Thursday, October 31, 2013
The Media - "NBCUniversal’s Insurance Premiums to Rise Due to Obamacare"
NBC finally figures it out...
At NewsBusters.org, Sean Long captured this:
" CNBC’s morning anchors were troubled by the news that their own insurance plans will become more costly under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On Oct. 30’s “Squawk Box,” CNBC Senior Correspondent Scott Cohn revealed details of NBC’s open enrollment, brandishing an official fact book outlining the process. He quoted the document, revealing that the ACA would increase employee premiums. Cohn observed “Some of these costs, when you look at this, are way up -- double digits.”"
"New Report Reveals How Congress’ Misplaced Priorities Are Destroying Our Nation's Most Prized National Parks"
Another sad "government at work" story...
At Townhall.com, Leah Barkoukis has the story behind this:
"For years, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have put their parochial desires ahead of the nation’s best interest. Funding for low-priority and obscure parks earmarked by lawmakers has come at the cost of caring for our national treasures like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, the National Mall and Independence Park in Philadelphia. Last year alone, the National Park Service put off more than a quarter billion dollars in much needed maintenance projects, adding to the $11.5 billion maintenance backlog already threatening the health, safety, and accessibility of park visitors."
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
"NHS pulls the plug on its 11bn IT system"
N.H.S. stands for the U.K.'s government run National Health System...
Oliver Wright is telling this story in the U'K.'s Independent:
"A plan to create the world's largest single civilian computer system linking all parts of the National Health Service is to be abandoned by the Government after running up billions of pounds in bills. Ministers are expected to announce next month that they are scrapping a central part of the much-delayed and hugely controversial 10-year National Programme for IT."
"Feds confiscate investigative reporter’s confidential files during raid"
At face value, this story should be disconcerting to all of us, and to the press for sure.
Possibly, there's more to it than disclosed here...
Possibly, there's more to it than disclosed here...
On the Daily Caller website, Alex Pappas reported on this:
"A search warrant obtained by TheDC indicates that the August raid allowed law enforcement to search for firearms inside her home.
The document notes that her husband, Paul Flanagan, was found guilty in 1986 to resisting arrest in Prince George’s County. The warrant called for police to search the residence they share and seize all weapons and ammunition because he is prohibited under the law from possessing firearms.
But without Hudson’s knowledge, the agents also confiscated a batch of documents that contained information about sources inside the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, she said."
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
"Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance"
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!...
At NBCnews.com, Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye report this:
"Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, '40 to 67 percent' of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, 'the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.'
That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.
Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, 'if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,' was still saying in 2012, 'If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.'
"This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,' said Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms."
"World’s anger at Obama policies goes beyond Europe and the NSA"
I guess we could say things have gotten pretty much out of hand...
Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy's Washington Bureau elaborate on this story:
"Whether miffed over spying revelations or feeling sold out by U.S. moves in the Middle East, some of the United States’ closest allies are so upset that the Obama administration has gone into damage-control mode to ensure the rifts don’t widen and threaten critical partnerships.
The quarrels differ in their causes and degrees of seriousness. As a whole, however, they pose a new foreign policy headache for an administration whose overseas track record is seen in many quarters at home and abroad as reactive and lacking direction.
In Europe and the Middle East, rifts that once would’ve been quietly smoothed over have exploded into headlines and public remonstrations."
Monday, October 28, 2013
Obama's Credibility Is Melting - WSJ.com
In the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger offers this:
"From the moment he emerged in the public eye with his 2004 speech at the Democratic Convention and through his astonishing defeat of the Clintons in 2008, Barack Obama's calling card has been credibility. He speaks, and enough of the world believes to keep his presidency afloat. Or used to. All of a sudden, from Washington to Riyadh, Barack Obama's credibility is melting."
"Study: Global warming could yield increased crop production"
There is another side to that story.
A little global warming may be just what we need...
On the DailyCaller website, Michael Bastasch recently wrote about this:
"The center’s study focused on benefits to global food production because higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been shown to stimulate plant productivity and growth, as well as increasing plant’s water conserving and stress-alleviating abilities.
'The results indicate that the annual total monetary value of this benefit grew from about $20 billion in 1961 to over $160 billion by 2011, amounting to a total sum of $3.5 trillion over the 50-year period 1961-2011,' reads the study. 'Projecting the monetary value of this positive externality forward in time reveals it will likely bestow an additional $11.6 trillion on crop production between now and 2050.'
