First, we have the CRU break-in and all the email exposed that showed they were cherry picking the data. This also showed that if they received any official or formal freedom of information requests, they were to deny they had any of the information requested.
Second, we have Prof Phil Jones admit, “there has been no statistically significant warming in the past 15 years.” This is the clown who developed the ‘hockey stick’ graph that the IPCC used to justify yelling “the sky is falling!”
Third, the study that suggested the seas would rise at least one meter, has been withdrawn from Nature due to some significant errors in the data used to arrive at two separate conclusions, specifically those used by the IPCC to yell “the sky is falling!”.
Fourth, the head wank at the UN Climate Division resigns because he sees the writing on the outhouse wall.
If you notice, the progressives, the environuts, and the left wing Dims are acting like the rub has been pulled out from under them. They are beginning to realize they are not going to get their global redistribution of wealth and green energy frauds passed into law by any major government.
Why do you think Obama wanted this crap passed within his first year? He knew that a lie was only good for so long before the thin film of what appeared to be truth began to fail and the truth showed through the cracks.
Good job to all those who continue to apply the pressure! Keep it up!
Here are today’s load. It’s amazing how all of this is starting to come out. It’s stuff people have been saying and shouted down for for years, and now it’s becoming more mainstream. Of course, you will notice that the mainstream media isn’t picking it up.
Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent…
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CCLC8O0&show_article=1
Rep. Issa: White House refusal to investigate ‘Climategate’ is ‘unconscionable’…
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/70653-rep-issa-white-house-refusal-to-investigate-climategate-is-unconscionable-
Day Fourteen and Counting: Major U.S. Networks Still Silent…
http://mrc.org/press/releases/2009/20091204124643.aspx
Danish Speaker of Parliament: Climate Change ‘Very Dangerous Claim’…
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article851820.ece
Denmark: not as green as you thought…
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2430374.ece/Denmark_not_as_green_as_you_thought
I have some links for you. These are from DrudgeReport.com that I have collected over the past 5 days or so. If you get the chance, you need to read these and then do your own research. I think you will find, even if you are a hard core believer, there are some serious flaws in all of this research, and certainly enough that this needs to be researched by a whole lot more people than those being funded by pro-green cash sources.
The results of that research needs to be verified by other groups and published in real peer review journals, not those created for the specific purpose of faking a review process.
Anyway, the oldest links are at the bottom, newest at the top.
Professors in U-turn, will publish all data…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html
Isn’t that last link a doosey? Even with all of this evidence, Obama is still willing to destroy the way of life of the First World countries so he can rid himself of the guilt associated with living in the US.
Even though Fox News has been beating out most other TV media outlets, hands down, they still stood up for what was right - the 1st Amendment to free speech.
White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
Friday, October 23, 2009
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to manipulate other news networks into isolating and excluding Fox News, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency.
But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
The administration relented, making Feinberg available for all five pool members and Bloomberg TV.
The pushback came after White House senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday that Fox News is not a real news organization and other news networks “ought not to treat them that way.”
Media analysts cheered the decision to boycott the Feinberg interview unless Fox News was included, saying the administration’s gambit was taking its feud with Fox News too far. President Obama has already declined to go on “Fox News Sunday,” even while appearing on the other Sunday shows.
“I’m really cheered by the other members saying “No, if Fox can’t be part of it, we won’t be part of it,’” said Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, calling the move to limit Feinberg’s availability “outrageous.”
“What it’s really about to me is the Executive Branch of the government trying to tell the press how it should behave. I mean, this democracy — we know this — only works with a free and unfettered press to provide information,” he said.
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. said the administration was potentially in violation of the Constitution with its attempt to restrict access to the “eyes and ears” of the country.
“What was averted was a very serious constitutional violation by the White House,” Johnson said. “There cannot be selective and arbitrary access to the White House based on some subjective determination.”
Several top White House advisers have appeared on other news channels to criticize Fox News’ coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news network.
