encouraged the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. And FOE has opposed the distribution of genetically modified foods that could, because of their higher yield, alleviate the dangers of famine in Third World countries.

FOE activism has also helped render millions of U.S. land acres off-limits to energy exploration, from initiatives to keep American industries from accessing the oil available in northern Alaska, to the banning of gas and coal exploration in a 1.7 million-acre tract in Utah. Another of FOE’s self-described success stories was the 1982 ban on whaling in the waters around Iceland, Japan, and Scandinavia – a ban that resulted in a sudden rise in the population of minke and other whales, coupled with a decline in salmon and cod harvests…

The organization sued the Small Business Administration (SBA) for "fueling urban sprawl." The SBA had provided some $45 billion for construction and the expansion of businesses, but FOE contended that such developments would lead to air and water pollution, loss of forest cover, and traffic congestion. It won a judgement against the SBA.

In 2003 Friends of the Earth ran a series of full-page ads in USA Today and The New York Times charging the Bush administration with laying waste to the natural environment. In addition, FOE distributed more than 1.3 million copies of a brochure titled The Bush Administration: A Chronology of Environmental Destruction. That same year, FOE filed a second major lawsuit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to further "regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as air pollutants and contributors to global warming." …

FOE was a signatory to an April 2001 petition, presented to the Chairman of the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development, opposing further development of nuclear technologies. In addition, the International chapter of FOE signed a petition of so-called "civil society" organizations that opposed globalization and "any effort to expand the powers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through a new comprehensive round of trade liberalization." FOE also endorsed a 2003 "Our World is Not for Sale" campaign similarly condemning the WTO.

A member organization of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, FOE endorsed a May 1, 2003 document titled "10 Reasons Environmentalists Oppose an Attack on Iraq," which was published by Environmentalists Against War…

Big surprise, huh?

 

QOTW

On the Madness of Crowds;

After all, how rational is it to pass laws banning one kind of light bulb (and insisting on their replacement by ones filled with poisonous mercury vapour) in order to "save electricity", while ploughing money into schemes to run cars on ... electricity?

Posted by Kate at 6:49 AM| Comments (26)

 

Obama's Geothermal Pipe Dream

—Gabriel Malor

The Obama Administration (with an assist from Professor Al "Millions of Degrees" Gore) trumpeted the benefits of green geothermal energy and then spent millions. What happened? The same thing that always happens when environmental zealots have to deal with the real world:

The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned.

The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels and the project was being financed with federal Department of Energy money at a site about 100 miles north of San Francisco called the Geysers.

But on Friday, the Energy Department said that AltaRock had given notice this week that “it will not be continuing work at the Geysers” as part of the agency’s geothermal development program.

It turns out that there are substantial difficulties involved with this type of geothermal tech. And not just mechanical. Apparently it can cause earthquakes.

Geothermal enthusiasts asserted that drilling miles into hard rock, as required by the technique, could be done quickly and economically with small improvements in existing methods, Professor Schrag said. “What we’ve discovered is that it’s harder to make those improvements than some people believed,” he added.

In fact, AltaRock immediately ran into snags with its drilling, repeatedly snapping off bits in shallow formations called caprock. The project’s safety was also under review at the Energy Department after federal officials said the company had not been entirely forthcoming about the earthquakes produced in Basel in making the case for the Geysers project.

AltaRock was also given $25 million to develop another geothermal site in Oregon. But nobody seems to know what's going on there:

Not even the power agency has been informed of AltaRock’s ultimate intentions at the site, said Murray Grande, who is in charge of geothermal facilities for the agency.

“They just probably gave up, but we don’t know,” Mr. Grande said. “We have nothing official from them at all.”

There's that famed Obama Administration transparency to go with its proclaimed devotion to green technology.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 04:53 PM New Comments Thingy

 

 

Oz with a Gun: The Climate Thugs Get Medieval

[backhoe]

SO MAYBE IT’S NOT A 1970s RERUN AFTER ALL: ‘Welcome to Obamaville’ Sign Marks Colorado Homeless Tent City.

 

"How’s that empty rhetoric hopey changey working out?"

 

 

 

PRO-OBAMA JOURNALISTS GET PAID WITH TAXPAYER MONEY, TO SURROUND OBAMA DURING HOLIDAY IN HAWAII

Rolling Stone: Waah, Obama sold us out

US Protesters Seek New Anti-War Movement

The Pathology of the Rich Socialist

EDITORIAL: Leave our fish ponds alone (Democrats are Ramping up Federal Control over Water)

Battling the Homegrown Jihad Threat

DUmmie FUnnies 12-12-09 (DUmmies Suddenly Discover ReidCare is a SCAM)

Protesters Attack UC Berkeley Chancellor’s House

Women and the GOP: No problem.

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1439321#1439321

 

What is it about this gal that is so special and attractive...that makes one feel drawn to her...

Let's see if I can express it graphically...

The wages of climategate

Climategate is the worst blow the left has received in quite some time. The only comparable episode in recent years is Rathergate, involving the bogus documents "proving" George W. Bush's malfeasance as regards his service in the Texas Air National Guard. Climategate promises to be of even greater consequence. Rathergate shook the U.S. legacy media to its foundations...

More Clearer Details of the Fraud

UK Daily Mail – Climategate ‘undermines not only the CRU but the UN IPCC’

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Does the black continent deserve reparations at Copenhagen?

 

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Video from the Copenhagen Climate Vortex

12 12 2009

It’s getting ugly over there, from protesters being arrested by the hundreds, to journalists having their microphones being shut off when asking “inconvenient questions, protesters denying free speech when skeptic Lord Monckton holds a press conference, to hunger strike wizened vacuous talking eco-skeletons.

Cophagen,  is now the vortex of climate weirdness. Glad I’m not there.

Giant Sucking Sound - Copenhagen harbor

First up Steven Schneider’s “helpers” release the hounds on a journalist when he asks questions Schneider doesn’t like.

Journalist Phelim McAleer (‘Mine Your Own Business’, ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’) asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an Inconvenient Question about ‘Climategate’ emails. McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider’s assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by an armed UN security guard.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments : 38 Comments »

"Imagine that: The fearmongers afraid of answering questions, resort to repression and intimidation."

"Thugocracy in action."

"Who are the ‘Deniers’ now?"

 

What Astroturf Looks Like

December 12, 2009 Posted by John at 2:03 PM

Earlier today, thousands of protesters turned out in Copenhagen to demonstrate in favor of an economy-wrecking climate deal. This is how they looked:

Note the identical, professionally printed, color-coordinated yellow and black signs. This is what Astroturf--fake grass roots--looks like. The signs use the same colors as the International ANSWER signs that are ubiquitous at far-left rallies here in the U.S., but carry no identifier. It would be interesting to know who paid for the signs, and whether the same organization that bought the signs also paid for the demonstrators.

Turn the clock back to 1875? No thanks

Treating human beings as little more than carbon

Rich nations to offset emissions with birth control

Hostile TV Debate: Warming Professor falsely claims '5000 leading climate scientists' are in UN IPCC

Alan I. Leshner, "the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and executive publisher of the journal Science", was taken apart on the thread below for his logical fallacies:

Science Editor Beclowns Himself While Criticizing Governor Palin

Some state we are in, huh? The experts (some of them at least) are worthless. Average people, Palin and the anonymous writer of the piece above are eviscerating the top people in their fields.

Climate change emails row deepens as Russians admit they DID come from their Siberian server

Eco-vulture has a bone to pick (Soros)

PRO-OBAMA JOURNALISTS GET PAID WITH TAXPAYER MONEY, TO SURROUND OBAMA DURING HOLIDAY IN HAWAII

[backhoe]

Obama poll collpase: Net strongly at MINUS 19

America Under Barack Obama: An Interview with Nat Hentoff

'Welcome to Obamaville' Sign At Homeless Tent City, Media Mum

 

 

Need about 535 of these on the National Mall for the next Tea Party in DC:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obamaville/index?tab=articles

"We are heading straight toward a brick wall; the entire government sector is supported by the private sector. All the promises and the fine rhetoric ignore the fact that the country simply cannot support its current government structure."

Retail Plus

I am still sitting on a very irascible male. But things are better, so....

November retail sales release:

// posted by MaxedOutMama @ 12/11/2009 08:13:00 AM  8 Use These Comments

 

"We are going to struggle along alone for a couple of years, because our political class does not have a clue. Half of it thinks the current situation is an opportunity rather than a problem, and the other half ran out of ideas about a decade ago. :( "

"WSJ - the era of Fantasynomics. It's quite alarming."

 

What Are President Obama's Actual Objectives?

 the Cloward-Piven Strategy

Der Spiegel: Siemens supports Iran's nuke efforts

Report on Oil-for-Food Scheme Gives Details of Bribes to Iraq

 

Siemens Corruption Scandal Deepens New Allegations of Bribes to Saddam

 

Hoo-doggies!

BlogWaZ!

Now, with more flounce!

 

Final Say

by m ( 474 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Guest Post, LGF at December 12th, 2009 - 6:00 pm

Sometimes, people just want to have their final say. Charles Johnson, who supposedly “parted ways with the right” a little while ago (while in reality he parted ways with sanity), seems to think that he can delete the words he doesn’t want to acknowledge and it’s like they were never said. Not true.

Carolina Girl had her final say, or “flounce” as Charles likes to call it, this morning. Screenshots here, here and here. All I can say is, let it out girl! ~:)

Click the “more” button below for the full text.

Or enjoy an open thread~ It’s Saturday night. Roll with it.

And now… on with the flounce!
read more ›

3 | December 12, 2009 6:07 pm

Wow the flounce to end all flounces! I love the part where she said (parpahrasing) “What do you do but sit on your fat ass all night ordering in Chinese take out and watching for heresy from LGF dogma on your blog”?

504 | December 13, 2009 6:31 am

How screwed up is thei country when Pat Boone asks “Is a new revolution inevitable?”

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=8411.0

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever..."







In case that doesn't turn out right here, the text is here also:

http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2009/12/12/final-say/#more-18689

Should Palin Debate Gore? 

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1439487#1439487

 have attended speeches of both Barack and Sarah. Both know how to deliver a speech.

The difference was in the attendees. Those that attended Barack down right scared me. Blindly following their leader. Chanting death to whites, death to the rich, death to the USA.

Those that attended Sarah polite, no ranting of killing anyone, and extreme pride in their country.

A significant difference to say. I bet though there have been idiot remarks by supporters of Sarah but nothing to the level and zeal of the Barack crowd.

As note, my dislike of Barack and the Democrats has nothing to do with his skin colour. It is about his ideology and background and the goal of him and the Democratic party. They want destruction of the freedoms of the USA and to implement full blown socialism/communism. Enslave the masses so a few elites can be the masters

One World Government? Globe may not be big enough.

Freezing Rain Advisory (Western Pennsylvania)

Yes, the last decade saw global cooling, not warming

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/

Climategate: the video everyone should see

Next time you’re in an argument with someone who is totally convinced that global warming is a) man made and b) unprecedented, why not show them this brief video from Watts Up With That? Game over! (Hat tip: Plato Says)

Video at Link!

104 Comments

The same arguments are put here rather better.

[backhoe]

Palin on the Rise; Obama is Old News

Palin's Turning Point

Memo to Andrew Breitbart; Updated [Sarah Palin and the popular culture]

Say it Loud

Say it Proud

Obama

Is

Tanking!

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Kevin Jennings and “FistGate” Should Make Parents Furious

A prescription for snooping

Tony Blair Says WMD Not The Only Reason For Iraq War, As Did Bush…..Both Were Right

Bush NEVER said ONCE that WMD was the only reason. <<<

Right!! The Bush administration's presentation to Congress under the War Poswers act listed 21 or 22 reasons. WMD programs were only one reason. And the resolution lumped Iran's violation of 6 UN resolution as only one reason.

Here's one link confirming this - to PBS no less.

It's now Obama's to screw up - as is Afghanistan.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec02/joint_resolution_10-11-02.html

11 posted on Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:07:14 PM by HardStarboard

Hamas Digging Up Bodies of Dead Christians Claiming They "Pollute the Earth"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/833678/posts?page=10621#10621

 

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=150.0

 

DRAFT

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT of new forum Opening.

To all who shall see these Presents, Greetings.
Some of you may have been as surprised and let down by the recent closure of the Gulf Coast Pundits (GCP) discussion forum as we ourselves were.
Today, one week to the day since that unexpected closure, we the community that were and are GCP are proud and happy to announce that our new home has been established and is hereby Open for Business at the following URL -
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/

We cordially invite all those with a post-9/11 and reasonably conservative mindset to come join us in our new home.
And those of you willing and capable of discussing your positions without resorting to debunked counterpoints are likewise invited.
The rest of you, those that cheered the premature news of our demise, not so much. You'll be shot on site [sic].

Thank you for your attention, see you at the new site.

DRAFT...