'It is clear from the material presented in this report that the modern rise in the air’s CO2 content is providing a tremendous economic benefit to global crop production,' the study adds."
Sunday, October 27, 2013
2013-10-27 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Tony Abbott puts himself in line of fire | The Australian
Sid Maher recently reported:
"His favoured white-shirt-blue-tie combo was swapped for yellow overalls as Australia's 28th prime minister joined his Davidson RFS brigade on a back-burning operation in Bilpin, near the Blue Mountains, for a night shift that began at 6pm Saturday and finished at 8am yesterday. If not for a couple of photos circulating on Twitter, it's a fair chance that Mr Abbott's weekend exploits would have gone unnoticed."
Friday, October 25, 2013
"Obama's efforts to control leaks 'the most aggressive since Nixon', report finds"
Well, it's much more than just leaks.
The Obama administration is basically a "closed" book...
The Obama administration is basically a "closed" book...
At theGuardian.com, Karen McVeigh writes about it:
"The report said the Obama administration has created a climate where, even on matters not pertaining to national security, but in the public interest, government officials are reluctant to provide information, including on Freedom of Information requests. Ann Compton, the ABC News White House correspondent who has been covering presidents since General Ford, complained that there was 'no access to the daily business in the Oval Office … who the president meets with, who he gets advice from'. 'He's the least transparent of the seven presidents I've covered,' Compton said in the report."
Thursday, October 24, 2013
"Antarctic Sea Ice Didn’t Get The Memo That It Was Supposed To Melt"
This is from the WhatsUpWithThat websire:
"Per the graph above, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has remained above the 1981 – 2010 'normal' range for much of the last three months and the current positive Antarctic Sea Ice Extent anomaly appears quite large for a planet supposedly on the verge of Dangerous Warming. Furthermore, in 2013 we had the third most expansive Southern Sea Ice Area measured to date;"
"Black Leadership and Racial Murder"
This is one of the more detailed and thoughtful ones...
At AmericanThinker.com, J.R. Dunn includes this in a posting about racial issues:
"The very politicians and public figures who benefited most from the gains of the civil rights movement have refused to recognize the ideals that drove the movement, instead consciously choosing the system of racial hostility that replaced those ideals. They have ignored the lessons of King and Abernathy in favor of the cheap and dangerous rhetoric of the Jacksons and Sharptons, the Barakas and Farrakhans. Uncomfortably large numbers of shiftless, barely literate ghetto males take their cue directly from these figures, responding with hatred, contempt, violence, and murder."
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
"Greta Van Susteren: 'Chris Matthews May Be For Sale, I Am Not'"
At NewsBusters.org Noel Sheppard gives the rundown on what went on:
" Chris Matthews earlier this week told Ora.TV's Larry King that there's pressure at news outlets such as Fox and MSNBC to be openly partisan. Matthews chose to use Greta Van Susteren as an example of this. Van Susteren struck back Friday in a way that only she knows how:"
"CALL7 Investigators find jcpenney raises prices to create illusion of markdowns throughout store"
That being said, it is worthwhile information to newer members of the consumer society...
At theDenverChannel.com, Keli Rabon recently reported:
"A CALL7 hidden-camera investigation finds the discounts at one major national retailer may not be as significant as shoppers would think, after finding prices on tags were marked up so the item can then be placed on 'sale.'"
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
"Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions"
For government, the question seems to be how much is too much?...
This story was reported Fox News website:
"The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement -- have armed divisions. The agencies employ about 120,000 full-time officers authorized to carry guns and make arrests, according to a June 2012 Justice Department report."
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sebelius on the Run - WSJ.com
Clearly, we deserve to know what's going on.
Appointed officials just don't have the right to hide from explanations...
Appointed officials just don't have the right to hide from explanations...
The Wall Street Journal states the obvious:
"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday. HHS claims she has scheduling conflicts, but we hope she isn't in the White House catacomb under interrogation by Valerie Jarrett about her department's incompetence. The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle. Ducking an investigation with spin is one thing. Responding with a wall of silence to the invitation of a duly elected congressional body probing the use of more than half a billion taxpayer dollars is another. This Obama crowd is something else."
"Detroit's 'Operation Compliance' Shows the Dangers of Too Many Regulations"
Jarrett Skorup reports what's going on via the Michigan Capitol Confidential website:
"Detroit reportedly wants to shut down 20 businesses each week and more than 900 have either been closed or are in the process so far. The press release announcing the program in January said: 'An example of an illegal business is an appliance resale shop operating in an area that is zoned for retail.' Is this really what a bankrupt, violent crime-ridden city should be focused on?"