On Wednesday, Obama, speaking publicly for the first time about his administration’s portrayal of Fox News as illegitimate, said he’s not “losing sleep” over the controversy.
“I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes,” Obama said when asked about his advisers targeting the network openly. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another. But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”
Obama’s comments also came after he met Monday with political commentators Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC; Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post; Ron Brownstein of the National Journal; John Dickerson of Slate; Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd and Bob Herbert of the New York Times; Jerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal, Gloria Borger of CNN and U.S. News and World Report, and Gwen Ifill of PBS.
House Republican leaders rushed to the defense of conservative commentators Thursday after the president’s comments.
Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said conservative commentators speak more for Americans than the national media outlets that have targeted them for criticism.
“Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television,” the Indiana Republican said on the House floor. “Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are ‘worried about their electoral effect.’ Well, that’s hogwash.”
This is proof that maybe Obama’s corruption is beginning to be noticed by the rest of the media in the US and they are beginning to fight back. No longer will the ‘preferred’ media allow the President to bully those who expose him and his cabinet for their corrpuption in order to keep it all under wraps.
Could we be seeing the beginning of the fall from grace of The Messiah?
Congress Plays Hooky on Fridays Despite Pledge by Democrats to Work All Week
Democratic leaders promised when their party regained control of the House three years ago that lawmakers would work five-day weeks, but that plan apparently didn’t work.
But a recent analysis found that after a fairly energetic first half of this year, the House has settled into what Politico calls a “rather leisurely routine” of two-and-a-half day workweeks.
For example, only one vote has been held on a Friday since the House returned for its fall session Sept. 8.
“We will, then, not plan to be here on Friday. I know that disappoints all of you,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said to applause and groans on Thursday.
Asked why the House isn’t in session Friday, Hoyer blamed the Senate, where key spending bills have been held up.
“I’m not going to hold people here to twiddle our thumbs,” he said.
The issue even made a rare appearance on the House floor this week.
“We don’t have some other bills, because, frankly, we can’t get 60 votes to consider them on the floor of the United States Senate,” he said. “I think that’s lamentable.”
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Aides to the Democratic leadership contended that, for lawmakers, time spent off the House or Senate floor, or back in home districts, hardly amounts to a holiday.
And they said that under GOP leadership, the House work ethic was even worse.
With members breezing in on Tuesday afternoons, working hard on Wednesdays an jetting out of the Capitol by Thursday afternoon.
It appears even the leaders have no clue how to lead. Party doesn’t matter, this isn’t just the affliction of the Democrats, the Republicans are just as guilty. Imagine how long we would have our jobs if we only worked two and a half days each week…
I guess the taxpayers end up the winners in this whole issue; if they aren;t there, they can’t vote. If they can’t vote, they aren’t pissing our money down a rat hole.
Lawmakers Eye Untapped Stimulus Funds as Obama Proposes New Spending
After President Obama called on Congress to approve $250 payments to Social Security recipients to make up for not getting a cost-of-living increase, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he’d be “happy” to support it — so long as Congress takes the money out of the stimulus package.
With the bulk of the $787 billion stimulus package still unspent, some lawmakers say, President Obama should not be adding yet another $13 billion to the deficit by funding a one-time $250 Social Security payment.
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“The stimulus bill is not working. The American people are asking, ‘Where are the jobs?’ And if we’re going to provide this benefit to our seniors, why don’t we take it from stimulus funds that clearly aren’t getting the job done?” Boehner said.
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James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said calls to divert the stimulus money are unwarranted. He said one of the reasons that economic growth is projected for next year is that a large portion of the stimulus is yet to be spent.
“The idea that somehow because it hasn’t been spent, that it’s not important for getting the economy going, is misguided,” he said.
