An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
Dear President Obama,
Do you really want to be the new "war president"? .....
Monday, November 30, 2009
Climategate: Data destroyed??
'Climate change' data dumped...
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.
He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity.
Climategate: Update
The worst scientific scandal of our generation
Professors in U-turn, will publish all data...
BBC: Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails...
Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
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The core climate data and the scientists who gathered it have been compromised irreparably.
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Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
UK Defense Sec: Obama to blame for Afghanistan
Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan
Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban.
A “period of hiatus” in Washington - and a lack of clear direction - had made it harder for ministers to persuade the British public to go on backing the Afghan mission in the face of a rising death toll, he said.Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban.
Senior British Government sources have become increasingly frustrated with Mr Obama’s “dithering” on Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph disclosed earlier this month, with several former British defence chiefs echoing the concerns.
“We have suffered a lot of losses," he said. "We have had a period of hiatus while McChrystal's plan and his requested uplift has been looked at in the detail to which it has been looked at over a period of some months, and we have had the Afghan elections, which have been far from perfect let us say.
“All of those things have mitigated against our ability to show progress... put that on the other side of the scales when we are suffering the kind of losses that we are."
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
CNN and Wired (real news) report: Climate Gate
CNN/Wired: An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online.
From the UK Telegraph: Climategate: the final nail in the coffin
...this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Weekly update
three days after that...
and 3 days later....
Rassmussen concurs:
Other random thoughts:
- Palin tops book charts
- China tells us to go to hell
- Iran tells us to go to hell
- Israel tells us to go to hell
- We were lectured by Germany, Russia and China on economics
- More holes found in stimulus jobs numbers
- More economists feel that 'The worst is yet to come'... *
And I didn't even mention Health Care!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Major Hasan's E-Mail: 'I Can't Wait to Join You' in Afterlife
American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?
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Good thing we didn't "jump to conclusions" Barack. I think Hasan acted stupidly, don't you?
Monday, November 16, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
This woman clearly acted stupidly
Black Professor Punches Bitch
She clearly acted stupidly and deserved to be punched.
But please don't jump to any conclusions about Jihadists shooting people.
McIntyre, who is known as "Mac" at the bar, shoved Davis, and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the prof slugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.
"The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise," bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. "I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me."
The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, "You don't hit a woman!"
"He knocked the glasses right off my face," said the man, who would only give his first name as "Shannon." "The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it -- apparently I wasn't doing enough."
McIntyre had squabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race, witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, server Rob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.
"It was a real sucker punch," Dalton said. "Camille's a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn't deserve anything like this."
Davis was spotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reached at her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.
She clearly acted stupidly and deserved to be punched.
But please don't jump to any conclusions about Jihadists shooting people.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Obama: Health Care is like Auto Insurance
ABC News: Obama: “What I think is appropriate is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don't, you're subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it's affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there's a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are -- are burdened by because of the fact that people don't have health insurance, you know, there's nothing wrong with a penalty.”
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Well there is one important flaw in your all too common analogy... PEOPLE AREN'T REQUIRED TO BUY CARS, BUT THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE ALIVE.
Buying a car is choice. Taking the bus is a choice. Car pooling is a choice. Have one car in your family rather than 3 cars is a choice.
BEING ALIVE IS NOT A CHOICE!
And requiring people to have health insurance is an infringement on the basic freedoms of the Constitution. The federal government does not get to control your heath! Where are the pro-choice people on this? Are you telling me that the government doesn't get a say when it comes to killing unborn babies, but when it comes to your entire physical health they are supposed to dictate it all??
Climate Change = The Weather
- Temperature Highlights - October
- The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.
- For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.
- Statewide temperatures coincided with the regional values as all but six states had below normal temperatures. Oklahoma had its coolest October on record and ten other states had their top five coolest such months.
- Florida was the only state to have an above normal temperature average in October. It was the sixth consecutive month that the Florida's temperature was above normal, resulting in the third warmest such period (May-October).
- The three-month period (August-October) was the coolest on record for three states:Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Five other states had top five cool periods: Missouri (2nd), Iowa (3rd) , Arkansas (5th) , Illinois (5th) and South Dakota (5th) . Every climate division in Kansas (nine) and Nebraska (eight) recorded a record cool such period.
- For the year-to-date (January - October) period, the contiguous U.S. temperature ranked43rd warmest. No state had a top or bottom ten temperature value for this period.
Warmonger: Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40K More Troops...
(from CBS, a real news source)
Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
Monday, November 9, 2009
ABC news: Hasan tried to contact Al Qaeda
ABC news (a real news source): Hasan tried to contact Al Qaeda
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
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Can we jump to conclusions now Barack??
... or should we play the race card?
... or should we make excuses?
... or should we open a dialog with him?
... perhaps negotiate?