 

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=173.0

 

And:

Farewell GCP « Nuke Gingrich

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a group of folks began to assemble at a new website: Gulf Coast Pundit. We did so at the request of the owner of ...
nukegingrich.com/2009/06/09/farewell-gcp/

More background:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1354734#1354734

 

Obama has no power to make climate deal: US lawmaker

Sorry Senator (Member of the Royal 100 Club) but you are incorrect. Your people passed bills that have given total dictatorial power to the EPA and other Executive portions of the Government, except for the Military.

The EPA can use power of prison, fines, and arrest plus immediate slavery to make “We The People” do as they want. Your Royal 100 Club gave them this dictatorial power and unless the Royal 100 Club takes it away they can do anything they want...

Take Up The White Man's Burden (of misplaced enviro guilt)

Go Nuclear! Go Green!

Markey: Climate-Gate Has Become 'Tree Ring Circus' (They get busted but continue with the hoax)

Climategate rundown (extensive)

 

"Inhofe cleaned the little commie bitch's clock. And Markey knew it.

Markey looked visibly disturbed when Inhofe quoted the $10 billion illegal promise Obarry was about to make to the 3rd world.

I think it will make a great piece of video evidence in the upcoming treason and corruption trials. "

20th Century Climate Not So Hot ( Harvard Astrophysics 2003)

A convenient lie - Radical environmentalists seek secular utopia

What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar?

The Global Warming Hoax was designed to transfer massive amounts of wealth from First World nations to Third and Fourth World nations. The global warming hysteria always talked about supposed catastrophe 75-100 years out. But the wealth transfer was always intended to start Now. It has begun.

Climategate: the video everyone should see

Next time you’re in an argument with someone who is totally convinced that global warming is a) man made and b) unprecedented, why not show them this brief video from Watts Up With That? Game over! (Hat tip: Plato Says)

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ..

Kevin Jennings and “FistGate” Should Make Parents Furious

Bush NEVER said ONCE that WMD was the only reason. <<<

Right!! The Bush administration's presentation to Congress under the War Poswers act listed 21 or 22 reasons. WMD programs were only one reason. And the resolution lumped Iran's violation of 6 UN resolution as only one reason.

Here's one link confirming this - to PBS no less.

It's now Obama's to screw up - as is Afghanistan.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec02/joint_resolution_10-11-02.html

[backhoe]

Can’t Hide the Decline: Obama Hits New Polling Lows.

UPDATE: Even the DailyKos tracking poll is looking grimmer.

Obama’s Approval Index Number Tanks to -19 – Another Record Low

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 1:00 PM

Jim Hoft

This is awful news for the radical leftist in the White House…
Barack Obama’s presidential approval index number has dropped to -19.
Obama has dropped a stunning 49 points in less than one year.

In less than a year Obama has lost the independents. Only 21% strongly support his radical agenda while 49% of independents strongly disapprove.
Rasmussen reported:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.

Today is the second straight day that Obama’s Approval Index rating has fallen to a new low. Prior to the past two days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office (see trends).

The 23% who Strongly Approve matches the lowest level of enthusiasm yet recorded. Just 41% of Democrats Strongly Approve while 69% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 21% Strongly Approve and 49% Strongly Disapprove.

Real Clear Politics has more on Obama’s decline.

Comments (14)

 Obama Goes From Dazzle To Drone.  "Obama's sagging numbers are less a regular presidential "approval rating" than a measure of the ever-widening gulf between the messianic ballyhoo and his actual performance."

Rod Dreher: GLSEN's toxic reading list eroticizes children

Missouri Billboard Warns Washington: Prepare for War

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 12:55 PM

Jim Hoft

A new billboard off of Interstate 70 in Missouri warns government to “Prepare for War.”

The European Union Times reported:

A new billboard off of Interstate 70 in Missouri provides a short “citizens guide to REVOLUTION of a corrupt government” and issues a call to “PREPARE FOR WAR.”

This billboard replaces one that warned that the socialist “Obama-Nation” is “coming for you.” It’s unclear who the owner of the billboard is, but the first one was the work of a “Missouri businessman.”

While it’s unclear who owns it, the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee seems to endorse it.

Hat Tip Donna

The Carnahan website Fired Up Missouri reported on this billboard earlier.

Comments (38)

 

"No one wants things to go this way, but when the represntatives of the people no longer represent the people and the courts don’t back the people, what other recourse is there?"

 

Too big to fail? (Calls for a black bailout/slave reparations)

'After the blacks pay back all the billions for "The Great Society" programs, welfare programs, AFUDC, Medicaid, Affirmative Action, Midnight Basketball-style programs, food stamp programs, etc., etc., let's see who owes who for burdening the wallets of those who work (as opposed to those who are fourth-generation-welfare-recipients-and-never-worked-a-fulltime job).

 

"OBAMA-MONEY"'

There's something happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear

There is now as we read this thread the creation of a “ get the wealthy” IRS enforcement utit with 100 brand new hires. My bet is that they are lefties appointed Chicago patronage style.

The IRS will be used to cow free speech, and Americans will become afraid for their estates in speakinng out against the left, for the first thing that will happen to those who speak out, is an IRS audit and a seizure of their assets pending the outcome of litigation.

This is a huge problem.And it will likely eventually lead to violence.

Secret Document Exposes Iran's Nuclear Trigger (Expert: "Smoking Uranium"; "Casus Belli")

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Welcome to Obamaville

Dacre wrote: Obviously you are a racist backhoe. I'm sure Obam has the best of intentions. Isn't that what really counts? Just feeling good from listening to the great messiah should be enough for the people. I find just the idea that business and monied people are evil works for me. If getting even with them hurts me in the process so be it. Get past your hatred and realize the messiah is much smarter than the rest of us and the average citizen doesn't have the faculties to understand the ideals coming down from the higher plain. You need to beg for forgiveness and get rehabilitated.

You're right!

I ritually denounce my own sef'

( And you, just to be inclusive! )

I abase mysef'!

Then, I trun oursef's over to the block watchers and re-education camps to have our attitudes adjusted!


Camp Obama

 

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Copenhagen’s climate cages filling up with activists arrested for “pre-emptive” reasons

Y2Kyoto: "Carbon Trade" And "Organized Crime"

Not just synonyms anymore!

Europes top police body Europol, the closest thing that European Union has to the American Fbi, has exposed a massive fraud with the unions official market in carbon credits, the Emission Trading System.

The fraud is costing tax payers in a handful of European countries more than five billion euro – 7 billion dollars – and raises doubts about the effectiveness of carbon trading as a measure to curb emissions.

Europol director Rob Wainwright issued the following statement:
These criminal activities endanger the credibility of the European Union Emission Trading System and lead to the loss of significant tax revenue for governments.

Police authorities in Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom have worked together in what Europol calls a process to identify and disrupt the organised criminal structures behind these fraud schemes.

Europol report here.

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Posted by Kate at 11:39 AM| Comments (24)

 

Here is a wonderful analysis in the Sydney Telegraph

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/copenhagen-a-climate-of-manipulation/story-e6frezz0-1225809688586

Best lines

"Some naive folk, who probably still don't understand that governments do not, in fact, make money of their own but merely take what has been earned by others and redistribute it to causes they think will win them the most votes, may believe that the wealth redistribution will actually lower the temperature of the planet.

There is no evidence, scientific or otherwise, that this will happen. The only certainty is that billions will be ripped off by bankers and other middle men before the remainder arrives in the Third World to be looted by a line-up of dictators and tyrants."

Record Cold To hit Global Warming Conference (Copenhagen To Break Dec 17th Record by 7 Degrees!)

[backhoe]

THE CONAN APPEARANCE: A Sarah Palin turning point?

 

Numbers Not Adding Up For Senate Democrats On Health Care Reform.

 

Obama: I'm so awesome, I'll just grade myself. Hey look, I got a B+

—Purple Avenger

Hubris

President Barack Obama, in an interview that aired Sunday, gave himself "a good solid B-plus" grade for his first year in office.

Speaking with fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey, the president claimed progress on economic and international fronts....

The number of households getting food stamps up by 3M in the period June 08 through June 09

...More than 35 million low-income Americans (16 million households) received federal Food Stamp/SNAP benefits in June 2009, an increase over the 13 million households that received assistance in June 2008. Congress allocated $54 billion for the program in 2009, up from $39 billion last year, to cover the growing number of eligible families...

USDA web site prefers to keep pitching the old 08 numbers.

Meanwhile, the official numbers don't apparently reflect the number of people who are in fact eligible for food stamps.

...Two states — Wyoming and California — had fewer than 50 percent of those eligible enrolled to receive food stamps. Many of the states that struggled were among the most populous, including New York, where 61 percent of eligible citizens participated; Florida, where 57 percent participated; and Texas, where 55 percent were enrolled...

Approval Index -19.

B+

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Posted by Purple Avenger at 12:39 AM New Comments Thingy

 

25 B+ ? how does that compare with his university grades?

er, never mind.

"It doesn't occur to him to be embarrassed."

 

Say It Loud

Say It Proud

Obama

Is

Tanking...

Rasmussen: Obama Sinks to New Low

—Gabriel Malor

Before yesterday the Approval Index had never been below -15. Yesterday it dropped to -16. Today he's at -19.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.

[...]

The 23% who Strongly Approve matches the lowest level of enthusiasm yet recorded. Just 41% of Democrats Strongly Approve while 69% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 21% Strongly Approve and 49% Strongly Disapprove.

[...]

Among those who consider fiscal policy issues the most important, just 1% Strongly Approve and 81% Strongly Disapprove.

The President’s Approval Index rating is -2 among voters under 30 and -29 among senior citizens. From an income perspective, the President’s ratings are weakest among those who earn $40,000 to $100,000 annually.

I'm trying to figure out what happened in the last four days to turn off so many more people. The major nets have had all Tiger all the time. The only thing I can think of is the vague connection folks have between the President and the imminent unpopular climate change talks in Copenhagen.

Is it a delayed reaction to the Afghanistan speech?

Is it just Obama fatigue?

Again, it's Slu's. Thanks to commenter YIKES!

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:56 PM New Comments Thingy

 

3 Tiger may have something to do with it, actually. The collapse of the Tiger PR machine, from which 0bama borrowed so much, might be making folks wonder what is really behind the curtain.

 

12 It's interesting how nonlinear the process of disillusionment is.  What we are seeing now is the tipping point between "I voted for this guy and I don't want to admit what a sucker I was, so I'll keep praising him", to "I don't want to be the last one defending this bozo, so I'll turn on him now and start attacking those who still are". 

 

16 The Climategate emails are doing damage, too.

People can see the emails and see how the MSM is a pack of lying hyenas.

Massive Winter storms following a cool Summer coupled with a Climategate and Copenhagen crap penetrates even the densest of skulls.

 

56

yes, I agree with the commentor above, also people are realising that lies about Climategate, and now the EPA is going to act like a dictator, and we are giving contitutional rights to terrorists who want to hurt the citizens of that country they are trying to destroy.

And then the death-care, serisouly, jailing people for not buying the crap they want to force us to?

 

19 who knew that being the Hip Prez was tough? Oh yeah, us.

 

21 It doesn't matter what the major nets have on.  People can...and are....tuning them out (seen their ratings lately?  I rest my case.)  They can go on the Internet, find out what the media doesn't or won't tell them, and make up their own minds.  Climategate isn't going away, and health care is tanking, even though the Legacy Media is in full damage control mode.    

They can also see their families, friends and neighbors out of work...or hoping that they don't lose their jobs, look at how the value of their houses and 401k's have gone down, and see local stores and businesses closing.  The talking heads can try and spin it all they want, but it only works to a point.

The only thing I can compare it to is when I was in the former Soviet Union in 1988-1989.

 

103 Hmmmmm.

From personal experience with some friends:

1. It's the end of the year.  Time for reflection, contemplation and scoring Obama.  Common wisdom had it that many people gave Obama a year to prove himself, end of year coming up, proof of incompetence is the only offering around.

2. End of year coming up and people are starting to consider that the past year has felt like 8 years ... and we've got 3 actual more years to go.  People are going "WTF!?  Three more years of this crap!??".

3. The whole "criticize Obama and you're a racist." has coupled with "criticize healthcare reform and you're a racist *and* a proponent of slavery" to result in "F*ck this crap!".

 

23 Sarah Palin, too, is making a difference.

She was cheered in LA.

Her book is selling like waffles.

 

Protesters Greet Attorney General Eric Holder at Long Island Speech

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 8:49 PM

Jim Hoft

Protesters came out in the rain to greet Attorney General Holder to Long Island today.
Gathering of Eagles New York has photos.

Remember the FALN?

Here’s a FALN-Holder flashback–
Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder was grilled in Congress after the Clinton Administration pardoned FALN terrorists before leaving office. This testimony on the Clinton pardons of the 16 FALN terrorists took place in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and the pardon attorney continued to invoke the president’s executive privilege during the testimony.

The FALN terrorist’s were behind more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets between 1974 and 1983:

The FALN Bombing in El Barrio, East Harlem, New York City

FALN Bombing of Fraunces Tavern, New York City

FALN bombing 1977

HERE is a list of FALN Bombings and incendiary activities.