Sunday, October 20, 2013
2013-10-20 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 19, 2013
US adults are dumber than the average human | New York Post
Even though it's last week's news, I doubt much has changed...
This Associated Press article was recently published in the New York Post:
"In math, reading and problem-solving using technology – all skills considered critical for global competitiveness and economic strength – American adults scored below the international average on a global test, according to results released Tuesday.
Adults in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland and multiple other countries scored significantly higher than the United States in all three areas on the test. Beyond basic reading and math, respondents were tested on activities such as calculating mileage reimbursement due to a salesman, sorting email and comparing food expiration dates on grocery store tags."
Friday, October 18, 2013
U.S. surges past Saudis to become world's top oil supplier -PIRA | Reuters
This sounds good to me...
Reuters News Service reports:
"The United States has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become the world's biggest oil producer as the jump in output from shale plays has led to the second biggest oil boom in history, according to leading U.S. energy consultancy PIRA.
U.S. output, which includes natural gas liquids and biofuels, has swelled 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) since 2009, the fastest expansion in production over a four-year period since a surge in Saudi Arabia's output from 1970-1974, PIRA said in a release on Tuesday."
"Doctors Fired, Administrators Hired: America’s Naivety Leads To Bad Medicine"
At Townhall.com, Austin Hill tells about the American Medical Association's involvement in Obamacare and the cascading results. He specifically asks:
"A question for the American Medical Association: What were you thinking?"
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Media - "Megyn Kelly Gets It Wrong"
The media is far from perfect, and should be extra careful with "racism".
That being said, all media should be able to "click through" to make sure they get the true story, and not the sensationalism they want to market...
That being said, all media should be able to "click through" to make sure they get the true story, and not the sensationalism they want to market...
On his website, Joe the Plumber calls out responds:
"If you’re wondering what I’m ranting about, I posted an article by a talented writer named Kevin Jackson, who had written a satirical piece about race and the presidency, entitled; 'America Needs a White Republican President'. That’s right Megyn, you bashed an African-American! Or as Kevin calls himself: 'American.'
Anyhoozer, apparently the sarcasm was lost on Ms. Kelly because Tuesday night she went on the air of her nifty new show and called yours truly, Joe Wurzelbacher, a racist for writing the article. I guess Fox News only provides Greta, Sean and Bill any research budget because a little simple scrolling would have directed her to the other half of the article over at 'The Blacksphere.net' – Kevin’s website where millions read his blog and other writings on a regular basis."
Politicians - Newark Mayor Cory Booker
It rarely changes anything, so I guess no one really cares...
The Daily Caller's Charles C. Johnson writes about it:
"As Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn’t live in the Gateway City. Multiple residents of Newark told The Daily Caller that the longtime mayor doesn’t live at any of the addresses he has claimed as home. The mayor is believed to live in New York even though he is registered to run for New Jersey’s special senate election. Booker, who filed to run for the U.S. Senate from a P.O. Box in Newark, is registered to vote at 435 Hawthorne Avenue but his next door neighbors told this reporter and filmmaker Joel Gilbert on camera that they haven’t seen Booker in years and that he doesn’t live there."
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
"Cultural Roots of a Fiscal Crisis"
Clearly, non-traditional family structures are affecting us all negatively...
At Townhall.com, Star Parker includes this in her recently posted article:
"According to Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution, in 2009 the poverty rate for children in homes with married parents was 11 percent. The poverty rate for children in homes headed by a single mother was 44.3 percent.
The incidence of homes headed by a single mother has gone from 6.3 percent of all households in 1950 to 23.9 percent in 2010. In a Gallup poll done this year, 71 percent of respondents between 18 and 34 years old said having a baby outside of marriage is morally acceptable.
So we have promoted a culture, a culture fostered by the political left, that sanctions behavior in which poverty is more likely to occur."
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"Foreign doctors to face language tests before they can work in hospitals"
Apparently that's not so in the European Union...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Stuart Woledge reported:
"Although the General Medical Council can test the English of doctors from non EU countries, it has been banned from testing the skills of those arriving from member states since 1983. More than 25,000 doctors from the EU are registered to practice in the UK, none of whom have ever been tested for their English skills."