But some, including the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, are warning about the clamor for new spending. Obama’s call for additional Social Security payments, for instance, drew recriminations on Friday’s newspaper editorial pages. Since seniors received a 5.8 percent boost in January, the additional $250 check was seen more as a political move than a necessary effort to relieve seniors. The Washington Post called it a bid to “buy off” seniors while adding another $13 billion to the national debt.
Horney said there’s “no justification” for the increase in terms of inflation, since overall consumer prices have fallen.
So now that they can’t spend it fast enough on shovel-ready projects, they want to still spend it, just give it away. I am not knocking the seniors getting a bit more, but you know, my last raise, a year ago, was 2.25%. I haven’t had a raise this year, and with the way things are going, you can bet there won’t be a cost of living adjustment, because I’m not a government employee or a union grunt. Of course, I pay a LOT of taxes. Where’s mine?
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HARRY REID: “He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions — tort reform — $54 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, doesnt it, Mr. President? The answer is yes. But remember, were talking about $2 trillion, $54 billion compared to $2 trillion. You can do the math. We can all do the math. Its a very small percent.”
The site is one of 8,000 road and bridge projects approved under the $787 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed just after taking office. Construction is under way on nearly 5,000 of those projects. Obama said many are coming in 10 to 20 percent under budget, which will allow the government to invest in more projects.
Obama said the current phase of the Fairfax parkway project will create new private sector jobs. His goal, he said, is an economy “where our stock market isn’t only rising again but our businesses are hiring again.”
Ok, I’m calling BS on this. Since when has a government road project EVER come in UNDER budget? Ever? And in VA? Are you serious? WHo believes this crap?
The problem here is that Obama is realizing his spend-a-thon is not working. Although they have spent 40% of the money so far, the rate of increase in unemployment hasn’t slowed, he is having a hard time explaining where all the “saved jobs” are, and he surely can;t explain why the unemployment rate breached 8% when he promised it wouldn;t if we threw the government printing presses at it.
The more this president speaks, the mroe trouble he gets himself in to. He can’t lead, he never has shown a penchant for leadership, and those he surrounded himself with as advisors, thugs, muscle, etc, are just as bad. They can all drive the getaway car but not many of them have any idea on how to get where they are going or who is going to go in the bank door first.
Our Illustrious Leader has been given his first real challenge to his ability to lead when it comes to foreign policy. Now it is time to surround himself with those he thinks is most competent. Yes, we all know about Iran refining and enriching uranium. We also now know, publicly, about Iran’s second uranium enrichment facility. We also have seen how Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sucking up with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. But what hasn’t been too well known, and probably not reported on, until today, is Chavez’ intentions to start the same nuclear programs as Iran has.
Fox News is reporting that Chavez agrees with Ahmadinejad about Iran’s “sovereign right” to persue nuclear power. Something that most people may miss though is a short comment from Chavez, and this is very important:
Chavez insists Iran has a “sovereign right” to pursue peaceful nuclear ambitions, and he denies the Islamic republic is building nuclear weapons.
He vowed to press ahead with plans to develop nuclear energy in Venezuela, where uranium deposits have been detected.
Venezuela is not planning to send uranium to Iran, which has significant uranium deposits and currently has no need to import uranium.
“They are going to start saying that we are going to make an atomic bomb,” Chavez said.
What does this mean to us? It means that Iran will be sharing the technology, and possibly parts. This is not just about the nuclear technology, this is also about the delivery systems. This is about rogue country sharing technology with another country, that happens to be within our own hemisphere.
One of the many things that has kept this country safe (or safer) for more than 200 years was the fact that we were on the other side of the planet from the majority of the kooks and nutjobs, throughout our country’s history. We can deal with Chavez and his kooks in the same hemisphere. There isn’t a lot he can do to really mess with us. He knows about all he can do is mess with oil.
He also knows that if he can buy the missiles from Iran, he can launch attacks against the US from within his own borders.