And, HERE Eric Holder was grilled by the House Government Reform Committee in 2001 defending the Marc Rich pardon. Committee Chairman Dan Burton and Representative Bob Barr grill Holder on the pardon. The Pardon was right before Bill Clinton left office and the hearing was a month later.
Hat Tip Dan Friedman

Obama sure knows how to pick them, doesn’t he?

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The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009 (Great Article)

10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian Shakedown of U.S. oil company

9. Media Fail to Scrutinize Obama’s Job Claims

8. Government Stimulus is the Answer to Our Economic Problems

7. No Tax Increases for the Middle Class

6. The Recession was Over … by July.

5. Cash for Clunkers was a ‘Success’

4. Reagan vs. Obama on Jobs: Same Rate, Different Story

3. Health Care Reform will be ‘Deficit Neutral’

2. Tea Parties aren’t made up of grassroots protestors; they’re just ‘Astroturf.’

1. ClimateGate

'Witch hunt' expected under new U.S. 'hate crimes' law

MassResistance inflames national media furor over Kevin Jennings, 'safe schools' czar

For America's Santas, It's Hard to Be Jolly With the Tales They're Hearing

Inside 'Obamaville'

Socialism and Radical Environmentalism

A Memo To The Global Warming Cult

 

Please. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Take a deep breath, and try to understand what has happened to you during the past month.

http://tinyurl.com/y8ugrgx

 

The Long View [Darleen Click]

The Hockey Stick v Ice Core Data

The above is an animated version of graphs from Watt’s Up With That plus narration.

(h/t Little Miss Attila)

Posted by Darleen @ 3:38 pm
Comments (119)

 

"Shame on you Darleen for bringing in perspective you are not fighting fair. Only emotion is allowed in this debate because THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!!!!eleventy!"

 

20 | December 13, 2009 4:26 pm

The progressive/liberal eco-nazis will stop at nothing when it comes to advancing their fascist ideas, including resorting to violence (Copenhagen), fraudulent movies (Inconvenient Truth), manipulation and deletion of data (ClimateGate), Censorship (The flawed “peer-review” process), and the demonization and dismissal of legitimate counter arguments by resorting to childish ad-hominems and comparing those people to Holocaust Deniers.

 

We Don't Need No Stinking Earthquake Generators

It does my taxpayer's heart good to know that governments all over the planet are siphoning wealth from those who produce the reliable energy that's keeping tens of thousands from freezing to death on this frigid December night, just so they can piss it away on renewable utter failure.

The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned.

A method of tapping energy from bedrock has been linked to increased earthquake activity.

The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels and the project was being financed with federal Department of Energy money at a site about 100 miles north of San Francisco called the Geysers.

But on Friday, the Energy Department said that AltaRock had given notice this week that “it will not be continuing work at the Geysers” as part of the agency’s geothermal development program.

Related - "Ontario, Quebec say they won’t shoulder oil sands burden"

I wish I owned all the oil companies in the world right now. I'd make a surprise appearance at Copenhagen, just to announce my retirement.

h/t Dorothy

Posted by Kate at 12:24 AM| Comments (16)

 

The Sound Of Settled Science

(It may take those of you on slower connections a few seconds to download and begin running.)

Click here for the high resolution version, and then make sure every kid you know under the age of 14 views it.

Update - There's also a Youtube version here.

Posted by Kate at 4:21 PM| Comments (44)

 

I like Iowahawk's take on this:

The initial controversy about this result was raised by MacIntyre and McKittrick (MM) who noted the backcasts of Mann's reconstructed temperatures didn't reproduce the amplitude of the Medieval "warm period" or the subsequent "little ice age" that previous research had estimated.
. . .
They published a couple papers suggesting the flat reconstructed historical temperatures were artifacts of Mann's selection of a time frame for extracting principle components (see step 1 above), which artificially suppressed the variation in the temperature backcasts.
. . .
This artifact explanation was largely confirmed by George Mason U statistician EJ Wegman (methods editor for JASA), who blistered Mann's model in a 2006 report commissioned by the Congressional Energy & Commerce committee. Amusingly, Wegman showed that replacing Mann's principle components estimates with repeated samples of random white noise continued to produce the same hockey stick shape.

It doesn't get more funny than this:
Climate change demonstration in temperatures pushing -40.
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091212/EDM_climate_091212/20091212/?hub=EdmontonHome

Understanding the carbon credit scam . . . before it implodes.

"The head of the Asian Development Bank (ADP), Haruhiko Kuroda, warned governments that a failure to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen could lead to a collapse of the carbon market, which would hit efforts to deal with climate change make carbon traders very rich.

It helps of course to know that Mr Kuroda is best known in greenie circles for setting up the ADB Advisory Group on Climate Change – chaired by millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri, part-time chairman of the IPCC.

An interesting member of that Group is Dr Klaus Toepfer, Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Studies Climate, Earth System and Sustainability Sciences and former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). And it was UNEP, of course, which set up the IPCC - which now has as its part-time chairman millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.

One other member is professor Hironori Hamanaka, Chair, Board of Directors, Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The IGES claims to be "a research institute that conducts pragmatic and innovative strategic policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region." It will come as no surprise, therefore, to learn that the organisation works very closely with TERI, whose Director-General is millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Yet another is Ms Huguette Labelle, also a Board Member of the UN Global Compact organisation, the very same UN to which millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri belongs. Hilariously, Ms Labelle is Chair of Transparency International, the global civil society organisation "leading the fight against corruption." TI's mission "is to create change towards a world free of corruption."

The Board also includes professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University. This is the same Earth Institute which set up the Climate-Risk Center, inviting millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri to become its first Board Chairman."

http://tinyurl.com/yahleul

Posted by: Fred at December 13, 2009 8:26 PM

Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Mugabe Will Address Delegates at Copenhagen

—Gabriel Malor

Actually, I don't mind this at all. Could there be any others more apt to deprive this ridiculous conference of what little legitimacy it had?

"King Obama demands a simple offering of Earth and Water."

He'll be there on Friday.

Slushop courtesy of the Indispensable Slublog.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:30 PM New Comments Thingy

 

"It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke "Obama, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Mugabe walk into a climate change conference..."

 

6 No wonder Aliens won't contact us.

We are still a bunch of dangerous primitives governed by greed and tribalism.

Canada freezes as snow storm strands thousands

Snow on the way as Britain in grip of cold snap

Global Warming? Snow Falls Down Under During Australian Summer

Henrik Svensmark on Global Warming (part 1) (It's the sun and clouds, not CO2)

NASA sunspot activity prediction indicates next decade coldest in over a century [FR Exclusive]

[backhoe]

Harry Reid Slips Lifetime Limit Into Senate Bill

U.S. Economy Forecast 2010, The Year of Severe Economic Contraction

 

 

Boisson lawyer says Obama plans 'inquisitions'

 

America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...  
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RASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Job Approval Falls to New Low at 44%... Developing...

 

Obama approval in free fall - reaches minus 19

Obama ratings in the sewer

 

Swampwoman HELL COLD for Christmas

Lots of new cold and snow records in the USA this past week.

13 12 2009

From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.

Here’s a summary: Read the rest of this entry »
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Polyscienticians

Posted by Jeff Id on December 13, 2009

Sometimes I think the scientists are being used by the politicians, then I rember the politicians are being used equally by the scientists. Finally you realize, there isn’t much difference.

I hope the polarbears don’t figure out how to work the system.

Chip Bok, Creators Syndicate - http://www.bokbluster.com/

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Climate Treaty Would Create New Global Agencies to Transfer Money and Technology from U.S.

Walkout triggers Copenhagen breakdown

[backhoe]

Fistgate VII: Teacher claims Jennings knew about the pornographic content of the Fistgate conference

Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders

Kevin Jennings' Fistgate Conference Gave Teachers DOE Professional Credits

KEVIN JENNINGS, UNSAFE SCHOOLS, HOMSEXUALITY & THE OBAMA ADMIN

PETITION TO REMOVE JENNINGS

Dems Point Fingers at WH, Timid Incumbents (Obama Becoming "Politically Radioactive")

“The consultant, though, warned that Obama could be “politically radioactive” by next year.”

Following the 2004 elections, the dems started hammering away at Bush every day.

Bush’s wars, Bush’s economy and GOP corruption. They kept it simple and consistent. One, two, three.

(they didn’t waste a lot of words on all their gripes)

And it worked. Bush became radioactive, by 2006 and 2008. The GOP brand lost favor.

The tendency is for the GOP to not be as organized and consistent, as the dems were. And for each GOP person to have their own take on things. And for some to sound like dull, dry accountants.

But a simple, consistent, hardhitting criticism of Obama will pave the way for gains in 2010.

One, two, three. (not one to eight, or one to fourteen)

 

[Law & Order's Michael Moriarty] Senator Reid prepares us for our second civil war (Must see this!)

You should read this book for a conclusion to these problems.

21 posted on Monday, December 14, 2009 2:25:58 PM by blam

Niall Ferguson: The World Is In Denial, The Great Repression Lives On

Sophisticated Sarah Palin is Part Hepburn, Part Loren, Part Thatcher - Part Annie Oakley

 

Black activist to Obama: Promote job growth by killing cap-and-trade

America’s Two Unconstitutional Presidents

It’s about “natural born” status.

It is entirely possible to be a citizen of the United States, while not being a “natural born” citizen.

Example A: Arnold Schwarzenegger is a citizen. He became a citizen as a result of a process — naturalization — he is not a “natural born” citizen.

Example B: An anchor baby — becomes a citizen by virtue of being born in the United States of America — that baby is a “native born” citizen.

To be a “natural born” citizen, the citizen must have been born in the United States of America, the child of TWO US citizen parents.

Here is the law, its evolution and applicable caselaw:

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm

Barack Obama, himself, signed a Senate resolution that affirms that “if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen.” Parents — two — more than one:

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm#LeahyResolution

On Obama’s “Fight the Smears” website, Obama’s campaign correctly identifies Obama as a “native born” citizen:

http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/FightTheSmearsCOLBHTML.htm

And if you cursor down to the bottom of the page, it explains why.

51 posted on Monday, December 14, 2009 11:25:48 AM by Beckwith

 

Senators Say Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Abortion Morally Correct

CHART OF THE DAY: Bureaucrats Have Way Better Benefits Than You

 

ACORN grants restored!

The Government Is Monitoring Facebook And Twitter

Job Market Worsens For Recent College Graduates [0 Received 67% Voters 18-29 Yr]

We are in big trouble (It's time that Americans took a hard look at our values & concept of justice)

Fascinating Inerview of Nate Hentoff

Why Such Joy Over Tiger Woods' Humiliation?

It's called displacement. They're taking safe joy in the humiliation of a sort-of-black guy because they're too afraid to go after the one they really want to see humiliated: the big B.O.

97 posted on Monday, December 14, 2009 12:26:30 PM by aruanan

7th Poll Comes Out Showing Obama below 50% Approval (Its not just one Mr. Gibbs)

Right Now for Copenhagen, Denmark (It's 32 F).

Hundreds queue in cold for global warming talks

Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years

Copenhagen summit has biggest-ever carbon footprint: report

There are a fair number of decent options that could come out of Copenhagen right now. Option 1 is that the greed of African kleptocrats blows up the whole thing and nothing comes out of the conference. Option 2 is that the Europeans twist 0bama to agree to pay their bill for them, which he would gladly do. That would die in the Senate where they need 67 votes to ratify it, and even if the dems pick off Snowe and the other usual RINO suspects, they won’t get seven of them. In other words, the more nauseating they make the treaty, the less likely the US Senate will eat it.

14 posted on Monday, December 14, 2009 4:07:55 PM by henkster

 

Mic Gets Broken As Journalist Confronts Al Gore On Climategate at Arrival In Copenhagen (Video)

Copenfrauden: The Scandals Behind Global Warming

CLIMATE STATEMENT "AN ORCHESTRATED LITANY OF LIES" ( Dr Vincent Gray )

You should read this book for a conclusion to these problems.

America’s Two Unconstitutional Presidents

It’s about “natural born” status.

It is entirely possible to be a citizen of the United States, while not being a “natural born” citizen.

Example A: Arnold Schwarzenegger is a citizen. He became a citizen as a result of a process — naturalization — he is not a “natural born” citizen.

Example B: An anchor baby — becomes a citizen by virtue of being born in the United States of America — that baby is a “native born” citizen.

To be a “natural born” citizen, the citizen must have been born in the United States of America, the child of TWO US citizen parents.

Here is the law, its evolution and applicable caselaw:

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm

Barack Obama, himself, signed a Senate resolution that affirms that “if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen.” Parents — two — more than one:

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm#LeahyResolution

On Obama’s “Fight the Smears” website, Obama’s campaign correctly identifies Obama as a “native born” citizen:

http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/FightTheSmearsCOLBHTML.htm

And if you cursor down to the bottom of the page, it explains why.

It's called displacement. They're taking safe joy in the humiliation of a sort-of-black guy because they're too afraid to go after the one they really want to see humiliated: the big B.O.