The 31-Year-Old Strategist Behind the Shutdown - WSJ.com
In the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore writes all about the behind the scenes ideas:
"Though Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the public face of the high-risk strategy to 'defund' ObamaCare, the masterminds behind it are a new generation of young conservatives, chief among them Mr. Needham. From a tactical view, the strategy has been deployed with precision. In August, only Mr. Cruz and a band of renegade tea-party Republicans in the House favored this approach, and the media collectively scoffed. But by September, House Republicans couldn't pass a budget without attaching the defunding rider that has grounded much of government.
'We rallied the conservative grass roots across the country,' Mr. Needham says, and ran ads in more than 100 districts on the health law. It worked. During the August recess, these activists demanded that their members of Congress stop ObamaCare.
To most observers, who think the GOP is losing this fight, Mr. Needham's optimism that Republicans will carry the day may seem astonishing. But Mr. Needham says the second-guessers are wrong."
Monday, October 14, 2013
Government at Work - "The Park Police"
I'm sure there is the excuse that they're only obeying orders, and not to jeopardize their careers and financial well-being.
If you think about this, you could conclude it's government against it's citizens.
That being said, how is civil war defined?...
If you think about this, you could conclude it's government against it's citizens.
That being said, how is civil war defined?...
Jonathan V. Last writes about them in his upcoming column in The Weekly Standard:
"'We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around.'” —Ronald Reagan
The conduct of the National Park Service over the last week might be the biggest scandal of the Obama administration. This is an expansive claim, of course. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, the HHS mandate—this is an administration that has not lacked for appalling abuses of power. And we still have three years to go.
Even so, consider the actions of the National Park Service since the government shutdown began."
"Exclusive: Immigration Agents Rip House Lawmakers Pushing Amnesty"
It sure looks like American citizens are going to get "snookered"...
Mathew Boyle has this and more detail at Breitbart.com:
"'At every step, this administration places obstacles and roadblocks in front of our adjudication officers in their attempts to protect our nation’s security and the American taxpayer,' Palinkas said. 'I documented these abuses on more than one occasion with the authors of Schumer-Rubio-Corker-Hoeven [S. 744] only to have them ignored.
'I worry the House may be following a similar path. Media reports reveal that Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Chairman Paul Ryan, Congressman Luis Gutierrez, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are working to advance proposals to open citizenship benefits to the majority of those here illegally, in combination with proposals to expand visa programs.'
Palinkas warned, too, that any group of 'step-by-step' House immigration bills may be used as a tool by congressional leaders to get to a conference committee, at which point they would be combined with the Senate bill and sent to the president for his signature, and illegal immigrants would start getting amnesty."
Sunday, October 13, 2013
2013-10-13 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 12, 2013
"Homeland Security: It's Cheaper to Round Up & Deport Illegals Than to Allow Them to Stay"
Of course, you're never going to hear that statement again...
At DCclothesline.com, Tim Brown reminds us of a statement from not too long ago:
"We have been told that we cannot afford deporting illegals and that our economy is dependent upon them, even though we have massive unemployment. I want to remind you about the Department of Homeland Security’s claim back in 2010, that for a little over $100 billion Immigration and Customs Enforcement could apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population."
Friday, October 11, 2013
"'Essential' Government Employees Actively Going Out of Their Way to Screw Up Your Day"
On his website, Patterico wonders about "essential":
"With the government slowdown, government is stripped down to the bare minimum of “essential” services. What is 'essential' these days?"
Thursday, October 10, 2013
"Social Security judge accused of disability scheme"
People will try anything, and lawyers will try to help them for a payment.
BUT, when judges act like this one, it really is despicable...
BUT, when judges act like this one, it really is despicable...
At JournalGazette.net, Stephen Ohlemacher has some detail on this:
"A retired Social Security judge in West Virginia collaborated with a lawyer to improperly award disability benefits to hundreds of applicants, according to a report released Monday by congressional investigators.
The report accuses retired administrative law Judge David B. Daugherty of scheming with lawyer Eric C. Conn to approve more than 1,800 cases from 2006 to 2010.
'By 2011, Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty had collaborated on a scheme that enabled the judge to approve, in assembly-line fashion, hundreds of clients for disability benefits using manufactured medical evidence,' said the report by the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee."
Government at Work - And they want to borrow MORE!
Even so, the current high debt makes the numbers staggering...