... maybe we should consult the UN?
Friday, November 6, 2009
Unemployment hits 10.2 percent... worst since 1983
Unemployment hits 10.2 percent... highest since 1983
Ronald Reagan "inherited" Jimmy Carter's recession... so what did Ronny do?
During Reagan's tenure, income tax rates of the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70% to 28% in 7 years,[10] while social security and medicare taxes increased.[11][12] RealGross Domestic Product (GDP) growth recovered strongly after the 1982 recession and produced five straight quarters of growth averaging 8.4%. The GDP grew during Reagan's remaining years in office at an annual rate of 3.4% per year,[13] slightly lower than the post-World War II average of 3.6%.[14] Unemployment peaked at over 10.7% percent in 1982 then dropped during the rest of Reagan's terms, and inflation significantly decreased.[15] A net job increase of about 16 million also occurred (about the rate of population growth).
According to a 1996 study[30] from the libertarian think tank Cato Institute:
- On 8 of the 10 key economic variables examined, the American economy performed better during the Reagan years than during the pre- and post-Reagan years.
- Real median family income grew by $4,000 during the Reagan period after experiencing no growth in the pre-Reagan years; it experienced a loss of almost $1,500 in the post-Reagan years.
- Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment fell faster under Reagan than they did immediately before or after his presidency.
- The only economic variable that was worse in the Reagan period than in both the pre- and post-Reagan years was the savings rate, which fell rapidly in the 1980s.
- The productivity rate was higher in the pre-Reagan years but much lower in the post-Reagan years.
In the last year of the Carter Administration (1980) the US inflation rate climbed to a peak of 14.8%, the top individual tax payer rate was 78%, unemployment was 7.4%, federal outlay was 17% higher than the economy's growth rate, and the federal government grew while enacting loads of new spending programs. During this period, the US economy was the worst it had been since the Great Depression of the 1930s.[citation needed] The nation was in quite a deep hole of economic collapse when the new president Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981.[citation needed] Reagan had to devise a constructive, sound tax and monetary policy to pull the US out of its economic low point.[citation needed]
Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute stated that "no act in the last quarter century had a more profound impact on the US economy of the eighties and nineties than the Reagan tax cut of 1981." He claims that Reagan's tax cuts, combined with an emphasis on federal monetary policy, deregulation, and expansion of free trade created a sustained economic expansion creating America's greatest sustained wave of prosperity ever. The American economy grew by more than a third in size, producing a $15 trillion increase in American wealth. Every income group, from the richest, middle class and poorest in this country, grew its income (1981-1989). Consumer and investor confidence soared. Cutting federal income taxes, cutting the US government spending budget, cutting useless programs, scaling down the government work force, maintaining low interest rates, and keeping a watchful inflation hedge on the monetary supply was Ronald Reagan's formula for a successful economic turnaround. The economic principle that business expansion, jobs and wealth follow low tax rates is widely accepted.[citation needed] The last principle Ronald Reagan incorporated was the realization that immigrant workers are a key and vital component of the US economy.
Obama says don't jump to conclusions...
Barack Obama cautioned a stunned public on Friday against drawing quick conclusions on a shooting rampage by an officer at a Texas military base that killed 13 people.
The president made the comments as the commander of Fort Hood, the US’s largest base for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, quoted witnesses as saying the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted the Muslim declaration “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – as he opened fire. Speaking at the White House, Mr Obama said: “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
YO SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY MUSLIM HOMIES!
Oh, by the way. That shooting was terrible.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
CNN: Welcome to irrelevance.
CNN: Welcome to irrelevance.
For the first time in more than two years, CNN fell out of the top 30 cable channels last week in prime time (total viewers). Fox News ranked 3rd, behind USA and ESPN, while MSNBC was 26th.
Well that's one way to count jobs...
The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,"
WTF??
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Well that's one way to read the polls...
Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president, with 45 percent saying they disapprove."Obama's approval rating of 54 percent is nearly identical to the 53 percent of the vote he won a year ago," notes CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "And in nearly every demographic category, the percent that approve of Obama today is within two to three points of the percent who voted for him in 2008.
Gee CNN, that is an awfully generous way of looking at it.
Another way to look at it is like this:
CNN is comparing apples to oranges. Just because you didn't vote for him does not mean you don't support him. As you can see in the Rasmussen poll 65% of likely voters approved of Obama when he was elected.
The CNN poll shows that only 54% of ALL PEOPLE current approve.
The difference is two-fold:
- Likely-voters (Rassmussen) vs. all people (CNN)
- Job Approval vs. 2008 election
CNN is comparing apples to oranges to grapes to try and spin Obama's fall from grace.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Bad ass
Reuters
The USS New York, the Navy's newest ship — made from the steel of the fallen World Trade Center towers — arrives in its namesake city to a 21-gun salute.
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