There are a fair number of decent options that could come out of Copenhagen right now. Option 1 is that the greed of African kleptocrats blows up the whole thing and nothing comes out of the conference. Option 2 is that the Europeans twist 0bama to agree to pay their bill for them, which he would gladly do. That would die in the Senate where they need 67 votes to ratify it, and even if the dems pick off Snowe and the other usual RINO suspects, they won’t get seven of them. In other words, the more nauseating they make the treaty, the less likely the US Senate will eat it.

[backhoe]

A TEA PARTY down under? “In a way — it’s like watching the Tea Party movement swallow the GOP from the inside, and the polls are going up rather than down as a result. If this is a collapse, then parties should collapse more often.”

 

“The Full Meltdown.”

 

This is an administration in full meltdown. Like all wounded beasts it will now become more dangerous...This qualifies as a breakthrough. If Obama was a stock there would be massive short selling starting now...For the Democrats to continue to back Health Care or Cap 'n Trade is suicidal. The election proved that with massive media assistance and bare faced fraud and thuggery abetted by local operatives in places like Missouri, Ohio and Minnesota the Left can seize an office. That does not mean that they can govern...

...as I have indicated before on this subject the support for Obama appears to decline as a step function. Once he declines by 3-5% a massive publicity effort temporarily recovers half the loss, until the process repeats. Look at the long term trend line...

...The parties are declining because the people are less dependant on old fashioned Chicago style machines for basic jobs and services. Obamaism is an effort to replicate that 100 year outdated model on a national scale. It is withering in the light of day...

...This is the true tragedy of this Administration. A narrow ideologue, fronting for a group of foreign and white economic and political special interests, seized upon the credulity and loyalty of a segment of America. The gulf has never been wider and it will take decades to heal...This will truly be a Winter of Discontent for the Democrats. The public is becoming slowly aware of the fraud behind the Global Warming schemes. The effort to seize control of Health Care has ruptured his alliances. The politicization of the War by moving the prosecutions to NY and the discontent of returning veterans with his performance are all serious blows. His overseas conduct has proven embarrassing. A series of scandals, such as the "Safe Schools Czar" who is into bizarre sexual practices advocacy, rip his credibility. More important is that the massive debt and theft of public funds give credence to fears of greater disasters to come. The recovery is not happening. The public declines to buy into Government Motors Ford is expanding market share as the cronies of BHO suffer from the appearance that doing business with them is equivalent to being a reciever of stolen goods. Businesses will not invest or hire in an atmosphere of financial amateurism and legal thuggery.

 

Obama the Red Avenger

Obama's Vow to Eliminate Earmarking From Budgets: B+
Set to Sign Porked-Up Omnibus Spending Bill With Price Tag of $447 B+
True Cost of Bill: $1.1 Trillion

—Ace

He wants to be known as the deficit-fightin' president, you know.

In March, President Obama announced he would sign a $410 billion omnibus spending bill containing, according to taxpayers’ groups, 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion, but he said he would push to reform the earmark system. He seemed a little embarrassed about the whole deal, refusing to sign the bill in public or even to release a photograph.

...

Today Gibbs was asked if the President was contemplating vetoing the $447 billion omnibus spending bill passed by the Senate yesterday -- which has more than 5,000 earmarks – as a way of sending a signal to Democrats to stop the earmarks and wasteful spending.

...

Gibbs said he was “led to believe” President Obama would sign the bill.

In related news, the Santa Claus is coming, and he will give all the children B+'s.

Anyone remember the days, just a short 350 days ago, when the supply of paper money was not infinite?

Crazy, huh? That old-timey economics.

All seems as quaint now as listening to serials on the radio and providing for your children.

Update: Gabe tells me the major media are faking the number -- the $447 billion (with a B+) is for discretionary spending only.

The whole bill is for $1.1 trillion when you include nondiscretionary spending, which you should.

He writes:

However, the WashTimes, AP, The Hill, and Politico noted the truer $1.1 trillion number. WaPo, NYTimes, Roll Call did not.

So sorry, I B-plussed it up.

Posted by Ace at 07:02 PM New Comments Thingy

 

95 This time last year, I never in a hundred gazillion million years dreamed this country would be as screwed as it is.  Or that our "Commander in Chief" (and I use that title with total derision), would be the the total weak-assed, numb-nut, POS he's turned out to be. 

Hey, WH.  I know you're monitoring these boards.  I don't love your master.  Get a cot ready for me in the camps.  I give up.  You've succeeded.  You've screwed the country.  You should be proud.

 

Who do you trust?

Monday, December 14, 2009, 11:56 AM

The_Anchoress

Whom to trust? The public is angry at big finance on Wall Street, whose greed and recklessness helped to cause the panic that tore holes through retirement accounts. It is angrier at a big spending, big regulating government that started the mess with its warping of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (It is as if we asked a heroin dealer to help wean an addict off his habit.) The public was angry with Bush, and is becoming even angrier, more quickly with Obama.

The people wanted tight-fisted sobriety and smaller government as antidotes to Bush’s deficits and new entitlement programs—and got instead with Obama even more reckless spending, mega-deficits, and bigger, more inefficient government. They wanted a more articulate explanation of American foreign policy, and instead got it turned upside down

— Victor Davis Hanson

This videoclip could be a metaphor for the US media and leadership, circa 2009, right down to the “being underwater” and the “stalled” and the “in the tank” parts. Except, of course, “remaking America” has pretty much stopped the laughter.

Video At Link:

Once you’re done laughing check out Maxed Out Mama’s analysis of the brick wall we’re about to hit:

We are heading straight toward a brick wall; the entire government sector is supported by the private sector. All the promises and the fine rhetoric ignore the fact that the country simply cannot support its current government structure.

(H/T Melissa Clouthier, who has to re-assure a reader of hers that Yes, Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” really is all about promoting gay sex to all age groups, with sometimes detailed instruction.)

To quote more Hanson:

When schools cannot guarantee that their graduates are literate, know basic math, and have some sense of being American—the rights and responsibilities of citizenship—then those, rich or poor, who seek government assistance and violate the protocols will grow, and those able to pay sufficient taxes for them and who follow the letter of the law will shrink.

More on the recovery that is not adding up.

Oh, well…we may not have jobs, or a competent president, or a functional government; our students may not be able to balance a checkbook, or tell you what our constitution says; we may have people in leadership who are corrupt and spiteful, but at least everyone will know about fisting, and whether it is better to spit or swallow.

And apparently everyone will soon work for the government. They’ll need to hire a lot of folks to effectively spy on twitter and facebook.

But I am not trying to scare you, or anything

Related:
Micromanaging the little stuff, while they fail on the big stuff.
Ace: Interesting if O/T

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"I’ve seen this administration referred as ‘The Reign of Error’. I am becoming convinced that the title should revert back to its original -’Reign of Terror’."

America’s Days of Confusion

by Rodan ( 149 Comments › )
Filed under American Supremacy, Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Economy, Progressives, Tranzis at December 14th, 2009 - 8:30 am

Victor Davis Hanson, who is an intellectual giant of our times, has a really great article today. His thesis is that a malaise and disconnect has fallen on America. The Progressive elites of this nation are disconnected from the populace. They have raided our treasuries and lead us into ridiculous nation building of Islamic societies that are our natural enemies. The demands of the population are ignored as they follow some Radical Transnationalist agenda.  America is dazed and confused.

No one quite knows what is going on.

Inflation?

Interest rates are at rock-bottom levels. But banks are reluctant to lend—both afraid of shaky borrowers and loathe to get tied down with low-interest obligations if inflation roars back. “They” say inflation won’t return, but the people know that it will, since expanding the money supply by two trillion dollars per annum, as interest rates are near zero, does not seem a stable scenario.

Real Estate?

Millions of Americans are dutifully paying their under-water mortgages each month, but getting peeved when they hear of all sorts of new programs to ensure others do not. Indeed, the message seems to be that the government cares for the hyper-wealthy or the very poor, while merely talking about the middle class, as it wages war on those who seek to be rich.

No one is getting much of a return on cash in the bank. But most are still paranoid about investing  in Wall Street, given the hit that their 401(k)s took last September.

Real estate should be a good investment, but cash is scarce, and no one knows where the property bottom actually is. So those employed with income and capital are more likely paying off debt or hoarding cash for an emergency to come, than buying and hiring.

California property should be a good buy, given dramatic drops in home prices. But with 3500 upper-middle class dissatisfied leaving a week, and 2500 rather poorer arriving, it seems at some point there simply will no longer be an affluent, big-income, big-home, pay-lots-of-taxes upper stratum left.

Read the Rest.

This is a dangerous situation that VDH is describing. America appears leaderless as the Progressive elites are out for their themselves. We need real leadership and alas, there is no one on the horizon.

Let us discuss and have a brainstorming session on the points Mr. Hanson makes. Let us also discuss possible solution to the issues presented here.

(Hat Tip: Iron Fist)

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Demcare crunch time: Kill the bill and start over; Update: Medicare expansion under the bus?

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 14, 2009 09:46 AM

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Sen. Joe Lieberman won’t vote for Harry Reid’s health care monstrosity. Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson is also balking.

Let’s hope they mean it:

In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.

The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out to overcome an impasse within the Democratic Party. But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and abandon any new government insurance plan or lose his vote.

On a separate issue, Mr. Reid tried over the weekend to concoct a compromise on abortion that would induce Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, to vote for the bill. Mr. Nelson opposes abortion. Any provision that satisfies him risks alienating supporters of abortion rights. In interviews on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Nelson said the bill did not have the 60 votes it would need in the Senate.

Senate Democratic leaders, including Mr. Reid and Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, said they had been mindful of Mr. Lieberman’s concerns in the last 10 days and were surprised when he assailed major provisions of the bill on television Sunday. He reiterated his objections in a private meeting with Mr. Reid. A Senate Democratic aide, perplexed by Mr. Lieberman’s stance, said, “It was a total flip-flop, and leaves us in a predicament as to what to do.”

Democrats are desperately trying to round up 60 votes and conclude Senate debate on the health care bill before Christmas.

Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill says she’s waiting for the latest CBO scoring:

If the current healthcare compromise doesn’t bend the cost curve and bring down the deficit, it’s “back to the drawing board,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said today. McCaskill said her vote will be determined by the Congressional Budget Office analysis of Harry Reid’s new healthcare bill. “Until we get the numbers back from the Congressional Budget Office we’re all on hold,” McCaskill told Fox News Sunday. “I have to be assured that this is going to bring down the deficit and is going to bring down healthcare costs for Missouri families.”

Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin admitted he’s “in the dark” about HarryCare even though he’s part of the leadership crusading for it.

The Hill gives a rundown of the schedule crunch as Harry Reid’s panic swells:

Reid is expected to offer a manager’s amendment that would include various changes to the healthcare bill, such as a recent compromise to replace the public option with an expansion of Medicare allowing people between the ages of 55 and 64 years old to buy coverage.

Democrats would have to file a motion to cut off a GOP filibuster of the manager’s amendment; a cloture motion on the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and finally a motion to end debate on the underlying legislative vehicle, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act.

Senate Democrats also have to wait for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to return a cost analysis on the compromise Reid brokered to replace the public option with the Medicare expansion and a new exchange national insurance plans to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management.

“The longer the CBO takes, the less time we’ll have to go home before Christmas but we need to finish this bill by Christmas and that’s our goal,” said Durbin.

Reid’s staff have told Democratic lobbyists and allies that they plan to pass the healthcare bill by Dec. 22 or 23. But to meet that timeline, Reid would have to receive a score on his manager’s amendment by early next week and would have to begin the laborious process of filing for cloture on Wednesday.

Adding to the complicated mix, Senate Democrats also have to pass important legislation that would be attached to the Department of Defense appropriations bill, including an increase of the federal debt limit and an extension of unemployment benefits, which have begun to expire for thousands of constituents.

Filing cloture and holding a final vote on this package gives Reid one fewer day of leeway.

So, where’s the GOP leadership?

Here’s GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell:

Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, McConnell said the Democrats cannot agree on what should or should not be included in the bill, such as more restrictive language on abortion, disability insurance, a public option. or a Medicare buy-in. “It’s noteworthy that you had to have three Democrats on to explain the Democratic position,” he told “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer. “There are more Democratic positions than you’d find in a stack of newspapers, [and] therein lies the problem.”

McConnell also sought to dispel charges that his party are obstructionists who do not want to reform the nation’s health care system.

He cited opposition to aspects of the bill that, he claimed, would cut a half-trillion dollars from Medicare, raise taxes to subsidize health coverage for the uninsured, and increase health insurance premiums for everyone else. “I think [Democrats] are in serious trouble on this, and the core problem is the American people do not want us to pass it.”

On the matter of a Medicare buy-in, in which those without insurance age 55 and up could buy into the existing government program used by people 65 and older, McConnell said, “Everyone anticipates a lot of very sick people would buy in, and it would exacerbate the problems that Medicare has.

“What we really need to do is to stop and start over, and go step-by-step to deal with the cost issue, which is what the American people thought [health reform] this was all about.”

Kill the bill.

Declare Code Red.

No more tinkering, compromises, or pussy-footing. Stop apologizing for being “obstructionist.”

Fight.