At CNSnews.com, Terence P. Jeffrey gives the details on this story:
"Roll Over Plan: Treasury Needed to Pay Off Record $7.5T in Maturing Debt in FY 2013, Issued $8.3T New Debt; Increased Net Debt $777B | CNS News"
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
"'Gestapo' tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone"
John Macone reports at NewburyPortNews.com:
"Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.
Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.
The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest. When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route.
'We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,' said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. 'It was like they brought out the armed forces.'
"Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee"
Skeptical me is not surprised by this.
It's a sad example that everyone has a price...
It's a sad example that everyone has a price...
National Public Radio's Richard Knox recently posted about tis on the KUHF-FM website:
"When medical research is published in a peer-reviewed journal, the presumption is that the study has been reviewed for accuracy. The advent of open-access journals has made it easier to get published. But when a journalist sent an obviously faked paper, dozens of open-access journals said they'd be happy to publish it, for a fee." "To find out just how common predatory publishing is, Science contributor John Bohannon sent a deliberately faked research article 305 times to online journals. More than half the journals that supposedly reviewed the fake paper accepted it."
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
"EyeNetra Aims to Shake Up Optometry with Financing from Vinod Khosla"
The medical world is a major beneficiary of science and technology.
This technology could end up being available to everyone...
This technology could end up being available to everyone...
On the Technology Review website, Antonio Regalado reports on this:
"At EyeNetra, the startup he cofounded, goofy curiosities like plastic eyeballs line the shelves, and a 3-D printing machine whirs in the background. It’s printing out prototypes of a device that will attach to your smartphone and, in a minute or two, tell you what kind of eyeglasses you need."
"America the ignorant"
With the media's known biases, to avoid ignorance, we should be skeptical of their reporting and look to alternative sources for the truth...
At HotAir.com, Jazz Shaw discusses this issue and concludes:
"Uninformed people are not somebody else’s problem and the issues they cause are not only visited upon their own house. Uninformed people frequently show up to vote. They pick up the phone and give answers to pollsters which politicians then react to. Heck, they even drive cars. And as near as I can tell, it’s a problem which is completely out of reach of any solution."
Monday, October 07, 2013
The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain
The leaders of our country are more childish than kindergarteners...
At Breitbart.com, John Nolte has a partial list. It's not pretty:
"While our president still enjoys his essential employees and locations: the White House chefs, Camp David, and a military golf course, there doesn't seem to be any question that in mercenary pursuit of a political win, this White House is determined to unreasonably punish as many everyday people as possible."
"Feds evict elderly couple from their home, cite shutdown"
How can you not think our country has lost it's way?...
At WashingtonExaminer.com, Joel Gehrke reported this:
"National Park Service officials cited the government shutdown as the reason for ordering an elderly Nevada couple out of their home, which sits on federal land. 'Unfortunately overnight stays are not permitted until a budget is passed and the park can reopen,' an NPS spokesman explained to KTNV. Ralph and Joyce Spencer, aged 80 and 77, respectively, own their home, but the government owns the land on which it sits."
"14 Principled Anti-War Celebrities We Fear May Have Been Kidnapped"
Kudos for the interesting headline to make the point...
AT BuzzFeed.com, John Ekdahl reports:
"Our government is yet again marching us towards a war of choice in the Middle East and our non-partisan, peace-loving celebrities have gone missing since late 2008. We fear the worst."
Sunday, October 06, 2013
2013-10-06 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 05, 2013
"NSA chief's admission of misleading numbers adds to Obama administration blunders"
I'm not surprised. Are you?
Government seems to have problems with the truth.
It's so sad...
Government seems to have problems with the truth.
It's so sad...
The Washington Times' Shaun Waterman has details on this gem:
"Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration."
The Media - Reporting Obamacare signups inaccurately?
I just think they should hold their need in check, and investigate before reporting...
On the Reason.com website, Peter Suderman does some homework to investigate what the media is reporting, and reports this:
"Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven’t Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father"
Friday, October 04, 2013
"Wind Turbines"
At BritainGallery.com, Enza Ferreri lists these as advantages. Somehow you know It gets much worse:
"Advantages of wind turbines: They make lots of money for companies investing in them, wind industry developers and manufacturers, due to government subsidies and cash incentives, for which, by the Labour government's own admission in its 2003 Energy White Paper (Section 4.7), ordinary people have to pay. They make the politicians appear good and 'caring', looking after the environment and even 'saviours of the planet' from the imagined catastrophes of global warming. They make the 'environmentalists' happy, maybe because man is finally punished for his sins 'against the earth'."