He also knows that if he can put a nuke on top of one of those missiles, he can hit the United States. Yes, he can hit the United States. Until now, there have been very few countries that have that technology. We have been safe from the nut jobs in North Korea or Libya, or most of the rest of the world because we have been geographically isolated from them. It is 1800 miles Caracas to Miami, 2000 miles to Washington DC, 2200 miles to Houston, 3600 miles to Los Angeles; all “as the crow flies”. The BBC reported that one of Iran’s long range missiles is currently expected to have a range of up to 1500 miles.
Another BBC report is suggesting that with their current technology, they could reach at least 3000 km:
A report on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, released earlier in May 2009 by the EastWest Institute think tank, said that “with the components and technologies it now has, Iran could hypothetically build missiles with a range of 3,000km [1800 miles] or more”.
Ok, so if Chavez buys a few of these missiles (or trades them for refined gasoline), he might not be able to hit Miami right away, but if he were to convince the whackjob Castro in Cuba to let him launch from there, we have the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Part Two.
So where are our leaders? Is Obama listening to his generals or is he gathering a group of politicians at the White House and taking a poll? Maybe he should have done that yesterday when the Bamster was trying to figure out what to do in Afghanistan, since he wouldn’t listen to his generals…
For years, we have heard the Left whine about how much the War in Iraq has cost our country, blah blah blah. According to the Congressional Research Service, the Iraq War during the whole Bush Administration (2003 to Jan 2009) has cost $622 billion.
Echoing this standard Liberal talking point was the Annointed One on his campaign trail:
“Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned,” then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Charleston, W.V., crowd in March 2008. “This is creating problems in our fragile economy. And that kind of debt also places an unfair burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to repay it.”
Now it seems that the Heritage Foundation has come out with a new report that says The Messiah will spend $880 billion in 2010 alone, on welfare programs, a total of $10.3 TRILLION over the next decade.
Obama’s spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. This will lead to a spending total of $10.3 trillion over the next decade on various welfare programs. These include cash payments, food, housing, Medicaid and various social services for low-income Americans and those at 200 percent of the poverty level, or $44,000 for a family of four. Among that total, $7.5 trillion will be federal money and $2.8 trillion will be federally mandated state expenditures.
How short Obama’s memory is. The Heritage Foundation also had this to say:
In that same West Virginia speech last year, Obama said, “When Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month, you’re paying a price for this war.”
The Heritage study says, “Applying that same standard to means-tested welfare spending reveals that welfare will cost each household $560 per month in 2009 and $638 per month in 2010.”
Geeze, $560-$638 a month? That’s what people’s mortgages are, in many parts of the country, and they will be responsible for that for welfare payments?
According to his White House budget proposal, President Barack Obama will increase annual federal welfare spending by one-third, from $522.4 billion to $697 billion in his first fiscal year. Adjusted for inflation, the combined two-year increase of $263 billion is greater than any increase in welfare spending in history.
By 2014, annual spending on welfare programs will reach $1 trillion for the fiscal year.
So it’s ok to spend a TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR on welfare but not ok to spend $888 billion to protect our country from people who want us all dead over 6 years?
“None of the $800 billion being spent is counted as income, so the Census comes back and they say, ‘Oh my goodness, we have 40 million poor people. We need to spend more money,’” Rector explained. “That is a game the taxpayer can never win.”
Since it’s not being counted as income, that also means it is not being taxed. That means the half the estimated cost of the ObamaCare, >$500 BILLION in the first year, will not be taxed! Who covers the taxes on that? Who makes up for that?
Just think about this. I told a couple of liberal friends of mine about this report, and here were their replies:
<Lib_1> well fixin screwups doesn’t come cheap
<Lib_2> specially when they ran off with all the money
There’s no trying to reason with these people. Of course, Lib_2 also shamefully admitted he wrote in Reverend Al Sharpton because he knew the Rev didn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning, and he didn’t like The Annointed One or McSame.
More of the article these quotes came from can be found here.