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Naked Emperor News/Breitbart TV spotlight Obama’s past statements on using Medicare expansion as the Trojan Horse for universal health care:

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Update: White House wants Reid to deal with Lieberman. Democratic caucus summoned to WH meeting tomorrow.

Update: Hmmm. Are the Dems throwing Medicare expansion under the bus? Looks like it. For now:

Senate Democratic leaders said Monday that they were prepared to drop a proposed expansion of Medicare and make other changes in sweeping health legislation as they tried to rally their caucus in hopes of passing the bill before Christmas.

After a tense 90-minute meeting on Monday evening, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Finance Committee, was asked if Democrats were likely to jettison the Medicare proposal.

“It’s looking like that’s the case,” Mr. Baucus said, indicating that the provision might be scrapped as a way of “getting support from 60 senators.”

Under the proposal, uninsured people ages 55 to 64 could purchase Medicare coverage. The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, floated the idea about 10 days ago as a way to break an intraparty impasse over his earlier proposal to create a government-run health insurance plan.

The signal from the party leadership came after the closed-door session to gauge sentiment for moving ahead with a pared-back measure that would not contain elements that liberal lawmakers had sought, particularly a public health insurance option.

Lawmakers and top aides said that the overriding view at the session held just off the Senate floor was that they had come too far in the health care debate to give up and that they should forge ahead with some legislation even if it was not all that they wanted.

After the meeting, lawmakers said they believed that chances were increased for completing a health care bill and that a final product would be a substantial improvement over the current system.

“If you compared it to the alternative, it looks good,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, about the prospect of moving ahead with a measure that does not have a public health insurance option. “If you compare it to the possibilities, it looks pretty sad.”

Democrats were scheduled to meet Tuesday at the White House with President Obama to discuss health care. The party meeting in the Capitol came at a crucial time since the leadership must begin taking procedural steps if Democrats hope to reach a final vote on a health care plan sometime next week.

At a brief news conference after the caucus meeting, Mr. Reid refused to answer questions. He said: “This is like a steeplechase race. The last big puddle is in front of us.”

Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa and chairman of the health committee, appeared to be laying the groundwork for a decision to abandon the Medicare buy-in.

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"Ah… but you all are missing one of the political tactical angles of the move to make this an expansion of Medicare…

Medicare is an existing program, thus this becomes a BUDGET BILL… and Reid will the Nuclear Option and circumvent Senate Rules for regular bills…

He only needs 50 this way."

Remember Obama’s Promises Of Reform?

December 14th, 2009

From a campaign speech entitled "The Change We Need in Washington,” which was given in Green Bay, WI, on September 22, 2008, and posted by the Obama campaign on YouTube:

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The Change We Need in Washington

The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has led us to a perilous moment. They said they wanted to let the market run free but instead they let it run wild, and in doing so, they tramped our core values of fairness, balance, and responsibility to one another. As a result, we are facing a financial crisis as profound as any we have faced since the Great Depression. As a result, your jobs, your savings, and your economic security are now at risk.

This week, we must work quickly, in a bipartisan fashion, to resolve this crisis and avert an even broader economic catastrophe. And as we do act, Washington must recognize that true economic recovery requires addressing not just the crisis on Wall Street, but the crisis on Main Street that so many of you have been feeling in your own lives long before the news of last week. We need a plan that helps families stay in their homes, and workers keep their jobs; a plan that gives hardworking Americans relief instead of using taxpayer dollars to reward CEOs on Wall Street. And we cannot give a blank check to Washington with no oversight and accountability when no oversight and accountability is what got us into this mess in the first place.

But no matter what solution we finally decide on this week, it is absolutely imperative that we get to work immediately on reforming the broken politics and the broken government that allowed this to crisis to happen in the first place.

We did not arrive at this moment by some accident of history. We are in this mess because of a bankrupt philosophy that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to the rest of us.

We’re here because for too long, the doors of Washington have been thrown open to an army of lobbyists and special interests who’ve turned our government into a game only they can afford to play – who have shredded consumer protections, fought against common-sense regulations and rules of the road, and distorted our economy so that it works for them instead of you.

We are here because an ethic of irresponsibility has swept through our government, leaving politicians with the belief that they can waste billions and billions of your money on no-bid contracts for friends and contributors, slip pork projects into bills during the dead of night, and spend billions on corporate tax breaks we can’t afford and old programs that we don’t need.

And today, even as Congress debates an emergency plan to save our economy from the verge of collapse, there are reports that lobbyists and CEOs are already lining up to figure out what’s in it for them; to find out how they can get theirs.

Green Bay, enough is enough.

I began this race for the presidency as the one candidate who hasn’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know this – if we want a government that puts the needs of middle-class families before the whims of lobbyists and politicians; if we want to grow this economy and prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again, then the ways of Washington must change. We must reform our lobbyist-driven politics. We must reform the waste and abuse in our government. We must reform the rules of the road that let Wall Street run wild and stuck Main Street with the bill. We must change Washington now.

This has been our message from the day we began this campaign. Our opponent, on the other hand, has spent much of the last nineteen months arguing that what qualifies him to be President are the decades he’s spent in Washington.

But with forty-two days left, he’s had a sudden change of heart. An election-time conversion. After twenty-six years in Washington – years where he voted for the same trickle-down, on-your-own policies that got us into this mess – he now claims that he’s the one who can clean it up.

Well let’s be clear. When it comes to regulatory reform, Senator McCain has fought time and time again against the common-sense rules of the road that could’ve prevented this crisis. His economic plan was written by Phil Gramm, the architect in the US Senate of the de-regulatory steps that helped cause this mess. Even knowing what we know now, Senator McCain said in an interview just last night that de-regulation actually helped grow our economy. Well that might be true for the profits of a few CEOs, but it’s certainly not true for America’s prosperity.

When it comes to taking on the special interests, my opponent sounds like Fighting Bob Lafollette. But he acts like a guy who’s spent three decades of his life in Washington. He’s put seven of the biggest corporate lobbyists in charge of his campaign – lobbyists for the insurance industry and the oil industry; for foreign governments and Freddie and Fannie Mac, who paid his campaign manager nearly $2 million to defend them against stricter regulations. I guess they got their money’s worth.

And rest assured, those lobbyists who are working day and night to elect my opponent aren’t doing it to put themselves out of business.

When it comes to reforming government waste and spending, Senator McCain talks a lot about earmarks. And while he deserves credit for not requesting many of those earmarks during his time in Congress, what he never mentions is that he voted for 144 billion dollars worth in just six years; or that he voted for four out of the five Bush budgets that have been filled with special interests giveaways and left us with the largest deficit in history.

The truth is, our earmark system in Washington is fraught with abuse. It badly needs reform – which is why I didn’t request a single earmark last year, why I’ve released all my previous requests for the public to see, and why I’ve pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I am President.

But let’s not pretend, as John McCain does, that proposing the elimination of 18 billion dollars of earmarks will make up for the more than 300 billion additional dollars he wants to spend on tax breaks for big corporations and multi-millionaires that don’t need them and weren’t asking for them – more than 300 billion dollars at a time when taxpayers are being asked to help finance two wars and a historic financial bailout. That’s some pretty creative math, but it doesn’t add up to is change. And change in Washington is what we need right now.

This change will not be easy. It will require reforming our politics by taking power away from the lobbyists who kill good ideas and good plans with secret meetings and campaign checks. It will require reforming our government by taking on the spending habits of both parties and going after the tax havens and loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying their fare share while you pay more. And it will require reforming our out-dated, unfair regulatory system that favors Wall Street over Main Street but has ended up hurting both.

But I am ready to reform our politics because I’ve done it before. I’ve spent my career taking on lobbyists and their money, and I’ve won. When I was a state Senator in Illinois, if you wanted a favor, there was actually a law that let you give campaign cash to politicians for their own personal use. In the State House, they called it business-as-usual. I called it legalized bribery, and while it didn’t make me the most popular guy in Springfield, I put an end to it. I brought Democrats and Republicans together, and we passed the first ethics reform in twenty-five years.

When I got to Washington, Jack Abramoff and his lobbyist pals had engaged in some of the worst corruption since Watergate. I led the fight for reform in my party, and let me tell you – not everyone in my party was too happy about it. When I proposed forcing lobbyists to disclose who they’re raising money from and who in Congress they’re funneling it to, I had a few choice words directed my way on the floor of the Senate. But we got it done, and we banned gifts from lobbyists, and discounted rides on their corporate jets. And I’m the only candidate in this race who can say that Washington lobbyists do not fund my campaign, you do – with donations of $100, and $10, and $5.

I also joined with one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress to end the abuse that allowed no-bid contracts to waste taxpayer dollars instead of using them to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Katrina. And we worked together to put the federal government’s checkbook online – so you can see how and where Washington is spending trillions of dollars of your money.

For years, I have also pushed for reform of the same loose regulations and lax oversight that could’ve prevented the crisis we’re in. It was two years ago that I introduced legislation to stop mortgage transactions that promoted fraud, risk or abuse. It was one year ago that I called on our Treasury Secretary and our Fed Chairman to bring every stakeholder together and find a solution to the subprime mortgage meltdown before it got worse. In March, when John McCain was saying “I’m always for less regulation,” I called for a new, 21st century regulatory framework to restore accountability, transparency, and trust in our financial markets.

These are the types of reform I will pursue beginning on my very first day in office as President of the United States – political reform, government reform, and regulatory reform.

First, I’ll reform our special interest-driven politics. When I am President, I will start by closing the revolving door in the White House that has allowed people to use their Administration job as a stepping stone to further their lobbying careers.

I’ll make it absolutely clear that working in an Obama Administration is not about serving your former employer, your future employer, or your bank account – it’s about serving your country. When you walk into my administration, you will not be able to work on regulations or contracts directly related to your former employer for two years. And when you leave, you will not be able to lobby my Administration – ever. I will also institute an absolute gift ban so that no registered lobbyist can curry favor with members of my administration based on how much they can spend on a fancy dinner.

I’ll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people’s business. As Justice Louis Brandeis once said, sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. As President, I will make it impossible for Congressmen or lobbyists to slip pork-barrel projects or corporate welfare into laws when no one is looking because when I am president, meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. No more secrecy.

When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it. When there are meetings between lobbyists and a government agency, we will put as many as possible online for every American to watch. When there is a tax bill being debated in Congress, you will know the names of the corporations that would benefit and how much money they would get. And we will put every corporate tax break and every pork-barrel project online for every American to see. You will know who asked for them and you can cast your vote accordingly.

The second set of reforms I’ll make will eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in our government.

We are facing the largest deficit in history. We are facing the largest government bailout in history. And we are also facing some of the greatest challenges in our history. All of this will cost money – to fix our health care system, and our schools, and build a new energy economy. And the only way we can do all this without leaving our children with an even larger debt is if Washington starts taking responsibility for every dime that it spends.

We can start by ending a war in Iraq that is costing us $10 billion a month when the Iraqi government is sitting on a $79 billion surplus. We should also stop sending fifteen billion dollars a year in overpayments to insurance companies for Medicare and go after tens of billions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid fraud. We need to stop sending three billion a year to banks that provide student loans the government could provide for less, and hundreds of millions a year in subsidies to agribusiness that can survive just fine without your tax dollars and use some of the money to help family farmers who are struggling. I will put an end to this waste when I am President.

I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it’s there. There are some that don’t work like we had hoped – like the Bush Administration’s billion-dollar-a-year reading program that hasn’t improved our children’s reading. And there are some that have been duplicated by other programs that we just need to cut back – like waste at the Economic Development Agency and the Export-Import Bank that has become little more than a fund for corporate welfare.

I understand there are parts of these programs worth defending and politicians of both parties who will do so. But if we hope to meet the challenges of our time, we must make difficult choices. As President, I will go through the entire federal budget, page by page, line by line, and I will eliminate the programs that don’t work and aren’t needed.

As for the programs we do need, I will make them work better and cost less. I will create a High-Performance Team that evaluates every agency and every office based on how well they’re serving the American taxpayer. We will fire government managers who aren’t getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money, and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government – because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.

I will also save billions of dollars by cutting private contractors and improving management of the hundreds of billions of dollars our government spends on private contracts, and I will end the abuse of no-bid contracts for good. One employee of a former Halliburton subsidiary actually admitted that he was ordered to put his company’s logo on towels provided to U.S. troops because our government – our tax dollars – would pay for it no matter how much it cost. That is wasteful, that is wrong, and that will end when I am President.

And for all his talk about earmark abuse, what Senator McCain doesn’t mention these days is the corporate abuse of our tax system – abuse that has cost far more than earmarks ever have. In 2003, loopholes and tax breaks allowed 28 major corporations to actually have negative tax liabilities. We lose $100 billion every year because corporations get to set up mailboxes offshore so they can avoid paying a dime of taxes in America. Imagine if you got to do that? There is a building right now in the Cayman Islands that is the address for 18,000 corporations. Well that is either the biggest building in the world or the biggest sham in the world, and I think we know which one it is. I will shut down those offshore tax havens and all those corporate loopholes as President, because you shouldn’t have to pay higher taxes because some big corporation cut corners to avoid paying theirs. All of us have a responsibility to pay our fair share. That’s putting country first.