Thursday, October 03, 2013
"Sea Level Rise: Climate Change and an Ocean of Natural Variability"
This writer asks a question that everyone can understand...
Anthony Watts reports on his blog:
"The theory of man-made climate change warns that human emissions of greenhouse gases will raise global temperatures and melt Earth’s icecaps, causing rising oceans and flooding coastal cities. Former Vice President Al Gore’s best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, showed simulated pictures of flooding in South Florida, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, and other world locations. Dr. James Hansen predicted an ocean rise of 75 feet during the next 100 years.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in 2007, “Global average sea level rose at an average rate of 1.8 mm per year over 1961 to 2003. The rate was faster over 1993 to 2003: about 3.1 mm per year.” This translates to a 100-year rise of only 7 inches and 12 inches, far below the dire predictions of the climate alarmists. But three millimeters is about the thickness of two dimes. Can scientists really measure a change in sea level over the course of a year, averaged across the world, which is two dimes thick?"
"So What Is an ‘Assault Rifle’ Really?..."
At theBalze.com, Liz Klimas writes all about them:
"We Look at the Definitions and How the Term Is ‘Demonized’"
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
"Anti-Catholic de Blasio, NY Mayoral Hopeful, Has Sordid Past"
This seems pretty ugly.
See what you think?...
See what you think?...
At NewsMax.com, Bill Donohue tells us about him. He begins:
"He may be the next mayor of the city of New York. Only recently have we learned who Bill de Blasio is (no one really cared much about him when he was the city's public advocate, an undefined made-out-of-whole-cloth job). Now that we have learned some important matters about his life, we are left with even more questions.
We know that his early political career was Marxist, and not just in an academic sense. He raised money for the Sandinistas, visited Nicaragua to align himself with the tyrants, and worked to undermine the efforts of the Reagan administration. No wonder he was endorsed by George Soros in August. Curiously, he decided to cover up his radical past: There is no mention of his extremist associations on his website.
The cover-up is not an anomaly. Quite frankly, Bill de Blasio has a problem with the truth. He was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr. in 1961. When he graduated from New York University in 1983 (where he was heavily involved in leftist causes), he changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm. In 2002, he changed his name again, settling on Bill de Blasio. The only reason we know this is because the media put the spotlight on him, forcing the issue."
"Real Climate Science the IPCC Doesn’t Want You to See"
Even so, many are still buying into the global warming theories of those who want to make policy based on speculation and computer models that just are not working out...
At Townhall.com, Paul Driessen writes about the real facts:
"Earth’s average atmospheric temperatures haven’t increased in almost 17 years. It’s been eight years since a Category 3 hurricane hit the United States. Tornado frequency is at a multi-decade low ebb. Droughts are shorter and less extreme than during the Dust Bowl and 1950s. Sea ice is back to normal, after one of the coldest Arctic summers in decades. And sea levels continue to rise at a meager 4-8 inches per century."
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
"Obama administration to allocate $45M for cops in schools"
Go figure...
This is from FoxNews.com:
"The Obama administration plans to spend millions of dollars to place armed police officers in schools throughout the country in a move advocated by the National Rifle Association in the wake of last December's shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn. The Department of Justice announced Friday it's giving nearly $45 million to fund 356 new school resource officer positions. Funding will be provided by grants from the department's Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, office."
"The Truth About Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court"
Could the media be reporting it incorrectly?...
On the American Spectator website, Dacid Catron thinks they are:
"If you began last Friday by scanning the web for interesting news items, you were hit by a tsunami of stories suggesting that the Obama administration wishes the Supreme Court to intervene in its legal battle with Hobby Lobby over that company’s refusal to comply with the HHS contraception mandate. Most of the major 'news' outlets began their coverage with a rented AP report titled, 'US Wants Supreme Court to Take Up Hobby Lobby Case,' and followed up with tendentious opinion pieces insinuating that the administration took this step to thwart a dark plot by Hobby Lobby to deny its employees birth control coverage.
In reality, the Obama administration 'wants' the Supreme Court involved in this case just about as much as you want a root canal. It was forced to file an appeal with the high court because, last June, Hobby Lobby dealt the government’s lawyers a resounding defeat in a federal appeals court. To understand how, one must first understand what this lawsuit is really about. It does not concern, as the Los Angeles Times suggests, whether a corporation can have religious beliefs. The case isn’t even about contraception — Hobby Lobby’s employee insurance plans cover birth control. Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius is about religious liberty."