Thankfully, the International Olympic Committee saw through the BS and did not give the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago. Maybe they saw the corruption… Maybe they saw the crime rates… Maybe they thought about the fact that summer in Chicago might really suck.
Thank you OIC for using your brains.
This must be a blow for the Bamster. He and his wife tried so hard to tell the world what it would mean to them, personally. Who cares? It’s not about THEM.
And in true, liberal media fashion, Obama’s failure did not make the froint page of the New York Times, it was in the Sports section. You think if Chicago had won the bid that it would have been on teh front page of every newspaper in the country?
I think what was interesting was that former I.O.C. member Kai Holm said it best. It was a hit-and-run by Obama. This was not well thought out (does this sound familiar with his other stunts? ObamaCare, Cap and Tax, GM buyout?).
The appearance by the Obamas was hoped to overcome some of those problems, but the former I.O.C. member Kai Holm told The Associated Press that the brevity of his appearance might have hurt. Holm called it “too businesslike,” adding, “It can be that some I.O.C. members see it as a lack of respect.” (link)
Could it have been that maybe the IOC doesn’t respect Obama? Maybe his apologies and lack of spine demonstrated with all of his other responsibilities told them that Chicago couldn’t be trusted to build the facilities without cost over runs and corruption?
Maybe this is the first chink falling from the brick walls of the Obama Administration. Maybe the announcement today of the increase in unemployment to 9.8% (a 26 year high)might have had something to do with it, especially after promising if we spent $780 BILLION, unemployment wouldn’t go over 8%.
Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end. The house of cards is beginning to fall…
Here are a couple links you should read, and think about, before getting the H1N1 (Mexican Swine Flu) vaccine. It is not as effective as you are being told, nor is it as innocuous as you are being led to believe.
“It conforms reasonably well to the impression of those of us who are working in the field of public health,” said William Schaffner, MD, who chairs Vanderbilt University’s Department of Preventive Medicine.
Because most people who get H1N1 experience only mild symptoms and recover at home, most cases go unreported. Lipsitch’s study attempts to take these silent numbers into account, instead of simply relying on statistics of physician visits.
“That was the Mexican mistake,” Schaffner said. “They initially looked at only the patients who were admitted to the hospital and who were in intensive care units. So, we got an inaccurate estimate of the severity of this viral infection. And that’s because the Mexican public health authorities really didn’t have a handle on all those people who were ill, but never went to the hospital.”
The swine flu vaccine has been hit by new cancer fears after a German health expert gave a shocking warning about its safety.
Lung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus. The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals, and some fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.
The vaccine can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.
What’s good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander! Journalist Wayne Madsen tells Russia today scientists involved in creating previous vaccinations are telling family and friends not to take the H1N1 vaccine. Madsen also warns that the government may make the vaccination mandatory.
Remember, this vaccine is being pushed by several different groups who may not have your best interests in mind. The government, the WHO, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers.
It’s being reported that Yosi Sergant, who was director of communications for the National Endowment for the Arts until he was reassigned this month in the wake of the controversy, offered his resignation Thursday afternoon, the NEA said in a written statement.
This is the clown that held the conference call that told the artsy people they were learning how to deal with the administration without getting in trouble, and they the artists needed to start creating art supporting Obama’s radical agenda.
“His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately,” the statement read.
Sergant was one of several officials on an hour-long conference call on Aug. 10 hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve, a nationwide initiative launched by President Obama to increase volunteerism.
The official participants — including Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons — sought focused efforts by the approximately 75 artists on the call to produce works of art that supported the Obama administration’s agenda in areas like health care, energy and environment, education and community renewal.
White House officials announced earlier this week that steps would be taken to prevent a recurrence of the call after critics, including one of the artists on the call, labeled it a “well thought-out pitch” to encourage artists to create art on those issues.
This is VERY good news! This guy was trying to give lessons on how to get around the usual ways of getting NEA grants.
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