Finally, the third set of reforms I will pursue are the updated, common-sense regulations of the financial market that I’ve been calling for since March; rules of the road that will make Wall Street fair, open, and honest; that will ensure a crisis like this can never happen again.

I’ve outlined six principles that such reforms should follow.

First, if you’re a financial institution that can borrow from the government, you should be subject to government oversight and supervision. Taxpayers who have now been called upon to spend nearly a trillion dollars to save our economy from the excesses of Wall Street have every right to expect that financial institutions are not taking excessive risks.

Second, we need to reform requirements on all regulated financial institutions, investigate rating agencies and potential conflicts of interest with the people they are rating, and establish transparency requirements that demand full disclosure by financial institutions to shareholders.

Third, we need to streamline our overlapping and competing regulatory agencies that cannot oversee the large and complex institutions that dominate the financial landscape.

Fourth, we need to regulate institutions for what they do, not what they are. Over the last few years, commercial banks and thrift institutions were subject to guidelines on subprime mortgages that did not apply to mortgage brokers and companies. This regulatory framework failed to protect homeowners, and made no sense for our financial system.

Fifth, we need to crack down on trading activity that crosses the line to market manipulation. We need regulators that actually enforce the rules instead of overlooking them. The SEC should investigate and punish all market manipulation.

Sixth, we must establish a process that identifies systemic risks to the financial system like the crisis that has overtaken our economy. We need a standing financial market advisory group to meet regularly and provide advice to the President, Congress, and regulators on the state of our financial markets and the risks they face. It’s time to anticipate risks before they erupt into a full-blown crisis.

These are the principles that should guide the reforms we need to establish a 21st century regulatory system – a system that recognizes our free market economy has only worked because we have guided the market’s invisible hand with a higher principle – that America prospers when all Americans can prosper.

To restore this prosperity, we must change Washington. We must reform our regulations, our politics, and our government, but we will not be able to make these changes with the same policies, the same lobbyists, or the same Washington culture that allows politicians and special interests to set their own agenda.

That’s exactly what we will get from John McCain. After twenty-six years of being part of this Washington culture, all that he has changed is his slogan for the fall campaign. And the people in charge of that campaign prove that if we elect John McCain, it’s not a team of mavericks we’ll be sending to the White House – it’s a team of lobbyists.

We can’t afford four more years of that kind of politics. We need real change.

It won’t be easy. The kind of change we’re looking for never is. What we are up against is a very powerful, entrenched status quo in Washington who will say anything and do anything and fight with everything they’ve got to keep things just the way are.

But I feel good about our chances, because I’ve got something more powerful than they do: I’ve got you. In this campaign, you have already shown what history teaches us – that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn’t come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.

Change has always come from places like Wisconsin – the state where the progressive movement was born; where laws were passed to regulate the railroads and insurance companies; laws that protected consumers and the safety of factory workers. It was a movement rooted in a principle that was known as the Wisconsin Idea – the idea that government works best in the hands of the people, not the special interests; that your voices should speak louder than the whispers of lobbyists.

That’s the Wisconsin idea. That’s the America idea. And that’s the kind of government we need right now.

So if you want the next four years in Washington to look just like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change – if you want to shine a bright light into the backrooms of Washington; if you want to replace the special interests with your interests, if you want a government that costs less and works better for everyday Americans, then I ask you to knock on some doors, and make some calls, and talk to your neighbors, and give me your vote on November 4th. And if you do, I promise you – we will change America together. Thank you.

This is really all you need to know about the honesty of Mr. Obama’s campaign last year.

And, indeed, his honesty today.

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"“I truly believe that he has no idea that there are transcripts and recordings of everything he’s said”

It’s the Tiger Woods syndrome.

Having been carried around on a silk pillow for their entire lives, neither can imagine the Universe of Lies (to quote Rush) could ever be discovered."

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Obama’s Latest Big Brother Plan:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion.....anagement/

 

Came across this today over at Newswithviews and I can't help but add it to this thread.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis170.htm

H/T:styky

 

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A lot of people connect Obama with Tiger, rightly or wrongly.

Set aside the fact that Tiger has earned his position because of his talent and accomplishments.  Forgetting that, they both are silk pillow riders who were treated with godlike reverence.

Tiger's ignominious fall reminds some of the remaining Obama edge sitters that the boy king's mystique is all a sham and that he is a manufactured creation controlled by one-world wannabe arisotcrats who could give a sh*t about anybody but themselves..

28. whiskey:

Osama was not wrong about the elites who run this country. Had Al Gore been President, Osama would have won his bet. A few minor missile strikes at sand dunes, and then “negotiations.” Obama himself wants negotiations with AQ. He’d love to have a “summit” at the White House for bin Laden.

Osama bin Laden WAS correct about the West’s elite. They WILL surrender with one big shock. They’ve been looking to surrender for decades. It is the people, who have nowhere to run to, and nowhere else to go, who will fight. Who will, eventually, if pressed hard enough with “one big shock after another” (i.e. nuking of NYC and DC, the current Jihadist dream) would respond in the way Curtis Le May did.

This has always been the case.

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Tehran's nuclear trigger: The mullahs could have the bomb any day now

One Last Message

Iran: The government that says it wants to develop a nuclear program for peaceful purposes is evidently building a trigger for an atomic weapon. This is the regime that our White House wants to negotiate with.

The London Times reported Monday that it had obtained "confidential intelligence documents" that "show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb."

"The notes, from Iran's most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion," it said.

Foreign intelligence agencies, according to the Times, date the documents to early 2007, "four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons program." These technical papers confirm the use of uranium deuteride, which, independent experts told the Times, "has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon."

The Obama administration came into power 11 months ago promising that it would negotiate with Tehran without preconditions. In other words, Iran would not have to shut down its nuclear program — or end any of its hostile activities — before the U.S. would sit down at the table.

This approach was criticized as naivete on the part of President Obama. But maybe he should be given credit for some insight: Even if the White House had set preconditions, Tehran would have never kept to them. It has continued pursuing atomic weapons despite a mountain of international sanctions as well as its own promises that it would cooperate with other nations concerned about its nuclear program. For seven years it has missed deadlines for complying with international demands.

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Vast Majority?

Published by Gaius under Environment

You at least have to give credit to Agence France-Presse for admitting that the 'consensus' on global warming has some very credible dissenters. They try to denigrate those dissenters by marginalizing them, but they at least mention them. They at least pick up the story that a study has found that the widely used, agreed upon climate models are seriously flawed. The study, by David Douglass, John Christy, Benjamin Pearson and Fred Singer, found that the models break down - to the point of reversing symbols from positive to negative, as altitude increases. If global warming gasses were indeed the cause of the warming trend, that should not be true. Yet, there it is. AFP says this about the study - which used actual, agreed-upon data and the actual, agreed-upon models:

These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say support their assertions.

These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data.

The UN body of about 3,000 experts, including several renowned US scientists, adopted a landmark report in mid-November stating that the evidence of a human role in the warming of the planet was now "unequivocal."

Retreating glaciers and loss of snow in Alpine regions, thinning Arctic summer sea ice and thawing permafrost shows that climate change is already on the march, the report said.

Carbon pollution, emitted especially by the burning of oil, gas and coal, traps heat from the Sun, thus warming the Earth's surface and inflicting changes to weather systems.

A group of US scientists however disagree, and have written an article on their views that is published in The International Journal of Climatology, a publication of Britain's Royal Meteorological Society.

"The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn't show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming," wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.

"The inescapable conclusion is that human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming," Douglas wrote.

Dr. Douglass' name is misspelled in the AFP article. It is actually David Douglass. I have exchanged emails with Dr. Douglass and he was kind enough to send me a copy of his paper. I reproduced a graph from that paper that shows how off the models are. They are off, rather badly, yet policy decisions are being forced based upon them. There are flies in that pot of ointment, however. Some of the much genuflected to 3,000 scientists have publicly disavowed the IPCC conclusions. There are also problems with the media-propagated stories. Take arctic ice, for example.

Even the greenies are admitting that arctic sea ice is refreezing at a rate never before seen - they have to, NASA says so.

The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.

But, of course, the simple fact is that the records only go back a very few years because we have only been keeping them for a few years. We have only had the technology to do so in a human lifespan or so. Before that, we had an occasional observation. Not long before that we had no data at all. Yet we are now supposed to change the world based on this minuscule amount of data.  

The United Nations has proved, over and over again how utterly corrupt and utterly incompetent they  are at virtually everything they touch. Why in heaven's name are we listening to them?

Storm with possibility of foot of snow spreads through Ohio Valley en route to New England

8,000 posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 6:20:12 AM by backhoe

Agri-Food's And The Global Warming Research Dollars Ponzi Scam

 

Shocking 1991 UN Policy Paper Describes the Exact Purpose and Trajectory of Current Copenhagen Treaty

 

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST at the IPCC? “Seek and ye will find. Our friendly part-time chairman of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, is quite a remarkable man. As well as his onerous post with the UN’s IPCC, it seems he has a considerable number of other interests. . . . Intriguingly, for such an upstanding public servant though, he is also a strategic advisor to the private equity investment firm Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, which he became in February of this year. However, this is by no means Dr Pachauri’s only foray into the world of finance. In December 2007, be became a member of the Senior Advisory Board of Siderian ventures based in San Francisco. This is a venture capital business owned by the Dutch multinational business incubator and operator in sustainable technology, Tendris Holding, itself part-owned by electronics giant Philips. It acquired a minority interest in January 2009 in order to ‘explore new business opportunities in the area of sustainability.’ As a member of the Senior Advisory Board of Siderian, Dr Pachauri is expected to provide the Fund and its portfolio companies ‘with access, standing and industry exposure at the highest level.’”

Access at the highest level, indeed.

Palin's own 'Climate-gate'

I don’t see any contradiction in her position at all.

He is cherry picking quotes on warming trends (which may or may not have been the “scientific consensus” at the time, but are increasingly unlikely), with quotes on potential Alaskan energy strategy as a result of any moves to tax carbon.

In her postion as Governor of Alaska she would need to consider potential changes in policy on carbon initiated at the federal or global level to protect and position Alaska appropriately.

If she was concerned about warming, she has always acknowledged that climate changes over time. She “may” be less convinced of that evidence now - who wouldn’t.

CLIMATEGATE: “Widely available data, existing in the public view for years, is now disappearing from public view.”

Y2Kyoto: If You Don't Believe In Global Warming

Just look out your limo window;

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Environmental Responsibilities of the Secretariat

The secretariat is developing a policy aimed at making its offices and use of transport environmentally sustainable. The policy, which will cover a broad range of aspects of ‘sustainability at work’, is being developed in cooperation with other United Nations organizations and is expected to be implemented when the secretariat moves to the new United Nations campus here in Bonn.

Meanwhile, the secretariat has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. These initiatives have included efforts to reduce paper usage, actions to improve energy-use efficiency, favouring of train travel for short distances, and some ‘greening’ of procurement.

Efforts have been made to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the UNFCCC process. To this end, the GHG emissions inventory for the following bienniums have been prepared:

* (PDF) 2004-2005 GHG inventory
* 2006 GHG inventory to be posted soon

Pass the caviar.

h/t Shaken

Posted by Kate at 10:12 AM| Comments (52)

 

Busted– Goracle Confronted on His Wacky North Pole Melting Claims

Monday, December 14, 2009, 9:07 PM

Jim Hoft

The Goracle told an audience in Germany last year that “the entire North Polarized cap will disappear in 5 years.”

It wasn’t the first time he’d made the claim. Gore had been talking this nonsense for over a year already.

Today, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon disputed the former Vice-President.
The Times Online reported:

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.

The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

Comments (29)

 

Dell
December 14th, 2009 | 9:51 pm | #6

You can tell the man’s getting pretty desperate; as is the entire junk science community in Dopenhagen – now telling us that the proverbial “clock” is running out – as though it will all end tomorrow if we don’t send trillions of our dollars to their “developing countries” (Note: China is considered a ‘developing country’) to slay some fire-breathing dragon that Albert Gore – a politician and snake oil salesman, not a scientist – tells us is now breathing down our necks.

I’m looking forward to the final chapter. It started out as fiction and has turned into a total farce.

Mountainbear
December 15th, 2009 | 2:08 am | #28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuj_tlRRQdQ

Lord Monckton opening a can of ass whoop on a Greenpeace chick, who has not the slightest idea about anything. As usual.

It’s fun to watch how she’s squirming in the end.

Deconstructing Copenhagen

Meanwhile, HopenFrauden scams onward:

Climate talks fight for lost time

Climategate: ailing 'mainstream' media are committing suicide by ignoring the scoop of the century

Vast Majority?

Published by Gaius under Environment

You at least have to give credit to Agence France-Presse for admitting that the 'consensus' on global warming has some very credible dissenters. They try to denigrate those dissenters by marginalizing them, but they at least mention them. They at least pick up the story that a study has found that the widely used, agreed upon climate models are seriously flawed. The study, by David Douglass, John Christy, Benjamin Pearson and Fred Singer, found that the models break down - to the point of reversing symbols from positive to negative, as altitude increases. If global warming gasses were indeed the cause of the warming trend, that should not be true. Yet, there it is. AFP says this about the study - which used actual, agreed-upon data and the actual, agreed-upon models:

These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say support their assertions.

These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data.

The UN body of about 3,000 experts, including several renowned US scientists, adopted a landmark report in mid-November stating that the evidence of a human role in the warming of the planet was now "unequivocal."

Retreating glaciers and loss of snow in Alpine regions, thinning Arctic summer sea ice and thawing permafrost shows that climate change is already on the march, the report said.

Carbon pollution, emitted especially by the burning of oil, gas and coal, traps heat from the Sun, thus warming the Earth's surface and inflicting changes to weather systems.

A group of US scientists however disagree, and have written an article on their views that is published in The International Journal of Climatology, a publication of Britain's Royal Meteorological Society.

"The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn't show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming," wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.

"The inescapable conclusion is that human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming," Douglas wrote.

Dr. Douglass' name is misspelled in the AFP article. It is actually David Douglass. I have exchanged emails with Dr. Douglass and he was kind enough to send me a copy of his paper. I reproduced a graph from that paper that shows how off the models are. They are off, rather badly, yet policy decisions are being forced based upon them. There are flies in that pot of ointment, however. Some of the much genuflected to 3,000 scientists have publicly disavowed the IPCC conclusions. There are also problems with the media-propagated stories. Take arctic ice, for example.

Even the greenies are admitting that arctic sea ice is refreezing at a rate never before seen - they have to, NASA says so.

The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.

But, of course, the simple fact is that the records only go back a very few years because we have only been keeping them for a few years. We have only had the technology to do so in a human lifespan or so. Before that, we had an occasional observation. Not long before that we had no data at all. Yet we are now supposed to change the world based on this minuscule amount of data.  

The United Nations has proved, over and over again how utterly corrupt and utterly incompetent they  are at virtually everything they touch. Why in heaven's name are we listening to them?

Storm with possibility of foot of snow spreads through Ohio Valley en route to New England

[backhoe]

Senate Health Care Bill Would Force Some Middle Class Families To Pay $15,200 Yearly Insurance Fee

E-mail list of senators and assistants on the fence on health care.

Senate Democrats Wheeling & Dealing To Get ObamaCare Passed

Video: Obama: "We've Got 6 Months Before My Poll Numbers Start Crashing"!

Finally, Sportswriters Allowed to Dig in on Tiger Woods Scandal [performance-enhancing drugs]

I say again:

Tigah the Cheetah

is a proxy

for Obama...

 

Fistgate VIII: Safe School’s Czar Jennings’ Org Promoted Book Detailing Gay Sex Between First Graders

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:13 AM

Jim Hoft

Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted a shocking report to Gateway Pundit blog back on December 4, 2009. The report detailed the reading list promoted to 7-12 grade students by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization. This material has not been reported in detail at Big Government website. Remember as you read this that Kevin Jennings is today the nation’s Safe Schools Czar.

—-Warning on Content—–

I was recently approached by a team of independent researchers that I have known for some time and have come to trust. They prepared this report involving ‘Safe Schools Czar’ Kevin Jennings and the organization he founded, GLSEN, and asked that I find a way to help draw attention to what they uncovered. Knowing that Gateway Pundit has followed Kevin Jennings since his appointment, as we have on The B-Cast (here, here, and here), and on Breitbart.tv (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), I felt this would be an appropriate place for this report.

Warning: The following material is very explicit.

 

Scott Baker

Co-Founder, Breitbart.tv

Co-Host, The B-Cast

Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).

GLSEN’s stated mission is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. To that end, GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN BookLink,” featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own.

According to GLSEN’s own press releases from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.

The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)

Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.

What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.

We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.

We knew that unless we carefully documented what we were reading, the public would have a hard time accepting it. Mere descriptions on our part could not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as school assignments. So we began scanning pages from each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions of the relevant passages on each page.

Today we will focus on one of GLSEN’s recommended books for 7 to 12 graders–
Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing up Gay
This book is promoted at the GLSEN website and can be purchased there.

This book covers group sex between first graders and makes it sound completely normal.
Reflections of a Rock Lobster – Page 13

(At the age of six, the author frequently performed fellatio on his fellow first-graders in the school restroom, part of a “busy homosexual childhood.”)

My sexual exploits with my neighborhood playmates continued. I lived a busy homosexual childhood, somehow managing to avoid venereal disease through all my toddler years. By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to perform fellatio on one another. A typical week’s schedule would be Aaron and Michael on Monday during lunch; Michael and Johnny on Tuesday after school; Fred and Timmy at noon Wednesday; Aaron and Timmy after school on Thursday. None of us ever got caught, but we never worried about it anyway. We all understood that what we were doing was not to be discussed freely with adults but we viewed it as a fun sort of confidential activity. None of us had any guilty feelings about it; we figured everyone did it. Why shouldn’t they?

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This is just one of the books promoted by the Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization.
Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s Safe School Czar.

FOX News reported on Kevin Jennings support of these pornographic books on Monday.

Gay Patriot wonders how the media would handle a similar story if the president were a Republican?

And, Verum Serum has the latest on GLSEN’s comic book for kids.

There is more to come.

Related Posts:
** Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List
** Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List (Part II)
** Breaking: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s Question to 14 Year Olds: “Spit vs. Swallow?… Is it Rude?” (audio-video)
** Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Promoted “Fisting” to Children (Video)
** Fistgate II: High School Students Given “Fisting Kits” At Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN Conference (Photo)
** Fistgate III: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s “Black Book” For Kids Included Tips on Fisting & Pi$$ing on Your Partner
** Fistgate IV: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens at GLSEN Events
** Fistgate V: Youth Fisting Instructor Claims Kevin Jennings Knew About Class Content in Advance
** Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) Calls For Removal of Dangerous School Czar Kevin Jennings (Video)
** Fistgate VII: Explosive… After Years of Silence Mass. Teacher Speaks Out About What She Saw at Fistgate (Audio)
** FOX News: Chapter & Perverse? Safe School’s Czar Hit For Promoting Sex-Explicit Books

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Do the Limbo Rock to "Bad News for Barack"! (How low can he go?)

Click the music link and sing along!

BAD NEWS FOR BARACK
Tune: "Limbo Rock" Original MIDI

Every lib'ral boy and girl
All the folks in Limbaugh World
Both sides bashing on Barack
All find something they can mock
Track his numbers, track his polls
Track the unemployment rolls
All the pollsters on the block
Say it's bad news for Barack

He'll go lower now
He'll go lower now
How low can he go

First he spread the wealth around
Then he bowed down to the ground
Spend a trillion, make it three
Spend it like it grows on trees
Track his numbers, track his polls
Track the unemployment rolls
All the pollsters on the block
Say it's bad news for Barack

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Though he started out on top
Every time the numbers drop
There's a ratings trend that shows
He will fall to record lows
Track his numbers, track his polls
Track the unemployment rolls
All the pollsters on the block
Say it's bad news for Barack

Don't move that phone book far
He needs a polling czar
How low can he go?

 

Bloomberg Group "NRA Member" Poll Alleges Results Showing NRA Members' Anti Gun Rights Beliefs

See NRA response at: http://secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/12/bloomberg-group-nra-member-poll-alleges.html

Courageous Report Documents Human Rights Abuses in Communist China - Video

Mark Steyn looks back at 2009

Marta crime rate falls in wake of gun law(GA)

TRUST: ‘Smart’ Electric Utility Meters, Intended to Create Savings, Instead Prompt Revolt. This story doesn’t even address the big problem — utilities turning down your thermostat without your consent. My take: Give consumers more control and they’ll like it. Give them less, and they won’t. Kinda like, well, most things.

Updated Forecast For Copenhagen: Heavy SnowFall, -12C/10.4F (God has a sense of humor)

10 Global Warming Doomsday Predictions

Have you ever seen one of those wild-eyed people with a sandwich board around his neck standing on the corner, screeching incoherently about how the end of the world is coming? Now, what if those people were insisting that you were really the crazy one? What if the newspapers agreed with them and the politicians wanted to pass taxes and spend hundreds of billions to implement their ideas? Sound too unbelievable to be true? Well, guess what? It's happening.

Global warming alarmists are regularly prophesying about doomsday scenarios -- except they're doing it in newspapers and from the stages of swanky resorts where they've flown in their private jets. Unlike the old school soothsayers, the Al Gore's of the world have figured out how to turn doom-mongering into a multi-billion dollar industry.

As you read these global warming predictions, visions, prophecies, fantasies, whatever you want to call them, ask yourself a question: if this is based on science, why do we have these huge differences in scenarios and dates? It's almost as if these people are all just pulling numbers out of their hats and putting them out there instead of basing their projections on any sort of real scientific evidence.

1) At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

2) The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age. -- Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

3) A high-priority government report warns of climate change that will lead to floods and starvation. ‘Leading climatologists’ speak of a ‘detrimental global climatic change,’ threatening ‘the stability of most nations.’ The scenario is eerily familiar although the document — never made public before — dates from 1974. But here’s the difference: it was written to respond to the threat of global cooling, not warming. And yes, it even mentions a ‘consensus’ among scientists. -- Maurizio Morabito

Whoops! Those were all about global cooling, not global warming. My mistake. You see, that was the fashionable doomsday story for alarmists to go on about back in the early seventies and it essentially worked the same way. Mankind is causing the earth to cool and scientists agree we're all going to die! Now, it's mankind is causing earth to warm and scientists agree we're all going to die! See? It's very easy to get those two confused. Now, back to your regularly scheduled doomsday prophecies:

4) According to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, we only have 96 months left to save the planet.

I'm impressed. 96 months. Not 95. Not 97. July 2017. Put it in your diary. Usually the warm-mongers stick to the same old drone that we only have 10 years left to save the planet. Nice round number. Former Vice President Al Gore said we only have 10 years left 3 1/2 years ago, which makes him technically more of a pessimist than the Prince of Wales. Al's betting Armageddon kicks in January 2016 -- unless he's just peddling glib generalities. -- Mark Steyn

5) ABC Science Show presenter Robyn Williams panics about global warming:

Andrew Bolt: I ask you, Robyn, 100 metres [of sea level rises] in the next century...do you really think that?

Robyn Williams: It is possible, yes.

It is possible, no, actually.

Now Glaciologist Nikolai Osokin of the Russian Academy of Science reassures Williams about global warming:

If all ice on the earth melted, the level of the oceans would rise by 64 meters. Many coastal cities would be under water, and so would the Netherlands, a significant part of which lies below sea level. However, the Dutch and the rest of the planet may rest assured: this hypothetical catastrophe could not take place anytime within the next thousand years

6) The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree to a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned.

Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse."

He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B". -- October 19, 2009

7) Meanwhile, the Director of the Goddard Institute, James Hansen, recently sent a letter to President Obama saying that Obama has “only four years left to save the earth” from “runaway warming.” He told the London Observer in February that “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.” Hansen maintains that recent warming has pushed the planet close to a “tipping point” for runaway warming. What recent warming? Three hundredths of a degree C over 30 years, with temperatures still declining, doesn’t seem worth ruining the world’s economies. -- April 20, 2009

8) While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met (James) Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”

And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.

Didn’t he also say that restaurants would have signs in their windows that read, “Water by request only.”

Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”

When did he say this will happen?

Within 20 or 30 years. And remember we had this conversation in 1988 or 1989. -- Author Rob Reiss talks with Salon's Suzy Hansen

9) A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.

They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a "tipping point" beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically. -- Friday, 16 September 2005

10) According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.”

So, wait a second: are we in the middle of an ice age or is the globe afire? Are we passing the point of no return now, is it happening in 2017, did it happen in 2005, or was the UN right that it happened in 1999? Why is there a difference? How did they come up with these numbers in the first place? Do the global warming alarmists, some of whom used to be global cooling alarmists, understand why they were wrong before? Maybe a little less uncritical acceptance of what these people are saying and a lot more skepticism might be order at this point

Left Wing Nuts Go On Violent Rampage at Copenhagen Climate Summit ( Before the snowstorm ...)

First Do No Harm

Posted by Jeff Id on December 14, 2009

Chip Bok, Creators Syndicate -

http://www.bokbluster.com/

A commenter graham, left this point on one of the first posts done  at tAV.  The post it was left on was in the pre-Mann days well before my suspicions of the corruption of the IPCC were confirmed:

There is a lot of money to be made if we restructure our societal infrastructure, for example toward an regionally focused system of energy production based in solar, wind, wave power, etc.  Isn’t this a good thing?  Doesn’t our country support innovation and growth?  It seems to me the primary threat of change is to the powers that be in oil, coal, etc.

Graham asks, “Isn’t this a good thing?”

Read the rest of this entry »

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If anyone has an hour to spare, some conservative, right-thinking science (not in the political sense) : CERN particle physicist Jason Kirby, head of the CLOUD experiment at CERN, goes through the evidence linking the Sun, galactic cosmic rays and variations of the Earth’s temperature over timescales of decades, centuries, and millenia to 500 million years.
http://tinyurl.com/yjnopjj

...And don't miss the most chilling (literally) prediction of all based on a careful study of sunspot intensity. This prediction was originally submitted and rejected for publication in 2005 (Sunspots May Vanish by 2015), but has been coming true ever since. The earth appears to be headed toward a period of dramatic cooling...

Climat Change Zealots: Not Just Wrong, But Pure Evil, Too

Does Avoidance of ClimateGate Reporting Represent MSM Suicide?

100 Reasons Why Climate Change Is NOT MAN-MADE

Jim McConalogue of the European Foundation, wrote a handy report giving 100 Reasons why Climate change comes from nature not from man.

“This demonstrates how tenuous, improper and indeed false the scientific and political claims are for man-made global warming, from claims that climate change can be controlled by human activity to the proposition that CO2 emissions represent a severe threat to our way of life, when in fact there is little evidence to support any of these claims," said McConalogue

He warns the Copenhagen climate summit was likely to lead to “nonsensical targets” to reduce emissions, which would result in a “burdensome regulatory agenda”, After Copenhagen, voters “will see what travesty has been done in their name, as foolish politicians and indifferent industry associations have engulfed their countries in emissions legislation”.

Below are McConalogue's 100 reasons why climate change is natural and not man-made:

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...

[backhoe]

Sarah Palin "has replaced the tobacco industry" as Public Enemy #1 in Democratic fundraising

Tea Party Movement Evolves Into Political Force With Eye Toward 2010

RUSH IN A HURRY -- Rush's 2010 Election Strategy

Chicago Way - Obama team threatens closure of Offutt AFB to coerce Nelson's vote

 

 

 

Deconstructing Bowling for Columbine

 

House votes to turn down volume of noisy TV ads

Is the nothing that these maniacs don’t want to control?

The U.S. is circling the drain and they are worried about loud TV ads...

Second Graders Sing About Allah?

UK: Jihadists who plotted to blow up shopping center had been granted permission to work...

Why Gay Marriage is Not Inevitable

Adult Stem Cells: "I Will Walk Again", The Laura Dominguez Story

America’s New Homeless Veterans

Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S.

USA Today poll shows Obama below 50%

Freezing weather strikes Europe

Copenhagen climate summit: Prince Charles warns climate change will drive starvation and terrorism

Beyond debate? (global warming)

Accuweather: Climategate Revelations are but the Tip of a Giant Iceberg, says Atmospheric Scientist

Just for a direct link... :-)

AccuWeather on Climate Change: It's Ice not Fire You're Going to Be Worried about Down the Road

I just found out out earlier Monday that our own Joe Bastardi was on the Fox Business Channel with Imus this past Friday. Joe explains his 'triple crown of cooling' to Imus and why he is more concerned about an upcoming period of global cooling, rather than global warming. Here is the segment in case you missed it.
Video available at link.

The Triple Crown of Cooling

Beyond debate? (global warming)

Accuweather: Climategate Revelations are but the Tip of a Giant Iceberg, says Atmospheric Scientist

Just for a direct link... :-)

AccuWeather on Climate Change: It's Ice not Fire You're Going to Be Worried about Down the Road

I just found out out earlier Monday that our own Joe Bastardi was on the Fox Business Channel with Imus this past Friday. Joe explains his 'triple crown of cooling' to Imus and why he is more concerned about an upcoming period of global cooling, rather than global warming. Here is the segment in case you missed it.
Video available at link.

The Triple Crown of Cooling

[backhoe]

House Dems Offer Legal Status to Undocumented in Immigration Bill

Among first-generation American Hispanics, 33% say they are American first, and 41% identify themselves by their parents' homeland.

 

36 million...

Plus a spouse...

Plus a child... or two, or three...

Parents... grandparents... aunts... uncles... cousins...

Do

The

Math...

Immigration Overhaul Bill Unveiled In House [12M Illegals: Called "Most Generous" Legislation!]

 

A REPORT FROM TODAY’S Code Red ObamaCare protest.

 

A REPORT FROM TODAY’S anti-Obamacare protest outside Claire McCaskill’s offices.

 

 

The Critical Unraveling Of US Society

Report Contents:
———————I: U.S. Societal Breakdown
———————II: Environmental Crisis
———————III: The Obama Myth
———————IV: Economic Coup - Theft of Trillions
———————V: National Emergency

"Judge me by the people I surround myself with..."

Thus spake Duh!1, so what do you think now?

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Media Matters Morphs Into One-Stop Fisting Information Clearinghouse.

 

 San Francisco The Worst Run City in the U.S. “It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can’t point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle — and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short.”

Deficits Are Bad, But The Real Problem Is Spending.

 

BRUCE BAWER ON HOMOPHOBIA IN “LIBERAL” NORWAY: “One thing I have learned in my ten years here is that the so-called liberality of this part of the world is skin-deep. There is a big difference between the official acceptance of gay people and the treatment gay people receive when they dare to wander out of a very tiny urban area. I have never experienced this kind of treatment in the United States, not even in the Southern states, which so many of my gay friends here in Norway are so scared to visit, because they think those states are so dangerous for gay people.”

( Yep, us Southroners are the bigots... )

 

 Making Criminals Out Of All Americans. “The Founders viewed the criminal sanction as a last resort, reserved for serious offenses, clearly defined, so ordinary citizens would know whether they were violating the law. Yet over the last 40 years, an unholy alliance of big-business-hating liberals and tough-on-crime conservatives has made criminalization the first line of attack — a way to demonstrate seriousness about the social problem of the month, whether it’s corporate scandals or e-mail spam. . . . There are now more than 4,000 federal crimes, spread out through some 27,000 pages of the U.S. Code.

 

Lead Story

Democrat introduces SEIU-backed illegal alien amnesty bill

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 15, 2009 11:15 AM

The SEIU needs more dues-paying members.

The open-borders lobby needs something to do.

Voila! Meet the new illegal alien shamnesty push via the Washington Times:

Democrats on Tuesday begin their new push for an immigration bill, hamstrung by the image of legalizing millions of illegal immigrant workers at a time when the unemployment rate stands at 10 percent — more than twice what it was the last time Congress tried to act.

“It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for American workers,” said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who has taken over leadership on the issue after the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, plans to introduce an immigration legalization bill Tuesday, and backers are planning a strategy to avoid repeats of the failed attempts of 2006 and 2007.

The bill would torpedo the joint federal-local deportation program known as 287(g) and opposes beefing up our land borders with more Border Patrol agents or fencing.

SEIU has been lobbying for illegal alien amnesty as a massive membership booster all year. In May, the Purple Shirts held a pro-illegal immigration rally from Malcolm X Park to the White House to put pressure on homeland security officials to call off workplace raids (not that Janet Napolitano needed any convincing):

Flashback: NakedEmperorNews digs up video of SEIU’s #1 amnesty-pusher Eliseo Medina bragging about illegal alien workers in the union’s ranks:

Flashback: Non-English-speaking day laborers carry signs they can’t read for Nancy Pelosi’s Astroturf Demcare brigade.

Posted in: Amnesty, SEIU

 

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"This is all they’ve got. They’ve messed up the government so much that they have to resort to this unpopular thing.

The next thing they will address will be the gay agenda. Two Thirds of America are against amnesty and the gay agenda. What do you think it will do to their ratings?

This is the poorest run administration ever. All they have done all year is figure out ways to spend more federal money."

"Cloward-Piven to overwhelm the system."

 

Heck Of A Job, Barack! “Feel the gestalt shifting.”

OOPS: WaPo/ABC poll: Obama hits new lows on health care, overall approval rating.

 

Hopenchangen: "Kevin, Gavin, Mike, It's Seth again."

Since we last checked in on our favourite self-vindicating Climategate character, Associated Press "science" writer Seth Borenstein has taken to hanging out with the cool kids in Copenhagen;

With U.N. security letting in only those cleared last week, hundreds of accredited delegates, journalists and NGO representatives were left to stand for hours in near-freezing temperatures before being let through. "It was crazy," AP's Seth Borenstein said. "You couldn't leave the line. You couldn't go to the bathroom, you couldn't eat. Then snowflakes started falling. One woman even said, 'if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?'"

People started handing out food -- one gave out tangerines, another croissants. A man screamed "I don't need food. I need socks! I'm freezing my ass off out here." At one point, a U.N. official announced the wait would be longer, prompting the crowd to boo and chant "Let Us In!" [...]

Seth himself stepped into the line at 7:55 a.m. and was through at 3:15 p.m., but only after another AP reporter, John Heilprin, "saved my bacon" by persuading a U.N. security guard to go out and fetch him. "John was afraid to go out himself in case they wouldn't let him back in ... the first thing I did when I saw him was give him a big hug. I have never been so grateful to be indoors." Seth's neighbors in line? "Oh they're still out there."

And just in the gloal warming nick of time!

Indeed - "This entire circus would be funnier if not for what is at stake: trillions of dollars in regulatory actions and billions of dollars in aid to developing nations. And, if there were to be some miracle and nations in attendance did sign an agreement, who would be in charge of monitoring all these agreed to carbon reductions and oversight of all that development aid? The same entity that can’t even figure out that 45,000 people won’t into a 15,000 person building; the United Nations."

Posted by Kate at 5:55 PM| Comments (39)

 

'"I need socks! I'm freezing my ass off out here."

He doesn't know where socks are worn but he knows how to save us.'

 

http://silentrunning.tv/

Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference from CFACT on Vimeo.

From the video -

How many of you have seen the draft Copenhagen Treaty? How many of you have see it in the mainstream media? No, not one. There is your problem. That treaty says there is going to be a world government; its going to have powers of taxation equivalent to half of the US Defense budget every year for the US, and everywhere else. It’s going to have powers to close down all patent rights, it’s going to have powers to close down all free markets and regulate them by public policy and not by freedoms. All these points are in that treaty.

This is what Al Gore wants for us. It is what Barack Obama wants for us, and has had his minions at EPA push through as regulation. This is what those in Congress pushing Cap-and-Trade legislation want for us.

We say NO! Because it is all based upon a fundamental LIE.

[backhoe]

Obama to warn Dems: This is America’s last shot at universal health care

Howard Dean: Kill the Senate Health Bill (video)

Zombie Time : Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason

Keep Sharp Eye on How State-Run Media Spins Tea Party Movement

Recovery.gov : Economic Stimulus Money is Going Outside of the 50 States

 

 

 

Al Sharpton Guest: Obama Rapidly Losing Black Support!

Sharpton is smoking crack. This from Rasmussen right now:

“The President earns approval from 37% of White voters and 98% of African-American voters”

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/demographic_notes_barack_obama_approval_index

Racism alive and well.

America, the next Zimbabwe...

The despotic regime “redistributes” the wealth of producers, but in the process takes an administrative fee for itself and its lackeys.

The party members (read, ACORN, SEIU, selected Democrats and radicals) prosper, and the people starve.

O'Reilly Talks With John Stossel About University Teaching "White Guilt" Course - Video

New training video: How to slit throats

A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.

The video was distributed by the makers of the movie "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.," which documents how a jihadist group has developed dozens of training camps across the nation.

WND reported at the time how Jamaat ul-Fuqra has built 35 compounds – mostly in the northeastern corridor of the U.S.

Now the organization has posted on YouTube a "chilling" training video provided to CAN by an unnamed law enforcement source about the Muslims of America headquarters in Hancock, New York.

Muslims of America reportedly is the name Jamaat ul-Fuqra, believed to have been involved in the beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl, uses in the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...

Transferring Detainees from Gitmo South, Cuba, to Gitmo North, USA

Breaking: Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile

Congress Travels More, Public Pays [Where Are The Guillotines?]

'STAGFLATION' AND 'MISERY INDEX' MAKE COMEBACK

Joblessness is Here to Stay

Climategate: Something’s Rotten in Denmark … and East Anglia, Asheville, and New York City

WA Governor Gregoire's Climate Change End-Run

Zogby: Fewer Americans worried by climate change: survey

Morning Bell: They Can’t Even Run A Conference, Let Alone the Global Economy ( Copenhagen follies)

The climate treaty negotiations inside Copenhagen’s Bella Center at the United Nations Climate Change Conference ground to a halt yesterday when the G-77, the largest group of developing nations, walked out. These poorer nations demanded that richer nations sign a treaty that includes a large transfer of wealth to the developing world to compensate for the developed world’s historical contribution to global warming. The G-77 countries ended their walkout after less than two hours, perhaps because global warming has had no apparent impact on December Copenhagen temperatures.

Stuck out in the cold trying to get into the convention center that the developing countries had left were thousands of registered participants including delegations from universities, trade unions, and the press. It took more than 8 hours for non-governmental delegates, like Heritage’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman, to check in on December 14th. The New York Times described the registration system as chaotic, and notes that the overflow of freezing unregistered delegates forced the Copenhagen police to shut down the subway stop nearest the conference. The problem: despite some two years of planning, the United Nations organizers failed to come up with a way to fit the 45,000 people they registered for the conference into the 15,000 person capacity Bella Center. Oops.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...

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